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"Terra Arisen is a space-opera setting for the Cepheus Deluxe sci-fi RPG
rules. Terra Arisen introduces player characters to the immediate
aftermath of ...
The Lynchian Paladin
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Regular readers will know that I harbour a long-simmering ambition to write
up rules for running explicitly heroic campaigns oriented around the idea
eit...
Music Monday - Peace Sign
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Of all the My Hero Academia intro themes is Kenshi Yonezu's Peace Sign is
my favorite. It's a really fun track and a good example of the show's vibe,
and l...
A Miraculous Mousy Metamorphosis
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By Paul HoefflerThe Alchemical PressOSRICLevels 1-3 Navigating through the
sprawling wilderness, your party enters the quaint hamlet of Braeford, a
communi...
[Greyhawk] The Duchy of Tenh
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Tenh (the *nh* diagraph is pronounced as a voiced palatal nasal like the
Spanish *ñ*) as the heir to the proud culture of the Flannae. Its people
have m...
Game Log: Some more slaver sidequests
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Vol3 of chagrinspire has had some major updates to 206 pages now - one
major sweep to go to finish it. I still want to do v...
The Bloody Machinations of Makeen
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The Khorne-carved butteThe Friday night group had a gap in between games
that needed filling, so I stepped in with a one-shot session. The initial
premis...
Humble Bundle - Fallout RPG
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You know what? I love the *Fallout RPG* even though I likely will never
play it - I simply want it for the lore. The setting has its own kind of
magic to...
THE CRIMSON CHARM
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This is another casual review where I give my immediate thoughts after
watching a movie. Today I am discussing *The Crimson Charm*.
*The Crimson Charm* ...
News - Weird Hope Engines
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An art exhibition/presentation is happening and I will be there! Along with
much art from the world of RPGs!
Andrew Walter
So if you want to come and see ...
GM's Day Sale Picks
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It's March. That means RPG Drivethru is having its GM Day Sale! I've got a
couple, a few, a whole lot of good picks for you. Here are four that jumped
up...
Romanizing Cthulhu, Part 2
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Part 1
In a surprising development that no one could have possibly predicted, the
inspirational well (and the fun) for this idle thought experiment ran d...
Nine Questions: A Retrospective...
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So there's not much to offer this month. Real life is intruding, as it
often does, and we haven't found the time to do much of anything worth
reading. An...
Fight On! number 16 is out.
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The new issue of *Fight On!* has been out for a bit. You can get copies via
drivethru or lulu.
I haven't finished reading my copy, but I'd like to reco...
Wandering through the Majestic Fantasy Realms
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It's time for another Bat in the Attic update!
I am halfway through the first draft of my upcoming project, Into the
Majestic Fantasy Realms, the Northe...
The Hungering Dark
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Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you.
Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone.
The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
ShadowDark of Strahd - Game 2
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If you're new to this series about running Curse of Strahd as a sandbox for
ShadowDark, there have been a few other posts (here). The previous post
rela...
MOP-HEAD
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MOP-HEAD
"The thing called Mop-Head was not an animal or plant or rock, although, by
now it was a little of each. It had no definite body, and it longed f...
And Now For Something Completely Different
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I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day
Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller*
character each ...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Inspectres in Grifton
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On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the
Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly
pulled out and ...
FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships
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Often one of the set pieces for high space adventure and tragedy is those
spacecraft that go where no one has gone before and may never go again if
the ou...
More Moria
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Thanks to Free League's Moria: Through the Doors of Durin sourcebook for
their Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, we have an updated & official
m...
Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies
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It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even
accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today
conc...
The Apocalypse Archive 43-48
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Map Close-Up Soundtrack for areas 43-48 Combat Music Overview
Previous: Areas 1-6, Areas 7-12, Areas 13-18, Areas 19-24, Areas
25-30, Areas 31-36, Areas 37...
The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come.
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To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff.
The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game
design.
In the past I...
Dungeon23 February Retrospective
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Another month, another section of Alhamra put to bed. But before February
gets too far behind us, I wanted to post my thoughts on the month that was.
I’m n...
There Were Dice
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I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing
since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but
I *was ...
Legends of Law: Von Hoff
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Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the
modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite
as mu...
Notes on a semi-successful skill system
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When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things
that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to
keep...
Trying Something New
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Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check
out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I
chose t...
Its time to move this blog.
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So tired of Blogger changing things. I've been using this since 2008 or
2009 and its this new interface they forced us to have has been driving me
crazy...
Troika! review/overview
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As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel
Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a
really te...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
Discontinued
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Friends,
I'll make it official. I will stop this blog.
A lot has happened last year. And my interests have moved in a different
direction.
Thank you for...
Landsknecht Link Roundup, July/Aug
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Ba Chim seal of approval!
(Art by Dreadbeasts) I posted this on RPG.net but it bears reposting (and
expanding) here:
- Not *quite* RPG related, but H...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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d12
1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute
of Annihilation*
2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
Goodbye and Good Luck
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Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting
access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from
the OSR...
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea]
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Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came
with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) -
he was go...
Additional Things - Doing Away with Hitpoints
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So there s a couple of things you need to adress, if you want to get rid of
Hitpoints. These are not fully formed rules, this, like much of the stuff i
pos...
The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C
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My gut started bothering me a week or so before the last GenCon.
I had a previously set appointment for Aug. 21st and told my Family Dr.,
who recommended a...
Bob and Thor track and find three deer in one day
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Thor von Moosbach-Zuzelek, a brother to our Tuesday and Darren Doran's
Theo, has had a great tracking season so far. He helped hunters to recover
their de...
Thrantrix the Ineffable Contest
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Thrantrix the Ineffable, that lovable whirling-ball-of-snakes Chaos
Godling, has demanded that her worship grow. So we’re running a contest! We
want to see...
Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products
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This post is an opinion piece, done to express my disappointment in Under
Armour as a company and make clear my intention to stop purchasing any of
their...
Godbound: Freedom of Strife
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• The plan was for the group to Liberation, sneak into the prison, and
then get out with Strife. Turns out the complication was Hope and Bones.
Bones ha...
Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde
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Just above the ranks of the criminal underworld but falling just short of
respectability, there exists a shadowy, ill-defined "half-world" populated
by a ...
They growl
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A man and a dog
*Each day the dogs chased the women from the house, and each day they dug
clams on the beach. This was all the food they could get; the ...
I am thought to be exiled gentry, a vagabond, a scandalous rogue, a troubadour, armchair tactician, amateur grifter, self taught mechanic, would be author, adventurer, rogue scholar, traveler of strange lands, and an all round near do well.
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