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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
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The Curious Tale of Wisteria Vale - I've been running the adventures in *Candlekeep Mysteries* lightly reskinned for my Krevborna setting. The characters are all employed as members of Cree...
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Swordtember Blade #26 – “The Goat” - This month is Swordtember. I’m going to try to draw a sword every day for the month. If I manage … Continue reading →3 hours ago
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Review & Commentary On 'Night of the Sprits' By Brian Young For Castles & Crusades Rpg or Your Old School Campaigns - "At the end of each year comes the month and holiday of Samonios, Samhain or Nos Galan Gaeaf, or Halloween. This is the time when the worlds are drawn tog...
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Magic bags and the things inside them - I've always thought that Aeolus's bag of wind from *The Odyssey *would be a great item for a D&D campaign. It's a bag with a wind inside it: point it in ...
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[Q&A] Alexandre Aboud (Tanares) - [26-Sep-21 03:11 PM] AlexAboud#0328Hi my friends. I am Alex from Dragori Games. We are in the final days of Tanares RPG for 5e campaign, [26-Sep-21 03:11 P...6 hours ago
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Witch bottle for Romance of the Perilous Land - Witch bottles are pretty gross, but an effective apotropaic means of warding off witches and malicious spells. A witch bottle is a glass bottle filled w...10 hours ago
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The Time to Start is Now! - [image: The Time to Start is Now!] I'm going to post something probably a bit unpopular here, for readily apparent reasons, but bear with me: *you should ...
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Pennies and Dimes (Bookhounds of London) - The Dime Novel and Penny Dreadful are two terms that mean the same thing: cheap, mass-produced books. Often lurid, usually in poor taste, the whole poin...
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Top des 03 meilleurs jeux de casino - Plusieurs sont les jeux qu’on retrouve dans un casino. Parmi tous les jeux, il y a certains qui attirent plus de joueurs. Quels sont ces jeux ? Et qu’es...16 hours ago
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100 Quick Sci-Fi Locations - Quick, Where Are We? (d100) 1. A crossroads, a place where all peoples come and go 2. A left-behind place, an abandoned place, a hopeless place 3. ...1 day ago
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Maze of the Screaming Heads - By Brian Rideout Deathtrap Games OSR Levels 5-7 Ninety-seven years ago the Cult of Malphas created the greatest library of Arcane Lore ever collected : the...1 day ago
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Wonder Woman battled a giant gorilla, in “Wonder Woman vs.... - Wonder Woman battled a giant gorilla, in “Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua”2 days ago
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New Flesh On Old Bones - Staying busy with other stuff (including gaming sessions), the blog has suffered from me having a lack of time to cogitate sufficiently for many posts on...
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The Campaign Which Runs Itself - I'll keep this entry simple. The ideal campaign - regardless of setting, regardless of genre, regardless of system - is one which runs itself. A campaign...3 days ago
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Apocalyptic Carousing: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - a a a So my carousing laws not based on money or xp as both are fairly unimportant game features. They are for when a player away or chara...
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FANTASY AGE: Retrospective and Review - After two years of regular play, here’s my assessment of Green Ronin’s Fantasy AGE RPG and how it performed for us at the table. Oftentimes, I’ll read a re...4 days ago
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News... - I know it's been a while since I've posted, but I'll have a bunch of cool announcements within the next couple months. In the meantime though I can share ...
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Coming Apart v0.4 - Without further ado, here's version 0.4 of Coming Apart. This is very much a design in motion, but some major changes are most of the way through. Coming...1 week ago
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Space Filling Picture Post - Posting will be slow and/or bad for a while as I am working on integrating playtest feedback for Demon-Bone Sarcophagus so here are some photos of minis ...
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JUDGE'S SPOTLIGHT FULL ACCEPTANCE SPEECH - Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades won a Judge's Spotlight Award at the Ennies last night. While neither of us were present at Gen Con, we were able to sen...1 week ago
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Military Sci-Fi Toys: The Kenner Star Wars MICRO Collection (1982) - The world of science fiction, cinema, and even the toy industry all changed when *Star Wars* was released in May of 1977. For a time, t...
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Publishing Update - Hey, everyone. It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? My local campus has had a high positivity rate. Although I generally feel safe, working under those con...1 week ago
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The Red Knight: A Less Tiresome Keep on the Borderlands? - So I don't really do book or media reviews on this blog, and I'm not about to start now, but I am reading a book that I think fits very well into D&D in...1 week ago
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MERP resurrected? Against the Darkmaster! - MERP (*Middle-earth Role-playing*) by ICE (Iron Crown Enterprises) is one of my favourite games of all time. It was the second game I played regularly (a...
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In Defense of the +1 Doohickey... - I've read some criticism lately around the supposedly trite, formulaic +1 sword (and its numerous equivalents, obviously). Magic is wondrous, and bonus-...
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Critter Gitters: Into the Desert - We had a pause in the Critter Gitters game back in April. Not a pause in the game-clock, mind you, but a series of events that snowballed and led to us...3 weeks ago
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Concerning the OSR, Everything is All Right. - Over the summer and recently I seen posts and opinions on the direction of the Old School Renaissance or OSR. Just keep in mind that due to how it came a...
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On Reduced Price, Free Advertising, and Megadungeon! - Hello! Work proceeds apace with Bestial Ecosystems Caused by Monstrous Inhabitation, but that's not what this post is about. Can you believe it's been t...
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Actuaries in Outer Space - Holy smokes! Three months since the last post – not a record, but pretty bad. I now deploy some chaff in the form of excuses – tons of work to do around (i...5 weeks ago
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Who Wants an Adventure? A Cool Location? How about an NPC Card? - July I created three 'things' for my Patreon. You can see *Viviana* above. She is my 34th NPC Card. An elven mage with some anger issues. She is statt...
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The Cubes That Saved Everyone - The Time of Fire and Madness had finally come, and the whole world strained underneath it. Strange lights fell from the night sky, started strange fire...
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Building Gossamer, Part 7 – The Verdant Quarter - The Verdant Quarter is now complete, meaning that the entire Gossamer map is likewise finished: Link to a more detailed image of the Verdant Quarter. Link ...2 months ago
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Samson of Mars, a novel. - I wrote a novel that takes place in my Mars setting. I will start revisions within the week and I hope to have it up on Amazon by the end of August. Som...2 months ago
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Guns of Telluria: The Traveler’s Lands - SESSION ONE 4/12/2021 IRL. November 1,1921 IG. John Stickman. Rugged and tough veteran of the Tellurian War, armed and armored. Dorothy Gale. Former prison...3 months ago
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Encounter Critical news?!? - So rpg bad boy Venger Satanis has bought the rights to the best game that isn't D&D.3 months ago
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Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) Cover reveal! - Heya folks, got a new cover in for Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) and thought I should share.
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Productive Scab-picking: On Oppressive Themes in Gaming - Preamble -- On Helicopters and Hugos: Last year, an author named Isabel Fall wrote an amazing milSF story in Clarkesworld magazine, now titled "Helicopt...
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Running Cyberpunk RED (Dual GM) - This year, a friend and I have been more or less alternating the reins on a Cyberpunk Red campaign.We've been marinating in the various videos online and ...
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Still Truckin'/Sad Sack in "The Grudge" - Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove is just checking in to reassure everyone that he (and DotGK) are alive and well--just buuuuuussssaaayy! Writing/le...
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Batman TAS is Coming Back? - Rumor: according to insider Daniel Richtman (and Kevin Smith), HBO Max developing direct sequel to...8 months ago
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Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release - A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012 Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at Dr...
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Its time to move this blog. - 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...11 months ago
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LOTFP Review: Fermentum Nigrum Dei Sepulti - *A strange stone, tumbling through the void of endless space and into the secret history of the world… the cursed legacy of a doomed witch’s family… a ...
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Blood Sundown Review - I've actually been running games recently! Bully for me. I decided that I'd start reviewing the products I actually use - this was my first review on Drive...
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The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons - And now the News... In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...
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Esoteric Enterprises (plus character sheets) - So it's been a while. I don't really want to address that in any significant way right now, as every time I try, it ends up in a spiral of excuses, despera...
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie - 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...1 year ago
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SERBIAN WOMEN ARE WAITING TO PLAY D&D WITH YOU! - The following story is 100% true. It'll sound dubious at first, but no -- it's legit. I've changed names to protect privacy blah blah, and I'm paraphrasing...1 year ago
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Discontinued - 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...2 years ago
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D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets - In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one for small/medium targets (i.e. man-sized) and one for large targets (giants and...
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Zorro Kickstarter - Just Three Days Left - The Kickstarter for *Zorro: The Roleplaying Game* closes in three days; it's met its target of $15,000.00 but it needs a few more backers to reach a cool $...2 years ago
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Born-to-track Teckels Calendar 2019 - I hope that you are going to enjoy the calendar as much as I did while I was working on it. I have done calendars with wirehaired dachshunds in 2013-16. La...
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Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not doin...
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - 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 megadungeo...
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Back in the Saddle Again - Hey, I'm back. I plan on posting regularly, albeit less frequently that before my absence from this blog. You might notice that the post is authored by "A...
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The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...4 years ago
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TBH Rules Dev - Armor, Shields - Currently Armor is damage reduction through a pool of additional 'fake' HP called ArmorPoints. There are various semi-official ways of doing it differently...4 years ago
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Wood Trekker Update - Hey guys. I know I have been absent for a while. For those who have reached out in concern, no need to worry. Everything has been going great, I’ve just ...
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Thrantrix the Ineffable Contest - 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...4 years ago
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The Hunted: A gonzo racial class for OSR-style games. - Originally published in the People section of Secret Santicore 2014. *Lore* Those who have ventured into the deep forests often speak of the songs of the gi...5 years ago
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Godbound: Freedom of Strife - • 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...5 years ago
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Hilarious new series - SuperMansion - I Just caught this via CBR News . Funny as hell. It's a preview episode of a new series on Crackle streaming video coming out on October 8th. It's def...
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They growl - 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 ca...
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About Me
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- 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.