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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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RIP Dolly - As I'm sure y'all know by now, Dolly Parton passed away today. She was an amazing woman, with a heart that truly cared about others. As a librarian I am th...
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Slushpile 20: Linkapalooza - Index In celebration of 20 of these damn things, I'm doing a throwback to the halcyon days of 2021 and Slushpost 8.5, where I shared a bunch of links fr...2 hours ago
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[Q&A] Mario Valencia (CMT: A Lucha Libre RPG) - [7:35 PM]Mario Writes For You: Hi everyone! My name is Mario Valencia. I am from Monterrey, Northern Mexico, I am 26 years old, and work in Marketing and G...23 hours ago
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 34 - The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. … Continue reading →1 day ago
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LUST FOR LOVE FOR A CHINESE COURTESAN - I recently reviewed *Lust ror Love for a Chinese Courtesan *(1984) at easternKicks (which you can read HERE). It is a remake by the great Shaw Brother's ...1 day ago
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Monster Condo - By Onslaught Six, Roz Leahy, Maeve MurrayTidal Wave GamesOSELevel 2? Engage with multiple factions of orcs, beastmen, rodentia, and cults. Infiltrate the f...1 day ago
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The Mismatch in Appendix N - One of the things about Appendix N in the AD&D *Dungeon Master's Guide* is that, in the main, the protagonists of the works featured don't really repres...
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Forgotten London - also Crash! Boom! Pow! - You should have seen the lightning last night. One of the consequences of that dazzling display is we have no internet so I have no idea when this will ...1 day ago
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OSR Module Commentary Adapting Gary Gygax’s classic 1980 TSR module S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks to Adventurer Conqueror King System II (ACKS II) - Adapting Gary Gygax’s classic 1980 TSR module S1: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks to Adventurer Conqueror King System II (ACKS II) transforms a gonzo sci-...1 day ago
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The Tomb of Many Colors - Our Krevborna campaign continued! *Characters* Dario Diego Durant, swashbuckling swordsman Ulu, the party's urska mom Varro, a young snow elf bearing ...
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Hawksmire Finale Part 2 - Players eye view - Dave who plays Threekay (3k) the dwarf cleric in our game posted these on our group page so here are last few sessions...
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Development of the Majestic Fantasy RPG, Part 1 - I just shipped off the draft for my Scourge of the Demon Wolf, 2nd edition, to my editor, and I am resuming work on my next major project, the full versi...6 days ago
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Why Psionics Fails - It is often said that the world is divided into two classes of people: those who like Van Morrison, and those who have met him. Another such division th...1 week ago
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Ol' Groove LIVE on YouTube! - Ol' Groove will appear LIVE on Silverline Comics "Silver Sunday" broadcast! Check it out on Silverline Comics' YouTube channel Sunday night, August 23, a...
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Shadowrun 2E: Why Every Runner Needs Contacts - In this video, I talk about why contacts are important in different situations and what makes them valuable. I explain how players can use these rela...
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Pete Fenlon on the Rise and Fall of Iron Crown Enterprises - Throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s, Iron Crown Enterprises was my favourite role-playing company. Of course, like most, I started out in this hobby pla...
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DÜRER DEMON - DÜRER DEMON "Riding steadfastly through a dark Nordic gorge, Dürer's knight rides past Death on a Pale Horse, who holds out an hourglass as a reminder of ...
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Beating the Planetary Blues... - World building is a central tenet of tabletop gaming, and it certainly illuminates the sheer immensity involved in a living planet. Vast continents spann...
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The Common Store of Monsters - I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth. As part of the re-write I have re-organised the ‘Pariahs of the Earth’ monsters ...4 weeks ago
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Back to the Basic (and Expert)? - I have recently been dabbling in D&D once more. I picked up Old School Essentials and also began rummaging through my D&D 5E (not 5.5E) rules to run a smal...1 month ago
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The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance - Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are. For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of Marlinko, Kezmaro...
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I am Dr Rotwang! - I am NOT the fella who goes by "Doktor Rotwang" on Substack. I've never met him. I'm not a Navy veteran. We are not the same guy, no matter what Google AI ...2 months ago
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Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
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Setting a new course: 7th Sea Third Edition - There aren’t a lot of good opportunities to come out of cold storage these days. Honestly, finding time for work, family, gaming, and game prep doesn’t lea...5 months ago
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Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
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Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
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"I Share My Dreams with Ghosts" - Espionage Mechanics for Star Wars d6 - I've been running the Andor Game for nearly 20 sessions (19 as of this past Saturday), and I've been *really *happy with the results so far. I've been st...
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ignore all previous instructions - [image: UNDER THE SKIN] *We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is within us.* *Hᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ* *was furious. So loud and discordant were these youths ...
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Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...6 months ago
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On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide - Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am fascinated with 19th century Lon...8 months ago
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Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm cover revealed! Available December 2nd on Flesk… - Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm cover revealed! Available December 2nd on Flesk...9 months ago
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...9 months ago
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Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
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The Earwight - The sinister little insects known as earwights are thought to have once been earwigs who fed on the decaying flesh of revenants or other matter suffused wi...11 months ago
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B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.1 year ago
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And Now For Something Completely Different - I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller* character each ...1 year ago
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The Tarot of Pips - 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...1 year ago
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Inspectres in Grifton - 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 ...1 year ago
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FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships - 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...
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Profitez des offres de bonus exclusives: Découverte de l’offre de 200 tours gratuits et 75 € - Êtes-vous un amateur de jeux en ligne et à la recherche de nouvelles opportunités excitantes? Alors, préparez-vous à découvrir une offre qui va changer v...2 years ago
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Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...3 years ago
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There Were Dice - 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 ...3 years ago
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Legends of Law: Von Hoff - 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...3 years ago
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Notes on a semi-successful skill system - 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...4 years ago
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Trying Something New - 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...4 years ago
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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...6 years ago
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balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke - balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke6 years 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...6 years ago
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Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - 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...
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - 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...7 years ago
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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 megadunge...
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omercifulheaves: Red SonjaArt by Bruce Timm - omercifulheaves: Red Sonja Art by Bruce Timm8 years ago
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Goodbye and Good Luck - 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...
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Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - 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...
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Additional Things - Doing Away with Hitpoints - 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...9 years ago
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The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C - 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...9 years ago
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Bob and Thor track and find three deer in one day - 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...
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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...9 years ago
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Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products - 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...10 years ago
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Cardinal Spider--Montporte Dungeon Campaign Critter - *CARDINAL SPIDER* Cardinal spiders travel in small roving bands made up of 2-8 males and 2-4 females. The males are the smaller of two (about 60 pounds in...
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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...10 years ago
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A short review of every post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read. - The other day I was thinking about post-apocalyptic novels, and how many of them I'd read. So I sat down and created a list of as many of them that I've re...10 years ago
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Adventures on the 7th sea – Campaign specifics Part I - In any rpg campaign there will be "home rules" reflecting The flavor and tone of the campaign, the specific rule changes and, (of course) a Dungeon Master...
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Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde - 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 ...
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About Me
- Uncle Sam
- 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.