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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 Nazi Mega Dungeons of Antarctica - The Modern UFO Bases For Cepheus Engine & Your 2D6 OSR Game Campaigns - At its heart Operation High Jump was an attempt to deal with & curtail Bedienung Schrank or Operation Closet. The Nazi had cut deals with several of the a...
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Adventures In The Forgotten Realms - Part V - From Cyan Depths is the finale to the five part Forgotten Realms/MtG crossover. It is the culmination of Tyreus' plan for power and domination. Using the ...
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DC, October 1980 ( wk 2, pt 3) - My goal: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This continues my look at the comics at newsstands around July 24, 1980. *Sgt...
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Coffin Creeper - I'm quite a bit ahead on blog posts at moment thanks to a week lockdown. Also if you see any missing text or entries in tables or anyt...
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Hammers Hall - This crafter’s shrine is hidden away under ruins in the mournlands and will likely either be found by complete luck, … Continue reading →19 hours ago
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The folklore of Faerun: Lathtarl's Lantern - I've been thinking about writing something like this for a while so I thought I'd take the plunge. This is potentially the first in a series of posts wh...
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TSR3 Abandons Three Graphical Trademarks - I woke this morning to a PM linking me to the below link: https://www.trademarkelite.com/trademark/trademark-detail/90148524/TSR What makes this even mor...
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Candlekeep Mysteries Review: The Price of Beauty and Book of Cylinders - I've been running the adventures in *Candlekeep Mysteries*, a book of seventeen scenarios based around the legendary library of Candlekeep and the strang...
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[Q&A] Keith Wikle & Joshua “Thorin” Messer (Fate of Dungeons) - [28-Jul-21 07:41 PM] thorin#9072I am Thorin Messer, I am half of Fate of Dungeons. 😃 [28-Jul-21 07:41 PM] THFC Kalamazoo#7399I am keith, other half. [28-J...1 day ago
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Temple of the Six-Limbed Lord - By Fiona Geist, David McGrogan, Zedeck Siew, Adam Koebel Free League Publishing Forbidden Lands This eighty page booklet has four adventures from four well...2 days ago
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Summerland, or the Spookiness of Rural England in August - Rural southern England is, for the tourist, like an archipelago of island villages separated from each other by gulfs of agricultural sea - fields, hedge...
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Best. Dragon Ad. Ever. - The big house cleaning of 2021 had its casualties, even amongst its forgotten treasures. This was one of them: an ad for the Paranoia roleplaying game that...3 days ago
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Four Precursor Aliens - lukeoram The Pillar of Heaven Gleaming white cylinders nearly ten thousand kilometers long, featureless save for gigayears of micrometerorite scarring. F...
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A Few Short Travels, Writing Project Update, Reviews, A New Jake Stratton-Kent Book, Bulgarian-Slavic and Arthurian Gaming - I’ve made a few small trips lately. Last month, I made an excursion to Michigan, where I spent some time with my family watching muskrats swim lazily acros...4 days ago
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Promises Contracts and Clocks - Bookhounds of London - Sourced from Visiting London Guide ... *we live in a world which is governed by promises and contracts and clocks. If there actually is any such thing ...
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On the Thursday Trick, Props: Codes and Hidden Messages Part I - *If you're interested in Tricks and Traps like these, be sure to check out Artifices, Deceptions, and Dilemmas, collecting all of these along with beautifu...1 week ago
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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 ...1 week 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...1 week ago
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The popularity of tabletop roleplaying and explosive growth in digital sales. Interesting DrivethruRPG numbers yet again. - So recently I visited a Barnes and Nobles for the first time in forever. While looking through the store I came across this. and in a bit of a surpris...
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I cast magic missile - I was walking along Queen Street East in my neighbourhood this morning when I came upon a television or movie crew working outside of a coffee shop. This i...
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yep - I have not resumed my OSE game, despite our hiatus being "just for April." I haven't DM'ed anything in three months. I pulled out of KantCon, with only...2 weeks ago
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More MOSAIC Strict Sets! - It's been a few months since I posted about MOSAIC Strict, but a bunch more rule sets have appeared. Too many for me to do justice to each one, but I've ...2 weeks ago
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Booking the One-Minute Round... - Classic D&D prescribed one-minute combat rounds. So does that mean it took a whole minute to swing a sword? No way. One round - or so the story goes -...
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Choix du casino en ligne : comment s’y prendre ? - Les casinos physiques sont de moins en moins visités. Pour cause, les casinos en lignes sont en multiplication. Alors, les joueurs sont plus intéressés p...3 weeks ago
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FWS Top 10: Forgotten Military SF Video Games (Vol. 8) - While FWS is research Technicals, it is time for another installment in the lost military science fiction vide games. For number eight, out of ten, we will...
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Publish or Perish: d100 reasons your wizard had to drop out of academia and become an adventurer instead - My department has been interviewing for new academic posts this week - and as I contemplated the mountain of incoming job applications, the vast majority...
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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...4 weeks ago
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TO HELL WITH THE CAMPAIGN - In the *Strange Tales of Songling* book, I talked about ventures into hell and escape from hell campaigns, something I was increasingly using the setting...4 weeks ago
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Going Through the Spells: Find Traps - Yeah I went for the obvious, but still funny meme. The next spell up is Find Traps. I think it's a straight forward spell, but let's take a look. *Old Sch...
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HORRER KUMPENDYUM IV NOW ON SALE! - HORRER KUMPENDYUM IV LIMITED TO 25 COPIES Illustrated by Michael Bukowski Inspired by Margaret St. Clair - 12 pages. - 10 full color illustration...
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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.1 month 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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Memorial Day and G.I. Joe - Here we are at the end of May – Memorial Day – looking back on brave men and women who have fought for America and looking forward to future generations of...1 month ago
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For the Birds - During the shopping season that follows Thankstravaganza each year, a handful of newly-available items tend to become fashionable and highly sought after b...
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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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pulpnoire:George Gross, cover art for Best True Fact Detective: Playgirl Wives Can’t Squawk,... - pulpnoire: George Gross, cover art for Best True Fact Detective: Playgirl Wives Can’t Squawk, 19494 months ago
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Myconids - Psychology Humans are very contemptuous of orcs. They are brutes, never shying away from any cruelty. And they are warmongers, always divided against ea...
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oldschoolfrp: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs The Roleplaying Game –... - oldschoolfrp: *Cadillacs & Dinosaurs* The Roleplaying Game – In 2020, Earth was devastated by geological catastrophe – Ad in *Challenge* magazine 49, GDW...5 months ago
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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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dirtyriver:I, Zombie #1, July 2010, cover by Darwyn Cooke - dirtyriver: I, Zombie #1, July 2010, cover by Darwyn Cooke5 months ago
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Batman TAS is Coming Back? - Rumor: according to insider Daniel Richtman (and Kevin Smith), HBO Max developing direct sequel to...6 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...9 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...1 year 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 ...3 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
- 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.