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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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AD&D is the Gold Standard... - I will say it plain. AD&D is the gold standard of Dungeons and Dragons and will always be... Not because it is perfect. It is not. Not because every ...
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Weird Revisited: The Ahistorical History Setting - *This post first appeared in 2017, but I think a trotted out back in 2020 as well. The occasion of the double repeat is discovering a post on RPGnet forums...
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Using Gods, Demigods, and Heroes By Kuntz & Ward for original Dungeons & Dragons with Barrows and Borderlands Rpg - Integrating the monumental 1980 supplement Gods, Demigods, and Heroes (Supplement IV) with Barrows & Borderlands (a modern "Old School Essentials" style h...20 hours ago
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[Q&A] Charles Rice (BILT Among The Stars) - ChuckR2112 — 7:35 PMHello there! My name is Chuck, and I have been knocking around the game industry for 20-ish years and counting. I started Vigilance Pre...22 hours ago
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Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches has been released! - Last year, I launched the Kickstarter for Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches. Over 800 backers brought my projects to life, and now i...1 day ago
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Colour & Old School Blue Maps - Patrons of my work get access to some experiments that I undertake on a monthly basis. This includes one map … Continue reading →1 day ago
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"You're Just Going To Get Yourself Killed Donald." - "That's what I do, sir."While I still need to stat ReAnimen, it didn't feel right having Cecil stats and not having ones for Donald.Donald Ferguson: Init +...
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Aethelberd’s Tomb - By Scott_MFirst Era AdventuresOSRICLevels 1-3 Few now recall King Aethelberd’s name, but in his time, he was rightly feared. His ruthless crusade against c...2 days ago
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In 2008, Kyle Latino made this variant Superman costume that includes a scarf and aviator jacket. - In 2008, Kyle Latino made this variant Superman costume that includes a scarf and aviator jacket.2 days ago
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Allies, Followers, Contacts & Patrons 2 - Gaming more has been pretty good. I will do a review post soon. As ran 3x 5th ed games this week so ive been rereading ...
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Remaking LotR With Only Public Domain Sources: Part 2 - Arthur Rackham Part 1 As before, I’m letting things grow organically. No real order besides the order ideas come to me. Housekeeping Before I get star...
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Happiness is a New Notepad - I'm sure you'll agree with me that there can be few pleasures greater in life than purchasing a new notepad. You hand over the money and there it is: a ...
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The Saints - Carrying on from *the previous post about the Church in Krevborna*, this post will detail a handful of the Church's saints. * * * Although the Church o...
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UK Travel & Other Stuff (Bookhounds) - A heads-up for the moment, but if you're planning on attending the UK Chaosium Con in May 2026 you may see me there, in one of them there speaking roles....5 days ago
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Recommend me Generators of Underground Worlds - In my big re-work of ‘Veins of the Earth’, I have begun looking at the systems used for generating the geography of the Veins, the large main routes, smal...
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STAR-CROSSED BLADES OF THE GREEN PEONY SESSION II - This is the second session of our Star-Crossed Blades of the Green Peony campaign for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate (session I can be found HERE). It is ...
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SoloDark: Four Drunk Priests - Dabbling into some solo play using SoloDark. Rolled up the party last night. 3d6 down the line and pick the best class for the results. It was tragic. ht...
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The Myth of Death as Stakes... - It's been said, especially in old-school circles, that character death is essential to the pulse-pounding stakes good adventures depend upon. Combat means ...
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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 weeks 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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What roleplaying games are you playing now? What games do you want to play? - I've been writing this blog for almost seventeen years now. Yet I've rarely addressed any questions to you, the human beings who look at these posts from...
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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 yout...
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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...2 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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New Diversions of the Groovy Kind Posts Twice Monthly at Blue Moon Comics' Ko-fi Shop - New, FREE posts from Ol' Groove twice a month at Blue Moon Comics Group's Ko-fi Shop! Don't miss out!
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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...4 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...5 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...5 months ago
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Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards - 10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons # Name Description 1 Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
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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...7 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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COLOURED GAS BEING - COLOURED GAS BEING "He had learned much of the Other Gods in distant parts of space, especially in that region where form does not exist, and coloured gase...
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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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More Moria - 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 map, guid...1 year ago
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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...2 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...3 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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In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
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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 Timm7 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...9 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
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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.