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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
My Blog List
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Swords and Wizardry Kickstarter: 3 days left - I’ve been swamped with work lately – hence no posts at all in April (which, I think, ia the first time that I’ve missed an entire month since starting th...
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Les Trousseaux: Skill-Based Starting Equipment for Flashing Blades - I like equipping my characters. Selecting character gear and accoutrements is way of exploring the material culture of the game-world, and collecting memor...4 hours ago
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Factions for Chagrinspire For a Prison Adventure - Making sandbox tools for prison complex ruins. This is for those who will occupy a ruin. The ancients sure built lots ...
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Madame Web (2024) - There are spoilers and stats below.PlotCassandra Webb is an EMT in NYC who begins developing clairvoyance. Soon she finds herself entangled in a web of mys...
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Rok’s Pottery Workshop - This month I’m starting on yet another series of maps – based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m … Continue reading →11 hours ago
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Fire Fight - Cities Without Number, Stars Without Number, & Trey Causey's Strange Stars Rpg - Session Report- Mirrors By Joseph Mohr - In tonight's game the party went to talk with the captains of several Suns of Gold style trade ships that came to Guiron in the past several months. In t...19 hours ago
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[Q&A] Ryan Verniere (Blackbirds) - [7:38 PM]Ryan Verniere (Blackbirds): Hi, I’m Ryan Verniere the creator of Blackbirds a Gothic Fantasy RPG [7:39 PM]Ryan Verniere (Blackbirds): I’m a 20-yea...23 hours ago
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Swords & Wizardry Light - 8 Page Digest Sized Booklet - I found the following bouncing around the internet, and it looks beautiful. Nothing special, but with *Swords & Wizardry Light* technically out of print,...
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The Undying Kings of the Underworld - In the aftermath of the Titan War, with the withdrawal of the gods left from the world, humans were able to seize divine knowledge and tools as spoils...
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Why the dearth of 'other world' campaigns? - JRR Tolkien was a crucial 'break' between two conceptions of the fantasy genre. Before him, most (though not all) fantastical tales either involved people ...2 days ago
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The Fenworthy Inheritance - By Simon ToddMontidotsBRP/CoC/Gore When David Farrington decided to drag his sister, Jinx, away from the hedonistic vortex of London’s Bright Young Things ...2 days ago
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Somna, What Happened at Hawthorne House, Wet Moon, and More - Things that brought me delight in April, 2024: *Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay, Somna #3* The third book of Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay's *Somna* brings ...
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Sharon Bruneau and Debbie Muggli as the two female cyborg assassins in Albert Pyun’s “Nemesis 3:… - Sharon Bruneau and Debbie Muggli as the two female cyborg assassins in Albert Pyun’s “Nemesis 3: Time Lapse” (1996).4 days ago
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Building History (We All Met At An Inn) - *The Bull * *East End boozer near Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and on the edge of Limehouse, West India Docks, narrowly missed by Nazi bombs during the wa...5 days ago
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HEAVENLY FRAGRANCE SESSION EIGHT - These were the fifth through seventh sessions of my Heavenly Fragrance Campaign, a living adventure prepared using tools and procedures discussed in the ...
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TTRPG Rules Reading as Play - Defining "play" in TTRPGs is a tricky thing. It's also sort of unimportant but as a naval-gazing game designer these are the things that keep me up at ...1 week ago
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QuarHammer - I stumbled, addled, into my local semi-rural game store in search of off-brand Contrast paint to finish up Ionus Cryptborn, and while wandering around, I ...
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The Release of How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and the Isle of Pyade - The Release With the successful conclusion and fulfillment of my Kickstarter, I am releasing How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and The Isle of Pyade to the publ...
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NEW BOOK PREORDERS! - I know it's been a while since I posted but it's been a wild time. For the last year or so I've been quietly working on a book. Well I can now reveal w...
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Guns from the Future: The Offensive Handgun Weapon System Program and the H&K Mk.23 SOCOM - From the dawn of the 20th century, across two world wars, and a number of other conflicts plus, secret operations, the majority of the US Armed Forces a...
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On the Sector Turn - It's very simple. There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents need to do: Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the...
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Arsenic & Old Lace (a Review)... - The free-kriegsspiel revolution (or FKR; sometimes free-kriegsspiel roleplay) has been getting a lot of attention lately, which seems inevitable given re...
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Improvised Awful Lights Missions - Asking about The Awful Lights, a commenter asks: *I'd love to hear about how this is run - with the Handler determining mission location and objectives ...4 weeks ago
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Dan Plays Video Games, Part 3 - Previous episodes: 1, 2 Balatro This game is fucking dangerous. Absolute chronophage. One-more-run taken to the extreme. Makes brain chemicals go brrrrrr...5 weeks ago
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Champions: One Earth - 2024 Update - Surprise, surprise. I was able to continue my campaign up until about 3 weekends ago, when a family tragedy finally pushed me to take a break on a number o...
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Getting to Meet Groovy Age Greats! - Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Ol' Groove just had to share some of his experiences at the Lexington Comic and Toy Convention this past March 9, 2024. I had ...
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ShadowDark Magic Items - The next campaign I run will use the ShadowDark RPG. I'm not sure when that'll be (I'm hoping a little later this year), but ShadowDark is my choice. I'v...
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Teeth Among Shadows - Cyberpunk Red. January 2024 IRL, 1/20/2045 IG PART ONE (1/20/2045) Glitch, Smith, and Adams were on a rooftop in the Vintner Court Collective neighborhood,...2 months ago
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GLOG Class: Bioweapon - I got this idea from mad gods on bear blog. Crab Evo from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman A thousand soldiers were slain. Too many to be tragic--this is just a fact...
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LOTFP Review: The Curious Conundrum of the Conflagrated Condottiero - This capsule review will have spoilers. Here's some boring facts about the book up front to avoid diving right into the spoilers. *The Curious Conundrum...
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Ave Atque Vale, Jennell - Jennell Jaquays passed away two days ago, and it's hitting me hard. I had a chance to meet Jennell at NTRPG 2016 (and '17), and even get into a playtes...
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Sex-Crazed Falling Stars, Free Weather Magic, and Adventures: News of the Hill Cantons - *Grandma Gaya, the Rav-Witch of High Kezmarok*, seeks the stout of limb and humble of mind in the *obtaining of fallen stars* from an upcoming prophesied ...
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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...6 months 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...8 months ago
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The Apocalypse Archive 43-48 - 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...11 months ago
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The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come. - 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...
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Dungeon23 February Retrospective - 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...
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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 ...1 year ago
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how to be erased - They will stand forever. *The villages of the dead are 4 in number, arranged thus:* *First is Hemlock-All-around, where from every branch on every tree a...
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GAME REVIEW: Four-Color Heroics - Before we get started, here are some disclaimers: - I am reviewing a comp copy provided by the author - The author and I are friends, and have bee...
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ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE DCC AT LAST - NOW AVAILABLE in PDF and Print on Demand:ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE (DCC)CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW! SO YOU SURVIVED OPERATION UNFATHOMABLE? Od...
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Master Treasure Seeker: A Dungeon23 MegaDungeon - Introduction - Sean McCoy, author of Mothership, posted an article on his substack titled Dungeon23 and it's taken the indie RPG scene by storm. So, I'm throwing my hat...
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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...1 year ago
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John Jeanneney – A Visionary Leader Driven by His Passion - by Jolanta Jeanneney Dachshund Club of America Newsletter, Summer 2022 On July 5, 2021 my heart was broken when John Jeanneney, my husband of 26 ye...
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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...1 year 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...2 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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I, Zombie #1, July 2010, cover by Darwyn Cooke - dirtyriver: I, Zombie #1, July 2010, cover by Darwyn Cooke3 years 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...3 years ago
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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 Driv...
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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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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...4 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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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 doi...
5 years ago -
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 ...6 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...8 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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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.
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I had a copy of Sultry Teenage Super Foxes. It sucked.
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