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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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THE 14 AMAZONS - *The 14 Amazons* is an amazing experience. It is one of those movies that is just special. The source material that has been covered in other movies, but...
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Manifestation of the Yellow Stone Horror - A Mini Campaign Idea Using The Victorious Rpg & Wreched Eqoque Part Five - The party was resting after the last session, we picked up in the Yellowstone hotel & there's the rub. Firecrow's was resting in his room and we had Whit...13 hours ago
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On Bounty, Alert & Defenses - Available Now! https://sinlessrpg.com ------------------------------ *Hack & Slash* Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 Star Rating) s...
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From Azurth to the Moon - After a bit of a hiatus, we weren't to our 5e Land of Azurth game this past Sunday. We left our heroes with the shock of finding the princesses of the ...
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[Q&A] Matthew Hanson (Paw and Whisker) - [7:33 PM]MatthewJHanson: Thanks! I’ve been gaming since the D&D Redbox, and played dozens of different games since then. I started freelancing in 2004 and ...1 day ago
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Deal of the Day - FlexTale Campaign Generator - Want some of the best campaign tables short of using AI - correction, probably better than AI at this time? *Today's Deal of the Day is FlexTale Campaig...
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The logo for the Marvel fantasy comic “Crystar, the Crystal Warrior” was reused in the Adventure… - The logo for the Marvel fantasy comic “Crystar, the Crystal Warrior” was reused in the Adventure Time episode title card, “Crystals HAVE Power.”1 day ago
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The Quadrants of Modern Fantasy - An entertaining recent episode of *Geek's Guide to the Galaxy *brought up the question of how to distinguish the genre of sword & sorcery from epic (or h...
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The Clay [Mork Borg] - Look to the West. Forth comes fire, and a horde, and the Kingdoms burn. – The Calendar of Nechrubel; Psalm … Continue reading →2 days ago
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Graves and Guitarras - About a month ago I had someone on my discord who lives in the UK approach me to ask if I could run a Krevborna game for them since they knew they would ...
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100 More Facts About Mother Stole Fire - Sequel to a post I wrote nearly four years ago on the dot. Been away for far too long. 1. There are seven dogs in the world whose loyalty is so great...3 days ago
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Samson of Mars now available - My novel Samson of mars is now available on Amazon. You can buy a copy or you can read it for free if you have Kindle Unlimited account. Next week I ...
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Ten New Hill Cantons Hirelings - *Hirelings & Henchfolk* d10 Name Role Notes 1 Oldrik the Rope-Whisperer Porter Speaks to rope as if it were alive. Demands polite treatment of...
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Unboxing the 2025 D&D Starter Set - I grabbed the 2025 Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set at Barnes & Nobles on Friday. An 'undented' copy. Because it is a Starter Set and meant to assist he...
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Some play Updates - Did have a great recent mini con i plyed as a rat in a post apoc and Ran my Planet Psychon game. Streamlined it a bit a...
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Death Mask 4 - the First Arc - This will be the last in this series. I may come back to it later; we'll see. OK, we have Rome, we have the Building, we have a reasonable idea of the O...
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The Painted Wastelands - By Christopher WillettAgamemnon PressOSELevel 1? Prepare your trembling synapses to enter the Painted Wastelands, the ENnie award winning tabletop roleplay...1 week ago
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Bree-Yark! - Goblins: Anarchy in the RPG is an upcoming Kickstarter from my friends at Bloat Games. It's written for 5e and while I don't see any direct mention of it, ...
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Playing in a World - As I return to blogging, I should pay more attention to what other people are writing. At one time, RPG blogs were the home of both great creativity and ...1 week ago
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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...1 week ago
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Game Balance: RPGs Aren’t Games. And That’s the Point - In my last post, I argued that “rulings, not rules” wasn’t a gap to be patched but a foundation for how tabletop roleplaying works. The early hobby assu...1 week ago
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False Machine Update! - Veins of the Earth: ReduX Bad news first; because of a whole bunch of complex events I have had to pause development on VotE ReDux till the first S...
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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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Red Ochre & Ruins: The OSL Returns... - Well, there's an Open Supplement License for Epoch, allowing those so inclined to publish original content for the game. Interested parties can *visit ou...
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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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Against the Starmaster: Playtest materials available - I thought that I would mention that there is a space opera version of *Against the Darkmaster* coming out. It’s called (somewhat unsurprisingly) *Against ...5 weeks ago
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Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
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Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...1 month ago
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The Crypt of Atan-Thu - I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising! Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link: htt...2 months ago
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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.7 months 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 ...8 months 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...9 months 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 ...10 months 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...1 year 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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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 ...2 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...2 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...3 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
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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...5 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 Cooke5 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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Landsknecht Link Roundup, July/Aug - Ba Chim seal of approval! (Art by Dreadbeasts) I posted this on RPG.net but it bears reposting (and expanding) here: - Not *quite* RPG related, but H...
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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...6 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...8 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...8 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...8 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...9 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...9 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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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 ...
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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.
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I like the hot one best
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