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Sunday, September 15, 2024
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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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OSR Christmas 2024 - Days 9 & 10 - Giving the Gifts - We got back from PAGE 2 Sunday afternoon, and both Rach and I escaped Con Crud: The Reckoning. Still, we had a bunch of catching up to do, so gifting th...
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An Incomplete Theory of -Taurs - It is easy to 'grok' (sorry) centaurs. Half-human, half-horse, their behaviour and culture is obvious: they are souped-up raiders of the steppe - Scythia...4 hours ago
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On 1984 - * “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -1984*12 hours ago
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[Q&A] David K. (Heaven’s Open Door: Diamond Class) - [7:32 PM]Dave from Monkeyfun Studios: Hello! My name is Dave from Monkeyfun Studios! We do RPG’s to be played at MAXIMUM VOLUME!! Our game library includes...1 day ago
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Bookpost 18 - Previous installments found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10* , *11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 *Books of the South*, Glen Cook DNF / on hold I retur...1 day ago
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The Treasure Room in the Goblin Warrens - The Grak’Thar Clan of goblins are the current residents of these twisting and looping caves tucked deep beneath the roots … Continue reading →1 day ago
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Music Monday - Peg Leg Silly-Billy - This collaboration between Patty Gurdy and Alestorm's Christopher Bowes is some nautical fun. Listening to it reminded me of how much I want to run Secret ...
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The Final Voyage of Draengr Thar - By J.C. Conners1Shot Adventures BlogOSR/5e/GURPS/Cthulhu Dark AgesLevels 3-5 […] Drængr survived the initial attack and ordered his men to barricade the lo...1 day ago
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Crunch and Complexity - Last week, consideration of the new *HârnMaster: Roleplaying in the World of Kèthîra* and a blog post I came across in defense of heavy rules sets got m...
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Castle Dranzig and Eisengraz - Two potential adventure locations in the Karthax Mountains. This entry details a fortress, and the darkness within, inspired by Gilles de Rais and an en...
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OSR Commentary - The Long Shadow of The Zaibatsu rpg by Paul Elliot From Zozer Games Session One - The PC's are called into the 'Free Enterprise' zones on the Texas/Mexico border on Earth. The PC's have been placed within the sphere of the snake heads a...2 days ago
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Check out this fashionable fellow. - I was looking at the *Tunnels & Trolls* stuff on the ebays and stumbled across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it was p...
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Shadowdark at Philly Area Gaming Expo - I ran 3 games of Shadowdark at *Philly Area Games Expo* (PAGE), a convention that seems to be gaining some traction in the area here in it's second year...
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The Magical Battle of Britain (UK, RPG All, Bookhounds, Dreamhounds, Trail) - Cometh the hour, cometh the woman. When war breaks out and the Phoney War becomes all too real, as the Germans push through Belgium in May 1940, as the ...
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d100 Hex Crawl Landmarks for Chagrinspire - *Just stuff to add detail to a hex and are places to use and landmarks or avoidedd12 Landmark Additions*1 Garbage mounds 2 Road or rail or garbage-fille...
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Chaos Goblins - VotE Remastered Development - Anarchists of the infinite dark. Chaotic where nothing so uncertain should be able to survive. By chance alone they thrive, by chance they die Russ Nichols...
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Waiting to Exist - What is this little underground complex? A basement. A dungeon of some sorts? Maybe a resupply station? Or a prison? Maybe. Maybe all of them. It's a pl...
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Actress Rosamund Kwan is not only of Manchu ethnicity, but descended from a noble clan who often… - Actress Rosamund Kwan is not only of Manchu ethnicity, but descended from a noble clan who often married into the imperial family. Her last name, Guan or...4 days ago
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SPAWN OF ANCIENT EVIL - SPAWN OF ANCIENT EVIL "The structure was festooned and enwrapped by wriggling, climbing shapes, none of which he could see in their entirety, for they we...
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My Life in Roleplaying Games: 2024 and 2025 - As we head into 2025, here are some brief reflections on my role-playing activities in the recent past and near future. I've been really enjoying running ...
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HEAVENLY FRAGRANCE SESSION 21 - This was the twenty first session of my Heavenly Fragrance Campaign, a living adventure for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, prepared using tools and proc...2 weeks ago
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Musk and the Moral Homebrew... - Our hobby is essentially homebrewed. But it's also an industry eager to appropriate that which its players inevitably do themselves, whether through deli...
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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 ...2 weeks ago
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Bat in the Attic Games and 2025 - Happy New Year Folks! This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening with me and my plans for the upcoming year. Personal I ...2 weeks 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...5 weeks ago
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Blue Sky Temple, Revised - Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky. It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed together. This week, I ...1 month ago
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10 new metal Darkmaster passions - Alright, so here's a bunch of examples Passions for Against the Darkmaster based on some of my favourite metal acts. "Burn too bright and you'll burn aw...1 month 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 ...2 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...4 months ago
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A Groovy Guest Post: HORRORS FOUND IN ATTIC WERE A HOAX! - *(Jasper Bark is a rascal. And a bit of a genius. He's also a long-time Groove-ophile, a top-notch author, historian, and a pal. Yerz trooly was in ...
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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...1 year 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...1 year 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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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...2 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...2 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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Troika! review/overview - As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a really te...
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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...5 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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Starstone - A Mediaeval FRP Campaign (1982) - This is indeed VERY rare. Follow *THIS* path.5 years ago
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And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to indulge m...5 years ago
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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 Timm6 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...7 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...8 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...8 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...8 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.