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The CRPG Addict

Betrayal at Krondor: The Real Betrayal - *The party learns how to automate things in Excel.* This session starts in Chapter V: "When Rivers Run Blood." The Moredhel attack on Northwarden...
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Tellers of Weird Tales

"Laid to Rest" by Tim Lebbon - "Laid to Rest" by *Tim Lebbon* is the only outright science fiction story in the Cosmic Horror Issue of *Weird Tales*. It takes up nearly eight pages of ...
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Whatever

Sunset, 12/22/24 - As the year winds down, at least we’re getting some good sunsets to see us off. — JS
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Rough Edges

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Thrilling Detective, May 1945 - I've mentioned before that I never liked going to the barber shop when I was a kid. Is this a barber chair the guy is sitting in? I think it is, and tha...
17 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Market Making - *Im having a busy December in meatspace so slowing down writing - I war 2 weeks ahead so merry xmas in advance new year...
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. . lapsus calumni . .

Grimwall Keep...? - Whatcha think? Looks like a suitably horrible place to exist.A terrible fortification out on the far edges of the frontier, a place only desperate men (bea...
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The Adventure Gamer

Companions of Xanth – Roc and a Hard Place - By Ilmari Last time, I had just arrived in the magical world of Xanth. Without any idea what I am supposed to do, I ask my companion Nada Naga for advice. ...
1 day ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

BLOOD OF KINGS - The hard-hitting, high-flying spectacle known as Blood of Kings is based in Nellix. This group specializes in a unique style of sports fighting that is pur...
2 days ago
Gnome Stew

Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault Review - An interesting side effect of having multiple iterations of D&D 5th edition based on the 5e SRD is that some content allows publishers to produce content t...
2 days ago
The Other Side blog

This Old Dragon: Issue #115 - [image: Dragon Magazine #115] I think I have enough time left in this year to do another one of these. My box of old Dragons, though, is getting a little li...
3 days ago
Adventures Fantastic

Bester, Lanier, Moorcock, and Haldeman - December 18, as I write this. There are four birthdays I want to mention today. Alfred Bester (1913-1987), Sterling E. Lanier (1927-2007), Michael Moorcok...
4 days ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

Hide & Seek RPG: The Neighborhood - As the players build their characters, pay attention to any locations that get named or even specifically mentioned, such as Safe Places or places mentio...
4 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Frequently Asked Questions About The Compendium - So lots of people have questions about the Compendium! Here's a newer flip-thru video: Here's the details of its contents. Apparently many people are ...
4 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

My Brain Is Goldfish (But Here Are Some Things I Liked In 2024) - I think my brain is not okay. I don’t mean to suggest I’ve got actual worms up in there, but the Current Era combined with Holidaytimes has really just tur...
4 days ago
Steven Pressfield

Resistance Always Lies - Here’s another way we can use our own Resistance, jiu-jitsu style, and turn it in our favor. Remember, Resistance is always lying. Every statement it pre...
4 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

THE TEN BOOKS THAT MADE ME - I’ve been seeing this out there on social media, “the ten books that made me” thing, and it got me thinking. Over the course of my life, and I’m not young ...
5 days ago
Cirsova

Cirsova Winter Issue 2024 Issue is Out Now! - Featuring an exciting cover story from Owen G. Tabard + the conclusion of Michael Tierney’s The Superior Griefs, the winter issue is out now! ebook: https:...
5 days ago
DMDavid

Fifth-Edition D&D’s Original Lead Designer Calls Out the Game’s “Secret Error” That Remains Today - In fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons, characters and monsters calculate the difficulty class (DC) number needed to save against their spells and powers usin...
5 days ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

WOYW Fantasy - I am a big fan of what I have taken to calling “The World Outside Your Window” Speculative Fiction. What I mean by that is that if the reader of the story ...
6 days ago
Castelli & Chimere - Castles & Chimeras

Il Signore dei Labirinti la traduzione italiana di Labyrinth Lord e Advanced Labyrinth Lord - *Il Signore dei Labirinti* Uno dei primi retrocloni (2007) e forse il primo ad essere tradotto in italiano (2009) grazie alla meritoria opera di *Tito Le...
1 week ago
The RPGPundit

The RPGPundit Encounter Ep4 - The Evil DM - This Sunday, 9pm Eastern time, its Ep4 of "The RPGPundit Encounter"! This time I'll be interviewing The Evil DM, a long-time blogger, youtuber and podca...
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ALL PULP

BOBBY NASH GUESTS ON FREEWHEELING FRIDAY! - If you missed it live last night, author Bobby Nash was the guest on Ryan Permison's first episode as host of Freewheeling Friday on the Madness Comic...
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The Mystillery blog

Drury Lane's Last Case by Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen), 1933 - dustjackets.com *A**bout the author/series:* Barnaby Ross is a pseudonym of Ellery Queen. There are four books in the Drury Lane series: - The Tra...
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Blog of Holding

a quick peek at 2024 Monster Manual math - As a monster designer, I’m interested in seeing where the 2024 Monster Manual takes monster design. How compatible are 2014 and 2024 monsters? What are the...
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Writing Slices

Writing Your Story’s Theme by K.M. Weiland - Theme is what your story is really about. It’s the meaning that readers take with them, long after they’ve forgotten the plot and the characters. Weiland p...
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Fairies and Fairy Tales

Cozy TTRPG System - I am expanding my two most popular books on itch.io, and turning them into a single comprehensive guide. *Cozy Oracle System* This book provides you...
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Really Bad Eggs

High Trust - Okay, read this first. Now look this over: Are you with me so far? This reminds me of a systemless adventure published in issue 10 - 'The Cowboy Issue' -...
5 weeks ago
Frugal GM

Quick Convention Report: LongCon 2024 - [image: Quick Convention Report: LongCon 2024] Last weekend I was able to attend LongCon in Longview, TX. I had a work trip to the Nashville area that en...
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THE STORY GRID

Character Descriptions: 50+ Examples and Techniques for Writers - One of the most powerful tools in a writer’s arsenal is the ability to create vivid, memorable characters through description. Whether it’s the first imp...
2 months ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

Rogues Gallery: Grimslade and Valerius, Saren and Indel - Back in late '81/early '82, TSR ran a series of full page ads in the back of comic books--remember when comic books had ads? These ads were in the form o...
2 months ago
MEASURELESS EONS

Rich’s Take on: Web’s Edge (Eve of Ruin) - This is my take on Web’s Edge from Vecna: Eve of Ruin Rich’s Take on: Web’s Edge (Eve of Ruin)
2 months ago
Order of the Stick

1311: Take a Moment - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1311.html
2 months ago
Blood of Prokopius

Gamer ADD: Suleiman Subsector Gazetteer Part 2 - 1110 Quaver C111469-B Prior to the Civil War, Quaver was a major trade hub overseen by an opportunistic dictatorship. Seen as a possible disruptive force i...
3 months ago
Swords & Dorkery

Miracles and the Law - I’ve been working on revising and expanding my book on pilgrimage and related matters for DnD and part of that has been expanding the coverage to some othe...
3 months ago
Necropraxis

D&D Player’s Handbook 2024 - Being an incomplete, visual review of the 2024 Player’s Handbook. I got a copy of this almost entirely on the strength of the new cover art: (This is the “...
3 months ago
Howard Andrew Jones

Con Schedules 2024 - There may be tumbleweeds blowing through my web site, but I’ve been very busy. Book 3 of the Hanuvar series has long since been turned over, and the final ...
7 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

- So do I only post on this blog to promote Kickstarters anymore? It seems like that may be the case. Anyway… Fantastical Classes: Blobs vs. BladesNow on Ki...
10 months ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

Last move - to self-hosting! - As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at) Blog: ht...
11 months ago
HeroPress

Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
11 months ago
Metal Earth

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...
1 year ago
PulpRev

Pulp legend J. Manfred Weichsel Interviewed by Blasters and Blades Podcast!!! - Breaking news! J. Manfred Weichsel just sat down with the Blasters and Blades podcast for his second interview with them, talking about Warrior Soul &...
1 year ago
TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog

Magazine Of Horror #05 - New to Archive.org, the pre-Halloween Magazine Of Horror #05 (September 1964), with Whitehead’s “Cassius” and also Prout’s “The House of … Continue reading →
3 years ago
Thoul's Paradise

It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
3 years ago
Fantastic Maps

Map of a Pirate’s Lair - I’ve been a little light on inspiration recently – so I asked a friend for a challenge. He proposed a map on a theme of a Pirate Treasure Map, with the f...
4 years ago
On An Underwood No. 5

Farnsworth Wright’s Favorite Weird Tales by Bobby Derie - Julius Schwartz In 1932, teenage fan Julius Schwartz became involved with the *Science Fiction Digest*, a high-end fanzine (which in 1934 would become *Fa...
4 years ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

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.
4 years ago
Halfling's Luck

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...
4 years ago
Mesmerized by sirens

PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB! - My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
5 years ago
Gamers & Grognards

Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
5 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
5 years ago
The Clash of Spear on Shield

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...
5 years ago
Interesting Thing of the Day

ITotD on Summer Break - [image: Sunflowers]PixabayMy attempts at building a time machine having failed thus far, I find myself with too few hours in the day. So ITotD will be on a...
5 years ago
Jasper's Rantings

Feeding fans starving 4 Action around da World! - Despite what I said a few weeks ago, I never really retired, just semi-retired. I regularly check this site and love that it still gets traffic. So keep it...
5 years ago
Castle Triskelion

MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
6 years ago
The Dungeon Dozen

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...
6 years ago
Dungeon of Signs

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...
6 years ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
7 years ago
Elliott's Ale House

Exploring the Temple of Elemental Evil's Dungeon Level 2 (pt. 3) - *This is another play report for my ongoing Roll20-based B/X D&D campaign, and spoilers for dungeon module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil follow. Anyone...
7 years ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
7 years ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Looking forward - For reasons apparent to anyone that follows this blog, or checks my posting schedule, I'm very wary of making any future commitments, statements, or pretty...
7 years ago
Studio Denmark

Deviant Art - I've had a DeviantArt account since 2009, but haven't done much with it until recently. I didn't really take DA that seriously, thinking of it as mostly fo...
7 years ago
Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old

Four Frightening Games to Play on Halloween - Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls! It's that terror-rific time of the year when the air gets colder, the leaves start to change colors, and people embrace t...
8 years ago
百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai | Translated Japanese Ghost Stories and Tales of the Weird and the Strange

History of Ghost Taxis of Japan - Translated and Sourced from Shigeru Mizuki’s Mujara, Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena, and Other Sources To learn more ...
8 years ago
How To Think Sideways Blog

Winds of Change are Blowing - The more things change, the more things stay the same. Hmmm…. That’s an annoying cliche. How about, when one door closes, another one opens. I don’t real...
8 years ago
The Aspiring Lich

Dynamic Grappling - Before I say another word, let me direct the reader to Douglas Cole and Peter V. Dell'Orto's article on grappling in *The Manor*, issue #8 ( http://www.rpgn...
9 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
9 years ago
Places to Go, People to Be

This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...
9 years ago
OneBlogShelf

Community Created Content for Tabletop Games - Over a year ago, I posted about the coming revolution in card games (and board games) based upon the ability to print any content on any single card. I lai...
9 years ago
No School Like The Old School

(SW) Fearsome Critters: Cake Walk - *Savage Worlds* is the role-playing game that bills itself on being "Fast, Furious, and Fun." Over the years I've played elvish warriors, pulp adventurer...
9 years ago
The Mule Abides

0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...
9 years ago
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GROGNARDIA

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The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

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A character for every game

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Tower of the Archmage

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The Alexandrian

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From the Sorcerer's Skull

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Delta's D&D Hotspot

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Bugbears for Breakfast

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Bat in the Attic

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Smoldering Wizard

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Save Vs. Dragon

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The Pulp Archivist

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The Smoldering Wizard

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Telecanter's Receding Rules

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The Bogeyman's Cave

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Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

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moltensulfur

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Tankards & Broadswords

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SWORD & SHIELD

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Dungeons and Digressions

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Mythmere's Blog

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Greyhawk Grognard

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The Hydra's Grotto

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Sword+1

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The City of Iron

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