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terribleminds: chuck wendig

The Temporal Beast Is Dead, But What Wriggles Forth From Its Carcass? (2025 Wrapup, 2026 Look-Ahead) - Sooooo, every year I do my this happened in the past year wrap-up with a I think these things are happening in the future year prophecy, and I’m going ahea...
3 hours ago
ALL PULP

SOLITAIRE 2 The Agenda - *AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION* *Presents* *SOLITAIRE 2 – The Agenda* When the son of a wealthy aviation corporation is kidnapped by a vicious South A...
7 hours ago
Rough Edges

Review: Ghost Town Belles - Chap O'Keefe (Keith Chapman) - Down-on-his-luck cowboy Drift Garrity lives up to his name, wandering through Arizona on an unspecified quest and taking what jobs he can on various ran...
9 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

TSR Marvel - Reskinned into a Swinging 60s SpyFi Romp - Started a shared world game using characters from this post and B-Man's stats https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/20...
20 hours ago
Whatever

The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty-Eight: Roxanne - The one problem I have with Roxanne is, alas, its central premise: that its protagonist, Charlie “C.D.” Bales (Steve Martin) is tragically undesirable beca...
20 hours ago
MEASURELESS EONS

Chaos Gods of Greyhawk - These are Melniboné Chaos Gods for use in Greyhawk
22 hours ago
The Adventure Gamer

Universe - Time Enough for Love - Written by MenhirMike As I'm starting this session I notice a slight annoyance: There is no main menu with a quick load option. Universe originally came ...
1 day ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Brodgar Tumulae Map25.06 - Not far from the village of Bramblgulf a large tumulae has been discovered, hidden under the forest floor. How was it discovered you ask? A local ranger on...
2 days ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

How to Play AD&D Part XVII: Hirelings--Sages - Something weird was going on in Gary's campaign that compelled him to write 20 paragraphs of rules for running sages in AD&D. First off we have tables f...
2 days ago
The Other Side blog

Fantasy Friday Boxing Day: Dragonbane - [image: Dragonbane] A special combined Fantasy Friday with Boxing Day. Today I am diving into the Dragonbane boxed set. I picked this up my local RPG auct...
3 days ago
Adventures Fantastic

12DoCGS Day 5: “Thw Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance” by M. R. James - Merry Christmas! It’s almost over as I write this, but I hope the day has been and continues to be a merry one for all of you. And that you’re enjoying som...
3 days ago
Frugal GM

Merry Christmas Gift to Y'all : Creature Catalogue Vol. 1 - I wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and decided that I should take one of the few Frugal GM titles that has a cost and make it free....well, tec...
4 days ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

RICH’S TAKE ON: CHASES - This is a homebrew chase system hybrid madhing together D&D and Modiphius Fallout systems.
4 days ago
The Mystillery blog

The Dead Shall Be Raised by George Bellairs, 1942 - *Series:* This is Inspector Thomas Littlejohn #4, also published as *Murder Will Speak* *About the author:* George Bellairs is the pseudonym of Ha...
4 days ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

Merry Christmas! - *Galaxy Science Fiction*, January 1956, with cover art by *Emsh*. We might think that January 1956 was too late for a Christmas cover, but I believe this ...
5 days ago
Steven Pressfield

The Civilized Cave Man and Woman - Did our circumstances improve with the rise of civilization? Flash back to the nascent days of cultivation of the land, domestication of animals. Now ou...
5 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

TEMPERING OUR OPINIONS - Here in this penultimate week of 2025, thoughts turn to the next year, and dare I say New Years Resolutions? I’ve worked past that idea myself, but then th...
6 days ago
Order of the Stick

1337: Limited Time Offer - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1337.html
6 days ago
DMDavid

RPG Design: How a Roleplaying Game like D&D Could Make Rounds Play Better - Since D&D dropped the declaration phase in favor of cyclic initiative, it has let one round blur into the next without any phases that trigger between roun...
6 days ago
The CRPG Addict

The Fates of Twinion: Up and Down and Over and Out - *Is he related to a sloth? If so, the "ice" part really makes a difference.* When I blog about games, I sometimes deliberately adopt a "summary" ...
1 week ago
Gnome Stew

Why this game? - For the most part, I pick the games I am going to run by, as the kids today say, vibes. It has always been instinctual. I hear about a game, the right ones...
1 week ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Two-Player Head-to-Head D&D - Unfortunately for my wizard, Game 1 ended exactly the way this looks *1. Both players generate a 1st-level magic-user in any system.* -You each get a sin...
1 week ago
Cirsova

Cirsova Winter 2025 Issue Is Out Now! - Our Winter Issue is Out Now! New Merch here. This issue features… Flight From Reckoning(Part 4)By MICHAEL TIERNEYWhile Fastrick may have humiliated the lea...
1 week ago
Metal Earth

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...
1 week ago
Swords & Dorkery

Where I promote a polarizing publisher when I should be talking about my own books that will be coming out later in 2026 - Lamentations of the Flame Princess, if you haven’t heard, is at a bit of a critical junction. I was pretty sure the owner had taken leave of social media ...
2 weeks ago
Writing Slices

How to Thrive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia by Russell Nohelty - The title HOW TO THRIVE AS A WRITER IN A CAPITALIST DYSTOPIA promises a lot. It speaks of urgency, survival, maybe even a little rebellion. Unfortunately, ...
4 weeks ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

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...
1 month ago
The Mule Abides

Glantri Reunion III: Timeskip Tables After-Action Report - We had our first Glantri reunion session, and it was largely successful! After 10 years of war and political shenanigans, the Company of Crossed Swords (ou...
1 month ago
Jasper's Rantings

BECMI Psychic Infiltrator - So Fred did it to me again. Last week he hosted another stream where he worked on building a Shadowdark version of the 5e classes and sub-classes. This tim...
2 months ago
Blood of Prokopius

Fr. Peter Heers and the Satanic Panic - A reader of my blog recently reached out to me. He shared a video of Fr. Peter Heers, an influential Orthodox Christian YouTuber, answering the question ...
2 months ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

Cirsova rides again! -
4 months ago
Blog of Holding

where are psionics from? - A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psio...
4 months ago
Mesmerized by sirens

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...
5 months ago
THE STORY GRID

How Creative Writing Constraints Unlock Better Stories - Ever stared at a blank page, unsure where to start your story? You’re not alone. The possibilities feel endless—and that can be the problem. Here’s a sur...
6 months ago
The RPGPundit

Critical Role Hires Two Worst D&D Designers of All Time - The Critical Role / Daggerheart people have hired the two men most responsible for the least successful edition of D&D. What a lot of people have missed...
6 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What can m...
10 months ago
Fairies and Fairy Tales

How do fairies fly? + Do fairies have wings? - Perhaps some of the most common questions on the internet involve fairy flight, such as do fairies have wings? can fairies fly? how do fairies fly? et...
11 months ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

The Player Agenda in Hide & Seek - I think one of the hardest things to impart to a reader of any ttrpg is what playing the game should feel like, but yet nothing more useful you can say....
11 months ago
Castelli & Chimere - Castles & Chimeras

Almost Vancian - One of the typical elements of old school games, especially clones or evolutions of the original D&D, are magic rules where wizards memorize spells and w...
11 months ago
Really Bad Eggs

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 ...
11 months ago
Necropraxis

Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...
11 months ago
Places to Go, People to Be

Zombie Survival Escape USA - Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding game,...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
PulpRev

Stand by for SAGA OF THE SWORDBREAKER: INVINCIBLE UNDER HEAVEN! - Li Ming was once a small-town boy with big dreams. Propelled by dreams of immortality, he entered the jianghu as a biaohang, intent on delivering justice...
2 years 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 →
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
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...
6 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
Castle Triskelion

MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
7 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...
7 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...
7 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) ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
forum – Holly's Writing Classes Blog

ROUNDUP: What Writers Want to Know Right Now… - Multi-published author and head moderator Cat Gerlach asked a bunch of writers on the forums what their toughest writings were. Here are their questions an...
8 years ago
Roleplaying Tips

A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign - This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Occult Mysteries and Magic. To celebrate that theme, here is a quick and adversarial secret society idea for your...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
10 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
10 years ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e] - I'm experimenting with dual-stat blocks for monsters. This is a first draft, so expect changes and feedback is strongly desired. *Update: Revised stat block...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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B/X BLACKRAZOR

"Dear JB" Mailbag #51 - *This guy.... * *Dear JB:* *My friends and I are new to D&D. Actually, I've been consuming D&D content for about a year, so I have a bit more experience. ...
5 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Sweet Sixteen - Yesterday was the 16th anniversary of this blog. If anybody's still reading from the early days, thanks for sticking around. Looking at my blog states, ...
9 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

Pulp Fantasy Library: What the Moon Brings - H. P. Lovecraft’s “What the Moon Brings” is another very short work and, though imperfect in many respects, it nonetheless offers a concentrated expressi...
16 hours ago
The Alexandrian

Thought of the Day: GenAI and RPGs - There’s been Discourse™ of late about the use of GenAI/LLMs in creating RPGs. Not the artwork in an RPG book (that’s a whole ‘nother kettle of fish), but t...
16 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Spell] Vigil of Angels - Vigil of Angels Nuli finished her prayer and a barrier of shimmering light appeared all around them, just as the tall, spiky infernal creature appeared sna...
1 day ago
Akratic Wizardry

An Old School Warhammer Against the Darkmaster in 2026 - I thought I would mention here that the guys at *Open Ended Games* have posted a short (~23 minutes) end-of-year "Questions & Answers" video on *Youtube*...
2 days ago
A character for every game

Saryer’s Overlook & the Sirenhearth Docks - In 2017 I needed a small fortified community for a game set on the Manticore Peninsula. A small fortification that looks down on the ocean to be the first ...
3 days ago
Tenkar's Tavern

OSR Christmas - Days One through Three - We are kicking *OSR Christmas 2025* off today - Christmas itself. How do you get into the "gift receiving" mix? Email *OSRChristmasATgmailDOTcom *(tryi...
3 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Unbalance the Scales, a free ShadowDark Adventure - It's Christmas. I'm in my office. Snowing outside. Coffee in hand. Netflix in my ears. Drawing a map. I wanted to share an adventure I shared with my Pat...
4 days ago
Leicester's Ramble

Secret Santicorn 2025, Part III: Pathetic Dragons - And now my last(?) gift to shove under the OSR Discord Secret Santicorn tree: *Sylvanas_iii* - A dX table of medieval dragons that look nothing like any ...
4 days ago
Sword+1

I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
5 days ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Taking the Next Two Weeks Off - I'm taking the next two weeks off, so no blog posts until the first full week of January 2026. Enjoy the end of the year and see everyone in the new year!
6 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Worm Hunting and a new quest - Session 294 was played on 08/17/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, ...
1 week ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

How To Control Your Dreams At Night: 3 Secrets From Research - The basic premise of sleep is completely insane. Imagine you’re designing a species. You want it to survive predators, adapt, innovate, build complex soc...
1 week ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

We Three Kings Lay Mangled and Torn - This is my last blogpost of the year, so I figured I may as well go out with what passes for "holiday cheer" around here. I've written a Christmas story ...
1 week ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

The Monsters Are Unsure What to Do Next - At the end of 2025—the latest of several in a string of disorienting years that have included, among other things, the destruction of Twitter, the OGL ke...
1 week ago
Jeff's Gameblog

jimbo update -
2 weeks ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Community Greyhawk – The Hunt for Malfera - Today we have another short adventure from a familiar name; The Hunt for Malfera by David Quadrini. It’s a 4 5 page pdf (including cover and a page of lega...
4 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's "A" series of adventures in unusually unruly strongholds: Introduction - Illustration from Slave Pits of the Undercity (1980) by David S. LaForce D&D was born in the castle. The Castle and Crusade Society of wargamers brought G...
5 weeks ago
Stonewerks's Blog

My Shadowdark Character Sheet - I created this sheet last year, finally getting around to posting it. Our group loves Shadowdark these days, we have a multi-DM Shadowdark campaign running...
1 month ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
1 month ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Metal Minis based on the Holmes Basic Set Cover are Forthcoming - *"Computer-generated" mockup from the Sirius Miniatures website.* Enworld reports that a set of metal miniatures based on *David Sutherland*'s cover for t...
1 month ago
Hill Cantons

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...
2 months ago
Hack & Slash

On Bounty, Questions worth asking. - Well? Will we? Available Now! https://sinlessrpg.com ------------------------------ *Hack & Slash* Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 ...
2 months ago
Bat in the Attic

What is the point of the OSR? - Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes his post with some questions. So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
2 months ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Defining Full Telepathy vs. Limited Telepathy - I've been working on a pretty significant new d30-related book—well, really books... plural (more to come in future posts). And I realized I was assignin...
3 months ago
Smoldering Wizard

Musings on the OSR Blogosphere and Forums - Link to discussion There are some posts on the historical OSR blog scene that I’ve read recently from the Grumpy … Continue reading →
3 months ago
The Smoldering Wizard

Musings on the OSR Blogosphere and Forums - Link to discussion There are some posts on the historical OSR blog scene that I’ve read recently from the Grumpy … Continue reading →
3 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

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....
3 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

Holmes1to3 [general guidelines] - Notes on playing a D&D campaign using only the Holmes Basic set of rules with level 1 to 3 being the only levels achievable by Player Characters. 1st...
4 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

Why Magic Users Suck at Fighting - [image: Rincewind in colour by holepunch on DeviantArt] Often I find myself thinking about common critiques of classic D&D and trying to formulate response...
4 months ago
The Pulp Archivist

The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues #11: Influences (Bad) - *NOTE: this article first appeared in the pages of SFWA Bulletin 151, Fall, 2001. Since this got disappeared in part because of SFWA politics and, in gre...
5 months ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
7 months ago
Roll Stats

C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness — Review - Hey, Stat Rollers! Bill with Roll Stats here, and today, I’m diving into one of the most iconic tournament modules ever published for Dungeons & Dragons....
8 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
10 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...
11 months ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...
1 year ago
The Retired Adventurer

Yes, You Can Translate and Share Six Cultures of Play for Noncommercial Purposes - I've been getting a lot of requests to translate Six Cultures of Play into various languages and for those translations to be posted on various RPG sites...
1 year ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural* ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the para...
1 year ago
Land of Nod

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
Destination Unknown

Legends of Gath #69; Two Skellies Under a Fig Tree - There's a lot to be said for finding a vine or fig tree to sit under with your guitar.
3 years ago
Telecanter's Receding Rules

Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...
4 years ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
4 years ago
You are (probably) doing it wrong: Hit points, literature, and D&D. – The Frisky Pagan

Everything is social III - If the previous posts dealt more with individuals and how we deal with the social media environment, here I will focus more on the groups themselves that h...
4 years ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
4 years ago
moltensulfur

Folkloric Villains - Folklore is full of villains and antagonists. By a striking coincidence, so are RPG campaigns! Here are four villains drawn from folklore: a Russian singer...
5 years ago
Henchman Abuse

session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...
5 years ago
The Grumpy Old Troll

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
6 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
6 years ago
SWORD & SHIELD

FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HERE Frostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I p...
6 years ago
Saturday Night Sandbox

Helgacon 12 - Stay Frosty - The second game I was in for the Premium segment of this recent Helgacon was "Stay Frosty" run by Paul. This apparently was an adaptation of James Raggi...
6 years ago
Dungeons and Digressions

Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...
6 years ago
Mythmere's Blog

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
Greyhawk Grognard

Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...
7 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
7 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...
8 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

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Wielding a Bohemian Ear Spoon

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Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press. We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat room-shaped. That’s a h...
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5E Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Conversion File Finished. - I finally got this done. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_fdDsNnLe_LRVRpb2ZTS2xGbzg Enjoy!
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BECMI Psychic Infiltrator - So Fred did it to me again. Last week he hosted another stream where he worked on building a Shadowdark version of the 5e classes and sub-classes. This tim...
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