Rocketships & Holidays
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It has been a long time since I posted twice in one day, but it occurs to
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The Absolute Best Carrot Cake Recipe To Make For Easter (Or Anytime!) - Which dish is more suited for Easter than a carrot cake? None, I say! And lucky for y’all, I have the best recipe for you to try. This recipe is tried and ...4 hours ago
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Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Adventure, December 1, 1932 - I've been quite a fan of Hubert Rogers' pulp covers. Here's another very good one on this issue of ADVENTURE. There's a fine lineup of authors inside, t...8 hours ago
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Weinbaum and Gallun - One of hte most popular science fiction writers of the Pre-Campbell era was born today, April 4. I’m talking about Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902-1935). Weinbau...16 hours ago
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Star Trail: The Cruelest Month - Jewel of the Nile *(1985) did it first, jackass.* It helps to know that although this entry will go live on 4 April, it represents a session that I...1 day ago
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6-Room Dungeon 6: Jungle Shrine - unauthorised public art by ELK 1 Redbrick 2 Goblin Mine 3 Gothic Tomb 4 Magic Mansion 5 Glacial Chasm 6 Jungle Shrine 7 ...1 day ago
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Make Items Like This - "Here, in an alcove in the wall of the arch, had once hung the notorious Gabelline Oracle, sought out and yet dreaded by all who entered or left the city...2 days ago
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Follow Fridays: Elf Lair Games and NIGHT SHIFT - I have been doing a lot with NIGHT SHIFT® lately, and it has been fantastic. So I wanted to make sure my readers knew where to get the latest and great...2 days ago
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The Clue! - Now We’re Playing With Power - Written by MenhirMike Last time, I ended up liberating the bones of Karl Marx, but unfortunately the police liberated my car from me. So I started this s...2 days ago
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I’m working at MCDM! - If I’ve been quiet on this blog for a while, it’s because I’ve been filling my hours with a lot of RPG design: D&D, A5E, Pathfinder, and, increasingly, Dra...2 days ago
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HAROLD GOLDBERG: FIVE THINGS I LEARNED WHILE WRITING THE SKINNY - Stan Kaminski, a down-on-his-luck Polish immigrant, tries to scratch out an existence in 1990s New York City while avoiding the colorful, nefarious charact...2 days ago
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Newsletter: NASH NEWS FOR APRIL 2026 NOW AVAILABLE! - No foolin'! April's Nash News was just emailed to subscriber's inboxes today! Have you subscribed to my FREE monthly newsletter? Try it free without s...3 days ago
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Introducing Gnome Stew’s new AGI – Artificial Gnome Intelligence - Never let it be said that Gnome Stew doesn’t keep up with the times. We’ve heard all this buzz about LLMs and CCCs and ROPs and whatever and we know that t...4 days ago
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Take What the Defense Will Give You - The work always resists us. Some days it REALLY resists us. On those days, there’s no shame in doing what football offenses do: Take what the defense wil...4 days ago
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WRITING THROUGH TIME - One is frequently asked whether the [writing] process becomes easier with the passage of time, and the reply is obvious—Nothing gets easier with the passag...5 days ago
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Gesture by Lauren Gawne - Humans communicate with body language as much as they do with voice. However, most books about body language are focused on what humans do unconsciously. G...5 days ago
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Free GM Resource: Freesound.org - [image: Free GM Resource: Freesound.org] This week's Free GM Resource is a simple one: Freesound.org, a collection of freebie sound effects. If you're p...6 days ago
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Fairy Food - You are wondering far from home when you encounter a fairy which offers you a simple meal of bread and butter. Should you accept it? Many would say ...1 week ago
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Session 0 & 1 - I have started playing a little White Box game during my lunches and whatever free time I can muster during the week (which is not much due to idiotic coll...1 week ago
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Wheel…of…fortunes! - Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book (published by Dick & Fitzgerald, in 1862 and 1866) claims to reproduce a list of 100 fortunes associ...2 weeks ago
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(RPG PDF Spotlight) Cohors Cthulhu RPG Laurium Adventures - Laurium Adventures Cohors Cthulhu RPG Supplement by Modiphius Entertainment Laurium, Gateway to the Hidden Wars One remote town is uniquely situated on the...3 weeks ago
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Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...1 month ago
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Classic Railroad Adventuring: How to Roll Dice on a Train - After many days in the wilderness, hounded relentlessly by the vociferous demons of Blogger OCD, I came across a railroad track and managed to hop on a p...2 months ago
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2026 Character Creation Challenge – Lalibo the Red Mage - So I have gone back and forth on posting this character for the longest time. This is the infamous Lalibo from my home game built as a Red Mage custom clas...2 months ago
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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...3 months ago
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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...3 months ago
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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...4 months ago
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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 ...5 months ago
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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...9 months ago
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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...9 months ago
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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...1 year ago
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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....1 year ago
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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...1 year 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 ...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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
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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
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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...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...6 years ago
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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
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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...6 years ago
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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
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.7 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...7 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...7 years ago
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Poetry For Fiction Writers, Part III: Anatomy Of The Sonnet - In the first part of this series I defined limits. In the second part I discussed meter. Now I am going to be examining the sonnet, because it is the workh...8 years ago
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...10 years ago
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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...10 years ago
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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
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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...11 years ago
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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...11 years ago
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(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...11 years ago
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