Jasper's Rantings

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BUY ME A COFFEE INTERVIEWS AUTHOR BOBBY NASH! - I was interviewed by author Michael Parkes for the Buy Me A Coffee site. I hope you'll give it a read. You can find the full interview HERE. Thanks ag...
9 hours ago
Cirsova

Coming Soon: Ken Lizzi’s Cesar the Bravo! - From the pages of Cirsova Magazine and several other top-tier Sword & Sorcery publications come Cesar the Bravo! We will be running a Kickstarter for this ...
12 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Monstrous Mondays: The Serpent Men of Lemuria - Today marks the 95 anniversary of the birth of American author Lin Carter. I didn't plan it this way, but I have been going back and rereading some of ...
13 hours ago
Gnome Stew

A Larp Approach To Practicing Tabletop Safety - If you’ve done some tabletop and dabbled in or heard about some larp, there’s one thing I think everyone who appreciates a good collaborative, mechanics li...
15 hours ago
Rough Edges

Review: Twisted Bars - Max Brand (Frederick Faust) - Frederick Faust, better known as Max Brand, is one of those authors I’ve been reading for more than 60 years, and I suspect I’ll continue to read his wo...
16 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Minotaurs, the horned headed herd humanoids - *MinotaursAbhuman beast folk Young Minotaur* AC+4 HD 4d12 (26hp) Att Axe d8+2 or Javelin d6+2 or unarmed d4+2 Mov 1...
2 days ago
Whatever

Welcome To The Neighborhood, AeCha Cafe! - A couple days ago, my cousin sent me a Facebook post from AeCha Cafe that said they were having their soft opening. A new bubble tea shop was opening in Ti...
3 days ago
The CRPG Addict

Week Off - Hi, everyone. Some stuff came up this week, and I ended up having to take a week off. I hope to be back on schedule by Tuesday, 10 June.
4 days ago
Order of the Stick

1327: Tooth or Consequences - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1327.html
4 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Tim Weed: Five Things I Learned Writing The Afterlife Project - The year is 10151. For the last ten thousand years, Nick Hindman—a microbiologist and member of the prestigious research team the Centauri Project—slept in...
4 days ago
Frugal GM

Goodman Games Just Priced Themselves out of my Market - I'm at NTRPG right now and travelling, for me, super light (despite driving). No tablets or computers.... ....Anyway I got notice about Goodman Games new...
5 days ago
Steven Pressfield

LAST CHANCE: The doors are closing. Resistance isn’t. - We’re in the final hours of enrollment for my new course, Overcoming Resistance: From Start to Finish. If you loved The War of Art, think of this course ...
5 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

WHY IS TAKE JOY OUT OF PRINT? - Jane Yolen’s Take Joy is still my favorite book on the art, craft, and life of writing fiction, but for some inexplicable reason it appears to be out of pr...
6 days ago
The Adventure Gamer

Missed Classic: Dracula Hakushaku (ドラキュラ伯爵) - Flashback, Heart Attack - Written by Morpheus Kitami *One person watching another person in the darkness, we need a lot of words for this one.*Welcome back to Dracula. It's been ...
6 days ago
Adventures Fantastic

John Bullard Reviews Will Oliver’s New REH biography - Note From Keith: John sent me this review a month ago. I apologize to him for taking so long to get it up. I was busy with school and family things. Since ...
1 week ago
THE STORY GRID

Worldbuilding for Writers: How to Create Story Worlds That Serve Your Narrative - When you hear the word “worldbuilding,” what comes to mind? Maybe it’s sprawling fantasy realms with elaborate magic systems, sci-fi universes with compl...
1 week ago
Writing Slices

Book Blurbs Unleashed by Robert J. Ryan - Ryan has an interesting background. He used to work for the government, writing letters to persuade people to pay overdue taxes. And his letters worked. If...
1 week ago
The Mystillery blog

The Ringer Returns by Edgar Wallace, 1931 - dustjackets.com *About the author:* Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrot...
1 week ago
The Mule Abides

Getting Back in the (Worm’s) Saddle - Wow! So, it’s been… (checks notes) …12 years since I last posted here? That’s as many as four threes. And that’s terrible. During that time I was heavily i...
1 week ago
The RPGPundit

The Science of Adventure Design - In this video I look at Adventure design, explaining how making adventures are also design, and what makes for good adventures. #ttrpg #dnd #osr #...
2 weeks ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Sacrifice - Thank you to all paid the ultimate price to ensure our freedom and that our amazing country shall endure the tests of time.
2 weeks ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

’til Death Do Us Part - Well, I obviously didn’t publish in in time for Valentine’s Day, but here it is. (click on the pic for the link.) Ran into a number of issues in the projec...
2 weeks ago
Swords & Dorkery

Beggars - One piece of feedback I got on Burgs & Bailiffs Trinity was that I gave clerics reasons to go on pilgrimages but not so much for other classes. The upcomin...
2 weeks ago
MEASURELESS EONS

Werewolf By Night - Custom: Werewolf By Night
2 weeks ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

Donald Keyhoe in National Geographic-Part Two - As I was paging through *Donald E. Keyhoe*'s article "Seeing America with Lindbergh," published in *The National Geographic Magazine* in January 1928, I ...
3 weeks ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Four-Color Fantasy - I've been thinking a lot lately about a kind of art that usually doesn't work. Specifically, full-color comic-book fantasy, especially from the 20th Cent...
4 weeks ago
DMDavid

D&D 2024 Ignored One of Fifth Edition’s Original Goals, Losing Something We All Still Want in D&D - Before creating the 2014 version of Dungeon & Dragons, lead designer Mike Mearls set goals for the new, fifth edition. He wanted the update to play fast. “...
1 month ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

ERELHEI-CINLU - The Vault of the Drow… Continue reading ERELHEI-CINLU
1 month ago
Blood of Prokopius

Christ is Risen! - [Hades] received a body and encountered God. It took earth and came face to face with heaven. It took what it saw and fell by what it could not see. ...
1 month ago
Blog of Holding

Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual - As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than oth...
2 months ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

Happy St. Cuthbert's Day! - Today is the saint's day of the original cuddy, St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel! Although the real world Cuthbert seems not to have used a cudgel at all; in t...
2 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...
3 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...
4 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....
4 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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,...
6 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 ...
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...
1 year 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...
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 →
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...
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
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.
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
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...
6 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...
6 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...
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) ...
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
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...
7 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...
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 ...
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...
9 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
9 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

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Site Update for 2010

I figure that because it has been close to a year since I started this blog, I would do a little housekeeping. So here is the new and improved "Jasper's Rantings" in all of its glory.

Posted by JasperAK at 20:10

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Dungeons & Dragons Blogs

Tenkar's Tavern

Deal of the Day - Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme - *Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme*. That is a mouthful and a half! I backed the Kickstarter, and the physical product is bea...
2 hours ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Community Greyhawk – DMG Deities STLs - Here we have something very different. DMG Deities STLs is a collection of 3D print files to create your own holy symbols for those Greyhawk gods that are ...
4 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

The Paradox of Popularity - A family member recently returned from an extended trip abroad and our conversation about her experiences got me thinking about the strange (and, in fact...
10 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Magic Item] Bracelet of Loyalty - Bracelet of Loyalty A little while after the group set out for the ancient tomb Skorbi sidled over towards Bakra-do.‘What do you think of the hirelings we ...
11 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

H is for Humanoids - *I missed the April A-Z Blog Challenge this year, so I'm doing my own...in June. This year, I will be posting one post per day discussing my AD&D campaign,...
12 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Jam session in the Black Monastery - Session 277 was played on 04/06/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 9 (Me) Koltic, ...
13 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Dread Knights and Dead Lovers - Our Land of Azurth game continued last night, but I haven't written about the previous session, so this covers both. The party only had one more shard o...
15 hours ago
The Alexandrian

Ex-RPGNet Review – Blue Planet: Frontier Justice - Frontier Justice is an incredibly well-researched supplement, providing a valuable investment not only for Blue Planet GMs, but GMs of any game system. Rev...
21 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Lycans - I've begun figuring out what a "lycan" (aka Werewolf Lite) should look like mechanically in my *Savage Worlds* Krevborna games. Here's what I've come up ...
23 hours ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

This Is How To Have A Resilient Family: 13 Secrets From Research - If you’ve never been in a family crisis, congratulations. You are either: an orphan, lying, due. And by crisis, I mean full-on, real-deal adversity. Divo...
1 day ago
Bat in the Attic

The Old School Renaissance - Debates about what the OSR is have been going on since at least the late 2000s. Lately I seen more rounds of discussion on this topic on various forums ...
2 days ago
Leicester's Ramble

Campaign Journal: Wherein Goober Almost Dies - Who's riding with Serafina Rissanen to meet with Victor Matui and his faction of worshippers of "Old Khador" at his keep? - Slick (And Dukan Dildran)...
3 days ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Ruined Tower of Zenopus Goes Mithral! - *Find it here* I haven't had much free time lately, hence the dearth of posts, but here's a quick update on *the Ruined Tower of Zenopus* 5E conversion...
3 days ago
Hack & Slash

Asset Thursdays: Acrocolypse - Here we have Acrocolypse, and uplifted anarchist crocodile. This asset was the asset of a player in the playtest games, and I did my bestest to make th...
4 days ago
A character for every game

Time to take a break. - I’m going to be logging off from the internet tonight and won’t be back online until the 16th or so. … Continue reading →
5 days ago
Gothridge Manor

What to do on a Gaming Break - It's summer again. Well it's supposed to be but with temperatures lingering around 40 it doesn't feel like it. Most summers I take time off. A couple mon...
1 week ago
Smoldering Wizard

Return to the Known Lands – Session #44 – Wherein the Party Finds Themselves Wanted - PCs: - Frakus (Dw FM 3) - Osan (Elf F/MU 4/3) - Omes (Half FM 5) NPCs: - Marnes (CL 4) - Hurbar (Half FM 1) Hirelings: ...
1 week ago
The Smoldering Wizard

Return to the Known Lands – Session #44 – Wherein the Party Finds Themselves Wanted - PCs: - Frakus (Dw FM 3) - Osan (Elf F/MU 4/3) - Omes (Half FM 5) NPCs: - Marnes (CL 4) - Hurbar (Half FM 1) Hirelings: ...
1 week ago
Jeff's Gameblog

I come from the land of the ice and snow - So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city, castle, and...
1 week ago
Save Vs. Dragon

New Magic Items: Rings I - Earthwhisperer *Description* This heavy, rough-hewn ring is carved from a single chunk of dark deep-earth schist, with veins of lighter quartz running t...
1 week ago
Aeons & Augauries

The Rule of 2 - In my games I've been using the rule of 2. The rule of 2 is easy. If you are better at 2 things over your oppoent or 2 steps better you get +2 to your roll...
4 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

OSRIC the Third - The wise sages at Mythmere Games are hard at work on the third version of *OSRIC* (“Old School Reference and Index Compilation”). You can support this proj...
4 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

I Fell, a Lot - So, I had trouble walking for a while. Three weeks ago, I fell getting into the tub. I got up and out. Next day went to chiropractor and got xrays of ...
1 month ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

The Next 52 (26?) Pages - As promised, here is the pdf of the first 26 of the Next 52 pages. It's an expansion to my preferred homebrew adventure game system that, like the Expert...
2 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Resource Files - Running Curse of Strahd for ShadowDark - Here are some overdue files that support running Curse of Strahd... for ShadowDark. Monster conversions Plot hooks XP Tables You'll still need your ow...
2 months ago
Roll Stats

C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness — Is #30 on the Top 30 D&D List Too Low? - 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. T...
2 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...
3 months ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

Making Enemies, Available for Preorder - In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing and MOAR! Monsters Know What They’re Doing, I reverse-engineered hundreds of fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons mon...
4 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...
5 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...
5 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

All That Glitters - Continuing the earlier thoughts about gold in classic D&D… Over the years, one overall trend in my perspective on playing or running TTRPGS is an inc...
6 months 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...
8 months ago
Stonewerks's Blog

Crimson Abby – The Final Battle - Last night, our gaming group played out the final battle in the Crimson Abby story arc. One of our starting players had moved away to KC last summer, we co...
11 months 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...
1 year ago
The Pulp Archivist

Rumors of Kane - On 20 December, 2022, sword and sorcery scholar Brian Murphy posted a review of Karl Wagner’s *Night Winds* at Goodman Games. In the middle of this, he e...
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.
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Hill Cantons

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
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...
6 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...
6 years ago
The Hydra's Grotto

The Ergonomic 3 Mile Hex - So if my blog numbers are correct, everybody loves the six mile hex. It has the top number of posts with the most comments. All in all the 6 mile hex is ...
6 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 ...
6 years ago
Sword+1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
7 years ago
The City of Iron

Dolmenwood: The Book of Monsters So Far - Since the announcement of the work on the Dolmenwood book of monsters in *Wormskin* issue seven, I've been meaning to write a quick blog post about it. Fi...
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...
7 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

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...
7 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
7 years ago
Wielding a Bohemian Ear Spoon

Cave Magic Web Comic 1-114: Shaman Returns to Chaos - Shaman returns from inspecting the cave paintings on spirit Island to find his cave lion has been injured, and Toktoe’s spear tip is still embedded under t...
8 years ago
Howling Tower

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...
8 years ago
Crypt Of Rabies

[Patreon] Dwarven Stronghold + Bandits + Wizard Tower of Toerd + Alia(k) of Wizard Tower - Thanks to my Patrons, here is new content for you to enjoy! If you like stuff like this, you can support me to create more, and more, and more! *DWARVEN S...
8 years ago
Blue Boxer Rebellion

Dungeonteller: Beyond the Core Books - FYI for all of you who snagged free copies of Dungeonteller Fantasy RPG during the "Happy Birthday '2' Dungeonteller" giveaway a few weeks back: add to you...
8 years ago
The Weirdlands of Xhuul

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!
8 years ago
Discourse and Dragons

Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...
9 years ago
People them with Monsters

Another d66 Item Chart - For TOON or whatever gonzo thing you're into... 11. Sword 12. Laser Gun 13. Can of Fart Spray 14. Net 15. Pet 16. Guitar 21. Candy Bar 22. Fire Extinguisher...
9 years ago
Carto Cacography

The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep -- Almost There - My Kickstarter campaign was a success! In the next 4-5 months, I will officially become an 'author' with a novel available on Amazon. And a few short mon...
9 years ago
The Sandbox of Doom

Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...
9 years ago
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
9 years ago
A Pack of Gnolls

Back in the Saddle! - This Pack of Gnolls has finally begun a new Dungeons and Dragons game! I was gifted a Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual for Christmas thi...
10 years ago
The Moldy Vale

Keindahan Gunung Prau (Foto dan Catatan Perjalanan) - Keindahan Gunung Prau Keindahan Gunung Prau (Foto dan Catatan Perjalanan) - Gunung Prau atau Prahu memang pendek, kadang hanya dilirik sebelah mata oleh...
10 years ago

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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...
6 years ago

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