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THE NIGHT STALKER RETURNS! KOLCHAK: ERAS ARRIVES JANUARY 27! NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! - Get ready to stalk the night! Kolchak: The Night Stalker returns in Kolchak Eras January 27th from Monstrous Books. Carl Kolchak has faced more than h...9 hours ago
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Character Creation Challenge: Day 4, Áine nic Elatha - [image: Photo by T Leish: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-black-witch-costume-with-a-black-book-5600078/] Photo by T LeishToday I want to revisit Ái...16 hours ago
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Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Ten Detective Aces, June 1947 - We start the year on these Sunday pulp posts with an issue of TEN DETECTIVE ACES that sports a really dynamic cover by Norman Saunders. Of course, I r...19 hours ago
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Weird Tales and the American Revolution - On July 4, 2026, the United States of America will reach its 250th anniversary. A century ago, in our sesquicentennial year of 1926, *Weird Tales* magazi...20 hours ago
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The Fates of Twinion: Lines and Squares - *What would happen if I "accidentally" clicked "on-line"?* I had an oddly enjoyable experience with *Twinion* during the holiday break, one that ha...1 day ago
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Northern Shadows - Today is January 3. It’s the birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973). His shadow over the field of fantasy is arguably the longest of any author. Many wri...1 day ago
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A Brief Note on Current Events, January 3, 2026 - I don’t have a whole lot to say about what’s going on in Venezuela at the moment because like most people, I’m still finding out about it. The one thing I ...1 day ago
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2026 Character Creation Challenge – Strider - And here we are today on the 3rd of January and I already fell behind. Oh well, I spent all day yesterday making characters or rebuilding characters for va...1 day ago
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On the run - I've taken shelter for the night in a cave on the lee side of a mountain ridge. The wind and rain are howling outside, not even the Demons of Blogger OCD...1 day ago
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Cirsova Projects in 2026 - Happy New Year! 2025 was a very rough year for me personally, but we managed to get out a LOT of really great book by some fantastic authors: We have HUGE ...2 days ago
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Pac-Man 2 - Won! - Written by Michael Not how my mother taught me to greet others in polite company. We’ve played through three of the four levels in this game so far. Pe...3 days ago
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How to Talk About Writing by Barbara Turner-Vesselago - Writers and critique groups naturally go together. Every writer I know has tried a critique group at least once, and all of them cherish their trusted beta...4 days ago
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Myconid Boletaceae: Map25.07 - Deep in the Scarborough Bluffs to the far east of Bamblgulf and hidden in a soft soil is a cavern home to the myconid people. They are extremely protective...4 days ago
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Writer Resolution 2026: Wield The Weapon That Is You - It’s never precisely easy to be a writer — professional or otherwise. I mean, it’s easy in the sense of, hey, anybody can open a word processor and start (...4 days ago
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Working Class Hero - What about today? Remember John Lennon’s song, Working Class Hero? And you think you’re so clever and classless and freeBut you’re still f**king peasants...4 days ago
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HOW DO I LOOK BACK ON 2025? - This is the last Tuesday and so the last Fantasy Author’s Handbook post of 2025… Am I really going to write some kind of year-end wrap-up for what has been...5 days ago
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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...1 week ago
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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...1 week ago
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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...1 week 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...1 week ago
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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...2 weeks ago
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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...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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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 ...3 weeks 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...1 month ago
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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...2 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 ...2 months ago
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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
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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
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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...6 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...6 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...10 months ago
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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
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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....11 months 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...11 months 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 ...11 months 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...5 years ago
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie - When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there was a strang...5 years ago
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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...7 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 ...9 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...9 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...10 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...10 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...10 years ago
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