Jasper's Rantings

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Rough Edges

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Sky Fighters, January 1940 - I don't have any issues of SKY FIGHTERS. Maybe I should try to get my hands on some. They have good covers, well-respected authors, and hey, it's a Thri...
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Tellers of Weird Tales

Robert W. Chambers & the Language of Cosmic Horror - *Robert W. Chambers*' name is the first to appear in the Cosmic Horror Issue of *Weird Tales* (#367, published in 2023). This is in "The Eyrie," which us...
49 minutes 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...
17 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Vampire Orc Prep - Other night a lady asked me what are you dreaming of? This was a bit awkward but here it is: In my campaign in Chagrinspire players ann...
1 day ago
Gnome Stew

Navigating the Cosmere – Designing in Someone Else’s Sandbox - Lydia Suen and Meric Moir have worked on properties as varied and diverse as Arkham Horror, Achtung! Cthulhu, Star Trek, The Expanse, and most recently Bro...
1 day ago
Cirsova

Animation and Bonus Art from Dark Filly - Dark Filly has been hard at work creating additional artwork for the new collection, including a few that will be included in the interior as a frontispiec...
1 day ago
Whatever

New Books and ARCs, 2/21/25 - It’s deepest February, with cold in the air and snow on the ground, but here is a stack of new books and ARCs to keep you warm. What here is catching your ...
1 day ago
The CRPG Addict

Legend of the Red Dragon II: Won! (with Summary and Rating) - *The "good" ending to the game.* *Legend of the Red Dragon II: New World* United States Robinson Technologies (developer and original publisher); Metr...
1 day ago
Order of the Stick

1319: Deep Seated Feelings - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1319.html
1 day ago
Adventures Fantastic

Matheson and Mayhar - Today is February 20, and it’s the birthday of two writers, Richard Matheson (1926-2013) and Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012). It’s been a full day, and it’s late...
2 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Where To Start With The Books Of Chuck Wendig, 2025 Edition - Everything is perfectly normal and fine, and in that world of normal fine normalcy, one might want to read books. And once in a while, I get someone asking...
2 days ago
The Other Side blog

This Old Dragon: Issue #176 - [image: Dragon Issue #176] Time once again to dip into the box of old Dragon Magazines under my desk. Today's magazine takes us back to December 1991. AD...
2 days ago
THE STORY GRID

Story Non-Negotiable: The Key to Writing Stories That Resonate - Have you ever read a book that stayed with you long after you turned the last page? A story that didn’t just entertain but fundamentally changed the way ...
2 days ago
Steven Pressfield

20% for New Business - When I first went to work as a neophyte copywriter in advertising, back in the Mad Men era, the thing that surprised me most was how much time was alloca...
4 days ago
The RPGPundit

D&D Balance is a Dirty Word - Whether as a DM or a game designer, you get told by "experts" that "game balance" is important. That's wrong; balance will almost always make for a wors...
4 days ago
ALL PULP

CRAZY 8 PRESS PRESENTS: THRILLING ADVENTURE YARNS 2025! NOW ON SALE! - Are you ready for adventure? Crazy 8 Press' Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025 is now on sale in hardcover, paperback, and ebook! Get yours today! To honor ...
4 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

THE MOTHER OF ALL INFO DUMPS - We talk about show, don’t tell and info dumps over and over and over again, and there are examples of what to do and what not to do out there all over the ...
4 days ago
The Adventure Gamer

Consulting Detective Vol. III - The Banker's Final Debt - Written by Morpheus Kitami *Haha, the person we pay rent to is a terrible cook, take that for giving us a good deal!**Inspector Gregson* is having tea wit...
4 days ago
The Mystillery blog

Double for Death by Rex Stout, 1939 - dustjackets.com *Series: *Tecumseh Fox #1 *About the author:* Rex Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His bes...
6 days ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

Death - Death… Continue reading Death
6 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

The Theory of the Labyrinth - A good part of the magic of D&D is from a specific aesthetic effect it shares with several other types of fiction that I'm going to call The Theory of th...
1 week ago
Blog of Holding

2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card - The 2024 Monster Manual is out, so we can finally answer all the questions we have: are 2024 Monster Manual monsters tougher than 2014 monsters? How much? ...
1 week ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

My statement on design 'copying' - I am a firm believer in that we, as humans that have been on this planet for 200k years, are inherently creative but almost nothing we make is 'original'. ...
1 week ago
Writing Slices

Writing Unforgettable Characters by James Scott Bell - It’s hard to talk about character creation in isolation. Without a plot, a character can’t grow. Or, as Bell puts it, “A novel is the record of how a chara...
3 weeks ago
Frugal GM

NTRPG Gaming Weekend - [image: NTRPG Gaming Weekend] This weekend was a "game day" for North Texas RPG Con, held at the same hotel the con is held at. I haven't slung dice since...
3 weeks ago
The Mule Abides

Prependix N - A mere 10 months ago (hot of the presses by what James refers to as our shambolic standards), “The Problem with Appendix N” over at Grognardia lamented: Ye...
4 weeks ago
DMDavid

Is D&D Best When Corporate Isn’t Paying Attention? The Suits Are Paying Attention Now - D&D is best when its corporate owner isn’t paying attention. When I asked who deserved credit for that observation, it proved too widespread and too old to...
4 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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....
5 weeks 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...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
Swords & Dorkery

Of ghouls and ghuls - I haven’t been blogging much for some time. Mainly it’s being busy with work and family, but it’s also just that I’m devoting a lot of free time to Advance...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

On Unearthed Arcana and other 80s Atrocities - One fateful night in the summer of 1985 I made a momentous trip to the mall with a pocketful of cash from my first paycheck. Sure, I'd mowed lawns, washe...
1 month ago
Blood of Prokopius

Christ is Born! - He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the Father’s bosom and His Mother’s embrace. How can this be, but as He knows and w...
1 month ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

WOYW Fantasy - I am a big fan of what I have taken to calling “The World Outside Your Window” Speculative Fiction. What I mean by that is that if the reader of the story ...
2 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,...
2 months ago
MEASURELESS EONS

Rich’s Take on: Web’s Edge (Eve of Ruin) - This is my take on Web’s Edge from Vecna: Eve of Ruin Rich’s Take on: Web’s Edge (Eve of Ruin)
4 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 ...
9 months ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
6 years ago
Dungeon of Signs

Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR...
6 years ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

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

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

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

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

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

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

History of Ghost Taxis of Japan - Translated and Sourced from Shigeru Mizuki’s Mujara, Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena, and Other Sources To learn more ...
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
OneBlogShelf

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

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

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Tenkar's Tavern

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Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

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A character for every game

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Tower of the Archmage

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The Alexandrian

Session 0 Modules - When we sit down to play a roleplaying game, there’s always some amount of preparation we need to do before we can start slinging dice. What, exactly, that...
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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

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GROGNARDIA

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Roll Stats

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From the Sorcerer's Skull

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Akratic Wizardry

‘Level Up’ exhibit at the Chicago Writers Museum - While Toronto is my ‘home base’ these days, as my wife and I own a condo there (and her job is based there), I also currently live part of the time in Chic...
4 days ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Ratpack – Shattered Star Book 4, Sessions 4 to 5 - *[Day 1 through Day 4 – Getting There and Scouting]* *[This game uses the Pathfinder 1E role-playing game. Game sessions happen once a week. These sess...
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Leicester's Ramble

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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...
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ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Holmes Day 2025 - *J. Eric Holmes at his chalkboard game table, contemplating miniatures and notes.Taken by Tony Bernard for the 1979 L.A. Times article, "Fantasy Life i...
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Barking Up The Wrong Tree

How To Be Successful: 4 Secrets Backed By Research - These days the world strongly associates success with youth. The cultural narrative goes something like this: if you didn’t create a world-changing algor...
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Dreams in the Lich House

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Gothridge Manor

Players Companion for Shadowdark - *This post includes affiliate links. * A grabbed a copy of Greg Christopher's Player Companion for Shadowdark a while back. And since then it has been ...
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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...
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Hack & Slash

On 1984 - * “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -1984*
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Jeff's Gameblog

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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...
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Bat in the Attic

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The Smoldering Wizard

A Quick Look at The Wizard’s Scroll II - October of this year saw the release of The Wizard’s Scroll II, the second issue of a White Box Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game (FMAG) zine whose first ...
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Smoldering Wizard

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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...
2 months ago
In Places Deep

The Reynardine - Reynardines are foxes cursed to go about the world in the manner of men, or perhaps men that are cursed to go about the world in the manner of foxes. The...
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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...
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Greyhawk Grognard

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Aeons & Augauries

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The Retired Adventurer

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A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

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Land of Nod

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Save Vs. Dragon

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The Pulp Archivist

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Destination Unknown

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The Bogeyman's Cave

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You are (probably) doing it wrong: Hit points, literature, and D&D. – The Frisky Pagan

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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." ...
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moltensulfur

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Henchman Abuse

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The Grumpy Old Troll

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Tankards & Broadswords

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Hill Cantons

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SWORD & SHIELD

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Saturday Night Sandbox

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Dungeons and Digressions

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Mythmere's Blog

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Greyhawk Grognard

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The Hydra's Grotto

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RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

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Sword+1

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6 years ago
The City of Iron

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Beyond the Black Gate

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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...
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Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
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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...
7 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...
7 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
9 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...
5 years ago

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