Jasper's Rantings

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Elfmaids & Octopi

Gorgonites! Variesties for every occasion - fixed last gamelog post as id forgot to publish an earlier episode so I added it on end of the last posts text. As I start my Theros dnd...
32 minutes ago
The Other Side blog

Why D&D 5.5 (2024) Needs a New Campaign World - I am starting this in the early Winter of 2025, but I suspect it will take me a bit to finish it. I want to set up some reasons why the newest edition o...
16 hours ago
Whatever

The Big Idea: Lorna Graham - The future is what we make of it, but what if our past isn’t as solid as we thought? Author Lorna Graham explores the idea that maybe the past isn’t always...
18 hours ago
The Mystillery blog

Still Life by Louise Penny, 2005 - *Series:* Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1 *About the author:* Louise Penny is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling ser...
19 hours ago
The RPGPundit

Building a Better (OSR/D&D) Fighter - I always liked the idea of fighter as a classic figure of fantasy, but the actual class in Old School D&D didn't appeal much to me. So here I explain th...
22 hours ago
The CRPG Addict

Pathways into Darkness: Io Non Morii, e Non Rimasi Vivo - *This was less of a big deal than I thought it would be.* To recap, I'm in this multi-leveled dungeon in the Yucatan because some aliens told the ...
1 day ago
Cirsova

On DunderMoose Tonight! - Don’t miss it! Or, if you do, watch it eventually…
1 day ago
Rough Edges

Review: The Guns of Fort Griffin - James J. Griffin - For more than twenty years, James J. Griffin has been turning out top-notch traditional Western novels and contemporary Western thrillers, often featuri...
1 day ago
Gnome Stew

Collaborative Storytelling Styles - Here’s a strong opinion of mine. I’ll die on a hill defending this opinion as well. Here goes. The main point of role playing games is to get a group toget...
2 days ago
Steven Pressfield

Scraped! - The first major item in our rebuild process has been completed—Debris Removal. What this means is the Army Corps of Engineers (or a private removal compa...
2 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

WORLDCON SEATTLE: ChatGPT OR ME - I love speaking at live events, and you may have seen me at places like Gen Con, Wondercon in San Francisco, various Writers Digest Conferences in LA, Emer...
2 days ago
The Adventure Gamer

Alone in the Dark 2 - I Am Not Amazed - Written by Andy Panthro All work and no play makes Carnby a dull boy. So last time I explored the start of the game, found a weird skip or alternative ...
2 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Staircase News! Sales! Updates! Reminiscence! Pure Chaos! Ahh! - And, just like that — *thunder rumbles* — IT IS DONE. We’re now two weeks past the Staircase in the Woods launch, and holy crap, was it good. The tour was ...
3 days ago
Order of the Stick

1325: Personal Growth - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1325.html
3 days ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

Raconteur Press - Raconteur Press has put out some 50+ anthologies of short fiction. What’s more, they are truly beautiful books, with illustrations for each story and elega...
3 days ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

A long, wonderful life - This week my wife and I said goodbye to one of our babies. Maddie had just hit 17 years old on Monday and left us on Thursday. It was heartbreaking as we w...
5 days ago
THE STORY GRID

What Is a Protagonist? The Secret to Creating Stories Readers Can’t Put Down - Have you ever cracked open a book and found yourself hooked from the very first page? Chances are, it wasn’t just the plot twists or the pretty prose—it ...
6 days 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...
1 week ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

Donald Keyhoe in National Geographic-Part One - *Donald E. Keyhoe* (1897-1988) had four stories in *Weird Tales* from April 1925 to May 1927. Two months after his last story for "The Unique Magazine" w...
1 week ago
ALL PULP

PALADINS ARRIVES IN JUNE! NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! COVERS REVEALED! - Moonstone Books has listed three versions of the upcoming Paladins novel available for pre-order at https://moonstonebooks.com. Available in June. Palad...
1 week ago
Adventures Fantastic

RIP, George Barr, (1937-2025) - Locus magazine is reporting that art Geroge Barr passed away on April 19. He hadn’t been active as an artist for a number of years. Barr’s work graced a nu...
1 week ago
Writing Slices

Logline Shortcuts by Naomi Beaty - LOGLINE SHORTCUTS answers three basic questions: what is a logline, why do you need one, and how do you write one? Beaty helps writers identify the essenti...
2 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. “...
2 weeks ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

ERELHEI-CINLU - The Vault of the Drow… Continue reading ERELHEI-CINLU
3 weeks ago
MEASURELESS EONS

Mayor’s Report: Brewfest 4 - A letter to the mayor
3 weeks 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. ...
3 weeks 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 months 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 months 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...
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...
4 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 ...
4 months 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...
4 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...
4 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,...
5 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 ...
11 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...
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...
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
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

GROGNARDIA

Save Versus Senescence - One of the few good things to have come out of the late unpleasantness of the pandemic was being able to reconnect with a number of friends and family wit...
6 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Deal of the Day - Pestilence at Halith Vorn (OSR Adventure for Levels 4-6) - Okay, everything I've read about *Pestilence at Halith Vorn* is that it is one of those rare modules/adventures - rave reviews across the board and wri...
13 hours ago
Bat in the Attic

Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches pre-launch. - I'm excited to announce that my third Kickstarter launches on Wednesday, May 28th, just two weeks away! Click the link below to get notified when it goes...
17 hours ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Community Content: The Nullspire of Keraptis - Christopher Hamwell is back with another adventure, The Nullspire of Keraptis. This adventure has a very cool hook; the PCs start dead, and are being used ...
18 hours ago
A character for every game

Mermay #6 - Today’s #mermay is my first attempt to draw white on black. My other black background pieces were drawn in black … Continue reading →
19 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Veil - The time has come to turn our eyes to the lawless sanctum of outlaws and heretics in Krevborna: the ruined and ruinous city of Veil! It took me a long t...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Magic Item] Brazier of the Forgotten - Brazier of the Forgotten The pot bellied thing sat cross legged, grinning, hands with vicious talons clasped on its belly.‘Long ages it has been since I kn...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, August 1984 (week 2) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm reviewing the comics released on the week of May 17, 1984. *Sgt....
1 day ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

My bestseller “Plays Well With Others” is now available in paperback! - My bestseller Plays Well With Others is now available in paperback! It’s lighter, cheaper, and comes with all the brutal, hilarious truths of the hardcov...
3 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Black Monastery & Mint Julips - Session 276 was played on 03/23/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 9 (Me) Koltic, ...
3 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Something Different - Um. I'm going to be focusing my attention elsewhere for a while. Please don't expect much (or any) blogging for the rest of May. [*there will definitely be...
6 days 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...
6 days ago
The Alexandrian

Games Unplugged Review – Blue Planet: Player’s Guide - Welcome to the world Blue Planet – one of the smartest games you’ll ever come across. Review Originally Published in the February 2001 issue of Games Unplu...
6 days 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...
1 week 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...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Adventure Writing Session Turns Into a Hex Crawl - Last Thursday I got on to do another Adventure Writing Session and Paul Turner joined me. We decided to use his zine, Critical Hit to roll up a hex flowe...
2 weeks ago
Leicester's Ramble

The D66 Table Test Dungeon: The The Bowl of Gunnfried for Shadowdark - So I have written a number of D66 tables as a creative exercise. A few were themed on dungeon contents, and the final of these included, “things to get, ...
3 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 ...
3 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Gary Con 2025: Day 0 - *Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton* In March, I attended *Gary Con* in Lake Geneva for the sixth time, and for a con report I'm going to make a s...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Hack & Slash

On the Success of the VOTE - You voted for it, and it's here! All the prices on the books I sell on DTRPG will be rising in price, 40-50% so I can maintain the same margin as now! ...
1 month ago
Jeff's Gameblog

Fight On! number 16 is out. - The new issue of *Fight On!* has been out for a bit. You can get copies via drivethru or lulu. I haven't finished reading my copy, but I'd like to reco...
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...
2 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...
3 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...
4 months ago
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 ...
4 months ago
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 ...
4 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...
5 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...
7 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...
10 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
Save Vs. Dragon

Monster Stat Concept: Disposition - Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they mi...
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...
3 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...
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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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Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
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Wielding a Bohemian Ear Spoon

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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