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Why Readers Abandon Books (And How to Make Sure They Don’t) - We’ve all been there. You pick up a book you were excited about, start reading, and somewhere along the way… you just stop. Maybe you close it gently wit...
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Adventures Fantastic

Kuttner’s Time Travel - Today, April 7, is the birthday of Henry Kuttner (1915-1958). Kuttner is one of my favorites. I’ve been doing birthday posts on his work for years. As long...
5 hours ago
The CRPG Addict

Warriors of Legend: Everybody's a Comedian - *In this session, everyone has a laugh at our expense.* As this second session begins, I have explored one of four quarters of Illandria, the opening ...
20 hours ago
Rough Edges

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: 10-Story Detective Magazine, March 1942 - Nobody could pack more into a pulp cover than Norman Saunders, as this issue of 10-STORY DETECTIVE MAGAZINE illustrates. Another Norman, Norman A. Danie...
1 day ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Ethyria: Local Problems & Carousing - *Had a nice session zero with 2 players - my first dm session with 5th ed as I find new version more readable a...
1 day ago
Whatever

Hello From Awesome Con - Well, here I am in the nation’s capitol — and what a week for that — where I am doing panels and signings all weekend long. After two weeks on the road, I ...
2 days ago
The Other Side blog

Fantasy Fridays: Fantasy Wargaming - [image: Fantasy Wargaming] Returning to this series, I aimed to explore games that would provide insight into how Satan, demons, and the devil were perceiv...
2 days ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

The Dopamine Trap (link) - This is brilliant, you should read it:https://codexgigaspress.substack.com/p/the-dopamine-trap-why-your-brain
2 days ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

Greyhawk 2025: Episode Two - Episode Two… Continue reading Greyhawk 2025: Episode Two
3 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Playing D&D With Porn Stars and Also The Founder of the OSR and The Head of Lamentations of the Flame Princess - Two very short stories from playing D&D last week: So if you know anything about Caroline Pierce you know... Wait, let me rephrase, if you know anythin...
4 days ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

The Ships of Literature - When I wrote last, I pretty clearly placed literature above the level of genre fiction. That might be a little harsh. It's likely to offend fans of weird...
4 days ago
Steven Pressfield

COVID! - We just got it. Diana and me. Third time for me, second for her. The good news is it’s been pretty mild so far. I was down hard for two days but beginnin...
5 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

POV HIERARCHY - This post depends on an understanding of the importance of one scene, one POV. If you’re not sure what I mean by that or are laboring under the misapprehen...
5 days ago
ALL PULP

Newsletter: NASH NEWS FOR APRIL 2025 - No foolin'! An all-new edition of my Nash News monthly newsletter has been sent to subscribers. Snow. Zorro. Crimes in Time. Lance Star: ky Ranger. A...
5 days ago
Cirsova

Misha Burnett’s Dracoheim Confidential Live On Kickstarter Now! - The Kickstarter is live! Return to the magical realm of Dracoheim! For the city at the nexus of myriad strange and sorcerous alien worlds, magic and monste...
5 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Meredith Lyons: Five Things I Learned Writing A Dagger of Lightning - Forty-five-year-old Imogen has always struggled to fit in, never finding her passion in life. And while that may include having cold feet in her impending ...
5 days ago
Gnome Stew

The State of Stewart - In a turn of unfortunate news, Stewart Grytman has decided to step down from writing for Gnome Stew. We are sad to miss out on all the articles he could ha...
6 days ago
The Adventure Gamer

Missed Classic: Dracula Hakushaku (ドラキュラ伯爵) - Predator and Prey - Written by Morpheus Kitami Horror of Dracula* seems to be the vague vibe that this game is trying to get across, where Dracula is clearly a charming figur...
6 days ago
Writing Slices

Your Second Draft by Alex Kourvo - This month’s blog is a little different. Instead of telling you about a book I’ve read, I’m telling you about one I’ve written! YOUR SECOND DRAFT is out no...
1 week ago
The Mystillery blog

The Clue of the Poor Man's Shilling by Kathleen Moore Knight, 1936 - dustjackets.com *Series:* This is Elisha Macomber #2 (of 16) *About the author: *Kathleen Moore Knight (1890-1984) is one of my absolute favorite au...
1 week ago
The RPGPundit

The Most Important Rule Missing From WotC D&D - There were several changes from old to new school rules, but one mechanic in particular was lost that made WotC D&D much worse for its absence. #dnd ...
1 week ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

Coming Soon: Dracoheim Confidential, by Misha Burnett - Return to the magical realm of Dracoheim! For the city at the nexus of myriad strange and sorcerous alien worlds, magic and monsters have become just anoth...
1 week 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 week ago
Order of the Stick

1321: Subject to Change - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1321.html
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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 weeks ago
DMDavid

Checks Versus Attack Rolls: Every Aspiring RPG Designer (and Some Veterans) Should Read This - One of the great innovations of roleplaying game design came in 1977 when Steve Perrin and his Runequest design friends realized the advantage of using the...
3 weeks 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...
1 month 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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....
2 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...
2 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months 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...
3 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,...
4 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)
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 ...
10 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
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
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
Roleplaying Tips

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

I cannot get this out of my head!

Posted by JasperAK at 09:14

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From the Sorcerer's Skull

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GROGNARDIA

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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

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Tenkar's Tavern

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The Alexandrian

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Tower of the Archmage

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A character for every game

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ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

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Bugbears for Breakfast

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Roles, Rules, and Rolls

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Dreams in the Lich House

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Roll Stats

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Akratic Wizardry

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Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Hack & Slash

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Jeff's Gameblog

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Bat in the Attic

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Delta's D&D Hotspot

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The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

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Forgotten Runes

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Smoldering Wizard

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The Smoldering Wizard

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Carjacked Seraphim

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In Places Deep

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Echoes from the Geekcave

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Greyhawk Grognard

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Telecanter's Receding Rules

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The Bogeyman's Cave

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moltensulfur

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Dungeons and Digressions

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The Hydra's Grotto

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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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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...
9 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...
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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A Trail Gone Cold - Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught between continents at the extremities of the map. Remote ...
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