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The Big Idea: Dan Rice - What’s scarier, a haunted school or lifelong trauma? Spooky season is upon us and author Dan Rice has brought the ghost stories with his newest book, Phant...
11 hours ago
The Other Side blog

This Old Dragon: Best of The Dragon Vol #1 - [image: Best of The Dragon Vol #1] This is the first issue from the Eric C. Harshbarger collection. I did have a copy already, but it is in rather sad sh...
14 hours ago
The Adventure Gamer

Donkey Island - Won! - Written by Michael It feels that every game I play for this blog, there’s one gameplay post where I’m mad at the game for stupid design choices. This is...
14 hours ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

Tessida Swinges (1881-1970)-Part Two - *Tessida Swinges* was actually *Tessida Schwinges* of Brooklyn, New York. For some reason, *Weird Tales* misspelled her last name when it published her s...
18 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Past Setting Vibe Recap - *Setting Tropes for My Major Setting Areas*A thing I want to do to describe my settings in these d12 tables & summaries ...
21 hours ago
The CRPG Addict

Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom: Won! (with Summary and Rating) - *Dr. Doom cameos to set up the next game.* *Ishar 2: Messengers of Doom* France Silmarils (developer and publisher) Released 1993 for *DOS*, Amiga,...
1 day ago
ALL PULP

BOBBY NASH INTERVIEWED ON 5 QUESTIONS WITH CERIUS BLAQ PODCAST! - My 5 QUESTIONS WITH ‪Cerius Blaq podcast interview is now live. Check it out on YouTube HERE or below. Host Cerius Blaq Interviews Writer/Actor, BOBBY...
1 day ago
Cirsova

More Cirsova Fanart! - This is a piece I missed awhile back because I didn’t see a notification for it. This is Friday (drawn by Tzarina Fruitbat), the percom avatar, from Willia...
1 day ago
Steven Pressfield

It’s All About Resistance - We’ve been talking in the past few posts about self-reliance, self-sufficiency, the mindset of the entrepreneur and the professional. We’ve said to the a...
1 day ago
Blood of Prokopius

When the Rules Change - Back when I first started this blog on December 23, 2008 I was trying to bridge the gap between Christians and folks who played D&D. In that goal, I thin...
2 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

THE 100-BOOK CHALLENGE UPDATE & WERNER HERZOG - This week’s blog post is really a vlog post, and here it is… If you’re a subscriber here, please also subscribe there! —Philip Athans Join our group on Goo...
2 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

I Love It When They Make It Easy - The PCs are supposed to be finding a dragon because the Half-King of Broceliande wishes to talk to a dragon. They decided to look for Naga Malicinda, w...
2 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Martin Cahill: Five Things I Learned While Writing Audition For The Fox - Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her, if she cannot earn a divine chaper...
2 days ago
Rough Edges

Review: The Blonde and Johnny Malloy - William Ard writing as Ben Kerr - A couple of weeks ago, I read and enjoyed William Ard’s SHAKEDOWN, a breezy, fast-moving private eye yarn recently reprinted by Stark House in a double...
3 days ago
Frugal GM

Free GM Resource: Freep!k Icon Generator - [image: Free GM Resource: Freep!k Icon Generator] Last week I mentioned a *secret project* and while I'm not going to divulge the project yet, I am bringi...
4 days ago
The Mystillery blog

3 at Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout, 1960 - *About the author:* Rex Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wo...
6 days ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

Another Hommlet Podcast - A Hommcast? Anyway, the latest is from the folks over at Mighty Deeds, which is, I believe, a DCC actual play podcast. Season 3 of which sees our heroes ...
6 days ago
Order of the Stick

1333: Well That Sucks - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1333.html
6 days ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

The line has been crossed - I hope all you fuckers enjoyed your Blue Sky. It is coming. You reap what you sow.The right to free speech is a hill I will die upon.Slight update: Anyone...
1 week ago
Swords & Dorkery

Pergamino Barocco - Great news! The Lost Pages just launched a Kickstarter to release a hardcover edition of Pergamino Barocco, Roger G.S.‘s weird scroll of new spells for D&D...
1 week ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 220 – Virtual vs. In-Person - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GC_221_in_person-v-virtual-final.mp3 Join Ang along with Josh and Jared as they talk about the pros and con...
1 week ago
Writing Slices

Finishing School by Cary Tennis and Danelle Morton - FINISHING SCHOOL is a about a program that Tennis developed when he was creatively blocked, unable to finish his novel. He gathered like-minded individuals...
2 weeks ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

Cirsova rides again! -
3 weeks ago
Metal Earth

How to run a slasher. 1 of 2 - I ran a summer camp slasher game not too long ago. It went pretty well. Here's some of the stuff I used to make it happen Plan for one or two sessions t...
4 weeks ago
Adventures Fantastic

A Lovecraft Birthday Post Plus a Couple of Others - Today is August 20, the birthday of H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). It’s also my mother-in-law’s birthday, but that’s just a coincidence, I’m sure. Nothing ne...
4 weeks ago
Blog of Holding

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 weeks ago
Jasper's Rantings

BECMI Battle Cat - So it’s been awhile. I’ve been constantly working on all sorts of D&D stuff, but not much that I put into a form I can publish. That changed yesterday and ...
1 month ago
DMDavid

5 Tropes that Make Exciting Stories But Ruin D&D Games - Stories like those in movies and books thrive on setbacks. Everyone relishes a tale where disaster complicates the heroes’ predicament, leaving them facing...
1 month ago
Mesmerized by sirens

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...
1 month ago
THE STORY GRID

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...
2 months ago
The RPGPundit

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...
3 months ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

ZOMBICIDE DCEASED CUSTOMS - Three homebrew custom characters for the DCeased Zombicide game.… Continue reading ZOMBICIDE DCEASED CUSTOMS
3 months ago
The Mule Abides

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

Werewolf By Night - Custom: Werewolf By Night
3 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What can m...
6 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...
8 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....
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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,...
9 months ago
Howard Andrew Jones

Con Schedules 2024 - There may be tumbleweeds blowing through my web site, but I’ve been very busy. Book 3 of the Hanuvar series has long since been turned over, and the final ...
1 year ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

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

Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
1 year ago
PulpRev

Stand by for SAGA OF THE SWORDBREAKER: INVINCIBLE UNDER HEAVEN! - Li Ming was once a small-town boy with big dreams. Propelled by dreams of immortality, he entered the jianghu as a biaohang, intent on delivering justice...
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...
4 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
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...
6 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
6 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...
6 years ago
Interesting Thing of the Day

ITotD on Summer Break - [image: Sunflowers]PixabayMy attempts at building a time machine having failed thus far, I find myself with too few hours in the day. So ITotD will be on a...
6 years ago
Castle Triskelion

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

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

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

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

Exploring the Temple of Elemental Evil's Dungeon Level 2 (pt. 3) - *This is another play report for my ongoing Roll20-based B/X D&D campaign, and spoilers for dungeon module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil follow. Anyone...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Roleplaying Tips

A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign - This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Occult Mysteries and Magic. To celebrate that theme, here is a quick and adversarial secret society idea for your...
8 years ago
Studio Denmark

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

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

History of Ghost Taxis of Japan - Translated and Sourced from Shigeru Mizuki’s Mujara, Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena, and Other Sources To learn more ...
9 years ago
How To Think Sideways Blog

Winds of Change are Blowing - The more things change, the more things stay the same. Hmmm…. That’s an annoying cliche. How about, when one door closes, another one opens. I don’t real...
9 years ago
The Aspiring Lich

Dynamic Grappling - Before I say another word, let me direct the reader to Douglas Cole and Peter V. Dell'Orto's article on grappling in *The Manor*, issue #8 ( http://www.rpgn...
9 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
9 years ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e] - I'm experimenting with dual-stat blocks for monsters. This is a first draft, so expect changes and feedback is strongly desired. *Update: Revised stat block...
10 years ago
OneBlogShelf

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

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

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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Dungeons & Dragons Blogs

Tenkar's Tavern

Fantasy - OSR Dungeon Cards for the Classic Ampersand Fantasy RPG - *OSR Dungeon Cards for the Classic Ampersand Fantasy RPG* is Phil Reed's current *Kickstarter*. 36 double-sided cards with dungeon prompts on one side an...
2 hours ago
A character for every game

The Fractured Prism - Refracting the light of the two suns in a rainbow of colours, both known and not, the Fractured Prism is … Continue reading →
12 hours ago
Hill Cantons

So so very many updates about the Hill Cantons - I have been busy, busy in both real world and Hill Cantons-y writing. An update on where things are: Slumbering Ursine Dunes Omnibus This has been i...
1 day ago
GROGNARDIA

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

[New Magic Item] Iron Rat - Iron Rat ‘What happened to that strange metal rat that you were dragging around?’ Arakam asked Thoz.‘I must have lost it somewhere, I’m not sure,’ replied ...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, December 1984 (week 3) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on September 20, 1984. *Leg...
1 day ago
Leicester's Ramble

They Met at a Tavern 13: "Harlow's an Odd Duck..." - Time to return to playing with random strangers. Or a least one random stranger, since my Meetup attendance has been quite spotty lately. Fine, we run fo...
2 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: The Death of Immarassrath - Session 287 was played on 07/03/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cl...
3 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Tserberon Falls and Vulture House - Two final locations of the Vespermark. Tserberon Falls has a bit of Ravenloft's Mists in it, mixed with Stephen King's "The Mists." Vulture House exists ...
4 days ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 7 Secrets From Research - Trying to connect with people can feel like trying to put a USB stick into a port: there’s a 90% chance you’ll get it wrong three times, even though ther...
4 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Death - I want to write for a moment about the phrase *"deserving to die."* No. This is not (necessarily) a game related post. One hears this phrase bandied around...
4 days ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Pergamino Barocco Kickstarter! - Uncountably many years ago, I was kicking around a selection of weird old woodcuts from alchemical manuscripts, and got the idea to write up a Baroque (i...
4 days ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Tim's Outlanders: Session 5, July 28/29, 17 IC - *Player Characters* *Tim, a Wizard* - male human from the Free City of Freegate, student at Outlands University *Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dwarf from the...
5 days ago
The Alexandrian

Ex-RPGNet Review: Ork! - The Paranoia of fantasy, Ork! is unashamed satire – targeting Tolkienesque tropes and gamer culture with equal parts aplomb and ruthlessness. Review Origin...
5 days ago
Dreams in the Lich House

B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
5 days ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

Woe Strider Tactics - The only aberrations in Mythic Odysseys of Theros, woe striders are onetime mortals who severed themselves from destiny—and are now cursed by the god Klo...
1 week ago
Hack & Slash

On Manon Quarterly Kickstarter Youtube! - Check it out. I talk about Sinless, canceling, and the future. https://www.youtube.com/live/YmEnK8-sh6M?si=MnBE1E6dS4xaUJTN www.kickstarter.com/projec...
2 weeks ago
Aeons & Augauries

Holmes1to3 [general guidelines] - Notes on playing a D&D campaign using only the Holmes Basic set of rules with level 1 to 3 being the only levels achievable by Player Characters. 1st...
2 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Against the Starmaster: Playtest materials available - I thought that I would mention that there is a space opera version of *Against the Darkmaster* coming out. It’s called (somewhat unsurprisingly) *Against ...
3 weeks ago
Jeff's Gameblog

Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
3 weeks ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Alien, Predator, and Bladerunner (and others!) in Chronological Order - I’m a big fan of the Alien, Predator, and Bladerunner franchises, and the fact that they all apparently intersect in a shared universe is really great to m...
3 weeks ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

Why Magic Users Suck at Fighting - [image: Rincewind in colour by holepunch on DeviantArt] Often I find myself thinking about common critiques of classic D&D and trying to formulate response...
1 month ago
Gothridge Manor

GM Companion for Shadowdark - Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top ten....
1 month ago
Bat in the Attic

Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight - There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons & Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in a ...
1 month ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Flatiron Building Map as Dungeon Level - Turned a map from the Flatiron Building in a single-level dungeon with 30 rooms (so I could add a d30 table or two to go with it—to come in a future pos...
2 months ago
The Pulp Archivist

The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues #11: Influences (Bad) - *NOTE: this article first appeared in the pages of SFWA Bulletin 151, Fall, 2001. Since this got disappeared in part because of SFWA politics and, in gre...
2 months ago
Smoldering Wizard

How I Run OD&D Combat - Link to discussion Over the years I’ve settled on a way to run 0e/OD&D/White Box combat that keeps the action moving and is pretty simple, while covering...
2 months ago
The Smoldering Wizard

How I Run OD&D Combat - Link to discussion Over the years I’ve settled on a way to run 0e/OD&D/White Box combat that keeps the action moving and is pretty simple, while covering...
2 months ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

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

C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness — Review - 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....
5 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...
7 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...
8 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...
9 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...
11 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...
1 year 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...
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.
3 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...
4 years ago
You are (probably) doing it wrong: Hit points, literature, and D&D. – The Frisky Pagan

Everything is social III - If the previous posts dealt more with individuals and how we deal with the social media environment, here I will focus more on the groups themselves that h...
4 years ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
4 years ago
moltensulfur

Folkloric Villains - Folklore is full of villains and antagonists. By a striking coincidence, so are RPG campaigns! Here are four villains drawn from folklore: a Russian singer...
5 years ago
Henchman Abuse

session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...
5 years ago
The Grumpy Old Troll

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
5 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
6 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 ...
7 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...
8 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
8 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
8 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...
9 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!
9 years ago
Discourse and Dragons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BECMI Battle Cat - So it’s been awhile. I’ve been constantly working on all sorts of D&D stuff, but not much that I put into a form I can publish. That changed yesterday and ...
1 month ago

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