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Tellers of Weird Tales

"Inkblot Succubus" by Nicole Sixx - "Inkblot Succubus" by *Nicole Sixx* is a one-page poem with a red-and-black illustration of an inkblot in the background. The black inkblot looks like a ...
7 hours ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Grimwall Keep...? - Whatcha think? Looks like a suitably horrible place to exist.A terrible fortification out on the far edges of the frontier, a place only desperate men (bea...
19 hours ago
The Adventure Gamer

Companions of Xanth – Roc and a Hard Place - By Ilmari Last time, I had just arrived in the magical world of Xanth. Without any idea what I am supposed to do, I ask my companion Nada Naga for advice. ...
20 hours ago
Rough Edges

Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Street & Smith's Wild West Weekly, January 8, 1938 - This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my somewhat battered copy in the scan. The cover art is by H.W. Scott, and it’s an excellent depicti...
21 hours ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

BLOOD OF KINGS - The hard-hitting, high-flying spectacle known as Blood of Kings is based in Nellix. This group specializes in a unique style of sports fighting that is pur...
1 day ago
Whatever

Thoughts On “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” - When I first saw a trailer for the newest Lord of the Rings movie, I was incredibly excited because it was an animated movie. I could hardly believe they w...
1 day ago
The CRPG Addict

Game 535: Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace (1989) - *Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace* United States Masterplay (developer and publisher) Released 1989 for *DOS* *Date Started:* 7 December 20...
1 day ago
Gnome Stew

Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault Review - An interesting side effect of having multiple iterations of D&D 5th edition based on the 5e SRD is that some content allows publishers to produce content t...
1 day ago
The Other Side blog

This Old Dragon: Issue #115 - [image: Dragon Magazine #115] I think I have enough time left in this year to do another one of these. My box of old Dragons, though, is getting a little li...
2 days ago
Adventures Fantastic

Bester, Lanier, Moorcock, and Haldeman - December 18, as I write this. There are four birthdays I want to mention today. Alfred Bester (1913-1987), Sterling E. Lanier (1927-2007), Michael Moorcok...
3 days ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

Hide & Seek RPG: The Neighborhood - As the players build their characters, pay attention to any locations that get named or even specifically mentioned, such as Safe Places or places mentio...
3 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Frequently Asked Questions About The Compendium - So lots of people have questions about the Compendium! Here's a newer flip-thru video: Here's the details of its contents. Apparently many people are ...
3 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

My Brain Is Goldfish (But Here Are Some Things I Liked In 2024) - I think my brain is not okay. I don’t mean to suggest I’ve got actual worms up in there, but the Current Era combined with Holidaytimes has really just tur...
3 days ago
Steven Pressfield

Resistance Always Lies - Here’s another way we can use our own Resistance, jiu-jitsu style, and turn it in our favor. Remember, Resistance is always lying. Every statement it pre...
3 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

THE TEN BOOKS THAT MADE ME - I’ve been seeing this out there on social media, “the ten books that made me” thing, and it got me thinking. Over the course of my life, and I’m not young ...
4 days ago
Cirsova

Cirsova Winter Issue 2024 Issue is Out Now! - Featuring an exciting cover story from Owen G. Tabard + the conclusion of Michael Tierney’s The Superior Griefs, the winter issue is out now! ebook: https:...
4 days ago
DMDavid

Fifth-Edition D&D’s Original Lead Designer Calls Out the Game’s “Secret Error” That Remains Today - In fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons, characters and monsters calculate the difficulty class (DC) number needed to save against their spells and powers usin...
4 days 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 ...
5 days ago
Castelli & Chimere - Castles & Chimeras

Il Signore dei Labirinti la traduzione italiana di Labyrinth Lord e Advanced Labyrinth Lord - *Il Signore dei Labirinti* Uno dei primi retrocloni (2007) e forse il primo ad essere tradotto in italiano (2009) grazie alla meritoria opera di *Tito Le...
6 days ago
The RPGPundit

The RPGPundit Encounter Ep4 - The Evil DM - This Sunday, 9pm Eastern time, its Ep4 of "The RPGPundit Encounter"! This time I'll be interviewing The Evil DM, a long-time blogger, youtuber and podca...
1 week ago
ALL PULP

BOBBY NASH GUESTS ON FREEWHEELING FRIDAY! - If you missed it live last night, author Bobby Nash was the guest on Ryan Permison's first episode as host of Freewheeling Friday on the Madness Comic...
1 week ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Chagrinspire Adventure Seeds by Tier - *Blogger not showing many any other ppls blogs - just kill it with fire and a few others from 9 years ago - this stu...
1 week ago
The Mystillery blog

Drury Lane's Last Case by Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen), 1933 - dustjackets.com *A**bout the author/series:* Barnaby Ross is a pseudonym of Ellery Queen. There are four books in the Drury Lane series: - The Tra...
2 weeks ago
Blog of Holding

a quick peek at 2024 Monster Manual math - As a monster designer, I’m interested in seeing where the 2024 Monster Manual takes monster design. How compatible are 2014 and 2024 monsters? What are the...
2 weeks ago
Writing Slices

Writing Your Story’s Theme by K.M. Weiland - Theme is what your story is really about. It’s the meaning that readers take with them, long after they’ve forgotten the plot and the characters. Weiland p...
3 weeks ago
Fairies and Fairy Tales

Cozy TTRPG System - I am expanding my two most popular books on itch.io, and turning them into a single comprehensive guide. *Cozy Oracle System* This book provides you...
5 weeks ago
Really Bad Eggs

High Trust - Okay, read this first. Now look this over: Are you with me so far? This reminds me of a systemless adventure published in issue 10 - 'The Cowboy Issue' -...
5 weeks ago
Frugal GM

Quick Convention Report: LongCon 2024 - [image: Quick Convention Report: LongCon 2024] Last weekend I was able to attend LongCon in Longview, TX. I had a work trip to the Nashville area that en...
5 weeks ago
THE STORY GRID

Character Descriptions: 50+ Examples and Techniques for Writers - One of the most powerful tools in a writer’s arsenal is the ability to create vivid, memorable characters through description. Whether it’s the first imp...
1 month ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

Rogues Gallery: Grimslade and Valerius, Saren and Indel - Back in late '81/early '82, TSR ran a series of full page ads in the back of comic books--remember when comic books had ads? These ads were in the form o...
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)
2 months ago
Order of the Stick

1311: Take a Moment - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1311.html
2 months ago
Blood of Prokopius

Gamer ADD: Suleiman Subsector Gazetteer Part 2 - 1110 Quaver C111469-B Prior to the Civil War, Quaver was a major trade hub overseen by an opportunistic dictatorship. Seen as a possible disruptive force i...
2 months ago
Swords & Dorkery

Miracles and the Law - I’ve been working on revising and expanding my book on pilgrimage and related matters for DnD and part of that has been expanding the coverage to some othe...
3 months ago
Necropraxis

D&D Player’s Handbook 2024 - Being an incomplete, visual review of the 2024 Player’s Handbook. I got a copy of this almost entirely on the strength of the new cover art: (This is the “...
3 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 ...
7 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

- So do I only post on this blog to promote Kickstarters anymore? It seems like that may be the case. Anyway… Fantastical Classes: Blobs vs. BladesNow on Ki...
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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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
PulpRev

Pulp legend J. Manfred Weichsel Interviewed by Blasters and Blades Podcast!!! - Breaking news! J. Manfred Weichsel just sat down with the Blasters and Blades podcast for his second interview with them, talking about Warrior Soul &...
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...
4 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.
4 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...
4 years ago
Mesmerized by sirens

PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB! - My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
4 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.
5 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 ...
8 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...
8 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
Places to Go, People to Be

This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...
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...
9 years ago
The Mule Abides

0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...
9 years ago

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Shatner IS the Rocket Man

The Shat must be so pissed at me :)

Posted by JasperAK at 20:21

Labels: Rocket Man, Shatner

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Dungeons & Dragons Blogs

Tenkar's Tavern

Deal of the Day - FlexTale Infinite Adventures Omnibus - Some resources are priceless. Typically, 20 bucks in PDF, *FlexTale Infinite Adventures Omnibus is $4* until tomorrow morning, as it is today's *Deal of...
13 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

Three Dimensions - I mentioned in yesterday's post about my favorite science fiction roleplaying game map that *Traveller*'s star maps are two-dimensional and that that's l...
13 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

The Rundown - I am writing this Thursday morning, though I don't intend it to post up till Sunday. The holidays have caught up to me and my time over the next week or so...
14 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Monster] Azure Fyrehorn - Azure Fyrehorn ‘There is no need to tap my ribs with your heels, I know where we are going,’ Dinjin’s new mount said.The startled magic-user looked down in...
17 hours ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

The Mirkwood Tales RPG: the link between the original D&D rules and text-based computer games - *Cover of Mirkwood Tales, 1977, by Eric S. Roberts* In May 1977, the all-text computer game *Adventure*, also known as Advent or Colossal Cave, "became t...
18 hours ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

Theran Harpy Tactics - Mythic Odysseys of Theros includes two types of harpy, one weaker than the basic Monster Manual harpy and one stronger:the CR 1/8 blood-toll harpy and th...
1 day ago
A character for every game

Ironspire Island - On the western side of Loblolly Lake is a small island clearly visible from the shore because of the rust-red … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Mothership: Advent Dawn session 1 - On some backwater planet, Ossie Marcial, SpaceTuber and Teamster specializing in computer repair and zero-G industrial equipment (hover forklift certifi...
1 day ago
Akratic Wizardry

Fight On! has a new website - FYI: The original Old School Renaissance fanzine *Fight On! *has a new website.
2 days ago
The Alexandrian

Random D&D Tip: Acrobatics vs. Athletics - When it comes time to roll the dice, figuring out which skill to use is an essential part of how a GM makes a ruling in most RPGs. D&D 5th Edition is no ex...
2 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Single Axis Outer Planes - There are a lot of very reasonable criticisms regarding the Gygaxian Great Wheel of Outer Planes, though I also like a lot about it. I've spent a fair numb...
2 days ago
Leicester's Ramble

Shadowdark: Bloggah's Blog #13: The Slogging - Well, doesn't smell like burning, at least. *A day of opposites, now I'm freezing my giblets off. * You're looking a bit blue there, I noticed. *Out of ...
3 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

A History of Horrible Experiments - The hunt for Patchwork Jack continues! This session brought some horrific revelations about the site they had been lured into by their quarry and the mys...
4 days ago
Jeff's Gameblog

Latest Releases Now Available from the US Webstore + YEAR END SALE! -
4 days ago
Hack & Slash

On Manifestos - The paid media was instructed to not print this. To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a leng...
5 days 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...
1 week ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome - “Carpe diem.” It’s the battle cry of motivational posters, Pinterest boards, and that one friend who just declared bankruptcy for the third time. It’s on...
1 week 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...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

City of Scorn - City of Scorn is one of the centerpieces in my current Shadowdark Campaign. I've never spent the time to draw each sector. Each of those black squares i...
2 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Curse of Strahd - for Shadowdark - I started running a game with my neighborhood gang for *Horror on the Hill*, a classic module from the 1980's. Meanwhile, my high school group voted to ...
4 weeks ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Welcome new Greyhawk Fans! - With the publication of the new Dungeon Master’s Guide, there are doubtless going to be a lot of new D&D players interested in my favorite setting, the Wor...
1 month ago
Aeons & Augauries

Undead Handmines - Undead Handmines A seasonal trap/encounter for yuor RPG campaigns. * Undead Handmines* A fields of earth, sand, or gravel concealing bound undead that...
2 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...
2 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Star Frontiers: Volturnus Racial Abilities - [image: Ul-Mor in desert] As you'll know if you followed the spring season of Dan's Olde Time Minis Show, I've been playing the classic Star Frontiers ga...
3 months ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

August 2024 - My father passed away. It had been coming since the end of last year, when they moved him to hospice care. That's when everyone realizes that the numbe...
3 months ago
Bat in the Attic

Concerning the Future of Traveller - I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as from Ma...
3 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Mass Combat 3: Delta's Book of War (and its inspiration) - Back in the early days of the Old School Revival, Delta's D&D Hotspot was a place to go for thoughtful design and scholarship, firmly rooted in the class...
5 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...
5 months ago
Smoldering Wizard

Musings on Sleep in OD&D – Is it Over-Powered? - Link to discussion Let’s look at the sleep spell in Men & Magic: >Sleep: A Sleep spell affects from 2–16 1st-level types (hit dice of up to 1 + 1), from...
6 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...
10 months 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...
1 year ago
The Smoldering Wizard

Return to the Known Lands - Session #21 a Tavern and a New Ally - Dates: 2/7/21 PCs: - Louis (FM 2) - Osan (Elf F/MU 2/1) - Omes (Half FM 2) - Arro (MU 1) - Habru (Cleric 2) NPCs: - Habru's...
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." ...
3 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...
4 years ago
Roll Stats

TSR Dungeons and Dragons Expert Rules Boxed Set Review - Hey Stat Rollers, Bill with Roll Stats and it is great to be back in the saddle again. Back in front of you all, back where I belong! Knee-deep in the stat...
4 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 ...
4 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
Forgotten Runes

Mystara and Me - [image: GAZ1 TSR9193 The Grand Duchy of Karameikos.jpg] I am very much a Johnny-come-lately to Mystara. During the time the originals were being releas...
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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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. ...
6 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...
7 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...
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...
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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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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