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Solo d6 Fantasy: Session 1 - Mort & Vin enter the village of Bramblgulf. In a chance encounter they met Pollard a local merchant who gives them a quest. I used the Solo d6 system as i...
1 hour ago
Rough Edges

Review: John Standon of Texas - Johnston McCulley - Johnston McCulley is mostly remembered, and rightly so, as the creator of Zorro, but he wrote all sorts of pulp yarns, including a five-part serial call...
1 hour ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

Two Writers Lost - I promised to write about two recent real-world developments. The first was the advent on October 27, 2025, of a machine-man's machine-o-pedia. (Say what...
2 hours ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

In Which I Eat The Food Crime Known As Kraft Apple Pie Mac & Cheese - You may have heard the news — and if not, you may have felt it in your bones, a paroxysm of worry squirming in your marrow like worms — that Kraft put out ...
19 hours ago
The Adventure Gamer

Alone in the Dark 2 - Final Rating - Written by Andy Panthro I started this game knowing that the first one is a classic of the genre, and helped define what we would later call “survival ho...
22 hours ago
The CRPG Addict

Excelsior: Onward and Downward - *Dungeons are teeming with enemies, items, doors, and clues.* We return to Chester the sexless golem paladin, circling the roads of the land Excelsio...
1 day ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Gnome Muderdomes - So while plotting gnome eco domes possibilities, i came across this terrible idea. I did play a session where players where given ...
1 day ago
Whatever

View From a Hotel Window, 11/7/25: Austin, TX - No parking lot, but look! Men at work! Good for them. Dudes in high-viz is part of what makes America great. I’m in town for the Texas Book Festival, and I...
2 days ago
The Other Side blog

Witchcraft Wednesday: Witches, Warlocks, and The Wicce - I have been spending a lot of time going back to my roots and re-evaluating and even re-writing things I have done in the past. Case in point, my first ...
4 days ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 224 – Tabletop Safety Toolkit Interview - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GC_224_Safety-toolkit-list-Final.mp3 Join Jared as he interviews Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk, the fo...
5 days ago
Steven Pressfield

My Own Version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Deal - I was in a production meeting at Warner Bros. for the second Steven Seagal movie, Hard to Kill. It was called Seven Year Storm at that time. The director...
5 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

BOOKS FOR FANTASY AUTHORS XLIX: STEERING THE CRAFT, PART 7 - From time to time I’ll recommend—not review, mind you, but recommend, and yes, there is a difference—books that I think authors should have on their shelve...
5 days ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

“By the Pricking of my Thumbs…” - ... Something wicked this way comes.… Continue reading “By the Pricking of my Thumbs…”
6 days ago
Cirsova

Cirsova 2026 Lineup Announced! - We are finally ready to announce the 2026 lineup! As of right now, we are looking at 3 issues, a Spring and Fall issue as well as a Summer Special. As you ...
6 days ago
The Mule Abides

Glantri Reunion III: Timeskip Tables After-Action Report - We had our first Glantri reunion session, and it was largely successful! After 10 years of war and political shenanigans, the Company of Crossed Swords (ou...
1 week ago
Frugal GM

Free GM Resource: HexLands Web App - [image: Free GM Resource: HexLands Web App] I haven't done a Free GM Resource in a while, and I almost missed this one (*despite several emails on the sub...
1 week ago
MEASURELESS EONS

AT-01 An Ancient Evil – Free PDF of Published Version - I introduced the It’s About Time Campaign arc here in May 2024 when I posted AT-01 An Ancient Evil. I haven’t finished writing these adventures. The last o...
1 week ago
Order of the Stick

1335: A Righteous Mushroom - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1335.html
1 week ago
Writing Slices

The Artisan Author by Johnny B. Truant - Truant is the co-author of one of self-publishing’s early bibles, WRITE, PUBLISH, REPEAT. Many authors took his advice far too literally, thinking they had...
1 week ago
ALL PULP

DANTE REBORN! VALHALLA BOOKS UNEARTH'S DANTE'S REBIRTH! NOW ON SALE! - DANTE REBORN! Get ready for a rebirth! Valhalla Books’ Dante’s Rebirth is now available in paperback and ebook. Dante’s Rebirth is the fourth book in ...
1 week ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Nebulith and Red & Pleasant Land Are Now Available in the US, Happy Halloween - Here is the Nebulith in the US webstore. And Red & Pleasant Land is here.
1 week ago
Jasper's Rantings

BECMI Psychic Infiltrator - So Fred did it to me again. Last week he hosted another stream where he worked on building a Shadowdark version of the 5e classes and sub-classes. This tim...
3 weeks ago
Blood of Prokopius

Fr. Peter Heers and the Satanic Panic - A reader of my blog recently reached out to me. He shared a video of Fr. Peter Heers, an influential Orthodox Christian YouTuber, answering the question ...
3 weeks ago
Adventures Fantastic

I Have not Forgotten the Blog - This update is way overdue. I have not forgotten the blog. This semester has gotten off to a really rocky start. The department chair has been out on medic...
4 weeks ago
The Mystillery blog

O is for Outlaw bu Sue Grafton (1999) - Image only - no review
4 weeks ago
Metal Earth

Samson of Mars now available - My novel Samson of mars is now available on Amazon. You can buy a copy or you can read it for free if you have Kindle Unlimited account. Next week I ...
5 weeks 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 ...
1 month 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 month ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

Cirsova rides again! -
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
4 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...
4 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...
8 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...
9 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....
9 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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,...
11 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 →
4 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...
7 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) ...
8 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...
9 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/
10 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

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

From the Sorcerer's Skull

Back from the West - I spent much of last week in San Francisco for a conference. It's a city I've also enjoyed visiting, though I haven't been there very often. Anyway, it ...
1 hour ago
GROGNARDIA

Pulp Fantasy Library: Ex Oblivione - H.P. Lovecraft’s brief prose-poem “Ex Oblivione” tends to get overlooked when readers discuss his so-called Dream Cycle and I can understand why. At scar...
8 hours ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

How To Make Your Writing More Persuasive: 4 Secrets From Copywriting - Ever try to get anything done these days and realize that no one seems to pay attention to emails anymore? You send a message. No answer. You send a foll...
9 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

The Pomenysh - I've been working on expanding the available information on the various non-human (and semi-human) ancestries available to players in Krevborna. The ance...
10 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Kickstarter -"Surviving the Apocalypse" (a print-and-play boardgame) - Quick note - I've known Heruca (the man behind this project) for well over a decade. He simply does "good stuff" in the gaming industry, and he truly d...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Magic Item] Ring of Bells - Ring of Bells Thoz handed the large brass ring to Arakam.‘I will find them, bang this against something metal tomorrow, at dusk listen for this,’ Thoz said...
1 day ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

"Deat JB" Mailbag #46 - *This one is just so, soooo...aaaargGH!* *Dear JB:* *My DM won't run combat.* *I know, I know. "Just talk to your DM or get a new one"* *But how odd is ...
2 days ago
A character for every game

The Serpent Lands – Hex Map 2 - The Serpent Lands are immediately south of the Autumn Lands. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items … Continue reading →
2 days ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
4 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Using the Silver Standard - I use a silver standard in my game. I prefer to make gold valuable. Making gold the currency of nobles, merchants, and temples. Most game systems use...
5 days ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Tim's Outlanders: Mansion of Illusions, Session 1 - March 18 to 26, 18 IC - *[No indication as to when this session happened in the real world, but it is likely still in 1999.]* *Player Characters* *Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dw...
6 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

October '25 in Review - What a month! I'm honestly not entirely sure how I managed it all! Between all the various things the kid had going on, getting ready for Halloween, watchi...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Mystery surge of blog visits in August 2025 - Over the course of this blog’s sixteen years of life, it typically has received in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 page visits per month. A handful of times ...
1 week ago
Leicester's Ramble

They Met at a Tavern 17: Visiting the Zombraire's Estate - Happy Halloween! It's been about three years since I ran The Zombraire's Estate, so time to dust it off again, this time for a Shadowdark crew.... -...
1 week ago
The Alexandrian

Advanced Gamemastery: How to Run Horror RPGs - You can be absolutely terrified and still live to scream another day. Ennie Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author Justin Alexander breaks down the...
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Metal Minis based on the Holmes Basic Set Cover are Forthcoming - *"Computer-generated" mockup from the Sirius Miniatures website.* Enworld reports that a set of metal miniatures based on *David Sutherland*'s cover for t...
1 week ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

Theran Satyr Tactics - The satyr reveler in Mythic Odysseys of Theros—not to be confused with the much more powerful satyr revelmaster in the 2025 Monster Manual—is similar to ...
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Community Greyhawk – The Bright Wyvern - Today we take a look at Greyhawk’s Dungeons Volume 4: The Bright Wyvern by Davide Quatrini. This is a 4 page pdf, but that includes a public domain cover a...
1 week ago
Hill Cantons

Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards - 10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons # Name Description 1 Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
2 weeks ago
Hack & Slash

On Bounty, Questions worth asking. - Well? Will we? Available Now! https://sinlessrpg.com ------------------------------ *Hack & Slash* Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 ...
3 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

What is the point of the OSR? - Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes his post with some questions. So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
4 weeks ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Defining Full Telepathy vs. Limited Telepathy - I've been working on a pretty significant new d30-related book—well, really books... plural (more to come in future posts). And I realized I was assignin...
1 month ago
Smoldering Wizard

Musings on the OSR Blogosphere and Forums - Link to discussion There are some posts on the historical OSR blog scene that I’ve read recently from the Grumpy … Continue reading →
1 month ago
The Smoldering Wizard

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1 month 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...
1 month 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....
1 month 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 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
3 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...
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...
6 months ago
Roll Stats

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7 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...
8 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...
10 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...
10 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...
1 year 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...
4 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...
7 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...
8 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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THE LAND OF NOD

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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...
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Blue Boxer Rebellion

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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!
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The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

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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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