Jasper's Rantings

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A New-Found Enjoyment Of Pickleball - There are very few sports I like and even fewer physical activities I enjoy partaking in as exercise. Unfortunately, the older and heavier I get, the more ...
7 hours ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

"The most beautiful game product I've ever seen" - The legendary Tim Kask--first editor of* Dragon Magazine*, publications editor for TSR back in the day and all-around old school legend did a rare--and ...
9 hours ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Reminder: Events This Week And Going Forward - PSSSST. Psst! Hey. Hey kid. I hear you like *lowers voice* book events. Reminder, then, that this week I’m — At Midtown Scholar on Tuesday the 9th in suppo...
11 hours ago
Frugal GM

Free GM Resource: Flowsage - [image: Free GM Resource: Flowsage] I have a secret project I've been spending *way* too much time on, but it's wrapped up now and kind of off to the pri...
12 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Monstrous Mondays: Brindlekin - Small folk have always found a place at the edges of fantasy worlds, halflings and hobbits in their holes, gnomes tinkering in their burrows, kender pok...
12 hours ago
Rough Edges

Review: The Bullet Garden - Stephen Hunter - Years ago, I read Stephen Hunter’s novel HOT SPRINGS, the first book in his Earl Swagger series. I thought it was one of the best books I’d read in a lo...
18 hours ago
The Adventure Gamer

Alone in the Dark 2 - Saving Grace - Written by Andy Panthro *So long as we don't have to redo that maze!*A potentially fun little swap here, we shift from the main protagonist of Edward Ca...
1 day ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Chagrinspire: Finally the Emperor is Dead - So in my campaign time, the Mad Emperor who ended the third empire with civil war 70 years ago has finally been killed. ...
1 day ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

Alice I. Fuller (1870-1928) (George Fuller, too) - *Alice Irene (Webb) Fuller, aka Alice I. Clark, Mrs. George H. Fuller* *Author, Poet, Housewife & Mother* Born May 11, 1870, Hardin County, Ohio Died Novembe...
2 days ago
The CRPG Addict

Another Damned Delay - I went on the road for a week. Not a trip that would normally interrupt my posting schedule, but I forgot my laptop power adapter, and my laptop requires a...
3 days ago
ALL PULP

Newsletter: NASH NEWS FOR SEPTEMBER NOW AVAILABLE! - September's Nash News has been sent to subscribers' inboxes. Did you get your FREE newsletter? If not, I invite you to sign up for free at https://www...
3 days ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Wyllow & Brannoc, session 0 (Arneson Gaming) - Playing around and doing some playtesting of the AG rules, whipped up (rather quickly) some basic fantasy types to go on a little adventure. I used some ra...
3 days ago
The Mystillery blog

The White Elephant Mystery by Ellery Queen, Jr., 1950 - *About the author: *Ellery Queen Jr. is a house pseudonym for this young adult series of mysteries. *Major characters:* - Djuna - Tommy Willia...
5 days ago
Steven Pressfield

Third Party Validation - My business partner Shawn Coyne has a term that he can’t utter without personal and emotional abhorrence. “Third party validation.” He HATES it. He hates...
5 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

HOW TO LEARN TO BE A WRITER - Chances are you already own everything you need to learn how to write—if you own books, that is. Or if you own a library card, or attend a school that has ...
6 days 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...
1 week ago
Gnome Stew

Post Game Debrief - Last month, I started a new way to manage the information for my campaigns, and I have been excited about it. Excited enough, that I started doing somethin...
1 week ago
Cirsova

New Cirsova Merch! - The new Cirsova Merch is up in our TeePublic merch store! First up, we have this awesome Otis Stein shirt that spoofs the magazine cover. This art by Carlo...
1 week ago
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

Cirsova rides again! -
1 week ago
Order of the Stick

1332: Possibly a Rumpus - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1332.html
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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 ...
4 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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
Blood of Prokopius

Musing on Superman - The new Superman movie is coming out, and given some of the hullbaloo surrounding it, I thought I’d give my two cents about one of my favorite comic book...
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...
2 months ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

ZOMBICIDE DCEASED CUSTOMS - Three homebrew custom characters for the DCeased Zombicide game.… Continue reading ZOMBICIDE DCEASED CUSTOMS
2 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
Swords & Dorkery

Beggars - One piece of feedback I got on Burgs & Bailiffs Trinity was that I gave clerics reasons to go on pilgrimages but not so much for other classes. The upcomin...
3 months ago
MEASURELESS EONS

Werewolf By Night - Custom: Werewolf By Night
3 months ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

Happy St. Cuthbert's Day! - Today is the saint's day of the original cuddy, St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel! Although the real world Cuthbert seems not to have used a cudgel at all; in t...
5 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...
7 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....
7 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...
5 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

Friday, May 14, 2010

Regional Map for My Latest Sandbox Campaign

Here is a regional map I am working on for my latest sandbox.

The scale is 3 miles/hex.

Posted by JasperAK at 19:31

Labels: Dungeons-Dragons, Map, Sandbox

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GROGNARDIA

The Articles of Dragon: "The Marvel-Phile" - The very first installment of Jeff Grubb’s "The Marvel-Phile" appeared in issue #88 of *Dragon* (August 1984). The column’s purpose was straightforward: ...
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Tenkar's Tavern

Free OSR - Holmes 77 (First Holmes Clone) - K, this is where I point out an inaccuracy. There is a claim that *Mazes & Perils* is the "first Holmes D&D clone". *Mazes & Perils *is NOT the first Ho...
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A character for every game

Index Card Dungeon II – Map 15 – Pool of Drifting Lights - This is the fifteenth and final map in the Index Card Dungeon II set. It sits to the southeast of … Continue reading →
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Tower of the Archmage

Star Trek Day 2025 - Yet another lackluster Star Trek Day. Yet another youtube video. One episode left of SNW for this season, and Starfleet Academy in 2026 and the as yet un...
15 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Revisiting Skaro - I originally posted these maps in 2018, but I came across them again and thought they were worth re-sharing. For those of you not familiar with *Doctor Who...
18 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

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1 day ago
Hill Cantons

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

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B/X BLACKRAZOR

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2 days ago
The Alexandrian

Ex-RPGNet Review: Mystick Domination - Review Originally Published May 21st, 2001 Mystick: Domination takes a different approach to the card-building games: A “premium card game”, Mystick encour...
2 days ago
Hack & Slash

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Leicester's Ramble

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5 days ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

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Barking Up The Wrong Tree

New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent - The problem with emotions is not that we have them, but that they’re allowed to operate unsupervised. You’d think we’d have figured out by now how to not...
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Bugbears for Breakfast

Tim's Outlanders: Session 4, June 17 to July 28, 17 IC - *Player Characters* *Tim, a Wizard* - male human from the Free City of Freegate, student at Outlands University *Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dwarf from t...
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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...
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Akratic Wizardry

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Jeff's Gameblog

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2 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...
2 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...
4 weeks 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....
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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
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

52 Pages at Canterbury (UK) Gaming Con - For my followers who can easily get to Canterbury in the southern UK on August 8-10, the local game shop is hosting a convention on the University of Ke...
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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...
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The Pulp Archivist

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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...
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The Smoldering Wizard

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Dreams in the Lich House

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ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

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In Places Deep

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Roll Stats

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Delta's D&D Hotspot

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Forgotten Runes

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Carjacked Seraphim

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The Retired Adventurer

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A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

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Land of Nod

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Destination Unknown

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Telecanter's Receding Rules

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The Bogeyman's Cave

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4 years ago
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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." ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Tankards & Broadswords

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SWORD & SHIELD

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Saturday Night Sandbox

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6 years ago
Dungeons and Digressions

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Mythmere's Blog

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Greyhawk Grognard

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6 years ago
The Hydra's Grotto

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6 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

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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 ...
4 weeks ago

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