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This Just In: Another Novel Done - The Shattering Peace, the seventh book in the Old Man’s War series, done on January 21, 2025 at 12:34 am. 80,008 words, not counting acknowledgements. It’s...
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Adventures Fantastic

Rembering Merritt - Today is January 20, which means it’s the birthday of Abraham Merritt (1884-1943). Merrit isn’t as well known as he once was, and certainly not as well as ...
3 hours ago
The Mule Abides

kirbsday: reprise - By Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940. This is the official position of the Mule.
14 hours ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

Here’s What I Think You Do Today, January 20th, 2025 - It’s gonna be a stupid, horrible day. We all know that. It’s going to be full of what passes for pomp and circumstance amongst the set of rich tacky dickhe...
15 hours ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Dungeon 25: week 3 - A weird water level this week. In play, I feel the waterholder would be a blast.
17 hours ago
Rough Edges

Review: Trouble Percolates in Coffee City - James J. Griffin - James J. Griffin’s latest Western novel featuring Texas Rangers Will Kirkpatrick and Jonas Peterson, TROUBLE PERCOLATES IN COFFEE CITY (available in e-b...
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The CRPG Addict

The Clathran Menace: Behind Every Great Man - *My final map of the galaxy.* I'll return to a slightly more chronological narrative to recount this particular debacle, which put the number o...
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Frugal GM

FGM Review: How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps - [image: FGM Review: How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps] I've had my eye on this one book for a while now and I was hesitant to pick up *How to Draw Fantas...
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Elfmaids & Octopi

d100 Hex Crawl Landmarks for Chagrinspire - *Just stuff to add detail to a hex and are places to use and landmarks or avoidedd12 Landmark Additions*1 Garbage mounds 2 Road or rail or garbage-fille...
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Tellers of Weird Tales

Francis Hard (1888-1940) - *Pseudonym of Farnsworth Wright* *Author, Editor, Poet, Journalist, Translator, Soldier* Born July 29, 1888, Santa Barbara, California Died June 12, 1940, ...
2 days ago
The Mystillery blog

The Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, 1914 - dustjackets.com *About the author: *Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary a...
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The Other Side blog

Character Creation Challenge: The Ravenloft Weekend - [image: Characters from the The Ravenloft Weekend] Back in 1991, Grenda and I ran a weekend-long game of Ravenloft. We ran it as the "Dreams of Barovia" var...
3 days ago
Order of the Stick

1317: Rescued - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1317.html
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ALL PULP

THE PATREON SERIALIZED NOVELLA SECRET AGENT X "THE TENTH CIRCLE" DEBUTS! READ THE OPENING CHAPTER NOW FOR FREE! - Pulp hero, Secret Agent X returns in an all-new serialized novella releasing weekly-ish at http://www.patreon.com/bobbynash Read the opening chapter f...
3 days ago
The Adventure Gamer

Companions of Xanth – Won! - By Ilmari Last time, I had just arrived at the gates of the castle of Good Magician Humfrey. I asked Jenny, my new companion, how to get in, and she sugges...
3 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Because David Lynch Died - *This is an old post which I'm re-posting because David Lynch died. A stray observation here--that his work frequently nailed the distinctive spot where ...
4 days 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...
5 days 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....
5 days ago
Cirsova

Adrian Cole’s The Dream Lords Out Now - The 50th Anniversary Edition of Adrian Cole’s The Dream Lords is Out Now on Amazon! Mankind and its empire spanning the Nine Worlds are ruled by a powerful...
5 days ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 204 – Running vs. Playing - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CG_204_runningVSplaying_finalV01.mp3 Join Ang, JT, and guest Alex Thomas as they talk about the difference ...
5 days ago
Steven Pressfield

Chuck D. Tells It Like It Is - Here is Charles Dickens, rejecting an invitation from a friend. “‘It is only half an hour’–’It is only an afternoon’–’It is only an evening,’ people say ...
5 days ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

STANDARD NOTES, PART TWO: SHOW, DON’T TELL - There are four issues that run through an overwhelming majority of the books I work on with newer authors. These issues are so common, in fact, that I have...
6 days ago
Writing Slices

Book Updates - Hello friends! I’ve spent the last few months updating my books, and I have three announcements for you. 1. The Big-Picture Revision Checklist has a new co...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Blog of Holding

Unofficial D&D 2024 Style Guide (Your Capitalization Questions Answered!) - When I’m writing rules for D&D 2024, it annoys me not to have an official style guide. In its absence, I made my own style guide so I can quickly answer my...
1 week ago
DMDavid

For Years AD&D Rounds Lasted Six Times Longer Than D&D Rounds and Only Gary Gygax Thought It Made Sense - When gamers imagine an attack in a game like Dungeons & Dragons, they picture a wind up and sword swing, perhaps one second of motion. So two combatants on...
1 week 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 ...
2 weeks ago
Swords & Dorkery

Of ghouls and ghuls - I haven’t been blogging much for some time. Mainly it’s being busy with work and family, but it’s also just that I’m devoting a lot of free time to Advance...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

THE BUNK HOUSE - The Bunk House is the headquarters of the Golden Age SFL troupe.… Continue reading THE BUNK HOUSE
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Cave of the Dice Chucker

On Unearthed Arcana and other 80s Atrocities - One fateful night in the summer of 1985 I made a momentous trip to the mall with a pocketful of cash from my first paycheck. Sure, I'd mowed lawns, washe...
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The RPGPundit

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3 weeks ago
Blood of Prokopius

Christ is Born! - He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the Father’s bosom and His Mother’s embrace. How can this be, but as He knows and w...
3 weeks 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 weeks 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,...
1 month 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...
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)
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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 ...
8 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...
11 months ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

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

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

PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB! - My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
5 years ago
Gamers & Grognards

Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
5 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
5 years ago
The Clash of Spear on Shield

Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots of redu...
5 years ago
Interesting Thing of the Day

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

Feeding fans starving 4 Action around da World! - Despite what I said a few weeks ago, I never really retired, just semi-retired. I regularly check this site and love that it still gets traffic. So keep it...
5 years ago
Castle Triskelion

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
7 years ago
forum – Holly's Writing Classes Blog

ROUNDUP: What Writers Want to Know Right Now… - Multi-published author and head moderator Cat Gerlach asked a bunch of writers on the forums what their toughest writings were. Here are their questions an...
7 years ago
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...
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
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...
10 years ago
Roleplaying Tips

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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

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Tenkar's Tavern

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Hack & Slash

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Leicester's Ramble

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A character for every game

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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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Tower of the Archmage

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From the Sorcerer's Skull

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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

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Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Dreams in the Lich House

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Gothridge Manor

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The Alexandrian

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The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

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Akratic Wizardry

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Forgotten Runes

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The Smoldering Wizard

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Carjacked Seraphim

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In Places Deep

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Echoes from the Geekcave

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...
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Greyhawk Grognard

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2 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

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The Retired Adventurer

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Delta's D&D Hotspot

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Bugbears for Breakfast

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Stonewerks's Blog

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Land of Nod

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Save Vs. Dragon

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The Pulp Archivist

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Telecanter's Receding Rules

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The Bogeyman's Cave

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Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

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moltensulfur

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Henchman Abuse

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The Grumpy Old Troll

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Tankards & Broadswords

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Greyhawk Grognard

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The Hydra's Grotto

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Sword+1

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The City of Iron

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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

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...
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Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
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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...
9 years ago
The Sandbox of Doom

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

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

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

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

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Feeding fans starving 4 Action around da World! - Despite what I said a few weeks ago, I never really retired, just semi-retired. I regularly check this site and love that it still gets traffic. So keep it...
5 years ago

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