Here resides the roll for the blogs that I follow on a regular basis.
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Solo d6 Fantasy: Session 1
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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...
Review: John Standon of Texas - Johnston McCulley
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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...
Two Writers Lost
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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...
Alone in the Dark 2 - Final Rating
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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...
Excelsior: Onward and Downward
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*Dungeons are teeming with enemies, items, doors, and clues.*
We return to Chester the sexless golem paladin, circling the roads of the
land Excelsio...
Gnome Muderdomes
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So while plotting gnome eco domes possibilities, i came across this
terrible idea.
I did play a session where players where given ...
View From a Hotel Window, 11/7/25: Austin, TX
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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...
Gnomecast 224 – Tabletop Safety Toolkit Interview
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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...
My Own Version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Deal
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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...
Cirsova 2026 Lineup Announced!
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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 ...
Free GM Resource: HexLands Web App
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[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...
The Artisan Author by Johnny B. Truant
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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...
BECMI Psychic Infiltrator
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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...
Fr. Peter Heers and the Satanic Panic
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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 ...
I Have not Forgotten the Blog
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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...
Samson of Mars now available
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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 ...
Another Hommlet Podcast
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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 ...
Pergamino Barocco
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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...
where are psionics from?
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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...
The Crypt of Atan-Thu
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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...
Wizard Tricks (OSE)
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"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...
How do fairies fly? + Do fairies have wings?
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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...
The Player Agenda in Hide & Seek
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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....
Almost Vancian
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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...
And Now For Something Completely Different
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I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day
Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller*
character each ...
Articulations
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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...
Zombie Survival Escape USA
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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,...
Con Schedules 2024
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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 ...
Last move - to self-hosting!
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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...
Gwenevere (2023)
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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...
Magazine Of Horror #05
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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 →
It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead
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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...
Map of a Pirate’s Lair
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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...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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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...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*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...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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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...
ITotD on Summer Break
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[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...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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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...
Goodbye and Good Luck
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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...
Happy Gygax Day!
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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...
ROUNDUP: What Writers Want to Know Right Now…
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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...
Deviant Art
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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...
Four Frightening Games to Play on Halloween
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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...
History of Ghost Taxis of Japan
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Translated and Sourced from Shigeru Mizuki’s Mujara, Japanese Ghost
Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena, and Other Sources To
learn more ...
Winds of Change are Blowing
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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...
Dynamic Grappling
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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...
Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e]
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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...
Community Created Content for Tabletop Games
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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...
(SW) Fearsome Critters: Cake Walk
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*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.
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