Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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The Big Idea: Vivian Shaw
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Monsters are monsters, but do they always have to be so… monstrous? Vivian
Shaw considers the fundamental nature of these terrible creatures in
Strange Pra...
1 hour ago
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Simple Tricks – Using Google To Blow Your Players’ Minds
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[image: Simple Tricks – Using Google To Blow Your Players’ Minds]
While over at the house of my friend and fellow game writer and gnome,
Tracy Barnett, I ...
3 hours ago
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Report from the Trenches, #4
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What exactly am I doing as I reconceive/reconstruct/rewrite a project
that I’m already eighteen months into, based on some pretty stark “do it
over” note...
4 hours ago
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d100 Villain Escapes for Marvel
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Going punisher is considered by a few players occasionally when villains
escape constantly. Villains in Marvel can spend karma to escape stuff
effectivel...
7 hours ago
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Worst Tropes
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Generic But Emotionally Unambiguous Music Communicating This Is How You’re
Supposed To Feel About This So Why Is There Even A Scene Why Did We Have
Dialo...
13 hours ago
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THE GROUNDS 27A COCKATRICE DEN.
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27A COCKATRICE DEN. This cave smells of rank carrion and is the home to a
cockatrice with an unusually large head and small brain, which rests on a
nest in...
16 hours ago
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AS HENRY MILLER COMMANDS, PART 9: DISCARD THE PROGRAM
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Kind of a short one today—I have a long to do list ahead of me! I’m getting
close to the end of this long series of posts inspired by Henry Miller’s
Eleven...
19 hours ago
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Conan: The Summarian
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*The box features artwork by the incomparable Boris Vallejo. I had two
books of his paintings before my mother found them and threw them away.*
*Co...
20 hours ago
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The Sword of Goujian
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A new relic for your Raiders! game.
*The Sword of Goujian*
In a tomb among more than 50 other tombs in Hubei, China lies a near
air-tight wooden box held i...
20 hours ago
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Story or Game? An Oncological Discourse
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I was recently solicited for opinions on what I would do if given the
opportunity to be the one to “make” D&D. My answer was I’d pretty much make
B/X, use ...
21 hours ago
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Dalluhn: Wizards' Guilds and Fellowships
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If you don't know the history of the document called, alternately, Beyond
This Point Be Dragons and the Dalluhn Manuscript, the best thing to do is
read ...
21 hours ago
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Pictures From Uruguay
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Here are some more pictures from Uruguay, since I'm short on time. Time
for some more street art.
This is a mural done outside a religious school. Possib...
1 day ago
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New in Print: Mail-call Edition
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When I get games or game books together; either via a con, or an auction,
2nd hand sale, or whatever I tend to think of them as "linked" products
whether t...
1 day ago
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Time Pressure, Wandering Monsters, and D&D’s Social Contract
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In 1980, Dungeons & Dragons players at my high school traded stories that
confirmed Tomb of Horrors as the HARDEST DUNGEON EVER. Then someone told me
how t...
1 day ago
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Editing Non-Fiction
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As Shawn and I have been working through the first draft of my novel, I was
working on a first draft of my next non-fiction book. Now Shawn and I will
be w...
1 day ago
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Free GM Resource: Inkscape
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[image: Free GM Resource: Inkscape]
This week's Free GM Resource is an open-sourced vector graphics editor
available for several computer operating systems,...
1 day ago
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1085: Omission Possible
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http://www.GiantITP.com/comics/oots1085.html
1 day ago
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Adventure!
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I wanted to share a treasure unique to my work space. To the left is a
frame of three Adventure magazine covers. A few of you may know that...
1 day ago
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Tweaking Yesterday's Paladin Variant
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Thinking about it more, the Paladin in my variants yesterday didn't seem
sufficiently different from the normal cleric. I've tweaked it to look like
this:
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1 day ago
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Who's the Law in this Town?
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d12
1. Constabulary of the Lord: clerics of state religion use detection magic,
blunt instruments to maintain adherence to byzantine regulations, raid
es...
2 days ago
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THE EYE OF QUANG CHI
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*THE EYE OF QUANG CHI*
Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the first in a brand new
mystery series by prolific New Pulp writer, Fred Adams ...
2 days ago
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Exploring the Temple of Elemental Evil's Dungeon Level 1
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I haven't posted any updates for my Roll20-based Temple of Elemental Evil
campaign for quite some time. I'm just not a very good blogger, I guess...
As usu...
3 days ago
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Police Quest 1 (VGA Remake): Make the Bust and Make It Stick!
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Written by Alex
Make the bust and make it stick! That’s the goal, right? I mean, it even
says that on the box to this game:
*At least, on the box of the ...
4 days ago
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Making Comics 2, Learning sucks.
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I am late on my CTQ update, I've been sick and I am in a shit mood. So lets
get the worst of this behind us.
Disclaimer: despite my salitness here, I lo...
5 days ago
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Under Portown: Factions
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It is an odd experience talking with these city dwellers. Whether they
speak the truth or not, they always have another hidden goal when they
speak to an...
6 days ago
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Dark Albion Fantastic Heroes & Witchery Appendix 3
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The Dark Albion setting book is an excellent exercise in how to use the old
rules in a historical setting, we have said something on the whole book in
the...
6 days ago
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The Drawbridge Tower
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1 week ago
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Swords & Wizardry Campaign At Dragonmead.
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Well, after a successful week last week, I have decided to return to The
Loaded Die's Board Game Night at Dragonmead in Warren, Michigan this
Thursday nigh...
1 week ago
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Encounters in the Unsettling Dimension
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Here are some encounters that you could run in a truly alien setting, like
another planet or a far realm. They’re pretty low-level, suitable for
characters...
1 week ago
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The Undercity
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*Art by Liz Danforth*
As regular readers know, recent posts have been about Flying Buffalo's
*CityBook* series of supplements. Electronic versions of the...
1 week ago
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Advanced Adventures line hits 40 modules...
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Breaking proverbial ground on Advanced Adventure #40: The Horror of
Merehurst which should come out early next year. Yep, *FORTY*! Still got
several betwee...
1 week ago
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Star Trek with Fate Accelerated (Part 3, Badguys)
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Let's keep talking about Star Trek with Fate Accelerated. Any Star Trek
game is going to need some badguys to torment your PC crew. I put together
a bunch ...
1 week ago
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The Book of Monsters
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AD&D 2E campaign elevator pitch, inspired heavily by Monster Hunter, Shadow
of the Colossus, and Kingdom Death. The holy books are three: the Book of
Monst...
1 week ago
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My new favorite brushes - Kalish Finest
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Miniatures depend on 4 things - quality of the figure, skills of the
painter, the paints they use and the brushes. The first three are worthy of
other post...
1 week ago
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"I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain."
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This is fun: a martial arts blogger analyzes Wesley and Inigo's duel with
respect to the sword-masters they reference during the iconic scene in *The
Princ...
1 week ago
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Projects
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My name is Ty Hulse. As a folklorist I've been reading and studying
folklore for decades.
I've been writing stories based on the most interesting pieces of...
2 weeks ago
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From North Texas to the Apocalypse
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Thanks to the amazing generosity of the OSR community (lead by +James
Shields and his sneaky GoFundMe), I had the pleasure of attending North
Texas RPG Con...
3 weeks ago
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A POST FROM MERRIC
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In the beginning, when a party of adventurers encountered a group of
monsters, both sides rolled a six-sided die. If a side rolled a 1 or 2,
that side was ...
3 weeks ago
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HMS Apollyon Viking Character Generation Rules
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Below are some rules I wrote up to run Viking seafarers in the HMS Apollyon
setting to run some one shots of a few new areas. A friend ran a game at
NTRPG...
3 weeks ago
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Session LXXXVIII: Two Ettins Too Many
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Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign...
*Current Player Characters:*
*Torvin Fulvousmith* (Dwarf)
*Thenus* (Ranger)
*Wang Du* (Monk)
*Centari*...
3 weeks ago
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Some more plastic dragons
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I posted a few plastic dragons before — the MPC knockoff of the Grenadier
AD&D dragon, the Dark Tower dragon and two Descent dragons, and a pair of
dragons...
4 weeks ago
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SMEE’S MUTINY: A WICKED WEB
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Smee's Mutiny
5 weeks ago
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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...
5 weeks ago
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Time to fall in love again
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Sorry folks for my absence and the lack of posts; just when i had planned
to make a series of posts for slowly examining "The Compleat Warlock" rpg,
i stum...
1 month ago
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An Experiment In Thuggery
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At GaryCon IX this past March, I had the pleasure of meeting +Paolo Greco.
Paolo and I hadn't really interacted before this, other than a passing
admission...
1 month ago
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A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign
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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...
1 month ago
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Iron Rangers of Stonefist: Hockey in Oerth
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I'm just sayin'...
Coat of Arms of the Iron Rangers, a semi-professional hockey team based in
the upper Midwest during the 1970s
Coat of Arms of the Hold o...
2 months ago
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Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of my top three favorite
albums of all time. Star Wars is one of my top three favorite movies of all
time. Wha...
2 months ago
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Looking forward
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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...
2 months ago
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How To Map A Large Canyon
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Vast canyons are awe inspiring. They thwart quests, halt armies, and tell
the tale of vast cataclysms from times past. In this quick tutorial I’ll
outlin...
2 months ago
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Photos: "Legion of the Petal Throne" Game At Gary Con
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I had intended to get this out a lot sooner, but Real Life™ and ADD keeps
getting in the way. Last month at Gary Con, Victor Raymond refereed a game
of "Le...
3 months ago
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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...
3 months ago
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Time for a New Edition!
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I guess I should explain what I mean by that title.
Today, I will be rebooting *Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old*. I feel like I
have hit a road-block creative...
5 months ago
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The Central - Mid-Levels Escalator / Hong Kong's moving landmark
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Hong Kong has excellent public transit, but many people make their daily
commutes on the world's longest outdoor covered escalator.
6 months ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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Moved
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The Random Wizard Blog has moved to
https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
1 year ago
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Two Tales of Mermaid Meat
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Translated from Opinions About Life and Death as Told by the Legend of
Yaobikuni, Japanese Wikipedia, and this Blog To learn more about Japanese
Ghosts, ch...
1 year ago
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Offensive Content Policy: A Follow Up
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For those that do not know me, my name is Meredith Gerber and I am the RPG
Publisher Relations Representative for DriveThruRPG/RPGNow. I volunteered
to wri...
1 year ago
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NecronomiCon 2015 begins…
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The NecronomiCon 2015 should be beginning to buzz about now, as people
arrive on the Thursday evening. Photograph: A Providence …
Continue reading →
1 year ago
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This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest
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Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′
bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power
halberd, a comb...
2 years ago
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0-Level ACKS Alices
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Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level
play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and
introd...
2 years ago
The Sympanomancer
Download the PDF here.
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