I do not update this blog anymore. It's sole use is to follow the nearly one hundred blogs that I follow. If blogspot gave some space to upload some stuff, I might consider using it as my primary blog, but if you go to my blog on WordPress, you would see I have uploaded some things that I think fellow role-players might find useful.
If you are interested in my current thoughts, you can follow this link Jasper's Rantings on WordPress to my new blog.
If there are any blogs I have missed that anyone would like to see on this blog roll, just leave me a note in the comments and I will look into adding it.
Hobby & Overflow Blogs
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Game 32: Neuromancer - Virtual Judgement - *Tricky Journal Entry 2:* *“Today seems to be a day for fetching items that already belong to me. I collected my deck from Shin’s Pawn Shop, and then picke...4 hours ago
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Castles and Crusades: Liath and Bodhmall - I want to wrap-up my week on Castles & Crusades with a post of two of my favorite characters of Irish Myth. Liath Luachra & Bodhmall the Druidess. One of ...15 hours ago
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Wild West Campaign: The Town of Rebel - Thinking I'd start things off small, I decided to begin play in the small town of Rebel. It's found on the eastern portion of the Rosewood Territory campa...17 hours ago
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NetHack: The Blurst of Times - *No, I don't want my #$&*@ possessions identified.* The saying goes that given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pounding at a typewriter will eventu...22 hours ago
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Pre-Balticon 47 - Tonight is the first night of Balticon, and I’m stoked! While it isn’t a gaming convention, it is a con that focuses on science fiction and fantasy literat...23 hours ago
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Johnny’s Five – Five Pictures For Inspiration - [image: Johnny’s Five – Five Pictures For Inspiration] As Game Masters, we each have our unique and individual style for running games. There are certain...1 day ago
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Living History - Paul at Blog of Holding has a post about an ad in *The Strategic Review*for GDW's *En Garde!* today. In the post, Paul mistakes Game Designers Workshop - t...1 day ago
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Nietzsche meets Lovecraft - Dead Authors podcast, in which Nietzsche meets Lovecraft as a dramatised over-the-top comedy interview. Starts at 3:06 minutes. Warning: some … Continue re...1 day ago
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D&D Mural Made by High School Gamers - I'm an art teacher. I play D&D. I used to run a D&D group after school for students, some of whom took art elective classes with me. One day I took them to...1 day ago
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Meditating on Golems and Superheroes - I got to see *Ironman 3* last night and given Tony Stark’s use of all the various versions of the Ironman suits with a kind of remote control as well as th...1 day ago
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The Creeps (Part 2) [Monsters] - Today I have the second installment of the Creeps. Enjoy! *GEMINETTES* *Medium Fey, Chaotic (LE), Average Intelligence; Pair* HD: 4 AC: 13 ATK: 1 strike (s...1 day ago
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en garde! - If I had been reading Strategic Review 1.4 in winter 1975, this ad would have caught my eye: EN GARDE! is Game Designers' Workshop's newest, and most unusu...1 day ago
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PRO SE ANNOUNCES TWO UPCOMING RELEASES AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW! - Pro Se, a cutting edge independent Publisher of New Pulp, heroic fiction, and genre anthologies and novels, announces two if its next titles and makes them...1 day ago
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On the Familal Impulses of Dragons - Pahvelorn Play Report - *Comprising sessions 32 and 33 of play, in which the world appears to move too fast for the party, dragons are revealed for the awesome majestic beasts the...2 days ago
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[The Grid] CORE - So I have had an idea for a game that has been running around in my head for a few days. I want to do another PocketMod game like my *Edge of Space*game (...2 days ago
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session recap, 5/9/2013 - CAST -------- Mongo the Fighter (4), his henchwoman "Bunny" the Thief (3), and his soil-bearers Malazar and someone whose name I have forgotten Gutboy the C...2 days ago
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Reader Tip Request: How do you handle split parties? - Reader Tip Request: How do you handle split parties? Today, I’d like your advice and tips on how to handle split parties. Daniel S. writes: “How can I make...2 days ago
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Wicked-Awesome Art Wednesday: Stitcher’s Apprentice - This is piece by Johann Bodin is just one of many great and inspirational pieces from Magic’s Innistrad block of sets. The post Wicked-Awesome Art Wednes...2 days ago
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half-life of gaming lust - After flirting with several different game systems lately, I am now conducting a scientific experiment: how long will it take for me to get sick of Vampire...3 days ago
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Your swords library! - I just read The book of swords — not the Fred Saberhagen series (the first three of which were pretty good but not strong enough to make me really want to ...4 days ago
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Obscure finnish fantasy rpg interview: Miekka Ja Magia (1987) - [image: http://files.kotisivukone.com/tampereenkeskusta.kotisivukone.com/hieta_risto.jpg]The author, Risto J. Hieta -*how the idea of MJM developed? ...5 days ago
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Quick Mountain Tutorial! - Today, a quick one on isometric pen and ink mountain ranges. Draw in the ridgeline of the mountains. Add bumps and wiggles and allow the path to wander. Wi...1 week ago
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A Bit About My Creative Process... - I'm working on *Operation Rogue Lion *(the first *Classified *mission) and thought some may be interested in my creative process. I first start with a roug...1 week ago
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And the winner is... - *MU!!!* Despite all the mispellings and grammar errors, my Lovecraftian weird fantasy setting took first place in the *Swords & Wizardry*Appreciation Day Bl...2 weeks ago
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H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project Kickstarter - The H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project Kickstarter just went live. This looks like a worthy project that deserves to get funded. Check it out...3 weeks ago
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One Page Dungeon Contest-The Lost Temple of Tyrandraxu - Here is my submission for the one-page dungeon contest. You can follow the link One Page Dungeon Contest to see a list of this years contestants and the re...3 weeks ago
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Relative Popularities of OSR Games - If G+ community size is any indicator... 634 - Swords & Wizardry 551 - Original D&D 549 - Dungeon Crawl Classics 512 - Advanced D&D 329 - Lamentations of...4 weeks ago
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Against the Cult of the Reptile God - Wizards just made N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God available in PDF. I have fond memories of running this game back when it first came out. On the su...4 weeks ago
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Bored - Lately, I've lost all enthusiasm for RPG's. At first, I thought it was just the uglosity of the online community, or maybe internet addiction or somethin...1 month ago
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Necropraxis - This blog has a new domain. Head on over to necropraxis.com (RSS feed). I discuss some of my reasons for the move in the first post on the new blog. I don...2 months ago
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My Top 30 Things To "Make" Besides Money - 1. love 2. the bed 3. copies 4. clothes 5. a face 6. a donation 7. sacrifices 8. a scene 9. plans 10. friends 11. someone laugh 12. a wish 13. a mistake ...2 months ago
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Hex Stocking Density - For interest sake I pulled out one of my copies of Isle of Dread. For most, it is the benchmark for hex-crawling modules. I wanted to approximate the rat...2 months ago
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Mama - Two young sisters are abandoned in a shack deep in the woods with no way to fend for themselves. After five years later they are found, alive and well, exp...3 months ago
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Poisoned by Haddock - Boiled haddock, purchased from a hawker, and eaten for breakfast and dinner, caused Charlotte Jane Short's death in London. The fish was bad, she told...8 months ago
Dungeons & Dragons Blogs
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SciFi Saturday – Forging Frigates - As I move towards finally putting together my miniatures for the *Star Frontiers: Knight Hawks* game, one thing I wasn't happy about was simply the small n...27 minutes ago
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Lost UFO Base - At some point the investigators from the *I want to live in Los Angeles Not the one in Los Angeles* zine are going to find an abandoned UFO base in Topan...5 hours ago
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More Monster Making - I was hoping to do the room stuffing thing with my friends tonight, but I don't think I'm really prepared for it yet. I did sit down and make this monster...9 hours ago
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'Lectric Lizard (Swords & Wizardry Monster) - Art By Matt Bulahao *'Lectric Lizard* *Hit Dice*: 4 (20 HP) *Armor Class:* 3[16] *Attacks:* Bite 1d6 plus 2d6 electrical damage (save for half) / Special ...9 hours ago
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Thoughts on Dragonspear Castle - So the announcement about the first D&D Next adventure, Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle, has hit the blogs, and there is a bit of buzz going on around it. Th...15 hours ago
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[Friday Map] Darkling Depths Level 3 - The Megadungeon continues, with two more maps! Level 3 of the Darkling Depths spans two maps, 3A and 3B. Map … Continue reading »20 hours ago
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Friday Question: Reviews - How do you like your reviews? Do you like a short synopsis? Longer on content where it breaks down a product, but this would also include spoilers in mos...21 hours ago
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Another Futuristic Cross Section - As the lady says: "Very impressive." You'll have to embiggen it to get the full effect, though. Even then, the writing is sort of small. This is a cross ...22 hours ago
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Pre-Balticon 47 - Tonight is the first night of Balticon, and I’m stoked! While it isn’t a gaming convention, it is a con that focuses on science fiction and fantasy literat...23 hours ago
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Lego Cthulhu - I used to play with Legos when I was a kid. Looks like these sets have really evolved over the years with all kinds of interesting bricks and pieces. And...1 day ago
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D&D Mural Made by High School Gamers - I'm an art teacher. I play D&D. I used to run a D&D group after school for students, some of whom took art elective classes with me. One day I took them to...1 day ago
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Why isn't there an Andrew Lang Monster Manual? - We should do a short pamphlet. I'm kind of loving the Three-Headed Draken right now. (The dryadic bond between these goblinoids and their fruit trees is a ...1 day ago
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Moons of Minaria - For my upcoming old-school reunion one-shot: (Extra bonus fun - the three pregens for the session are based on the three characters in the old D&D ad)1 day ago
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What coming to me in the Fall; Dwarven Forge - So I got confirmation of my order from the Dwarven Forge Kickstarter. So here what coming to me in the fall. First off I ordered five sets plus the stretch...1 day ago
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Buy this Axe - Thanks to the generous helping layout hand of Mike Davison, next week I will finally be releasing into the wild *By This Axe*, my mercifully short and (ho...1 day ago
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The Creeps (Part 2) [Monsters] - Today I have the second installment of the Creeps. Enjoy! *GEMINETTES* *Medium Fey, Chaotic (LE), Average Intelligence; Pair* HD: 4 AC: 13 ATK: 1 strike (s...1 day ago
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Free PDF Download: Oe/BX/1e Armor Class Cheat Sheet - I've been working on the final tweaks to *The Valley of the Five Fires*, which includes double-checking every NPC armor class in the book for accuracy; wor...1 day ago
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Holmes Monsters Illustrated: Basilisk - This thing seems pretty nondescript. None of that stuff about six legs and what have you. It's nice that we have both a bite and a gaze to utilize here, ...2 days ago
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session recap, 5/9/2013 - CAST -------- Mongo the Fighter (4), his henchwoman "Bunny" the Thief (3), and his soil-bearers Malazar and someone whose name I have forgotten Gutboy the C...2 days ago
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Enemies of Samardan: The Crime Lords of Kolgrat... - Good Afternoon, All: In this post we are going to discuss our second Major Enemy for the *World of Samardan* campaign setting. From the information present...2 days ago
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Microlite74 Special Version I Now Available (FREE) - [image: Microlite74 Special Version I Cover]When I announced this project, I figured it would only take a week to ten days to do as the material was writte...2 days ago
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Ravenloft Remix: G'henna - G'Henna *Precis:*Tibet/theocracy through a Gothic lens. *Conspectus:* A dying island ruled by the priests of Zhakata, the beast-god; Yagno Petrovna is the...3 days ago
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Summer on the Convention Trail - Hey, looky there. It looks like I’ll actually post something here before the month runs out. OK, so every now and then I get to pick the lock on my cage an...3 days ago
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Treasure-Centered Adventure Design - In most adventure design methods I have seen, treasure placement is kind of an afterthought. The perils and creatures come first, and then the treasure i...3 days ago
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RMA: Giant Horned Chameleon - Admittedly, a normal chameleon –as weird as he looks– isn't particularly scary. In fact, I think they're kinda cute in an alien-meets-dinosaur kinda way....3 days ago
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Anybody want a cloth map for their campaign world? - I ask because zazzle.com will let you put your graphic on a towel and that ought to get the job done. I've wanted a cloth map of a campaign world of mine ...3 days ago
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Blood, Gold, and Lizards: Saturday Group - Session 1 - *Players:* Warren - Marcus of the Shield Kasey - Quetzal of the Jicarilla Tribes John - Zoglug Ironhide Rhytch - Jacien Ghel-Aurum Amy - Belladonna "Frongle...3 days ago
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Brave the Labyrinth Fanzine Accepting Submissions - Just spreading the word that Pete Spahn's new fanzine for Labyrinth Lord, "Brave the Labyrinth", is looking for submissions by the end of May. See here for...4 days ago
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A Procedure for Wandering Monsters - Foreboding is a difficult emotion to evoke, but amplifies the enjoyment of having wandering monsters in adventure games. This is a procedure for using them...4 days ago
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D&D: Dangerous For Your Health? - *Cover of the Winter 1982 issue of the short-lived Beyond magazine, image from philsp* The author's blurb in *Maze of Peril* mentions several magazines with...5 days ago
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Apologies to WotC - When I posted yesterday about the new release of *Dungeon!* I had more than a few unkind words to say about WotC's re-release of the classic board game. I...6 days ago
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Trust in Gaming - I was digging through some stuff on my computer and I found a link to an old PBWorks site that I was using over 5 YEARS AGO to document my thoughts and ide...6 days ago
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D&D Podcast, Random Wizard Interviews - I've had a couple of "interviews" appear online recently. The first is at the Random Wizard blog. Check out some of his other old-school focused posts whil...1 week ago
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On the Effects of Magic, 2nd level Wizard - DKZ The magical energies contained in the brain could cause side effects. When the wizard acts as a conduit there are risks. As these are second level side...1 week ago
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The Art of Pleasantly Freaking Out - Reblogged from Love Random Death: And here I sit. Alone, calm, in control of My mind. My chair is plush, a comfortable Plaid. The air is warm. No... hot. W...1 week ago
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TWtNW: Making Friends in Low Places, Part 4 - Ivy’s Tavern, Minstrel’s Quarter, The New City, Vancia The party retreated to Ivy’s attic to discuss their plans for the day. They knew they would be meeti...1 week ago
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Tyre - ** ** ** *Tyre is old. It was already old when the well-greaved Achaeans butchered the sons of Troy. Its purple has died the the robes of kings since the...1 week ago
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Essay on Lovecraft - My fellow Lovecraft fans, I think that this piece in the *Los Angeles Review of Books *may be of interest to you! It is a fine essay on Lovecraft's work (...1 week ago
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When will things get back to normal? - The answer is not very soon. Thanks again to everyone who offered kind words on my art and/or supported the Kickstarter. It was a blast. I'm still dealin...2 weeks ago
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Personal blog - Hey, if you're interested in my normal day-to-day goings-on and in my writing projects outside of the old school community (fiction, other gaming writing, ...2 weeks ago
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Ancon convention and loot report - ANCON has ended, Pretty good convention overall, although Friday was a bust. Having no players for my 40K demo I played the Nercomunda demo which didn't ge...2 weeks ago
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5.30.2013 - Read about it here.I will post something to support this great idea from Mesmerized by Sirens. Still busy with my own Melee/Wizard/TFT inspired RPG: Heroes...2 weeks ago
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City Maps, More City Maps, and STILL MORE City Maps! - If you want to look at a whole bunch of old walled cities, look no further! This link will take you to a very nice collection of walled city photographs. ...2 weeks ago
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[New Encounter] Red Road - The Red Road Valance collapsed on the side of the road. ‘Are we ever going to get there?’ he complained. ‘I know, this is taking forever and I feel half de...3 weeks ago
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Am I a GNS Person? - "GNS" is a theory about the priorities for the game experience that are brought to the table by the players and DM. It stood for gamist, narrativist, and ...3 weeks ago
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Miniature Mania in Center Stage - These days, a new Kickstarter isn't anything like the big event that they used to be, since there are so many, but this one is fairly unique. Center Stage...3 weeks ago
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[Let's Read] Playing With Fire, Part 12: Chapter 4 Black, White, or a Mixture of Grays? - Chapter 4: Black, White, or a Mixture of Grays? continues from Part 11. Three items of Note: 1) direct quotes from the text will be *italicized,* 2) my an...3 weeks ago
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Recovering from vacation - recovering from disney vacation. playing on mog tonight after missing two sessions. last session ended on a cliff hanger...3 weeks ago
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RPGNet Reviews – Sovereign Stone: Quickstart Rules - Tagline: Larry Elmore, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Don Perrin, and Lester Smith. Need another reason to take a look? Sovereign Stone has all the makings ...4 weeks ago
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Last Chance for Barrowmaze Tees - The campaign ends tomorrow, so if you plan on ordering a shirt now's the time :)4 weeks ago
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Retirement - I think it’s unlikely that there will be any more activity on this blog. The advent of Google+ seems to have taken the wind out of the sails of the OSR ...5 weeks ago
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Dodecahedrons of Doom! - Hey look! I'm posting again. Hoping to be less of a lazyman about this blog and my gaming. So here's something that's maybe possibly useful. I'll get aroun...5 weeks ago
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G+ Comments - Blogger now supports G+ comments I don't really know how that's going to work, but let's find out together! :)5 weeks ago
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Ten Creatures I'm Using Beneath the Broken Moon - In keeping with a far-future, non-Tolkien inspired theme I want to stock the random monster tables with appropriate creatures. Here are ten that ...5 weeks ago
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Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day: On Initiative and Combat - You still have time to get in on the S&W Appreciation Day Sales! Click Here. Also, the d20pfsrd site has put their PDF's on sale! Go thou forth and buy s...5 weeks ago
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Death of the Dwarvern Deathdealer? - The Dweorgas class option for skirmishers is the Deathdealer. Initially I wanted to avoid the cliched crossbow as the dwarf missile option so I came up wi...5 weeks ago
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Another couple of mash-ups - I spotted the first of these from Nick Mizer's G+ commentary, and the second one has been on my radar ever since the good people at Gamegrene cast a jaundi...1 month ago
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Someone Hook Zak S. up with a copy of Mesopotamia & Mazes and Minotaurs has Awesome Random Tables - a) Zak S. d&d pornstar doesn't believe anyone has written an excellent adventure, I consider Ancient Kingdoms: Mesopotamia to prove him wrong... ...I'm not...1 month ago
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Still alive and other useless crap - Hey fella oldschoolers, I'm still alive. You will find a number of never seen before posts right beneath this one - the result of export/import from my oth...1 month ago
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Sorry, I'm Going To Pass On Your $10K Pre-Order - Anyone *really* like the Morrow Project? Link1 month ago
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Castle Ravenloft Adventures and Conversion Thoughts - Let’s take a look at the adventures that come with the Castle Ravenloft game, and see what we can pull from them for this mash-up. Adventure 1: Escape th...2 months ago
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I'm shutting it down - Haven't written something in a few months and I haven't had a lot to write or think about about gaming, mostly due to college. I'm not closing the blog, I'm...2 months ago
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Faster Monkey/Goblinoid Booth at Gary Con V - In case you haven't seen Jeff's twitter feed (Faster Monkey Games), he posted a pic of the Faster Monkey/Goblinoid booths from Gary Con. I wish I could mak...2 months ago
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Sounds About Right... - Law's Game Style You Scored as *Butt-Kicker* You like a streightforward combat character. After a long day at the office, you want to clobber foes and o...2 months ago
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Clerical Issues - Real quick: JB over at B/X Blackrazor has been talking a bit about clerics. Mainly its about how they really don't work given the source material that D&D...2 months ago
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Wizardawn-Tabletop Games: Village Awesomeness…!!! - I was looking at some blog stats the other day and noticed some hits coming in from Wizardawn-Tabltop Games . So I went to check it out and I found th...3 months ago
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Medieval France Mapping Project - I have started mapping all of France using hexographer, mostly because I think it would be fun - and perhaps to use it in a future game. Regardless, I have...3 months ago
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FREE TODAY: The Pirates of Alnari by Dan Eldredge - Click Above to Visit the Book's Amazon PageMy good friend Dan Eldredge's debut novel is free today on Amazon. If you dig pirates, swordfighting, intrigue, ...3 months ago
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The State of the OSR Nation, part 1 - In this series of posts I am going to discuss, as I see it, the current state of the OSR – the Old School Renaissance. If that term offends you – and it...4 months ago
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Eye of the Tiger (Supercut) - The *Risus Companion* has rules that gives a character the ability to spend Lucky Shots (or Questing Dice) to summon a training montage sequence. I couldn'...4 months ago
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Imagine Magazine: Issue #6 - Issue #6 of *Imagine *dates from September 1983 and features cover art by Emmanuel, who's probably best known in *D&D *circles for having provided the cov...5 months ago
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Thursday Doodle - More *Game of Thrones* muppets? 'Fraid so! One of my favorite bits of detail from DWD. Even Bolton's castle has sharp, pointy teeth.5 months ago
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Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.6 months ago
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Tufty Terror - The Tufty Terror’s secret remains unknown most of the year, appearing as it does to be nothing more than a common squirrel. For several weeks every Autumn...6 months ago
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Mongoose Traveller: Hard Times on the Solomani Rim: Session 4 - *Cast of Characters:* - Baron Khoiayahelu (Aslan noble (Imperial rank is much greater than his Aslan standing) whose family's mismanagement of the ...9 months ago
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Urgent Cash Loan For Every People Who Need Money - Being in trouble is not a surprising fact but it is an ordinary fact that makes people in trouble in every day. To ban the finance of problems that is faced ...1 year ago
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Possible Issues in Running a Survival Oriented Campaign - My real problem is I always over-think about things without actually do anything. By the way: First issue is monetary treasure is value-less in a setting w...1 year ago
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Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...1 year ago
Dead or on Hiatis Blogs
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Labyrinth Lord Referee Screen (Landscape Orientation) - Here are the panels of my Labyrinth Lord referee screen. I slide them into a Savage Worlds GM screen (they're pricey but awesome). Note that there are some...2 days ago
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Swords and Wizardry Appreciation Day - I had hoped to participate in Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day but the same forces of real life that destroyed my A-Z this year have gotten me here too. ...5 weeks ago
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Dear Norm, You Feminist You - This is an open letter to Norm Sherman of the Drabblecast. Dear Norm, Norm, I love you. Your are talented and creative. Your work on the Escape Artists po...2 months ago
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Lets Read Mythus pt 25 - *Mythus* spell lists: my face when. Last section of the *Advanced Mythus* spell lists sample castings, which so far have been boring enough to make a Ch...2 months ago
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Back. Sort of. - So the other morning at breakfast I was telling my kids a story about a D&D session from way back in the day. My daughter asked, “Why don’t we play that an...6 months ago
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2012 GenCon pre-gens - Want to play Old School Hack even faster? I ran OSH every single day at GenCon this year, and it was really invigorating to my enthusiasm for this game as ...9 months ago
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Third Time is the Charm - Okay. So it seemed like a great idea at the time, but all those blog rolls arranged in-between the ABCs we used to have on the Left-Hand side-bar are now h...9 months ago
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Update on my hands and the Cthulhus - I've been waiting to write this for a while in hopes that things would sort themselves out or that I could get some kind of timeline. But it's nearly mid-N...1 year ago
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Fin. - This blog is no longer actively maintained. This blog was a personal journey and exploration of an old guy who loves playing OD&D (Original 1974 D&D), AD&D...1 year ago
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Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil - Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps. This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many levels w...2 years ago
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