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 and more D&D Blogs
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Friday ‘Picture Postals’: Everett McNeil - This week another postcard sent to Lovecraft, rather than by him. He once had this card (or one very like … Continue reading →7 hours ago
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One Man's God Special: Syncretism Part 1, The Gods of Faerûn - [image: Down to Earth Divinity] This is the start of a multi-part sub-feature of One Man's God. I am going to pull in material from older Dragon Magazines...13 hours ago
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Today’s Big Event on Horatio Harris Creek Road - Our neighbor Bob texted Krissy and told her to tell me to get out my fancy camera because something big was about to come down the road. He was right; abou...15 hours ago
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Satanic Panic 2021: Chinese media worries about “script killing” RPGs and LARPS - Script killing is like a murder mystery dinner, a light LARP, or an RPG heavy on the atmosphere and decoration. Satanic Panic 2021: Chinese media worries a...21 hours ago
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Apocalyptic Carousing: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - a a a So my carousing laws not based on money or xp as both are fairly unimportant game features. They are for when a player away or chara...1 day ago
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RPGPundit Reviews: Adventure System - I review the Adventure System #ttrpg and ask if this is still an age where making "universal" systems makes sense?1 day ago
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Cosmic Courtship Stretch Goal Fulfilled - One of our stretch goals for The Cosmic Courtship was to donate the text to the Project Gutenberg library of Public domain works. I’m happy to say that we...1 day ago
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Dust & Grim: New Release Date And Events! - So, maybe you’ve heard tell of these “supply chain issues” that are plaguing everything from lumber to microchips to monkey chow. I mean, I just assume the...1 day ago
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Side Quests For The Fun Of It - A popular (and very wise) piece of advice in storytelling and running an RPG is to make sure all of your storylines, plot hooks, and side elements support ...1 day ago
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Abrahams on the carpet - Here’s another “hand over your badge and your gun” moment, but without a badge or a gun. It comes from the movie Chariots of Fire, which won the Oscar fo...2 days ago
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Gonna gloat for a moment, bear with me.... - I talked about this before, but there is reason to do so again. Y'all know tentfootpole.com, you've their reviews. Highly respected, dead on, blunt, yadda ...2 days ago
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SUCH A NIGHT - A TOM MYERS MYSTERY -- COVER REVEAL! DRUMROLL, PLEASE.... - Are you ready for a cover reveal? I teased it yesterday and now it's time for the unveiling. Presenting the cover to the upcoming SUCH A NIGHT - A Tom ...2 days ago
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BLOG POST DCXL: TOO MUCH INFORMATION IN YOUR CHAPTER STARTS 11:19 am PST, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 CE SAMMAMISH, WA “Come ye, all Authors and Hear, for Wisdom shall be granted upon thee by the hand of the Not At All Mighty that thou might Hearest.” —Lord Philus Athansusus, the 63rd Lord Viscount of the City of Citiphus in the Duchy of Blackriverwaterberg of the Kingdom of Forevermore, Part XVII, Chapter 24, paragraph 83 of the third volume of the Collected Writings of Lord Philus Athansusus, the 63rd Lord Viscount of the City of Citiphus in the Duchy of Blackriverwaterberg of the Kingdom of Forvermore (standard edition), published in the Year of the Publishing (Summer) - Figured out yet what this post is going to be about? I get it. Chapter titles are fun. So are quotes form “in world” sources. And the exact time and date o...2 days ago
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Hostis Humani Generis Part 4 - [image: Satellite, Spacecraft, Space, Outer Space, Soyuz] The Will of Terra TF 136 had seven days before the Ceresians arrived. They spent six of them ...2 days ago
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Rethinking Potions as a Bonus Action - A popular house rule in Dungeons & Dragons lets characters drink a potion as a bonus action rather than as an action. (See Scrutinizing the 9 Most Popular ...2 days ago
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A2 Secret of the Spoon!ers Stockade - One might be forgiven for thinking that this is just a gratuitous post to remind myself that I still have a blog. Nonetheless, this image from *Dungeon M...3 days ago
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Worldbuilding History and Fairydom - Fairy lore gives us many indications of how people would react to fairies in the Victorian era, as does the literature and art of the Victorian era itsel...3 days ago
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Incident - A random fan met me and Stokely at the bar and asked me to run a game for him and his friends at GenCon a few years ago. He as nice, so I did. Then, like b...3 days ago
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Scripture & the Megadungeon Part 6: Becoming Immortal - As I have perused the OSR corner of the internet over the years, there seems to have been a significant number of folks who owned some version of BECMI bac...3 days ago
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Shadows of Darkness: Out, Ye Rogue, Play Out the Play - *The thief gets a special set of gear.* September is always my busiest month. I pre-scheduled a number of entries in early August, but they could o...4 days ago
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Summer Reading List No. 3-The Status Civilization by Robert Scheckley - My Internet was out for fourteen days. No, I don't live in Afghanistan. I live in a twenty-first century Third World-country called the United States. An...4 days ago
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Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Detective Novels Magazine, December 1939 - It's safe to say that Norman A. Daniels wrote more than half of this issue of DETECTIVE NOVELS MAGAZINE, since he has two novellas in it, one under his ...4 days ago
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Missed Classic: Alice in Wonderland - Turning into Malice - Written by Morpheus Kitami It's been a while. I mean, this wasn't exactly a long hiatus, especially for this blog at this point...but it wasn't a worthy...5 days ago
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James McGlothlin Reads Through DAW’s The Year’s Best Horror Stories - It’s been one of those weeks, so I missed this when it was posted on Tuesday over at Black Gate, but James McGlothlin will be reading through The Year’s Be...1 week ago
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Trio for Blunt Instruments by Rex Stout (1964) - *About the author:* Rex Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wol...1 week ago
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Adventure Stories For Young Readers - Well, here it is. In some ways this was a difficult anthology to put together. It has been a very long time since I was young, but I tried to remember the ...1 week ago
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Here’s the A5E Tarrasque! - I want to show you the biggest, toughest monster in the Advanced 5E Monstrous Menagerie: the tarrasque. The original 5E (O5E) tarrasque is – maybe not a pu...1 week ago
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BF update: Dyson’s Deathtrap* - The last few Basic Fantasy sessions have bene brutal. A harpy killed the henchmage Brown Julius, along with the torchbearer and pack-bearer. Then the elf w...1 week ago
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Bonus Blog: Don’t Take My Word for It - The Big-Picture Revision Checklist comes out October 1st, and you can pre-order your ebook or your paperback today. But you may be wondering, why should yo...2 weeks ago
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Gorgon Crawl Classics: Foresight Spell - The titan Prometheus is the divine personification of Foresight. This gave him the knowledge to side with Zeus and the gods when they rose up against his f...2 weeks ago
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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 weeks ago
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Chapter 6: The 5 Commandments - The following is an excerpt from the Story Grid Publishing title The Writers’ Common Language: A Shared Vocabulary to Tell Better Stories. If I learned o...4 weeks ago
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Free GM Resource: Thundar the Barbarian Gaming Supplement - [image: Free GM Resource: Thundar the Barbarian Gaming Supplement] I found this one interesting, if not kind of messed-up and hilarious, post in my Facebook...4 weeks ago
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A Wilderness of Building - frus·trat·ed fan·ta·sy nov·el·ist, n. A caricature of a tabletop roleplaying referee who has developed a complex imaginary world, or particular plot, and w...1 month ago
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When the Goddess Wakes - With the trilogy complete and soon-to-be available on bookstore shelves, reviews are starting to roll in. I hope you’ll help spread the word! I just saw a ...1 month ago
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Cibo e Cuochi - Questo mese per il vecchio carnevale blogghereccio questo mese parleremo di cibo, il cibo tanto importante nella nostra vita e in quella degli eroi di t...1 month ago
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Samson of Mars, a novel. - I wrote a novel that takes place in my Mars setting. I will start revisions within the week and I hope to have it up on Amazon by the end of August. Som...2 months ago
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About this new “TSR” that supposedly been launched... - Fuck your bigoted, transphobic faces.2 months ago
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The Washington Post Mentions Renegades and Rogues - Michael Dirda, acclaimed book reviewer and critic for the Washington Post recently wrote an article about Robert E. Howard. The title of Dirda's article...3 months ago
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Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) Cover reveal! - Heya folks, got a new cover in for Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) and thought I should share.3 months ago
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The Afterlife of the Shadowend - Beings in the Shadowend are composed of three parts: body, or *corpus*; mind, or spirit, called the *essae*; and soul, or *vitae*. The body, the physical...5 months ago
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Guess it's not meant to be - for now - Well, I tried. I got some folks interested in possibly playing a run through the classic module U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. I just could...5 months ago
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Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release - A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012 Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at Dr...10 months ago
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Local Campaign Area Version 2 - So I posted the previous map to the Cartogropher’s Guild and received some feed back. I didn’t make all of the changes yet because I wasn’t sure about the ...11 months ago
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Guhin – The Dog Guest - If you are walking through the forest and hear mysterious laughter or the sound of crashing trees, take caution. You may have stumbled into the territory o...1 year ago
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A Campaign Begins for Newbies - Like many of you, the affects of the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted how hundreds of millions of us fellow mutants interact and function in our jobs, co...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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Nyepi - On the day designated as the beginning of the new year in Bali, residents celebrate with silence, pretty much the opposite of the way it's done in North ...1 year ago
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WARBAND! Wednesday: Combat Round Sequence Of The 41st Millennium - *Here's the first of potentially several posts about Mike Davison's WARBAND! This time, I show off how we re-jiggered the round sequence as well as a few ...1 year ago
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OneBlogShelf Moving - We are moving to *Medium*! You can follow us here: https://medium.com/oneblogshelf All blogs previous to this post will remain on our Blogger for archive ...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...2 years ago
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D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets - In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one for small/medium targets (i.e. man-sized) and one for large targets (giants and...2 years ago
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Zorro Kickstarter - Just Three Days Left - The Kickstarter for *Zorro: The Roleplaying Game* closes in three days; it's met its target of $15,000.00 but it needs a few more backers to reach a cool $...2 years ago
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SHORT BREAK. - I'm going to take a break for a week or so and will start up again in the New Year. Thanks for reading and we'll start with Level 6 when I get back.2 years ago
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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 megadungeo...2 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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 was...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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Time for a New Edition! - 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...4 years ago
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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...5 years ago
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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...5 years ago
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This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - 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...6 years ago
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0-Level ACKS Alices - 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...6 years ago
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