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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Review: Twenty Plus Two - Frank Gruber - I’m a long-time fan of Frank Gruber’s work, but I’d only read some of his Western novels, a couple of his early mystery novels, some of his pulp mystery...4 hours ago
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50th Anniversaries and When I’ll Hit Them - I read an article in the Irish version of The Times about the band U2 being together for 50 years now, dating back to their first gathering as a group in d...1 day ago
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Revisiting: Citadel: Adventure of the Crystal Keep (1989) - *Well, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this so quickly, especially after the series of guest entries that we just had over the summer, but as u...1 day ago
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Return to Saltmash game log - Game log - nice long game, but it ended as my voice ran out from cold Had game start then a drop in and a tw drop out so started cancelling but keen to ...1 day ago
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Some Quick (And Maybe Useful) Sales… - Popping in here to letchyall know there’s a couple sales going on if you’re so inclined to save some ducats — both The Staircase in the Woods and The Book ...3 days ago
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CAN I WRITE 1000 WORDS A DAY? - Okay, then, back from vacation and back to work, and finally starting to read our September GoodReads group read: 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying C...6 days ago
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Halfway Through Wild Stars Kickstarter! - We’re halfway through our Kickstarter period for Michael Tierney’s Wild Stars: Flight From Reckoning and War of the Gods! We’re only a little over 2/3 of t...1 week ago
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Where do I start with a Campaign? - I asked a number of people who GM very little or not at all what they would want to know if they were going to start GMing. This was one of the responses. ...1 week ago
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So What Had Happened Was... - Well into my middle-age, I finally got a real grownup job.While I am aware of my privilege in this dying world, and I should really be more thankful that I...1 week ago
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Free Gm Resource: Paper Minis Courtesy of HeroQuest at Board Game Geek - [image: Free Gm Resource: Paper Minis Courtesy of HeroQuest at Board Game Geek] Now I'll admit I don't hit up Board Game Geek very often, but I had a rea...1 week ago
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Can I Use NIGHT SHIFT for an SCP Tabletop RPG? - Crossposted to the *Elf Lair Games* blog. My kids got me into SCP. Or, more accurately, they told me all about it, pointed me toward the Wiki, and then ...1 week ago
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Machines for Living, Haunts of the Dead-Part Three - Like I said last time, I don't know when what I have called the Gothic revival began, but in the 1960s there were Hammer films from England and horror fi...1 week ago
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Mutants & Wizards Soldier and Survior - Keeping at Mutants & Wizards. Here's two more classes.2 weeks ago
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Sean Monaghan’s “Strange Orbit” - This is going to be a different kind of review. It’s of a short story that isn’t available to the public yet, at least as far as I know. But the first nov...2 weeks ago
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A Review of Those Magnetic Dungeon-Block Things (& some other tabletop toys) - So you may have noticed, on Facebook and wherever else, ads for Click-Blocks those little magnetic dungeon blocks... Somebody got them for me for my birth...2 weeks ago
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Malcolm’s Revenge - She's Got a Pad on Thirty-Fourth and Vine - In the olden days, just like now, too much trash filling our landfills. Written by Michael This post will be a little shorter; I only did some prelimina...2 weeks ago
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487 Minus One = Zero - My first agent was a gentleman named Barthold Fles. He was seventy-six; I was twenty-nine. One day over coffee Bart asked me, “How much is 427 minus one?...2 weeks ago
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Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors by David Griffin Brown and Michelle Barker - The title of FAKE QUERY LETTERS BY DEAD AUTHORS says it all. Imagine that long-dead authors are trying to query their books today, to modern publishers for...2 weeks ago
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BOBY NASH'S LIFE IN THE FASTER LANE AUTHOR TOUR ROLLS INTO FALL! - My Life In The Faster lane tour picks up speed this fall! Beginning this weekend, august 29th, I have an event or two every week from now into November. ...3 weeks ago
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Wizards of the Coast Announces More D&D for Everyone, but Not All of It’s for You - At Gen Con, Dungeons & Dragons franchise head Dan Ayoub joined various D&D team members and stars connected with D&D to reveal future plans for the game an...5 weeks ago
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Bandits of Fort Emridy: Turning classic modules into outlaw PC settings - Having lived several months on the outside of civil society, my perspective on running adventuring parties has changed somewhat. As two or three of you m...1 month ago
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The Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr, 1934 - *Series: *This is Dr. Gideon Fell #3 *About the author:* John Dickson Carr (1906 – 1977) was an American author, who also published using the pse...3 months ago
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Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...5 months ago
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Christ is Risen! - *Hades took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen. O Death, where...5 months ago
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Is Fairy Food Safe? - You are wondering far from home when you encounter a fairy which offers you a simple meal of bread and butter. Should you accept it? Many would say ...5 months ago
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Wheel…of…fortunes! - Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book (published by Dick & Fitzgerald, in 1862 and 1866) claims to reproduce a list of 100 fortunes associ...6 months ago
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Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...7 months ago
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2026 Character Creation Challenge – Lalibo the Red Mage - So I have gone back and forth on posting this character for the longest time. This is the infamous Lalibo from my home game built as a Red Mage custom clas...7 months ago
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide - Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am fascinated with 19th century Lon...9 months ago
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How Creative Writing Constraints Unlock Better Stories - Ever stared at a blank page, unsure where to start your story? You’re not alone. The possibilities feel endless—and that can be the problem. Here’s a sur...1 year ago
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Critical Role Hires Two Worst D&D Designers of All Time - The Critical Role / Daggerheart people have hired the two men most responsible for the least successful edition of D&D. What a lot of people have missed...1 year ago
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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....1 year ago
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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 year ago
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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 ...1 year ago
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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 year ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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Stand by for SAGA OF THE SWORDBREAKER: INVINCIBLE UNDER HEAVEN! - Li Ming was once a small-town boy with big dreams. Propelled by dreams of immortality, he entered the jianghu as a biaohang, intent on delivering justice...3 years ago
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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 →4 years ago
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The Worm Ouroboros - The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E. R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological tradi...4 years 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...5 years 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...6 years ago
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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...6 years 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...6 years 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...7 years ago
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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...7 years ago
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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...7 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.7 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 megadunge...7 years ago
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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...8 years ago
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Poetry For Fiction Writers, Part III: Anatomy Of The Sonnet - In the first part of this series I defined limits. In the second part I discussed meter. Now I am going to be examining the sonnet, because it is the workh...8 years ago
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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) ...8 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...9 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 wa...9 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...9 years ago
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A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign - 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...9 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...9 years ago
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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...9 years ago
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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 ...10 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...10 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...10 years ago
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Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e] - 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...11 years ago
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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...11 years ago
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(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...11 years ago
