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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Back to the Very Very Basics - For reasons that are not important now, I have found myself in the possession of a lightly used but still somewhat recent Asus Chomebook, of the sort that ...10 hours ago
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Flashback Friday: Color Computer fun - I just picked up a new Color Computer hardware emulator to go along with my various software emulators. As seen here: - My Old School Gaming Project...20 hours ago
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The Clue! - Art of the Steal - Written by MenhirMike I am not going to lie, this session was a real struggle for a while. Not so much because of the game, which is still great despite ...20 hours ago
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Written by Bec Evans and Chris Smith - WRITTEN is a book about how to get to the writing desk and stay there, day after day. I’d argue that this skill is more important to develop than the writi...1 day ago
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Arena: Won! - *It sounds like Bethesda originally intended for the PC to be ported into later games.* I was somewhat bored with *Arena* by the end of the last en...1 day ago
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Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords Legacy Live on Kickstarter! - Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords Legacy is live now on Kickstarter! A century has passed since Galad Sarian brought down the Dream Lords and the decadent Zurjahn ...1 day ago
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Reactions and Reactionaries-Part One - From December 2017, updated for 2026. I have written these past few weeks about the so-called "New Weird," which may or may not have been new (in 2008) an...1 day ago
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Loa (2012 – 2026) - Loa was not just a good dog, but rather, the best dog. And I know that all dogs are good dogs, and all dogs are the best dogs; that’s just how dogs are. Bu...2 days ago
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BOBBY NASH INTERVIEW ON WRITE MY BEST BOOK! - In case you missed it yesterday, the replay of Bobby Nash's live discussion with Nicole Whisler is available on her Finish My Fantasy Novel: Write My ...2 days ago
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Allies, Followers, Contacts & Patrons 2 - Gaming more has been pretty good. I will do a review post soon. As ran 3x 5th ed games this week so ive been rereading ...2 days ago
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GM/Player Interactions, Part 1 - The tabletop role playing experience is a collaborative one. That’s a well-established fact. To properly collaborate, everyone at the table needs to be awa...2 days ago
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Promoting “The Arcadian” - Brothers and sisters, with your permission I’m gonna take the next few weeks in this space to promote THE ARCADIAN. But first, I have a question for you....3 days ago
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BOOKS ARE JUST AS BAD AND AS GOOD AS THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN - Let’s spend this week blasting apart another unsupported notion flying in and around the book or book-adjacent corners of social media. This time it’s the ...3 days ago
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Movies I've Missed Until Now: Elvis and Anabelle (2007) - Quirky little indie films often leave me cold, but sometimes they work and I enjoy them. ELVIS AND ANABELLE is definitely quirky. Max Minghella plays El...3 days ago
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Van Vogt Plus Gold - Todayis April 26, the birthday of A. E. Van Vogt (1912-200) and Horace L. Gold (1914-1996). Alfred Elton Van Vogt was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. H...5 days ago
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Trademark of a Traitor by Kathleeen Moore Knight, 1943 - dustjackets.com Nick Duane and Martha Cleves are Americans in Panama. They have been talking about getting married, but Martha feels that their opin...6 days ago
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You come upon a ruined hamlet, villagers all fled or slaughtered - It's the bowl. Someone might find it in any old shop, it is earthenware mixed from the bones of the last shaman of Nilotte. Whosoever eats from the bo...1 week ago
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Free GM Resource: Some 3d Printing Files from MojiBake - [image: Free GM Resource: Some 3d Printing Files from MojiBake] I was look at/thinking of some 3d printed coins for a future project and ended up on a Kic...1 week ago
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White Box Dungeon Adventures is out! - Out now! Go grab your copy!https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/560236/white-box-dungeon-adventures2 weeks 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...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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Fairy Food - 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 weeks 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...1 month 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...2 months ago
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Classic Railroad Adventuring: How to Roll Dice on a Train - After many days in the wilderness, hounded relentlessly by the vociferous demons of Blogger OCD, I came across a railroad track and managed to hop on a p...3 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...3 months ago
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RPG Design: How a Roleplaying Game like D&D Could Make Rounds Play Better - Since D&D dropped the declaration phase in favor of cyclic initiative, it has let one round blur into the next without any phases that trigger between roun...4 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...4 months ago
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...5 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...10 months 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...10 months ago
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Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "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...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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Articulations - 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...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 ...1 year 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...2 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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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...4 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...7 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...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 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
