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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Barking Alien's RPG CAMPAIGN TOUR CHALLENGE! Day 13 - *[image: Photo by Eugenia Sol: https://www.pexels.com/photo/freshly-baked-powdered-donuts-on-wooden-board-30922283/]* *Day 13 - Food & Drink* *Day 13-Wh...6 hours ago
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Flirting With the Homies - This Valentine's Day, if you want to add a little romance to your games, you should be armed with the knowledge of what goes into creating a satisfying rom...7 hours ago
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Barking Alien Challenge day14: More Eat? + 6 room dungeon project - It turns out I've written all I want about food in my setting So i say see my last 2 posts for how to eat like a local. ...7 hours ago
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Game 167: The Clue! (1994) - Introduction - Written by MenhirMike Today’s game is 1994’s *The Clue!*, a heist game with adventure game elements - and perfectly timed for the weekend where we’re tryi...9 hours ago
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A Rough Edges Rerun Review: Team Zero - Chuck Dixon - Some of the first comic books I remember reading are an issue of OUR ARMY AT WAR that I read at a cousin’s house and an issue of G.I. COMBAT I bought at...9 hours ago
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Things, Stuff, And Other Miscellaneous Debris - Hello, ye minds-that-are-terrible, wouldst thou like to live deliciously? Then please, sit back, relax your eyes until your gaze blurs, and let me psychica...1 day ago
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RIP, Jeffrey A. Carver - Science fiction author Jeffrey A. Carver (1949-2026) passed away on February 6. Locus Online is reporting that he had been in a coma after suffering severa...1 day ago
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In Many Ways the Greatest Self-Portrait I’ve Ever Taken - I think this photo captures many things, about me, about my cat, and about the relationship between the two of us. I don’t know how much more can be said. ...2 days ago
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Last Day to Back Mighty Sons of Hercules Volume 2! - The post title says it all! We’re just barely over our $6k goal, but I think we’ll succeed. If you haven’t backed, now is your chance! https://www.kickstar...2 days ago
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Resistance Strikes at the Beginning - Revise that: Resistance strikes BEFORE we begin. How many of us have collected “notes” and amassed “research” for that life-altering project we’ve always...2 days ago
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AM I THE CADILLAC LADY? - My last retail “day job” was managing a record store in suburban Chicago. This would have been late 1994 or early 1995, before I got the job at TSR in Sept...3 days ago
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Almost Every Argument About Indie Games For Almost 20 Years - *God They Loved Their Indie Games* I once got dinged by the moderators on a popular general RPG forum for saying only that Death is the New Pink--a post-...4 days ago
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Requests - My last entry is a biography of author *Clyde Irvine*. I wrote it in response to a request from last year. I would like everyone to know that I am availa...4 days ago
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Dark Designs IV: The Land of Beginning Again - *Re-exploring the Old Quarter in a new version.* Not much of an update today, I'm afraid. I've been extremely busy with work, and I spent most of ...4 days ago
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MEET CAPTAIN SCIENCE IN OZ COVER ARTIST JAS INGRAM - CAPTAIN LOVEHANDLES! - Captain Science in Oz is now on sale. Have you gotten yours yet? Look for links below. Who better to illustrate Captain Science's cover than another Ca...4 days 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...5 days ago
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The Murder of a Quack by George Bellairs, 1943 - cover image only - no review. *Series:* This is Inspector Thomas Littlejohn #5 *About the author:* George Bellairs is the pseudonym of Harold Blundel...1 week ago
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Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang - If you’re a writer, you don’t need anyone to explain rejection to you. It’s part of the job description. Query letters vanish into silence. Editors pass. R...1 week 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...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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Njörun’s Altar: Map26.01 - Njörun's Altar is a small temple facility hidden in the foothills. This unique temple is dedicated to the goddess of dreams, multiple rooms are said to be ...4 weeks ago
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Free GM (and Player) Resource: Groupfinder - [image: Free GM (and Player) Resource: Groupfinder] I got a Blogger message notification a couple days ago from the folks over at Groupfinder, asking if I...5 weeks 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...1 month 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...1 month ago
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Where I promote a polarizing publisher when I should be talking about my own books that will be coming out later in 2026 - Lamentations of the Flame Princess, if you haven’t heard, is at a bit of a critical junction. I was pretty sure the owner had taken leave of social media ...1 month 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...3 months ago
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Fr. Peter Heers and the Satanic Panic - A reader of my blog recently reached out to me. He shared a video of Fr. Peter Heers, an influential Orthodox Christian YouTuber, answering the question ...4 months ago
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where are psionics from? - A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psio...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...7 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...7 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...11 months ago
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How do fairies fly? + Do fairies have wings? - Perhaps some of the most common questions on the internet involve fairy flight, such as do fairies have wings? can fairies fly? how do fairies fly? et...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...5 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...7 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...8 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 ...9 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...10 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...10 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
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