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The Big Idea: Caitlin Rozakis - Excel spreadsheets, water-cooler talk, and demons are all things you’ll find in the corporate setting of author Caitlin Rozakis’s newest novel, Startup Hel...
15 hours ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Return to the Maze of the Blue Medusa - *Oh you all know the Maze of The Blue Medusa, right?* It's the dungeon where Andy Markham of the OSR Facebook Group said "It's definitely one of the best...
16 hours ago
Cirsova

Mighty Sons of Hercules Volume 2 is Out Now! - Mighty Sons of Hercules Volume 2 is out now on Amazon! If you missed the Kickstarter, now is your chance! If you backed, please leave it a review!
19 hours ago
Rough Edges

Review: American Treasure Hunters: The Hunt for Confederate Gold - I’ve written here before about how much I enjoyed the boy’s adventure series I read as a kid, especially Rick Brant, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift Jr., and ...
19 hours ago
The Other Side blog

The Witches of Appendix N: Gardner Fox - Gardner Francis Fox is an interesting member of the Appendix N canon. Fox is one of a small few I can find that has also published in the pages of Dragon...
20 hours ago
Steven Pressfield

A Zoom Call With Steve - One of the ways we promoted A MAN AT ARMS a few years ago was to offer a half-hour ZOOM call with me. Anyone who ordered 25 copies got a video “coaching ...
1 day ago
Frugal GM

"Free" GM Resource: Level 6/7 BX Adventure - [image: "Free" GM Resource: Level 7/8 BX Adventure] OK, I know that I usually post a *Fre*e GM Resource and technically this is not free, but Pay-What-You...
1 day ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

WRITE GOOD SENTENCES, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN - This time last year we read Writing After Dark by Bonnie Friedman for the GoodReads group read. I kept this photo of one page, and my marginalia argument w...
1 day ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Faerie Tale Edgelord Background Table Fables - *My players in my weekly club game * Burned a freakshow down and freed mutants in Greywater Then killed village leaders performing a cult ritual, leaving Bu...
1 day ago
Adventures Fantastic

Submission Accepted, Submission Withdrawn - Two summers ago, I participated in a series of workshops for an anthology project. There were six anthologies, all with a different genre or theme and a di...
2 days ago
Tellers of Weird Tales

The New Weird-Part Three - From December 2017, updated for 2026. A third quote from *Wikipedia* on "the New Weird": *Robin Anne Reid* notes that while the definition of the new weir...
3 days ago
The CRPG Addict

An Interview with Developer Charles Griffith - *The victory that led to this entry.* Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to exchange some emails with Charles Griffith, who contacted me a...
5 days ago
The Adventure Gamer

Game 151: Innocent Until Caught (1993) - Introduction - Written by Morpheus Kitami It's nice to get back to some normal, standard and uncontroversial adventure games after what in retrospect, was a year cons...
5 days ago
ALL PULP

NOWHERE ON EARTH - AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION Presents NOWHERE ON EARTH A Panterella Novel American tycoon, E.C. Endicott wants to develop hundred of acres of the Amazon jung...
6 days ago
Order of the Stick

1343: Gotta Bounce - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1343.html
1 week ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

SHADOWS BEHIND THE THRONES - The League & The Society
1 week ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 236 – Real Life Interruptions - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GC_236_Interupting-Life-final.mp3 Join Ang along with Josh and JT as they talk about how to navigate the c...
2 weeks ago
MEASURELESS EONS

The Lost Tomb (Part One) - Session #4
2 weeks ago
Writing Slices

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...
2 weeks ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

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...
3 weeks ago
The Mystillery blog

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...
3 weeks ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

White Box Dungeon Adventures is out! - Out now! Go grab your copy!https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/560236/white-box-dungeon-adventures
4 weeks ago
Blog of Holding

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...
4 weeks ago
Blood of Prokopius

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 weeks ago
Fairies and Fairy Tales

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 ...
1 month ago
Swords & Dorkery

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...
2 months ago
Mesmerized by sirens

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...
3 months ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

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
The Mule Abides

Addendum to the official policy of the Mule - [image: Hanging around with Benito.]
3 months ago
Jasper's Rantings

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
DMDavid

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
Metal Earth

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...
5 months ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

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...
6 months ago
THE STORY GRID

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...
11 months ago
The RPGPundit

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...
11 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

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
Dispatches From Kickassistan

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
Castelli & Chimere - Castles & Chimeras

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
Really Bad Eggs

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
Necropraxis

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
Places to Go, People to Be

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
Howard Andrew Jones

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
ChicagoWiz's Games

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
HeroPress

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
PulpRev

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
TENTACLII :: H.P. Lovecraft blog

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
Thoul's Paradise

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
Fantastic Maps

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
On An Underwood No. 5

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
Halfling's Luck

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
Gamers & Grognards

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
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
6 years ago
The Clash of Spear on Shield

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
Interesting Thing of the Day

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
Castle Triskelion

MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
7 years ago
The Dungeon Dozen

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
Dungeon of Signs

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
SFWA is a Terrorist Organization – mishaburnett

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
The Warlock's Home Brew

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
Elliott's Ale House

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
Semper Initiativus Unum

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
forum – Holly's Writing Classes Blog

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
Roleplaying Tips

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
Studio Denmark

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
Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old

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
百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai | Translated Japanese Ghost Stories and Tales of the Weird and the Strange

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
How To Think Sideways Blog

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
The Aspiring Lich

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
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
10 years ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

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
OneBlogShelf

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
No School Like The Old School

(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

Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

I cannot get this out of my head!

Posted by JasperAK at 09:14

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Tower of the Archmage

Stargrave Trashbash Fuel Tower part 2 - With the construction complete, it was time to get to painting! Because of the use of foam on it, I used my mod podge and black paint mix on all the foam...
21 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, August 1985 (week 4) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of *Crisis*! This week, I read the comics on sale on May 23, 1985. *Batman and the...
23 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Ornamental Women is Now Available! - After a long, long road to get to this point, I can now say that Ornamental Women, my first novel, is *available now at Amazon as a trade paperback and e...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

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Bugbears for Breakfast

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1 day ago
Leicester's Ramble

They Met at a Tavern 27: Hangin' With the Horde - Who's riding along with the wagon train tonight: - Rick: Bjorr, 1/2 orc Paladin - Dan: Kiara, elf Ras Godai - Seana: Zanegar, 1/2 orc Sea Wolf ...
2 days ago
A character for every game

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2 days ago
The Alexandrian

Chaos Lorebook: Words of the Plague - The pages of the first part of this volume are covered with an exhaustive detailing of disease – partly its symptoms, but always the methods for its spread...
2 days ago
GROGNARDIA

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3 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
4 days ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

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5 days ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

The Counterintuitive Way To Get Better At Anything - A while back, I posted about David Epstein’s new book, which breaks down how constraints can help us live better lives. Ironically, making things a littl...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Go Long - Eh. I really don't have time for this. But.... So, I was reading this post by Mr. Maliszewski the other day, as well as its associated links. All things co...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Lords of Chaos! Free League also producing a Stormbringer game? - Well this is a bit confusing. Just two days ago I mentioned that Goodman Games announced that they will be producing material based upon Michael Moorcock...
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Bat in the Attic

Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches has been released! - Last year, I launched the Kickstarter for Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches. Over 800 backers brought my projects to life, and now i...
2 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Moldvay Basic finally available in Print on Demand - Great news: The "B" of "*B/X*", the rulebook of *the 1981 D&D Basic Set*, commonly known as the *Moldvay Basic*, is finally available in print-on-demand...
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Save Vs. Dragon

House Rule: Sharing Potions - Something my players have tried (off and on again) is splitting potions—particularly if many in the party are in need of healing. In furtherance of my...
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Smoldering Wizard

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The Smoldering Wizard

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3 weeks ago
Aeons & Augauries

Still Alive... really. - Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices a...
1 month ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
2 months ago
Stonewerks's Blog

Learning to Draw Robots - I recently found a couple of artists on Facebook who have a similar style of drawing robots. David Diez and Warpsol. They both have a very loose line techn...
2 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...
3 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2025 Kickstarters - My Annual update on the Kickstarters I have signed up for. Note that for some, which I have marked (pdf), I have received the final pdf although the fin...
4 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

2025 Gaming Summary and 2026 Plans - I didn't blog at all in 2025 because I was too busy gaming. I was playing in two weekly 5e (2014) campaigns and running a weekly Imperium Maledictum camp...
4 months ago
Hack & Slash

On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
4 months ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Happy New Year! -
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Sword+1

I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
4 months ago
Jeff's Gameblog

jimbo update -
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The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
6 months ago
Hill Cantons

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Dreams in the Lich House

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8 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

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9 months ago
The Pulp Archivist

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10 months ago
In Places Deep

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1 year ago
Roll Stats

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1 year ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

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1 year ago
Carjacked Seraphim

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1 year ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

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2 years ago
Land of Nod

Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...
2 years ago
Destination Unknown

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3 years ago
Telecanter's Receding Rules

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4 years ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
4 years ago
You are (probably) doing it wrong: Hit points, literature, and D&D. – The Frisky Pagan

Everything is social III - If the previous posts dealt more with individuals and how we deal with the social media environment, here I will focus more on the groups themselves that h...
4 years ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
5 years ago
moltensulfur

Folkloric Villains - Folklore is full of villains and antagonists. By a striking coincidence, so are RPG campaigns! Here are four villains drawn from folklore: a Russian singer...
6 years ago
Henchman Abuse

session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...
6 years ago
The Grumpy Old Troll

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
6 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

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SWORD & SHIELD

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7 years ago
Saturday Night Sandbox

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7 years ago
Dungeons and Digressions

Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...
7 years ago
Mythmere's Blog

Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...
7 years ago
Greyhawk Grognard

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7 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

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7 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...
8 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
8 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
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The City of Iron

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Wielding a Bohemian Ear Spoon

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Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press. We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat room-shaped. That’s a h...
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[Patreon] Dwarven Stronghold + Bandits + Wizard Tower of Toerd + Alia(k) of Wizard Tower - Thanks to my Patrons, here is new content for you to enjoy! If you like stuff like this, you can support me to create more, and more, and more! *DWARVEN S...
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Blue Boxer Rebellion

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The Weirdlands of Xhuul

5E Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Conversion File Finished. - I finally got this done. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_fdDsNnLe_LRVRpb2ZTS2xGbzg Enjoy!
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The Sandbox of Doom

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The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

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The Moldy Vale

Keindahan Gunung Prau (Foto dan Catatan Perjalanan) - Keindahan Gunung Prau Keindahan Gunung Prau (Foto dan Catatan Perjalanan) - Gunung Prau atau Prahu memang pendek, kadang hanya dilirik sebelah mata oleh...
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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...
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