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Elfmaids & Octopi

Oz Orc Con Games 12/9/26 part 3 Long Stairs - Long stairs is based on a gaming thread i came across bed ridden in abour 2012 where creators did some world-building to create a setting of ...
21 hours ago
Fantasy Author's Handbook

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...
1 day ago
Whatever

Today in “Places You Might Not Expect to Find Me” - Behold these history textbooks: World in Motion, Vols. 1 &2. They were sent to me today. Why, you may ask? Because I contributed to them both, by writing a...
2 days ago
terribleminds: chuck wendig

I Return From Tour, Weary Yet Invigorated - Home again, home again, jiggity jig! Two-and-a-half weeks out there on the road sharing the gospel good word of demons, demons everywhere with readers, and...
6 days ago
The CRPG Addict

Pagan: The Necromancer's Apprentice - *So is anyone going to come along and move him?* The Guardian has marooned the Avatar on the world of Pagan, which is dominated by four titans, each...
1 week ago
The Other Side blog

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
Tellers of Weird Tales

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
Rough Edges

Review: Bullets on the Wind - D.B. Newton - Winter is closing in, and the last thing Jim Bannister is looking for is trouble. He’s already on the run from the law, unjustly convicted of murder, an...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Mutants & Wizards Soldier and Survior - Keeping at Mutants & Wizards. Here's two more classes.
1 week ago
Adventures Fantastic

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...
1 week ago
Bernie the Flumph

Solo Star Borg (Play Report) - Following up on my earlier post (I Was Wrong About Solo RPGs) here is a play report of one of my Solo Star Borg sessions. This was the second session I pla...
1 week ago
Frugal GM

New Frugal GM "Product" over at DTRPG - [image: New Frugal GM "Product" over at DTRPG] Ok, I'll admit it's been a hot minute since I've made anything new....well anything I can post about anyway...
1 week ago
KEEP ROLLIN' SIXES

OAKHURST - The Halfling village of Oakhurst
2 weeks ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

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
Gnome Stew

You Are What You Eat: A Non-TTRPG Reading List - You cannot create without consuming. In particular, if you’re gonna make a good story, you need to experience good stories in return.
2 weeks ago
The Adventure Gamer

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
Steven Pressfield

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
Writing Slices

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
ALL PULP

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
Cirsova

Michael Tierney’s Wild Stars 9 & 10 Live On Kickstarter! - The Wild Stars saga enters its final arc! Cirsova Publishing is offering a two-fer this summer, collecting Wild Stars 9: Flight From Reckoning and releasin...
3 weeks ago
DMDavid

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
Order of the Stick

1348: Fading Odds - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1348.html
5 weeks ago
Cave of the Dice Chucker

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...
5 weeks ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Young Washington and 1753 - I saw Young Washington last weekend and absolutely loved it. If you know me, you know the Revolutionary War era is my favorite time period. I have always f...
2 months ago
MEASURELESS EONS

THE CHAOS ENGINE - Chaos Corruption Engine
2 months ago
The Mystillery blog

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
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 months 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 months ago
Fairies and Fairy Tales

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
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...
5 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...
7 months ago
The Mule Abides

Addendum to the official policy of the Mule - [image: Hanging around with Benito.]
7 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...
7 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...
9 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...
1 year 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...
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
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...
3 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
Necropraxis

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
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...
5 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...
7 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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

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A character for every game

The Bridge Gate Dungeons - Beneath the eastern gatehouses of the Old Bridge Gate are a small set of basements and mostly-flooded dungeons beneath that. The two cellar levels of the s...
13 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, December 1985 (week 3) - 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 September 19, 1985. *Warlord ...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

The Elves of Krevborna - Are you even playing a fantasy game if there aren't a million different kinds of elves running around? The current campaign has no less than three diffe...
1 day ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Dragonne #2 now available - The second issue of Dragonne is now available! BRW Games’ occasional journal of old-school gaming is back with two new features; To subscribe for free, and...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Game Day - Nope. Not football. *Futbol*. The school soccer season kicks off today...this will be my 4th season coaching my daughter's team, my tenth year coaching my ...
4 days ago
Save Vs. Dragon

From the BX DMG: The Dream Lands (from "The Planes of Existence" section) - If you have a copy of any of the following: - PX2 Extra: Planar Primer - RS1 Fang, Faith & Legerdemain - FF1 Fifty Fiends then you're familiar ...
5 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Development of the Majestic Fantasy RPG, Part 4 - Sandbox Campaigns often fail when players feel they lack information and that their choices are little better than throwing darts at a board in the dark....
6 days ago
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

Selesnya NPC Tactics - If the Azorius Senate appeals to the side of me that feels at home in Chicago and never wants to leave, the Selesnya Conclave appeals to the side of me t...
1 week ago
Tower of the Archmage

60 Years! - Today marks the 60th anniversary of Boldly Going! [image: LCARs screen with Star Trek 60 logo] I wish I felt that drive, that hope that Trek has embod...
1 week ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Encounter] The Giant’s Pocket - The Giant’s Pocket Scratching his chin, Jhelko contemplated the humongous leather bag before them.‘There are no tracks around it,’ said Niff the halfling.‘...
1 week ago
The Alexandrian

Chaos Lorebook: The Magi of Chaos - Let all who look upon them despair. For they are like unto perfection. For they are not of this world but of all worlds. Not of this life but of all lives....
2 weeks ago
Barking Up The Wrong Tree

How To Be Strategic: 5 Secrets From History’s Greatest General - We don’t think about it much, but a surprising amount of life involves strategy. Career goals. Negotiating salary and major purchases. And the near-const...
2 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A3, Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords - Dungeon Module A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords by Allen Hammack Hey, we finally get to fight these guys ... right? Right?? *Imagine you had to ...
2 weeks ago
Leicester's Ramble

They Met in a Tavern 34: Drom Misses Out on a Ziggurat - At the end of last session, we found our heroes in search of a pyramid. The heroes in question: - Dan: Kiara, elf Ras Godai - Rick: Bjorr, 1/2 orc...
2 weeks ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Tim's Outlanders: Tomb Raiders, Session 1 – Late June, 20 IC - *[The Outlanders return to Freegate and start all new shenanigans.]* *[This session took place sometime in 2005, I have no indication of when. We were p...
2 weeks ago
GROGNARDIA

Reconsiderations: H.P. Lovecraft - This being the 136th anniversary of the birth of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, I thought it the perfect opportunity to write another installment in my incre...
3 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Pete Fenlon on the Rise and Fall of Iron Crown Enterprises - Throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s, Iron Crown Enterprises was my favourite role-playing company. Of course, like most, I started out in this hobby pla...
5 weeks ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hasturi, City of Heroes - Hasturi is one of the most ancient cities in the region, second only to Pazzix. In its distant past, it was a small, walled city-state on the Isle of E...
1 month ago
Hill Cantons

The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance - Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are. For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of Marlinko, Kezmaro...
3 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

Let’s Talk About Treasure Types (A) - * This is a new series (possibly?) that I am giving a go. We'll see if we get all the way through the list!* In a game like BX, treasure is a key compon...
3 months 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 months 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...
4 months ago
Smoldering Wizard

Moldvay Basic D&D now Available in Print - Just a quick note that (finally) Moldvay Basic D&D is available in POD from DTRPG – previously, only the Cook/Marsh … Continue reading →
4 months ago
The Smoldering Wizard

Moldvay Basic D&D now Available in Print - Just a quick note that (finally) Moldvay Basic D&D is available in POD from DTRPG – previously, only the Cook/Marsh … Continue reading →
4 months 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...
5 months 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...
6 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...
6 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 months ago
Sword+1

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

jimbo update -
9 months ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
10 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
1 year ago
The Pulp Archivist

The Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues #11: Influences (Bad) - *NOTE: this article first appeared in the pages of SFWA Bulletin 151, Fall, 2001. Since this got disappeared in part because of SFWA politics and, in gre...
1 year ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
1 year ago
Roll Stats

C2: Ghost Tower of Inverness — Review - Hey, Stat Rollers! Bill with Roll Stats here, and today, I’m diving into one of the most iconic tournament modules ever published for Dungeons & Dragons....
1 year ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
1 year ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...
1 year ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural* ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the para...
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...
3 years ago
Destination Unknown

Legends of Gath #69; Two Skellies Under a Fig Tree - There's a lot to be said for finding a vine or fig tree to sit under with your guitar.
4 years ago
Telecanter's Receding Rules

Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...
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...
5 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...
5 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

Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
7 years ago
SWORD & SHIELD

FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HERE Frostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I p...
7 years ago
Saturday Night Sandbox

Helgacon 12 - Stay Frosty - The second game I was in for the Premium segment of this recent Helgacon was "Stay Frosty" run by Paul. This apparently was an adaptation of James Raggi...
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

Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...
7 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
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...
9 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
9 years ago
The City of Iron

Dolmenwood: d30 Encounter Tables - I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago. I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic which...
9 years ago
Wielding a Bohemian Ear Spoon

Cave Magic Web Comic 1-114: Shaman Returns to Chaos - Shaman returns from inspecting the cave paintings on spirit Island to find his cave lion has been injured, and Toktoe’s spear tip is still embedded under t...
9 years ago
Howling Tower

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...
9 years ago
Crypt Of Rabies

[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...
9 years ago
Blue Boxer Rebellion

Dungeonteller: Beyond the Core Books - FYI for all of you who snagged free copies of Dungeonteller Fantasy RPG during the "Happy Birthday '2' Dungeonteller" giveaway a few weeks back: add to you...
10 years ago
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!
10 years ago
Discourse and Dragons

Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...
10 years ago
People them with Monsters

Another d66 Item Chart - For TOON or whatever gonzo thing you're into... 11. Sword 12. Laser Gun 13. Can of Fart Spray 14. Net 15. Pet 16. Guitar 21. Candy Bar 22. Fire Extinguisher...
10 years ago
Carto Cacography

The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep -- Almost There - My Kickstarter campaign was a success! In the next 4-5 months, I will officially become an 'author' with a novel available on Amazon. And a few short mon...
10 years ago
The Sandbox of Doom

Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...
10 years ago
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
10 years ago
A Pack of Gnolls

Back in the Saddle! - This Pack of Gnolls has finally begun a new Dungeons and Dragons game! I was gifted a Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual for Christmas thi...
11 years ago
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...
11 years 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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