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Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Elmore (4/20/18): Eeeevillll! -
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Dr. Theda's Crypt

Wishing You a Great 420.... - Not a topic we normally mention here at the Crypt.... Something that can make you Smile (even w...
32 minutes ago
Halls of the Nephilim

R is for Red Dead Redemption - Red Dead Redemption is my favorite video game of all time. The story is engrossing, the characters are fantastic, and the game is just plain fun. I've beat...
1 hour ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Free RPG Day Double Feature - *If you are in Toronto on June 16th, come and join me!* *401 Games @ 518 Yonge Street Toronto!*
2 hours ago
Hall of the Mountain King

NPC Vallinen High Elf Fighter-Mage - Vallinen is the High Elven prince of the elves living in and around the Yeomanry. He is not the Elector who represents the elves among the council but is...
2 hours ago
HeroPress

Fleamarket Friday: The Brig's Lost In Time! - December 2011, and the Lethbridge-Stewart clan are gathering. The patriarch, Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart is not well. In fact, he’s dying. He’s determi...
2 hours ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Gorebark - Hello and welcome back for another edition of Frightful Fridays! In a departure for me, I've created something that isn't a plant that likes to kill all hu...
2 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

The Return of The Four - Well Four plus two more but the kids are interesting characters too. If there is Valeria then there will be DOOM who she looks upon as a surrogate Grandf...
3 hours ago
Quag Keep

Middle-Earth Role Playing - 2nd Edition: Collector's Edition - *From the web:* *"The Fantasy Role Playing Game set in J.R.R. Tolkien's World * *" Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards hi...
5 hours ago
Monster Island News

2001: A Spacey Odyssey’ 50th Anniversary Trailer - From The Playlist Director Stanley Kubrick proved himself as a master at tapping into human nature. He showcased some of our worst fears with the horror ...
5 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Superman #45 - I know that Action Comics #1000 came out this week and that is an historic issue that should be first in the review chute. But before I cover that book a...
7 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Friday Filler: 5-Minute Dungeon - The problem with Dungeons & Dragons is that it takes too long to play. *S1 Tomb of Horrors*? Too long to play. *I6 Ravenloft*? Too long to play. *Rappan A...
8 hours ago
The Savage AfterWorld

"Quill Noir" '30s Pulp Detective Setting for Quill RPG Now Available - Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player is one of my favorite stand-alone solo games, as this review I wrote will attest. Last year, I...
8 hours ago
MINION FACTORY

Who Ya Gonna Call? Pacc-Man! - GHOST BUSTIN' PACC-MAN GHOST BUSTIN' PACC-MAN Another "what if" scenario I was thinking about, basically replace the Ghostbuster stuff with a Pac-Man the...
8 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Negastar! - Jim "Flashback Blog" Shelley and I are working on a comic (and possibly a related rpg project) with artist Chris Malgrain. Here's a *DC Who's Who* style ...
8 hours ago
SciFiChick.com

Book Review: The Art of Ready Player One - The Art of Ready Player One by Gina McIntyre (Author),‎ Ernest Cline (Introduction),‎ Steven Spielberg (Foreword) Movie Synopsis: Our dystopian world lies ...
9 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Dead By Dawn 2018: Frankenstein (1931) - I'll be reviewing most, not all, of the films shown at Dead By Dawn this year. The reviews won't be in order. Because my schedule doesn't allow for that. D...
9 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Thunderwave for Rules Cyclopedia - A few of my favorite 5e spells don’t have old school analogs, so I decided to remedy that! The first in a short series of posts... -----------------------...
9 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

d100 Dungeon Stenches for Redbrick - Time to get funky and help dial up party paranoia to 11 with these 100 random dungeon stenches. Do I need to do a scratch and sniff card set on kickstarte...
9 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Dial H for Hoops - Dial H #5 has Manteau finally introduce herself as Roxie Hodder, a hippie chick who was part of a commune in the 60s and whose studies in telephony led he...
10 hours ago
OEF

Norse Bestiary Alphabet - It's been another one of those dry spells on this blog. I've been juggling several projects all at different stages. A couple of the OSR things I have in t...
11 hours ago
Fabled Lands

The price of magic - What’s it like to have to do a deal with a mafia boss? Most of us will luckily never find out, but from stories we know that the cost of doing business is...
12 hours ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *AVANCE DE VIOLENT LOVE **VIOLENT LOVE PREVIEW * Norma editorial publica la edición española de *Violent Love: Stay Dangerous*, titulado "Un amor pelig...
13 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

A Window Above: Who Are You - Song: "Who Are You" Writer: Pete Townshend Band: The Who Original Release: July 14, 1978 The Concert for New York City at Madison Square Garden was organize...
14 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

#ConManKen Plays "Let's Make a Deal!" - The above can be found in the comments section of the *KotDT: LAS Kickstarter*. #ConManKen wants to make a deal with the individual that had him served. ...
15 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

ARC #Review - Suitors and Sabotage by Cindy Anstey #YALit #Historical Fiction - *Series: Standalone* *Format: E-Book, 336 pages* *Release Date: April 17, 2018* *Publisher: Swoon Reads* *Source: Publisher* *Genre: Young Adult / Romance ...
15 hours ago
herding cats & burning soup

[memes] Romance Titles, Reviews & My Reads! - *I wanted to meme. And only had one weekly post to do it. So there's a whole lotta memeage happening in this post. You might have to scroll down a bit to ...
15 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

A Gathering of Megatalent at the Oddities Market - I would be remiss and cruel if I did not inform anyone near the Jersey City or NYC area that three very talented friends will be selling their impossibly ...
15 hours ago
deeply shallow

#AtoZChallenge: Rahsia - Secrets are a burden. Rahsia had known that since she was seven and her teacher had stared when she said her name was Rahsia binti Abdullah. The teacher as...
18 hours ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Preventing Camping in World of Warships? - In a recent YouTube video “the Mighty Jingles” described iun an aside how he and several others created an encounter map for World of Warships designed to ...
1 day ago
Points of Light

Appendix D: Design & Development - Melissa and I are a two-man operation: we do *everything* in house. While *Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book* featured a lot of original art (I fucking love th...
1 day ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Hit Man (1972) - The Blaxploitation genre these days often gets a bit more credit than it deserves, largely due to directors like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez p...
1 day ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

Your Grave is Ready (Again) - The good news is *Werewolf Wednesdays* are back. The bad news is they're unfortunately a day late. But the additional good news: it's a really hairy scary ...
1 day ago
Sword+1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
1 day ago
A Life Full of Adventure

[WFRP 2e] Renegade Princeps 63 - *My PC* Vaervenshyael - Female Elf Assassin *My companions* Tankred "Silver Bear" Tenneckermann - Human Artisan/Mercenary/Champion Wilhelm Hechland - Human ...
1 day ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Other OSR - Part of my readings on game design have got me thinking about other old school games besides D&D that could be used for designing old school games. Yes, th...
1 day ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Out of Hiding VBT - *Blurb:* Charles Dampor was supposed to be a blessing, but instead turned out to be a curse. A family torn by deception and greed now saw Emily for what sh...
1 day ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Marvel Legends Black Widow & Motorcycle - I may have had a harder time shelling out the retail price for this new Marvel Legends Black Widow & Motorcycle set, but after an Amazon Warehouse Deal d...
1 day ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Checking out THUNDAR...No, Not THUNDARR, but THUNDAR. - I recently purchased a book that some claim was an inspiration for the THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN cartoon. I wanted to judge for myself if this was true and to...
1 day ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Adventure Writing - I've held onto fragments of *Adventure Writing Like A Fucking Boss II* for months. I'm almost ready to put the finishing touches on, but want to hear fro...
1 day ago
Asshat Paladins

Actual Play: Firefly "Old War Horses" General Samuel Zook - General Samuel Kosciusko Zook Attributes: Mental: d8_______________Physical: d8______________Social: d8 Skills: Craft d4___________________Drive d4______...
1 day ago
False Machine

Fragments of the Great Inflorescence - Evlyn has sent out a bunch of these game-fragment objects What are we to make of this? There are three elements. - The Guilds themselves. - The Hexes. -...
1 day ago
Realms of Chirak

Film Review: Rampage (good family fun!) - Rampage is a classic Summer film, released perhaps a bit early in anticipation of the encroaching box office hell that will be a month of Avengers follow...
1 day ago
A character for every game

Return to Quasqueton – Map 2 of 3 - My revised map of the main level of Quasqueton (from the classic B1 module “In Search of the Unknown) just … Continue reading →
2 days ago
The Warrior Muse

Alright, All Right, Alrite... - It feels like forever since I did a regular blog post, so it's time to post something with some sort of value, eh? Before jumping into the post, *Beneath t...
2 days ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

Savaging Pendragon - So, ever since I've read The Great Pendragon Campaign, I've wanted to run it. However, as many of you know, my group plays a LOT of Savage Worlds, with d...
2 days ago
Wild West History

Rocky Mountain Locust: The Plague of the Pioneers - *Photo by Darla Sue Dollman. I believe this was also a locust.* "No matter what they came to, they went right on. They were crawling up one side of the ba...
2 days ago
Gamers & Grognards

Original Edition Role Playing Appreciation Day Festivities & Participation - *Original Edition Role Playing Appreciation Day is Saturday May 5th! That's just over two weeks away! The announcement was initially made **here.* *This y...
2 days ago
I Fly By Night

Recent Publications - Since 2012 (From Wikipedia) : In Harm's Way: Pigboats was released on July 27, 2012. This game is about American World War II submarine sailors in the Pac...
3 days ago
The Troll Dens

Of Trondheim and her People - A fierce people, the men of Trondheim were merciless and fought for the love of battle and the plunder that was their reward. ~ The World of Aihrde
3 days ago
Stargazer's World

Blogs vs. Social Media–From a RPG Blogger’s Perspective - Since I started this blog almost 10 years ago, a lot of fellow RPG bloggers have stopped blogging or moved their activities from their blog to social media...
3 days ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

While criticizing the historical documentary BILL and TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE... -
3 days ago
The Spirits of Eden

Election Year (73.4) - This scene contains racism, graphic violence and death. 44th of the Postill’s Dew, 2031 D.C.E Federation of Northern States, Republic of Rhinea — Eiserne F...
4 days ago
Cross Planes

Cross Planes Drifter: Atomic Knight for Apes Victorious and Labyrinth Lord - *"Following the catastrophic Hydrogen War of 1986, a petty tyrant named the Black Baron ruled a small section of the Midwestern United States with an iron ...
4 days ago
Krell Laboratories

Death and the Maiden - [image: Daniela Vega in A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantastica)] Somewhere in the middle of *A Fantastic Woman* (2017, directed by Sebastián Lelio), I beg...
5 days ago
Greyhawk Grognard

On Divination - In doing my analyses of various early adventure modules, it strikes me that some of the things that players are expected to figure out are pretty damn imp...
5 days ago
The OSR Library

Freddy Kreuger for Survival Horror Games. OSR - One of the most iconic supernatural serial killers in cinema. Here's his story. *Freddy Kreuger* Dream Demon Hd 5 Hp 33 Ac 12 Hit +5 Save 11 *Dream Master...
5 days ago
GRUBB STREET

Meanwhile, in 1923 - What I did today: That's a 1923 Buick four-door 23-35 touring car. More later,
5 days ago
19th Level

Dan’s Top 19 RPGs - #7 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - This was one of the tougher games for me to place. For a long time, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was the main game I played. I’m going to commit some old...
5 days ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

SW2020 Session 9: Galactic Hustle - Picking up from last session, the party jumped from Yoberra to Rocrin system. They were quickly hailed by a passing space-yacht. After being harassed by a...
5 days ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Clarifying Classifying CLEF and Other Games - Saw some discussion elsewhere about the RPG classification post and thought I’d clear up some things. *First*: There’s a difference in intent between tha...
5 days ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

The Return of Tome of Tomes - I just realized it's been way, way, waaaay too long (as in over two years!) since I last posted some Tome of Tomes stuff. That's just crazy. Below are 8 to...
6 days ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Eldrad's Review of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition - Well I finally started running 5E and I am so far, very impressed. Yeah I know, I am late to the party but I was trying to push my own Level Based D20 Fan...
6 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

A Lyonesse FRPG is coming! - Exciting news from the good people at the Design Mechanism: they will be producing a freestanding RPG (using the *Mythras* rules) based on Jack Vance’s c...
6 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Life in the Unremembered City - The Unremembered City bears that name because, in all of the worlds inside the crocodile's mind, it is the only place which is made not of the stuff of mem...
6 days ago
Quest for Fun!

Consultants and Preparation (Tradecraft) - *"A consultant is someone you ask the time and they take your watch as payment."* I learned this saying as a teenager and found it amusing, but there's a ...
1 week ago
My Baffling Brain

Celebrate the Small Things - April 12th - Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop hosted by Lexa Cain. The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week, no matter how sm...
1 week ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[Labyrinth Lord] Alternate Thieves Skill System - Sifting through some old disks, I found an old alternate Thieves Skill system I worked on some years ago. It combined elements from *Labyrinth Lord, 2E AD&...
1 week ago
Age of Ravens

Archival Footage: Conspiracy X Scenario Sketch - Several years ago I ran demo scenarios for Eden Studios games at conVentions. I put together my own stories for *Armageddon*, *All Flesh Must Be Eaten*,* ...
1 week ago
Rather Gamey

The Animated Spellbook - Ooo - first post of the year. Anyway, You might not have heard, but there is a guy making cartoon tutorials for D&D 5e. He goes by Zee Bashew over on Twi...
1 week ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

- This is a wee tryout to see if my old blog is again 'working' If so ...yippeeekiy o kemo thingy ding... these are recent ... clip from "Bessie and her Bar...
1 week ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Hungry Ghosts + Frostbitten & Mutilated Unboxing - click to enlarge Some hungry ghosts are pathetic, some are scornful, all feel they are owed something—by their living descendants or by others who failed t...
1 week ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

"Free" Version of Dungeon Delving Undying Light Now Available - The Pay-What-You-Want (aka Free) version the *Dungeon Delving Undying Light* is finally available! *Dungeon Delving Undying Light *is a trimmed down and s...
1 week ago
Beholder Pie

Here Be Dungeons 15: A District of Mulmaster - Click to make big The district of Mulmaster that is locked down following the assassination of a senior member of the Brotherhood of the Cloak (final map f...
1 week ago
The Book of Worlds

The Orchid Club - Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its own v...
1 week ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

The Mighty Crusaders - I've really let my writing slow down, so I thought I'd expound upon some things that I like that are on my mind lately. One of these is *The Mighty Crusad...
1 week ago
Written In Blood

Spilling Ink: Smash The Patriarchy with Julia Lynn Rubin - Smash the patriarchy and write what needs to be written. Join us as we talk to author Julia Lynn Rubin about her debut novel and her publishing journe...
1 week ago
Thoul's Paradise

Not Quite Gamma World - *Art by Martin King* In 1987, TSR published the board game GAMMARAUDERS, “a*wahoo brawl of world conquest* and spiffy weapons with fins!” Inspired in part...
1 week ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Alternate Traveller Campaign Frames: Noble House - I've been putting this one off mostly because I really wanted to do the subject justice. (Edit to add: Not that I think that I have, but I have been letti...
1 week ago
Mesmerized by sirens

Bifrost: individual abilities & other stuff - I am beginning to post the content of Bifrost, volume 1, in sequence. Bif1 - Cover, Acks, Intro, Setting Up Game Bif2 - Game Content, Seq Actions, Choice...
1 week ago
The Disoriented Ranger

How about a Style Guide to write adventures? - *I have a couple of things in the air right now and the good news is, it's more and more gaming related work than work related work. Some of it hinted, som...
1 week ago
Lasgunpacker

Space Façade - So, Shapeways is a service which allows users to upload models, and then get them printed from a variety of materials. I have used it before, to rather go...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

Details on Faeries for the Majestic Wilderlands - Two years ago I made a post how I got a handle on how faeries work in my setting. The basic issue is that there are multiple interpretations of why faeries...
2 weeks ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

Review & OSR Commentary On RPGPundit Presents #26: Mutant Hordes of the Last Sun For Your Old School Wasteland Campaigns - So today it wad great anticipation that I grabbed a copy of Rpg Pundit Presents 26 Mutant Hordes of the Last Sun. I asked for this copy of what looks li...
2 weeks ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

The A to Z's of Yard Therapy - C is for Creativity - C is for Creativity.... now I'm intimidated. Being creative when I'm writing... easy. Being creative in my garden... cringe worthy. I love pinning on pin...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Small Details: Stairs - Stairs are a simple form of transportation. In dungeons, stairs often mean a transition. In many dungeons the deeper you go the more terrifying and dead...
2 weeks ago
Erotiterrorist

Fiction: When Avians Cry - Explorer’s Log: I have completed my forty day journey to the star system designed as “Queen’s Lingering Bite” by Royal Astronomers. Of the fifteen planets ...
2 weeks ago
Kidbits

IWSG and Wacky Life Weather In Sight - It's time for another meeting of The Insecure Writer's Support Group, otherwise known as. . . *IWSG!!!* This is a place where writers come with all the...
2 weeks ago
Trollsmyth

Visual Summary of Hesep - This looks like a fun idea. So here we go... From my current weekly campaign, I'm picking the city-state of Hesep. It's location, where a major river meets...
2 weeks ago
Dyvers

GM Toolbox: Things to Do from January 24, 2005 - Shortly before I was going to run my first game back in the early months of 2005 I was sitting in the Den working on a list of things that I felt like I ha...
2 weeks ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Aeron Alfrey - Demon Studies, 2018 - [image: Demons 1 - 25] [image: Demons 26 - 50] Here's a selection from 50 ink and brush studies of demon heads now available to purchase, 25 dollar...
2 weeks ago
Forgotten Runes

A generic outline for roleplaying game rules - I am trying to get beneath the roleplaying games I have to the underlying bones of the core the so-called "ur-game". The hope is to generate a framework fo...
2 weeks ago
destination unknown

The Wasteland of Gath: Ambush! (Rowan); Labyrinth Lord - After stocking up on grenades at Turtleneck Joe's (see The Tolling of the Great Black Bell no. 31), Rowan (played by +Stuart Robertson), Kerg and Bedlowe h...
3 weeks ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Mera #2 - *Mera #2* *"The King and the Queen"* *Cover by Nicola Scott and Romulo Fajardo Jr.* *Artist: Lan Medina* *Inks: Norm Rapmund* *Colors: Veronica Gandini*
3 weeks ago
Ellen Dugan's Blog of Witchery

Midnight Gardens is available for pre-order! - Good Morning! The first book in my newest series is available for pre-order. Here is a description of the new series *Daughters Of Midnight*: Meet Drusilla...
3 weeks ago
Spellmaking

Corvus the Mighty reviewed - It's great when a reader or a reviewer really gets what you were trying to do with a story. The review of fantasy short *Corvus the Mighty* over at Quick S...
3 weeks ago
Minding Spot

Shattered Memories (The Mirror Sisters #3) by V.C. Andrews - *In this finale of the darkly gothic Mirror Sisters trilogy, one twin fears her reunion with sister dearest—from the legendary New York Times bestselling ...
3 weeks ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Select Review Links for Dave Arneson's True Genius - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34875598-dave-arneson-s-true-genius Goodreads, average 3.87 of 5 https://vimeo.com/249226380 Christian Madsen video...
3 weeks ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

"P" is for "Prongalope" - *Prongalope* *No. Enc.:* 1d6+2 (2d10) *Alignment:* Neutral *Movement:* 210' (70') *Armor Class:* 5 *Hit Dice:* 5 *Attacks:* 2 or 1 (x2 weapon, or 1 go...
3 weeks ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Part 2 of My Interview with the RPGPUNDIT - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Part 2 of My Interview with the RPGPUNDIT: LINK: http://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2018/03/an-interview-with-rob-kuntz-...
3 weeks ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Knutpunkt 2018, a Report - I spent last week at Knutpunkt 2018, the newest incarnation of the Nordic larp conference, this year in Sweden. The Week in Sweden pre-event programming ha...
3 weeks ago
World of Ortix

Perilous Frontiers! - Clicky! So, I decided what to do next. Perilous Ages in Outer Space! What you can expect from it: - Percentile, skills-lite mechanics; - Gritty crit...
4 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

Secrets of the Not-Dalluhn Manuscript - The Beyond This Point be Dragons manuscript has had an interesting history in the OSR community, a history marked both with fascinating revelations and, at...
4 weeks ago
A Storybook World

Final Book in the Haunted High Series by Cheree Alsop - GIVE AWAY - A dangerous force is about to attack Haunted High. This time, everyone at the school is needed to defend it. But Finn has other problems that start with...
4 weeks ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

Warning: Post May Offend Some Readers - I'm not kidding. This is the post wherein I will likely hurt some feelings. I may even loose some of the readership I have left. I hope not, but there'...
4 weeks ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Let's Talk Hit Points - Delta's recent post on natural healing through the editions prompted me to look back through my blog for some post or other on the subject, because I was...
4 weeks ago
EXONAUTS!

Bedtime Battles: Part Two - In my *previous post*, I mentioned that my daughter and I have been playing Star Wars or super hero themed skirmish games. These are very rules light, d20 ...
4 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Why I Haven't Played Call of Cthulhu in Three Years... - ... or,*There's Something Fishy on Gilbert Island*. Seriously - up until just this past Saturday, my players and I haven't played one of my all-time favori...
4 weeks ago
The Happy Undertaker

T-shirts and Buttons - 3 T-shirt designs are now available (tho Ghostcat is a temp image they won't be done for a couple of days) Hight quality 3, 4 and 5 color screen printed s...
4 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Moat Monsters - Moat Monsters A Sourcebook for OGL RPGs (Labyrinth Lord) I don't do many reviews, but felt compelled to say a few words about this little gem. In all tran...
4 weeks ago
the musings of huginn and muninn

Early morning thinky thoughts - I woke up to the sunrise this morning, which was delightful. I laid in bed for a bit, my cat curled up against me, purring, and watched it before I dragged...
4 weeks ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

DC's Art of Darwyn Cooke softcover available now - DC released "The Art of Darwyn Cooke" collecting stories and artwork dating back to 1985's TALENT SHOWCASE #19, and stories from BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS, ...
4 weeks ago
Armchair Gamer

On the Radar: Jovian Chronicles in a Bundle of Holding - And, as if in answer to my plan of ships in the same fleet having different tech levels, there's a Bundle of Holding for Jovian Chronicles! The bundle cov...
5 weeks ago
Oubliette Magazine

FOSSIL B/X Character Generation Booklet - FOSSIL (Fantasy Old School System Index Lite) is a bare bones OSR system that is roughly compatible with B/X rules and retroclones (the rules have parity w...
5 weeks ago
Redwald RPG

Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...
5 weeks ago
STUFFER SHACK

Free Number Tokens! - Want some free Number Tokens??? Because they’re awesome… You don’t even have to buy anything – you can simply order a set of 1-10 Number Tokens… for free!...
5 weeks ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Gary Con X Video - Hi all. Here's a video of a few things I was able to catch while at Gary Con. Some of this stuff is a bit blurry. Sorry -- old camera and all. Hope you en...
5 weeks ago
Rended Press

Things People Have Said About Stuff I Created - I was updating my C.V. and decided to gather these reviews/comments on some of my creations in one place. I've pasted them here (unedited with the original...
5 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

20 Questions for Lost Atlantis - 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? Your Cleric worships a pantheon of gods, although he might be more dedicated to one, such as the ...
1 month ago
Stocking The Dungeon

Gary Con 2018; For Whom the Bell Trolls - It was about this time last year that a friend and I sent the self proclaimed leader of the OSR free world into a full on tears and hair pulling schoolgirl...
1 month ago
The Wasted Lands

Social Media Engagement and Unprofessional Rage - A discussion recently went up on Facebook wherein a certain industry pro very insultingly slagged off a certain kind of gaming. This particular individual ...
1 month ago
All Games Considered

AGC 219 March 2nd 2018 (Eddie Money Was Right) (48:44) - With Mark Kinney and Carol. Updates. Why you should keep following our affiliate links: hints of future plans. Gaming you can't go back to. Bits of news. ...
1 month ago
Gaming Ronin

Initiative in Index card RPG. - I've had some time to think about some of the workings of ICRPG. Being a tinkerer at heart I can't help but want to come up with material for it. I'm als...
1 month ago
Tower of Zenopus

Sigmar Monday - Getting Started - My approach in getting into Age of Sigmar at this point is to go back to the beginning and pick up things in the order they came out. This should help me...
1 month ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Wandering - by Euphoria of ApeTwo weeks of business travel followed by picking up a cold have me beaten down currently but still tinkering away. I'd say the downside...
1 month ago
Dynasty Zero

Open Basic: Retro d100 Roleplaying - [image: Image result for d10 dice]Has anybody seen this? It's a free game by James Hargrove of Mystic Beard Games. It's a very light, boiled down version...
1 month ago
The Grand Tapestry

Another View of 'What is Urutsk?' - Urutsk is this: Everything looks Sci-Fi on the surface, but the ACClarke adage, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.', is...
2 months ago
The Groovy Age of Horror

Zordon N. 37: I Divoratori Del Cosmo (The Devourers Of Cosmos), published in September, 1976 - So, Zordon and Jane have time-traveled to ancient Egypt to find some answers about the Sphinx they found on the South Pole. They get separated, though, a...
2 months ago
Little Gothic Horrors

The 7th Annual Vampire’s Day Soiree - It’s the 7th annual Vampire’s Day Soiree hosted by my lovely pal Holly of Holly's Horrorland blog! This year I'm continuing my tradition of sharing a few...
2 months ago
Steve's Gamer Blog

Chronicles of the Realm - Chronicles of the Realm is a live action role-playing game that I helped design. The main idea behind the design is the same as if you were to join a gam...
2 months ago
Held Action

Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Clue: The Great Museum Caper is a game from my nerdly youth that, sadly, I never got to play truly.[1] I admired its place of honor on a shelf for years, a...
2 months ago
Troll and Flame

The sounds of dungeon exploration - Wear headphones to appreciate the Left / Right ear locational awareness. Close your eyes and imagine you're holding a torch and shield or clutching a hol...
2 months ago
Aggregate Cognizance

Facets in Retrolock - One of the Fate Core-like concepts that I really didn't want to part with was Aspects. Having a free form descriptor or tag makes characters a lot more fle...
2 months ago
The Inferno Music Vault

Uleiul de cocos bio folosit atat in alimentatie cat si in cosmetica - Unul dintre cele mai bune ingrediente pe care le puteti folosi atat in alimentatie, cat si in cosmetica, este uleiul de cocos bio. Cu nenumarate beneficii,...
2 months ago
Under Siege

Arcana Creations 2018: The Year Ahead - A bunch of things happened in 2017 and more is planned for 2018! First off, lets talk about the shows. Not everything has been confirmed yet but we thi...
2 months ago
Genius Loci

Deviant Fridays - Miguel Mercado - Deviant Fridays returns! This week is Miguel Mercado a character illustrator from the Philippines who does work that sometimes looks like Rockwell taking...
2 months ago
Kaijuville

Happy 112th Birthday, Robert E. Howard - Today marks the 112th anniversary of the birth of pulp writer Robert E. Howard. It has become a tradition on this date for Howard fans to read a favorite s...
2 months ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Great Red Dragon of Mystara Limited Edition Miniature - This Ral Partha miniature was a limited edition production with 5300 copies made. The miniature was fashioned after the Great Red Dragon painting by Jeff ...
3 months ago
In Places Deep

5e Froglings - Froglings are frogs that walk and speak in the manner of men. They are short, only about 4' in height on average, and range between thin and stout. Fro...
3 months ago
The House of Little Fears

Instructional Character Sheet! - Big thanks to brother-in-name Jason Alexander for crafting this instructional character sheet for his players at this Saturday’s MidWinter Con–and for agre...
3 months ago
Mythmere's Blog

Growing the OSR if you want: part 2 - So, based on the various realizations I talked about in the last post, what are the things I'm trying to do in 2018 that will boost the signal of the OSR a...
3 months ago
Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog

200 - Mary Shelley’s *Frankenstein; or, the Modern **Prometheus* was first published on January 1, 1818. 200 years ago today. Posting here resumes shortly. On...
3 months ago
[Retro-Z]

Out Goes 2017... In comes 2018! - *Life has handed me a bad year of 2017... Nothing at the moment can bring me back into things I love like... film, books and music. Many of you might hav...
3 months ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

March'18 Covers -
3 months ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

12 for 12 #12 - Whoo-hoo! The finish line! And I only had to play catch-up once. Name an RPG, setting, or adventure you haven’t run or played before, but really want to ...
3 months ago
Dorkland!

My Top 10 Songs For 2017 - Based on my listening habits from the last year, I made up a list of the top ten songs that I listened to the most from 2017. I don't know if I can really ...
3 months ago
The Lands of Ara

Harbinger - Since I last checked in I have played some *Labyrinth Lord* off and on, but not for quite awhile, and my online group has basically fizzled out -- the cam...
4 months ago
The Whole Wide World

Diabetes-Friendly Sugar Free Eggnog - I'm back again, folks, with another diabeetus-friendly recipe for the holidays. If you're like me, you love eggnog, and it was a kick in the gut the first ...
4 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

Classic Traveller -- More Solo Campaigning, part 2 - This is the second in a series. The first is here. For my solo campaign, I decided that I wanted to try out a bunch of Gamelords' Traveller books. So first...
4 months ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Stressed Spell Casting - I am working on houserules for my Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerors of Hyperborea campaign this morning. The main topic of the moment is variation from s...
4 months ago
My Old-School Renaissance

+NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/08/help-us-decipher-this-inscription.html That's a lot of Xs for the beginning of words in any European languag...
4 months ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

Buzzfeed is Stealing Content - Wow. Has it been THIS long since I posted here? That is wrong. Anyway. YouTube Atheist and Skeptic +JaclynGlenn has been a fave of mine for years. Well s...
5 months ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News - Revival Edition - *Some Recent New Releases* *Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival* from Kabuki Kaiser. Author - P. Crespy. Artist - Evlyn M. Available in PDF for $4.99...
5 months ago
Servitor Ludi

Tumbling into New Media - The blog's been a bit quiet lately... not so much because of lack of things to say, but mostly just work & life doing their thing. I am mulling over long-...
5 months ago
The City of Iron

Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to http://necrotic-gnome-productions.blogspot.de/. This blog will remain indefinitely...
5 months ago
Robert Atkins Art

Daily Sketch - Thanos... - Here's a Thanos commission I was able to finish up this last fall that had been a long time coming. With all the Infinity War movies coming up, it's seems ...
5 months ago
Lawful Indifferent

Fantastic Maps: How To Design A Town - Absolutely love this style of design, and love how concise the steps are. Always remember that pre-Industrial Revolution people are living on the land and ...
5 months ago
Bobert the Hoosier expatriate

Part of the whole - In Ursula Le Guin's novel, *The Left Hand of Darkness*, the people of the planet Gethen spend twenty-four out of the twenty-six days in their month in an...
6 months ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Now Available] Dragonborn for Labyrinth Lord - DRAGONBORN By James Mishler & Jodi Moran-Mishler This work contains two forms of the dragonborn race: First, a racial class for use with Labyrinth Lord...
6 months ago
Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

Mr. Steelfist, CPA for Light City - Here's a character for Light City, a fun superhero hack of the excellent Swords & Wizardry Light. Having fun playing around with the system a bit. *Mr. Ste...
6 months ago
Wishful Gaming

Stepping back in time - So, as many of you may know, Gamehole Con V is coming up. It was iffy about whether I was going to be able to make it this year. Money is tight, and real l...
6 months ago
Fantasy Heartbreaker

Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter is live! - The Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter has launched! Head on over to the campaign page to see more, including a full-text preview! Read More ...
6 months ago
Justice League Detroit

2010 Despero versus the Justice League Personal Sketch Card by Don Hillsman II - Click To Enlarge Don Hillsman paints an as of yet undocumented battle involving Gypsy, Metamorpho, Captain Atom and Martian Manhunter against JLI-period D...
7 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Illyria Game Two - Against the Cult of the Reptile God! - Illyria Game Two picked up back in the waterside city of Fraus, on the northwest of Lake Laconic. The players met Nicodemus, the thieves' guild master, a...
7 months ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Full Moon Streaming: PUPPET MASTER: AXIS TERMINATION - *11th entry in Full Moon's killer puppet franchise will premiere in three installments exclusively on Amazon starting THIS FRIDAY!Buckle in for Puppet...
7 months ago
Fantasy Ink

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 1950's - Here's some classic 1950's covers for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. They are all for sale in my eBay store. February 1952, cover art by Che...
7 months ago
Big Ball of No Fun

RPGaDAY #31 - Predictions for the next year - What do you anticipate most for gaming in 2018? I'm going to preface this post by saying that I am a cynic (and by extension a pessimist). Here are some pr...
7 months ago
The Cat's Meat Shop

Victorian Monkey Tennis? - Notes written by a manager of the Alexandra Palace, c.1880? (Haringey Museum AP1/17) *These notes appear in the archives without an author, but display a s...
7 months ago
Toyriffic

Imaginext Darkseid, Parademon and Blind Bag Series 2 Kingdom Come Superman - A recent trip to Wal-Mart yielded the Imaginext Darkseid/Parademon two pack and the DC Blind Bag Series 2 Kingdom Come Superman! This new Darkseid release...
7 months ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

RPGaDay 2017 #26 Which RPG provides the most useful resources? - It may sound funny, but the books that I find the most useful are for games I have never run. The Dream Park RPG featured a plotting method called the Beat...
7 months ago
THE LAND OF NOD

The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...
7 months ago
Beyond the Black Gate

B/X: Ability score adjustments - This is kind of an interesting idiosyncrasy of B/X. Its also one of those odd rules that seemed to make it's way informally into a lot of the 1E campaig...
8 months ago
Teach Game Design

A messy failure? - In early 2014 I was recruited to offer online courses at LFE.Com. Not seeing any advantage over my existing platforms, I declined. But I still get some of ...
8 months ago
space1970

PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1978) Behind-The-Scenes Effects Gallery - Animator Jim AupperleI'm very fond of the 1978 sci-fi film *Planet Of Dinosaurs*. Sure, it's cheap as hell and the script is banal and the performances by...
8 months 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 was...
8 months ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

Agents of D.O.F.I.E. - Now and then, I make notes for some game-thing-or-other, then forget about it. Then I'll find it again, and laugh at my own jokes, then forget about it aga...
9 months ago
Close Encounters with the Night Kind

FREEE!! For the First Time Ever!!!! - For the first time ever, Salem Archer's MOONDANCE TRILOGY will be completely FREE on Amazon. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/Salem-Archer/e/B0...
9 months ago
House of Self-Indulgence

Yum-Yum's Transition A Go-Go! (Me, 2017) - WARNING: This is not a movie review - Hey, cult movie fans, loyal readers, and miscellaneous weirdos and perverts. What's happening? I hope you're all doing well. It just dawned on me tha...
9 months ago
LotFP: RPG

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
10 months ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Drawing Practice (Vaults of Vyzor) - +Jeff Rients recently ran some D&D for +Mike Davison , +Zak Sabbath , and me. A play report can be found here on Jeff's Gameblog. I had so much fu...
10 months ago
A Return to the Keep

Gaming With The Little Guy - Well, my blogging fell by the wayside a few years ago. As evidenced by the lack of activity here and on my other blog, time wasn't available for me to wri...
10 months ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
10 months ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

FREE Module KK2 from NTRPG CON 2017 - - DOWNLOAD HERE - That's me and Steve Robertson at the Knights-n-Knaves Alehouse social at NTRPG CON last week. (Steve is the proprietor of VANQUISHING L...
10 months ago
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things

2017 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge - Ok, the year is almost half over, and I just discovered this reading challenge. It's still not too late, as the Challenge only requires one book, fiction...
10 months ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

An Experiment In Thuggery - At GaryCon IX this past March, I had the pleasure of meeting +Paolo Greco. Paolo and I hadn't really interacted before this, other than a passing admission...
10 months ago
Hill Cantons

Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas - Teetering on the edge of a new, start-now, well-paying political job (i.e. demanding AF) I get one last reprieve of gainful unemployment this weekend: Nor...
10 months ago
Fustians so Sublimely Bad...

- I love that he looks exactly like would would think a young Patton Oswalt looks like.
11 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

One Page Dungeon 2017: Worm Scramblers of the Deep Dire Door - No matter how inactive my blog, I have been trying to come up with something for the One Page contest every year since 2013. This year I was going to post ...
11 months ago
Gaming All Over The Place

Future History, Part 1 of 3: The 21st Century - *THE 21ST CENTURY:* The 21st Century found the Earth in a conflict between capitalistic globalism, reactionary traditionalism, and an increasingly ineffect...
11 months ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Looking forward - For reasons apparent to anyone that follows this blog, or checks my posting schedule, I'm very wary of making any future commitments, statements, or pretty...
11 months ago
Loudwater

Campaign Duration Analysis - *Loudwater Sessions & Real Time per Tier* Heroic Tier 1-10: April 2011 1 to 35 February 2013 = 35 sessions, 23 months Paragon Tier 11-20: February 2013 36...
11 months ago
She Never Slept

Man With No Name: A Nanashi Novella - Man With No Name Written by: Laird Barron Published by: Journal Stone (March 2016) Series: Nanashi Novella Paperback: 106 pages ISBN-10: 1942712863 ISBN-13...
1 year ago
A Very Creepy Blog

2 New Publications on Warren's Spanish Artists - The last week has been a very fortunate one for Warren fans, or at the very least fans of the Spanish artists who dominated the Warren magazines in the 19...
1 year ago
The Cryptic Archivist

Jason B. McAllister Passed Away May 21, 2016 - This happened almost one year ago but haven't seen an announcement on any major game sites. Jason B. McAllister Image Source: boardgamegeek.comJason B. McA...
1 year ago
Rachel Bonuses

Don't Yeerk Your Head-- A Don't Rest Your Head hack for Animorphs - I know, I know. This isn't the OSR and/or 5e content you came to expect from me. That'll come too, one day. But I actually did something else I'm actually ...
1 year ago
People them with Monsters

D&D 5E LITE - I've been working on a condensed version of D&D 5E. Condensed mostly in terms of player character complexity. I think I have it in a ~95% or so completed s...
1 year ago
The Domestic Witch

Announcing the Spring Cleaning Blog Series! - I'm bringing back one of my favorite blog series Spring Cleaning with The Domestic Witch: We're Going to Clean More Than Just Your House! I feel like it'...
1 year ago
Strange Magic

Appendix N - Free Audiobooks - Here are links to the public domain audiobooks available for the author's listed in Gary Gygax's "Appendix N" from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' Dungeon...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Old School Heretic

The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber - The Big Time was originally serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1958 (A two-parter featured in the March and April issues). Gutenberg link: http://www.gutenbe...
1 year ago
Barbaric Frontier

Better pics -
1 year ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

What's In The Drawer or On The Desktop? - It has been some time since my last post but I was just overloaded with work commitments and other things. Things seem to have slowed down and I took an ex...
1 year ago
Spirit of the Blank

[Faith Corps] Rebelling Out of 2016 - *Pictured: January 1, 2017.*What's it been, six-plus months? Anyway, I'm gearing up to run another *Star Wars Rebels* game in February at *OrcCon*, and I'...
1 year ago
ROFL Initiative

How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
1 year ago
Dungeon's Master

Title here - content
1 year ago
Over the Misty Mountains

Not QUITE a TPK... - But you could see one from there! I know my players read these, so I'm going to try to avoid campaign spoilers. But there will be some. Last night the par...
1 year ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

So I Started Running a Game at a Local Library :) - It's a blast! A couple months ago I was at the library in a small town next to mine, and there was a flier about gaming night, a couple Thursdays a month...
1 year ago
Ostensible Cat

Funk as Puck - Ok, ok, so this is a little fun with my Halloween costume that Daisey made for me this year. I really, really love this idea and am going to use it for m...
1 year ago
5 Stone Games

Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...
1 year ago
Trip the Eclipse

Moving the Blog - Even though I've had this blog for years, I am moving to Wordpress for some interesting features available through them. So, if you wish to continue to rea...
1 year ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

Freckles on earth's V - Structure structure structures. Boil me in hot peanut oil, see whee we turn to find a grocery store. Bright plastic packages, just trying to be sold. Tha...
1 year ago
The Tombs of Akrasia

4 Alasan Menggunakan Karbon Aktif - Sejarahnya, karbon aktif telah digunakan selama lebih dari 3000 tahun, awalnya adalah tujuan pengobatan (sebelum hari ini dipakai dalam dunia industri). Ka...
1 year ago
Father Dragon Writes

And Father Dragon said "let there be a planet...." - *Lo and behold, Dragon made a planet!!* Oh, I'm so very proud of myself so forgive me if I brag a little bit - way too much. I'm in the process of learni...
1 year ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - Going Dark - My blogs and Facebook will be (mostly) dark for the next couple of weeks. This includes creativemountaingames.com, grymvald.com, and mfwars.com, all of wh...
1 year ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
1 year ago
Geek on the Borderlands

Season 2: Meet the Posse - After dealing with all of the problems in and around Coffin Rock, the posse has hit Seasoned Rank. The posse has also lost and added some new members. Plus...
1 year ago
Tower of Fate

Dr. Fate to Appear in Blue Beetle Rebirth Comics - As expected from his appearance in Rebirth #1, Doctor Fate, the original Doctor Fate, will be appearing in Blue Beetle #1 due out in September. Check out ...
1 year ago
The Omnipotent Eye

The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...
1 year ago
Silver Divinity

River City Comic Expo! - Wow I haven't updated anything on here in quite a while! Life has been busy for sure. My wife and I had our 4th daughter in September and I've got 1 last cl...
1 year ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Fat And Manky Orcus - Redux - Six years ago, I posted an image of a fat and manky Orcus illustrated by Todd Lockwood, of Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 fame. The image above was taken from...
1 year ago
Writing Reality

Welcome, Tamara Hanks Grantham! - Crimson Tree Publishing is proud to present Bloodthorn, Olive Kennedy Fairy World MD Book 3, by Tamara Grantham! Olive Kennedy doesn’t believe in ...
1 year ago
Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia

- Somehow, we missed to post the link, but here it is: Hop for Visibility, Awareness and Equality You can still sign up until May 16th. Thank you!
1 year ago
A Piece of My Mind

5 on Friday -- Set 316 - Spinning Friday tunes since 2010... Although I started this year's April *A to Z Blog Challenge* with a strong opening week, I'm also continuing to ret...
1 year ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...
1 year ago
Addicted2Heroines

Spotlight & Excerpt - Payable On Death by Rachel Rawlings! - *A deal with the Devil. Demons haunting your every step. When an Angel offers you the chance to redeem yourself, you take it. Because eternal damnation...
1 year ago
Highmoon's Ponderings

Going Out Of Egypt - Historically, I haven’t had the best relationship with Passover: the cleaning, the food restrictions, the cleaning, the anticipation for weeks, the shoppin...
1 year ago
Tales from the Flaming Faggot

A Character Record for Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls - Ever since I started playing Tunnels & Trolls, back in November, I've been on the lookout for a good character sheet, and to date I haven't found one that ...
1 year ago
Purple Duck Games

Moving - The Purple Duck Games blog can now be found here.
1 year ago
Warped Nerdiversity

Fun Weather Reports - In the spirit of April Fools Day, I couldn't help but share the following weather report from Loki. It seems Thor has a lot to answer for. After watchi...
2 years ago
The Free RPG Blog

Build your own monster in Fear Fetchers by Kevin Damen - Inhabit the mind of a monster on a mission to collect fear from the houses of unsuspecting people. It's not-Monsters-Inc-but-it-is. Wonderful monster-build...
2 years ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Green Devil Face 3D Printed - This feature is LEGENDARY in the infamous S1 Tomb of Horrors by Gary Gygax. Now you can print (a version of) it for your own game. Derived from OpenForge...
2 years ago
Ask A Witch

Panda from Coffeyville, KS - *I love graveyards, and while I was up at Spring Hill, I asked the gods and goddesses to please send me a wand. I literally took three steps and there was ...
2 years ago
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS

Wanted: Citadel Uruk-Hai - I am looking to buy or trade for these Citadel Uruk-Hai orcs (not X-ed out). Can you help me out or know someone who can?
2 years ago
Precious Monsters

Paranormal Romance Boxed Set - For The Love of the Vampire - I'm pleased to announce that I'm in a new boxed set. It's all about romance and vampires in the *For the Love of the Vampire* collection by 8 paranormal...
2 years ago
Elf Lair Games

Updates - Low-res concept for SHAMA issue 1 cover Just keeping everyone in the loop. Working on getting a video together for the Kickstarter while awaiting the paper...
2 years ago
Curmudgeons & Dragons

In Memory of Steve - This is Steve's wife Jenn. I am sorry to say that Steve passed away on December 21. My love for him will live on, as will his art. Steve's art can be seen ...
2 years ago
Platonic Solid

Spinning my Wheels on Systems - Just throwing this out there to see what kind of feedback I get. I've got a couple of projects that I'd really like to work on. One's fantasy and one's sc...
2 years ago
The Moldy Vale

Panduan Berwisata dengan Bandros City Tour di Bandung - Bandros City Tour atau Bandung Tour On Bus CityTour adalah alat transportasi darat yang difungsikan untuk mengantarkan wisatawan berkeliling menikmati wisa...
2 years ago
The Gateway Chronicles

Blog Migration... - Just a quick post to let y'all know that my blog is migrating to my website. I've had this blogger site up for a loooong time as my official blog, and it's...
2 years ago
SWORD & SHIELD

Beamed away... - I hope if you wanted a printed copy of Far Trek you got one! If not, sorry...but another opportunity with a different cover will come sometime in early 20...
2 years ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

Dead. - All good things come to an end.
2 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...
2 years ago
Ravenloft: Midway Haven Observatory

Worlds of Ravenloft: Mubonyete and Hiva Moruatu - The Far Impossibilities are domains of dread so remote, so far from extant memory that only a few can ever penetrate Ravenloft's hazy Mists to explore t...
2 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
2 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 availab...
2 years ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

Dark Rising (Andrew Cymek, 2007) - B-Movie, straight-to-video fantasy and sci-fi is always a crap shoot, isn't it? If one expects too much, they are destined to be disappointed. An openness ...
2 years ago
Suzy Turner

Come and follow me at my latest venture! - As I'm now SUPER busy with my latest venture - a 40+ style & lifestyle blog - I've decided to stop blogging here for the time being, so please do come and ...
2 years ago
Middenmurk

Body Armour - I think that armour is one of the hallmarks of civilisation. I speak here of civilisation in the classic sense: agrarian, stratified, complex societies in...
2 years ago
The Lair of the Evil DM

Hilarious new series - SuperMansion - I Just caught this via CBR News . Funny as hell. It's a preview episode of a new series on Crackle streaming video coming out on October 8th. It's def...
2 years ago
Crypt Thing

Fortress of the Ur-Mage - Hail cartophiles! I wanted to spread the word about a great new tournament module for use with Dungeon World published by SVD Press. Written by Dungeon Or...
2 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

Thoughts on My First Fifth Edition DnD Campaign - Last night I wrapped the twelfth session of my summer-long Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Since one of the players goes back to working nights...
2 years ago
The Atlantis Blog

This blog was hacked! - Before I post further on this blog, you will all notice that I stopped posting. This is because my original GMAIL account was keylogged and cracked, sev...
2 years ago
The Hopeless Gamer

Gencon Follow-up: My First Time in the Iron Arena! - If you were following a bit of my run up to Gencon posts, you might have noticed that within the last year I've really gotten back into Warmachine with my...
2 years ago
Porky's Expanse!

The legendary Thuloid's gold - If you're reading this, you might be interested in a solid and fairly wide-ranging batch of discussions going on at *Thuloid's latest post* at the House, ...
2 years ago
Amazon Princess

Batman v Superman: Wonder Woman first look! - We have some scenes of Wonder Woman in the new Batman v Superman trailer. Looking forward to this!
2 years ago
GM Games

The Manor, Issue #8 - Where is it going? USA $5.00 USD Canada $5.50 USD Rest of the World $6.00 USD Issue #8 is also available in PDF at RPGNow and Lulu. This issue is fil...
2 years ago
Thac0 forever!

Population Density of Hunter-Gatherers - I realize I haven't posted much in forever. I've been busy with other games and with life in general. However, as always, I like generating worlds. Toda...
3 years ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
3 years ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

I'm a Sucker for Battlemats, so I had to Share this Kickstarter - Figured I'd dust off the ol' blog to share this... I'm a sucker for a good battlemat... (just take a gander at these posts: link). I recently relocated an...
3 years ago
Sassy Vixen Publishing LLC

We've Moved to Our Website and Tumblr - *As always, welcome to the Sassy Vixen blog. As you can see by the photo, we've decided to move to the blog on our website and those on Tumblr. This was...
3 years ago
Land of Phantoms

Back on the Rack - It's been a long time. But I'm still here. Still working on stuff. Over the last few months, here's what I've been up to. I took a brief hiatus around the ...
3 years ago
Twisting Minds One Word At A Time...

Crazy Four Books : Review ~ Sweetest Temptations by J.C. Valentine - Crazy Four Books : Review ~ Sweetest Temptations by J.C. Valentine: Synopsis From USA Today Bestselling Author J.C. Valentine comes a sizzling story ab...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Zatanna: Black & White

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