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Halls of the Nephilim

Winkies and Piranosaurs (Swords & Wizardry Light) - Winky First Appearance: Space Adventures # 8 (Sept. 1953) AC 9 [10] HD: 1 Attacks: Bite (1d3) Move: 12 Winkies are adorable little quadrupeds that ...
56 minutes ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Wet & Wild - Troubles with Beastmen 3 - So everyone in DnD land is into islands and nautical theme stuff now. Awesome. I'm still only half way through parasites...
1 hour ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

From The Caturday Files -
3 hours ago
Stocking The Dungeon

The Known World Setting- A Few New Druid Magic Items - In Classic D&D, and pre-AD&D Mystara, druids are powerful clerics, given to the protection of the natural world. Unlike druids in other incarnations of the...
3 hours ago
Mesmerized by sirens

A valiant, gallant OSR blog post. - Do yourself a favour and go check the beautiful post over at *Delta's D&D Hotspot blog*. This is really a thorough old-school post. I wish i could see mo...
4 hours ago
Rended Press

- Greg Gorgonmilk and I were online friends and collaborators for over five years. Due to the current controversy over some of Greg's social media posts, G...
4 hours ago
Quag Keep

Judges Guild - Druids of Doom - *From the web:* *"The House of Euklidies, a temple to Astokph the Diety of Travel and Transporter of the Dead, is asking for a group of adventurers t...
5 hours ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Losing interest in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... (a rant, you have been warned) - *I just had to use that title ... Now I need a post for it, too. Turns out it was just a question of time. This is not about me quitting the blog or anyth...
5 hours ago
HeroPress

DVD Of The Week: Alien - Covenant (2017) - After the risible disappointment of Prometheus and the underwhelming reviews that Alien: Covenant garnered upon its cinema release, I approached the DVD wi...
5 hours ago
deeply shallow

Saturday #worship setlist - I struggle. I don't want to do this. It's tiring, exhausting, I don't get anything out of it. Yet, the reminder again is that *this isn't for me*. It is...
5 hours ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

Time for a new edition of the Microlite20 RPG Collection - On April 4th, 2014 I made a post stating it was probably time for a new version of the free *Microlite20 RPG Collection* (see Time for the 2014 Edition of ...
6 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

"Kindle" For 5e Coming Soon - But Pricing will Mirror Print - We all knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Project Morningstar - the failed project to digitally offer the *D&D 5e* rules - was a hint at how ...
6 hours ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Gary Con X - Well, registration for Gary Con X opened while I was away in Scotland. I am now registered, but I have no idea what games to run for the convention, being ...
6 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Krypto #91: Krypto's Girlfriend, Chelsea - *From:* Superman Family #183-185 (May-October 1977) Remember when Krypto returned to Metropolis after a bout of amnesia, fell in love, but was rebuffed wh...
10 hours ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

New Captain at Spore... - My Skeletal Cyborg is already at page two of "Most Popular list... and posted less than an hour ago...
11 hours ago
The OSR Library

The Kolchak Files: OSR - Kolchak stats (Yes I'm going to do a short revision, mostly clarifications and slight mod of skills/abilities listed, of the OSR Survival Horror Rules soon...
12 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Stacking the Shelves # 256 - Week Ending 09/23/2017 - *Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you ...
15 hours ago
herding cats & burning soup

Tasty Delights-- Israeli Couscous w/ Roasted Veggies & Feta - HelloFresh strikes again with a whole lotta noms! A couple years ago I totally fell for Israeli (pearl) couscous. It's different from regular and is more ...
15 hours ago
Spellmaking

What the Darkness Is - Fantasy short story *What the Darkness Is* is published by Metaphorosis magazine today, my second appearance in the magazine after *The Stars are Tiny Ligh...
21 hours ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday - Daemons! - In addition to the chaos marine deluge I mentioned last time I also decided to start building up my chaos daemons. I'm not just looking at them as summo...
21 hours ago
False Machine

Unexpected Guest Post - Sean Meaney - This arrived in my inbox from Sean Meany, unprompted, this is the first message that Sean ever sent me. His Blog Is Here "First off a text of a blog post...
22 hours ago
Asshat Paladins

Actual Play: FATE High Road to China Session 1 - *High Road to China Session One Write-Up* *Played Friday, December 9th, 2016* *Dramatis Personae* - *Fiona*, a rich heiress (played by J) - Lambert,...
22 hours ago
[Retro-Z]

The Monster Club: 10 Well-known Horror Characters!! - [image: http://www.neatoshop.com/product/The-Monster-Club-10-Well-known-Horror-Characters] *These characters have been in several sequels, remakes and r...
1 day ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Elmore (9/22/17): Wasteland Warriors - I would like to have posted about my joy that today is the autumnal equinox...but it doesn't feel like fall at all here, in the shadow of Philadelphia! M...
1 day ago
Erotiterrorist

Adult Performer Entities - Instead of calling upon a deity or outer planer being, some magisexuals prefer to call upon the shared fantasy of a particular Porn Star or Adult Performer...
1 day ago
STUFFER SHACK

Review: Fragged Empire - A concession of middle age, but I’m finally starting to warm up to space opera or, science fantasy themed RPGs. I’m still yet to delve into the major IPs. ...
1 day ago
Age of Ravens

Being a List of Odd Names - We did our first session of *Pigsmoke* last night, the PbtA magical academia rpg. I'll write that up after I've run both sessions (spoiler: I'm digging it...
1 day ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Giant Hell Ant - Hello and welcome to this week's Frightful Fridays! on the second Friday in a row. I'm doing something wrong. This week's monster is a giant ant--pretty mu...
1 day ago
A character for every game

Hritlà, The Smugglers’ Cove - On the mysterious southern continent there are two competing colonies from the major powers in the north – Linyaró (which … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Kidbits

Celebrate the Small Things! - This weekly blog hop is sponsored by the amazing Lexa Cain, and co-hosted by L.G. Keltner from Writing Off the Edge and myself. What exactly are we cel...
1 day ago
The Troll Dens

The Wolf Before You - Follow the wolf, the seer said. But it seems more hazardous now than it did when she prophesied it in the cool dark of her cabin. #*aihrde*
1 day ago
My Baffling Brain

Celebrate the Small Things - Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop now hosted by Lexa Cain. The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week, no matter ho...
1 day ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Superman #31 - *Superman #31* came out this week and was a huge surprise. Why? It was a Deathstroke story that I liked. A brief history. I liked Deathstroke back in the...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Tales from the Floating Vagabond: Parrot Head-case - This week's 5e game at the FLGS was off, since half the group had other events and weren't going to make it. Rather than just cancel outright, I decided to...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Dungeon Fantasizing - I was talking with some guys on G+ about running *GURPS Dungeon Fantasy* (as the boxsets just made in out to backers last week). I don't know if I will, bu...
1 day ago
SciFiChick.com

Book Giveaway: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories - Courtesy of Mariner Books, I have a copy of Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey for one (1) lucky winner! Contest is open to US resid...
1 day ago
Fabled Lands

Latest news on Fabled Lands book 7 - *The internet is buzzing (quietly) with gossip about the forthcoming Fabled Lands book, *The Serpent King's Domain*. But why make do with hearsay when you ...
1 day ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *PROCESO DE PORTADA DE VIOLENT LOVE #8 * *VIOLENT LOVE #8 COVER PROCESS * Proceso de portada del número 8 de mi serie mensual con el guionista Frank B...
1 day ago
The Armchair Squid

Squid Mixes: Havana Club - We are planning to spend Thanksgiving with the English Prof and the Playwright. A nautical theme is in the works so I have been experimenting with rum-bas...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Aeon Flux and the New Weird - I've read a lot about the New Weird "genre" in my explorations of the evolution of the "Weird Tale" at the end of the twentieth century, but at this point...
1 day ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Project Oasis now on sale! - Hey all! Just a reminder that my post-apocalyptic RPG setting, Project Oasis, is on sale as part of OBS's Setting Sale. One third off is a pretty sweet de...
1 day ago
Dynasty Zero

How He Started His Sandbox - +Michael S aka Chgowiz who writes Chicagowiz's Blog wrote an interesting post about how he started his long running sandbox game. I found this not only he...
2 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Attention Midwesterners, Contessa Needs You - Contessa, the con-within-a-con dedicated to promoting diversity n games is looking for folks to run games at U-Con in Ann Arbor NOVEMBER 17- NOVEMBER 19, 2...
2 days ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Claude Gillot (1673 - 1722) - [image: Claude Gillot - Wandering at Night]Wandering at Night [image: Claude Gillot - Is It an Enchantment]Is It an Enchantment [image: Claude Gillot - The...
2 days ago
The Savage AfterWorld

[CRYPTWORLD] "Burial Plots" Origins Of Horror Part 1: "Forget-Me-Not" - As the Kickstarter for Goblinoid Games' CRYPTWORLD adventure compilation "Burial Plots" is underway, I thought it'd be fun to explain where each of these h...
2 days ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

The Complete Voodoo Vol. 3: Werewolf Castle - Werewolf Wednesdays are back, (and as usual, a day late) just as is another installment of *The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics: The Complete Voodoo Vol...
2 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Chanbara: The end draws nigh! - I have the final bits of feedback I need from my editors. I'm in the process of revising and editing based on it. I should have that done soon. So it's tim...
2 days ago
Realms of Chirak

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy is in the Wild - My Kickstarter set of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy, including the Companion and GM Screen, arrived today. It's a monstrous set: the box is HUGE in traditional ove...
2 days ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Omega Team Series Book Blast - *Blurb:* Former Delta Force team leader Grey Holden came from a long line of military leaders who believed the important thing was getting the job done, n...
2 days 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 ...
2 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Rewind: Hasbro 3.75" Marvel - I've been having a great time revisiting some of my Hasbro 3.75" Marvel action figures, photographing them for my eBay store as I clear out some of my co...
2 days ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Mail Order Hobby Shop Catalog Cover - Trampier Tribute -
2 days ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

AMERICAN ASSASSIN (Film Review): Is AMERICAN ASSASSIN a Film Franchise in the Making? - Creating a new action franchise is a difficult process. It requires some combination of strong IP, star power, compelling narrative, and innovative action ...
2 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans... - On G+ somebody asked about an underwater campaign setting I was supposedly writing, called "Unit Swim" or "Union Swim" or something. This tickled me trem...
2 days ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

Life can be hard... -
3 days ago
The Groovy Age of Horror

Translation: Storie Viola #9 - Orrore nelle tenebre (Horror in the Darkness) - STORIE VIOLA #9: ORRORE NELLE TENEBRE was first released in July, 1986. The story is by Carmelo Gozzo, and both the internal art and the cover art are by...
3 days 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...
3 days ago
19th Level

What's Shiny? September 2017 Edition - Continuing the occasional series of shiny stuff that is capable of distracting me... The fortunate thing is there's a new edition of *Astonishing Swords...
3 days ago
The Spirits of Eden

Status Update II - Greetings everyone. It’s been difficult to write this post, but just to be quick and clear: I’m taking a personal break from writing The Solstice War for a...
3 days ago
Robert Atkins Art

Daily Sketch - Hank Pym (Giant Man, Ant Man, Yellow Jacket) Inks... - This was a commission I posted awhile back of the pencils. I've got it all inked up and out to the guy. As I said before, I don't know a whole lot about th...
3 days ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Advanced Adventures #38: White Dragon Run II Preview - This follow up to White Dragon Run contains all of the village information of the original module as well as four new adventure locations in the Skatherne...
3 days ago
Minding Spot

The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo - *He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last?* *Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. B...
4 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Calidar Kickstarter Updates - Greetings all. A few things have been going on during the past several days. First off, discount coupons offered as part of *Dreams of Aerie*'s Kickstarter...
4 days 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...
4 days ago
Points of Light

Dungeons & Delvers: Dice Pool Update & Character Sheet - We're *almost* done with all of the black and white art. After finishing all of the writing, and moving some content around, there ended up being more bla...
4 days ago
Cross Planes

Product Development: Stat Blocks - I'm stepping back into the publishing arena and am developing a product for the OSR and DnD 5th Edition. At the moment, as I work out stat blocks I'm pon...
4 days ago
Monster Island News

COMET TV Giveaway: Godzilla Doin' Work Prize Pack! - We are teaming up with Comet TV to give one lucky View Obscura Comics reader a limited edition 'Godzilla Doin' Work' prize pack! Who wouldn't want a Godz...
5 days ago
OEF

Sofia Vergara's Husband Plays Dungeons & Dragons - Hello folks, it's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd come back with this little tid bit. Sofia Vergara Says Husband Joe Manganiello Is a ‘Nerd’ ...
5 days ago
Thoul's Paradise

Creating a Cyborg Commando (Part II) - In our previous post, we generated a CYBORG COMMANDO character via the 'basic' character creation rules. In this post, we will examine the 'advanced' ch...
5 days ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Down the Rabbit Hole - To get the obvious out of the way, the supplement, *Kefitzah Haderech: Incunabulum of the Uncanny Gates and Portals* has absolutely nothing to do with the...
5 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

It (2017) - I remember driving my parents crazy when the novel *It *was released back in 1986. I was 14, already a fan of Stephen King, and his new book present a ch...
5 days ago
Lawful Indifferent

An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. - An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's *Society of the Spectacle*. Instead of writing tabletop games or kludging together an rpg-making software system int...
6 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Dungeons Fantasy RPG for GURPS has arrived at the Attic! - As long time readers of this blog know I been a fan of GURPS for thirty years. Believe it or not there was a time when GURPS was the fourth or fifth most ...
6 days ago
The City of Iron

B/X Essentials: Classes and Equipment -- Draft Text - One Sunday in August, I announced the second book in the *B/X Essentials* line: *Classes and Equipment*. Since then, a huge amount of progress has been mad...
1 week ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Summer of Gaming and Exploring Gathox! - Greetings all! I haven't posted in quite awhile. I've actually been doing a good bit of gaming. I finished grad school and this allowed my school enforced...
1 week ago
Stargazer's World

Patreonage? - 00I have been thinking about Patreon recently. One of the questions in this years #RPGaDAY was about the kickstarters that you have supported and I have ne...
1 week ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Save Yourself From Hell - This blog post serves two purposes (ok, three). The first is to tell you about my new *Alpha Blue *scenario Save Yourself From Hell. Check out this tot...
1 week ago
The House of Little Fears

Now Available: THE WOLF PACT! - It’s true! Little Fears: The Wolf Pact is now for sale! Right here! At this link! This is a soft launch. Only the PDF is available and it’s currently only ...
1 week ago
Wishful Gaming

Basic Arcana - I was pleasantly surprised to get an email today from someone who bought my first product, Basic Arcana, and had high praises for it. He also asked about t...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
I Fly By Night

Kitbashing - In setting up my latest game - a kitbash of StarCluster 4 - Sabre & World (chargen & mechanics) and Volant (Setting) I hit an interesting point. S&W is sla...
1 week ago
Quest for Fun!

The Magic (Tradecraft) - Back in my day... we bought booster packs or a starter deck. There was one deck, and you didn't need another one once you had your one. You had started. W...
1 week ago
MINION FACTORY

Gimme Your Number One Dime! - FVOC #004 - MAGICA DE SPELL One of my favourite villains from Disney's DuckTales (Beagle Boys being my absolute favourite) is Magica de Spell. I love it w...
1 week ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[Kickstarter] Goblinoid Games "Burial Plots" for Cryptworld! - *Goblinoid Games* has started a Kickstarter for a new supplement for *Cryptworld*: *Burial Plots*, a collection of five adventures written by *Tim Snider o...
1 week ago
Written In Blood

Spilling Ink S3E1 Choose Your Publishing Adventure with Susan Hanniford ... - Paranormal Adventures abound as we enter a new season of Spilling Ink. Join the daring duo of Susan Hanniford Crowley and Katherine Dell and learn the...
1 week ago
Lasgunpacker

Tau Battlesuit - With the use of the Gamer's Grass, I was able to finally finish off my first Tau battlesuit, which was painted a while back, but lacked a finished base. T...
1 week ago
Wild West History

Colorado's Deadliest Floods - You may have noticed fewer posts over the past year. I've been working on a history book about flooding in Colorado.* Colorado's Deadliest Floods *was r...
1 week ago
The Warrior Muse

Answers to Your Short Story Questions - Back in February, I announced that I was going to be speaking about short stories at a couple upcoming events (that have now passed), and I asked you what ...
1 week ago
GRUBB STREET

Play: Community Theatre - *The Odyssey*; By Homer (unaccredited in the program book) Adaptation/Music/New Lyrics by Todd Almond, Original Concept and Direction by Lear DeBessonet, D...
1 week ago
A Life Full of Adventure

[WFRP 2e] Renegade Princeps 53 - *My PC* Vaervenshyael - Female Elf Assassin (suffering from a Host of Fiends disability and carrying a magical stone linked to gluttony) *My companions* Ta...
1 week ago
Bobert the Hoosier expatriate

Uncertain Priorities - Tomorrow is audit day. The start of audit *week*, actually. We've put in more than a year of preparation, all the while slogging our way through manage...
1 week ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Basic Back to the Dungeon RPG - Basic Back to the Dungeon RPG Pay What You Want http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198101/Basic-Back-to-the-Dungeon-RPG-Players-Guide
1 week ago
The Wasted Lands

Why You Shouldn't Support Kickstarter-Only Businesses - I feel like I'm going to be screaming at a brick wall here, at best. At worst, I'm going to get dogpiled by Kickstarter fans and those who use Kickstarter ...
2 weeks ago
The Grand Tapestry

The Field flows dynamically; its currents are complex and misleading - Three players and four PCs in the weekly Thursday night G+ Hangout game. Gordon (Melee Guy, now Cyborged after having been blown up with a napalm rocket) h...
2 weeks ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

Old Nerd Retrospect Presents: Adventurer’s Club #1 - This last week, I had reason to go back and re-read my series on *Classic Enemies* from a few years ago. Good times. It was also the last time this blog wa...
2 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Music-Movie-Fantasy Crossover Images - Over the years I’ve acquired a few cool ‘nerd’ shirts and hoodies (or at least *I* think they’re cool; my wife seems to disagree). For the most part, the i...
2 weeks ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Deciphering Maps and Scrolls - Continuing with adapting the 2d6 reaction roll table to thief skills, I thought I’d move on to deciphering treasure maps and magic scrolls. Unlike removin...
2 weeks ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

Always Time to Write - Someone asked me a day or so ago if I had written anything lately. I said I was editing a piece of work. Written anything.... nope! Writing is like any o...
2 weeks ago
In Places Deep

Unfocused Thoughts on the 5th Millennium - A Traveller thing I've been working on to fight the Blues. - It's a homebrew Traveller setting that keeps as many of the assumed setting elements ...
2 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

Duero's Tower, Chuck Monson's early 1970's Campaign and more... - More from my discussion with Chuck Monson, in his own words: "My D&D campaign of this time was known as Duero's Tower, a old keep off in the countryside u...
2 weeks ago
All Games Considered

AGC 217 September 5th 2017 (When I Became A Publisher) (1:04:22) - With Mark Kinney and Chris Engle, late of Hamster Press! Bits of publishing advice (which we will come back to). DriveThruRPG, and Hamster Press' history t...
2 weeks ago
Rather Gamey

Atlee Ink - About 6 months ago I moved to traditional drawing tools in order to concentrate on form. Digital is great, but it tends to make let me ignore crucial are...
2 weeks ago
Trollsmyth

5ogues - I recently had a chat with a friend who’s running 5e for the first time after pretty much sticking with 2e since the ‘90s. One of his players was playing a...
2 weeks ago
Gamers & Grognards

U-Con Event Submission Extension! Submit today! Need more Role Playing, OSR and Tekumel Events! - *EXTENSION NOTE GM GAMES REGISTRATION FOR U-CON 2017 TO BE INCLUEDE IN PRE-REG WILL CLOSE IN MID SEPTEMBER!! PLEASE HAVE YOUR GAMES SUBMITTED BY THEN! THE ...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

RPGaDAY 2017 #30 and #31 - From the *#RPGaDAY 2017* challenge (information here): And we've reached the end of these posts...and because I completely spaced that YESTERDAY was the 30...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
The Whole Wide World

A Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation - I've noticed a disturbing trend on social media lately. So disturbing, in fact, that I will not be sharing these musings on my social media accounts, becau...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
the musings of huginn and muninn

Elements of Magic Reclaiming Core Class! October 6-7, Pittsburgh, PA - I am super excited to announce that I will be assisting with teaching one of the Reclaiming core classes, Elements of Magic! The class will be held in Pitt...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Dyvers

NEW D&D SURVEY UP AND IT'S ALL ABOUT SETTINGS! GO GREYHAWK GO! - The new D&D survey has gone live and it's mostly about new settings for the game to explore. GET YOUR GREYHAWK VOTES IN NOW KIDS! VOTE
4 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

Bright lights, big geekery - For those times when a fully thought-out post is too much for each topical tidbit, there's the *"five things make a post"* post! 1. My family and I were lu...
4 weeks ago
Oubliette Magazine

Black Pudding 3 Print Edition Out Now! - Printed editions of *Black Pudding* are now available to order. They can be ordered using the Paypal buttons below (if all you want is a single copy then t...
4 weeks 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 ...
4 weeks ago
Aggregate Cognizance

Some first impressions of Blades in The Dark - We took a little impromptu camping trip this weekend, so I was able to spend a bit more time reading *Blades in the Dark. * *When we go camping, we put eve...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Getting caught up on things - First of all, I switched out the "new" fancy theme of the blog, because I wasn't really caring for it. Back to the classic layout, I say! Second, I haven'...
5 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Holy flurging shnit! - Pinch me... I must be dreaming...
5 weeks 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 ...
5 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Setting the stage- - I just sent this out to the Facebook Group for my new West Marches style campaign. Setting the stage- Fort Augustus is the “safe town area”, it is the onl...
1 month ago
Dorkland!

What COULD Happen If Disney Stopped Publishing Marvel Comics? - There is an interesting article on (of all places) a site focused on Disney and Disney-related theme parks that asks the question Will Disney Stop Publishi...
1 month ago
Gothridge Manor

Trickster in the Stone: Micro-Adventure - Just so you know, I had this post finished yesterday and it went away. Like vanished. Gone. I swore a little. But only a little. And now I'm here to try ...
1 month ago
Pulsipher Game Design

My ENWorld Columns - links - I have become a columnist on ENWorld, the most common meeting-place for fans of tabletop RPGs. (As some of you know, I was columnist/contributing editor of...
1 month ago
Forgotten Runes

Hawk and Moor Vols 1 and 2 review - I picked up Kent David Kellys Castle Oldskull bundle a couple of months ago. Included in were Kelly's histories of Dungeons and Dragons "Hawk and Moor" (I ...
1 month ago
Genius Loci

Question for the Gallery - Up front information, this is a topic I've been discussing with my wife for a while and find that she is highly supportive of the concept that I am about t...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

The Horseclans Series - My first exposure to fantasy and science-fiction, other than fairy tales found in kids books, was Star Wars, as I've talked about before, both the movies ...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

My Ropecon Schedule - Ropecon is just around the corner! Like, starting this Friday. As usual, I’m busy expounding my opinions on all kinds of things. The programme’s been out f...
1 month ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

500 Likes! - My blog just got 500 Likes on Facebook. Thank you very much! :) Thank you everyone who keep coming back to check out my articles. Thank you for the comm...
1 month ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

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2 months ago
Armchair Gamer

Star Trek Adventures -- The New Star Trek RPG - On the Radar: Star Trek Adventures Star Trek Adventures is the latest Star Trek RPG to come out, and it's full of promise. I've written some things on Star...
2 months ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Mera and the Justice League - *Justice League #24* *Cover by Paul Pelletier, Sandra Hope, and Hi-Fi* *"Fury"* *Variant Cover by Nick Bradshaw and Alex Sinclair* *Is Mera the newest Jus...
2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

Long Overdue - Almost two months? Wow. The blog seems to have been steadily winding down for a while. Looks like it petered out on its own. Too much real life. Work. De...
2 months ago
destination unknown

Currently Reading -
2 months ago
Krell Laboratories

Hey kids! Comics! A Teachable Moment - The editors of We're Still Here have linked to my movie blog instead of my comics and art blog, so I thought I'd provide a landing sport that shows some o...
2 months ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Tasks In MegaTraveller And What Roleplaying Games Really Are - Yeah, this is the model I was trying to evoke, sort of.I've had a number of articles sitting in draft form for a long time now, so I guess I'll just publi...
2 months ago
World of Ortix

Free items - Items listed below can be obtained by PCs for free at various locations (marketplaces etc.). Treat them as a garbage (items, not the PCs!). 1. Slightl...
2 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...
2 months ago
Little Gothic Horrors

Welcome to the Beautiful Freaks Fest 2017! - My beautiful freak is Miss Harriet Valcadash, a little wolf girl. "Valcadash" is an old English name meaning "bright, strong-willed, and hairy", which sui...
3 months ago
Ellen Dugan's Blog of Witchery

Spells Of The Heart is available for preorder! - Happy Summer! Spells Of The Heart, the 7th book in the Legacy Of Magick series is available for preorder now! Release date is June 30th, 2017 and the pape...
3 months ago
EXONAUTS!

Best Father's Day yet--DIY Star Wars WITH DICE! - Last week I mailed my nephew's birthday present (he turned 11) which was a care package filled with Star Wars treats, including the Star Wars West End Ga...
3 months ago
LotFP: RPG

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago
Beholder Pie

Temple of the Moon Priests - No Text - As it's been requested a couple of times, here's a version of "Temple of the Moon Priests" with text tags removed!
3 months ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
3 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...
3 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

The Collapsing Column Conundrum - In this post I talked about a friend's game where we found ourselves in a room filled with granite columns falling all about us. I was contrasting one of ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Supply and Demand in Minos and Airam - So here's another rule extension to our Star Wars/Cyberpunk 2020 mashup, thanks to West End Games' "Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters", published in 1994. ...
3 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

Random Tribe Generator - The Petal Hack includes these tables for generating tribes for Fresh Off the Boat-style scenarios. Enjoy! Random Tribe Generator Start by rolling a d4, d6,...
3 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...
3 months ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

signed New Frontier softcover giveaway - hi folks, Cal here from Strange Adventures in Halifax. We recently got in a collection of books that included a set of New Frontier softcovers signed by...
4 months ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Alien Covenant is BAD and Ridley Scott should feel BAD. - It's been over a year since I added something to my blog, much to the relief of some (I am sure). I have, basically, given up writing reviews to allow my...
4 months ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Elm One Day In - I've been interested in the Elm programming language for several months, reading and poking around some at code examples but with too many hobbies competin...
4 months ago
Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

Weird Map: Moo Mesa - A map of Moo Mesa from the 90's animated series *The Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa. * All pun-based names aside, this makes a fun map for a small west...
4 months ago
A Storybook World

Aphrodite's Closet by Suzy Turner - *Aphrodite's Closet* Agatha Trout didn’t even know she had a Great Aunt Petunia, so imagine her surprise when she finds Petunia left her a corner shop in...
4 months ago
Fustians so Sublimely Bad...

- I love that he looks exactly like would would think a young Patton Oswalt looks like.
4 months ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

Commentary Running The Outer Presence From Kort'thalis Publishing Using The Silent Legions Rpg System Rules By Kevin Crawford - Actual Play Event - *"The world is broken in hidden ways. The truth is concealed for the sake of mortal minds. The unendurable reality that boils behind the stars is veiled ...
4 months ago
Kaijuville

60 years of Hammer Horror - I missed an important anniversary yesterday -- it was on that date, May 2nd, 60 years ago, that *The Curse of Frankenstein* was released by Hammer Film ...
4 months ago
Sword+1

The Axe Lands Volume 1: Men & Magic - I have updated my old Blessed Realms of Normandie campaign rules for my Axe Lands setting, and created a new document with new layout and art (well public ...
4 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 ...
4 months ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

May DAY and a promise .. - It's MAY the 1st and I thought it apt, now my internet is working again [laf] to keep a promise. Well, two actually, one to Joe and Paul, and one to myself...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Dave Arneson's True Genius Published - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Dave Arneson's True Genius Published: Hot off the press and already steamrolling ahead! What is Dave Arneson’s True Geni...
5 months ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Dave Arneson's True Genius Published - *Hot off the press and already steamrolling ahead!* *What is Dave Arneson’s True Genius??* *Well... It kinda starts below...* ...*and then by leaps a...
5 months ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Realmscrawl] The Incompleat Realmscrawl - So last year I tried to jump into the 5E market on the *Dungeon Masters Guild*, with some hex-based mapping of the *Forgotten Realms* called *Realmscrawl* ...
5 months ago
Held Action

Northern Crown: Defending the Trading Post - One of my bucket list role-playing games has been Northern Crown ever since the setting was first published in the mid-aughts. In a fantasy-infused version...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Pagan Culture

I Have Moved… - This site won’t be updated more than once or thrice a year. For regular bits of my fiction, poetry and witchy living, please visit/follow my active blog: w...
5 months ago
Under Siege

Castles & Crusades: A $15 Players Handbook - I need more time to actually relax and enjoy myself. Castles & Crusades has been my go to FRPG for years now and I realize that it's been a over a decade...
5 months 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 ...
5 months ago
My Old-School Renaissance

Understanding Domestic Politics through D&D - http://www.distractify.com/trending/2017/03/27/AkxcG/trump-gop-dnd-twitter
5 months ago
Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog

Bernie Wrightson, 1948-2017 - Bernie Wrightson passed away on Saturday, March 18, 2017. He was 68 years old. Wrightson had been ill for some time and had only recently announced that ...
6 months 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...
6 months 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'...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
The Happy Undertaker

Ghoulwatcher - New Ghoulwatcher up soon after a bit of a break.
7 months ago
Barbaric Frontier

Better pics -
7 months 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...
8 months ago
Gaming Ronin

Adventures in Middle Earth player's guide - I finally made my way through the players guide. It's been a crazy month with very little time to do a single read through. A few sections got a twice ov...
8 months 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'...
8 months 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 ...
8 months ago
Dungeon's Master

Title here - content
8 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

And the rains came - Hello friends. Sorry for my lengthy absence...in short this has been my most challenging and difficult year on the planet thus far. I want to make it cle...
11 months ago
Troll and Flame

Barrowmaze For 5th Edition - Barrowmaze Complete for D&D 5th Edition Kickstarter I've bought the original Barrowmaze, Barrowmaze II, Barrowmaze Complete and loved every single one. Th...
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
A Field Guide To Doomsday

Apeocalypse, Wow! - The esteemed Trey Causey, Official Friend Of The Field Guide, is running a nifty 1970s ape-thang. Here is my character, created as a Pure Human with the *M...
1 year ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

The Bible Reloaded - DMCA - Forwarding this to boost the volume.
1 year ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

Thanks, Cedric Plante - I hear Cedric Plante is taking a break. That's OK; I hope he feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed his work, and I feel bad for not taking the oppo...
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
Mythmere's Blog

In the corner pocket... - I think it shows how tired people are of political wrangling that the absolute most-active post on my facebook page is about cargo shorts. If you're going...
1 year ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News - July 12, 2016 - A Tekumel/Black Hack Edition - Brett Slocum has released something I needed. Ok, something I didn't know I wanted, at the very least.[image: The Petal Hack] *The Petal Hack *by Brett Slo...
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 Lands of Ara

My Online LL Group is a Treasure - *Members of my "home" Labyrinth Lord group in fall 2010. * I recently wrote about experiencing DM burnout and consequently placing both my Labryinth Lord ...
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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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?
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

Dead. - All good things come to an end.
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Redwald RPG

Colecţia de primăvară-vară la echipamente de protectie! - Acum că a început să se topească gheaţa de pe drumuri încep să ni se dezvăluie tendinţele din evoluţia craterelor şi gropilor răsărite şi dezvoltate pe ...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Steve's Gamer Blog

Eve of the Apocaylpse - Tomorrow sees the release (in game stores) of Princes of the Apocalypse, the Elemental Evil campaign designed by Sasquatch Studios and Wizards of the Coa...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
2 years ago
The Inferno Music Vault

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Ramblings of Sheldon

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2 years ago
Me-anders

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Forgotten Classics of Yesteryear

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Victorian Adventure Enthusiast

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Grognardling

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Daddy Grognard

Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus - Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they invest...
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Cavalcade of Perversions

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Scrolls of the PlatinumWarlock

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3 years ago
Thoughtcrime Inc.

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3 years ago
The Grim Reader

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3 years ago
Ivory Underworld

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Hazard Gaming

Post 118- A Hike Across Scotland - Download this Episode (right-click & Save As), watch it on YouTube or get it through iTunes. This week's guest is Ethan Gilsdorf, writer of *Fantasy Fr...
3 years ago
Tesseract

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3 years ago
No Rest for the Wicked

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3 years ago
Burning Zeppelin Experience

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3 years ago
Tits And a Scream

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3 years ago
The Jovial Priest

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3 years ago
The Steampunk Tribune

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3 years ago
Good Lesbian Books

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3 years ago
The Book of Worlds

NPC: Weekly Roundup No. 3 - Asop van Galgen, prosecutor at the Reichshandelsbureau, is very much the image of the new generation of Wezellian technocrats, carrying his authority wi...
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Alien Shores

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The RPG Corner

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3 years ago
Spell Card!

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3 years ago
Design du Jour

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Swords Against the Outer Dark

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4 years ago
Frog God Games - Tsathogga's Blog

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4 years ago
What Worries Jeff Dee?

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4 years ago
All the Fun Starts After Dark

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Amber Benson's Official Blog

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4 years ago
Passionate About Books

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Vibrant Oxymoron - An Obsessive Society

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4 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

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Bad Librarianship Now!

Worra beauty -
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Dangerous Games

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Zalchis

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Ode to Black Dougal

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Skull Crushing For Great Justice

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Underworld Cleaning Service

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Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul Designer's Blog

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Beyond the North Wind

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GROGNARDIA

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Ramblings of a Gentleman Gamer

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ABRAXAS

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A Pagan Tapestry

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Grudge Monster

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5 years ago
The Gygaxian Bag of Holding

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The Old School Renaissance Group

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5 years ago
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5 years ago
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5 years ago
The Geek Gazette

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6 years ago
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Sublime Depravity

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Heroes of Mystara

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A Borrowed Book of Charms

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

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