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Blue Marked Caves - Caves and mines (both new and old) present themselves frequently in the ancient mountains on each side of the Kanayugára … Continue reading →
3 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

I Think These Comrade Sister Girls Are Trying To Seduce Me - *"Tractor drivers and friends Maria Kiparenko and Sofia Borshch arrived at the call of the Komsomol to develop the virgin lands of Northern Kazakhstan...
4 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Deal of The Day - Lordling: Fantasy Role-Playing Game for Kids (Goblinoid Games) - I'm a huge fan of youth accessible RPG gaming. My niece is now 9, she was 5 when *Swords & Wizardry Light* released. When she realized what I wrote she t...
5 hours ago
Cross Planes

Dungeon Crawl Classics: Session 1 - Due to our DM's wife getting COVID-19 (thoughts and prayers to both them) I'm running a short DCC series for our group. The Characters are level 2 are g...
5 hours ago
Thoul's Paradise

A Jamaican Halfling - Without further comment, I present a missive originally published in *Arak / Son of Thunder* #13 (September 1982):
6 hours ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

- Hope that you are having a great weekend... Only 5 more weeks !!
7 hours ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Tribality.com Fails to Notice Mystara's Incredible Fan Base - Could Mystara be set to return as a published setting by Wizards of the Coast in the near future? Over the last few weeks, the rumor that WotC are planning...
8 hours ago
A Storybook World

Social Distancing Book Signing - How we made this happen. - I was invited by my local library and Friends of the Library non-profit to do a book signing the second week of September. However, this town was unde...
8 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Grindhouse Sci-Fi Horror - Dead Planet: A violent incursion into the land of the living for the MOTHERSHIP Sci-Fi Horror Roleplaying Game is many things. It is a lost ship to encou...
10 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Random Adventurers for Thrice Cursed Megadungeon - So I'm trying to finish this project that is far bigger than I intended. A sprawling multi-faction megadungeon under a ruined city for Patreon. I should ...
10 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Who's Big Bear? - *Who's This? *He who drives the Super-Cycle. *The facts: *Like Beautiful Dreamer who we covered not long ago, Big Bear is a member of the Jacki Kirby's Fore...
18 hours ago
HeroPress

The Joker: Put on a Happy Face (2020) - Discover the origins and evolution of The Joker, and learn why The Clown Prince of Crime is universally hailed as the greatest comic-book supervillain of a...
19 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Shudder Saturday: In Search Of Darkness (2019) - I watched this ridiculously long '80s horror doc on Shudder, despite being warned by people who had already seen it. It's all too familiar stuff, and ult...
22 hours ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Forgotten Depths - Dungeon Crawling Tile Action - So it appears that all I do is pimp out Kickstarters on this blog once every eighty years... ... but this one needs some love. Check it out - Forgotten...
23 hours ago
Gothridge Manor

Revisiting Old Micro-Adventures: The Pig and the Ogre - I've been doing my Patreon since June of 2014. Yep, a way long time. The Pig and the Ogre was my 3rd micro-adventure. It was done on a 4" x 6" notecard...
1 day ago
GRUBB STREET

Plague Books: Operative - *The Big Knockover* by Dashiell Hammett, Selected Stories and Short Novels, edited and with an introduction by Lillian Hellman, Vintage Books, 1989, orig...
1 day ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - For all intents and purposes the prequel trilogy should have covered the Clone Wars. Ever since it was mentioned in *Star Wars *there has been some mys...
1 day ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Times A-Wasting - *AKA Fixin' Kickin' Part Un* [*damn. That reminds me: I was dreaming I was speaking French. Weird*] Twenty years ago today I was married to my wife at th...
1 day ago
Quag Keep

Shadowrun - Cybertechnology -
1 day ago
SciFiChick.com

Unknown9: Genesis – Book Review - Unknown 9: Genesis: Book One of the Genesis Trilogy by Layton Green Synopsis: Strange hallucinations have plagued PhD student Andie Robertson throughout he...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Stonehell: Who's Anish Kapoor? - Session 148 was played on 6/4 Eiric, Magic-User 8 (Kat) Karl, Dwarf 8 (Julia) Boris, Cleric 5 (Jeff) Morgana, Mage 5 (Robert) Wanting to finish off the m...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Buck Rogers XX5e: Venusians - Venusians are a genetically modified strain of humanity, with smaller, closer set ears than is typical for humans of Earth, and a nictating membrane over...
1 day ago
MINION FACTORY

Red Rum! - RED RUM RED RUM Time to relax with a nice glass of rum.
1 day ago
Erotiterrorist

Have You Watched Lovecraft Country? - Lovecraft Country is a television series on HBO. It is the adaptation of the book of the same name. The plot concerns several African-Americans struggling ...
1 day ago
The Armchair Squid

Star Trek: The Bonding - Episode: "The Bonding" Series: *Star Trek: The Next Generation* Season 3, Episode 5 Original Air Date: October 23, 1989 [image: The Bonding (episode) | Mem...
1 day ago
Written In Blood

Let's read a book, and then read another - I'm reminded of the days when I used to take my littles to the park. Every Wednesday at 11am there was Story Time. It was put on by a small group of ente...
1 day ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Stealing Embers by Julie Hall #YALIT #Fantasy - *Series: Fallen Legacies # 1* *Format: Kindle, 393 pages* *Release Date: September 22, 2020* *Publisher: Julie Hall* *Source: Kindle Unlimited* *Genre: Youn...
1 day ago
herding cats & burning soup

4 stars-- Killer Keys (Cozy Corgi Mysteries #10) by Mildred Abbott - Corgis, bookstores, snowstorms, a little romance and celebrating? Ahhhh* Killer Keys*! I loved it! *The Gist: *A family celebration at the local in goes f...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Examining Lovecraft's Influence, Horror as Interior Inspiration, See Each Other in the Darkness - Victor LaValle Examines Lovecraft's Long-Lasting Influence - *Goodreads* I watched 6 aesthetically pleasing horror movies for interior design...
1 day ago
Fantasy Ink

Coloring the Bernie Wrightson Coloring Book - This guy is coloring Bernie Wrightson's *Color the Creature* coloring and doing a hell of a job. Here's a link to his web site and some more examples.
2 days ago
Fabled Lands

Let me be ruled by laws, not by men - "It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules, which is important. Never hold to the letter written, nor allow some barracks room lawyer to ...
2 days ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Richard Taylor (1902 - 70) - The Document - [image: Richard Taylor - The Document] "Although Taylor is most known for his gag cartoons which poked fun at society, and humorous illustrations for a va...
2 days ago
False Machine

Piranesi and Vinland Saga - I experienced two culture things recently which I genuinely enjoyed and thought were good - A RARE EVENT, so I have decided to record and express that une...
2 days ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Supergirl Show Ending With Season Six - The news broke yesterday on multiple sources (like Variety) that the Supergirl show is ending after the sixth season. This sounds like it was a mutua...
2 days ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Situations: Why Not Ability Checks? - Possibly the last follow-up question raised by the Situations: The Basics post would be: Why not use a straight Dexterity or Intelligence check, or other...
2 days ago
Elf Lair Games

Elf Lair Games Partners with Studio 2 Publishing! - Elf Lair Games has officially signed on with Studio 2 Publishing to distribute English language tabletop RPG product, beginning with *Night Shift: Vet...
2 days ago
The Wasted Lands

I Have Partnered with Studio 2 for Night Shift: VSW! - Elf Lair Games has officially signed on with Studio 2 Publishing to distribute English language tabletop RPG product, beginning with *Night Shift: Vetera...
2 days ago
Loudwater

FA #10 Day 25 5/6/1359 DR - The Toll Bridge (battle ongoing - no XP) - Battle 8 cultists, Regdar the hug, Vexx the Cult Fanatic. Vexx Simon N. (GM):GM: Interlude - http://frloudwater.blogspot.com/2020/09/fa-interlude-to-56...
3 days ago
The Troll Dens

A Wizard's Nest - High walls and higher towers marked the palatial fortress. There wizards dwelt, or so it has always been said, pondering the arcane thaumaturgy that is t...
3 days ago
Tower of Zenopus

2020 RPG Contemplation - The Fantasy Options - When I can I like to have two games going so beyond yesterday's Sci-Fi choices there would likely be some kind of fantasy option. There is *always *a ...
4 days ago
Rended Press

Gammarauders (Extremely Tiny) Roleplaying System, Part 3 - Way back in early 2014, I posted about the Gammarauders (Extremely Tiny) Roleplaying System, a supplement/spin-off to the Gammarauders board game. Later ...
4 days ago
Thac0 forever!

7 DM Questions - Saw this on an FB post and thought I'd answer them here. 1) How do you handle a TPK? Players either roll up new characters or take up one of their stabl...
4 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Some Classic Dungeons and Dragons Settings to Return? - It looks like “Dungeons & Dragons Is Bringing Back at Least Three Classic Campaign Settings”: *Dungeons & Dragons* will be revisiting several classic cam...
5 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Advanced Edition Tables with Javascript - I continue to covert over some of the tables I made with Inspiration Pad Pro into Javascript. This time it is the Grenade Scatter tables from the DMG and...
5 days ago
Realms of Chirak

The Secret to Success with Roll20's RNG - It's become something of a joke that Roll20's random number generator for dice doesn't seem to like the players much. The reality is that it's...well......
5 days ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

AlbaCon Dungeon Design Video -
5 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

What Counts as a F*** You Moment? - If there is one principle upon which I submit almost RPGs agree, it is that 'fuck you' moments are weak DMing. They belong in the realm of bad fantasy ga...
5 days ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Batgirl Premium Format Figure - *“Tonight, Gotham belongs to Batgirl.”* The Batgirl Premium Format figure measures 21” tall, as Barbara Gordon drops in from the rooftops, bursting throug...
6 days ago
The Spirits of Eden

Brigands [3.10] - “They’re in trouble already, huh? Just what have you unleashed on the seas, Nagavanshi?” “Capitalism’s contradictions are as inevitable as the surface’s co...
6 days ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

WildChild for AS&SH - With AS&SH still on my mind, I went with the wife to Target. Of course, I had to browse the toy section, I mean I do have a grandson, not that I nee...
6 days ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Succubus Sunday - source
6 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Again, the Giants? - My players are slowly creeping towards the more dangerous areas of the West Marches, now that the lowest level party member (my 6 year old who only sort...
1 week ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

Beyond the Grave - Fans of Golden Age great, *Rudy Palais*, may enjoy this dynamically drippy example of his later, and equally superb Silver Age work, from the June 1967 i...
1 week ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

The Price of Blood - A new mini series by Luke Leiberman (president of Red Sonja LLC) and Walter Geovani, featuring Sonja facing an execution and the story focuses on how ...
1 week ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *PORTADA LES CONTES DU GRIVE * *LES CONTES DU GRIVE COVER * Portada alternativa para la novela gráfica creada por Josselin Billard. Variant cov...
1 week ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Octobriana 1976 - In my ongoing search for great YouTube content on comic books, I came across Cartoonist Kafabe with Ed Piskor. and Jim Rugg, two cartoonists who have wor...
1 week ago
Servitor Ludi

Socially Distant Miscellany - Have I collected some new blogworthy topics in these days of viral isolation? You bet. Let's juxtapose them with the tried and true *"five things make...
1 week ago
I Fly By Night

Blood Games 4 Renaissance+ Tool Box released! - I have been working hard on this supplement which will open up Blood Games 4 like a cactus flower in moonlight! It covers game worlds set in the time be...
1 week ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Why I’m less interested in video games than in the past - When I was teaching videogame development and working on my game design book (Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish, Mcfarla...
1 week ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

A Brave New Game World - As my present project moves ahead, time has come to pick a new map style. Before getting into this, here's a bit of background: the third Gazetteer for Cal...
1 week ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

CoC15: Mosques and Museums - Investigators: - Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast - Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts - B...
1 week ago
destination unknown

Paper Bandits - I quickly sketched some more paper minis while watching the first inning of the Dodgers vs. The Cheating Trashcan Bangers of Houston. From left to right ...
2 weeks ago
The Cryptic Archivist

New English Rule Book for Dark Force - What is Dark Force? Dark Force cards and Master Pack (starter deck) boxes Dark Force was a German collectible card game (CCG) based on the popular fantasy r...
2 weeks ago
[Retro-Z]

9/11... 19 Years! - *No words can ever express that day, it changed us all. I know I felt smaller than I ever have and what ever challenges in my life never will measure ...
2 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Other Viking D&D stuff - Trying to work on the house rules document for my proposed Vikings game, a good set of house rules sets the tone for the game, here I am going for som...
2 weeks ago
deeply shallow

#bookreview: Chosen | T. Sae-Low - [image: Chosen (Prophecy Rock #2)]Chosen by T. Sae-Low My rating: 3 of 5 stars Chosen picks up where Genesis ends: the two Chosen (or Candidates) must furt...
2 weeks ago
Lasgunpacker

US Army Color Tests - As a bit of an escape from painting buildings in Normandy, I did some color tests for the US forces. I was mainly thinking of triads for painting armor aft...
2 weeks ago
Stargazer's World

Bundle Of Holding: Fudge - I have had a soft spot for the Fudge roleplaying game system for quite some time now. Unfortunately several classic Fudge games including the 10th annivers...
2 weeks ago
Justice League Detroit

2016 Vixen Trailer - DC Remixed by Barnes Bros. TV - With a cameo by Green Arrow Connor Hawke....
2 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

Fitting the Great Kingdom onto the Flanaess - Here we go. For fun, take a look at the map below. What you are looking at is one of the best medieval maps of the world, produced in 1154 by geograph...
2 weeks ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Fantasy Miniatures Campaign full deck - In 2014 I did a blog post about my late 70s fantasy miniatures campaign. At the time I could only find half the deck of cards at the core of it, since I...
3 weeks ago
Trollsmyth

Melee Weapons of the FUTURE! - Coming up with hand-to-hand weapons for sci-fi games is fun. You can really let your imagination run wild with options. While what follows are not the ...
3 weeks ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Abstract Combat In AD&D 1st Edition - People have deeply analyzed AD&D, especially the 1st edition, as part of the whole "OSR" project. Some detractors have characterized it as a "Rabbinic...
3 weeks ago
Kidbits

Why...hello there, IWSG! - Hello! And welcome to another round of IWSG! For those of you who don't know, this group meets every month on the first Wednesday of the month to share f...
3 weeks ago
The Warrior Muse

IWSG - Progress - It's the first Wednesday of September, which means we're creeping up on my favorite season of the year: Autumn. It also means it's time for the Insecure...
3 weeks ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Geekerati Reviews: For Coin & Blood 2nd Edition by Gallant Knight Games - In 2018, Gallant Knight Games published a role playing game entitled For Coin & Blood. The game was designed with the intent of capturing the freeform mec...
3 weeks ago
Points of Light

Dungeons & Delvers: Red Book Color Art Update - Some of the fruits of Melissa's labor: All of the black and white books are done. At this point it's just a matter of uploading the files, ordering ...
3 weeks ago
My Old-School Renaissance

Is there a game I can join? - My Arcanum game has dwindled over several years of play to an annual event, and now three of the four kids who were once its greatest enthusiasts are no...
4 weeks ago
Krell Laboratories

The Grant Mystique: The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) - [image: Cary Grant in The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)] In some ways, Cary Grant was a more interesting actor before he cultivated the movie star persona. The...
4 weeks ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

RPGaDay 2020 # 18 Investigate - The last investigative RPG I ran was called InSpectres. I'm sure I've written about it on the blog before. It's a fun, light little horror comedy game th...
4 weeks ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Knights of the Dinner Table and Self-Loathing - Early this year, before the world went all the way to hell, back when we still met people, a friend dropped off his entire collection of Knights of the Din...
4 weeks ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

The Epic Tim Shorts and Rob Conley Joint Interview! - This was a blast! I was finally able to do a joint interview with Tim Shorts of Gothridge Manor, and Rob Conley from Bat in the Attic. They are good frie...
4 weeks ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[Limited Time Offer] Advanced Labyrinth Lord Pumpkin Spice 2020 Cover - *ADVANCED LABYRINTH LORD PUMPKIN SPICE 2020* *From Goblinoid Games* *FOR A LIMITED TIME!* *CLICK HERE TO BUY THE ALL 2020 PUMPKIN SPICE HARDCOVER* The ...
5 weeks ago
Quest for Fun!

Lift Off - I am betting on the U recovery, a downgrade from a V, hopes dashed by a uniquely American belief in personal freedom. A U is a V with a trough filled wit...
5 weeks ago
In Places Deep

The Order of the Elk - The Order of the Elk is a holy order of knights dedicated to the Church of Law. They view themselves as protectors of the race of Man, regardless of their...
5 weeks ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Latest Projects for B/X D&D and/or Old School Essentials: Classes and Subclasses Genre Books - Back at the beginning of 2020, I started creating some new classes for *B/X style D&D*, as I became more interested in *Old School Essentials* (aka OSE, a ...
5 weeks ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

New version of The Petal Hack - I'm doing some updating of The Petal Hack. I'm pulling some things from The Black Hack 2nd Edition, but keeping things mostly the same. The Class Features ...
5 weeks ago
Dreams in the Lich House

LOTFP Review: Fermentum Nigrum Dei Sepulti - *A strange stone, tumbling through the void of endless space and into the secret history of the world… the cursed legacy of a doomed witch’s family… a ...
5 weeks ago
The Grand Tapestry

So, what's up with this ARGUS reboot? & Other Stuff (including health references) - Current situationI have a very talented artist producing colour faction iconics, but since he has a very serious real-life job, and I only have monthly fun...
1 month ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week D&D Artwork: Rime of the Frostmaiden - I'm kinda excited about this next D&D campaign book, set in Icewind Dale, the frozen north of the Forgotten Realms made famous in the books of R.A. Sa...
1 month ago
The OSR Library

Still Alive - It's been a crazy year since the last post. I got married last Halloween. Yay! My diabetes kicked my ass. Boo! I've been in physical decline since bef...
1 month ago
Dynasty Zero

B/X Combined - There is a way to get a printed copy of a B/X Combined book through Lulu. You combine the B/X PDFs into one document as suggested on page X3 in the Expe...
1 month ago
The Savage AfterWorld

[GameHack] Improving Game Pieces For Reanimator By Dynamite Entertainment - One of my favorite hobbies is playing boardgames. One of my favorite side-hobbies is tinkering with or improving those same games. I'll create new content ...
1 month ago
LotFP: RPG

August Update! - Orders were extremely heavy after the new titles went on sale (see the previous post), to the point that July 2020 was the biggest month sales-wise that Lo...
1 month ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Ø2\\‘3|| is coming! Start playing in a dystopian future September 2020 - Assuming the world is still standing (2020 being 2020), we have good chances of publishing Ø2\\‘3|| late September. Almost written, almost completely edite...
1 month ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

1d6 Random Sword & Sorcery Mystical Treasures Table - Treasures fall through the cracks of history & the wily hands of adventurers. The hoard of the dragon gives way to the the leer of kings, taxmen, & even th...
1 month ago
Monster Island News

Retro Saturday Morning: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959 - 64)(ABC/NBC) - The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends is the blanket title for an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19...
2 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

Subtle Genius - I have long been enamored of the d6 HD/d6 weapon damage paradigm. It essentially models the notion that death is always one good damage roll away. Unless, ...
2 months ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

On Extended Hiatus - *James Mishler Games is on hiatus.* *We will be back when we are back.* *Take care, and stay safe!*
2 months ago
Strange Magic

Ranger Character Class for B/X D&D - Rangers are human fighters who patrol the wilderness protecting the civilized lands from the encroachment of evil humanoids. They are skilled in woodcraft,...
2 months ago
Genius Loci

Dungeon Creation with DungeonDraft -
2 months ago
Ostensible Cat

One Page Dungeon Contest - I threw my hat in the ring this year for the One Page Dungeon contest and am pretty excited about it. Not for the thrill of winning, but for the sheer act ...
2 months ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

Happy July 1st IWSG!!! - [image: IWSG Badge] Taking time from blogging and focusing on teaching had been good for me, but I'm ready to ...
2 months ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

The Halls of Arden Vul Complete Nominated for an ENNie award! - Proud to say that The Halls of Arden Vul Complete (the PDF version of AV) has been nominated for Best Adventure for the 2020 ENNies. To celebrate, I'm runn...
2 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

One Page Dungeon Contest 2020: Stela Obliterata - In these pandemic times, I have summoned seven redoubtable players from my previous one-shot games and campaigns to join in a weekly online game, following...
2 months ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

To his friend... - 3 new OVC comics every week, only on my Patreon! Become a Patron!
3 months ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

I Tried, I Really, Really Did. - As any long-time reader of this blog knows, I've been playing role playing games for just under 40 years. (Yikes!) In that time, I've played dozens of game...
3 months ago
Troll and Flame

3D Virtual Ramesses VI Tomb / Tomb of Horrors - This Tomb of Ramesses is amazing in it's own right. So much surviving hieroglyphics and decoration. It gave me waves of nostalgia and anxiety from going do...
3 months ago
The House of Little Fears

FunSizedGames, Book Orders, and the Future of Little Fears - Hello, everyone! I know it’s been forever. I apologize for the extended radio silence for the past–well, for a while now. Some of you are aware of what my ...
3 months ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

NTRPG CON XII LIVE BLOG DAY 5.1 - Last game of the con: Mike Kelly's *Traveller - End of the Imperium*.
3 months ago
Armchair Gamer

Star Hero: Terran Empire Tactics - Rather than diving headlong into my gaming group's homebrew campaign, I decided to make a quick visit to one of the official Star Hero settings -- closest ...
3 months ago
Ode to Black Dougal

The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon - As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1. This isn't ...
3 months ago
Tankards & Broadswords

The Map for my Current DnD Campaign - So maybe two months ago, when we all realized that lockdown wasn't just going to last a couple of weeks, a number of us agreed to try playing a Dungeons an...
3 months ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

The Great Paths - Astral SeaBest known and most used of the Great Paths, the so-called Astral Plane surrounds the Wyrld. Anyone with knowledge can open a portal (known as...
4 months ago
A Very Creepy Blog

My Top Skywald Stories - Many years back when I covered Warren I made a post of my favorite Warren stories; now the time has come to do the same for Skywald. For Warren it was fair...
4 months ago
All Games Considered

Armor Goes Clank 022 May 9, 2020 (A Scientist, An Explorer, and A Diplomat) (1:04:29) - A Nobel winner, a bunch of awesome games, and a desert monster walk into a bar... -- Download mp3 ( 21.6 MB) *Show links* - Fridtjof Nansen - Battl...
4 months ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

The Void - *Void, the spaces between galaxy filaments that contain no galaxies. Void, a pore that remains unoccupied in a composite material. Void, synonym for vac...
4 months ago
5 Stone Games

So what do you want to play that you haven't played? - My list is pretty short The Fantasy Trip. Its sort of GURPS 1/2 for the uninitiated, simpler but still quite familiar and with its own charms. Werewolf. E...
4 months ago
STUFFER SHACK

“ROLEPLAYING: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG” - So, you have your character… some extremely talented wizard with maxed-out Intelligence. 18 or 19 is pretty high, right? And their name is… Grandalf (tr...
5 months ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

A Look Inside the New Deadlands Kickstarter - This isn't a normal "Tommy's Take", because I don't have a full book in front of me, but a review copy of the new Deadlands book on Kickstarter right now. ...
5 months ago
World of Ortix

World of Ortix on Instagram! - CLICK ME Today I created an IG account for my geeky activities, mostly the ones connected to all my blogging/RPG-related stuff. Of course, I will still *t...
5 months ago
Kaijuville

Pandemic blogging - If you're here from DIY & Dragons, welcome, and thank you! It has been a while since I updated here, even before the pandemic hit. I've been working from h...
5 months ago
People them with Monsters

Character Sheet for 5E - I was up late last night enjoying the quiet in my house and looking for a way to entertain myself. I decided to make this character sheet in Excel that gav...
5 months ago
SWORD & SHIELD

DIE 20! - Blame the stay at home order if you like. Well you cannot blame it for what this is. I guess the social distancing and stay at home order gave me uninter...
5 months ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - All Good Things Must Have a Beginning - It has been quite some time since last I posted here on the blog and a lot has changed. 2019 ended and 2020 began, my 1E AD&D face-to-face campaign came t...
5 months ago
Hill Cantons

The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons - And now the News... In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...
6 months ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Howlin' Wolf Records: "THE JACK IN THE BOX" music by Christoph Allerstorfer - *Howlin' Wolf Records proudly presents Christoph Allerstorfer's score for THE JACK IN THE BOX. In early discussions with the composer, Director Lawrenc...
6 months ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Gamma World: Wasteland Weirdos - This post is basically just an image dump to use for ideas for Gamma World....
6 months ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

Parker updates - Cal here. Apologies for the lack of updates on here. I fall into the category of "too lazy to update anything but facebook" people and am working hard to c...
6 months ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

Hate hijackers ...but here is a couple of new and old pieces - have been inundated by lots of hijackers using my little blog to spew their own agendas - personally, besides saying, 'piss off' they should find there own...
6 months ago
Dyvers

Closing Comments. - Due to the influx of spam comments on Dyvers I am closing the comments. I'm not currently doing anything with this blog, but I don't want to see the commen...
7 months ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Reevaluating My RPG Gamer (NON) Life - CAUTION LANGUAGE! *After the 4E Apocalypse and the OSR* Well my old group from back in 2006-2009, well some of the people started to suck and make it n...
7 months ago
Back to the Keep

Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...
7 months ago
Forgotten Runes

Kickstarter Update 2020 - I am trying to get my Kickstarter progress report for the things I backed out a little earlier this year. I am trying to scale back, but 5e world expansio...
7 months ago
Robert Atkins Art

Robert Atkins Pencil Samples GI JOE 2020 - Robert Atkins Pencil Samples GI JOE A Real American Hero, Jan 2020 robertq.atkins@gmail.com
7 months ago
Gaming Ronin

Power 10 for 5E D&D. - As I play more and more fantasy role-playing games, especially D20 variants, I find that some of my favorites are the ones that boil the entire leveling ex...
8 months ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

WARBAND! Wednesday: Combat Round Sequence Of The 41st Millennium - *Here's the first of potentially several posts about Mike Davison's WARBAND! This time, I show off how we re-jiggered the round sequence as well as a few ...
8 months ago
Cyclopeatron

Gen Con 2019 - Pictures and Brief Recap - Last August me and my local gaming pals, Steve Ellis and Matt Ryan, made a road trip to Gen Con. Steve is an artist who does the excellent Only Living Boy ...
8 months ago
Wild West History

Lotta Crabtree, Protege of Lola Montez - [image: Lotta Crabtree.] *Lotta Crabtree. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. I love the contrasts in this photo, the sweet innocence of her expres...
8 months ago
EXONAUTS!

New Year's Day Tradition: Saving the Galaxy! - In what's become a bit of a tradition now around New Year's Day, the Geeklet and returned to Fantasy Flight Games in Roseville to play our homebrew Star Wa...
8 months ago
Mesmerized by sirens

PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB! - My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
9 months ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

SERBIAN WOMEN ARE WAITING TO PLAY D&D WITH YOU! - The following story is 100% true. It'll sound dubious at first, but no -- it's legit. I've changed names to protect privacy blah blah, and I'm paraphrasing...
9 months ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, ... - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, ...: LINK to Description and Ordering: https://www.tlbgames.com/colle...
9 months ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, TSR's Co-Founder Now Available - LINK to Description and Ordering: https://www.tlbgames.com/collections/the-red-book-line/products/merlynd-the-magician
9 months ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Counter-magic, Anti-magic, Dispel Magic USING SPELLS - OK, long time no post. :) Sorry about that. I've been busy running several back-to-back RPG campaigns (every other week for years...) and I've had some ...
10 months ago
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things

Wargaming Wednesday: Blood Cross Chapter - Well, I'm a month behind already. ~sigh~ I'll just have to get better. As usual, Amazon affiliate links at the end. A Tactical Battle Brother of the Blood ...
10 months ago
Lawful Indifferent

D&D is a game about resources - Sometimes it pretends to be a game about stories, or adventures, but it isn’t. It’s a game about what you have- hit points, weapons, armor, spells, gold, a...
10 months ago
Dorkland!

My Life With Cyberpunk Gaming - photo by cheng feng While I had read a few of his short stories in OMNI without knowing really who he was, my introduction to William Gibson came when I pi...
10 months ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Benevolent Review Tour - *Blurb:* A story about the purpose of life, the healing power of fandom, and the resilience of the human spirit. Tormented by the in-crowd at school on a ...
10 months ago
The Whole Wide World

FINAL HOURS on my new Kickstarter. Please pledge! - Well, folks, I'm in the final hours of my Kickstarter and we're about $404 shy of funding. I'm hitting my networks in a last ditch effort to raise that fin...
10 months ago
A Coffee Driven & Adventure Bound Life

Kenali Lebih Dahulu Gejala Asam Urat - Janganlah kira sepele perih sendi yang terjalin dengan cara seketika pada pagi hari. Itu pertanda asam pembuluh, serta Kamu butuh mempersiapkan obat asam p...
10 months ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea ...
11 months ago
Gamers & Grognards

Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
1 year ago
Ellen Dugan's Blog of Witchery

Ellen Dugan Cruise in 2020! - Yes, you read that right. We are doing an Ellen Dugan Author Cruise in October 2020! Departing from New Orleans with lots of enchanting activities. The nig...
1 year ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

Another link dump. - People still think that Disney bought tickets for CM. Captain Marvel Release date: Friday, March 8, 2019 Search-string “captain marvel empty theatres” Abou...
1 year ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

Subway Crawl Classics - Preliminary Thoughts - So, Dungeon Crawl Classics is my game these days, and we have been toying with playing the game in non-standard settings, such as the Age of Enlightenment....
1 year ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

Hail Jeff Rients, Howdy Timothy Brannan and Hello Nigeria! - Nearly eight years after last posting, I decided to crank this old Model T up again. Because reasons. What's fascinating to me is how many views I got: a...
1 year ago
Wishful Gaming

2019 RPGaDay 21: Vast - Vast The potential experiences available to RPG-players is vast. When one considers the number of genres, sub-genres, character-types, races, classes, gen...
1 year ago
She Never Slept

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
1 year ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
1 year ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

Tales To Flabbergast Presents... ZZZAP, SON OF ZZZAX!!! - *ZZZAP, SON OF ZZZAX* *STATISTICS* *F GD (10)* *A IN (40)* *S GD (10)* *E IN (40)* *R FB (2)* *...
1 year ago
Toyriffic

My Little Pony Stranger Things Upside-Down Applejack - Target has been in the reissued My Little Pony game for a while now. I've been paying them mild attention because my youngest daughter is getting into M...
1 year ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

Lots of Microlite20/74/5e Goodness - I have recently discovered Brian Mathers’ blog, The Gnomish Embassy. Brain’s blog has a large number of posts for Microlite20 in general although his Micro...
1 year ago
Teach Game Design

Another way for Udemy to screw things up - Udemy now expires all free coupons older than 30 days. This is to prevent "coupon abuse", though they don't say what that actually is. It's in Udemy's inte...
1 year ago
Spirit of the Blank

[DFAE] Ace Squadron: L'il Tweaks - [image: Related image] So those Ace Squadron games a couple weeks ago went well! But it was also clear that I needed to make some tweaks, much to the appar...
1 year ago
Age of Ravens

Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other charac...
1 year ago
Rather Gamey

. . . Aaand an Experiment with Color Copics -
1 year ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

Bestiary By Kids For Kids... Mostly - I once ran a game of Dagger (kid-friendly OSR clone compatible with most old rules) for my kids. They still remember it. Thinking back on that gave me an i...
1 year ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video - A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We miss you! To view video, click here Memorial Video Note - The original video...
1 year ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

New content! New look! New locale! - What comes first? The dungeon or the wilderness? https://mythopoeicrambling.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/leveling-up-and-world-building/
1 year ago
ABRAXAS

A commentary by Dr. Tommaso Tamihatco on certain excerpts of "A Little Diary that Fell from the Moon," by Fr. Filippo Dell'Amore - Tommaso Tamihatco, Man of Letters, Snakebird Clan* I look down on an earth rotating from Fifth to Sixth. I see Tseen Tsang crack open. From the mouth of...
1 year ago
Middenmurk

Bestiary of the Fabled Occident - A long time ago I started to put together a bestiary. I've pursued various other projects in the time since but I still have a fair bit of material I'd lik...
1 year ago
A Life Full of Adventure

Goodbye Blogger/Blogspot World! - Not only is Google+ riding into the sunset, but I have also established a new blog so as not to be caught unawares the next time Google wants to take a pro...
1 year ago
House of Self-Indulgence

The Amateurs (Usama Alshaibi, 2003) - I don't remember François Truffaut or Karen Finley being mentioned in any of Ed Powers' depressing Dirty Debutantes movies. But then again, I haven't s...
1 year ago
19th Level

Stepping Away and a New Beginning - After maintaining this blog for nearly seven years (an eternity in internet time), I've decided to step away from it. When I first began I wasn't 100% c...
1 year ago
Howling Tower

Chase Scene Variations - Chase scenes (like many other RPG situations) are easy to over-orchestrate. If you find yourself planning where every pushcart and baby-toting mother will...
1 year ago
Under Siege

Board Game Overload! - As a kid growing up, I liked playing board games and cards. Up to the age of 12 or 13, most of this sort of gaming was confined to the likes of Monopoly,...
1 year ago
Little Gothic Horrors

Groovy Gothic - In October, 2018, I opened a new shop on Etsy called Groovy Gothic. I have big plans for my little GG, which means I need to devote more time to nurturing...
1 year ago
Spellmaking

The Last Post - This is the last post on my old Blogger-powered website and blog. It's served me well for quite a few years, but I decided it was time to move on to greate...
1 year ago
What Worries Jeff Dee?

Tabletop RPGs offer living, infinite worlds - I enjoy computer RPGs (CRPGs) like Skyrim, but one can't escape their finite maps or even just pick up a grain of sand. Tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs) lack those ...
1 year ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

GM BURNOUT, and how I fix mine - [image: Image result for burnout] Doctors get a lot of burnout: long hours, lots of regs, busted technology, and patients with problems they cannot solve. ...
1 year ago
Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

Christmas Eve with Full Moon Entertainment 2018 - Christmas Eve is here again! This is a night of personal and family traditions, and I have several of my own. Now after a year hiatus, the Amazing RPG Fun ...
1 year ago
Mythmere's Blog

Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not doin...
1 year ago
Beholder Pie

Here Be Dungeons 21: Ataaz Muhahah - My final draft design of Ataaz Muhahah - the "Laughing Gorge" - developed for Wizards of the Coast's "Tomb of Annihilation". Oh, how I wish I'd come up wi...
1 year ago
Aggregate Cognizance

Moving to WordPress - This particular blog actually started on WordPress a very long time ago, but at the time I wasn't enamored of WordPress' functionality and Blogger was at l...
1 year ago
Greyhawk Grognard

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

A lighthearted open letter to Greyhawk fans. - Let me start by saying I don't dislike Greyhawk. I play in a current AD&D 2nd ed. game set in that setting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor also, as the settings de...
1 year ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

My new blog: devilghost.com - For months, I’ve been slowly moving entries from my old blog (here) to my new blog. I want to escape Blogger both because of technology preferences (I li...
1 year ago
Close Encounters with the Night Kind

Giveaway with Sandra Bunino and her latest : Platinum - Today we are celebrating the release of Sandra Bunino's PLATINUM, a thrilling and sexy new contemporary romance! Check out the buy link and teasers for th...
2 years ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

Review: Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero's Handbook - Most of y'all know that superheroes is kind of my best genre. Certainly the gaming I've done the most of and (I'd like to think) know the most about. I've ...
2 years ago
My Baffling Brain

WEP August - Change of Heart - So I actually wrote this piece for April's WEP, but I was ill so didn't get to post it in the end. I'm quite glad, as it suits this month's theme so much m...
2 years ago
The Omnipotent Eye

Long overdue closing down message - Friends. I guess if you see this in you notifications or feed reader you will be quite surprised. This blog have now been dormant for a long time, and much...
2 years ago
A Paladin In Citadel

The Fantasy Trip Kickstarter: A Good Deal? - After 35 years, Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games has finally re-acquired the rights to The Fantasy Trip, the tactical fantasy combat and light rolepl...
2 years ago
Asshat Paladins

Actual Play: Firefly "Old War Horses" Session 4 The Three-Body Problem - Session 4: The Three-Body Problem Friday, December 8, 2017 Dramatis Personae: - *Captain Ramsey Zook*, played by K - *General Samuel Zook*, played by...
2 years ago
the musings of huginn and muninn

In the merry merry month of May... - Beltane was low-key this year. It was my coven's off-week, so I relaxed at home with my husband and did some divination. The following weekend was Grove of...
2 years ago
The Groovy Age of Horror

Zordon N. 38: Terzo Millennio (Third Millennium), published in October, 1976 - Remember Vursals, the mind-controlling winged space lions? Well, after conquering the home planet of the peaceful Dikters, they ate so much Dikter flesh ...
2 years 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. ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
3 years 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 years 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 ...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he was...
3 years 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 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
3 years ago
Fustians so Sublimely Bad...

- I love that he looks exactly like would would think a young Patton Oswalt looks like.
3 years 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...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Barbaric Frontier

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3 years 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...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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 ...
4 years 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...
4 years 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 ...
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years ago
Dungeon's Master

10 Most Common Mistakes DMs and Players Make in 5e D&D - If you’re like me you’ve been playing D&D a long time and 5e is not your introduction to this wonderful game. And if you’re like me you haven’t read every ...
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years ago
Purple Duck Games

Moving - The Purple Duck Games blog can now be found here.
4 years 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...
4 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...
4 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?
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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, ...
5 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!
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Ramblings of Sheldon

This Is Something I Never Wanted to Do, But I Need Help..... - Asking for money is something I don't feel comfortable with at all. I have never put a PayPal donate button on my blog, or made an appeal for money myself....
5 years ago
Me-anders

I MADE IT! YAY! - There it is, kids. I got my fifty-thou' in just now and am going to promptly dunk my hands into a bucket of bengay. This is, for those of you keeping tra...
5 years ago
Geek's Elixir

Believe in YOUR Passion - the Comic Life - Is it just me or does it seem like 2014 has taken wings and flew on by! Looking at a calendar is almost scary now. I remember a time when hours seemed l...
5 years ago
The Age of Reason -- 21st Century

DEATH COMES TO ALL - I just learned that my first wife who divorced me mainly because I would not tow the line to the religion I had fallen for earlier in life is on her death ...
5 years ago
TBR

City of Toys "Excerpt" - City of Toys by Lindy Hudis What would *you* do to become famous in Hollywood? In *City of Toys,* four beautiful women confront that very question. It ta...
6 years ago
Forgotten Classics of Yesteryear

I've Moved!! - Hello everyone! You might have noticed that I haven't updated in a while. The reason why was because I have moved to a new website! I'm now writing for Th...
6 years ago
Victorian Adventure Enthusiast

post - Originally posted by *sepiachord* at post sepiachord sepiachord.comSource: Best Steampunk Bands on Ranker http://www.sepiachord.com/index/best-steampunk-ba...
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Grognardling

Consolidating - Readers of this blog will know that I'm into heavily homebrewing my campaign. If I were running games right now, I'd be running a weird cross between S&W a...
6 years ago
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...
6 years ago
Cavalcade of Perversions

- Hi!
6 years ago
Scrolls of the PlatinumWarlock

The Warlock's (Double) Review: Zombicide and Ghost Stories - I've made no bones about the fact that, because of my work on demoing *Cold Steel Wardens*, my time at gaming conventions has significantly changed. At th...
6 years ago
Thoughtcrime Inc.

Sharkraptors and Space Cadets - Hey, I have a blog! Who knew?! Yeah, I know. It's been about a year since I last posted anything, and there's a few good reasons for it. So in the last y...
6 years ago
The Grim Reader

Shepperton Screams! THE MONSTER CLUB (1981) - *Shepperton Screams is a continuing series being hosted here and at **Nessun timore** where the horrific oeuvre of Amicus Studios is discussed in full by...
6 years ago
Ivory Underworld

Sapphire Beach - Beeeaaauuutiful beach shots by Tony Lin - Playing with Shadows - taken in Australia last November. How gorgeous is that light??!!
6 years ago
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...
6 years ago
Tesseract

It gets better - I went to visit a friend and her two-day-old daughter, a tiny pink bundle topped with a full head of thick black hair. After a sad end to her previous preg...
6 years ago
No Rest for the Wicked

THE LES DANIELS BLOG TOUR: Getting Graphic: What Les Daniels Did (and Meant) for Comic Books - Guest Blog by Matt Bechtel of Necon E-Books Our host today, Christopher Golden, has been amazing in his support of our Blog Tour and has gone out of his wa...
6 years ago
Burning Zeppelin Experience

We Blog - We Live! - Blogging, yo. I still do it. I'm not going to waste pixels on "blah blah blah, here's why I've been gone for oh so many years." I'm going to get right back...
6 years ago
Tits And a Scream

Women in Horror Month – An Interview - Luckily, I am far, *far* from the only person preoccupied with the gender dynamics of the horror genre. I constantly discover new and different approaches ...
6 years ago
The Jovial Priest

My FIVE favourite house rules - Two more rules added and then republished to my last 'Three favourite rule' post. 29th August 2013: "Long time no post. Life, work, other priorities. But ...
6 years ago
The Steampunk Tribune

The Final Edition of the Steampunk Tribune - *My home in the Steamlands, New Babbage Travel photo #3, * *by Mr. A.E. Cleanslate* Yes, the header is correct. After much deliberation and consultation,...
6 years ago
Good Lesbian Books

YA Book Review: Darkness of Morning by Samantha Boyette - *Darkness of Morning by Samantha Boyette *is a young adult fantasy novel. The second in the Guardian of Morning series, it follows the relationship and o...
6 years ago
Alien Shores

Monster Monday: Mirror Demon - *Just in time for Halloween... * *Mirror Demon* *No. Enc.: *1 *Size: *Medium *HD: *5 (d12) *Move: *30 ft *AC: *18 *Attacks: *Grapple (1d6) *Special:* Reduc...
6 years ago
The RPG Corner

[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
6 years ago
Spell Card!

Superheroes don't get their due - *It should come as a shock to no one that I'm a huge fan of superheroes.* In fact, I've often thought about retooling this blog to be more of a "spells and...
6 years ago
Design du Jour

How to add a Vignette border to your blog background - This is a great effect which adds depth to a webpage or blog. From my experience, it completely changes a drab website to something deeper i.e. a layere...
7 years ago
Swords Against the Outer Dark

Cthulhu vs. The Vikings Kickstarter - I wanted to point out an interesting project on Kickstarter which is live right now called, Cthulhu vs. The Vikings. Those who have followed this blog for ...
7 years ago
Frog God Games - Tsathogga's Blog

- Hey all…here it comes, and soon. In about two weeks, Frog God Games will begin its new Kickstarter on the next installment of the temple of elemental….I me...
7 years ago
All the Fun Starts After Dark

Free Ebooks for Kindle - *ADULT CONTENT WARNING: * BDSM means bondage, Dominance/submission, sadomasochism, and other kink-related things. If you prefer close-door "vanilla" sex i...
7 years ago
Passionate About Books

Living Rooms George Street Edinburgh - The Living Room Restaurant Reviews, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ...The Living Room Restaurant Reviews, Edinburgh, United KingdomFine Dining in George Street ...
7 years ago
Vibrant Oxymoron - An Obsessive Society

Gold Key Star Trek Comic Issue 2 Tyvek Mighty Wallet - A few months ago, I was working at my job when my best friend came over and told me that she had gotten something for me and gave me the most amazing walle...
7 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
7 years ago
Bad Librarianship Now!

Worra beauty -
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Dangerous Games

A Recommendation -- Toolcards - One of the things I've been avoiding for the past year or so is Kickstarter. I've been happy to make myself available to friends as a stretch goal, as if g...
7 years ago
Zalchis

Zalchis Endures...For Now... - What Once Was...Is No More.Everything is Permitted. Anything is Negotiable. Nothing is Inevitable.The Worlds are Broken, Lost or Forgotten.The Stars are De...
7 years ago
Skull Crushing For Great Justice

I don't need to post anymore - Because you can just read this sort of crap. Or, instead of wasting ten minutes of your life, you could play a game. Fuck, I don't want to harp on this sh...
7 years ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

2012 - a great year of just plain gaming - With the Temple of Demogorgon 4 year anniversary just this last week, I thought it might a good time to talk about some of my gaming from the last year (...
7 years ago
Underworld Cleaning Service

Large List of RPG Items for Sale - I've decided to sell off a bunch of my RPG products, so if you're interested either comment to this post or shoot me an email at gvaughn1@gmail.com. You c...
7 years ago
Capes, Cowls and Villains Foul Designer's Blog

Detriment Dice - Sorry I've been absent, game has been released, we've Kickstarted a huge villain book, and when I say we, Cynthia has asked me to come on board as a Spectr...
7 years ago
Beyond the North Wind

AS&SH Resource: Masks - From Ghul's FB page: "Masks" is the newest downloadable resource created by Colin Chapman for the AS&SH game. It is a 4-page PDF document that provides a m...
7 years ago
Ramblings of a Gentleman Gamer

2295 Stellar Survey - Appendix F (Anomolies & Restricted Worlds) - Captain's Log, U.S.S. _________, H_____ S___, commanding... We have completed our remote survey of stellar system ZA-9748PJF, usually known as the Zelazny ...
8 years ago
A Pagan Tapestry

Happy Ostara - Ostara is my favorite Sabbat. And I am certainly not the only one (even though my basic practice is rooted in Celtic beliefs with an overlay of Bast). L...
8 years ago
Grudge Monster

Nightclub - Modern Map - I made this map, using Campaign Cartographer 3, some years ago for my BTVS rpg campaign. I remember the slayer character turning hand-springs on the bar. A...
8 years ago
The Gygaxian Bag of Holding

Dave Trampier Thursday - Goblin - For my money Trampier's version of the Goblin is the definitive one. Page 47 of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual. Every thing about th...
8 years ago
The Old School Renaissance Group

Good News! The OSR at GenCon Again! - I'm passing along a post by Bill Barsh of Pacesetter Games & Simulations... :-) I would like to announce that for the second straight year, there will be ...
8 years ago
The Blighted World of Zaoth

Androids and Robots of Zaoth - Eons ago, before their attempts at creating life, the Ancient Ones delved into advanced forms of science creating androids and robots to act as servants. ...
8 years ago
The Geek Gazette

Quick comic recommendations and reviews - There are a lot of really great comics out there and with the changes at Marvel & DC there is a lot to be excited about for comic book fans. Here are a few ...
9 years ago
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements

Old things and rare my treasures are. - *Survivors beyond memoryOld things and rare my treasures are.Times folded gates, fast closed to me,These lonely sentinels unbar.Years do no...
9 years ago
Sublime Depravity

If I were not an Atheist, I'd call it Kismet - I have not posted here in over a year. Sorry to all you folks, but I think many of you follow me on Adventures in Nerdliness, so know I am not dead. I was ...
9 years ago
Heroes of Mystara

Night's Dark Terror Conversion XVIII- Threshold NPCs - [image: Photobucket] Sergeant Arthol Fighter 4/Marshall 1, medium sized human, CR 5; HD 4d10+1d8+10; HP 42; Initiative +4; Speed 20; AC 18 (touch 12, flat 1...
9 years ago
A Borrowed Book of Charms

Full Moon Cleansing Ritual - First clean your ritual space, get rid of any clutter, clean and dust the area. *Lay out the items you need.* Cauldron or other heat proof container Whit...
9 years ago
Adventures in Gaming

More Dreaming Games - I'm trying to get this down while the dream is still fresh and has not yet faded, so it won't be very coherent... The dream started in Washington, DC, wher...
10 years ago
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