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June's Picture Parade... -
15 minutes ago
The Armchair Squid

On the Coffee Table: Rick Riordan - Title: *The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)* Author: Rick Riordan via AmazonOur daughter loves mythology and is quite knowledgeable...
15 minutes ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

First Blood - Blood Dark Thirst playtest - I had a "working lunch" with a couple of my friends and gaming buddies today. I'm so strapped for face-to-face roleplaying time that I decided to combin...
1 hour ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Feats at 1st Level in 5e Dungeons and Dragons - *5e D&D* has a better implementation of feats than any previous edition, but unless your character is the human variant you can take a feat until you reac...
1 hour ago
Gizmo's Reviews

Wednesday #Review - The Last Descendant by Megan Haskell #Fantasy @MeganPHaskell ‏ - *Series: Sanyare Chronicles # 1* *Format: Kindle, 312 pages* *Release Date: August 1, 2016* *Publisher: Trabuco Ridge Press* *Source: Amazon* *Genre: Fantas...
1 hour ago
herding cats & burning soup

3.5 stars-- On the Plus Side (A Perfect Fit #2) by Alison Bliss - Curvy heroines and the heroes who pant after every luscious curve. Sign me up! A bit of sass, a whole lotta sexy and a touch of family drama? Oh, yeah, *O...
1 hour ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Ladies,There Is Room For Every Girl On Badass Island - Both of these things are true. You must see KUNG FU HUSTLE in all it's badly dubbed glory. It's the comedy martial arts combat movie you have been waiti...
1 hour ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Tenkar's Tavern Crowdsourced Wand of Wonder - Winners and Effect Table - What follows is *The Tenkar's Tavern Crowdsourced Wand of Wonder*. I have edited some of the entries for consistency and occasional balance as well as to m...
2 hours ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

HAUNTED HORROR #28: Black Knights of Evil! vs. The Avenging Corpse - In stores this week-- ugh!-- *HAUNTED HORROR #28* creeps into comic shops on the 28th with a toxic dose of ghastly grim tales to leave you glowing and blow...
5 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Blood Drive: Episodes I and 2 - I've now watched the first two episodes of Blood Drive. SyFy's homage to VHS grindhouse flicks is quite entertaining. I don't know if I'd call this a revie...
6 hours ago
World of Ortix

Legends of Krshal - sample entry (II) - CLICKY! *34. To date, seventeen people has committed suicide in front of a large, old sculpture standing to one side of the Black Cat Gate. All of them c...
6 hours ago
Minding Spot

The Dinner Party by Brenda Janowitz - *This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes, there will be a quick service and then a festive meal afterwards, but this night is different fr...
9 hours ago
Gamers & Grognards

Go Fund Me and Auction To Help For Fantasy/OSR Artist Mona Dowie - OSR Artist, Mona Dowie is in need of some help. For those who don't know Mona is a fantasy artist and wife of OSR Blogger +William Dowie (Ramblings of a Gr...
10 hours ago
False Machine

The Wreckers - The waters around Wir-Heal wash upon Strange Eons and the ships from these shattered realities are often wrecked upon its shore. Wrecked a bit more often t...
10 hours ago
A character for every game

My Private Jakalla – Map 1L - Why not finish off the month with a second map for the Tekumel undercity – a small section of old … Continue reading →
11 hours ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Jada Nano Metalfigs- Batman the Animated - Check out my post and video on this Jada Batman the Animated Nano Metalfig over at Batman The Animated Toys Blog! I bought a few other Nano Metalfigs tha...
15 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Super-Sons #5 - *Super Sons #5* came out this week and was something of a coda for the first Kid Amazo arc as Jon and Damian deal with the punishments meted out by their...
17 hours ago
Quag Keep

ICE - Cyberspace: Chicago Arcology - *From the Back of the Book:* *"A sickly yellow-brown haze smothers the south-western coastline of Lake Michigan. Radioactive sludge washes up on Chicago...
18 hours ago
SciFiChick.com

Book Review: And Then There Were Four - And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin Synopsis: When a building collapses around five teenagers—and they just barely escape—they know something strange ...
19 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Hero Points Ep. 6: Green Ronin's DC Adventures RPG - When this show started, we said it wouldn't just be Mayfair's DC Heroes RPG, that other systems would get covered. So the Lonely Hearts' Furn joins Siskoi...
20 hours ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Unexpected Over-Night Guest... - Will be up all night (at Spore).... Can get some rest.... After he is picked up for work in the morning... (he is one of those "Bad G...
21 hours ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Flood Excerpt Tour - *Blurb:* Drawn together by their love of animals, Aria DeLuca and Caleb Hawkins burn for each other. They never suspected that malignant forces were succe...
23 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

d100 Goblin Tribes and Their Customs - Goblins are the the most common faerie kin and the most adaptable of the humanoids, rapidly mutating and adapting to environments and breeding rapidly ...
1 day ago
In Places Deep

Mastering the Megadungeon - Several months ago I got the idea for this post when a person on the Swords & Wizardry G+ group asked for advice on making a megadungeon. I have two - N...
1 day ago
Points of Light

Dwarven Forge: Castle Preview Part 1 - We finally got our Dwarven Forge castle set plus some other bits and stretch goal stuff last week. It's pretty easy to paint so we got the entire castle pa...
1 day ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Red Sonja #9 -
1 day ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Tree Megadungeon and the Mythic Upperworld - About this time last year I had the idea of creating a megadungeon inside a gigantic tree. For some reason today that idea came back to me, spiraling up ...
1 day ago
OEF

Freebooters Review on Save or Die! - The Save or Die podcast reviewed our Age of Pirates old-school roleplaying game Freebooters! And they really gush about it, I'm almost embarrassed, but g...
1 day ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

While discussing friendships... - For a limited time, get the 400 page COMPLETE Our Valued Customers for only $25!* http://ourvaluedcashgrab.blogspot.com/*
1 day ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Birds of Prey Variants - *Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #1 (2016)* *"Dead of Night"* *Variant by Kamome Shirahama* *Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #4 (2016)* *"Waiting for This Mome...
1 day ago
[Retro-Z]

First we gonna rock, then we gonna roll... Then we let it pop, don't let it go... X gon' give it to ya! - -------------------------- ------------------------- I am everywhere: *TWITTER*, *FACEBOOK*, *HWR: SIX STRINGS MAGAZINE* and *HBA [HORROR SITES]*. Last vis...
1 day ago
Bat in the Attic

Thoughts on Tabletop Roleplaying, Complicating Sandbox Adventures - Last post I mentioned how I decided to complicate the Scourge of the Demon Wolf adventure. To do this, I decided to introduce a red herring, some bandits...
1 day ago
Monster Island News

UFO - Fighting Aliens In A Super Sexy Future! - In the year 1980, a secret military organization named SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) becomes operational. Its purpose is to defe...
1 day ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Crazy Idea? Or is this basically what DCC does? - I sometimes feel like I'm the only OSR guy that doesn't have Dungeon Crawl Classics. I've gotten some modules for it, but don't have the game itself. I've ...
1 day ago
STUFFER SHACK

Class-Based Thoughts on Different Types of Elves - Elves are often depicted as guardians of the wilderness, be it forests, plains, mountains, desert, swamps or tundra in RPG games. In the case of the Drow/ ...
1 day ago
Krell Laboratories

Bullets and Bracelets - [image: Gal Gadot in Wonder Women] *Sing, O goddess, the wrath of Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, that brought countless ills upon the sc...
1 day ago
Realms of Chirak

D&D 5E: Cretean Field Mage - *Though suspicious of mages, Creteans still realize the value of magic on the battlefield...* *Cretean Field Mage * *(Level 6 Evoker)* CR 2 (450 XP) *LN m...
1 day ago
Age of Ravens

333 Names for Blades in the Dark - We begin our *Blades in the Dark* campaign this Friday. Your Duskvol may vary. Pain Curnow Willow Dubey Anant Dickenson Nandin Ghosh Arvind Karnik Sanjna...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Random Motley Pirate Captains & their Ships - *Art by William Stout* Here's an excerpt from the *Azurth Adventure Digest*: A series of random tables related to Motley Pirate captains and their ships. ...
1 day ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

The Fall of the Wall - Please forgive this interruption from the normal round of reviews, but I want to bring your attention to a recent announcement at Yog-sothoth.com. Approxim...
1 day ago
el blog de Victor Santos

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1 day ago
THE LAND OF NOD

Yo Joe - If memory serves, I promised to do this post two weeks ago. How time flies! In between, the family has gone through a high school graduation and a college ...
2 days ago
Cross Planes

Index Card RPG: Zombies - *ZOMBIE* for the Index Card RPG Core *Rolls: +2 Str, +2 Con* *ACTIONS* *ATTACK - BITE:* Weapon Effort, with their teeth and nails. *MOAN:* A hungry z...
2 days ago
deeply shallow

#musicmonday: Camp set - It's hard to choose a set when you don't know the musicians and you don't know the camp participants and you're walking blind. Why am I doing this again?...
2 days ago
Thoul's Paradise

Port o' Call - *Art by Liz Danforth* Over a period of fifteen years (1982 - 1997), Flying Buffalo published seven installments of its *CityBook* line of system-neutral ga...
2 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Shot, Bitten, and Scorched - Hi. That's me. I'm Nikola Vegas. Okay that's not me, but that's how I picture me. I graduated from RNI University and I was on track to become a professo...
2 days ago
Forgotten Runes

Vecna Reborn Review - During the unpacking from my recent move, one my older modules floated to the surface. Thematically it seemed somewhat linked to the upcoming Tomb of Annih...
2 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Grindhouse (2007) - Over the years, due to rising prices, the declining quality of movies and, honestly, lack of time, I have begun to see movies in the theater less and less...
2 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Cerebric Spider - Hello and welcome to another Frightful Fridays! This week's monster is within spitting distance of Friday, so we're getting there. Actually, as it turns ou...
3 days ago
GRUBB STREET

The Gaming News - With summer Kickstarter has suddenly exploded with RPG options. I have swooped in and collected a bunch of them for your consideration. Kickstarter has de...
3 days ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

What a great week!!! - In spite of the heat and the storms it has been a good week. As I posted earlier I was able to try out online gaming for the first time with Christian. ...
3 days ago
Written In Blood

Get Your Summer Read On! - Lazy days relaxing poolside are here. Well, unless you live in the southwest where it is hotter than the surface of the sun right now. Temps in my home tow...
3 days ago
The City of Iron

Basic / Expert Core Rules: Initial Finished Release! - I've reached a major milestone with the *Basic / Expert Core Rules* project, which I announced the other day: with a blustery Saturday morning and v0.7.0 o...
3 days ago
19th Level

Looking for the Perfect OSR Game - Objectively, of course, there's no such thing. So what's perfect for me? I'm giving it some thought as my gaming group will embarking on an old school c...
4 days ago
destination unknown

The Wasteland of Gath: The Pit (Brother Adelmo); White Box - Brother Adelmo, loyal servant of The Great Imbiber (played by +Gothridge Manor) left the bus with Kerg the Dwarf in tow. After a time, Kerg had to relieve...
4 days ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Derek Yee's SWORD MASTER is a Beautiful Film in Sonata Form - The wuxia pian is a cinematic genre that wanders in and out of favor among the theater going public, but it is one of the most aesthetically beautiful and ...
4 days ago
Toyriffic

Teen Titans GO! Robin...UNMASKED!!! - "Hello, ladies!" Mattel recently released a line of Teen Titans GO! minifigures, which are a little bit 'super-deformed' and are also made up of interchang...
4 days ago
Quest for Fun!

New Facebook Page - I have a new "Gary Ray" *Facebook page* for posting my videos, blog posts, and writing updates. There's a book coming at the end of the year and I've agree...
4 days 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...
4 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Blacktongue, Gnoll Archer - May’s Reaper Forum Hangout Figure of the Month was Blacktongue, Gnoll Archer. In continuing the theme of filling the more common slots of a Frostgrave Warb...
4 days 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...
4 days 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 cele...
5 days ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Hexcrawling a City, an early look - One thing I've been slowly working on for the last year is another fantasy sandbox campaign. My prior one was generally map-based, although a city feature...
5 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Beautiful Maps - A year ago or so, my good friend Thorfinn Tait embarked on a personal journey to establish his *Patreon* business. For this, he selected the creation of ne...
5 days 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...
5 days ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Stuff I’ve Been Up To: PlayLab! Magazine - One of the reasons it’s been quiet over here at the Worlds in a Handful of Dice is that my writing energies have been directed elsewhere. I completed a rat...
5 days ago
Bobert the Hoosier expatriate

New paths around old barriers - The love of my life is a girl who lives on the imaginary plane. We have a complex relationship. Okay, that was a math joke. Don't give me weird looks. Lik...
6 days ago
Back to the Dungeon!

ADVANCED DUNGEONPUNK DUNGEONMETAL - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/214744/Advanced-Dungeonpunk-Dungeonmetal *DUNGEONPUNK * *the * *Essay * and *Advanced Classes* Help me sell 1.5 mill...
6 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Investigation-As-Dungeon - A lot of game masters have experience with dungeons but have trouble writing investigation or horror adventures--especially ones that aren't railroady--and...
6 days ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Go Fund Me for Mona - Since I am doing this, I figured I should probably reach as wide an audience as I can. I have set up a gofundme for my wife Mona's ongoing expenses related...
6 days ago
Lasgunpacker

Rey of Sunshine - It has been rather hot here (40°+ every day), so not much hobby has been accomplished. However, it was my beloved wife's birthday, and I did manage to con...
6 days ago
The Warrior Muse

Late Night Walkspirations - If you've been around this blog for awhile, you know I like to take late night walks. Really, I like to take walks and hikes whenever possible, but there's...
6 days ago
Stargazer's World

Still alive … - 00Usually I avoid this kind of posts, but since I haven’t really written anything since May, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to send a few life signs… In May I ...
6 days ago
Dyvers

Is Being a Geek a "White Kid" Thing? - Back in May Daniel Jose Ruiz wrote an article for The Millions titled, Dragons Are for White Kids with Money: On the Friction of Geekdom and Race, in which...
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

The Suel Migration into Zindia - I've long had an idea in the back of my mind that the Suel might just have played a role in Oerth similar to that which the Aryan tribes played in Indian h...
1 week ago
Trollsmyth

What is Generic Fantasy Now? - So, I have to somewhat disagree with this: As far as I am aware it has long been established that the game worlds of any Dungeons & Dragons game is essent...
1 week ago
Tower of Zenopus

Busy Month! - The old GW's Strategy for Improving Revenue Posts have been sparse here recently but games are still happening. I'm just choosing to prep and play them m...
1 week ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Free RPG Day Recap, Redux - It would be remiss of me not to mention that *401 Games*, while not carrying every title from Goodman Games or every *Dungeon Crawl Classics* module, did...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

San Diego... - ...feels like a *wasteland*. But that's probably just a first impression. And certainly, colored by my personal biases. Hmmm...I said "first impression" b...
1 week ago
Oubliette Magazine

Dungeon Mug on Sale Now! - I've just received a batch of my new Dungeon Mugs. I intend to take these to sell at conventions, but when they arrived I was so pleased with them that I d...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
The Troll Dens

A Village in the Wilds - From the mountains the country looks wild and dangerous. But nestled in the hills you see a small village. Safety. If you can make it.
1 week ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Free RPG Day 2017: Random Encounters - *So I've been checking drivethru on their *EVERY DAY is FREE RPG DAY *promotion and fell in love at least twice. There's some great stuff out there, but I ...
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Comeback Inn Forum down for maintenance - The Comeback Inn forum for Dave Arneson's Blackmoor is currently down. We have been seeing some technical glitches recently and have had to take this ste...
1 week ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

Old School Design Idea: 99% of the Population are Zero Level Characters - I have been thinking about my next game design and after much thought, I've designed I would like to take 0e and "redesign" it with some different assumpti...
1 week ago
MINION FACTORY

Strange Things are Happening in The Universe! - I can finally post this! I had to wait until I got the go ahead to showing it off. This "Masters of the Universe" illustration is a two page spread I di...
1 week ago
Fabled Lands

"Sweet is Revenge" (a Questworld scenario) - A real OSR type scenario this time. This was one of the adventures that Oliver Johnson and I wrote for Game Workshop's Questworld pack in the early '80s. T...
1 week ago
I Fly By Night

StarCluster 4 Magazine 3 - I have been quiet lately - not having a game in the works, I am not popping design things up here! But I am working on a third StarCluster 4 Magazine. Thes...
1 week ago
LotFP: RPG

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Dead Light (Call of Cthulhu adventure summary) - As I've mentioned before here, I've been running a sporadic *Call of Cthulhu *7th edition campaign since Halloween 2014. Most of the adventures I've run ha...
1 week 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...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Advanced Adventures #35: The Desert Shrine of the Sightless Sisters now available! - Advanced Adventures #35: The Desert Shrine of the Sightless Sisters is now available at rpgnow.com and at Lulu. *Advanced Adventures #35: The Desert Shrine...
2 weeks ago
All Games Considered

AGC 212 June 12th 2017 (Richard Tucholka) (1:39:16) - This episode is a slightly edited repost. On April 27th, 2017, Richard Tucholka of Tri Tac Games passed away. Bruce Sheffer, John Reiher, and Robert "Trav"...
2 weeks 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!
2 weeks ago
Mesmerized by sirens

Time to fall in love again - Sorry folks for my absence and the lack of posts; just when i had planned to make a series of posts for slowly examining "The Compleat Warlock" rpg, i stum...
2 weeks ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
2 weeks ago
House of Self-Indulgence

Latex (Michael Ninn, 1995) - After scanning my retina for, oh, I'd say, a minute or two, Michael Ninn's Latex finally granted me access to its shiny, dystopic, dysphoria-causing unive...
2 weeks ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Recent Screencasts (9 June 2017) - I rarely get around to posting individual links to my "Game Design" YouTube channel here, so I decided to list the most recent screencasts instead. Depart...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Erotiterrorist

Fiction: Personal Attendance Protocols - Explorer’s Log: I am on my first day of my thirty-seven-day journey to the star system designated “Beloved Third Toe on the Queen’s Right Foot” by Royal As...
2 weeks ago
A Life Full of Adventure

[D&D 2e] Eveningstar Campaign 34 - *My Character* Gairloch Ironheart - Svirfneblin Priest of Grumbar *Companions* Jemmabink - Gnome fighter Vahael Corrolon - Human Cleric of Helm Nina - Human...
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks 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 weeks ago
The Spirits of Eden

BERSERKER (71.2) - This scene contains graphic violence and death, and brief homophobia. To the outside world it seemed Loupland was covered in a perpetual snow. In the sprin...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Spellmaking

Fantasy Short Story Sale - Just signed contracts with *Metaphorosis* magazine - home of *beautifully written science fiction and fantasy with humor, emotion, and wit* - for my fanta...
3 weeks ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Sascha Schneider (1870 - 1927) - [image: Sascha Schneider - The Shaman, 1901]The Shaman, 1901 [image: Sascha Schneider - Around A Soul]Around A Soul [image: Sascha Schneider - Gram, 1894-9...
3 weeks ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Elmore (6/2/17): Cyclopean Blues -
3 weeks ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

Simple Vancian Magic - Of late there has been a bit of chatter about Vancian style magic in *D&D*, as in, how much magic in *D&D* actually resembles the magic portrayed by Jack V...
3 weeks ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

On the Living Dungeon / Vision and Re-Vision - I said in my last post that there was more to be said about the living dungeon concept. I want to dig a bit further into that. Periodically you should re-...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
The Groovy Age of Horror

Serials Of Pulp Horror 2: Clown Hooves, part two (final) - “Thiii-ings are going wrong, but in the good way, in the good way...” “Thiii-ings are going well, but in the wrong way, in the wrong way...” Martha tried t...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Fantasy Heartbreaker

BLAZON releasing tomorrow on Patreon! - BLAZON, my Green Lantern and Elric-inspired game of cosmic superheroes in a universe of Law and Chaos, will be released to Patreon backers tomorrow. If you...
4 weeks ago
Dynasty Zero

A Few Brief Thoughts on the OneDice System - I titled this post A Few Brief Thoughts on the OneDice System and then went blahhhhh all over the page. So here are my few brief thoughts. If you are int...
4 weeks ago
The Savage AfterWorld

Do-It-Yourself Lovecraft/Cthulhu Picture Dice - In my last blog post, I lamented that there wasn't yet a Lovecraft-themed set of Rory's Story Cubes. After all, they have many different sets available, as...
4 weeks ago
Dorkland!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes To The Blog - I've turned off both G+ commenting and comments in general, here on the blog. Why? The answers are simple. I've been decoupling from G+ over the last few m...
4 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

Observable - The family and I finally saw *Interstellar *(2014) a few days ago. I'm sure *this bit* is probably the part that gave rise to the most negative hits in th...
4 weeks ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

Buccaneer: Through Hell or High Water, The Blackwood and Tall Pines Kickstarters - A trio of Kickstarters caught my attention, so I thought I would bring them to yours: Buccaneer: Through Hell or High Water Powered by Savage Worlds, Bucc...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Damaged or Depleted Spell Resources - The materialistic spell points system is practically becoming its own series of posts. Here are some useful tables for running magic that relies on “mana...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Hidden in Shadows

The Spanish Royals - Arneson's pre-Blackmoor Character Sheet - In their continuing documentary research work (Posted Here), the *Secrets of Blackmoor* filmakers have found yet another tantalizing clue to Blackmoor hist...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Fustians so Sublimely Bad...

- I love that he looks exactly like would would think a young Patton Oswalt looks like.
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Happy Cinco De Mayo! -
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Hall of the Mountain King

The White Stag - Magyar fairytales -
2 months ago
Fantasy Ink

Jack Kamen Bondage Covers - Comic book artist Jack Kamen (1920-2008) us most famous for his stories for E.C.'s line of horror comics. Kamen's stories often featured sleek, ice-cold w...
2 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...
2 months ago
Close Encounters with the Night Kind

Lethal Lies by Rebecca Zanetti release day giveaway!!! - ABOUT THE BOOK Title: LETHAL LIES Author: Rebecca Zanetti Series: Blood Brothers, #2 On Sale: May 16, 2017 Publisher: Forever Trade Paperback: $...
2 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...
2 months ago
Robert Atkins Art

Daily Sketch - Spider Gwen... - Here's another commission from last summer's conventions. First time getting to draw this character. One of my favorite things that came from the Spider-Ve...
2 months ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Gnolls (per B/X) - "Gnolls are rumored to be the result of a magical combination of a gnome and a troll by an evil magic user." - Tom Moldvay, Basic Rulebook How did I forg...
2 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...
2 months ago
Lawful Indifferent

This Blog - The thing about this blog is that it's kind of past its purpose. I've had this thing for years. In its heyday, people would come by and read it, but that w...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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* ...
2 months ago
Rather Gamey

Harley Quinn -
2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Currently Reading List: Updated (April 11th, 2017) - It's been nearly four years since I updated my "Currently Reading" list, so I took a few minutes this afternoon to do so, as obviously a lot has changed in...
2 months ago
The House of Little Fears

Inspiring Fear: Blackwood Crossing - Aside from the school-aged protagonists, I wasn’t quite sure if the newly-released game Blackwood Crossing would fulfill the qualifications for Little Fear...
2 months ago
Rended Press

Tunnels & Trolls For Free Via Old Game Manuals - Heydare! It's been awhile. I've been over on G+ mostly, neglecting this blog. But here's something I stumbled across: Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Kha...
2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
Genius Loci

The Robathen's Coin Parts 1 -3 - A long time ago I released a short story on drivethrufiction called "The Rabathen's Coin - An Arame Tale" that was meant to be the start of a series starin...
2 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 ...
3 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
3 months ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

The DunDraCon Review 2017 - *Masks: A New Generation* is a teen superhero game using the Apocalypse World engine. All of these things sounds really cool. I picked this one up because...
3 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 ...
3 months ago
Stocking The Dungeon

- Issue: 10 (1983) Title: Under Construction - The Beloved Rose Garden of Nedragesor Author: Mary Kirchoff Setting: Dungeon Location Levels: Expert or Higher...
3 months ago
The OSR Library

Hyboria: A few NPC's - *Amzi Sayid*, 23 Turanian Warrior-3/Raider-1 Str- 13, Con-13, Int-13 Hp: 28 Ac: 5/14 (mail) Attack: F4 Save: F4 Special Abilities: ⦁ Warrior: +1 to melee att...
3 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...
3 months ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Public Service Announcement... - ... for my fellow Acquisitions Incorporated fans out there: Maybe I'm late to the party, but I just discovered that Acquisitions Inc. has a new website - a...
3 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'...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 months ago
Armchair Gamer

Two for Fantasy, Two for Science Fiction - It's been a long time, and I been busy, ya dig? Also, I wrote original entries for each of these, but my connection died and Blogger lost it early on so --...
4 months ago
The Grand Tapestry

Chaos Corrupted Dragons Across Three Games - Sunday 1: 'Old Characters': After having blown themselves up out of mortal existence while fighting the chaos corrupted dragons, the PCs have ascended to I...
4 months ago
The Ongoing Campaign

An Update - Still Alive! - Looking around, I couldn't find where this comes from. I like it, but if the owner wants me to take it down, just let me know.Wow, has it really been nearly...
4 months ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

OwlCon Report - Friday and Saturday were this year's OwlCon (Or "Superb OwlCon," as the ad copy said) and it was pretty freaking great. As is typical, my son (C-Monster, n...
4 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Quantum Difficulty, An Example - Orcs of Brimstone Pass - I've had a whirlwind travel schedule the past week (Chicago, LA, then London, then Kent, back to London tomorrow...) so it's taken me longer than I'd like ...
4 months ago
The Happy Undertaker

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

Better pics -
4 months ago
space1970

VULCAN! (1978) Cover Art By Bob Larkin - I remember receiving a copy of *Kathleen Sky's* original *Star Trek* novel, *Vulcan!*, in my Christmas stocking in 1978. I spent the rest of that holiday ...
5 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...
5 months ago
Wild West History

The Oregonian, Thomas Dryer, Henry Pittock, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood - *Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon. Public domain. Courtesy of Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory. Released into public domain when submitted to FHWA ...
5 months ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

Five Minute Friday.... CONNECT - I've always enjoyed being a part of the Five Minute Friday group. If you would like to join in the fun, hop over and like the FMF facebook page. We take...
5 months ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

Mind Maps! - Part of my creative process looks like this: You saw what I did there. I know you did.
5 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...
5 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'...
5 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 ...
6 months ago
Dungeon's Master

Title here - content
6 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...
6 months ago
Wishful Gaming

Turtle Island - Some of you may have noticed the new game image to the right. This is the game we are currently playing. My wife’s Dragon Age game got put on hold for v...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 months ago
Justice League Detroit

The DC Bloodlines Podcast: The Vixen is a Lady Fox - Look for us on iTunes, ShoutEngine or directly download an art-tagged MP3 from the Internet Archive Finally, the DC Bloodlines Podcast reveals its great...
7 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...
8 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

The Bible Reloaded - DMCA - Forwarding this to boost the volume.
10 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Teach Game Design

Udemy problems and Amazon rumors - Following the poorly-considered price changes on Udemy at the beginning of April, my Udemy earnings are about a quarter of earnings in the three months bef...
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 Cat's Meat Shop

The Shady Side of Nottingham - THE SHADY SIDE OF NOTTINGHAM No.IV A BALL AT A "WORKING MAN'S CLUB" (BY AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT) "The harp, the viol, the timbrel, the lute, and the p...
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 Wasted Lands

Diabetes-friendly "Almost" Sugar-Free Chocolate Chunk Cookies - Back in September I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. It was, as it is for many people, a devastating discovery and it's been a hard road. I'm not quite ...
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 musings of huginn and muninn

Solstice and New Beginnings - First, I'd like to wish everyone who bothers to read my random ramblings a very blessed and joyous Yule! Overall 2015 was a difficult year for me. I feel h...
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
Big Ball of No Fun

Natura Ferina - 5E CR15 Legendary Monster -
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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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, ...
1 year 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!
1 year ago
Aggregate Cognizance

Reconnecting Is Harder Than It Sounds - So, I've been kind of away for a while. Physically, mentally and in other ways. In the span of time since I've gone somewhat MIA, my youngest is on the ve...
1 year 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

Pusa Darie: “In vacante plecam la bunici, cu trenul, iar in tren cantam pentru oameni!” - Cum a fost copilaria Pusei Darie? Imi placeau vacantele, nu suportam scoala! Atunci cand veneau vacantele plecam la bunici, cu trenul, iar in tren cantam...
2 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....
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
The Whole Wide World

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3 years ago
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3 years ago
The Book of Worlds

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The RPG Corner

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Design du Jour

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Swords Against the Outer Dark

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All the Fun Starts After Dark

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Bad Librarianship Now!

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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Zatannurday: Cosplay Time Again

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