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Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Wednesdays With Wonder Woman Mega Post -
9 minutes ago
Fantasy Ink

Richard Corben Warren Magazine Covers - *Creepy* #146, Summer 1985. *Eerie* #77, Sept. 1976. *Eerie* #86, Sept. 1977. *Eerie* #90, Feb. 1978.
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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Boss Fights and Solo Monsters in 5e D&D - I've run a lot of *5e D&D* at this point, so I feel confident in my anecdotal evidence when I make this statement: *5e* isn't really built for party of ad...
38 minutes ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Blood Drive: Episodes 4, 5, and 6 - I spent the weekend at my parents' house so I was able to catch up on Blood Drive. While I'm keeping plot and stuff to a minimum there are still spoilers. ...
41 minutes ago
Gizmo's Reviews

Wednesday #Review - From the Ashes by Eliza Nolan #YALit #Fantasy - *Series: The Phoenix # 2* *Format: Kindle, 316 pages* *Release Date: June 26, 2017* *Publisher: E.N. Publishing* *Source: Publisher* *Genre: Young Adult, Fa...
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herding cats & burning soup

InstaWed-- Cats. ALL THE CATS! - *Here's what we've been up to the last couple weeks...* Human. It is BabyG time.
41 minutes ago
space1970

LOGAN'S RUN (1976) Promo Featurette - Courtesy of YouTube user "*Greathall75*," here is a nicely restored copy of MGM's nearly 8 minute-long advance featurette created to showcase the spectac...
41 minutes ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

The Humans of the World of Samoth (Part 2) - While looking over my notes for my campaign world, I discovered a few items from my ancient Yahoo! Geocities website, and found the write-up for the Druid...
5 hours ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Worst Tropes - Generic But Emotionally Unambiguous Music Communicating This Is How You’re Supposed To Feel About This So Why Is There Even A Scene Why Did We Have Dialo...
5 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Which is More Dangerous to a Campaign - Over Planning or Lack of Planning? - Which is worse? The meticulously planned campaign that has details for every obscure NPC or the one where the local towns don't even have a name until t...
7 hours ago
Cross Planes

Index Card RPG: Cave Squig - *CAVE SQUIG* for the Index Card RPG Core *Rolls: +3 Dex, -2 Int* *1 Heart* *ACTIONS* *ATTACK - BITE:* Weapon Effort with their teeth. *UNPREDICTABLE...
8 hours ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Chainmail Co-Creator Jeff Perren 70 years today! - Today is a good time to honor another important figure in the history of our hobby. Jeff Perren turns 70 years old today. He was a member of the Lake Gene...
10 hours ago
Age of Ravens

Bright Flash: A Tales from the Loop Mystery - In honor of the *Stranger Things* Season 2 trailer dropping, let's revisit *Tales from the Loop*. When I ran three sessions of *TftL* at Origins I used my ...
11 hours ago
A character for every game

The Holy City of Guerras-El-Essat - Guerras-El-Essat is built up around a massive temple dedicated to the living (or unliving?) eight-armed vampiric deity-demon El-Essat who stalked … Contin...
11 hours ago
Quest for Fun!

Subculture, Style and Enjoyment of a Thing - Gaming is a subculture, a basket of subcultures really. Using the Dick Hebdige definition of culture from his book Subculture: The Meaning of Style, cultur...
11 hours ago
HeroPress

Next Year We Saddle Up For Another Bloody Adventure In Westworld... -
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Gothridge Manor

Publishing Supplies Deal - Calling all those home publishers and zine creators! Great cardstock deal in coming. I ran out of white cardstock over the weekend. The Staples and Walm...
11 hours ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

We Start Music with the Letter "W" with a bit of the Who.... - .... ooops.... wrong "Who".... Things here at home have delayed slightly.... en...
12 hours ago
OEF

The Sword of Goujian - A new relic for your Raiders! game. *The Sword of Goujian* In a tomb among more than 50 other tombs in Hubei, China lies a near air-tight wooden box held i...
12 hours ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

To his friend... - Get the 400 page COMPLETE Our Valued Customers for only $25!* http://ourvaluedcashgrab.blogspot.com/*
13 hours ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Johannes Josephus Aarts (1871 - 1934) - [image: Johannes Josephus Aarts - Two men and a monster in a workroom] [image: Johannes Josephus Aarts - Temptation of Saint Anthony] [image: Johannes Jose...
13 hours ago
Monster Island News

New Toy Tuesday: Godzilla, Star Trek, Star Wars, Daleks and Flying Gamera - *Godzilla vs King Kong 1962 Version Gigantic Series Vinyl Figure* Straight from his appearance in the classic 1962 film, Godzilla vs. King Kong comes this...
13 hours ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

Dalluhn: Wizards' Guilds and Fellowships - If you don't know the history of the document called, alternately, Beyond This Point Be Dragons and the Dalluhn Manuscript, the best thing to do is read ...
13 hours ago
STUFFER SHACK

Truly Terrifying Vampire LAIRS - The Stuffer Shack Press book Truly Terrifying Vampires is full of a lot of really interesting ways of creating horrific monsters – completely unlike the ov...
15 hours ago
GRUBB STREET

The Political Desk - In Which We Summarize. - So, Primary Day is August 1st, which is a really stupid day for a primary. Part of it is because we're looking at the height of summer, when people's minds...
15 hours ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Skyship Combat Mechanics VII - *Previously Posted Sections* *Click Here for Part I* *1. Introduction* *2. Wind Direction & Strength* *3. Maneuvering* 3.1. Movement Rates 3.1.1. Sail...
16 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Supergirl Show SDCC Trailer And News - Last weekend was the San Diego Comic Con and most of the Supergirl news revolved around the upcoming third season of the show. Search YouTube or Twitter ...
16 hours ago
SciFiChick.com

Blu-Ray Review: Ghost in the Shell - Ghost in the Shell Synopsis: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping ...
18 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

First Strike: The Invasion! Podcast Ep.25: Flash #22 / Manhunter #9 - Bass and Siskoid do another double-feature, but it's really a single story as the Flash Wally West (in #22 of his title) and Manhunter Mark Shaw (in #9 of...
19 hours ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *PROCESO DE PÁGINA DE VIOLENT LOVE #6 (5)* *VIOLENT LOVE #6 PAGE PROCESS (5)* Proceso de página de Violent Love #6 para Image comics, ya a la venta, e...
21 hours ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

The End of Ordinary VBT - *Blurb:* Drew Bergen is an Engineer. He builds living things, one gene at a time. He's also kind of a doofus. Six years after the Stupid War -- a bloody, ...
22 hours ago
Written In Blood

One Week to Release Day! Can you feel the nerves? - We're one week away from release! Are you excited? I'm excited. I'm nervous. I'm holding my breath for those new reviews to start rolling in. Have you pre-...
23 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

The Animus of Xor - Game cancelled so we sat about talking about game settings which inspired content for many blogs to come. Lots of inspirational ideas including Xor, Hell...
23 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

The Clone Wars: An Old Friend - Andrew Leon and I are watching *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*. Every Tuesday, we will be featuring an episode from the series which began in 2008. Episode: "...
23 hours ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

The Man With the Iron Face! - Triple digit temps here in the good 'ol midwest have been so outrageous the last few weeks, I was beginning to feel as if I was trapped in a sweat-soaked, ...
1 day ago
19th Level

Game of Thrones and OSR Domain Play - I remember being so excited in 1984 when the D&D *Companion Set* at last came out. I'd been promised it for years. Well it wasn't really that long, give...
1 day ago
Tower of Zenopus

This Looks a Bit Familiar: Bright - I don't pay a ton of attention to San Diego Comic Con anymore because it's turned into such a huge thing it's just a torrent of information - it's overl...
1 day ago
[Retro-Z]

Happy Day... "Thor: Ragnarok" Official Trailer - -------------------------------- ------------------------- I am everywhere: *TWITTER*, *FACEBOOK*, *HWR: SIX STRINGS MAGAZINE* and *HBA [HORROR SITES]*. La...
1 day ago
Realms of Chirak

Traveller: An Introduction to Sirianthus Sector - My latest Traveller campaigns have centered around the Sirianthus Sector, in a larger, more fleshed out version of such set specifically (so far) in Auth...
1 day ago
Quag Keep

ICE - Space Master: Space Master Companion II - *From the back cover: * - *"New professions such as the Bounty Hunter, the Combat Engineer, the Smuggler, etc.* - * An entirely new and dif...
1 day ago
False Machine

Best Cold Open? - What adventures have the best Cold opens or in medias res openings in which the PC's are already engaged in something active, or something complex and inte...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

If You Go Down in the Woods Today - Yesterday, our Land of Azurth 5e campaign continued last night... *ROLL CALL: Kully the Bard, Shade the Ranger, Dagmar the Cleric, Kairon the Sorcerer, Wa...
1 day ago
Stargazer's World

No love for WaRP? - 00In May 2012 I wrote a short blog post about the then recent release of the Wanton Roleplaying System (aka WaRP) under the OGL. Most gamers probably never...
1 day ago
Dynasty Zero

One-on-One Campaign Background - I have mentioned elsewhere that my co-worker T and I have been planning a one-on-one White Box campaign during lunch hours at work. Here is the background...
2 days ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Excerpts From Punkinberg - *Excerpts From Punkinberg * *the up and coming* *Supplement * *for* *the* *DUNGEONPUNK* *RPG* DUNGEONPUNK PUNKINBERG *NOTE: You the Game Master are now on ...
2 days ago
deeply shallow

#musicmonday: Closer - I've been trying to introduce this song since May, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe in August.
2 days ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Save vs. Pants-soiling Terror - Here's a nasty little bit of fauna to add to your classic Dungeons & Dragons game: the death's head spider. . . . . .
2 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Conan the Barbarian (1982) - Everyone has to start somewhere. For Arnold Schwarzenegger... well, it wasn't here. It was a horrible comedy called *Hercules in New York *where they du...
2 days ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Happy Birthday - Today is my birthday, I am 48 years old today. I was a little surprised to see I share a birthday with the original Traveller RPG and Holmes Basic D&D, bot...
2 days ago
Toyriffic

Teen Titans GO! Starfire by Imaginext - Last week I reviewed the Imaginext Teen Titans GO! Raven, and today we look at *Starfire*! Starfire is a single figure set, one of the basic releases and ...
2 days ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

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2 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Sunday Inspirational Interview: Steel Blood - Taking a bit of detour with today's post. While there's plenty of inspiration in the cover image below, there's also an interview to go with it! J.L. Gribb...
2 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Krakitten - Hello, and welcome to another Frightful Fridays! I'm going to say that jet lag still makes it Friday. The family trip to Europe was awesome, and I saw a lo...
3 days ago
Points of Light

Dungeons & Delvers: Age of Worms, Episode 606 - Cast - Humal (level 10 wrathful cambion wizard) - Corzale (level 10 dwarf war cleric) - Sumia (level 10 elf rogue/ranger) Session Highlights Onc...
3 days ago
THE LAND OF NOD

Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
3 days ago
The Disoriented Ranger

[398] The DM as Oracle vs. The DM as Author - *There is a bit of talk in the blog-o-sphere about the stories we want to tell in our games. Should there be a literary quality to it? A message? Just ente...
3 days ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Battle For The Purple Islands - I've come full circle. My very first Kickstarter campaign was for *The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence*. I've covered a lot of ground since then,...
4 days ago
Erotiterrorist

Blood Drive: In the Crimson Halls of Kane Hill - Blood Drive has had an amazing first couple of episodes. They have had a streak of great action, great world building and greater character development. S...
4 days ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Christmas in July sale! - OneBookShelf is running its annual "Christmas in July" sale, and naturally BRW Games is participating. That means you can get everything in the BRW catalo...
4 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Jeff's Cool S**t - It really irritates me when I write a comment on someone's blog and the whole thing shows up on my G+ stream. I realize this is probably on ME and my lack ...
4 days ago
Armchair Gamer

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

Celebrate the Small Things with Reptiles - 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 celeb...
4 days ago
My Baffling Brain

Celebrate the Small Things - So, I was going to use this week's Celebrate post to show you guys some pictures from my sister's wedding over the weekend. However, that was before I hear...
4 days ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

The Black Company is Excellent Military Fantasy - The Black Company by Glen Cook My rating: 4 of 5 stars Glen Cook's first entry in the Black Company series is an interesting combination of originality and...
5 days ago
Big Ball of No Fun

Torg Eternity - Perks By Cosm - When making a character for Torg I tend to select a Cosm first as that tends to define for me the way I'll play (pulpy, cyberpunky, etc). I felt it would b...
5 days ago
Fabled Lands

Fabled Lands rules, old and new - *Recently Jamie and I had a chat about the forthcoming FL book 7 with Paul Gresty (who wrote it) and Richard S Hetley (who is editing it) and an often-ask...
5 days ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

The Innsmouth Project - In terms of Lovecraftian investigative horror, salt-sodden Innsmouth is an outlier, a place where the Mythos walks wild, its true batrachian nature hidden...
5 days ago
Hidden in Shadows

Blackmoor as a CHAINMAIL Campaign - Rob Kuntz: "No one knew what to call it so we have a "place-holder" for it. However, people today are quite literal-minded. So the sentence could or would ...
5 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Review: Castlevania Netflix Series - I just finished watching the four episode Season 1 of the Netflix Castlevania series. Seeing that it was written by Warren Ellis, who I've heard does good...
6 days ago
The Spirits of Eden

E.S.P. (72.1) - This scene contains violence. 48th of the Lilac’s Bloom, 2031 D.C.E Ayvarta, Solstice — Conqueror’s Way Wordlessly, the battle began. Madiha’s wrist had ba...
6 days ago
Dorkland!

CALEXIT Creator Pizzolo To Fund "Become The Government" SuperPAC With Comic's Profits - Superheroes are synonymous with comic books, while SuperPACs are ingrained in the current political landscape, and now there’s an unlikely crossover betwee...
6 days ago
The Warrior Muse

In a Rut? Change it Up - Recently, I got myself into a bit of a rut. I wasn't finishing the short stories I was starting. I didn't feel like editing. Was it perhaps a summer rut? T...
6 days ago
Gamers & Grognards

Swords & Wizardry Campaign At Dragonmead. - Well, after a successful week last week, I have decided to return to The Loaded Die's Board Game Night at Dragonmead in Warren, Michigan this Thursday nigh...
1 week ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Mera and the Justice League - *Justice League #24* *Cover by Paul Pelletier, Sandra Hope, and Hi-Fi* *"Fury"* *Variant Cover by Nick Bradshaw and Alex Sinclair* *Is Mera the newest Jus...
1 week ago
Monsters and Manuals

It Doesn't Matter Who Plays Dr Who - I have never understood the appeal of *Dr Who* - in my view its rightful place is surely alongside repeats of *Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em* and *The Brittas E...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

Don't buy the Scourge of the Demon Wolf! (Issue Resolved) - At least not from Noble Knight Games. Now some authors would be all up in arms about somebody obviously price gouging their own products. Especially when ...
1 week ago
I Fly By Night

StarCluster 4 Magazine 3 Released - So, tonight I release to an apathetic, yawning, scratching public yet another in my StarCluster 4 Magazine series. Yes, you may very well blink your eyes a...
1 week ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

New Old School Sunday Game Campaign Coming Together - [image: Pizza Meeting]Yesterday was the first meeting of what will hopefully soon become my next Sunday Game. Six potential players and myself met over all...
1 week ago
A Life Full of Adventure

[WFRP 2e] Renegade Princeps 50 - *My PC* Vaervenshyael - Female Elf Assassin (suffering from a Host of Fiends disability and carrying a magical stone linked to gluttony) *My companions* Ta...
1 week ago
Thoul's Paradise

The Undercity - *Art by Liz Danforth* As regular readers know, recent posts have been about Flying Buffalo's *CityBook* series of supplements. Electronic versions of the...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Advanced Adventures line hits 40 modules... - Breaking proverbial ground on Advanced Adventure #40: The Horror of Merehurst which should come out early next year. Yep, *FORTY*! Still got several betwee...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Valar Morghulis - Like 99.9% of the global fantasy nerd community, I am looking forward to the seventh season of *The Game of Thrones*, due to start tomorrow evening. Since ...
1 week ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

Agents of D.O.F.I.E. - Now and then, I make notes for some game-thing-or-other, then forget about it. Then I'll find it again, and laugh at my own jokes, then forget about it aga...
1 week ago
All Games Considered

AGC 215 July 15th 2017 (AetherCon) (58:05) - With Mark Kinney, Carol, Steven Holodinsky, and Ed Clower. Introducing our guests. The Blue Bugbear Collective? ENnies love for Third Eye (and go vote, peo...
1 week ago
Trollsmyth

Death is Still Boring - This is insightful: *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory* is like a Saw movie for kids: it matches grisly fates to the sins of the children who enter the...
1 week ago
Close Encounters with the Night Kind

FREEE!! For the First Time Ever!!!! - For the first time ever, Salem Archer's MOONDANCE TRILOGY will be completely FREE on Amazon. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/Salem-Archer/e/B0...
1 week ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

How To Guides Galore - How do you write a great adventure? Anyone who has ever put pen to paper in this hobby knows that is the $1,000 question. It would be the million dollar ...
1 week ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Elmore (7/14/17): Warrior Woman -
1 week ago
The Troll Dens

Conjured Memoires - A gloom hung over the road as night fell and it conjured image of the Winter Dark in his mind and a fear stole over him.
1 week ago
MINION FACTORY

There is Always Room For Spidey! - SPIDEY'S BAD DAY Nuff Said.
1 week ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

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

Iteration 2: Hero Plus Minions - This is related to the idea I posted the other day, where this one turns into a combination of card and skirmish game. You pick out a hero and then you get...
1 week ago
In Places Deep

Nightwick News Catch Up - My Nightwick players have been so busy with things in the dungeon that I have neglected the news for several months (since January!). Here is a short summ...
2 weeks ago
destination unknown

Currently Reading -
2 weeks ago
Genius Loci

General Update - Good afternoon everyone who still follows the blog in any fashion. It has been a very long time since I updated, and it seems as if I keep planning to rel...
2 weeks ago
Krell Laboratories

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

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

All Things New by Lauren Miller - *Jessa has always felt broken inside, but she’s gotten very good at hiding it. No one at school knows about the panic attacks, the therapy that didn't hel...
2 weeks ago
World of Ortix

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

Daily Sketch - Elders of the RuneStone: Smiley... - Next up in the Elders of the RuneStone Kickstarter Campaign sketch rewards is this character sketch of Smiley! This was initially Quinn pushing me to draw ...
2 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

The Wasteland of Gath: Part 3 - I was lucky enough to get in another session in Christian's Wasteland of Gath Campaign. I'm using the Labyrinth Lord rules for my foray and having a blast ...
2 weeks ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Want! Diamond Select Marvel Gallery Iron Man Retro Statue... - I wasn't that wild about Diamond Select's recent Marvel Gallery Spider-Man statue- the standing model with one foot dangling off the top of a pole. I was...
2 weeks ago
The Savage AfterWorld

"Quill Quest: The Warlord's Downfall" Now Available -- New Quill RPG Scenario Supplement - A year ago, I wrote a review for Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player. In my positive review for this enjoyable game, I mentioned t...
2 weeks ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Friday Gaming Report: Subplots galore - As I mentioned in an earlier post, my last session of *Bash *had not gone as well as I liked because my single story, which I had hoped to fill the entire ...
2 weeks ago
Lasgunpacker

Long Awaited Landsknechts - Warlord finally released their plastic landsknechts, over two and a half years after they were sculpted for Pro Gloria. After Pro Gloria sold out to Warlo...
2 weeks ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

What’s up in the world? Award things, larp in Palestine, Sotakarjut! - The award season is upon us! In addition to the Diana Jones shortlist I mentioned earlier, we now also have ENnie shortlists. First of all, I would like to...
2 weeks ago
Dyvers

Monkey Business by Jens D., The Disoriented Ranger - For those of you who haven't yet heard Jens D of the Disoriented Ranger produced an adventure, Monkey Business. He's published it on Drive Thru RPG as a pa...
2 weeks ago
Bobert the Hoosier expatriate

Photo Contraband - Shhh... My brother doesn't like it when we post pics of his family in the open on the internet. I'm therefore limiting this post so that only a few people ...
2 weeks ago
The City of Iron

Basic/Expert Core Rules: Looking for Proof-Readers - *Edit: the response has been much quicker than I expected and I think I have enough people helping out now. Thanks to everyone who's offered their assistan...
2 weeks ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Tenth, Fifth, Half, Whole - I’ve got a vague inkling of an idea I’d like to muse about. You may have noticed that, in the Highlander Mage post, I wrote that these magic-users gain t...
3 weeks ago
Rended Press

Links to All of Paizo's FreeRPG Day Stuff -- Updated! - Here's all of Paizo's past FreeRPG Day releases, except for any cards. *Some of these require an account at paizo.com*, but the PDFs are free. I don't play...
3 weeks ago
House of Self-Indulgence

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

Sins of the Past - Revisited - The three or four of you who still read this may recall that I've got a pretty solid history with ICONS. Some years ago, I posted a character a day for qu...
3 weeks ago
Pulsipher Game Design

DixieCon 31 - a Regional Mini-Convention - Over Memorial Day weekend (2017) I attended a mini-convention in Chapel Hill North Carolina. I call this a mini-convention because of the relatively small ...
3 weeks 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...
4 weeks 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 weeks 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...
4 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
LotFP: RPG

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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...
5 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!
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
1 month 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...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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. ...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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,...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 months ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Cinco De Mayo! -
2 months ago
Kaijuville

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

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

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

May DAY and a promise .. - It's MAY the 1st and I thought it apt, now my internet is working again [laf] to keep a promise. Well, two actually, one to Joe and Paul, and one to myself...
2 months ago
Gaming All Over The Place

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

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

The White Stag - Magyar fairytales -
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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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* ...
3 months ago
Rather Gamey

Harley Quinn -
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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'...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 months ago
The Happy Undertaker

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

Better pics -
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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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'...
6 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
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 months ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

The Bible Reloaded - DMCA - Forwarding this to boost the volume.
11 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...
1 year ago
Mythmere's Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crazy Four Books : Review ~ Sweetest Temptations by J.C. Valentine - Crazy Four Books : Review ~ Sweetest Temptations by J.C. Valentine: Synopsis From USA Today Bestselling Author J.C. Valentine comes a sizzling story ab...
2 years ago
FightingFantasist

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

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

Amazing Adventures Kickstarter - The Final Hours! - [image: Project image] A couple more days, folks! We're officially down to counting HOURS, now, and are only 12 backers away from $200! Check the Kickst...
2 years ago
TBR

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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Zatannurday: Raven

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