The Other Side blog: Monstrous Manual for 2e

Appendix O
Books
Characters
Downloads
Logos
Monsters
My Links
Mystoerth
Witch Queens
Witch Links

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Monstrous Manual for 2e

The Monstrous Manual for 2e is now out.

DMG is out next week!

Posted by Timothy S. Brannan at 7:38 AM

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

Labels: 2nd ed, DriveThru

No comments:

My Books

These are books I have written or made significant contributions.

Blog Regular Features

Featured Artist
In Search Of...
Monstrous Mondays
Night Shift
October Horror Movie Challenge
One Man's God
Plays Well With Others
Swords & Sorcery & Cinema
The Enchanted World
This Old Dragon
War of the Witch Queens

Visit Timothy's profile on Pinterest.

Like me on Facebook

The Other Side

Promote Your Page Too

My blog on the web

Reviews

My reviews at DTRPG
My reviews at RPG.net
Banners on the Cheap: Map

Blog List

Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - You Can Scream by Rebecca Zanetti #Thriller #Suspense - *Series:* * Laurel Snow # 5 Format: **320 pages, Paperback* * Release Date: December 16, 2025 Publisher: Kensington Source: PublisherGenre: Thriller / S...
2 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

Pulp Fantasy Library: Azathoth - Written sometime in June 1922 and never published during H. P. Lovecraft’s lifetime, “Azathoth” is little more than a fragment. Comprising just three par...
2 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

Five magic items, Guardians, & Adventure Hooks for Castles & Crusades Codex Germania - Here are five unique magic items suitable for a Castles & Crusades campaign set in the historical/mythological realm of Codex Germania. These items draw on...
3 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Damophet, Hekala, and Ilkhan - Cults thrive in the dark land of Krevborna. Here are three otherworldly entities that can serve as patrons for cultists. *Damophet, The Demon Lord of He...
5 hours ago
The Grand Tapestry

[Instrumental] - Somewhat of an experiment but leaning Seasonal...'What Child of Nature'(C) 2025 Kyrinn S. Eis All Rights Reserved Worldwide❤
10 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog….

[New Magic Item] Postponing Hourglass - Postponing Hourglass ‘Nuli, do you have time to stabilize Krogi and stop the poison from that snake?’ Arakam asked.The priestess looked concerned for a mom...
15 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Holiday Post - A wizard tower on planet Psychon from a con game where this cloacacola came handy Had last game for year Was my Th...
16 hours ago
Monster Island News

Pastor Leanne Matthesius - Awaken Church - For Goodness Sake - Pastor Leanne Matthesius In today's world, it often seems like our culture is drifting away from the principles of God. Yet, there's a profound hope we ...
18 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Fallout Together - The year is 2287. It is two centuries since the Great War between the USA and China that turned the world into irradiated, chemically polluted Wastelands....
19 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

This Week in Geek (7-13/12/25) - *"Accomplishments"* In theaters: It's an impossible choice for Elizabeth Olsen in Eternity, when she finds herself in the afterlife with her two husbands ...
21 hours ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...
1 day ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Robotic Character Illustrations III - More character illustration type pieces of robots. I swear, I’m putting more emphasis on the neck than any other part … Continue reading →
1 day ago
GRUBB STREET

Theatre: Woman, Waiting - *Penelope*, based on the writings in the Odyssey by Homer, Music, Lyrics & Arrangements by Alex Bechtel, Book by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean, and Eva Stei...
1 day ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Tamoachan - *Notes on Tournament Play:* The purpose of tournament play is to get out of the ruins before time runs out. Choosing less direct paths, arousing monsters...
2 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) - When Christmas comes around so does *It's a Wonderful Life*, the Jimmy Stewart film in which things start going downhill and he wishes he had never been...
2 days ago
Realms of Chirak

The Fifth GM Inspiration: Borrowing from Films - The Fifth GM Inspiration: Borrowing from Films The idea of watching a movie and taking inspiration from it is nothing new, but a while back I took it one...
2 days ago
MINION FACTORY

Super 2025 Yearbook! - FVOC 2025 YEARBOOK Another year, another issue dedicated to the best of "Famous Villains of Cartoonland" in review and it has been a good year for V...
2 days ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Let’s Convert the Monster Manual: Sahuagin, Salamander, Satyr, Giant Scorpion, and Sea Hag - Here are some monsters that I think most of us have used. Sahuagin raiders on a port town is a classic. *Sahuagin Warrior:* Init +2; Atk spear +3 melee (...
2 days ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Supergirl Poster, Teaser Trailer, And Plot Synopsis - I will say up front I have been a Supergirl fan for a long time and I have to say up front that I never thought she would get another solo big screen mov...
2 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Mysteries of Tatooine - In discussing this recent Youtube video arguing *Star Wars* (1977) suggests a setting without FTL communication, my brother and I gradually drifted over...
2 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Well, that was a headache - Yesterday, the KakaoTalk Open Chat (Kakao is Korean WhatsApp) discussion started with a simple question: "Which do you prefer to experience, true improv...
3 days ago
The Armchair Squid

Star Trek: The Ship - Episode: "The Ship" Series: *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* Season 5, Episode 2 Original Air Date: October 6, 1996 via Memory Alpha During a planetary survey, ...
3 days ago
Fabled Lands

Whispers Beyond The Stars (a new Cthulhu Mythos gamebook) - In *Cthulhu 2050:* *Whispers Beyond The Stars* you are Alex Dragan, a recently freed convict who has chosen to have "the Wipe", neurosurgical adjustment ...
3 days ago
A Storybook World

Baby Biscuits Book - At the encouragement of a friend I have turned Baby Biscuits' story it into a children's story. This book is a donation to animals and every book pur...
3 days ago
Tower of Zenopus

Valiant Swords of Greyhawk: Our Heroes - Part One - Given the amount of time we've spent on the campaign I thought I ought to break out some talk about the party and how they function in the game. This wi...
3 days ago
World of Ortix

A new beginning. The Road of the Thousand Gods - I created a new blog. I like this place, but it's almost impossible to use it as a design journal for one particular project. There are simply too ma...
3 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Running Away & Unexpected Friends - After lunch we decided to swap to the main team for some epic game play. Session 293 was played on 08/16/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thi...
3 days ago
For It Is Man's Number

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) - Emmet Otter and his Ma are poor. Properly poor. Which wouldn't be a major problem for them if they didn't have certain obligations. Like Christmas presen...
4 days ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Deal of the Day - Talislanta Player's Guide - Epic Edition - I still remember the tag line of *Talislanta* from the ads in *Dragon Magazine*: "*No elves!*" *Today's Deal of the Day is the Talislanta Player's Guide...
4 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Batman The Animated/New Adventures Figure Dump - The catalyst for the whole thing I can't recall, but I started buying loose Batman The Animated/New Adventures figures. Kenner produced a lot of these fi...
4 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Transit - *Setting a Bearing*Before casting off, the ship must set its bearing to an agreed destination. This requires a meeting of the Bearing Council, which con...
4 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Best Books of 2025 - By tradition, December is marked on the 25th by Christmas Day, on the 24th by Christmas Eve, on the 26th by Boxing Day, on the 31st by New Year's Eve, an...
5 days ago
Lasgunpacker

N:AW Escher Gang - On Necromunda, the industry and population of the planet is divided up by noble and minor houses that rule under the Imperial house. One of the minor ho...
5 days ago
False Machine

The Future of False Machine - Dragonmeet left me relatively alienated and thinking a lot about my ‘career’, such as it is. Sir John Soanes House was pretty great I don’t think I can r...
5 days ago
Quag Keep

Dragon #301 - second copy -
6 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Fight On! Issue 17 now available - As noted months ago *here*, the Old School Renaissance fanzine *Fight On!* has experienced its own renaissance. After spending a decade in a magically in...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Fight On! Issue 17 now available - As noted months ago *here*, the Old School Renaissance fanzine *Fight On!* has experienced its own renaissance. After spending a decade in a magically in...
1 week ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Holiday Gift Idea - "Grill Master by Day, Dungeon Master by Night" Grilling Apron - Folks, I'm just putting this out there as a gift idea from my wife's Etsy account . The perfect apron for your favorite nerdy grill master. Designed...
1 week ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *BOCETOS VARIADOS (39) * *VARIED SKETCHES (39)* Bocetos rápidos de diferentes fuentes. Quick sketches from different sources.
1 week ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

Revisiting an Old Idea - Honestly, I don't even know why I'm bringing this up. Some time back, like 12 or 13 years, I wrote this post about spell books in DCC. I still like the i...
1 week ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: Treasure for Dungeon / Room Stocking - Dungeon stocking is tricky. Over and over, people ask "How much treasure should I include per room / dungeon level / PC?" The answer varies enormously be...
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

"Up from the OSR" - The Redemption of Satine Phoenix? - The other week my year and a half Isle of Dread campaign ended, and also the campaigns of a couple of my players I was involved in. Especially since I ra...
2 weeks ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[MODULE] City of the Ape-Men (NOW AVAILABLE!) - City of the Ape-Men I am pleased to announce the publication of *City of the Ape-Men*, a 56-page adventure module for levels 5–8, and the first new release...
2 weeks ago
CROSS PLANES

The Hexagon for Shadowdark: Why Am I Building a Megadungeon? I'm Glad You Asked! - I blame Undermountain for my love of megadungeons. The other day I posted about the Hexagon, a megadungeon I'm designing for an open table using Shadowd...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands: Looking at the Wilderness Encounters - This is the 3 video in this series. The first was the unboxing and the physical things inside. Then I moved onto the keep quests. And in this one I go t...
2 weeks ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Let F.A.T.A.L. Die - If the title of this post says nothing to you, be happy. The rest of this text will educate you in nothing that you need to know, and an explanation is mor...
3 weeks ago
Quest for Fun!

The Myth of Rational Animals - A game store is, at its essence, an expression of a particular time and place. You decide to open a store now. “Now” is a moment with strict limits on wh...
3 weeks ago
Krell Laboratories

The Krell Laboratories Podcast: The Movies and Mr. King - I had a long conversation with besties, Anna Maurya and Jenni Shwaner, about this year's crop of Stephen King adaptations, including The Monkey (2025), T...
3 weeks ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

James Mishler Games OSR Gobble-Them-Up Sale! - *OSR Gobble-Them-Up Sale*! In honor of the delicious sacrifice our fowl turkey friends are making this season, all *James Mishler Games *products are 33...
3 weeks ago
BACK TO THE DUNGEON!

1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...
3 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's "A" series of adventures in unusually unruly strongholds: Introduction - Illustration from Slave Pits of the Undercity (1980) by David S. LaForce D&D was born in the castle. The Castle and Crusade Society of wargamers brought G...
3 weeks ago
The Troll Dens

Deathstalker - Steve Chenault -
3 weeks ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...
4 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Season 3 of the Black City Vikings Campaign - *The Saga of Thule, Book III — The Exiles of the Sea-Wolf* *“In the north beyond the whales’ road, where the sea smokes and the sun forgets to set, th...
4 weeks ago
Halls of the Nephilim

G.I. Robot Was Right - I found this while scrolling yesterday. I love GI and just ordered a “GI Robot Was Right” shirt yesterday. I think it might be time for another Punch A Naz...
5 weeks ago
Dynasty Zero

Scale - Over a decade ago I wrote a post about using Heroic/Homeric/Bronze Age/Mycenaean Greece as a setting for *Barbarians of Lemuria*. Well, I was thinking a...
1 month ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

Ashes: Redux - Well, I finally got the chance to run that Ashes Without Number adventure I had written. Someone on my local gaming Meetup group's Discord mentioned tha...
1 month ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

ArneCon 2025 is a success organiseres say - ArneCon 3 is a big success say organizers! The convention honoring the legacy of Dave Arneson took place this weekend in St. Paul Minnesota. Special ...
2 months ago
Bat in the Attic

What is the point of the OSR? - Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes his post with some questions. So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
2 months ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Defining Full Telepathy vs. Limited Telepathy - I've been working on a pretty significant new d30-related book—well, really books... plural (more to come in future posts). And I realized I was assignin...
2 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

How I Use Henchmen and Hirelings - In early Dungeons & Dragons, adventurers usually didn’t go into dungeons alone. They brought torchbearers, treasure-carriers, mercenaries, and loyal lieu...
2 months ago
The Cryptic Archivist

English Rules for Rêve de Donjon (Dungeon's Dream) - Get the Rule Book on BoardGameGeek.com *Rêve de Donjon* game ready to start play with my rule book and reference aid I've completed my English translation ...
2 months ago
The Ongoing Campaign

[Archival] Mandragora: The Mandrake March - I haven't posted about it in about 8 or 9 years now, but Scott Driver, known for settings like the World of Thool, had briefly outlined one of the more i...
3 months ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...
3 months ago
Stargazer's World

RPG a Day 2025 Day 31: Reward - So, we come to the end of RPG a Day 2025. Allow me to get a little sentimental. I’ve been participating in RPG a Day for 11 years, and this process has bee...
3 months ago
Ostensible Cat

Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
3 months ago
Literalchemy

The Solstice War: How It Would’ve Gone, Part 1 - So! In 2013 I started The Solstice War, the beginning of my webnovel journey. I am going to be honest and say I’m a little bit embarrassed about it looking...
3 months ago
Blog of Holding

where are psionics from? - A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psio...
3 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

WWII Aviation Industry Part 4 - This article has been more of a whopper after having had a look at French and British wartime industries (click here for *France* or *Britain*). I posted...
4 months ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Sonja Reborn - New Series...yay... - "In a contest to decide the fate of the world, the ancient (and codependent) gods The Light and The Dark transport Maggie Sutherland, a young Bri...
4 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

The First Dungeon Crawl in History - Mapping a Lost Session Report, Part II - Today detailed reports from game sessions are common. Until recently, some of the oldest I knew of were to be found in Alarums & Excursions, but only ra...
4 months ago
Mesmerized by Sirens

The Crypt of Atan-Thu - I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising! Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link: htt...
4 months ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
7 months ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Birds Of Prey #9 - *Birds Of Prey #9* *Variant Cover Artwork by Ejikure*
8 months ago
Pulsipher Game Design

A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...
8 months ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Pure Ruby -
8 months ago
Trollsmyth

Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...
9 months ago
Servitor Ludi

The New Game: Completed - With huge apologies to anyone out there who has been waiting for this, I'd like to bring to a close the *TenStones* Glass Bead Game that I started in *Dec...
9 months ago
The Wasted Lands

Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum - Additional Thoughts on Alignment In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...
10 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...
10 months ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...
10 months ago
Elf Lair Games

Reminder: We have MOVED! - Just a quick reminder, folks! The official Elf Lair Games blog has merged with my Wasted Lands fantasy blog. If you're following us, we can now be found...
10 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...
11 months ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...
1 year ago
The House of Little Fears

Favorite Child - As much as I love Streets of Bedlam, Wyrd is Bond, Normal, Texas, and all the other worlds I’ve created over the years, Little Fears remains my favorite ch...
1 year ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

Monster Entries Inspired by Dragonbane - As I compile information for my fantasy setting into a document for tabletop use, I find inspiration in the *Dragonbane* Bestiary entries. Instead of mer...
1 year ago
Armchair Gamer

More Moria - Thanks to Free League's Moria: Through the Doors of Durin sourcebook for their Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, we have an updated & official map, guid...
1 year ago
The Savage AfterWorld

The Savage AfterWorld -- From Gaming Blog To Publishing House - Although The Savage AfterWorld (TSAW, for short) has fallen silent for a while, it's never gone away. Folks still stop by to read old reviews of different ...
1 year ago
HeroPress

Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
1 year ago
Katie Salidas

Shout out to My MMA coach and my youngest kiddo for this amazing new book -
1 year ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Now Available] Hawkmoor Geographica -- A Shadowdark Campaign Setting - *Hawkmoor Geographica* *Designed for use with the Shadowdark RPG* *By James Mishler and Jodi Moran-Mishler* *Hawkmoor Geographica* describes the geography o...
2 years ago
Forgotten Realms Campaigns

Sexy Goblins? - Not sure how I feel about this...
2 years ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Almost Time !!! - Only Two ,ore Weeka... Ans it will be Gallow'een
3 years ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) - [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970]Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970 [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover Illustration 1970]Shonen Maga...
3 years ago
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...
3 years ago
destination unknown

Legends of Gath #69; Two Skellies Under a Fig Tree - There's a lot to be said for finding a vine or fig tree to sit under with your guitar.
3 years ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Just a Note... - Hey, all. Just a quick note to visitors who may be trying to download a character sheet, adventure, whatever: I closed down my hosting account for the s...
3 years ago
Being Retro

Billy F'n Gibbons: "She's On Fire" - *William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American rock musician who is the guitarist and primary vocalist of ZZ Top. He began his career...
3 years ago
Genius Loci Games

~Into the Unknown~ - Sorry, couldn’t help myself! Seriously speaking though Pacesetter games have just released a 5e version of Into the Unknown which Pacesetter describes as...
4 years ago
Thoul's Paradise

It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
4 years ago
herding cats & burning soup

Tasty Delights-- What's Been In My Kitchen Lately - I'm just doing a terrible job of getting blog momentum going other than the odd garden post. Oof! I've been spending my time at the pantry, in the garden. ...
4 years ago
osarmory.com

Design Journal: Star Wars Playtest Characters! - I mentioned in my post last Thursday that I ran my first playtest of my new rules engine last Wednesday, and it went swimmingly! I also mentioned that I wa...
4 years ago
Swords Against the Outer Dark

The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
4 years ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
4 years ago
A Very Creepy Blog

NIghtmare #20 - Sebastian Boada provides the cover for this issue of Nightmare, cover dated August 1974. We start with the one page "Horror Fragments: The Demon Whale" by ...
5 years ago
STUFFER SHACK

The Kickstarter has Funded! - Our first Kickstarter has funded in the first day. Pretty pumped! Some of you reading this have already received some version of these accessories in the...
5 years ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Call of Cthulhu 9: the Wolf Within! - The Clue January 27th, following up on clues from Session 8, the investigators traveled North to the village of Lesser Edale in Derbyshire to investigate...
5 years ago
I Fly By Night - clash bowley's blog

Blood Games 4 Bestiary - We are currently working on the Blood Games 4 Bestiary. We are completely revamping it. I just essentially copied the original bestiary when I came out sit...
5 years ago
Troll and Flame

VR Digital Table Top - Been lot of OSR / Nostalgia posts here recently. Just to show I'm also hip to new fangled things too. Virtual Reality isn't as smooth and effortless as oth...
5 years ago
Armor Goes Clank!

Armor Goes Clank 018 February 5, 2020 (I Don't Know What This Andorra Country Here Is) (55:45) - Brian pretends he's an expert on the Ottoman Empire, both hosts talk about their favorite video games of the 1990s, and Mark lays some Man from Taured know...
5 years ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Not Necromancy... - I am indeed alive! AN incredibly busy year of travel just got more crazy as the year ended. In between I continued to work and play-test a different mag...
5 years ago
Geekerati

[From the Archives] Episode 24: An Interview with Jeff Mariotte and a Discussion of Vampires and Other Things that Prefer the Night - On October 15, 2007, Jeff Mariotte visited our show for a short 15-minute interview that helped us kick off a conversation about Vampire movies and televis...
5 years ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Howlin' Wolf Records presents "BETTER WATCH OUT" and a few more to complete your Holiday! - One more score in the end of the year... Howlin' Wolf Records presents "BETTER WATCH OUT" music by Brian Cachia. BETTER WATCH OUT is a horror/dark comed...
5 years ago
Thac0 forever!

The Infernals - Soooo,the beholder ended up sucking to the point where I don't even want to post pics until I paint it again. However, work has been a bit light this week ...
6 years ago
Kaijuville

Still here, part 2 - As mentioned in Part 1, I've been posting more elsewhere and I need to refresh this neglected blog. Along with more gaming content, I want to update the H...
6 years ago
Graph Paper Games

Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
6 years ago
Strange Magic

The Hanging Cage - This is a pair of short encounters for use with Basic Dungeons & Dragons although it can be used with other editions and game systems without much extra wo...
6 years ago
Teach Game Design

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

[DFAE] Ace Squadron's Aces - [image: Related image] The ships of Ace Squadron, which consists of "aces," all have the word "Ace" in their names. I'm not sure if this is confusing or j...
6 years ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Thinking out loud about Procedural Generation - DunGen has been around awhile now. The theming tags are a success in making the kind of rooms & monsters used make sense together when applied, but the ran...
6 years ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

A Pipeful Of Trouble Adventure By Bret James Stewart From D-oom Products For Labyrinth Lord Or Your Old School Campaigns - "All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
6 years ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...
6 years ago
House of Self-Indulgence

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

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
7 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...
8 years ago
Rended Press

Lasers & Feelings & Assorted L&F Mods - *THIS LIST IS NO LONGER UPDATED AS OF 2022-10-18* *I have a soft spot in my heart for Lasers & Feelings. I use it in my Digital Narratives class to introdu...
8 years ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

Full-Armor Alexa and more fiction excerpts! - More Alexa concept art, this time regarding the heavier armor that she brings along when she knows she will need it. At first, I was really in love wit...
9 years ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

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

Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e] - I'm experimenting with dual-stat blocks for monsters. This is a first draft, so expect changes and feedback is strongly desired. *Update: Revised stat block...
10 years ago

Show 10 Show All

Labels

#100DaysOfHalloween (104) #BuildAWitch (32) #Dungeon23 (364) #FollowFriday (21) #RPGaDAY (332) 0e (42) 13p (18) 1979 Campaign (5) 1st ed (327) 2000s (18) 2nd ed (137) 3.x (199) 4e (209) 5e (346) 6e (1) 70s (42) 80s (155) 90s (50) A to Z Challenge (320) AA (42) acks (2) action figures (7) AD&D3 (1) Advanced (72) Advent-ure Dice (31) adventure (42) adventures (170) AGE (3) AI (3) Alternity (5) angel (2) Anime (25) Appendix N (18) art (134) ARTEMIS (4) as&sh (49) Atlantis (1) auction (2) award (10) bamf (3) basic (876) Basic Bestiary (25) Bathory (20) Batwoman (10) BECMI (74) BESM (14) BG3 (13) Bigfoot (20) Birthday (4) black rose (21) blackmoor (9) BlackStar (64) blog (104) blogfest (208) blogs (356) Blue Rose (51) board games (24) books (174) Briana Highstar (2) brp (2) Bruce Timm (2) C&S (5) Call of Cthulhu (21) Carmilla (33) cartoons (9) celtic (41) Censorship (1) challenge (20) character (515) characters (22) charity (15) charmed (21) Children of the Stars (3) Chill (42) christmas (41) class (70) Class Struggles (52) classes (27) Classic Adventures Revisited (6) Classic Classes (2) CnC (95) CoIE (4) Come Endless Darkness (79) comics (92) community (562) Companion (16) computers (26) conversions (25) cortex (25) cosplay (33) Creative Commons (1) D&DGII (34) d20 (35) d6 (3) Daggerheart (11) dap (14) DarkerStars (5) Darlessa (7) Daughters of the Craft (7) Dawn War (16) DC (36) demon (209) demons (29) Deserts of Desolation & Death (5) deviant art (11) dice (39) Dirty Nellie (3) djinn (14) DMSGuild (21) DnD (215) doctor who (90) Doreen (1) download (5) DP&D (34) dracula (190) dragon (43) dragon and the phoenix (27) Dragonbane (1) Dragonlance (7) DragonQuest (4) DragonRaid (2) dragonslayers (67) drama (5) DriveThru (238) Duchess & Candella (7) Dungeon! (10) ebay (5) Edition Wars (1) education (3) Elf Lair Games (46) Elric (2) Elvira (4) Enchanted World (10) ENnies (7) Erde (1) Español (6) Evil-Lyn (4) Fall (5) family (60) fantasy (15) Fantasy Fridays (22) Fate (6) Fearless Five (2) Featured Artist (29) Feiya (9) Fire and Ice (7) FLGS (23) food (3) Forgotten Realms (80) Frank Zappa (2) free (5) Friday Night Videos (76) Frightshow Classics (2) FtE (2) game design (53) games (90) Gamma World (3) Gary Con (12) Gen Con (82) ghosts of albion (154) GinnyDi (11) goddess (25) gods (50) Grenda (42) greyhawk (27) gsheet (1) GURPS (1) Half-Price (1) Halloween Hangover (11) Hammer (3) Harry Potter (11) heart-breaker (7) Hell (16) HeroForge (18) Hex (7) hex girls (12) Hexenberg (1) history (8) hollows (15) home (4) horror (628) HSO (20) humor (16) Hunters Journals (110) hybrid (7) I got nuthin' (27) icons (6) Iggwilv (36) In Search of (13) interviews (11) Into the Nentir Vale (20) Iriandor (2) Isles of Avalon (368) Jackson IL (2) Jean Rollin (7) Jenny Everywhere (5) Johan (33) Journal of Larina Nix (8) Judges Guild (1) Justice (13) Kelek (14) kickstarter (320) kids (58) Killian (1) King Authur (6) Klingon (1) KP (1) Land of a 1000 witches (3) Larina (109) LARP (1) Legacy DnD (90) Leviathan (1) life-span campaign (9) Lilith (27) links (7) LoA (2) LoEL (7) Lord of the Rings (1) Lovecraft (40) Luna Moonshadow (1) magazines (5) Mage (10) magic (75) Magic School (16) Magnus (9) mail call (55) Maleficent (1) maps (10) Mars (24) Marvel (1) Mary Poppins (4) Maximum Mayhem (27) memorial (3) memories (1) Mercy (9) Middle-Earth (7) Mighty Protectors (12) miniatures (59) MM&M (4) monster (147) monsters (198) Monstrous Maleficarum (11) Monstrous Mondays (294) Moria (4) movie (83) movies (282) MST3k (3) music (67) mutants masterminds (34) mystery movie (3) mystic locales (8) Mystoerth (59) new release (7) New Years Day (3) news (10) NewYearNewCharacter (134) Nida (12) Night Shift (193) NKG (1) non-rpg (20) nonsense (1) Norse Week (5) Northlands (4) nsfw (6) O.G.R.E.S. (2) Occult D&D (32) October Challenge (469) ogl (47) old-school (314) Omar (1) OMG (58) One D&D (1) Order of the Platinum Dragon (50) Ordinary World (5) Origins of the Witch (1) OSE (395) osr (183) OSRchive (2) other systems (172) Oz (10) pathfinder (136) PBtA (1) people (5) Piasa (7) PIE (1) Plagiarism (1) play (28) play-test (29) PoD (25) print (30) projects (8) Protector (11) psychic (7) pulp (10) PWWO (60) QotA (14) R.I.P. (2) race (3) Raven (3) ravenloft (85) Reading Challenge (16) real life (65) Red Rose (1) red sonja (12) research (13) Retro-Build (5) Retro-Clone (88) review (311) reviews (293) Roll20 (1) rpg (119) RPG Blog Carnival (39) rpgs (20) Runequest (1) Runu & Urnu (4) S&W (22) sale (9) satanic panic (15) savage worlds (1) sci-fi (177) SDEATGGG! (1) season of the witch (24) Second Campaign (39) shadow (7) Shadow Elf (21) Shadowdark (11) shadowgirls (8) shameless promotion (3) Sherlock Holmes (3) Silverglass (4) Sinéad (26) Sisters of the Aquarian Order (10) Skylla (42) social media (2) software (5) Space 1901 (9) Space Truckers (7) spellcraft swordplay (32) spells (34) Spider-Gwen (1) Spirit of 76 (11) Star Frontiers (10) Star Trek (52) star wars (10) Stranger Things (7) succubus (6) Summer (6) Superbabes (11) Superman (18) Supernatural (13) supers (141) Sword & Sorcery & Cinema (25) Swords & Wizardry (39) Syncretism (8) Taarna (1) Tales from the Other Side (1) Tanith (9) tara (118) Tarot (13) Taryn (9) TBBYANR (19) technology (8) television (110) test (1) Tharizdûn (18) The Conjuring (12) The Dark Eye (7) The Refrigerator (7) The Simbul (5) The Usual Suspects (1) This Old Dragon (104) TIA(aNaAMU)AoBG&BB! (2) Tiamat (15) Tolkien (6) Top 5 (5) TOSP (1) TOWR (3) toys (8) traveller (31) Traveller Envy (28) Treasure Hunters (4) Troll Week (6) True20 (28) tumblr (2) TV (2) Ubiquity (33) undead (52) unisystem (191) update (8) Urban Survival Guide (3) uw&w (31) V&V (14) Valerie Beaumont (7) Valhalla AK (9) vampire (294) Vampire Queen (397) vampires (3) Vampyres (10) victorian (131) video (59) video games (22) VRGtR (12) Walpurgis (6) Warduchess (1) warlock (28) Wasted Lands (98) Wayward Sisters (6) weekend gaming (6) West Haven (14) wga (35) white dwarf (134) White Rose (1) White Star (32) wikipedia (6) willow (112) WILRPGS (1) WiR (1) witch (1248) Witch Language (6) witchboard (3) Witchcraft Wednesday (135) Witchlight (3) WNN (1) WoD (3) Wonder Woman (11) work (1) world building (99) world of darkness (8) WotWQ (150) wtf (1) WWN (5) x-files (2) xena (4) year end (10) Year of the Monster (2) you tube (10) Zatannurday (236) Zothique (2)

Blog Archive

► 2025 (287)
- ► December 2025 (9)
- ► November 2025 (12)
- ► October 2025 (58)
- ► September 2025 (21)
- ► August 2025 (40)
- ► July 2025 (30)
- ► June 2025 (19)
- ► May 2025 (19)
- ► April 2025 (16)
- ► March 2025 (17)
- ► February 2025 (16)
- ► January 2025 (30)

► 2024 (458)
- ► December 2024 (16)
- ► November 2024 (18)
- ► October 2024 (118)
- ► September 2024 (41)
- ► August 2024 (58)
- ► July 2024 (25)
- ► June 2024 (22)
- ► May 2024 (40)
- ► April 2024 (39)
- ► March 2024 (21)
- ► February 2024 (18)
- ► January 2024 (42)

► 2023 (670)
- ► December 2023 (46)
- ► November 2023 (47)
- ► October 2023 (80)
- ► September 2023 (45)
- ► August 2023 (74)
- ► July 2023 (56)
- ► June 2023 (54)
- ► May 2023 (56)
- ► April 2023 (68)
- ► March 2023 (50)
- ► February 2023 (44)
- ► January 2023 (50)

► 2022 (419)
- ► December 2022 (16)
- ► November 2022 (17)
- ► October 2022 (85)
- ► September 2022 (50)
- ► August 2022 (75)
- ► July 2022 (29)
- ► June 2022 (21)
- ► May 2022 (23)
- ► April 2022 (29)
- ► March 2022 (23)
- ► February 2022 (20)
- ► January 2022 (31)

► 2021 (345)
- ► December 2021 (17)
- ► November 2021 (18)
- ► October 2021 (58)
- ► September 2021 (28)
- ► August 2021 (39)
- ► July 2021 (23)
- ► June 2021 (25)
- ► May 2021 (27)
- ► April 2021 (33)
- ► March 2021 (25)
- ► February 2021 (20)
- ► January 2021 (32)

► 2020 (361)
- ► December 2020 (16)
- ► November 2020 (20)
- ► October 2020 (92)
- ► September 2020 (33)
- ► August 2020 (42)
- ► July 2020 (27)
- ► June 2020 (32)
- ► May 2020 (20)
- ► April 2020 (23)
- ► March 2020 (18)
- ► February 2020 (20)
- ► January 2020 (18)

► 2019 (312)
- ► December 2019 (24)
- ► November 2019 (15)
- ► October 2019 (48)
- ► September 2019 (20)
- ► August 2019 (41)
- ► July 2019 (18)
- ► June 2019 (16)
- ► May 2019 (24)
- ► April 2019 (44)
- ► March 2019 (23)
- ► February 2019 (19)
- ► January 2019 (20)

► 2018 (210)
- ► December 2018 (15)
- ► November 2018 (17)
- ► October 2018 (26)
- ► September 2018 (10)
- ► August 2018 (26)
- ► July 2018 (11)
- ► June 2018 (21)
- ► May 2018 (20)
- ► April 2018 (15)
- ► March 2018 (17)
- ► February 2018 (15)
- ► January 2018 (17)

► 2017 (262)
- ► December 2017 (16)
- ► November 2017 (16)
- ► October 2017 (45)
- ► September 2017 (18)
- ► August 2017 (17)
- ► July 2017 (20)
- ► June 2017 (26)
- ► May 2017 (22)
- ► April 2017 (19)
- ► March 2017 (24)
- ► February 2017 (15)
- ► January 2017 (24)

► 2016 (343)
- ► December 2016 (18)
- ► November 2016 (22)
- ► October 2016 (56)
- ► September 2016 (22)
- ► August 2016 (40)
- ► July 2016 (27)
- ► June 2016 (23)
- ► May 2016 (24)
- ► April 2016 (31)
- ► March 2016 (21)
- ► February 2016 (29)
- ► January 2016 (30)

▼ 2015 (460)
- ► December 2015 (31)
- ► November 2015 (31)
- ► October 2015 (46)
- ► September 2015 (30)
- ▼ August 2015 (59)
- ► July 2015 (37)
- ► June 2015 (37)
- ► May 2015 (42)
- ► April 2015 (42)
- ► March 2015 (34)
- ► February 2015 (33)
- ► January 2015 (38)

► 2014 (445)
- ► December 2014 (29)
- ► November 2014 (22)
- ► October 2014 (56)
- ► September 2014 (31)
- ► August 2014 (46)
- ► July 2014 (41)
- ► June 2014 (30)
- ► May 2014 (31)
- ► April 2014 (42)
- ► March 2014 (35)
- ► February 2014 (46)
- ► January 2014 (36)

► 2013 (553)
- ► December 2013 (37)
- ► November 2013 (44)
- ► October 2013 (66)
- ► September 2013 (65)
- ► August 2013 (38)
- ► July 2013 (38)
- ► June 2013 (40)
- ► May 2013 (54)
- ► April 2013 (49)
- ► March 2013 (44)
- ► February 2013 (35)
- ► January 2013 (43)

► 2012 (536)
- ► December 2012 (37)
- ► November 2012 (44)
- ► October 2012 (76)
- ► September 2012 (39)
- ► August 2012 (42)
- ► July 2012 (41)
- ► June 2012 (38)
- ► May 2012 (45)
- ► April 2012 (42)
- ► March 2012 (43)
- ► February 2012 (44)
- ► January 2012 (45)

► 2011 (505)
- ► December 2011 (40)
- ► November 2011 (37)
- ► October 2011 (57)
- ► September 2011 (35)
- ► August 2011 (35)
- ► July 2011 (34)
- ► June 2011 (42)
- ► May 2011 (42)
- ► April 2011 (49)
- ► March 2011 (51)
- ► February 2011 (38)
- ► January 2011 (45)

► 2010 (345)
- ► December 2010 (34)
- ► November 2010 (35)
- ► October 2010 (53)
- ► September 2010 (25)
- ► August 2010 (25)
- ► July 2010 (31)
- ► June 2010 (30)
- ► May 2010 (21)
- ► April 2010 (27)
- ► March 2010 (24)
- ► February 2010 (23)
- ► January 2010 (17)

► 2009 (96)
- ► December 2009 (16)
- ► November 2009 (14)
- ► October 2009 (8)
- ► September 2009 (7)
- ► August 2009 (13)
- ► July 2009 (11)
- ► June 2009 (14)
- ► May 2009 (6)
- ► April 2009 (3)
- ► March 2009 (2)
- ► January 2009 (2)

► 2008 (3)
- ► December 2008 (3)

► 2007 (3)
- ► May 2007 (1)
- ► April 2007 (2)

Total Pageviews

2014 ENnies Nominee

Best Blog

2016 Ennies Nominee

Best Blog