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Realms of Chirak

Realms of Chirak: Gazetteer of the Southlands of The West - *Gazetteer of the Southlands of The West* This short gazetteer outlines some information on specific regions in Chirak about which little information has ...
35 seconds ago
Quag Keep

Oathbound: Wrack & Ruin - *From the back cover:* *"The bulk of the City of Penance is a madly stacked and sprawling ruin, only superficially explored by the relentless rafter...
25 minutes ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Justice League #6 - *Justice League #6* came out this week and continued its insane pace, tossing aside some plot lines and barreling forward with others. Scott Snyder and r...
1 hour ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Notes on a Hypothetical Far Future 5e - As frequently happens when I have things I need to work on, new ideas try to woo me with their siren's song. I'm putting so notes here to try to exorcism...
1 hour ago
Erotiterrorist

Get Your Hard Copies While You Can - Someone recently mentioned buying one of my books trough Lulu. That reminded me that I had books on Lulu. The last time I got a royalty check from them was...
1 hour ago
SciFiChick.com

Box Review: TeeBlox – August 2018 - “TeeBlox is all about providing our customers with the best graphic tees in today’s market. Over a 200 million t-shirt arts designed by artists. It’s time ...
1 hour ago
Stargazer's World

#RPGaDay2018 – Day 17: Describe the best compliment you’ve had gaming - And we’re back! The prompt for the day is: Describe the best compliment you’ve had gaming. My video in English for Sunglar’s Musings: The video in Spanish ...
2 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Dial H for Hundred - Yes, we've run out of proper Dial H for Hero stories, but this is Case 100, how I can I not get us to that magic number? It just so happens Bongo Comics p...
3 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Friday Filler: Pocket Mars - Mars—and the colonisation of Mars—has been the theme *du jour* for board games of late, with *Terraforming Mars* from Stronghold Games being premier treat...
3 hours ago
HeroPress

With His Next Story Arc, X-O Manowar Is Back Doing What He Does Best... - Thankfully X-O Manowar - who was in flashback filler mode during the recent Valiant Comics' line-wide Harbinger Wars 2 event - is back in full-on, alien-ar...
4 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

I KNOW She Is Trying To Seduce Me - https://www.facebook.com/hellyvonvalentine/
5 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

A Window Above: A Natural Woman - Song: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Writers: Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Jerry Wexler Original Release: September 1967 Original Performer: Aret...
7 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

RIP Jill Janus - Jill Janus, frontwoman for the band Huntress, passed away recently. Best to remember her through the scorching records she made. Sorrow Eight of Swords ...
7 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre #YALit #Suspense - *Series: Standalone* *Format: Hardcover, 336 pages* *Release Date: July 17, 2018* *Publisher: Tor Teen* *Source: Publisher via NetGalley* *Genre: Young Adul...
8 hours ago
herding cats & burning soup

[memes] Authors That Save Me From Book Slumps! + my week in books - *I wanted to meme. And only had one weekly post to do it. So there's a whole lotta memeage happening in this post. You might have to scroll down a bit to ...
8 hours ago
deeply shallow

#fridayflash: A Still, Small Voice (an excerpt) - Coronation day—and Hono's eighteenth birthday—finally came. The young princess stood on the balcony, heart pounding. On her right was her mother, regal an...
8 hours ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

RPGaDay 2018 #16 Your Plans For Your Next Game - As of now, I'm looking forward to a First Edition D&D session tomorrow, playing through the Slavers adventure arc with my 5th level wizard. We're on our wa...
9 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

New Release? -Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fourth Edition Rulebook PRE-ORDER - When is a new release NOT a "new release"? When its a "pre-order". Further question: What is the point of a "PDF Pre-order"? I understand why you do it ...
9 hours ago
I Fly By Night

StarCluster 4 - Wavefront Empire Released! - Wavefront Empire is now available for purchase! Precis Intermedia in pdf - http://www.pigames.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=962 Lulu in print...
9 hours ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

20 Questions for the Kingdom of Ostschild - So I started another D&D campaign. Lost Atlantis is still going, but not as often as I'd like, so I co-opted the members of my local board game group into ...
11 hours ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Gustave Adolf Mossa (1883 - 1971) - [image: Gustave Adolf Mossa - Satiated Siren, 1905]Satiated Siren, 1905 [image: Gustav Adolf Mossa - The Gorgon, 1917] The Gorgon, 1917 [image: Gustave Ad...
11 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

DCC Cover Craft - I was looking for DCC vids on Youtube and came across this. DM Scotty recreated the original cover and has three videos that show you how to do it. I thoug...
13 hours ago
Cross Planes

Untold Adventures: Sagitaur - Art by Orion35 *Sagitaur for Untold Adventures* Armor Class: 8 [11] Hit Dice: 1 Attacks: Bow Special: None Move: Fast HDE: 1 Satitaurs are nomads who hun...
17 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Never again. - This blog was going to have a review of *A Quiet Place* here today. My aim was to get it written up last night, do the weekly podcast I look forward to, an...
18 hours ago
A character for every game

The Wreck at Banana Bay - Word came back from some fishermen that there was a cog beached at Banana Bay – one of the few … Continue reading →
19 hours ago
Quest for Fun!

Book Sales - I am told sales of Friendly Local Game Store are exceeding expectations. I've had questions about how it has been selling in various channels. I just recei...
20 hours ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

All Your Dice Are Belong To Us. - The Preciouses - we must have them! We must roll them all!
21 hours ago
Monster Island News

Ewan McGregor Is Playing It Real Coy About The Upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie - Despite the fact that an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie has been in development for two years now actor Ewan McGregor insists that he has no knowledge of it. This ...
22 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

Mapping a Giant Tree Trunk - I've had some preliminary thoughts on mapping a giant tree, beginning with the trunk. Have a look at the following diagram, which is a section of a trunk: ...
23 hours ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *GHOST * *GHOST * El personaje de los comics de los 90 de Dark Horse The 90s Dark Horse comics character.
1 day ago
The OSR Library

Dr. Theophilus' Traveling Show. A Classic/OSR Murder Circus - I had an urge a while back to build a circus. A shady circus. A murder circus. This is that attempt. I think I've left it generic enough to be included wi...
1 day ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Hello Again... - a much older "set-up"... but now have Sound again for Computer !!!! Even have a couple of beers to have for this evening !! Drunken Wizards could pose a "p...
1 day ago
False Machine

The Wodlands 9 - The incoherent Isles - 1. The Plains of Anaesthetic Fire. 2. The Antigoblin Empire. 3. The Whetstone Ridge. 4. The Painted Plain. 5. The Vermilion Sea. 6. The Large Goblin Collider...
1 day ago
Points of Light

Dungeons & Delvers: Appendix D, Issue 8 - Someone wanted us to add more monstrous races and classes to *Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book*, so that ended up being the overall theme for the eight issu...
1 day ago
Trollsmyth

The Stars are Right! - Had a character-building session for the new campaign last night. After we worked out who the characters were going to be, I dropped just over a thousand w...
1 day ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

The Hand of Glory - Had some requests for anything by mad *Matt Fox*, so today is the day that I oblige, which also just happens to coincide with my own unwitting need to wait...
1 day ago
Spellmaking

Engn reviewed - "Echoing the social schisms of the Industrial Revolution without sacrificing pace or visceral threat, Kewin forges a steampunk thriller that connect with b...
1 day ago
The Warrior Muse

August W.E.P. - Change of Heart - It's time for *Write...Edit...Publish!* It's been a long time since I participated, and I'm excited to be jumping back in. Speaking of first times, it's ...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

5e: Chimeras and Curses - From: Sir Fulhoff of Clan Balderk, Knight of Hawk’s Nest To: Helja and Adrik of Clan Balderk Mother and Father: After sorting through the dragon’s hoard, w...
2 days ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Sophie Washington: Hurricane Review Tour - *Blurb:* #Sophie Strong A hurricane’s coming, and eleven-year-old Sophie Washington’s typical middle school life in the Houston, Texas suburbs is about to...
2 days ago
Close Encounters with the Night Kind

Release Day!! The Wolf's Bandit by Milly Taiden - Robyn Loxley is determined to save every homeless child she can find, even if she has to break the law to do it. Since the royal foundation rudely turn...
2 days ago
Bat in the Attic

SJ Games opens the door for The Fantasy Trip - In a very interesting bit of news, SJ Games announced they are going to instituted a limited publishing agreement where fans of TFT can publish on Wareho...
2 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

14 Hours. And the combat system - If you're wondering how the Demon City combat system works specifically in play, here's a podcast where we demonstrate exactly that. If you haven't yet sec...
2 days ago
My Baffling Brain

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

Experimental Operations Command vs Gygaxian Ecology - These recently came out and got me interested in my Long Stairs stuff Basically modern armed forces vs gygaxian monsters Im gonna remaster my old PDF to ...
2 days ago
Oubliette Magazine

2.5D Dungeon Terrain Launch - I've just released a new pack of professionally terrain sheets for creating 2.5D dungeons. The sheets in the pack were created by Kristian Richards of Croo...
3 days ago
OEF

Patreon - I have started a Patreon in order to develop more projects. Currently I develop *OSR products* and my big new project *Valkyria: Shieldmaidens of Asgard* b...
3 days ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

Salton Seekers: My Frankensteinian Labyrinth Lord Campaign - Okay, so I'm doing a soft reboot of the Basic D&D campaign I started earlier this year. My group of old friends and I sorta stalled on the roleplaying fo...
3 days ago
A Life Full of Adventure

[WFRP 2e] Relics of Nehekara 2 - *My PC* Erik Holt - Human Tomb Robber *My companions* Lunn - Dwarf Gaoler Bungo - Halfling Grave Robber Fyodor - Human Badlander Pappy - NPC Human Beggar Ek...
3 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Skyship Spells IV - Just so you don't think I've given up on skyship spells, here are another three, written for the D&D BECMI game mechanics. None of those came up in CAL1 "...
4 days ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Planescape is Weird - Well, A is planning to run a 5e Planescape campaign for us. He got five of us together last night to create characters. One of the new players in our gr...
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Alphabet City (1984) - I know about as much about Vincent Spano as I do about Alphabet City itself in the 1980s. I largely decided to watch this since I recently reviewed the ...
4 days ago
Thoul's Paradise

High Times on Hathor III (spoilers) - *Art by Steve Crompton* In 1983, Fantasy Games Unlimited published *Casino Galactica* for use with *Space Opera*. It is credited to “STEVEN B. TODD of Gno...
4 days ago
GRUBB STREET

The Political Bunker: Fallout - I usually wait a few days before posting after an election, because votes continue to come in (deadline was postmarked on Election Day), and there are usua...
4 days ago
Hidden in Shadows

Thoughts on the Cinematic inspiration for Blackmoor Castle. - Here is me having a little fun - don't take any of this as gospel, but rather as a speculative investigation. I'm about to spin a "Just So" story that sou...
4 days ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Champions Now Ep. 4: Enter Ultraviolet - My daughter and I played our fourth session of the solo Champions Now campaign set in my daughter's "Dark Matter Universe" featuring the novice super-villa...
5 days ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

James Gunn Gone For Good - I think it's safe to say that James Gunn will *NOT* be re-hired by Disney. As I predicted in Inappropriate Characters episode #4, where there's smoke, th...
5 days ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

FANEXPO BOSTON! - This weekend I'll be at FANEXPO Boston, booth A1412 in the artist alley. I'll have prints, books, a NEW OVC t-shirt design and a NEW OVC comic book featur...
5 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Marvel Legends All-New, All-Different Daredevil - I was always a fan of the highly coveted 2015 Hobgoblin Wave Daredevil in red, but was glad to get this updated version from the 2018 SP//dr Wave. Modele...
5 days ago
Written In Blood

Life is not fair. Our author isn’t either. Be glad you got a starring role in her book! #Character #Confessions - SAGE: Looks around cautiously before sitting down. “My name is Sage Cynwrig, and I’m super excited to finally have a chance to speak without the Grand Hi...
6 days ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Axis Mundi VR - I am enjoying the virtual worlds such as Sanzar, High Fidelity, and VR Chat but they are missing so much. THEY ARE ALL LACKING! AFTER watching Ready Pl...
6 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Razorwind - Hello and welcome to another week of Frightful Fridays! (brought to you by Con Crud! Get Con Crud! It's fun! this advertisement paid for by the con crud bu...
6 days ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Early Documents for My World of Samoth Campaign - A very early map of countries, some of which eventually made their way into my current World of Samoth campaign. Drawn on a yellow legal pad in the summer o...
6 days ago
Troll and Flame

Echoes From Fomalhaut #2 - I've been a big fan of Gabor Lux since I first read his stuff (maybe in *Knock Spell*, maybe from some OSR blog). At this year's NTRPGCon I picked up the f...
6 days ago
MINION FACTORY

Mighty Robots, Mighty Vehicles! - FVOC #015 - CY-KILL I got to admit, I never actually watched the show in my youth. But I did have some of the toys in my collection and you got to love th...
1 week ago
Fabled Lands

Bundles of neuroses - The other night I got a close-up view of a massacre. Not in real life, thankfully. It was the finale of a Victorian-era campaign I’d been running for ov...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Lyonesse map draft - The good people at the *Design Mechanism* have shared this draft of their map of the 'Elder Isles' for their forthcoming *Lyonesse *RPG (based upon their ...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Advanced Adventures on Kindle - I've finally figured out how to put the Advanced Adventures line into Kindle file format so now I'm uploading them to Amazon. So far I've got 1-4 up and wi...
1 week ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
1 week ago
Kaijuville

Gen Con 2018 Loot - I didn't have a big shopping list this time. In recent years I've been more on the lookout for limited items not available later or stuff that is heav...
1 week ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Coming to Kickstarter Next Week: Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid - Renegade Game Studios (CLANK!, Kids on Bikes, Overlight) has teamed up with Hasbro and will be launching a new Power Rangers board game on August 14th. The...
1 week ago
Dynasty Zero

Everywhen - *Everywhen*, the universal game based on *Barbarians of Lemuria* has been released in PDF! POD coming at a later time. I'm thrilled about this! You can...
1 week ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Hierophant - We've played a fourth session of the Deindustrial Future game, but I haven't written it up yet. Here's something to tide you over. Illustration: Walt McDou...
1 week ago
[Retro-Z]

When faced with bad stuff, just ask CHRISTOPHER WALKEN! - *Update of sorts, nothing shiny or new on the horizon... thoughts of giving up rolling around my head and then I turn to my crazy art. I have been design...
1 week ago
19th Level

The Elder Gods Reign Supreme in the 2018 ENnie Awards - Taking a look at the 2018 ENnie Winners, it seems the Mythos kinda kicked ass. By my count, products in the Cthulhu family won a dozen awards: - Be...
1 week ago
The Troll Dens

The Land at the End of the World - Faurenost became powerful in wealth and magic, and it used this knowledge with fell intent. ~ The World of Aihrde (now on KICKSTARTER).
1 week ago
Gothridge Manor

Bandit Tables: Get More Out of Your Bandit Encounters - The party travels through the winding game trail. Up ahead a loud whistle cracks through the air. Immediately, angry shouts from above, to the left, and to...
1 week ago
Rather Gamey

Still Drawing! - Hey ya'll. I'm still drawing. Every day. Mainly in pencils - but I am dipping my toe back into ink and markers. Have a good one!
1 week ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

It's coming to a boil... - After simmering for quite some time, the second issue of Cauldron is coming together. This issue is clocking in around 80+ pages including: Naval rules, a...
1 week ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

Mirror, Mirror - d10 Random Table Logical Madness - 1. Interlopers from an alternative dimension are attempting to murder and replace key inhabitants of the city. So as to better identify their fellow consp...
1 week ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Dangerous Ideas in Roleplaying Games - *This is not about murdering orc children, but it could be. Instead I want to take a look at the dangerous ideas that are out there and see what worth ther...
1 week ago
The Wasted Lands

On Negative Reviews - Negative reviews are a very complicated thing in the arts community. On one hand, I understand that it's very important to have balance; on the other hand,...
1 week ago
The Omnipotent Eye

Long overdue closing down message - Friends. I guess if you see this in you notifications or feed reader you will be quite surprised. This blog have now been dormant for a long time, and much...
1 week ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Mathoms Away! - As I will be busy tonight and tomorrow, I just shipped off the* 2018 Birthday Mathom* to the dozen individuals who responded to the Mathom announcement po...
1 week ago
Kidbits

Celebrate the Small Things... If I can catch up - It's time to celebrate the small things!!! What exactly are we celebrating? Anything. . .everything! Every week, things happen which put a smile on our ...
1 week ago
Ellen Dugan's Blog of Witchery

Midnight Prophecy- Book 3 in the Daughters Of Midnight series - Daughters Of Midnight: Books 1—3 by Ellen DuganHappy August! This year I did something a little crazy. I decided to launch a brand new paranormal series, ...
1 week ago
All Games Considered

AGC 221 August 2nd 2018 (ConGlomeration 2018... and All Good Things) (1:10:16) - Carol, Mags, and Steve talk with Craig Campbell of Nerdburger Games and James Sutter of Paizo Publishing in the big interview from ConGlomeration 2016... b...
2 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Little Book of Adventuring Classes Volume I - I recently picked up The Little Book of Adventuring Classes - volume I- It is a fun little OSR product stat'd up for the Swords & Wizardry Complete system...
2 weeks ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Mera :: Queen of Atlantis #6 - *Mera - Queen of Atlantis #6* *Cover by Nicola Scott and Romulo Fajardo Jr.* *"Mortal Combat"* *Artwork by Lan Medina, Norm Rapmund, and Veronica Gandini*...
2 weeks ago
World of Ortix

RIP Mark... - I'm totally crushed... Rest in Peace...
2 weeks ago
Mesmerized by sirens

Bifrost (volume 1, complete). - [image: Risultati immagini per bifrost rpg skytrex] I am sorry that i post so rarely, but today i'm going to give you something that will keep you busy for...
3 weeks ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

"E" is for "Eelwolf" - *Eelwolf* *No. Enc.:* 2d6 (3d6) *Alignment:* Neutral *Movement:* 180' (60') * —Swim:* 120' (40') *Armor Class:* 7 (See Below) *Hit Dice:* 4 *Atta...
3 weeks ago
The Spirits of Eden

The Center of Gravity (75.2) - This chapter contains mentions of violence, torture, wounds, suicide and suicidal ideation, corpses, and brief descriptions of illness and abuse. 58th of t...
3 weeks ago
My Old-School Renaissance

"Spell to Assume the Form of a Horned Snake. Papyrus of Ani. ca. 1275 BCE" - 'In the *Egyptian Book of the Dead*, spells of transformation into hawks, phoenix birds, the Eye of Horus, and various deities are recorded. A spell to a...
3 weeks ago
A Paladin In Citadel

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

Sinister Science Seeds - At the suggestion of Huth I have created a number of hooks for investigative/horror games based on 1950s sci fi and horror movies. 1950 - Reports of f...
3 weeks ago
Tower of Zenopus

Book Review: Cadia Stands - This is another of the "current events" books for Warhammer 40,000 similar to Dark Imperium ... which I realize I never posted a review of on the blog s...
3 weeks ago
The Whole Wide World

My Latest Kickstarter is Live! - Just taking a moment to let everyone know I have a new Kickstarter in process for Troll Lord Games! The Fifth Edition Player's Guide to Aihrde is now live...
3 weeks ago
Gamers & Grognards

U-Con Event Submission Is Open! Now With Deadlines - It's event submission time for U-Con! As the OSR Track and Tekumel Track event coordinator I am looking for Referees, Judges and Dungeon Masters to come ...
3 weeks ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Encyclopedia Greyhawkania index Part 38 Kr-Ky - Kradner, Clinorus SEE Clinorus Kradner Krag (Orc)[NPC] SLV - 54,56 Krak (Half-Orc)[F5][NPC] L2 - 6 Kraken Tribe (Rotting Kraken)(Hobgoblin)[CLN] DRG#16...
3 weeks ago
Little Gothic Horrors

Trinkets and Armor 2 - For Trinkets and Armor hosted by Magaly Guerrero. Prompt: "Normal Is a Self-Defeating Trap."
3 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Scylla: Henry Justice Ford Monster Manual - [image: Henry Justice Ford Henry Justice Ford Tales Of Troy 1 Flickr Photo] Another contribution for Eric Nieudan's project. This classical creep is to me...
4 weeks ago
The House of Little Fears

On Sale: All Little Fears PDFs! - Hello, everybody! Just a heads up that all Little Fears digital products are currently 25% off during DriveThruRPG’s Christmas in July sale. Fill out your ...
4 weeks ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Failed Fables - Just continuing from where I left off... It was only a few weeks ago (when was *Free RPG Day*? A couple days after that) that I was in *Around the Table Ga...
4 weeks ago
Under Siege

2018... Halfway Done - It's been a few months since the last update and I'm happy to say that almost everything so far has come to pass with the exception of one thing (more on...
4 weeks ago
Krell Laboratories

Kingdom Come - [image: Chris Pratt and friend in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom] Juan Antonio Bayona would not have been the first name on my list to direct a *Jurassic P...
4 weeks ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Recent screencasts/videos - Recent screencasts/videos mid-July ‘18: Nuts and Bolts: Analysis Paralysis, What it is and How to Avoid it: http://youtu.be/oMQUO_o3YGk?a via @YouTube Top...
4 weeks ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Paper Minis Expert Monsters Set 1 for sale - You may remember (and a few of you purchased - Thank You!) my fold-up paper minis based on the monsters from the Basic Set D&D. They're still for sale over...
4 weeks ago
Aggregate Cognizance

Vectored (i.e., Zero Gee) Combat in Tachyon Squadron - One of the things I've wanted to do for years was adapt Jovian Chronicles to Fate Core. For those who don't know Jovian Chronicles is a somewhat "firm" sci...
4 weeks ago
A Storybook World

Game Breaker by Cheree Alsop - GIVE AWAY - Breccan has struggled to adjust to his new life after a tragedy that cost him more than just his arm. To help him cope, his cousin introduces him to the...
4 weeks ago
Dorkland!

You May Have Heard - If you follow me on social media, you may have caught my big news today. I have been offered a job with Petersen Games, and I have accepted it. I will be w...
4 weeks ago
Age of Ravens

History of Universal RPGs (Part Nine: 2016-2017) - *UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM* So I’ve finally finished these Universal RPG lists. It’s been hard, harder than I imagined when I first started work on them. I’ve seen...
4 weeks ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

My Finncon Program - Convention season is upon us! Well, it’s been upon us for over a month now. However, Finncon is this weekend in Turku. It’s the major sci-fi convention in ...
5 weeks ago
destination unknown

Sheridan the Exile - *Sheridan* * “Not all of the criminals out here want to kill you. Some just want your skin.”* Sheridan isn’t a bad man, he’s just a bit lazy. He wand...
5 weeks ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

T-E-E-N-T-I-T-A-N-S! TEEN! TI-TANS! LET'S GO! - Cover by Alan OkamotoYesterday, we looked at the *Champions* write ups for the X-Men in Different Worlds. Today, we look at Issue #30, cover date Septembe...
5 weeks ago
Forgotten Runes

Adventurer, Conqueror, King Character System Review - After finding that the ENine nominations were out (vote for Holy Crap: the Great Sects Change Operation my friend Andy's game supplement. It's good), I wa...
5 weeks ago
Justice League Detroit

2017 Elongated Man Jam Sketch Detail by Isaiah Broussard - Transyltown artist Isaiah Broussard has done a bunch of smaller pieces for me at local Houston shows, mostly contributing to my many (often still unfinish...
1 month ago
Rended Press

Have You Reinvented the Wheel Lately? - Today on his blog, Zak S. highlighted an equipment list layout by Shawn Cheng for Zak's Demon City project as if it was something new and revolutionary. I...
1 month ago
Bobert the Hoosier expatriate

This is the end - Well, the end of a chapter, anyway. I've decided to close down my LiveJournal, sometime between now and when my paid account comes up for renewal in the...
1 month ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Pieces I am Working For Into The Unknown - *Finishing...* *Breakthrough to the Bridge* *An LGTSA Tractics Scenario Battle Report* *© 2018 by Robert J. Kuntz.* *Scenario Designed and Adjudicated...
1 month ago
Asshat Paladins

Actual Play: Firefly "Old War Horses" Session 4 The Three-Body Problem - Session 4: The Three-Body Problem Friday, December 8, 2017 Dramatis Personae: - *Captain Ramsey Zook*, played by K - *General Samuel Zook*, played by...
1 month ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: El Raja Key Archive and the Mapping Styles of Kunt... - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: El Raja Key Archive and the Mapping Styles of Kunt...: Take a prolonged look at my Greyhawk City Sewers and Catacombs ma...
1 month ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Whoring Sonja - Just the other day I was browsing one of my favourite comics blogs, Pete Doree's *The Bronze Age of Blogs*, when I came across this Brian Bolland 1978 adve...
1 month ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[DCC] The Portal Under the Stars One-Shot - I missed Free *RPG Day* due to other commitments, but got to run a two-player *Dungeon Crawl Classics* funnel on Monday night. I ran the party through the ...
1 month ago
Armchair Gamer

Data Scan: Cyberpunk 2077 E3 Trailer - If you're one of those Cyberpunk / Cyberpunk 2020 fans that have been looking at getting that late 80s cyberpunk fix this side of the 21st Century, I'm sur...
1 month ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

Advanced Labyrinth Lord Kickstarter! - *Goblinoid Games* has finally launched the *Advanced Labyrinth Lord* *Kickstarter*! From the Kickstarter: *Advanced Labyrinth Lord* [image: https://www...
2 months ago
Servitor Ludi

Second star to the right... - Should I start a category of posts for "tropes that get me every time?" For some reason, this well-known line from *Peter Pan* provides instant feels. T...
2 months ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

No, Bruce Heard did not get involved with The Known World/Mystara towards the end of its run. - Replica of a map appearing in Dragon #155. Replica by Thorfinn Tait.Mystara first appeared in published form in 1981 and even existed before that as the h...
2 months ago
Lasgunpacker

SW:A The Return - In what is now an annual tradition (if you do it twice, it is a tradition, right?), I got together this weekend for a game of Shadow Wars: Armageddon with ...
2 months ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

New Frontier GN on sale for $5.99 USD on comixology - Being a comic shop guy, I obviously prefer printed books - but for anyone who hasn't tried Darwyn's The New Frontier yet, Comixology has it on sale for 8...
2 months ago
Wild West History

Lola Montez: Beauty and Song in the Old West - *Lola Montez (de:Gouache by Carl Buchner, 1847. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. * *Lola Montez is known as the "first tabloid celebrity." She was born i...
2 months ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

New Module at NTRPG Con 2018 - *"Even in the far gulfs of space, the struggle of Law against Chaos, Good versus Evil is eternal. But wherever evil is not extinguished, it will revive to ...
2 months ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

A Few more Bits and Pieces. - Having a bit of a disaster with my scanner so these will be 'old' bits and pieces and again in no particular order. Again for GOODMAN games. NEW CHARACTER...
2 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Reaction Table Combat - Over on Reddit’s OSR forum, I joked that I should have done a revised combat system based on the reaction roll table. For all I know, I may have done it, b...
2 months ago
the musings of huginn and muninn

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

More Free Number Tokens?! - I’m giving more Number Tokens away… Because gamers still want them! Apparently, giving sets of Number Tokens away was a good idea. I’ve had a great run of...
3 months ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Persons of Power: The Shadara - I am digging through old notes and files, and came across this little tidbit. Seriously, The Shadara is OLD. Not just in-game old, but her creation came ea...
3 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

A Quick Thought on Magic-Users - A la "vintage" D&D. A thought I've had over time, and I've seen expressed my many others, is that magic-users should dominate world affairs at higher level...
3 months ago
Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

Bonelord-A Villain for Light City - This is a Light City version of a character I created for Icons 8 years ago! Enjoy! *Bonelord* Real Name: Clinton Darnell First Appearance: Mike’s Amaz...
3 months ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com. You're missin...
3 months ago
The Groovy Age of Horror

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

Second Pass Editing and Initial Formatting - Boring stuff to read about, but necessary steps. Plans are to release material to Lulu Publishing, and DTRPG (OBS) in near future.
3 months ago
Genius Loci

Mini-Review - Matt Finch's 0e Monsters of Jordoba - Matt Finch begins 0e Monsters of Jordoba with a page long mission statement, one that ends with this statement: So I’m going back to those grassroots for ...
3 months ago
The Savage AfterWorld

"Quill Noir" '30s Pulp Detective Setting for Quill RPG Now Available - Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player is one of my favorite stand-alone solo games, as this review I wrote will attest. Last year, I...
3 months 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. ...
3 months ago
Beholder Pie

Here Be Dungeons 15: A District of Mulmaster - Click to make big The district of Mulmaster that is locked down following the assassination of a senior member of the Brotherhood of the Cloak (final map f...
4 months ago
The Book of Worlds

The Orchid Club - Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its own v...
4 months ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

Review & OSR Commentary On RPGPundit Presents #26: Mutant Hordes of the Last Sun For Your Old School Wasteland Campaigns - So today it wad great anticipation that I grabbed a copy of Rpg Pundit Presents 26 Mutant Hordes of the Last Sun. I asked for this copy of what looks li...
4 months ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

The A to Z's of Yard Therapy - C is for Creativity - C is for Creativity.... now I'm intimidated. Being creative when I'm writing... easy. Being creative in my garden... cringe worthy. I love pinning on pin...
4 months ago
Dyvers

GM Toolbox: Things to Do from January 24, 2005 - Shortly before I was going to run my first game back in the early months of 2005 I was sitting in the Den working on a list of things that I felt like I ha...
4 months ago
Minding Spot

Shattered Memories (The Mirror Sisters #3) by V.C. Andrews - *In this finale of the darkly gothic Mirror Sisters trilogy, one twin fears her reunion with sister dearest—from the legendary New York Times bestselling ...
4 months ago
EXONAUTS!

Bedtime Battles: Part Two - In my *previous post*, I mentioned that my daughter and I have been playing Star Wars or super hero themed skirmish games. These are very rules light, d20 ...
4 months ago
The Happy Undertaker

T-shirts and Buttons - 3 T-shirt designs are now available (tho Ghostcat is a temp image they won't be done for a couple of days) Hight quality 3, 4 and 5 color screen printed s...
4 months ago
Redwald RPG

Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...
5 months ago
Stocking The Dungeon

Gary Con 2018; For Whom the Bell Trolls - It was about this time last year that a friend and I sent the self proclaimed leader of the OSR free world into a full on tears and hair pulling schoolgirl...
5 months ago
Gaming Ronin

Initiative in Index card RPG. - I've had some time to think about some of the workings of ICRPG. Being a tinkerer at heart I can't help but want to come up with material for it. I'm als...
5 months ago
Steve's Gamer Blog

Chronicles of the Realm - Chronicles of the Realm is a live action role-playing game that I helped design. The main idea behind the design is the same as if you were to join a gam...
6 months ago
Held Action

Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Clue: The Great Museum Caper is a game from my nerdly youth that, sadly, I never got to play truly.[1] I admired its place of honor on a shelf for years, a...
6 months ago
The Inferno Music Vault

Uleiul de cocos bio folosit atat in alimentatie cat si in cosmetica - Unul dintre cele mai bune ingrediente pe care le puteti folosi atat in alimentatie, cat si in cosmetica, este uleiul de cocos bio. Cu nenumarate beneficii,...
6 months ago
Mythmere's Blog

Growing the OSR if you want: part 2 - So, based on the various realizations I talked about in the last post, what are the things I'm trying to do in 2018 that will boost the signal of the OSR a...
7 months ago
Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog

200 - Mary Shelley’s *Frankenstein; or, the Modern **Prometheus* was first published on January 1, 1818. 200 years ago today. Posting here resumes shortly. On...
7 months ago
The Lands of Ara

Harbinger - Since I last checked in I have played some *Labyrinth Lord* off and on, but not for quite awhile, and my online group has basically fizzled out -- the cam...
8 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

Classic Traveller -- More Solo Campaigning, part 2 - This is the second in a series. The first is here. For my solo campaign, I decided that I wanted to try out a bunch of Gamelords' Traveller books. So first...
8 months ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Stressed Spell Casting - I am working on houserules for my Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerors of Hyperborea campaign this morning. The main topic of the moment is variation from s...
8 months ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

Buzzfeed is Stealing Content - Wow. Has it been THIS long since I posted here? That is wrong. Anyway. YouTube Atheist and Skeptic +JaclynGlenn has been a fave of mine for years. Well s...
9 months ago
The City of Iron

Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to http://necrotic-gnome-productions.blogspot.de/. This blog will remain indefinitely...
9 months ago
Robert Atkins Art

Daily Sketch - Thanos... - Here's a Thanos commission I was able to finish up this last fall that had been a long time coming. With all the Infinity War movies coming up, it's seems ...
9 months ago
Lawful Indifferent

Fantastic Maps: How To Design A Town - Absolutely love this style of design, and love how concise the steps are. Always remember that pre-Industrial Revolution people are living on the land and ...
9 months ago
Wishful Gaming

Stepping back in time - So, as many of you may know, Gamehole Con V is coming up. It was iffy about whether I was going to be able to make it this year. Money is tight, and real l...
10 months ago
Fantasy Heartbreaker

Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter is live! - The Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter has launched! Head on over to the campaign page to see more, including a full-text preview! Read More ...
10 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Illyria Game Two - Against the Cult of the Reptile God! - Illyria Game Two picked up back in the waterside city of Fraus, on the northwest of Lake Laconic. The players met Nicodemus, the thieves' guild master, a...
10 months ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Full Moon Streaming: PUPPET MASTER: AXIS TERMINATION - *11th entry in Full Moon's killer puppet franchise will premiere in three installments exclusively on Amazon starting THIS FRIDAY!Buckle in for Puppet...
11 months ago
Fantasy Ink

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 1950's - Here's some classic 1950's covers for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. They are all for sale in my eBay store. February 1952, cover art by Che...
11 months ago
Big Ball of No Fun

RPGaDAY #31 - Predictions for the next year - What do you anticipate most for gaming in 2018? I'm going to preface this post by saying that I am a cynic (and by extension a pessimist). Here are some pr...
11 months ago
The Cat's Meat Shop

Victorian Monkey Tennis? - Notes written by a manager of the Alexandra Palace, c.1880? (Haringey Museum AP1/17) *These notes appear in the archives without an author, but display a s...
11 months ago
Toyriffic

Imaginext Darkseid, Parademon and Blind Bag Series 2 Kingdom Come Superman - A recent trip to Wal-Mart yielded the Imaginext Darkseid/Parademon two pack and the DC Blind Bag Series 2 Kingdom Come Superman! This new Darkseid release...
11 months ago
THE LAND OF NOD

The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...
11 months ago
Beyond the Black Gate

B/X: Ability score adjustments - This is kind of an interesting idiosyncrasy of B/X. Its also one of those odd rules that seemed to make it's way informally into a lot of the 1E campaig...
11 months ago
Teach Game Design

A messy failure? - In early 2014 I was recruited to offer online courses at LFE.Com. Not seeing any advantage over my existing platforms, I declined. But I still get some of ...
1 year ago
space1970

PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1978) Behind-The-Scenes Effects Gallery - Animator Jim AupperleI'm very fond of the 1978 sci-fi film *Planet Of Dinosaurs*. Sure, it's cheap as hell and the script is banal and the performances by...
1 year ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

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

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
1 year ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Drawing Practice (Vaults of Vyzor) - +Jeff Rients recently ran some D&D for +Mike Davison , +Zak Sabbath , and me. A play report can be found here on Jeff's Gameblog. I had so much fu...
1 year ago
A Return to the Keep

Gaming With The Little Guy - Well, my blogging fell by the wayside a few years ago. As evidenced by the lack of activity here and on my other blog, time wasn't available for me to wri...
1 year ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago
Fustians so Sublimely Bad...

- I love that he looks exactly like would would think a young Patton Oswalt looks like.
1 year ago
Gaming All Over The Place

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

Better pics -
1 year 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...
1 year 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'...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Tombs of Akrasia

4 Alasan Menggunakan Karbon Aktif - Sejarahnya, karbon aktif telah digunakan selama lebih dari 3000 tahun, awalnya adalah tujuan pengobatan (sebelum hari ini dipakai dalam dunia industri). Ka...
1 year ago
Father Dragon Writes

And Father Dragon said "let there be a planet...." - *Lo and behold, Dragon made a planet!!* Oh, I'm so very proud of myself so forgive me if I brag a little bit - way too much. I'm in the process of learni...
1 year ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - Going Dark - My blogs and Facebook will be (mostly) dark for the next couple of weeks. This includes creativemountaingames.com, grymvald.com, and mfwars.com, all of wh...
1 year ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
2 years ago
Geek on the Borderlands

Season 2: Meet the Posse - After dealing with all of the problems in and around Coffin Rock, the posse has hit Seasoned Rank. The posse has also lost and added some new members. Plus...
2 years ago
Tower of Fate

Dr. Fate to Appear in Blue Beetle Rebirth Comics - As expected from his appearance in Rebirth #1, Doctor Fate, the original Doctor Fate, will be appearing in Blue Beetle #1 due out in September. Check out ...
2 years ago
Silver Divinity

River City Comic Expo! - Wow I haven't updated anything on here in quite a while! Life has been busy for sure. My wife and I had our 4th daughter in September and I've got 1 last cl...
2 years ago
Writing Reality

Welcome, Tamara Hanks Grantham! - Crimson Tree Publishing is proud to present Bloodthorn, Olive Kennedy Fairy World MD Book 3, by Tamara Grantham! Olive Kennedy doesn’t believe in ...
2 years 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!
2 years ago
A Piece of My Mind

5 on Friday -- Set 316 - Spinning Friday tunes since 2010... Although I started this year's April *A to Z Blog Challenge* with a strong opening week, I'm also continuing to ret...
2 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...
2 years ago
Dungeon's Master

10 Most Common Mistakes DMs and Players Make in 5e D&D - If you’re like me you’ve been playing D&D a long time and 5e is not your introduction to this wonderful game. And if you’re like me you haven’t read every ...
2 years ago
Addicted2Heroines

Spotlight & Excerpt - Payable On Death by Rachel Rawlings! - *A deal with the Devil. Demons haunting your every step. When an Angel offers you the chance to redeem yourself, you take it. Because eternal damnation...
2 years ago
Highmoon's Ponderings

Going Out Of Egypt - Historically, I haven’t had the best relationship with Passover: the cleaning, the food restrictions, the cleaning, the anticipation for weeks, the shoppin...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
Purple Duck Games

Moving - The Purple Duck Games blog can now be found here.
2 years ago
Warped Nerdiversity

Fun Weather Reports - In the spirit of April Fools Day, I couldn't help but share the following weather report from Loki. It seems Thor has a lot to answer for. After watchi...
2 years ago
The Free RPG Blog

Build your own monster in Fear Fetchers by Kevin Damen - Inhabit the mind of a monster on a mission to collect fear from the houses of unsuspecting people. It's not-Monsters-Inc-but-it-is. Wonderful monster-build...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS

Wanted: Citadel Uruk-Hai - I am looking to buy or trade for these Citadel Uruk-Hai orcs (not X-ed out). Can you help me out or know someone who can?
2 years ago
Precious Monsters

Paranormal Romance Boxed Set - For The Love of the Vampire - I'm pleased to announce that I'm in a new boxed set. It's all about romance and vampires in the *For the Love of the Vampire* collection by 8 paranormal...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Curmudgeons & Dragons

In Memory of Steve - This is Steve's wife Jenn. I am sorry to say that Steve passed away on December 21. My love for him will live on, as will his art. Steve's art can be seen ...
2 years ago
Platonic Solid

Spinning my Wheels on Systems - Just throwing this out there to see what kind of feedback I get. I've got a couple of projects that I'd really like to work on. One's fantasy and one's sc...
2 years ago
The Moldy Vale

Panduan Berwisata dengan Bandros City Tour di Bandung - Bandros City Tour atau Bandung Tour On Bus CityTour adalah alat transportasi darat yang difungsikan untuk mengantarkan wisatawan berkeliling menikmati wisa...
2 years ago
The Gateway Chronicles

Blog Migration... - Just a quick post to let y'all know that my blog is migrating to my website. I've had this blogger site up for a loooong time as my official blog, and it's...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

Dead. - All good things come to an end.
2 years ago
The Sandbox of Doom

Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...
2 years ago
Ravenloft: Midway Haven Observatory

Worlds of Ravenloft: Mubonyete and Hiva Moruatu - The Far Impossibilities are domains of dread so remote, so far from extant memory that only a few can ever penetrate Ravenloft's hazy Mists to explore t...
2 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
2 years ago
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availab...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
Suzy Turner

Come and follow me at my latest venture! - As I'm now SUPER busy with my latest venture - a 40+ style & lifestyle blog - I've decided to stop blogging here for the time being, so please do come and ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
The Lair of the Evil DM

Hilarious new series - SuperMansion - I Just caught this via CBR News . Funny as hell. It's a preview episode of a new series on Crackle streaming video coming out on October 8th. It's def...
2 years ago
Crypt Thing

Fortress of the Ur-Mage - Hail cartophiles! I wanted to spread the word about a great new tournament module for use with Dungeon World published by SVD Press. Written by Dungeon Or...
2 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

Thoughts on My First Fifth Edition DnD Campaign - Last night I wrapped the twelfth session of my summer-long Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Since one of the players goes back to working nights...
2 years ago
The Atlantis Blog

This blog was hacked! - Before I post further on this blog, you will all notice that I stopped posting. This is because my original GMAIL account was keylogged and cracked, sev...
2 years ago
The Hopeless Gamer

Gencon Follow-up: My First Time in the Iron Arena! - If you were following a bit of my run up to Gencon posts, you might have noticed that within the last year I've really gotten back into Warmachine with my...
3 years ago
Porky's Expanse!

The legendary Thuloid's gold - If you're reading this, you might be interested in a solid and fairly wide-ranging batch of discussions going on at *Thuloid's latest post* at the House, ...
3 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!
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Back to the Keep

Inspirational Reading - Part 7 - Time to continue looking at sources for Inspirational Reading for games. This time I start looking at the individual authors listed in Appendix N. Poul And...
3 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....
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
TBR

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

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

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

Menoth Avatar Conversion with Scourge of Heresy Sword - I've been working on improving the Avatar of Menoth to make it look a little more threatening, as it should. I want to get this thing on the table, though,...
4 years ago
Grognardling

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

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

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4 years ago
Scrolls of the PlatinumWarlock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Hey all…here it comes, and soon. In about two weeks, Frog God Games will begin its new Kickstarter on the next installment of the temple of elemental….I me...
4 years ago
What Worries Jeff Dee?

The Invention of the Gamemaster - I personally feel that the greatest contribution made by Gary Gygax et al is the *idea* of tabletop role-playing, and not specifically the core structure o...
5 years ago
All the Fun Starts After Dark

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

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

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

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

Worra beauty -
5 years ago
Dangerous Games

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

Zalchis Endures...For Now... - What Once Was...Is No More.Everything is Permitted. Anything is Negotiable. Nothing is Inevitable.The Worlds are Broken, Lost or Forgotten.The Stars are De...
5 years ago
Ode to Black Dougal

Hex Stocking Density - For interest sake I pulled out one of my copies of Isle of Dread. For most, it is the benchmark for hex-crawling modules. I wanted to approximate the rat...
5 years ago
Skull Crushing For Great Justice

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

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

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

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

Pulp Fantasy Library: Pigeons from Hell - For his creation of Conan the Cimmerian alone -- never mind Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and many others -- Robert E. Howard enjoys a pr...
5 years ago
Ramblings of a Gentleman Gamer

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

Another Monster That Wants To Eat You - Belome by Darren Calvert of http://www.darrencalvert.com Blanchard of *OSR Gamer Stuck In China* has another monster that wants to eat you. Check it out h...
6 years ago
A Pagan Tapestry

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

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

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

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

Androids and Robots of Zaoth - Eons ago, before their attempts at creating life, the Ancient Ones delved into advanced forms of science creating androids and robots to act as servants. ...
6 years ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

Wandering Monsters and GNS - So, Fr. Dave's startlingly acute insight into the role of the Wandering Monster Table got me to thinking (an aside: this is at least the second post that c...
6 years ago
The Geek Gazette

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eclectic Witch in Jeans - A few days ago a blogger friend sent me an email that included the following line: “I really do not know how to begin to incorporate paganism into my daily...
9 years ago
Amber Benson's Official Blog

my first blog post - Howdy to all! This is my first blog post (as you can see in the title section) and I am kind of excited about it. I think that having a place to vent and ...
9 years ago
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Zatannurday: Cosplay Round up 5

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