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Halls of the Nephilim

Succubus Sunday - source
1 hour ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Authentic vs Epic - So, I tweeted out a poll last night. If you were DMing, would you rather go for authentic or epic? Several people responded "both" or asked what the dif...
1 hour ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Time Trap (2017) - Too often, despite its initial glowing promises, the internet has become the reason we can't have nice things. In fact, we can't even have mediocre, sli...
2 hours ago
HeroPress

Season 10 Of The Walking Dead Resumes On February 24 In The UK... -
3 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

How Does Someone Get Demoted From 'Conversation Starter'? - This is what happens when I join a group. Any group. All I did was share some of my best captions with a group of cat lovers. I think my captions are geniu...
5 hours ago
Krell Laboratories

In No Man's Land - [image: George MacKay in 1917 (2019)] *Only the dead were always present—presentAs a vile sickly smell of rottenness;The rustling stubble and the...
6 hours ago
A Very Creepy Blog

Scream #6 - Salvador Faba provides the cover for this issue of Scream, cover dated June 1974. First is "The Vampire of the Opera" by Al Hewetson (story) and Ricardo V...
6 hours ago
Troll and Flame

How to Get Started with Old-School D&D - Links and information to support Austin, TX Birth of D&D Celebration. Email me, njharman@gmail.com if you are looking to get into a local game. Or, if you ...
7 hours ago
A character for every game

Shadows of the Ruinous Powers – Session 11 - (Being a series of quick game notes trying to account for the events of many sessions of playing through The … Continue reading →
8 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Beyond the Misty Mountains - [image: Image result for Ruins of the North]*Ruins of the North* is an anthology of scenarios for The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild Rolepl...
12 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Sunday Inspirational Image: Midnight Cabaret - by LenkaSimeckova You'll definitely want to click on this and see it in the full sized glory!
12 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Creepy Dungeon Dreams - These are some horrible dream tables like previous ones I have done. i guess you could be extra mean and combine say th...
14 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

This Week in Geek (19-25/01/20) - *"Accomplishments"* In theaters: I went to see Underwater for one thing, and that's Kristen Stewart being badass, maybe with a side-order of since-cancelle...
14 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Netflix And Chill: Tuna Girl (2019) - Fûka Koshiba plays Minami, a pleasant young woman who struggles to settle into her student role at a research institute focusing on studying and improving ...
17 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Bundle of Holding - Stygian Fox Cthulhu - *Call of Cthulhu* is perhaps my favorite game that I haven't run in over 25 years. I own many adventures for the system for the sheer joy of reading them...
23 hours ago
Cross Planes

TinyD6: The Pyramid on Boontu Star Wars Actual Play - Last night I ran a one-shot using TinyD6 for Star Wars and I think it went great. I really like TinyD6 and find it to be streamlined and intuitive, two thi...
1 day ago
Realms of Chirak

Rage 2 - The Review - Rage 2 came out to a mixed bag of reviews, and I decided to hold off on getting it until it was on sale (which wasn't too much longer after its original ...
1 day ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Play Report of Descent to Avernus Chapter 1 - I wrote a review of *Descent into Avernus* last fall when it came out, and I don't believe I was kind to it. I recently finished running the first chapte...
1 day ago
False Machine

a strong propensity to bees - From Gilbert Whites 'The Natural History of Selbourne' Letters to Daines Barrington Letter 27 Selbourne, Dec 12, 1775 Dear Sir, We had in this village mo...
1 day ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Thought for the Day... - would make a "great" guidance counselor make the be...
1 day ago
SciFiChick.com

Picard Episode 1: “Remembrance” Review (SPOILERISH) - Episode 1: Remembrance At the end of the 24th Century, and 14 years after his retirement from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard is living a quiet life on his vine...
2 days ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Blog Post of Note: How Much Mapping Is Actually Required? - Alex Schroeder raises the question: How much mapping is actually required? He’s not talking about mazes, where the architects include features meant to c...
2 days ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Mullen (1/24/20): Scum and Villainy -
2 days ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

The Wig-Maker - Time to venture back into the odd old west for a tale that's half spooky / half silly, and 100% howlin' *Harvey* at this late precode horror / humor vein s...
2 days ago
Gaming Ronin

Power 10 for 5E D&D. - As I play more and more fantasy role-playing games, especially D20 variants, I find that some of my favorites are the ones that boil the entire leveling ex...
2 days ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Superman #19 - *Superman #19* came out this week, the second chapter in The Truth and another gripping read by the team of Brian Michael Bendis and artist Ivan Reis. T...
2 days ago
MINION FACTORY

Enter The Bounty Hunters! - BOUNTY HUNTERS BOUNTY HUNTERS There is never enough bounty hunters in Star Wars.
2 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Talislanta: The Iron of Arim - "...a suspicious folk, who flourish their knives at a harsh word. At night they strike without provocation." - *The Dirdir*, Jack Vance Arim in the West ...
2 days ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
2 days ago
Erotiterrorist

A Lonely Apocalypse - Recently I have been reading Cthulhu Apocalypse by Pelgrane Press. It is a role-playing game supplement about playing adventures after a terrible disaster ...
2 days ago
Fabled Lands

The sacred power of reason - At the end of this month, British government departments will stop using the word "Brexit", on the grounds that Brexit is over and done with from January...
2 days ago
The Armchair Squid

Star Trek: Coming of Age - Episode: "Coming of Age" Series: *Star Trek: The Next Generation* Season 1, Episode 19 Original Air Date: March 14, 1988 [image: Image result for tng coming ...
2 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Blood Standard - Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 40: Blood Standard Weird fiction luminary Laird Barron ventures into red-blooded, two-fisted territory in his 2018 novel ...
2 days ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine #Thrillers #Suspense - *Series: Stillhouse Lake #4* *Format: Paperback, 336 pages* *Release Date: January 21, 2020* *Publisher: Thomas & Mercer* *Source: Publisher via NetGalley* ...
2 days ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Monster Brains Turns 14! - [image: Matt Furie - Monster Brains Logo 1]Matt Furie Monster Brains was created 14 years ago on January 23rd, 2006. I have many great posts planned for 2...
3 days ago
[Retro-Z]

INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER MATT MORTON ABOUT DOCUMENTARY FILM "APOLLO 11" - *Jeremy [Six Strings]: Can you tell us how you became involved with "APOLLO 11" film and how did you approach this score different from the last ...
3 days ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Experts/Specialists for 3.5/LotFP/B/X-OSE - Happy New Year! It’s time to get back to blogging. I have a few ideas that have been rattling around in my brain, mostly of the RPG variety. Going back n...
3 days ago
Servitor Ludi

Dangerous Reviews (3 of 3) - Finally... Here's the third part of my ongoing review of the 33 stories in Harlan Ellison's 1967 anthology *Dangerous Visions.* In *part 1,* I reviewed th...
3 days ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

Tommy's Take on Improbable Tales: Helicarrier Heist (Savage Worlds) - Running a Savage Worlds supers campaign? Fainting Goat Games provides a lot of support for that (or, probably, for the system of your choice). And here is ...
4 days ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Hither Came Conan to Role Playing Games Part 1 (OD&D) - Fantasy Background Retrieved from WallpaperPlay and Cartoony Conan Image by Todd Pickens The fiction of Robert E. Howard (who was born on this day in 1906)...
4 days ago
I Fly By Night

Blood Games 4 - My son Klaxon and I have been working on translating the Blood Games series of urban fantasy games to the StarCluster 4 system. Blood Games I (2003) used t...
4 days ago
The Troll Dens

A Wall Like No Other - Rising from the pestilent morass of peat and sphagnum that carpets the small islands of sandy-black mud, a nauseating stench clings to the air, snatching y...
4 days ago
The Warrior Muse

First Time at COSine - There's a local fantasy and science fiction convention called *COSine*. Last year, there were rumbles about it shutting down and not coming back, but some ...
4 days ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

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

#bookreview: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space | Amanda Leduc - [image: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space]Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc My rating: 5 of 5 ...
4 days ago
The Spirits of Eden

The Children’s War (79.6) - This chapter contains explicit violence, death, and mentions of mild self harm. 16th of the Postill’s Dew 2031 D.C.E. Dbagbo — Central Kucha, Baghland “The...
4 days ago
Trollsmyth

Consider Phlebas? I'd Rather Not, Thanks. - I can’t say I wasn’t warned. I’ve been hearing about Banks’ *Culture* novels for some time now. Whenever someone brings up neat future cultures or anthropo...
5 days ago
Cyclopeatron

Gen Con 2019 - Pictures and Brief Recap - Last August me and my local gaming pals, Steve Ellis and Matt Ryan, made a road trip to Gen Con. Steve is an artist who does the excellent Only Living Boy ...
5 days ago
The Disoriented Ranger

It's like Jazz, isn't it? (an attempt of a post about the different types of DMs out there ...) - *Happy New Year, friends and neighbors. I hope you had a good one and wish all readers a great year 2020. I'll keep it casual here on the blog and post eve...
6 days ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *BOCETOS VARIADOS (6) * *VARIED SKETCHES (6) * Bocetos rápidos de diferentes fuentes. Quick sketches from different sources.
6 days ago
Stargazer's World

Thoughts On Night's Black Agents Solo-Ops - I’ve played countless tabletop roleplaying games over the years, but only a few experiences come close to what Night’s Black Agents Solo-Ops by Pelgrane Pr...
6 days ago
People them with Monsters

New Campaign and World: Planet X - It's been a few years since I've run a campaign in earnest, and I'm looking to get a new one going. I have 2-3 potential groups right off the bat that I co...
6 days ago
Back to the Keep

Dragon Lords and other minis - I have backed quite a few Kickstarters the past couple years, so I have to pay particular attention to make sure that I don't miss a survey or questionnair...
6 days ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Call of Cthulhu 8: London! - Following Session 7, the party travelled by Steam Boat to Southampton and then train on to London, arriving January 25th and checking into the Savoy hotel ...
1 week ago
The Savage AfterWorld

Quill Noir Available in French, And Watch It Played On Twitch (In French) - One of my favorite creations that I've written is Quill Noir, a supplement for Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player that takes plac...
1 week ago
Gothridge Manor

Forgotten Crypt of Sir Reginald - Click to grab the PDF I've been grinding away this month working on a hex crawl adventure that I plan on adding to Zine Quest 2 on Kickstarter. Last year ...
1 week ago
Robert Atkins Art

GI JOE: A Real American Hero - Issue 266 Cover, beginning of a 10 issue GI JOE event "Snake Hunt" Written by Larry Hama, Art by Robert Atkins
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

No second season for the Watchmen - As I noted a couple of weeks ago, HBO's series *The Watchmen *is superb, almost a perfect sequel to the original comic series. Alas, it looks like there wi...
1 week ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

An Old Dungeon Story - I love story games. I love games that let me create new kinds of stories when I play. The tragicomic betrayal of Fiasco. The monstrous humans and human m...
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Christopher Tolkien Has Passed Away at 95 years old - As reported on Reddit, JRR Tolkien's youngest son Chrisopher Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 15 January 2020) has passed away. He will be remembered as a gre...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Out of the Dungeon - This post might ruffle some feathers. I'm okay with that. Once upon a time, someone wrote (in reference to *Dungeons & Dragons*): *We don't explore charact...
1 week ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Marvel Legends Doctor Doom & She-Hulk - I picked up She-Hulk and Doctor doom from the new Marvel Legends Fantastic Four/Super Skrull BAF Wave when I bout the entire Hobgoblin Wave featured in m...
1 week ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

I'm Back! Game Updates, Voicemails, Goals for the New Year. Enjoy! - Thanks for listening guys! A few updates on the games I'm playing and running, plus some voicemails.
1 week ago
Quest for Fun!

The Storm is Everywhere - Stewards is how I describe our relationship to the gaming subculture. The days of stores as taste makers are long behind us, although you can leverage an...
1 week ago
Dynasty Zero

OSR Patches - Every year I enter the OSR Christmas Gifting at Tenkar's Tavern. This year I won something! I won two Moon Wizard OSR patches from Thaddeus Moore. They ...
1 week ago
GRUBB STREET

Big Pile of Books: Long Time Ago .... - With this entry I am at the end of big pile of books the end of my desk. In the process, however, in the process I've come across books that I've had lying...
1 week 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 magi...
1 week ago
Back to the Dungeon!

DEATH DUGEONS, MEAT GRINDERS and DUNGEONPUNKS - There is a little project that I have been working on. Here is a Hint of what it will be called. DEATH DUGEONS, MEAT GRINDERS and DUNGEONPUNKS In t...
1 week ago
Pulsipher Game Design

A New Thing - As many of you know I had a triple bypass operation with an aortic rebuild in early October. In December I had 5+ liters of fluid on the left lung which ne...
1 week ago
Wild West History

Lotta Crabtree, Protege of Lola Montez - [image: Lotta Crabtree.] *Lotta Crabtree. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. I love the contrasts in this photo, the sweet innocence of her expres...
1 week ago
Thoul's Paradise

Book Review: War-Gamers' World (spoilers) - *Map by Helmut W. Pesch* In 1978, DAW Books published *War-Gamers' World* having the subtitles of “Magira I” and “From the chronicles of the world's longes...
1 week ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Mera Statue by Prime 1 Studio - Sideshow and Prime 1 Studio present *Mera*, Queen of the Sea and wife of Aquaman. She has the ability to adjust to underwater environments, create hard wa...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

Zweihander, Open Content and a reply to Daniel Fox - The Old School Renaissance or OSR, rest on the foundation of open content released under the Open Gaming License. Open content is what allowed this segment...
2 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

New Year, Old School System! - Just a brief update, with hopefully much more to come. This post may sound funny given my last post had such a heavy sci fi love fest to it. However, tha...
2 weeks ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker review (spoilers) - I finally had a chance to see Rise of Skywalker on the big screen today. It came to Korea late, opening last Wednesday. And I'm teaching an intensive Engli...
2 weeks ago
Written In Blood

It's time to reveal a dirty little secret. - *Rozlyn Sparks* is back! Partnered with Three Furies Press, all of my naughty paranormal romance books are being re-released this year. The first one is d...
2 weeks ago
Monsters and Manuals

Terminator 2 vs Gemini Man - On a long haul flight recently I got the chance to watch an odd double bill - *Terminator 2* and *Gemini Man*. There was basically no other option that I f...
2 weeks ago
My Old-School Renaissance

"The Very Hungry Rust Monster" by dungeongrind.co.uk - A Tumblr I follow that posts mostly comic art reposted this 5-year-old web comic. Follow his or her regular strip, Dungeon Grind, on Twitter or, y'know so...
2 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Gary Con XII -
2 weeks ago
Kidbits

IWSG - Starting the New Year without a bang - Happy New Year!!! And what better way to start off the blog this year than with IWSG? Every first Wednesday of the month, this group of writers comes tog...
2 weeks ago
Points of Light

Cha'alt: Fuchsia Malaise Kickstarter (3 Days Left!) - Pretty straightforward: if you like *Cha'alt*, Venger is running a Kickstarter with just a few days left for its first expansion, *Cha'alt: Fuchsia Malaise...
2 weeks ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

Games I Wish I had Written... - OK, so this year I'm going to try to beat last year's record 32 posts, which is the most I had done since 2015. I'm going to have stuff to say, and it ain'...
2 weeks ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

Games I Wish I Had Written... - OK, so this year I'm going to try to beat last year's record 32 posts, which is the most I had done since 2015. I'm going to have stuff to say, and it ain'...
2 weeks ago
Genius Loci

5Evo - White Chapel - *Limited Adventures* newest 5Evo setting/resource *White Chapel* has been released to backers in digital formats. The physical version of the setting ...
2 weeks ago
Lasgunpacker

Happy Christmas/New Year - Happy Christmas and Happy New year to you all. I hope Santa/Krampus/Your Paypal account brought you what you wanted this year. I have been rather busy fo...
2 weeks ago
In Places Deep

Behold! Nightwick Abbey! - Since I've been blogging about it for almost ten years, and since I plan on doing a product version this year, I decided it was about time that I reintrodu...
3 weeks ago
herding cats & burning soup

We're EIGHT Today! Woo! - Woohoo! Happy 2020! It's a big day on the blog, too. We're EIGHT today! Holy cow! I can't believe it's been eight years already. It's been...interesting ...
3 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

The Perception Check of OD&D - Over the past year or two, I've watched a lot of D&D online, including 5e games, and perhaps what jumps out at me most is all the "checking" going on, ofte...
3 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

2019 in review - In 2019 I finished a D&D campaign, started and ran another one until it blew up, then started a new one with a mostly different group of players that is st...
3 weeks ago
All Games Considered

Armor Goes Clank 017 December 30, 2019 (Face Forward Into The Eighties) (1:02:21) - Mark and Brian talk about (almost) ten video games! Also, there's a review of *Shadow of the Century* and an awesome, ancient, Vietnamese warrior! -- Downl...
3 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

The Obligatory Yuletide Post - I guess it's about that time for my yearly holiday post - a celebration of my introduction to a hobby that allowed me to let my imagination run free. As I ...
4 weeks ago
Mesmerized by sirens

PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB! - My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
5 weeks ago
The Wasted Lands

Reading Original Dungeons & Dragons Part 3: The Underworld and Wilderness Adventures - *Note: *Sorry for the way-too-long delay on this. It quite simply got lost in the shuffle! Herein lies the final section of my thought experiment of read...
5 weeks ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

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

20/7-30/8 1491 DR Session 12 Cleansing the Vale, Battling Black Earth XP 76+9=85/100 Lvl 9>10 - Defeat evil brigand forces led by an Ogre Mage in the Vale of Sighing Waters. Cleanse the Vale and send for new dwarven priests. Travelling to Feathergale S...
5 weeks ago
Forgotten Runes

Eberron and Me - [image: Eberron: Rising from the Last War] With the release of the new Eberron hardback from Wizards of the Coast, I thought it might be time to talk about...
5 weeks 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 comedy...
1 month ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

FRIDAY THE 13th SALE! - *20% off everything* in the OVC store! Between now and midnight Sunday, enter code *FRIDAY13* at check out! *https://vanitypublishing.bigcartel.com/*
1 month ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

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

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

SPI - DragonQuest Rulebook - *From the back cover:* *The most powerful and comprehensive fantasy role-playing system is now even easier and more fun in the thoroughly revised se...
1 month ago
Monster Island News

Retro Saturday Morning: Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles (1966-67)(CBS) - Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles is an animated television show, produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS in 1966. Each half-hour consisted of one Frankenste...
1 month ago
Carjacked Seraphim

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

Quick Post: The Thief-Acrobat - Snipped from a video in a UPI story about the "Spider-Man" burglar in China in 2015.People I know who play AD&D don't, for the most part, really want to us...
2 months ago
Rended Press

Toss Off Issue 9 - Hey. There's been nothing but static on the radio here. I think I heard something in the noise of the void. So here's another pitiful issue of my worthless...
2 months ago
A Storybook World

Made to be Broken by Hugh Fritz - Flarence knows that Genies are supposed to help their masters by granting wishes, but he’s never been comfortable taking orders. To him, pummeling bad...
2 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

D&D Class: Dragon Slayer! - One of Meryath’s iconic hero is the dragon slayer. A character class is presented here, which can be adapted to various mainstream RPGs. These specialists...
2 months ago
Creative Mountain Games

RPG Media Monday - The Mandalorian Episode Two - Still loving it. Now I have to decide if I want to sub after the 7-day free trial expires so I can watch episode three when it drops or if I want to binge...
2 months ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

Review & Commentary On M.A.R. Barker's Empire of the Petal Throne Rules By TSR From M.A.R Barker's World of Tekumel - "A rich, complex world and a complete set of rules, *Empire of the Petal Throne* includes rules for character generation, magic, monsters, adventuring, so...
2 months ago
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things

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

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

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

Is Elf Lair Games part of the OSR? - The OSR, or Old School Renaissance (or Revolution, or Revival, or whatever your "R" word of choice may be) was once a movement created by aficionados of th...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

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

FINAL HOURS on my new Kickstarter. Please pledge! - Well, folks, I'm in the final hours of my Kickstarter and we're about $404 shy of funding. I'm hitting my networks in a last ditch effort to raise that fin...
2 months ago
Tower of Zenopus

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2 months ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

Planet Eris Campaign Setting Available - *Planet Eris Gazetteer* *A Geopolitical Lexicon of the 66th Æon, Including the* *Empire of Sparn, Its Cities, Subject Realms, Adjacent Lands,* *and the Known...
2 months ago
A Coffee Driven & Adventure Bound Life

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

Regimental Goats, Bounties, and Free Pasturage for All: News from the Hill Cantons Returns - We return to our regularly scheduled program of fortnightly updates from the Hill Cantons campaign. *And Now the News...* Agents of *Koza the Regimental ...
3 months ago
Dyvers

2019 GREAT BLOG ROLL CALL IS LIVE - After working on the next iteration of the Great Blog Roll Call for the better part of the year I've finally finished it! This year's list has over 450 blo...
3 months ago
The House of Little Fears

A Mysterious Path - It’s been over a year since I last updated this website. In that time, my life has undergone significant change, personally and professionally, and I am fa...
3 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Some Odd Experiences - Although my current RPG campaign is on hiatus I got two chances recently to introduce novices to roleplaying using Chris McDowall's *Into the Odd*. This is...
3 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

Skill Resolution in Classic Traveller - The Foundational Elements - All skills are tied to an attribute - Some skills are usable untrained, some are not - No DMs based on skill l...
3 months ago
Armchair Gamer

Things I Learned from Champions: A Consolidated Listing - I decided to consolidate all of the posts that I've done under the subtitle: Things I Learned from Champions: Preamble A Power Fantasy Has A Cost It's Okay...
3 months ago
Justice League Detroit

2016 Zatanna Comicpalooza convention Jam Sketch Detail by Garrett Gainey - *Garrett Gainey* - Instagram - The Art of Garrett Gainey - Facebook - Mental Diversions
3 months ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Wendy’s d20 – The Game We Didn’t Need - On a good day, I don’t like commercials. I dislike targeted advertising and I detest branding. I have adblocker on all my browsers, an advertising ban on m...
3 months ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

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

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

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

Another link dump. - People still think that Disney bought tickets for CM. Captain Marvel Release date: Friday, March 8, 2019 Search-string “captain marvel empty theatres” Abou...
4 months ago
Tankards & Broadswords

Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
4 months ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

Subway Crawl Classics - Preliminary Thoughts - So, Dungeon Crawl Classics is my game these days, and we have been toying with playing the game in non-standard settings, such as the Age of Enlightenment....
4 months ago
STUFFER SHACK

Who has the balls to confront THIS dark psychic force? - Cha’alt… the latest from Venger Satanis… Cha’alt is a gonzo, eldritch, science-fantasy, and post-apocalyptic… all rolled together. It’s a ruined world, fo...
4 months ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

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

2019 RPGaDay 21: Vast - Vast The potential experiences available to RPG-players is vast. When one considers the number of genres, sub-genres, character-types, races, classes, gen...
5 months ago
The OSR Library

Basic Land Cannons: Classic and OSR - Basic Land Cannons Threw together some basic cannon rules for a bit of fun carnage. First up: I'm keeping it simple. Cannons are complicated; there are many...
5 months ago
She Never Slept

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

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
5 months ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

Another of those showing some new and some old, but with a wee twist so to speak - The Undine Here are a few bits and pieces, some you may know, some you may not know, and I hope you'll find a couple of surprises. The key point being, alt...
6 months ago
World of Ortix

Rest in Peace... -
6 months ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

Tales To Flabbergast Presents... ZZZAP, SON OF ZZZAX!!! - *ZZZAP, SON OF ZZZAX* *STATISTICS* *F GD (10)* *A IN (40)* *S GD (10)* *E IN (40)* *R FB (2)* *...
6 months ago
The Grand Tapestry

Another Quick Update - Even one of my Sunday gamers commented that I haven't posted here for a while... Other Stuff: Formatting the text of my Sci-Fi Homage Game. Drawing a bit f...
6 months ago
Fantasy Ink

Williamson, Frazetta & Krenkel: The One Who Waits - "The One Who Waits" originally appeared in the E.C. comic *Weird Science* #19, (may-June 1953). It is an adaptation of a Ray Bradbury. The art is by Al Wi...
6 months ago
destination unknown

The Secret Lives of Fish: Fishing Cottage - The fishing cottage features a secure place to store a skiff. It also has a small bedroom and a fireplace. Perfect for those cool evenings after a long d...
6 months ago
Toyriffic

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

All RetroRoleplaying Games are 50% Off Now Through US Independence Day - To celebrate the Fourth of July, all RetroRoleplaying games are a FIFTY PERCENT (50%) off from today through July 4, 2019. These are our lowest prices ever...
7 months 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...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
Spirit of the Blank

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

Weird Coincidences: A Game with Thrones - I haven't written anything in a long time, but I found this interesting. First off, here's an illustration I did for Secret Santicore 2013: Okay? So here'...
7 months ago
Age of Ravens

Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other charac...
7 months ago
EXONAUTS!

Adventures in the Cave of Wonders! - Friday, I took the Geeklet to see the new Aladdin film, expecting it to be passable. But WHOA was I wrong--it's awesome! Disney did a great job updating t...
7 months ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Red Sonja Birth of a She Devil, SubaComic Exclusive - SubaComic in the UK has gotten themselves an exclusive cover for the upcoming Birth of a She Devil mini series, available here https://www.redhotcomics.c...
8 months ago
SWORD & SHIELD

FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HEREFrostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I put...
8 months ago
Rather Gamey

. . . Aaand an Experiment with Color Copics -
8 months ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

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

James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video - A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We miss you! To view video, click here Memorial Video Note - The original video...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

Supernova! Starship Redux - I designed a new ship for my Supernova! explorers. The Scout was too small and the 400-ton Explorer (in Cepheus Light) is just too big for my purposes. I s...
9 months ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

A to Z Challenge - B - One of the hardest moments in writing is when an idea surprises me, and I have to add and extend the concept. There is the glorious moment all the pieces ...
9 months ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maps and Mapping Stuff, aka the hexcrawl writing game - I've finally done the thing I've been meaning to do for decades, which is assign a functional scale to the Shadowend map. I did this to break it into a hex...
1 year ago
Little Gothic Horrors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Small Greyhawk - Quick campaign idea Using World of Greyhawk box set with the following changes: - Hexes are 6 miles instead of 30 miles - Stock each hex using the ...
1 year ago
Aggregate Cognizance

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

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

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

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

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

Review: Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero's Handbook - Most of y'all know that superheroes is kind of my best genre. Certainly the gaming I've done the most of and (I'd like to think) know the most about. I've ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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. ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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,...
1 year ago
The Lands of Ara

Harbinger - Since I last checked in I have played some *Labyrinth Lord* off and on, but not for quite awhile, and my online group has basically fizzled out -- the cam...
2 years ago
The City of Iron

Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to http://necrotic-gnome-productions.blogspot.de/. This blog will remain indefinitely...
2 years ago
Fantasy Heartbreaker

Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter is live! - The Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter has launched! Head on over to the campaign page to see more, including a full-text preview! Read More ...
2 years ago
Big Ball of No Fun

RPGaDAY #31 - Predictions for the next year - What do you anticipate most for gaming in 2018? I'm going to preface this post by saying that I am a cynic (and by extension a pessimist). Here are some pr...
2 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

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

B/X: Ability score adjustments - This is kind of an interesting idiosyncrasy of B/X. Its also one of those odd rules that seemed to make it's way informally into a lot of the 1E campaig...
2 years ago
space1970

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

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

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
2 years ago
A Return to the Keep

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

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

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

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

Jason B. McAllister Passed Away May 21, 2016 - This happened almost one year ago but haven't seen an announcement on any major game sites. Jason B. McAllister Image Source: boardgamegeek.comJason B. McA...
2 years ago
Rachel Bonuses

Don't Yeerk Your Head-- A Don't Rest Your Head hack for Animorphs - I know, I know. This isn't the OSR and/or 5e content you came to expect from me. That'll come too, one day. But I actually did something else I'm actually ...
2 years ago
Old School Heretic

The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber - The Big Time was originally serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1958 (A two-parter featured in the March and April issues). Gutenberg link: http://www.gutenbe...
2 years ago
Barbaric Frontier

Better pics -
2 years ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

What's In The Drawer or On The Desktop? - It has been some time since my last post but I was just overloaded with work commitments and other things. Things seem to have slowed down and I took an ex...
3 years ago
ROFL Initiative

How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
3 years ago
Over the Misty Mountains

Not QUITE a TPK... - But you could see one from there! I know my players read these, so I'm going to try to avoid campaign spoilers. But there will be some. Last night the par...
3 years ago
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...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Trip the Eclipse

Moving the Blog - Even though I've had this blog for years, I am moving to Wordpress for some interesting features available through them. So, if you wish to continue to rea...
3 years ago
The Tombs of Akrasia

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

And Father Dragon said "let there be a planet...." - *Lo and behold, Dragon made a planet!!* Oh, I'm so very proud of myself so forgive me if I brag a little bit - way too much. I'm in the process of learni...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Purple Duck Games

Moving - The Purple Duck Games blog can now be found here.
3 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...
3 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...
3 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?
3 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...
3 years ago
Curmudgeons & Dragons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fortress of the Ur-Mage - Hail cartophiles! I wanted to spread the word about a great new tournament module for use with Dungeon World published by SVD Press. Written by Dungeon Or...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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, ...
4 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!
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
Ramblings of Sheldon

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

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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...
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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 ...
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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...
5 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...
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Victorian Adventure Enthusiast

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

Consolidating - Readers of this blog will know that I'm into heavily homebrewing my campaign. If I were running games right now, I'd be running a weird cross between S&W a...
5 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...
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Cavalcade of Perversions

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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...
5 years ago
Thoughtcrime Inc.

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5 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...
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Ivory Underworld

Sapphire Beach - Beeeaaauuutiful beach shots by Tony Lin - Playing with Shadows - taken in Australia last November. How gorgeous is that light??!!
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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...
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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...
5 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...
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Burning Zeppelin Experience

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6 years ago
Tits And a Scream

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

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

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6 years ago
Good Lesbian Books

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

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

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

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6 years ago
Design du Jour

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

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6 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...
6 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...
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Passionate About Books

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Vibrant Oxymoron - An Obsessive Society

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UNDERWORLD INK

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Bad Librarianship Now!

Worra beauty -
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Dangerous Games

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

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Skull Crushing For Great Justice

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Underworld Cleaning Service

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Beyond the North Wind

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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 ...
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A Pagan Tapestry

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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...
7 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...
7 years ago
The Old School Renaissance Group

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7 years ago
The Blighted World of Zaoth

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7 years ago
The Geek Gazette

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8 years ago
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements

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Sublime Depravity

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8 years ago
Heroes of Mystara

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

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Adventures in Gaming

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