The Other Side blog: Zatannurday: DeviantArt Favorites

My Blog List

Akratic Wizardry

Jack Vance’s Lyonesse: read it, discuss it, play it - As I’ve mentioned before here, the good people at the Design Mechanism are producing a role-playing game based upon Jack Vance’s *Lyonesse* trilogy. While ...
2 minutes ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Best Of 2018 - Part 1 - *“It’s not just a rock. It’s forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human being can hold. Okay, so in and of itse...
1 hour ago
HeroPress

#RPG The Past Is A Foreign Country... - The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place... but their past is not simply back there, in...
2 hours ago
False Machine

What Were the Isles of the Imprisoned Moon? - Matt Hills asked for something about the Isles of the Imprisoned Moon. (Kickstarter link is on the right.) It was a pretty cool setting. Almost none of it ...
2 hours ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

Old school fan... - Get a FRAMED, SIGNED mini print of ANY Our Valued Customers comic for only $20! *https://vanitypublishing.bigcartel.com/*
4 hours ago
herding cats & burning soup

[memes] Winter Reads, Blogging + 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. *😸 Ahhhhh can the week be over now? lo...
6 hours ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Less than 2 Weeks till Christmas... - Personal matters... have been at hand for a couple of days... (and next week a whole day of injections and scans)... So a "full schedul...
6 hours ago
A character for every game

We must travel deeper via the third eye! - There are depths beyond this world to which we must travel. We must open the third eye and follow what … Continue reading →
7 hours ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Making Monsters for Dungeon Crawl Classics - This post is the result of a request made on Reddit, asking for more information on designing *Dungeon Crawl Classics* monsters. While I would argue that ...
7 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Announcing The Networking Group for Designers & Makers on the Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server - Last night on the *Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server* we had a meeting with some of our *Designers & Makers* - folks involved in the making of gaming conten...
7 hours ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Last-Minute Spell Components - Jason Vey blogged about material components for spells, which got me thinking about some things. Previously, I’ve talked about ingredients for spell scroll...
7 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Why Gold is Golden - Ever wonder why currency was (in the old days) linked to gold and silver? Here's a good article on the subject. To sum up the reasons: - as a substance...
8 hours ago
The Warrior Muse

Horror List Book Review: The Dark Descent - I'm reading through three lists of best horror with two friends (*DeAnna Knippling* and *M.B. Partlow*), posting reviews as we go. (For more information, ...
9 hours ago
A Life Full of Adventure

Anchor'cast 4: Rolling Dice - I probably think you roll dice too often.
9 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Twelve Days of Sweet Christmas - Krampus Batman - This villain is inspired by the now defunct DC MOBA, Infinite Crisis. The Krampus skin was an alternate version of the Nightmare Batman character (based on...
9 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Supergirl #25 - *Supergirl #25* came out last week, a double sized anniversary issue celebrating ... I guess ... the title making it to the quarter century mark. It is a...
10 hours ago
MINION FACTORY

Super 2018 Yearbook! - FVOC 2018 YEARBOOK FVOC 2018 YEARBOOK - OVERSEAS EDITION Another issue dedicated to the year in review and it has been a good year for Villains. Did yo...
10 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Bonnacon - *Bonnacon* *Supernatural animal CE Morale 8AC +4 Immune to non magical fireHD 6MOV 16 groundAtt Butt 2d4 or Trample 3d4 or Special* Bonnacon is a mo...
10 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Yule Love It: Christmas Encore (2017) - Another Christmas movie from the experienced hands of director Bradley Walsh, and writers Mark Amatos and Jennifer Notas Shapiro, *Christmas Encore* pitche...
11 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

It Ain't Over - A professional trip followed by a family medical emergency left it quiet hereabouts for a little bit. Expect a return to the regular posting schedule soon....
11 hours ago
Quag Keep

Polyhedron #138 - *From the web:* *Cover art: A typical New York subway scene. Circa 1890, of course. By the illustrious, and spooky, Hannibal King.* *This issue featur...
12 hours ago
SciFiChick.com

Book Giveaway: Dark Mind Rising - Courtesy of Tor, I have a copy of Dark Mind Rising by Julia Keller for one lucky winner! Contest is open to US residents only. No PO Boxes please. To enter...
12 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Battlestar Galactica #23: Galactica Discovers Earth Part 2 - *"Why are you always talking in the past tense?" "This is no time to be correcting grammar. Now, let's do whatever it is we're going to do."* *SO SAY WE ALL...
13 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

A Window Above: Annie's Song - Title: "Annie's Song" Writer: John Denver Original Release: June 1974 Album: *Back Home Again* *"Let me drown in your laughter.* *Let me die in your arms."*...
17 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - A Shifter's Curse by Raven Steele, Ava Mason #Fantasy - *Series: Rouen Chronicles # 1* *Format: Kindle, 372 pages* *Release Date: December 11, 2018* *Publisher: * *Source: Kindle Unlimited* *Genre: Urban Fantasy*...
18 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Hexmoon Sabbath Released on DriveThruRPG! - *Hexmoon Sabbath: A Folk Horror Doom *has been released on DriveThruRPG at the tempting price of a mere $1.99. The blurb: *Hexmoon Sabbath: A Folk Horror ...
18 hours ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Marvel Legends Fantastic Four - I assembled this Walgreens Exclusive Marvel Legends Fantastic Four team at the end of September, but postponed photographing them until I completed the S...
20 hours ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Thursday's Gygaxian What-The-Fuckisms - Here it is. Enjoy!
20 hours ago
Written In Blood

Magic in Disguise - Chapter 2 Sneak Peek - MAGIC IN DISGUISEAGENTS OF A.S.S.E.T. 3KATIE SALIDAS If You Missed Chapter One, Click Here CHAPTER TWO All the eagerness she’d had to get back to work evapo...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

This is the end... - These notebooks contains the notes from just about every session of Stonehell that I’ve run (on the left) and the Storm King’s Thunder game (on the right)....
1 day ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Linear Fighters, Quadratic Magic-Users - I have been working on the follow-up to the article on magic, but it has gotten out of hand a couple of times as I keep finding myself going off into tange...
1 day ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Aftereffects VBT - *Blurb:* What could be more terrifying than falling in love with the person who is your good place? Maybe realizing just a smidge too late that there can b...
1 day ago
Erotiterrorist

Have You Read Sunstone? - Sunstone is a comic book by Stjepan Šejić. It is about two women who come together to play BDSM games and end up falling hopelessly in love with each other...
2 days ago
Cross Planes

Duergar Part 1 - I recently used a One Page Dungeon for my DnD campaign and for whatever reason populated it with duergar. I'd never really used the gray dwarves before...
2 days ago
deeply shallow

#bookreview: Suspense week, with a lot of blood! - [image: Baptism]Baptism by Max Kinnings My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, I generally like crime thrillers, so this one was pretty fun to read. It was also an ...
2 days ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Blackmoor Documentary Successfully Funded! - Great news! Secrets of Blackmoor, the documentary about the history of Blackmoor has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Out of all the D&D history d...
3 days ago
The Wasted Lands

(Material) Spell Components in Dungeons & Dragons - If there's anything in *Dungeons & Dragons *which is as controversial as alignment, and possibly even more roundly ignored, it's the idea of spell componen...
3 days ago
Stargazer's World

Somewhat Disconnected - I realised today that all the adventures I have run in the past five years have been set above ground. One was on a snowy mountain top in the treeline in t...
3 days ago
Realms of Chirak

Gamma World: Legions of Gold and Famine in Fargo - Gamma World 1st Edition is now nearly complete in Print On Demand: Legions of Gold is up: And Famine in Fargo too: At this point, if they can get the ...
3 days ago
Quest for Fun!

Inconsistency of Commodity Experiences - When I look out the window of my store, I'm reminded of a story. I accompanied a friend to buy a new BMW at the dealership across the street. He did a Euro...
3 days ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

Monster of the Mire! - Some of you know I've been working on a *Swamp Monsters *book for *IDW / Yoe Books* (more info on that coming soon!), and over the last year of dredging ar...
3 days ago
Kaijuville

A quick word - Was my last post four months ago? Time moves quickly. Expect a longer post here soon to catch up on what has been happening, what to expect here in the fut...
3 days ago
Points of Light

A Sundered World: Grimlock Cave, Part 2 - Cast - Dymlos (level 1 human monk/level 3 spellsword) - Miyoshi (level 4 nekobito shaman) - Severus (level 4 human battlemind) - Yao Lao (level...
3 days ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

"Gaming" with Little Man! - Pardon if this is a bit off topic, but had to share. My grandson is about to turn 4, and he is getting at the age where we can sit down in the floor, set u...
3 days ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Another Look At Dead God Excavation - Another review of *Dead God Excavation* over here inspired this blog post... Sometimes, I provide tools, raw materials from which GMs can forge their own...
4 days ago
Kidbits

Short post - Giveaway Winners! - I'm making this super short today and am announcing the two winners of the ARC giveaway for *Music Boxes.* *The Winners are...* *Juneta Key* *and * *Rebec...
4 days ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *ENCARGO DE MADROX * *MADROX COMMISSION* ENCARGOS/ COMMISSIONS *http://victorsantoscomics.blogspot.com.es/p/prices-for-guidance-inked-210-x-297-mm.html*
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) - *Resident Evil *ends with Alice (Milla Jovovich) and her potential love interest Matt (Eric Mabius) being dragged away by the Umbrella Corporation for ex...
4 days ago
[Retro-Z]

GRINCH IN A PINCH! - *As we prepare for the end of the year and the pending holiday... I made this, well it made itself and we all know what it's like to be on "low" batterie...
5 days ago
Armchair Gamer

Canon & the Multiverse - There's a Teen Titans show out on TV, movies from characters in the DC Universe, and a steady stream of other DC TV shows (live action and animated) out. A...
5 days ago
Monster Island News

The Star Wars Archives: 1977-1983 explores the making of the original trilogy like nothing before - Ever since George Lucas created the modern mono-myth it’s attracted devoted fans both young and old. In Taschen’s first volume, the director narrates his...
5 days ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Ave Cthulhu II - *The 7th Edition Guide to Cthulhu Invictus: Cosmic Horror Roleplaying in Ancient Rome* is an update and expansion of Cthulhu Invictus, published in 2008 b...
5 days ago
Tower of Zenopus

Greatest Hits #7 - The Star Trek Model of Campaign Design - *Another one of my favorites ...* 1) The World is Not Known: In contrast to the Rangers or Star Wars, exploration is the focus and that means the settin...
6 days 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...
6 days ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News - December 8, 2018 - Gregorius21778 continues to release weird fantasy material, Randall Stukey is still making Microlite games and Hero Games floods DTRPG with oldies but good...
6 days ago
A Storybook World

Time to Refresh: A 21- Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired or Sidelined, by Karen Brown Tyson - What happens when some part of your life comes to a screeching halt? *Time to Refresh: A 21- Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fir...
6 days ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Elmore (12/7/18): WTF? (Caption This) - *Um...I honestly don't know what to say about this one.* I've been doing my End-of-Week Elmore art posts for about *SIX YEARS* now ( *YIKES!*), and beside...
1 week ago
In Places Deep

Wilderlands: Terror in the Temple of the Toad - ...Or How the Fumbling Four became Two James as Tancred (Half Giant Fighter 1) KC as Namira (Altanian Warlock 1 disciple of Mycr) JP as Paelias Diamonddew (...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Arden Vul working Table of Contents - Here's the table of contents from the working manuscript. I'm currently on the 2nd edits of Sub-level 10A. TABLE OF CONTENTS General Introduction Overview ...
1 week ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

Tumblr Made Me Stupid - My last published post on this blog was in 2015. That is three years ago. That is not, however, my last attempt. I have a slew of drafts, all waiting for a...
1 week ago
Fabled Lands

"The Dean's Folly" (a Christmas scenario for Legend) - “I encountered a description somewhere of an unfinished church,” Tim Harford told me, “looming in the mist like the ribs of a whale. That seemed like a g...
1 week ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

DC Super Hero Girls Batgirl Mini Plush Doll - Unleash your inner hero with the Super Hero plush inspired by the new students of Super Hero High! Each DC Super Hero Girls 10-inch plush is inspired by ...
1 week ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Cities of Greyhawk - Verbobonc Part 4 The Guilds Part 2 - Cities of Greyhawk - Verbobonc Part 4 The Guilds Part 2 Painters, Spacklers & Sculptors Society - This mid-sized guild related to the Builder's Associati...
1 week ago
19th Level

Fiction Review: 14 - This July I started a new job. Beyond the cool work, free food, and awesome headquarters, there's a ton of interesting social groups that meet physically...
1 week ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

Problems and Oppurtunities: Controling your Players - How do I make people do what I want them to do? This is not only a question that Game Masters have asked the cold unfeeling void of dark basements for dec...
1 week ago
Troll and Flame

3rd Party Plugs Wednesdays - Couple of things that came to my attention recently that are RPG related. The Fantasy Network free-to-watch streaming video service "deliver creator-owned...
1 week ago
Rather Gamey

Exodus - I'm working on simplifying my browsing, so I'm joining the Google+ and Tumblr mass exodus early and won't be checking either. You can find me here on Blo...
1 week ago
Dyvers

Dragons Never Forget - Over the last few months I've largely been absent from Blogger. The website has been aggravating me as I've lost posts I've scheduled, and the integration ...
1 week ago
Toyriffic

Meat Sweats the Tenderizer :: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Playmates Toys - I recently won this Meat Sweats TMNT action figure on Instagram from @TMNTPlay via their #Shellheadoftheweek contest. I really like how well the cartoon d...
1 week ago
Hill Cantons

And the News from the Hill Cantons - What Ho, Frog Demons is finally out (print is still behind due to some more snafus with the printing of the maps and other quality issues, give us another ...
1 week ago
The Troll Dens

Of Stone Bridges & Mountains - They spanned the cliffs with bridges of stone, making their holds as one. There they remain, high in the mountains of the Lands of Ursal, forgotten remnant...
1 week ago
Gothridge Manor

Inspiration and Development of a Campaign - Ray Otus asked about my campaign. What my inspirations were/are. So I decided to do a podcast. Most of you know I'm a huge fan of the Thieves World books...
1 week ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Roleplaying Games As Degenerate Art - *It's Happening Again* It appears 36 copies of Elizabeth Chaipraditkul's RPG module *She Bleeds *(about menstruation and blood magic, for Lamentations ...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

OSR Survey - Brendan S and Ben Milton are two hobbyists with a long history of participating in discussion related to the OSR and classic DnD. They have constructed a ...
1 week ago
GRUBB STREET

Theatre: North Side Story - *In The Heights*, Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, Concept by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Directed by May Adrales. Seattle Rep...
1 week ago
Dorkland!

The EN World Archives - I've had a couple of people ask about reviews or articles that I wrote at EN World before the job change, so I figured that I would throw up a link to the ...
1 week ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

Microlite78 Expanded Second Tablet/Digest Version Now Available - Microlite78 First Edition Lite Expanded Second Tablet/Digest Edition is now available from RPGNow and DriveThruRPG for $9.95. You can purchase your copy fr...
1 week ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Birthday Self Present - My birthday's coming up in a little over a week. To celebrate, I used my earnings from Chanbara from last month to order the fancy hardcover edition of Lab...
1 week ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Oh DM Tools, Where Art Thou? - *Every now and then I encounter some problem with a system and I start to wonder: when is a system complete? Because it sure ain't as soon as it's playable...
1 week ago
Back to the Keep

Checking Out Chainmail, Part 11 - A good long time ago, I started writing a series of posts about my thoughts on Chainmail. At the time, I managed to get about a third of the way through th...
1 week ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Decapitant - Hello and welcome back to Frightful Fridays! Today's set of monsters comes courtesy of my friend, Patrick, who pointed me in the direction of this article....
1 week ago
Krell Laboratories

Beating the Devil - [image: Errementary (2017)] *Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil *(2017, directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo) is based on a fairy tale with deep Indo-Europ...
1 week ago
The Spirits of Eden

Vulture (76.5) - This chapter contains mild sexual content and awkward and tense social situations. 12th of the Postill’s Dew 2031 D.C.E Ayvarta, Solstice City — Sickle Air...
1 week ago
The Grand Tapestry

Three Months Later... - Well, with G+ dying a slow death, the transporter beaming a lot of us to MeWe, and my weekly games, I have a lot of new material to incorporate or supplant...
2 weeks ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

New Color Process on Christmas Module HG1 - The Christmas adventure module, *HG1 The Kringle Castle Invaders*, has a "sort of new" cover. It still features the original illustration by Erika Jane Ame...
2 weeks ago
Rended Press

Goodbye Google Plus, Hello World - I'm deleting my Google+ account in two weeks, after I turn over a few communities I own to new owners. I have no desire to join another social media platfo...
2 weeks ago
Trollsmyth

Brave New Thawed Out World. - DM David is wondering about different styles of DMing, and he’s especially interested in the dichotomy between the “classic” impartial referee and the mor...
2 weeks ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Guild of Dracologists - This article is the third in the guild series. *Click here* to catch the first one, along with a word explaining how Caldwen's guilds are set up in general...
2 weeks ago
Lasgunpacker

Shapeways Cyber Monday - By now you should have recovered from Turkey overloads (relatives), and Black Friday shopping madness (if you are in the US, or buying online). Why not con...
2 weeks ago
STUFFER SHACK

So THAT’S why people suddenly stopped buying here… - Man! I thought something was weird. The Mini Counters and Number Tokens have been selling like hot cakes for the past few years. And why not? They’re a...
2 weeks ago
I Fly By Night

Ticket to Ride - We - that is the designers, Albert Bailey, Klaxon Bowley, and myself - have decided that space travel in our next game,* StarCluster 4 - In The Beginning*,...
2 weeks ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

Five Minute Friday - VALUE - [image: value] Join the Five Minute Friday fun. Start HERE! The word for today is VALUE. Value of time. I've been so consumed with work and getting every...
3 weeks ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Red Sonja #1 January 2019 - So Dynamite are relaunching Red Sonja in the new year, under a new creative team, which will see her as a "war time leader" of her homeland. Brought to...
3 weeks ago
Thoul's Paradise

A Space Odyssey (spoilers) - It's 1984. You know what would be great? Connecting *Star Frontiers* to a popular science fiction franchise. This would bring attention to the game a...
3 weeks ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Sigh... - “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
3 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Oubliette Magazine

Garadur's Plateau Megadungeon Poster Map - I've just received a very limited print run of this giant megadungeon map by Charley Phipps. The prints are B1 sized (1000 x 707mm 39.4 x 27.8 inches) and ...
4 weeks ago
Dynasty Zero

A Brand New TFT Adventure - It's here! The first official adventure for *The Fantasy Trip* in decades! What? Me excited? The description says that *The Chaos Triads* by Steven Mar...
4 weeks ago
Monsters and Manuals

Hiatus; Or, Becoming Jaded; Or, Toys, Pram, Thrown - I am taking a hiatus from the blog and all online discussion of RPGs. There are a couple of reasons. First, I think I am becoming jaded. When I look around...
4 weeks ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

slow but sure - selfie While progress is painfully slow and every plan I make seems to be torpedoed, you are not beaten if you do not quit. So my current plan (heaven hel...
4 weeks ago
Ruminations of a Geek

My First Elixir Module - Dice Roller - I'm learning some Elixir this weekend, after watching Chris McCord's ElxirConf2018 keynote about the Phoenix web framework for Elixir, on Monday. The LiveV...
4 weeks 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 ...
4 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Ostschild News Update 11-08-18 - Following the latest TPK I am advancing the date a bit to match our own season, the new party will begin at Guido's Fort on the Donau river on November 13t...
5 weeks ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

David Drake's THE SPARK is an Entertaining Re-Imagining of Arthurian Tales - The Spark by David Drake RATING: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Though David Drake is probably best known for his Military Science fiction, with the exception of REDLI...
5 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Status Update - For those dedicated regular readers out there, just a quick update: posting will be light to nonexistent through the month of November. I've been trying to...
5 weeks ago
My Old-School Renaissance

10th Century Portable Sundial - "A further fascinating item in the Cathedral’s collection is not a document at all but a portable sundial. It has been dated roughly to the tenth century...
5 weeks ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: No Small Insight - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: No Small Insight: “I love my fellow actors but sometimes I think that their opinions are wrong,” he explained. “True art...
5 weeks 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 month ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Moving - For the time being, I've moved my blogging here: https://strangevistas.wordpress.com/
1 month 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 month ago
Spellmaking

BristolCon - So, had a great time at BristolCon - a very friendly and well put-together sci/fi and fantasy con. I bought some books, I met some great people, I learned ...
1 month ago
OEF

OSR on Reddit - With the imminent demise of G+, where much of the OSR had found a home in, a lot of the discussions have been moving to other platforms. I've been checking...
1 month ago
Little Gothic Horrors

Beautiful Freaks Fest 2018 - Scars, Scars, Scars… Such Terrible Beauty!Welcome to my shadowy corner of the party for Beautiful Freaks Fest 2, which I am co-hosting with Magaly Guerre...
1 month ago
Forgotten Runes

Invisible Sun Unboxing - Since Monte Cook is launching a reprint Kickstarter, I thought this would be a good time blog my impressions about the Invisible Sun Box set I received in ...
1 month ago
Under Siege

Ballista Adventures: Final 48 Hours on Kickstarter - Well, I've been busy the past few weeks managing this Kickstarter and trying to get the word out. It's finally paying off and the campaign has fully fu...
1 month ago
The Savage AfterWorld

[GameHack] Pulp Heroes For Pulp Detective By AV Studio Games - I recently reviewed Pulp Detective by AV Games, a clever little dice-rolling game of 1940s private eyes and gumshoes. (Click here for said review!) Althoug...
1 month 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 month ago
Pulsipher Game Design

The Barbarian and the Baby - (This was written for my Worlds of Design column at ENWorld.org, but was rejected by both outgoing and incoming editors, because they avoid any discussion ...
1 month 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 month ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Pathfinder 2 (Playtest) Session Zero - *After a long hiatus I've decided to return to writing here on my blog. Tabletop role playing has been a favorite hobby of mine for years. Even though ...
1 month ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

For the Fabled Lands 7 and couple other bits - This is just a quick update of work produced privately for Fabled Lands 7 and a couple of other bits. First some other bits... Svirfneblin originally done...
2 months ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

It’s a Trap! – Museum Exhibition About RPGs, and a Convention, too! - As I’ve previously mentioned on the blog, we have in my town the Finnish Museum of Games, a large permanent exhibition about games and gaming in Finland, f...
2 months ago
Wishful Gaming

Current State, Part 1 - Ho there, friends! Long time no see. Sorry if anyone has missed my ramblings, but life kind of dragged me away from my blogs for a long time. I think I’m r...
2 months ago
House of Self-Indulgence

Babyface 2 (Alex de Renzy, 1986) - Ahh, look at me. I'm staring in the general direction of a motion picture of some kind, and, get this, I want to write words about it for some inexplicabl...
2 months ago
Back to the Dungeon!

The Halfling's Kitchen Part 1 - *Cabbage, Tasso, and Sausage* Take a head of cabbage and chop it up. Put it in the pot. Add some water just below the surface. Add some portabella mush...
2 months ago
Gamers & Grognards

Octhorrorfest, Ghost Stories: 1D12 Hauntings Tables For OD&D and other RPGs - Octhorror is here again! That means, of course, several supernatural posts and game aids for your help get your game in the spirit of the season! You shoul...
2 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

Mana Points for Macchiato Monsters - The standard magic system for Macchiato Monsters uses Hit Points to power spellcasting. This means magic users get fatigued or damaged as they cast more sp...
2 months ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Zombinatrix: "Kickstarter" [NOW LIVE] - *SHE'S ALIVE!... * *Hello, Bianca Allaine here again! Just a note, we will not be sending emails to you this frequently, but we wanted you to be the firs...
2 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Meet the Baron of Blackmoor - David Fant, Baron of Blackmoor [image: Inline image 1] *Questions in italics by Daniel Boggs* Yes, I am that David Fant. I was a very good friend of Dav...
2 months ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Robbie Ward's Animated Music Videos - Annihilation (Official Video) from Madison Lovell on Vimeo. DEDSA - Lighter Click from Madison Lovell on Vimeo. "All work shown is completed using Prisma...
2 months ago
Lawful Indifferent

5e cultures - What if, instead of just selecting a race, you selected both a race and a culture? For example, I've decided that I want to play a Dwarf who survived...
2 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

Lost in Translation - the Fighting-Man - I've been pondering a lot lately about the LBB fighting-man. No shock there. I have several posts in draft form that I'm working on addressing this. Hopefu...
2 months ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

Worth Fighting For? - It's been a while since I posted here, but I finally found something to blog about. Actually, I've been meaning to review this book for a long time, but I ...
3 months ago
Age of Ravens

Age of Ravens Now at The Gauntlet Blog - Exciting News and a major change in the blog going forward. Starting today I’ll be posting *Age of Ravens *as part of *The Gauntlet Blog*. I’ve loved runn...
3 months ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Life and its happenings - I am slowly and gradually getting back, I think, into a writing sort of headspace. I've been separated from my wife for 2+ years now, and we are amicable. ...
3 months ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Planescape Session 2: Leprecaun Murder and Dwarfnapping - Well, I guess we're due a session summary from the Planescape Campaign. Authorial credit to our fearless leader and DM: *Our group of tour-guide swindlers ...
3 months ago
Justice League Detroit

DC Comics 1993 Editorial Presentation: Justice League International - Hey look at that super-team with Elongated Man on it! Why, there's Green Lantern Hal Jordan and the Wally West Flash and Power Girl and... Metamorpho and....
3 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

New Comics Wednesday: Recent Reviews - ™ and © 2018 Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara This is a splash page from *Coda *#1. Today is Wednesday, and that means it's *New Comic Book Day* - the day...
3 months ago
World of Ortix

[work-related] A... mousepad? - It took me five hours to draw this map, and as you can see it's still far from being complete (I recoil in terror when I think about adding doors and sec...
3 months ago
The House of Little Fears

Inspiring Fear: Are You Afraid of the Dark? – Now Streaming! - The 90s were a magical time for many reasons but especially for giving the world Are You Afraid of the Dark? This horror anthology series ran on Nickelodeo...
3 months ago
The OSR Library

The Kolchak Files OSR: They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be... - AKA UFO. Continuing the Kolchak files found: http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-kolchak-files-osr.html http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/2017/10/t...
3 months 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...
3 months 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 ...
3 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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, ...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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 months 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 months 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...
5 months 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...
5 months 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 ...
5 months 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 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. ...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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,...
10 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...
11 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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
LotFP: RPG

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
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
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
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
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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years 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...
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...
3 years ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

Dead. - All good things come to an end.
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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
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....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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

- Hi!
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,...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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
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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
7 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Strange Magic

Bravery vs Racism in Western RPGs - In thinking about the different character classes for Swords of Cydonia (still wondering about that title) and mixing in various cultures so that a party o...
8 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...
9 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
HeroPress

-
Untimately

-
A Coffee Driven & Adventure Bound Life

-
Goblinoid Games

-
Pull Up A Toadstool

-
NeoGrognard

-
Cat Miller Books

-
Rebecca's Dystopia

-
Satine Pheonix

-
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

-
Old School Random

-
RPG Blog II

-
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

-
Bonnie Rae, Just Words...

-
Où Est Mon Dinosaure?

-
Bite My Book

-
The Enchanted Writer

-
Digital Orc

-
Seriously-WTH?

-
A. W. Exley

-

Show All

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Zatannurday: DeviantArt Favorites

No comments: