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Tenkar's Tavern

Has Roll20 Stopped Releasing Orr Group Industry Reports? No Quarterly Usage Numbers Since 1st Quarter 2018 - It looks like *Roll20* is no longer issuing *Orr Group Industry Reports*. The 1st Quarter of 2018 Orr Report was released on June 12th, 2018 and even tha...
18 minutes ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Good Noght... Whatever You Are.... - Pleasant Dreams.... ...
24 minutes ago
The OSR Library

OSR Star Wars Revision: Starship Rules Part Two: Combat - *COMBAT* Combat is carried out normally per old school D&D rules: initiative, moves, attacks, etc. It's all the same. Find the numbers, add or subtract bonu...
47 minutes ago
The Wasted Lands

Conventions and Consent: The Male Side of the Spectrum - The "Cosplay is not Consent" movement has gained a ton of traction over the years, and that's fantastic. It's great that there's more awareness of it, and ...
3 hours ago
False Machine

A Review of the Gloomspite Gitz Battletome for Age of Sigmar - (I haven’t forgotten about that list of things I would do for December, I will still do them. But I was reading this and wanted to talk about it.) Haven...
5 hours ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

Need a safe place for these - Wow. Has it really been this long since I have been here? That's inexcusable. But I need a safe place for some links to debunk the site Neon Nettle. So h...
5 hours ago
HeroPress

WEEKLY WORLD NEWS: I'm Not Saying It Was Aliens... But It Was Aliens! - Giorgio Tsoukalos and the Ancient Aliens crew don't have the monopoly on outrageous claims about extraterrestrials, as this bunch of Weekly World News head...
6 hours ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Psionic Thoughts - Jason Vey of *The Wasted Lands* blog has been running a series on psionics in TSR-era D&D, covering both the OD&D and AD&D systems and the differences betw...
6 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

Yoon-Suin is Not an Analogy for Anything or Anywhere - I have been quite lucky that Yoon-Suin seems to have escaped online culture wars relatively unscathed; before it was released I worried some people might m...
6 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

The Hills Have Eyes (2006) - Synopsis: A man and wife, along with their children and grandaughter, are heading to San Diego for their 50th wedding anniversary. They take a short cut th...
6 hours ago
A character for every game

The Seven Spires - Raised by a talented Wizard-Noble of old Phalorm, the Seven Spires is a small ornate castle made of seven overlapping … Continue reading →
7 hours ago
Back to the Keep

Games Masters Tarot - The Kickstarter for the Games Masters Tarot was created by Wartorn Games (Trinity Knot Studios) and ended on July 30, 2018 with a projected fulfillment in ...
7 hours ago
Realms of Chirak

The Slow and Subtle Cypher System Take Over - Last night we revamped (yet again) the Wednesday night game to introduce a Cypher System SF setting I had worked on.* The new setting's opening session w...
7 hours ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

#dnd Captain Fotgruhilda Mountainbelly - The other day I mentioned the description of my 5e character, Captain Fotgruhilda Mountainbelly. I commissioned my Twitter Friend A Happy Halfling to do a ...
9 hours ago
Troll and Flame

OwlCon Feb 22-24, 2019 - Almost every year I drive over to Rice University in Houston for one of my favorite local area game conventions, Owl Con. Reasonably priced, easy going...
10 hours ago
deeply shallow

Rethinking my approach to #bookreviews and star ratings - I blogged about blogging more and then dropped off the grid. haha. Well, Tuesday I *did *blog, but over at Teaspoon Publishing. And then classes started ag...
10 hours ago
Lasgunpacker

Night Goblin Conversions - I managed to do a little sculpting last week to move these Night Goblins along. I am trying to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak, before I inevita...
10 hours ago
OEF

10 Predictions for 2119 - Some random thoughts on what will be 100 years from now. All vehicles will be electric. You will be able to order any body style from a catalogue of every ...
14 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Young Justice (1998) #1 - Supergirl Homage - Count me among those folks who were thrilled when Brian Michael Bendis announced his Wonder Comics imprint and *Young Justice #1 *specifically. I am a fa...
14 hours ago
In Places Deep

The Wilderlands and Me - Have I done this post before? Oh kinda! But I want to handle this a little different. This is kind of a combination Appendix N for my current campaign a...
14 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Abhumans [ICONS] - *Art by Agus Calcagno*ABHUMANS First Appearance: FANTASTIC TALES #56 *History:* The Abhumans are a hidden human subspecies created around two hundred thou...
15 hours ago
Quag Keep

Pyramid #2 - *From the web:* *Contents* - * "Designer's Notes: GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade; Plumbing the Depths of Darkness" by Jeff Koke* - * "PBM: The ...
16 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Dark River (2017) - If there's one thing that British cinema can do it's explore damaged individuals in a cloudy, tempestuous, dreary landscape that reflects the mindset of th...
16 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

One Panel #380-382: Getting Our Own Books - If it's good enough for Superman and Batman, why not us, these three heroes shouted into the night: *From "Menace of the Racket King" by Gardner Fox and E.E...
17 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

I Told Them What I Am Telling You Now - I No Longer Quest For The White Man's Amusements Even If There Are Magic Rings Involved. - I am not an attractive human. I need me a burk when I leave the house.
18 hours ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Black Waltz Review Tour - *Blurb:* As a Black Waltz—a magical ballet dancer—Stella Azrith appears to all as a composed, no-nonsense sorceress of notable talent. Yet she is deeply d...
20 hours ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

The End of His Service! - Let's try a little change of pace around here for a bit with a timeless futuristic robo tale of man and machine, or man vs. machine... uh, are there actual...
21 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes #YALit #Contemporary - *Series: Debutantes # 1* *Format: Hardcover, 400 pages* *Release Date: November 6, 2018* *Publisher: Freeform* *Source: Library* *Genre: Young Adult / Myste...
22 hours ago
herding cats & burning soup

Tag The Cat Herder -- Edition 36 - Read more »
22 hours ago
Cross Planes

Savage Worlds: A Trip Down Memory Lane - I've been a fan of Savage Worlds since Shane Lacey Hensley started writing design diaries on Pinnacle's site back in 2003. I remember checking in each we...
1 day ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Cha'alt Kickstarter Struggling - In case you can't watch the video, here's a brief summary (actually, just read it. I expanded upon some things)... Yeah, things could be going better. ...
1 day ago
Kidbits

Wednesday Whittleings - More Books Than Fish in the Sea - Wednesdays are my day to randomly babble. Sometimes about children books, others about writing, and usually about whatever strikes my mind. Random thoug...
1 day ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Recent Videos on my YouTube Channel ("Game Design") - Recent Videos on my YouTube channel (“Game Design”) Jan 10 Excessively misleading game box covers: http://youtu.be/xkwbXlahmVI?a Jan 8 One of my most-view...
1 day ago
The Disoriented Ranger

UbiquiCity Book 2: Undercurrents (now in stores!) - *A cyberpunk/science fiction story I wrote got published as part of an anthology. If you dig what I'm doing here, you might want to check that out, too! He...
1 day ago
Monster Island News

A Tale Of Alien Abduction: "Parker claimed he and Hickson were levitated into the space craft" - Originally Posted At Fox 6 News Are we alone? Is Earth really the only planet with life? Or, is something else out there? It’s been a debate for decades....
1 day ago
SciFiChick.com

Fantasy Book Review: Potion Masters: The Transparency Tonic - Potion Masters: The Transparency Tonic by Frank Cole Synopsis: It has been nine months since Gordy and his friends, Max and Adilene, stopped Esmerelda from...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Strahd: An Unkindness of Ravens - I thought we’d come to an agreement. I leave you alone, you leave me alone. I get it, being raised in a temple, there’s a certain bit I owe you, and I’ll d...
1 day ago
Stargazer's World

Super-Powered Bundles of Holding - Recently two new Bundles of Holding started featuring products from 1997’s Trinity roleplaying game and 1999’s prequel Aberrant respectively. In both games...
1 day ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *PRENSA DE POLAR * *POLAR PRESS* https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/in-netflixs-polar-mads-mikkelsen-gets-ultraviolent-because-he-doesnt-care...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Worldbuilding Through Backgrounds - *Backgrounds and Worldbuilding* Selecting a background for your character in *5e D&D* is a way of making an assertion about your character’s history. *But ...
1 day ago
Fantasy Ink

Galaxy Science Fiction - An assortment of Galaxy Science Fiction digest covers by Ed Emshwiller, Wally Wood, Virgil Finlay and others. *Galaxy*, November 1952. Cover art by Jack...
1 day ago
Under Siege

Back to Basics... - I don't know how it happened but I really lost track of the last few months on this blog. In fact, the past few years, this blog has been a bit of a sympt...
2 days ago
19th Level

The Great Molasses Flood in Call of Cthulhu - Today, January 15, 2019, marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood in Boston. On that day, around noon, a massive tidal wave of molasses f...
2 days ago
Points of Light

Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book Review by Jeremy "Frothsof" - Yet another positive review for *Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book*, this time from Jeremy "Frothsof" Smith of Thought Eater infamy (which I'm *pretty* sure w...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

More (B/X) Mummy - And now for some monster love. I've mentioned in passing my love for 2nd edition's "Mummy Lord." The fact of the matter is that I love the mummy monster in...
2 days ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

The modern humorist's dream... - https://vanitypublishing.bigcartel.com/
2 days ago
The Warrior Muse

2019 Goal Setting and 2018 Review - Yay, it's the new year! I'm hoping, like many others, that 2019 goes a bit better than 2018 in every way possible. When I do this post every year, it's rea...
2 days ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[LEGENDARIA] Corruption of Chaos in Legendaria - The forces of Law, personified by the *Star Gods* and the *Lords of Life*, hold life to be sacred, and reward those of Lawful sort who cleave to this belie...
2 days ago
The Armchair Squid

Squid Mixes: Cinderella - As noted in my State of the Blog 2018 post, mixing mocktails is one of my major goals in the drinks hobby. During our Europe last summer, our daughter f...
2 days ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Gaming Reflections with some New & Old (but new to me) Sci Fi RPG Goodies! - Due to some truly sad stuff my gaming group is no more. It just didn't feel right to continue after what happened. I spent the holidays and surrou...
3 days ago
Erotiterrorist

Have You Read the Dictionary of Mu? - The Dictionary of Mu is a supplement for the Sorcerer role-playing game but it serves a more important function as a wonderful idea that should be in every...
3 days ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Megarry to host Dungeon! at GaryCon2019 - David Megarry, player in the original Blackmoor Campaign is to host the board game Dungeon! at GaryCon this year. David Megarry created the game partly be...
3 days ago
The Troll Dens

The Mad Tree - He dwells in a tree of a house, or a house of a tree, however you choose to look at it. In quiet. The years have been unkind to him and he is mad. His spe...
3 days ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

GenreCon Event Dates - I will be running games at *GenreCon* February 9-10, 2019, at the Delta Hotel & Conference Centre in Guelph Ontario. Events are: *Saturday * 10:30am - 2:...
3 days ago
Creative Mountain Games

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth - A recent article on Open Culture reminded me about the exhibit called Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth. It is the latest deep delve into J.R.R. Tolkien's ...
3 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Packing Boxes for the Move - I announced a while back that I am moving Gothridge Manor to a new home. I've had my fill of all the Google nonsense and ineptitude. I know no company is ...
4 days ago
Thoul's Paradise

Spaceship Skills in Knight Hawks - *Art by Julian Krupa* With the spaceship rules that *Knight Hawks* brought to *Star Frontiers*, it also introduced spaceship skills. However, such skills ...
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) - Watching *Resident Evil: Apocalypse *I found myself wondering why I had watched these movies previously. I had some vague recollection of the series get...
4 days ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

A Mythic Primer - *The Glorantha Sourcebook* is an important companion to the three roleplaying games set in Greg Stafford’s world of Glorantha—HeroQuest Glorantha, RuneQue...
4 days ago
Lawful Indifferent

hook em - one of the things that stock-standard dnd is not very good at is giving guidelines for creating characters that are really a part of the world as it exi...
4 days ago
All Games Considered

Armor Goes Clank! - There's a new podcast coming! Mark from All Games Considered and Brian from Play On Target are conspiring to bring you a brand new show, aiming for a Janua...
4 days ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Black Magic...when? - So here is a rough (and ideal) outline for what I hope to release this year: 1) FROSTCRAWL (JAN 2019) this will be a free PDF hexcrawl for use with BLADES...
4 days ago
Rended Press

Life After Google+ - Do I miss Google+? No. I was late to the party anyway, having only joined in mid-2015 (I can peg the date I joined to the immediate lack of posts to this b...
5 days ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News: January 12, 2019 - *The OSR goes West, the Cepheus Engine is getting a lot of love and there's an RPG Gazetteer from Tenkar's G+ community. Pacesetter Games unloads a flood o...
5 days ago
SWORD & SHIELD

Inspiration: Conan #1 (Marvel 2019) - Just released this January is issue #1 of Marvel's new run of Conan. For the last 15 years, Dark Horse Comics told the tales of our favorite Cimmerian an...
5 days ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

The Umpleby's Net - A 2nd Edition Umpleby.Among the curious, little-used, and often-derided B-list of the AD&D Fiend Folio, there is a monster called the Umpleby that is tall...
5 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

eBay Clearance Sale! - It's that time of year again to clear out some inventory from the Super-DuperToyBox! Click the eBay Clearance Sale badge at the top of the right sidebar ...
5 days 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...
5 days ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Game prep for the Waterdeep thief adventure, voicemails, including one from my brother - Wherein my brother says I'm getting soft for not killing off the whole party the other day.
6 days ago
Bat in the Attic

The Future that was promised - Look like we are going to get part of the future that science fiction said we would get. It not a rendering but an actual test article that will do VTOL te...
6 days ago
I Fly By Night

Asteroid Collectives - Yet another settlement type for StarCluster 4 - In The Beginning - Asteroid Collectives:
6 days ago
MINION FACTORY

Hairy Horror! - FVOC #020 - EVIL SCIENTIST & RUDOLPH Chuck Jones always made the best bad guys for Warner Bros. I will probably do more of his menacingly monstrous char...
6 days ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

The Creature That Ate My Village - So reader Michael Lee asked in a comment (bloggers love them apparently) *This sounds cool Chris! You mentioned a basic...
6 days ago
Quest for Fun!

10 (11) Reasons Why I Might Skip A Product (Tradecraft) - I have purchased $10,000,000 in games. I know a thing about buying. Yet, I'm often in the dark. I mostly buy from gatekeepers, distributors who use their b...
6 days ago
Toyriffic

Marvel Legends Fantastic Four Thing Walgreens Exclusive - Walgreens has been releasing exclusive Fantastic Four Marvel Legends figures for a couple years now. Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and...
6 days ago
Written In Blood

Book Sales and Freebies for January! - *It's January! * My favorite month of the year. It also happens to be my birthday month, thank you very much! And what's a birthday without presents, right...
1 week ago
Trollsmyth

How to Describe Your Setting - So yeah, I'm on a bit of a Conan kick. The game made it worse, it didn't start it. I've been re-reading the Howard stuff and Conan really feels like REH at...
1 week 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 week ago
Genius Loci

Where are the Pets? - Humans have had animal companions since before we had written language, barely had agroculture, and still thought a good layer of dirt was a good way to st...
1 week ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

CARTOGRAPHER WANTED for Planet Eris World Map - PROJECT: The Scribes of Sparn publisher is seeking a cartographer to produce a hand drawn, pen and ink, poster size (24" x 36") map over hex grid to acco...
1 week ago
Dyvers

Traps, Not Just for Ex-Girlfriends Anymore - When I first started running Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) I tended to treat traps as an exercise in dice rolling to overcome the challenge I had placed before ...
1 week ago
Kaijuville

Update, part 3 -- Board games - Forgot to mention in one of the previous posts -- I'd like to get in more board games this year. I have Monolith's *Conan* and Everything Epic's *Big Troub...
1 week ago
Fabled Lands

At last, Spyte - Too many cooks spoil the broth, as you know, but it can be just as much a problem when you've got too few, and that's what happened with *The Walls of Spyt...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

The Stonewall print books are ready and e-books are up for pre-order - I'm excited to begin my new authorial career with four short novels about a fella named Stonewall who finds himself trapped in a gonzo post-apocalyptic wor...
1 week ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Batwoman and the Outlaw - *Red Hood: Outlaw #29* *Cover by Yasmine Putri* *"Tooth and Claw"* *Cover by Pete Woods* *Artwork by Pete Woods* *Colors by Rex Lokus*
1 week ago
Loudwater

M4-T1 1491 DR: Princes of the Apocalypse - *Spring 1491 DR: Six years ago, in M4 1485, the great Heroes of Loudwater finally defeated Orcus, Demon Lord of Undeath, bringing the light of hope back...
1 week ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

A Game Challenge - I do a lot of reading challenges. I usually go through about 150 titles a year – though a lot of that is graphic novels – and they’re a tool I use to pick ...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Temple of the Flayed Lord - In case you need some inspiration for a new *Cthulhu* *Mythos *style cult (also eminently useable for fantasy and historical role-playing games): Mexican...
1 week ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Adolf Dehn (1895 - 1968) - [image: Adolf Dehn - Whore of Babylon, 1946]Whore of Babylon, 1946 [image: Adolf Dehn - Nocturnal Visitors, 1946]Nocturnal Visitors, 1946 [image: Adolf Deh...
1 week ago
The Spirits of Eden

A Maiden’s Heart (77.1) - 13th of the Postill’s Dew, 2031 D.C.E. Ayvarta, City of Solstice — Armaments Hill, Sickle Airfield Down in the underground bunkers, there was a mail room w...
2 weeks ago
Tower of Zenopus

Beginning Year 10 of the Tower - I started writing here in 2009 as an outlet for my game related-thoughts and that's continued every year since. Last year was a terrible year and posting...
2 weeks ago
Robert Atkins Art

Work Files - Character Design - Spider-Gwen
2 weeks ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

A few more thoughts on retainers - Some random additional thoughts on the subject of the previous post (using retainers to help cement the different play style of Classic/AD&D compared to ne...
2 weeks ago
The Ongoing Campaign

What Is Magic? - Part Two - Spirits - In my last post on the topic, I started to lay out a catalog of what magic was to the people who practiced it. It sort of got out of hand there, which isn'...
2 weeks ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

It's Storystorm Time! - If you are interested in participating in Storystorm, hop over to Tara's blog. You still have time to register. IT's going to be such fun! My kids and I a...
2 weeks ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Supporting NPCs In A Superhero Game - *from the upcoming game I Am The Weapon...* *Casting* While a fun and engaging superhero campaign won’t require you to invent a setting from scratch on ...
2 weeks ago
Dynasty Zero

Blades & Black Magic Now Out - [image: BLADES Blades & Black Magic Book 1]It's been a really good year for fans of *The Fantasy Trip*. First we get a reissue of *The Fantasy Trip* itsel...
2 weeks ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Year Elmore (12/31/18): Caramon and Raistlin - Of course, I end the year on an illo by the master, St. Elmore himself! This is a cool one of Caramon and Raistlin. It feels like an early version of the...
2 weeks ago
[Retro-Z]

The Best Movie Scores of 2018 - *The Best Movie Scores of 2018by Jeremy Hawkins [Six Strings: Magazine]* *MOST LISTENED 10 SCORES:* *01. Lost In Space [2018] (Lakeshore Records) Music ...
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Red Sonja #2 Covers - These last two are exclusive to Sanctumsanctorumcomics.com (I hate store exclusives)
2 weeks 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. ...
2 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

Holiday Roundup - Ever since my new job started in 2015, this blog has definitely taken a back seat. I'd like to try to reverse that a bit, and maybe by posting a quick lis...
2 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Recap 2018 - I am thinking about D&D a bunch while my groups are on hiatus. Lost Atlantis hasn't played since May, that campaign basically got replaced with Ostschil...
3 weeks ago
GRUBB STREET

Daisey History Seven: Captains of Industry - Yeah, this is going to take longer than expected. Part of it is because the work load is tightening up, and part of it is because OTHER things are coming a...
3 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Ghosts of a Christmas Past - 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. Havin...
3 weeks 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 ...
3 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

Tonisborg: The Lost Level of the Lost Dungeon - In our first discussion of Tonisborg Here, I mentioned that we had the key for Levels 1-9 written on the side margin of the maps, but for level 10 the key ...
3 weeks ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

They Live in the Sky - Open in the image on another tab & enlarge for the full res. viewWhile the art is being generated for "*On Wings of Darkness*" and the core book undergoes...
3 weeks ago
A Storybook World

All Eyes on Alexandra - Anna Levine’s WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF *All Eyes on Alexandra* *Book summary* In *All Eyes on Alexandra*, young Alexandra Crane is terrible at...
4 weeks ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Cities of Greyhawk - Verbobonc Part 5 - The Wayward Inn Maps -
4 weeks ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Old School 5E Without Changing the Rules - Old School 5E Without Changing the Rules The way I see it is the OSR pretty much won the battle. 5E is so very much a rules light, at least 50% inspired b...
4 weeks ago
World of Ortix

50% price drop on RPGNow! - [image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Die_Saege.JPG] For a limited time (up to 31.12, maybe longer if I forget to set the prices bac...
4 weeks ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Whiteout Swarm - Hello and welcome back for Frightful Fridays! (OK, yeah, it's Saturday) Lots of snow fell where I live, and that is unusual for this time of year, so it i...
4 weeks ago
A Life Full of Adventure

Anchor'cast 4: Rolling Dice - I probably think you roll dice too often.
4 weeks 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 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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
2 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Moving - For the time being, I've moved my blogging here: https://strangevistas.wordpress.com/
2 months ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
3 months 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 ...
3 months 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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. ...
4 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 ...
4 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....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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, ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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 ...
8 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. ...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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,...
11 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. On, now, to Frankenstein’s third...
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...
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
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
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
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

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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...
2 years 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'...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
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
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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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
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...
6 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...
7 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...
9 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
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

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