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Dr. Theda's Crypt

Don't Forget Your Towel Today.... - a day for remembering author, Douglas Adams.... H...
5 minutes ago
Monster Island News

Solo: A Star Wars Story - A Quick Review - By Ken Hulsey Disney is way better at making Star Wars prequels than sequels. Let's just cut to the chase, Solo is a really, really, really good movie. I...
13 minutes ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Kelly (5/25/18): Dark Castle - This past weekend, I went to one of the few remaining used book traders in my area of the world. As is my wont, I went see...
20 minutes ago
HeroPress

#RPG Chin Scratcher Follow-Up: Why, You Lot Of Old Romantics... - Last Friday, I posed the topical question: have you ever held an "in-game" wedding? And I was pleasantly surprised to learn that a lot of gamers have been ...
53 minutes ago
Kidbits

Celebrate the Small Things! - It's that time of the week again—time to celebrate! (I love celebrations, don't you?) So, what are we celebrating? Anything. . .everything! Every week, ...
1 hour ago
The Warrior Muse

Horror List Book Review: The Drive-In - 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, ...
1 hour ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Bloat Games Memorial Day Sale - This weekend Bloat Games has some amazing deals on some fantastic books. I have the Vigilante Hack and DP&D books, but decided to pick up print copies of T...
2 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Wonder Woman #47 - *Wonder Woman #47* came out this week, the only book on the shelf this month to feature Supergirl as we await her 'bold new direction' in August. So even...
2 hours ago
MINION FACTORY

Book of Weird: Chapter Two! - The madness continues.
3 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

A Plethora of Planescape - There hasn't been much in the way of support for the *Planescape* setting since *2e AD&D*. It feels like WotC keeps teasing the return of the setting for ...
3 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Tavern Chat Podcast - Episode #9 - Early Morning Bleck! and Thoughts - "Allergies are in full gear this morning. Listen to Tenkar drown in phlegm. Inbetween throat clearing, I have thoughts on the sudden uptick in OSR podcas...
3 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Underground Comics is Here! - The wait is over! You can now purchase *Underground Comics *#1 at IndyPlanet in print and digital. Comixology digital is on the way if you prefer that form...
3 hours ago
Quag Keep

MGP - The Quintessential Gnome - *From the web:* *"Book 16 of the Collector Series covers additional options for playing Gnome characters. Including in this D20 supplement are altern...
4 hours ago
SciFiChick.com

SciFi Book Review: Avengers of the Moon - Avengers of the Moon: A Captain Future Novel by Allen Steele Synopsis: Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being rais...
4 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

There's Always Tomorrow (1955) - Although the treatment of the material shows the restraint and sensitive handling dictated by the era in which it was made, this Douglas Sirk movie is yet ...
4 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Dial S for Sidekick - Who says there was only ever one sort of Dial, no matter its appearance? Well, of course, the original (Big) Dial could pull many tricks, but the smaller,...
5 hours ago
Realms of Chirak

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Review) - I'm sitting in a hotel in Los Alamos as I write this, enjoying day three or four of what started as a work trip but then turned in to a sort of family ro...
9 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

Cephalopod Coffeehouse: May 2018 - Welcome one and all to the Cephalopod Coffeehouse, a cozy gathering of book lovers, meeting to discuss their thoughts regarding the works they enjoyed most...
9 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

Friday #Review - A Glimmer of Hope by Steve McHugh #Urban Fantasy - *Series: The Avalon Chronicles # 1* *Format: Kindle, 351 pages* *Release Date: April 1, 2018* *Publisher: 47North* *Source: Kindle Unlimited* *Genre: Fantas...
10 hours ago
herding cats & burning soup

[memes] Bookish Worlds I SO Don't Wanna Live In + my week in books - **If there's something screwy on the blog...sorry! Doing a secure http and the whole EU regulation thing have given some things a little glitch. Hang in th...
11 hours ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Repost - Nosnra's Cousin - Nosnra's Cousin When I first DM'd G1 I fleshed out the surrounding area so that Nosnra could draw on reinforcements from neighboring hill giants. Nosnr...
17 hours ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

The Glistening Chamber Codex (or The Nyctythatic Text) - The earliest fragments containing any element of the text appear in Chalcolithic-era Sumeria in cuneiform script. It has been convincingly argued that they...
18 hours ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Reaction Table Combat - Over on Reddit’s OSR forum, I joked that I should have done a revised combat system based on the reaction roll table. For all I know, I may have done it, b...
18 hours ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Mystara, The Known World, The Continent or the D&D Game World? - Mystara is one of the most underrated of the D&D Game Worlds. The sheer number of game material produced for this setting might surprise people. During th...
19 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

D&D and Doux Commerce: Alignment Rethought - Doux commerce is the notion that trade has a "sweetening" effect on human relationships: commerce brings about peace, because through it people get to know...
19 hours ago
Trollsmyth

Go and STAHP! - So, *Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes* is, as I’m sure you’ve heard, like that Volo’s book but different. Where *Volo’s* was more “Who are the People in Your N...
19 hours ago
A character for every game

Sugar Shack Slaughter – Quebec City & Environs - Quebec City, 1666, with magic of course. This is the setting for the Sugar Shack Slaughter, one of the two … Continue reading →
20 hours ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Two Tome of Tomes - *Blackcloak, Terror of Westhame Forest* Author: Dirk Ringdon Race: Human Dimensions: 8x8x0.5 Weight: 2 lbs. Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment Ra...
20 hours ago
Tower of Zenopus

Astro City TV Series - Well here's one I missed in my offline time: Astro City is wrapping up as a monthly book and is being seriously attempted as a TV show. Of all of the "m...
21 hours ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Banned on Amazon? - Over 48 hours ago, I received an email from some shadowy division of Amazon telling me that *Battle Star: Trek Wars* was being temporarily suspended (sup...
22 hours ago
Gamers & Grognards

Boot Hill Now Available In Print! - Hello all! WOTC is continuing to bring us old TSR games back in print. Well, print on demand. I'll say, that's good enough for me. The newest offering is T...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Stonehell: Into the Sub-Crypts - Session 62 was played on 2/13 Eiric, wizard 6 (Kat) - men at arms (Koltic, Noxic) - linkmen (Lomax) - Neon (dog) A-A-Ron, Thief 6 (Henchman) Daryll, Cleric ...
1 day ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Questing for Tanelorn - For [reasons] I've spent much of the last couple days reading through Michael Moorcock's old Elric stories (I happen to own a couple gigantic omnibuses)......
1 day ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

"Will You Two Stop Saying Gummy So Much" -
1 day ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Formal Game Reviewing - (This was written for ENWorld, and appeared there recently.) Formal Game Reviewing (I read a review at ENWorld that reminded me that many reviewers of game...
1 day ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

How to ensure the WORST sophomore year ever... -
1 day ago
Stargazer's World

Kickstarter: Nothing Stays Forgotten - Recently Kendel Ventonda contacted me and let me know about the “Nothing Stays Forgotten” Kickstarter project. The roleplaying game has already been releas...
2 days ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Friday Filler: Orc Stabr - Everything about *Orc Stabr* is distressing. It is distressingly simple. It is distressingly silly. It is distressingly short—taking one side of a single ...
2 days ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

d100 Dirty Dungeon Missions - So you take side jobs and missions right? While your murdering the humanoids in the caves down there could you do us a f...
2 days ago
Points of Light

Dungeons & Delvers: Where Do Baby Gnolls Come From? - In *Dungeons & Delvers* orcs are the minions of Orcus, demonic spirits tightly wrapped in the flesh of other races, because they cannot remain unprotected...
2 days ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Asta and the Barbarians Book Blast - *Blurb:* Asta heard about King Torvald's crusade and watched her people fortify the town's defenses, but she never imagined foreign invaders would come to ...
2 days ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

Shadows of Death - As promised, here's another fright-filled fight against creepy, reekin' crime-- from the March 1954 issue of *Fight Against Crime #18*. The *Poe*-esque sto...
2 days ago
I Fly By Night

My Excuses! - Wow! Almost the end of may and I haven't posted! I'm working on a lot of projects, and running three games a week... actually two weekly games and two bi-w...
2 days ago
deeply shallow

#bookreview: The Sorceror's Bane | C.S. Wachter - [image: The Sorcerer's Bane (The Seven Words Book 1)]The Sorcerer's Bane by C.S. Wachter My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Sorceror's Bane is an enthralling, act...
2 days ago
Armchair Gamer

All Under HERO: Thoughts on Magic Systems of the Known World (Part 1) - The Magic-User Archetype (for Karameikos) Karameikos was crafted to be the stereotypical D&D fantasy realm, and as a result has primarily stereotypical D&D...
2 days ago
Written In Blood

Why in God’s name would you work for the same company that killed your mom? #AgentsofASSET - *A Weapon of Magical Destruction * *Sample Chapter * “Achievement unlocked!” Sage triumphantly announced to herself as she opened the door to her apartmen...
2 days ago
GRUBB STREET

Eating Sewickley (and elsewhere) - The Lovely Bride and I have just returned from a week in Pittsburgh, a short visit for family and friends. We were camped out west of the city, on the form...
2 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Marvel Legends Infinity War Wave Thanos BAF - There was a fair enough amount to like this Infinity War Wave for a lot of Marvel Legends collectors, but I was mainly in for the Thanos BAF. I also like...
3 days ago
Rended Press

200 Word RPG Challenge Entry - So I made this thing: *Me & Alfred Roanoke: The ONLY Officially Licensed 2-Player RPG™* which is based upon these scribblings: *Me & Alfred Roanoke* and I ...
3 days ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *HOMENAJE A NICOLAS CAGE * *NICOLAS CAGE TRIBUTE * Hubo una expo muy divertida en el Cantabria Alternativa, un homenaje a Nicolas Cage y sus mejores...
4 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Tolkien exhibit at Oxford - If you're a fan of Middle-earth, and you can manage a trip to Oxford between the 1st of June and the 28th of October, you should ch...
4 days ago
Thoul's Paradise

Combat in Space Opera - *Art by Joe Doolin* Given its association with the *Space Marines* miniatures rules, one might reasonably expect the *Space Opera* combat system to dispens...
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Kong: Skull Island (2017) - While Godzilla has had numerous reboots, going from good to bad to just a force of nature to, even at one point, being the embodiment of the souls of Jap...
4 days ago
Krell Laboratories

Hard Femme - [image: Matilda Lutz in Revenge (2017)] When first we see Jen, the heroine of Coralie Fargeat's blood-soaked rape/revenge fantasy, *Revenge* (2017), she's ...
4 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Podcast: Starting Characters in a Campaign - I just released my latest episode, Starting Characters in a Campaign. I'm planning on starting a B/X Essentials campaign soon. I go over a few of the thi...
5 days ago
Quest for Fun!

Nothing Special (Tradecraft) - Some of my friends have been kicking around an article from the *Harvard Business Review* entitled The Five Stages of Small Business Growth. There are summ...
5 days ago
19th Level

Dan's Top 19 RPGs - #4 - Fate - Fate was a way harder game for me to "get" than I thought it would be. I suspect if I'd never gamed before it would have been a lot easier. There's a ton...
6 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Tavernscourge Blob - Welcome once again to another week of Frightful Fridays! This week's monster grew out of a concept my father shared with me, where the monster was a piece ...
6 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Testing Facebook Groups - Hi all. Just testing Facebook links here. Feel free to join! Mystara Reborn Facebook Group · 1,947 members Join Group **Please read this before posting mess...
1 week ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Jokichi the Vagabond - Chanbara Character Profiles - I've been thinking of interesting ways to promote Chanbara besides just spamming everyone's G+/Facebook feeds with links to the game. No one wants that, an...
1 week ago
Fabled Lands

Positively the last RuneRites - If you were a fan of the RuneRites column in *White Dwarf *thirty-five years ago - indeed, if you were even born then - here's a very late addition to the...
1 week ago
The Wasted Lands

The State of Conan Gaming - I feel a bit bad for saying this. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I generally don't write negative reviews of product, as I find them unhelpful and o...
1 week ago
False Machine

The Wodlands 4 - The Painted Plain - 1. The Plains of Anaesthetic Fire. 2. The AntiGoblin Empire 3. The Whetstone Ridge At some point in history, after the expulsion of the Crazed Theigns fro...
1 week ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Quotidian - What do you do when you tell yourself you should dedicate more time to blogging right when you're not doing much in regards to the subject of the blog? Ju...
1 week ago
A Life Full of Adventure

[WFRP 2e] Renegade Princeps 65 - *My PC* Vaervenshyael - Female Elf Assassin *My companions* Tankred "Silver Bear" Tenneckermann - Human Artisan/Mercenary/Champion Wilhelm Hechland - Human ...
1 week ago
Cross Planes

Genesys: Natalie Elias - I'd be resisting Fantasy Flight Games' Genesys system because it used "weird dice". I'm not opposed to new tech in RPGs, but I have a lot of dice and I lik...
1 week ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

Wiseguys Demo Kit and Forces of Light: The Savage Guide to Heaven and The Wild Die Podcast - Hey guys, I have some RPG News, and it's all kind of having to do with me, at least in part. Two new Savage Worlds products were recently released, and I ...
1 week ago
The Spirits of Eden

Life In The Besieged City (74.2) - This scene contains mild violence and allusions to transphobia and medical violence. 24th of the Hazel’s Frost, 2030 D.C.E. Ayvarta, Solstice City — Halwa ...
1 week ago
The Ongoing Campaign

[Obscure Games] Special: Games for Game Designers - I haven't done an Obscure Games for a while, but I thought that I'd do something a little bit different this time. Here's a list, with capsule reviews, of...
1 week ago
Asshat Paladins

Actual Play: Firefly "Old War Horses" John Havelock - John Havelock Attributes: Mental: d8_______________Physical: d6______________Social: d10 Skills: Craft d4______________________Drive d4_______________Figh...
1 week ago
The Troll Dens

The Long Pursuit - The mountains give way to a broken country of small rock capped ridges, fields of stubby grass, lakes, ponds and a few trees choked of nutrients. Your purs...
1 week ago
the musings of huginn and muninn

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

The Awesome Pain in the Ass That Was DragonQuest - Continuing my trio of bargain-bin rescues from Glasgow (actually a gift from Paolo, in lieu of buying an adventure from the system) I present to you Dragon...
1 week ago
STUFFER SHACK

More Free Number Tokens?! - I’m giving more Number Tokens away… Because gamers still want them! Apparently, giving sets of Number Tokens away was a good idea. I’ve had a great run of...
1 week ago
Servitor Ludi

Give me Star Trek (Cygnus version) - Six months... probably the longest the blog has gone without an update. I really want to be posting here most often, but life is busy. A week or two ago, ...
1 week ago
OEF

Dungeons and Dragons the most important gaming franchise in the world - Forbes has written an article about the upcoming book *Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History* an illustrated guide to the history and evoluti...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

The first five maps and guidebook for the Wilderlands of High Fantasy is available for sale! - I am pleased to announce the release of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy. This is one of four products covering the eighteen maps that encompasses the Judg...
2 weeks ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: 45 Years and Still Rolling! - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: 45 Years and Still Rolling!: I wish to thank all of my various fans, friends and family members that have made it possib...
2 weeks ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

45 Years and Still Rolling! - *I wish to thank all of my various fans, friends and family members that have made it possible for me to wield my creative imagination and bring its result...
2 weeks ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

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

A Quick Thought on Magic-Users - A la "vintage" D&D. A thought I've had over time, and I've seen expressed my many others, is that magic-users should dominate world affairs at higher level...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Spellmaking

Witches' Night Adventure Giveaway - Searching for your next spooky adventure? Look no further! The Witches' Night Adventure Giveaway offers a creepy selection of new YA and Middle-Grade adven...
2 weeks ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Building be67, a LL/MF supplement for the weird 60s, Part 3 (classes, ability scores, skills and weapon mastery) - *Here we are again, talking a bit more about how to transport your Labyrinth Lord/Mutant Future game into the Weird Sixties (which totally should be a thin...
2 weeks ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com. You're missin...
2 weeks ago
Erotiterrorist

Fiction: Orbiter of Fuck - Explorer’s Log: I am on day thirty-three of my forty-five day journey to the star system designated “The Way the Queen Makes Me Feel” by Royal Astronomers....
3 weeks ago
Lasgunpacker

X-wing Second Edition - I suppose that at nearly six years old, no one should be surprised that FFG is coming out with a second edition of X-wing... and here it is. Arriving mid-...
3 weeks ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

80 Years of Superman - [Note, I started this post last Wednesday 4/25] Earlier in April saw two major milestones, both of which are firsts within the realm of superhero comics. ...
3 weeks ago
The Groovy Age of Horror

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

FOSSIL Booklets and new Mapping Pads - Hot on the heels of Black Pudding Issue 4, which landed last week. I now have the print copies of the FOSSIL B/X Character Generation booklets. They cost £...
3 weeks ago
The OSR Library

Added Survival Horror Page - Added a Page collecting my OSR Survival Horror material and useful posts for it. Here.
3 weeks ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

The Fall of the House of Kane II - *Batwoman #14* *Cover by Dan Panosian* *Click here for the cover by Michael Cho* *"Fall of the House of Kane" Part II* *Written by Marguerite Bennett* *Ar...
3 weeks ago
Dynasty Zero

The New Fantasy Trip - [image: Image result for melee cover fantasy trip]I'm stoked about this. *The Fantasy Trip* with *Melee/Wizard* is coming back. As I've mentioned before m...
3 weeks ago
The Grand Tapestry

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

Dungeon Delving Undying Light SRD Now Online - I've created a *Dungeon Delving Undying Light* "SRD" web site where the entire *Dungeon Delving Undying Light* rules are online as web pages. The site is ...
4 weeks ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

Mutant Crawl Classics: More Manimal Mayhem! - My Kickstarter'd heap of *Mutant Crawl Classics* goodies arrived this week, and I'm digging it like crazy. I'm also starting the homebrew hacking proces...
4 weeks ago
MONSTER BRAINS

TAROT GOBLINKO - DARK FANTASY MEDIEVAL PUNK TAROT DECK - [image: Sean Aaberg - TAROT GOBLINKO OROBOROS] [image: Sean Aaberg - KING OF CUPS] [image: Sean Aaberg - STRENGTH] [image: Sean Aaberg - 3 OF COINS] [ima...
4 weeks ago
Age of Ravens

Familiars of Terra - I don’t often suggest Kickstarters on my blog but I want to point to one that’s wrapping up in the next couple of days: *Familiars of Terra*. This game co...
4 weeks 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 ...
4 weeks ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

On Sandbox Settings - One of the reasons it's been so easy to run a Star Wars Open Sandbox game is that there is so much material available on the Star Wars Universe. This is t...
4 weeks ago
[Retro-Z]

Wolves and the Eating of the Sheep! - *Been several months since an update, really just stopping in... tell you all who might stop over, also you don't need to leave a comment... really here ...
4 weeks ago
All Games Considered

AGC 220 April 20th 2018 (Third Eye and Mashups) (52:08) - With Mark Kinney and Carol updates us about Third Eye Games' latest doings. The Robotech RPG Tactics incident, and going into mashing up settings and setti...
4 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Free RPG Day Double Feature - *If you are in Toronto on June 16th, come and join me!* *401 Games @ 518 Yonge Street Toronto!*
4 weeks ago
The Savage AfterWorld

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

Checking out THUNDAR...No, Not THUNDARR, but THUNDAR. - I recently purchased a book that some claim was an inspiration for the THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN cartoon. I wanted to judge for myself if this was true and to...
5 weeks ago
Wild West History

Rocky Mountain Locust: The Plague of the Pioneers - *Photo by Darla Sue Dollman. I believe this was also a locust.* "No matter what they came to, they went right on. They were crawling up one side of the ba...
5 weeks ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Eldrad's Review of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition - Well I finally started running 5E and I am so far, very impressed. Yeah I know, I am late to the party but I was trying to push my own Level Based D20 Fan...
5 weeks ago
My Baffling Brain

Celebrate the Small Things - April 12th - Celebrate the Small Things is a weekly bloghop hosted by Lexa Cain. The idea is to post anything you want to celebrate from the last week, no matter how sm...
1 month ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[Labyrinth Lord] Alternate Thieves Skill System - Sifting through some old disks, I found an old alternate Thieves Skill system I worked on some years ago. It combined elements from *Labyrinth Lord, 2E AD&...
1 month ago
Rather Gamey

The Animated Spellbook - Ooo - first post of the year. Anyway, You might not have heard, but there is a guy making cartoon tutorials for D&D 5e. He goes by Zee Bashew over on Twi...
1 month ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

- This is a wee tryout to see if my old blog is again 'working' If so ...yippeeekiy o kemo thingy ding... these are recent ... clip from "Bessie and her Bar...
1 month ago
Beholder Pie

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

The Orchid Club - Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its own v...
1 month ago
Mesmerized by sirens

Bifrost: individual abilities & other stuff - I am beginning to post the content of Bifrost, volume 1, in sequence. Bif1 - Cover, Acks, Intro, Setting Up Game Bif2 - Game Content, Seq Actions, Choice...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

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

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

A generic outline for roleplaying game rules - I am trying to get beneath the roleplaying games I have to the underlying bones of the core the so-called "ur-game". The hope is to generate a framework fo...
1 month ago
destination unknown

The Wasteland of Gath: Ambush! (Rowan); Labyrinth Lord - After stocking up on grenades at Turtleneck Joe's (see The Tolling of the Great Black Bell no. 31), Rowan (played by +Stuart Robertson), Kerg and Bedlowe h...
1 month ago
Ellen Dugan's Blog of Witchery

Midnight Gardens is available for pre-order! - Good Morning! The first book in my newest series is available for pre-order. Here is a description of the new series *Daughters Of Midnight*: Meet Drusilla...
1 month ago
Minding Spot

Shattered Memories (The Mirror Sisters #3) by V.C. Andrews - *In this finale of the darkly gothic Mirror Sisters trilogy, one twin fears her reunion with sister dearest—from the legendary New York Times bestselling ...
1 month ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Knutpunkt 2018, a Report - I spent last week at Knutpunkt 2018, the newest incarnation of the Nordic larp conference, this year in Sweden. The Week in Sweden pre-event programming ha...
2 months ago
World of Ortix

Perilous Frontiers! - Clicky! So, I decided what to do next. Perilous Ages in Outer Space! What you can expect from it: - Percentile, skills-lite mechanics; - Gritty crit...
2 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Secrets of the Not-Dalluhn Manuscript - The Beyond This Point be Dragons manuscript has had an interesting history in the OSR community, a history marked both with fascinating revelations and, at...
2 months ago
A Storybook World

Final Book in the Haunted High Series by Cheree Alsop - GIVE AWAY - A dangerous force is about to attack Haunted High. This time, everyone at the school is needed to defend it. But Finn has other problems that start with...
2 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 ...
2 months ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Why I Haven't Played Call of Cthulhu in Three Years... - ... or,*There's Something Fishy on Gilbert Island*. Seriously - up until just this past Saturday, my players and I haven't played one of my all-time favori...
2 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...
2 months ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Moat Monsters - Moat Monsters A Sourcebook for OGL RPGs (Labyrinth Lord) I don't do many reviews, but felt compelled to say a few words about this little gem. In all tran...
2 months ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

DC's Art of Darwyn Cooke softcover available now - DC released "The Art of Darwyn Cooke" collecting stories and artwork dating back to 1985's TALENT SHOWCASE #19, and stories from BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS, ...
2 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...
2 months ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

20 Questions for Lost Atlantis - 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? Your Cleric worships a pantheon of gods, although he might be more dedicated to one, such as the ...
2 months ago
Stocking The Dungeon

Gary Con 2018; For Whom the Bell Trolls - It was about this time last year that a friend and I sent the self proclaimed leader of the OSR free world into a full on tears and hair pulling schoolgirl...
2 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...
2 months ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Wandering - by Euphoria of ApeTwo weeks of business travel followed by picking up a cold have me beaten down currently but still tinkering away. I'd say the downside...
3 months ago
Little Gothic Horrors

The 7th Annual Vampire’s Day Soiree - It’s the 7th annual Vampire’s Day Soiree hosted by my lovely pal Holly of Holly's Horrorland blog! This year I'm continuing my tradition of sharing a few...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago
Troll and Flame

The sounds of dungeon exploration - Wear headphones to appreciate the Left / Right ear locational awareness. Close your eyes and imagine you're holding a torch and shield or clutching a hol...
3 months ago
Aggregate Cognizance

Facets in Retrolock - One of the Fate Core-like concepts that I really didn't want to part with was Aspects. Having a free form descriptor or tag makes characters a lot more fle...
3 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,...
3 months ago
Under Siege

Arcana Creations 2018: The Year Ahead - A bunch of things happened in 2017 and more is planned for 2018! First off, lets talk about the shows. Not everything has been confirmed yet but we thi...
3 months ago
Kaijuville

Happy 112th Birthday, Robert E. Howard - Today marks the 112th anniversary of the birth of pulp writer Robert E. Howard. It has become a tradition on this date for Howard fans to read a favorite s...
4 months ago
In Places Deep

5e Froglings - Froglings are frogs that walk and speak in the manner of men. They are short, only about 4' in height on average, and range between thin and stout. Fro...
4 months ago
The House of Little Fears

Instructional Character Sheet! - Big thanks to brother-in-name Jason Alexander for crafting this instructional character sheet for his players at this Saturday’s MidWinter Con–and for agre...
4 months ago
Mythmere's Blog

Growing the OSR if you want: part 2 - So, based on the various realizations I talked about in the last post, what are the things I'm trying to do in 2018 that will boost the signal of the OSR a...
4 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...
4 months ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

March'18 Covers -
4 months ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

12 for 12 #12 - Whoo-hoo! The finish line! And I only had to play catch-up once. Name an RPG, setting, or adventure you haven’t run or played before, but really want to ...
5 months ago
Dorkland!

My Top 10 Songs For 2017 - Based on my listening habits from the last year, I made up a list of the top ten songs that I listened to the most from 2017. I don't know if I can really ...
5 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...
5 months ago
The Whole Wide World

Diabetes-Friendly Sugar Free Eggnog - I'm back again, folks, with another diabeetus-friendly recipe for the holidays. If you're like me, you love eggnog, and it was a kick in the gut the first ...
5 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

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

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

+NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ - http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/08/help-us-decipher-this-inscription.html That's a lot of Xs for the beginning of words in any European languag...
5 months ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

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

The OSR News - Revival Edition - *Some Recent New Releases* *Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival* from Kabuki Kaiser. Author - P. Crespy. Artist - Evlyn M. Available in PDF for $4.99...
6 months ago
The City of Iron

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

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

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

Part of the whole - In Ursula Le Guin's novel, *The Left Hand of Darkness*, the people of the planet Gethen spend twenty-four out of the twenty-six days in their month in an...
7 months ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Now Available] Dragonborn for Labyrinth Lord - DRAGONBORN By James Mishler & Jodi Moran-Mishler This work contains two forms of the dragonborn race: First, a racial class for use with Labyrinth Lord...
7 months ago
Wishful Gaming

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

Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter is live! - The Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter has launched! Head on over to the campaign page to see more, including a full-text preview! Read More ...
8 months ago
Justice League Detroit

2010 Despero versus the Justice League Personal Sketch Card by Don Hillsman II - Click To Enlarge Don Hillsman paints an as of yet undocumented battle involving Gypsy, Metamorpho, Captain Atom and Martian Manhunter against JLI-period D...
8 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

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

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

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

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

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

Imaginext Darkseid, Parademon and Blind Bag Series 2 Kingdom Come Superman - A recent trip to Wal-Mart yielded the Imaginext Darkseid/Parademon two pack and the DC Blind Bag Series 2 Kingdom Come Superman! This new Darkseid release...
8 months ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

RPGaDay 2017 #26 Which RPG provides the most useful resources? - It may sound funny, but the books that I find the most useful are for games I have never run. The Dream Park RPG featured a plotting method called the Beat...
8 months ago
THE LAND OF NOD

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

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

A messy failure? - In early 2014 I was recruited to offer online courses at LFE.Com. Not seeing any advantage over my existing platforms, I declined. But I still get some of ...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
Close Encounters with the Night Kind

FREEE!! For the First Time Ever!!!! - For the first time ever, Salem Archer's MOONDANCE TRILOGY will be completely FREE on Amazon. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/Salem-Archer/e/B0...
10 months ago
House of Self-Indulgence

Yum-Yum's Transition A Go-Go! (Me, 2017) - WARNING: This is not a movie review - Hey, cult movie fans, loyal readers, and miscellaneous weirdos and perverts. What's happening? I hope you're all doing well. It just dawned on me tha...
10 months ago
LotFP: RPG

Free RPG Day is THIS SATURDAY, June 17! -
11 months ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

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

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
11 months ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

FREE Module KK2 from NTRPG CON 2017 - - DOWNLOAD HERE - That's me and Steve Robertson at the Knights-n-Knaves Alehouse social at NTRPG CON last week. (Steve is the proprietor of VANQUISHING L...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Hill Cantons

Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas - Teetering on the edge of a new, start-now, well-paying political job (i.e. demanding AF) I get one last reprieve of gainful unemployment this weekend: Nor...
11 months ago
Fustians so Sublimely Bad...

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

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

Campaign Duration Analysis - *Loudwater Sessions & Real Time per Tier* Heroic Tier 1-10: April 2011 1 to 35 February 2013 = 35 sessions, 23 months Paragon Tier 11-20: February 2013 36...
1 year ago
She Never Slept

Man With No Name: A Nanashi Novella - Man With No Name Written by: Laird Barron Published by: Journal Stone (March 2016) Series: Nanashi Novella Paperback: 106 pages ISBN-10: 1942712863 ISBN-13...
1 year ago
A Very Creepy Blog

2 New Publications on Warren's Spanish Artists - The last week has been a very fortunate one for Warren fans, or at the very least fans of the Spanish artists who dominated the Warren magazines in the 19...
1 year ago
The Cryptic Archivist

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

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

D&D 5E LITE - I've been working on a condensed version of D&D 5E. Condensed mostly in terms of player character complexity. I think I have it in a ~95% or so completed s...
1 year ago
The Domestic Witch

Announcing the Spring Cleaning Blog Series! - I'm bringing back one of my favorite blog series Spring Cleaning with The Domestic Witch: We're Going to Clean More Than Just Your House! I feel like it'...
1 year ago
Strange Magic

Appendix N - Free Audiobooks - Here are links to the public domain audiobooks available for the author's listed in Gary Gygax's "Appendix N" from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' Dungeon...
1 year ago
Howling Tower

Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press. We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat room-shaped. That’s a h...
1 year ago
Old School Heretic

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

Better pics -
1 year ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

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

[Faith Corps] Rebelling Out of 2016 - *Pictured: January 1, 2017.*What's it been, six-plus months? Anyway, I'm gearing up to run another *Star Wars Rebels* game in February at *OrcCon*, and I'...
1 year ago
ROFL Initiative

How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
1 year ago
Dungeon's Master

Title here - content
1 year ago
Over the Misty Mountains

Not QUITE a TPK... - But you could see one from there! I know my players read these, so I'm going to try to avoid campaign spoilers. But there will be some. Last night the par...
1 year ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

So I Started Running a Game at a Local Library :) - It's a blast! A couple months ago I was at the library in a small town next to mine, and there was a flier about gaming night, a couple Thursdays a month...
1 year ago
Ostensible Cat

Funk as Puck - Ok, ok, so this is a little fun with my Halloween costume that Daisey made for me this year. I really, really love this idea and am going to use it for m...
1 year ago
5 Stone Games

Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...
1 year ago
Trip the Eclipse

Moving the Blog - Even though I've had this blog for years, I am moving to Wordpress for some interesting features available through them. So, if you wish to continue to rea...
1 year ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

Freckles on earth's V - Structure structure structures. Boil me in hot peanut oil, see whee we turn to find a grocery store. Bright plastic packages, just trying to be sold. Tha...
1 year ago
The Tombs of Akrasia

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

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

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

Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
The Omnipotent Eye

The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...
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
A Paladin In Citadel

Fat And Manky Orcus - Redux - Six years ago, I posted an image of a fat and manky Orcus illustrated by Todd Lockwood, of Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 fame. The image above was taken from...
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
Addicted2Heroines

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

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

A Character Record for Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls - Ever since I started playing Tunnels & Trolls, back in November, I've been on the lookout for a good character sheet, and to date I haven't found one that ...
2 years ago
Purple Duck Games

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

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

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

Green Devil Face 3D Printed - This feature is LEGENDARY in the infamous S1 Tomb of Horrors by Gary Gygax. Now you can print (a version of) it for your own game. Derived from OpenForge...
2 years ago
Ask A Witch

Panda from Coffeyville, KS - *I love graveyards, and while I was up at Spring Hill, I asked the gods and goddesses to please send me a wand. I literally took three steps and there was ...
2 years ago
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS

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

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

Updates - Low-res concept for SHAMA issue 1 cover Just keeping everyone in the loop. Working on getting a video together for the Kickstarter while awaiting the paper...
2 years ago
Curmudgeons & Dragons

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

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

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

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

Beamed away... - I hope if you wanted a printed copy of Far Trek you got one! If not, sorry...but another opportunity with a different cover will come sometime in early 20...
2 years ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

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

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

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

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

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

Dark Rising (Andrew Cymek, 2007) - B-Movie, straight-to-video fantasy and sci-fi is always a crap shoot, isn't it? If one expects too much, they are destined to be disappointed. An openness ...
2 years ago
Suzy Turner

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

Body Armour - I think that armour is one of the hallmarks of civilisation. I speak here of civilisation in the classic sense: agrarian, stratified, complex societies in...
2 years ago
The Lair of the Evil DM

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

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

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

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

Gencon Follow-up: My First Time in the Iron Arena! - If you were following a bit of my run up to Gencon posts, you might have noticed that within the last year I've really gotten back into Warmachine with my...
2 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, ...
2 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!
2 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....
3 years ago
Me-anders

I MADE IT! YAY! - There it is, kids. I got my fifty-thou' in just now and am going to promptly dunk my hands into a bucket of bengay. This is, for those of you keeping tra...
3 years ago
Geek's Elixir

Believe in YOUR Passion - the Comic Life - Is it just me or does it seem like 2014 has taken wings and flew on by! Looking at a calendar is almost scary now. I remember a time when hours seemed l...
3 years ago
The Age of Reason -- 21st Century

DEATH COMES TO ALL - I just learned that my first wife who divorced me mainly because I would not tow the line to the religion I had fallen for earlier in life is on her death ...
3 years ago
TBR

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

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

post - Originally posted by *sepiachord* at post sepiachord sepiachord.comSource: Best Steampunk Bands on Ranker http://www.sepiachord.com/index/best-steampunk-ba...
3 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,...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Cavalcade of Perversions

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3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Ivory Underworld

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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4 years ago
Frog God Games - Tsathogga's Blog

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

The Invention of the Gamemaster - I personally feel that the greatest contribution made by Gary Gygax et al is the *idea* of tabletop role-playing, and not specifically the core structure o...
4 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...
4 years ago
Amber Benson's Official Blog

You Broke Me A Little Bit - We repeat patterns. We get those old neural pathways ingrained in our grey matter and the synapses just keep firing over and over again, sending us down th...
4 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 ...
4 years ago
Vibrant Oxymoron - An Obsessive Society

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4 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

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5 years ago
Bad Librarianship Now!

Worra beauty -
5 years ago
Dangerous Games

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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6 years ago
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements

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

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

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

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

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8 years ago
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