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Another way for Udemy to screw things up - Udemy now expires all free coupons older than 30 days. This is to prevent "coupon abuse", though they don't say what that actually is. It's in Udemy's inte...
2 hours ago
Monster Island News

The Four Faces Of Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Tom Baker...
2 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Viva El Kabong! - https://robojapan.blogspot.com/2019/06/retro-saturday-morning-quick-draw.html
3 hours ago
Points of Light

Free RPG Day Discounts - As per usual I dropped the ball on making something specific for Free RPG Day, but to support it in *some* way we've marked down all our stuff on DriveThru...
5 hours ago
In Places Deep

Tales from the Cutthroat Inn: Death of the Black Spider! - *Creepy crawly!* *Session Date* 14th and 15th Days of Midsummer's Eve, 4500 CCC (June 14th) *Characters Present* Annapurna, Altanian Ranger Red Hawk, Alta...
5 hours ago
False Machine

Gackling Moon - At the ends of the understood earth, trapped between contending seas, crazed with fractured realities and bathed in the glow of a mad satellite, itself ...
5 hours ago
HeroPress

#RPG Yora Aims To Blend Digitial And Tabletop Gaming Into One Experience... - A cold press release email arrived the other day, and almost went straight in the bin because I took it to be for a computer game... but then I played the ...
6 hours ago
A character for every game

The Tomb of Za’az - Designed after multiple iterations and revisions over weeks of painstaking design by the magus Braincain007 in the land of Reddit, … Continue reading →
7 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Free RPG Day and Captain Picard Day! - Get out there and game! Yes, I know it's tomorrow, but I had to share the video...
8 hours ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

Qucikly, Quicky, Quickly ...oh blast just post you plonk. - Another bit of yeh old pickies to show here *They took my name off the bastards, oh and never returned what was in fact only a loan * ...
10 hours ago
Rended Press

Leaving Dropbox - Dropbox has recently made changes to their app & free-tier service offerings which make it unusable for me to reliably sync files I offer on this blog. I n...
10 hours ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Hello.. - been a Hell of a Week.... Just starting a fresh pot of coffee.... the attack upon my brother (by his Boss)... was less than a week ago .... Father's Day i...
11 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Droned to Failure - The latest scenario The Cthulhu Hack from Just Crunch Games is *Valkyrie Nine*. The winner of both the *UK Games Expo 2019 Best Roleplaying Adventure* and...
15 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Krypto #181: Valor's Friend - *From: *Superman #694-695, 697, 699 (January to June 2010) In the post-Infinite Crisis continuity, Krypto once again came to Clark when he was a boy, and ...
17 hours ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Gone missing in Arden Vul? - I've just finished laying out Level 7 and am on to Level 8. We're currently at 520 pages and counting! Here's a preview of one of the Adventure Hooks - Res...
19 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Shudder Saturday: Boar (2017) - What is it about killer pig movies? Why do people keep trying to make them when most of them end up not being very good? I've sat through *Pig Hunt*, *Prey...
19 hours ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Game Prep for Tomorrow Night! Plus, Some Forgotten Realms 5e Modules You May Not Have Heard Of - Hi Guys. Thanks for all the warm wishes on my 50th! Talking about game prep and some older 5e compatible FR modules you may not know about. Enjoy!
22 hours ago
Servitor Ludi

Noctology - Okay, I know the worst thing you can hear from someone is *"Hey, let me tell you about this dream I had last night."* But in this case, I hope you'll indu...
22 hours ago
Quest for Fun!

The Talk - If I had to give a presentation to a class about my job, my profession, my possibly foolish choice of becoming a small business owner, my main concern is t...
1 day ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

Night Owl - Is there a genre for gory bowling themed horror? Well, there is now! Originally presented in the July 1954 issue of *Horrific #6*, (art by *Marty Elkin*), ...
1 day ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Printer's Proofs Are In! - Prepress versions of #Calidar's new gazetteer *"On Wings of Darkness"* have come in, along with its players' guide. Check out the short video presentation ...
1 day ago
Bat in the Attic

Harnmanor PDF on sale for 99 cents! - Back when I started out playing RPGs in 1978, I appreciated Traveller's trade rules. It got a lot done with a simple and elegant design.It had details but...
1 day ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Zak S Sues Mandy in Canadian Court for Defamation - Probably Because Its Much Easier for the Plaintiff to Get a Favorable Ruling (not enforceable in the US) - Earlier this week Zak S posted on one of his blogs - https://officialzsannouncements.blogspot.com/2019/06/im-suing.html - that he was suing Mandy for defa...
1 day ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

End-of-Week Fabian (6/14/19): Laurana Slays Feal-Thas with the Frostreaver -
1 day ago
All Games Considered

Armor Goes Clank 007 June 14, 2019 (You Know Nothing John Carter) (1:01:58) - Mark and Brian talk about the gaming possibilities of one of the many Mars-based films that came out in 2012, clones go to Al Amarja, and we meet a real-l...
1 day ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Event Leviathan #1 - You know that I am intrigued by a book when it grabs the Friday review slot the week a Supergirl book hit the stands. *Event Leviathan #1* came out this ...
1 day ago
MINION FACTORY

Turtle Soup is On The Menu! - NEW YORK MENACE NEW YORK MENACE
1 day ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Unseemly Conduct and Evil in Games - Recently had a player interested in joining my group but asked if there was any horror or anything unpleasant in my ga...
1 day ago
SciFiChick.com

Book Giveaway: Black Harvest - Courtesy of Pyr, I have a copy of Black Harvest by M. C. Planck for one lucky winner! Contest is open to US residents only. No PO Boxes please. To enter, j...
1 day ago
Fabled Lands

Midnight on the Day of Judgement - "Don't talk to me about spoilers. Winter has been coming for -- " Oh, well maybe I shouldn't go quoting the Axis of Awesome. Not on a family blog, eh? The ...
1 day ago
Written In Blood

Book Deals and Freebies for Mid-June - *Review Copies Available* I've added A.S.S.E.T. Book 2 to the new review list on Story Origin. If you'd like to be added to that list and read the book for...
1 day ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

Sassing Saul Blurb Blitz - *Blurb:* Annie used to believe in all that happily ever after crap, until the day she found out her Prince Charming husband was a conman with a wandering ...
1 day ago
The Armchair Squid

A Window Above: You'll Be Back - Song: "You'll Be Back" Composer and Lyricist: Lin-Manuel Miranda Musical: *Hamilton: An American Musical* Premier: January 20, 2015, New York I don't real...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Park of Monsters, Lady Detectives, Making a Monster - The Park of Monsters - Bess Lovejoy, *Jstor Daily* Step Aside, Sherlock! Women Were Cracking Cases in Victorian England, Too - Emily Martin, *Bookriot* Ma...
1 day ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep #Epic #Fantasy - *Series: Crown of Shards # 2* *Format: Paperback, 448 pages* *Release Date: July 2, 2019* *Publisher: Harper Voyager* *Source: Publisher* *Genre: Fantasy / ...
1 day ago
My Old-School Renaissance

Monster Manual haiku, batch 4 - *Thought Eater* See my ribs protrude Know why a thought eater starves? You’re no smorgasbord *Triton* All I’m saying is Mermen can’t ride seahorses Except ...
1 day ago
destination unknown

The Secret Lives of Fish: The Wild Eyed Cultists of Pacific Palisades - I can't stand finding this kind of thing in the morning. So disgusting! The beach below Castellammare Street in Pacific Palisades is a veritable freak fes...
2 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Island Campaign - Like I suppose a lot of people do, I have a romantic feeling for islands, particularly small ones. I think this has three roots. First and most obviously, ...
2 days ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Elven Hit Dice - An old topic came up again elsewhere: how do you figure out the hit points of elf characters in *OD&D*? In *Vol. I: Men & Magic*, the description of player...
2 days ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

More on Free RPG Day - Thanks to the good folks at the *Sanctum Secorum podcast*, I will have some additional materials to give away for people who play in my games at the Sword ...
2 days ago
Hill Cantons

And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to indulge m...
2 days ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *CHICAS PIN-UP 2019 (6)PIN-UP GIRLS 2019 (6)*
2 days ago
Stargazer's World

Kickstarter: Children of the Beast - Recently Nicholas Kitts, head of Nexus Shift Games, let us know about the kickstarter for their new tabletop roleplaying game called “Children of the Beast...
2 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Weird Revisited: Waterfront Rogues - *This post originally appeared in 2014. I think I will have to add a few more of these sorts of operators to the environs of Rivertown in the Land of Azurt...
2 days ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Changes in the Anarch and Camarilla Books - As yet another pair of revised PDFs for the Vampire: The Masquerade, 5th Edition sourcebooks Anarch and Camarilla dropped the other day, I found myself won...
2 days ago
herding cats & burning soup

[QuoteTastic] Stitches and Witches (Vampire Knitting Club #2) by Nancy Warren - Another quote that has nothing to do, really, with the book but it just made me chuckle. I understand, Chubby Peacock, I understand. Read more »
2 days ago
Creative Mountain Games

Events & Play Wednesday - Nexus 2019 Wrap-Up! - I had quite a bit of fun at the Nexus Game Fair this year and am glad I took the time off work to go. A lot of folks ask if I ever get burnt out on gaming...
3 days ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Ash Wednesday - Art Break with Simple Interesting Visions - I don't have any new stats for this week, but I do have something Evil Dead related. Check out this amazing painting I bought from my friend Travis of Simp...
3 days ago
deeply shallow

#bookreview: This Green and Pleasant Land | Ayisha Malik - [image: This Green and Pleasant Land]This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik My rating: 4 of 5 stars *This Green and Pleasant Land* is a beautiful tak...
3 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Traps: Are We Thinking About Them Wrong? - Recent discussion on Alexis's Tao of D&D blog seemed to relate to my recent post defending the labyrinthine dungeon layout used in many RPGs and video game...
3 days ago
Spirit of the Blank

[DFAE] Ace Squadron: L'il Tweaks - [image: Related image] So those Ace Squadron games a couple weeks ago went well! But it was also clear that I needed to make some tweaks, much to the appar...
4 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Food and Faith - The importance of food to humans can't be understated. True, man does not live by bread alone, in fact there are two things vastly more important: *air *an...
4 days ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

Planet Eris Gazetteer & World Map - *[CLICK TO EMBIGGEN.]* The *Planet Eris Gazetteer & World Map* are complete. A limited run was sold at *NTRPG Con 2019*, June 5-9 (and the response was f...
4 days ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

BROOKLYN COMIC CON! - Hey gang! This weekend (June 15th & 16th) I'll be at the Brooklyn Comic Con at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint. It looks like it's gonna be a great...
4 days ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Episode 161: Geekerati Returns with a New Format and an Interview with Dom Zook of Saving Throw Show - The Geekerati Podcast was founded in 2007 and streamed 160 episodes before going on hiatus in 2014. It was meant to be a brief hiatus as the Geekerati pane...
5 days ago
Venger's old school gaming blog

Billions Is Better Than Game of Thrones - I know fantasy is kickass. I love elves and dragons and magic just as much as the next D&D geek. But there's something to be said for consistently stron...
5 days ago
Strange Magic

Standardized Skill Checks for Classic D&D - While skills systems for D&D weren't developed in much detail for the earlier editions, there are a few skills checks in B/X Dungeons & Dragons scattered ...
5 days ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Now Available] Advanced Labyrinth Lord Adventure Record Sheets - *Advanced Labyrinth Lord Adventure Record Sheets* By James Mishler 10 pages, PDF, $1.00 *Advanced Labyrinth Lord Adventure Record Sheets* provide players an...
6 days ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[Now Available] Advanced Labyrinth Lord Adventure Record Sheets - *Advanced Labyrinth Lord Adventure Record Sheets* By James Mishler 10 pages, PDF, $1.00 *Advanced Labyrinth Lord Adventure Record Sheets* provide players an...
6 days ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Some Recent D&D Thoughts - I am thinking a lot lately about D&D. What I like about it, and what I don't. Me being me, this means old school D&D (or it's clones). I have been giving ...
6 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

The Incredible Hulk (2008) - *Iron Man *did a number of things. It set up an entire universe (whether that was intentional, or largely just to set up a future Avengers movie and hav...
6 days ago
Thoul's Paradise

Adventures in the 4th Dimension - *Art by Jim Holloway* *TRAVEL* to any place, any time, in this universe and beyond! *FIGHT* in the midst of any battle, and change the outcome yourself! *...
6 days ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Survive This!! Vigilante City - I'm way behind on blogging, due to real life stuff. Awhile back I failed to mention, that I recently received the books from a kickstarter I backed. *Surviv...
6 days ago
The Wasted Lands

Now on Kickstarter! Amazing Adventures 5e! - Hey, all, my newest project is now on Kickstarter: Amazing Adventures 5e! We funded in just two hours, and in 6 days we've smashed through 7 stretch goals,...
6 days ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

(Rise and Decline of) The Third Reich - The full title of this post belongs to a legendary *board wargame* of World War 2 in Europe, published by Avalon Hill in 1974. I owned it, and played it so...
6 days ago
Erotiterrorist

Fiction: Data Jacker - Explorer’s Log: I have completed my journey to the star system designated “Damn, I wish I Was the Queen’s Lover” by Royal Astronomers. Information provided...
1 week ago
I Fly By Night

The New Military - For In Harm's Way - StarCluster 4, we have re-imagined the military from the ground up. AS Klaxon said, "with space travel, the Space Navy will eventually ...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

A new Mythras Companion and a future Lyonesse scenario - A new thing for *Mythras*! It’s the *Mythras Companion*. Here is the description from the good folks at the Design Mechanism: A compilation of additional...
1 week ago
The Troll Dens

The Mariner's Ship - Little remained of the mariner's ship. The surf and time had ground much of it away. But still, lying there in ruin, it captured the evening's light, cuppi...
1 week ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Weird Coincidences: A Game with Thrones - I haven't written anything in a long time, but I found this interesting. First off, here's an illustration I did for Secret Santicore 2013: Okay? So here'...
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

The Blackmoor MMRPG Finale Released! - Its been a long journey, but the final episode of the Blackmoor MMRPG has now been released at The Comeback Inn. We have been fortunate enough to be allow...
1 week ago
Tower of Zenopus

Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero's Handbook - The short version: this is a lot like the recent "Beginner Box" products from some other RPGs without the box but with a little more long-term utility. ...
1 week ago
Quag Keep

Runequest - Trolls and Trollkin - *From the back cover:* *"Stroll in boldly and back out fighting! Who could have imagined such a hornet's nest? TROLLS & TROLLKIN is a collection of ...
1 week ago
Realms of Chirak

Film Review - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (channeling the 8 year old spirit in us all) - This review can be mercifully short: Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a fun and brainless summer blockbuster. If you have kids this movie is going to be...
2 weeks ago
[Retro-Z]

Space, I am right? - -------------------------------- ------------------------- I am everywhere: *TWITTER*, *FACEBOOK*, *HWR: SIX STRINGS MAGAZINE* and *HBA [HORROR SITES]*. La...
2 weeks ago
The Spirits of Eden

The Children’s War (79.1) - 15th of the Postill’s Dew, 2031 D.C.E. Nocht Federation — Republic of Rhinea, Citadel Nocht “Tell me the boring stuff first, before you lose my attention.”...
2 weeks ago
Age of Ravens

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

Wednesday Whittleings - Splash Down! - Wednesdays are my day to randomly babble. Sometimes about children's books, others about writing, and whatever else strikes my mind. Random thoughts...r...
2 weeks ago
EXONAUTS!

Adventures in the Cave of Wonders! - Friday, I took the Geeklet to see the new Aladdin film, expecting it to be passable. But WHOA was I wrong--it's awesome! Disney did a great job updating t...
2 weeks ago
Back to the Dungeon!

- Tales from the Green Dragon Inn I took the RPG Tinkerage's advice and streamlined the rules to a more...
2 weeks ago
Super-DuperToyBox

More eBay Clearance at the Super-DuperToyBox! - I've been clearing out inventory from the Super-DuperToyBox pretty much continuously since January! Click the eBay Clearance Sale badge at the top of the...
2 weeks ago
Elf Lair Games

NEW RELEASE: Chutzpah! A Certain Je ne Sais Quoi RPG - *Chutzpah!* is the bare-bones role playing game with a certain *je ne sais quoi!* It's a firmly tongue-in-cheek game that nevertheless can handle any ki...
3 weeks ago
Trollsmyth

Retail Déjà Vu - This is going to look familiar to those of you over 30. You may remember when D&D was sold in Sears stores. I actually never got any of my stuff from Sear...
3 weeks ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

Tales To Flabbergast Presents... THE CONFOUNDING CAPZARRO!!! - *CAPZARRO* *STATISTICS* *F RM (30)* *A EX (20)* *S IN (40)* *E AM (50)* *R PR (4)* *I ...
3 weeks ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

#AprilTTRPGmaker Day 10 How Are Your Games Dismantling Colonialism? - How are your games dismantling colonialism? I'm not doing it deliberately, I can tell you that much. "Colonialism" wasn't a thought in my mind when I desi...
3 weeks ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: CASTLE GREYFALKUN™ UPDATE - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: CASTLE GREYFALKUN™ UPDATE: Castle Greyfalkun™ Organization © 1973-2019. Robert J. Kuntz. All Rights Reserved. North 2 ...
3 weeks ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

CASTLE GREYFALKUN™ UPDATE - *Castle Greyfalkun™ Organization* *© 1973-2019. Robert J. Kuntz. All Rights Reserved.* *North 2** Mordenkaine's Menagerie* *North 3** The Terrible Tunnels...
3 weeks ago
Back to the Keep

I'm still here - It's been a while since I posted, so here's a little update on what I've been doing. I've run a few more sessions of my Labyrinth Lord game. I need to get ...
3 weeks ago
Wild West History

My Stolen Blog - Well, it is official. My entire blog was stolen by someone else who took every post I've written over the past ten years, transferred each post--personal s...
3 weeks ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Entombed - Chris McGillAnd like that, the pocketbook Frostcrawl guide is gone for now. I may offer a different version sometime in the future but for now, you can ...
3 weeks ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Batgirl - *Batman #71* *"The Fall and the Fallen" Part II* *Artwork by Mikel Janin* *Colors by Jordie Bellaire*
3 weeks ago
Loudwater

T1/M6 1491 DR session 5 RL5 - Feathergale Spire xp 25+6=31 - Feathergale HallPCS go to deliver 4 Believers to Feathergale Spire, defeat attack by 3 wind cultists, meet the Feathergale Knights and their commander Thu...
3 weeks ago
Krell Laboratories

Adding Color to the Sky - [image: Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Fast Color] *"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."--Ra...
4 weeks ago
Cross Planes

Dungeons & Dragons Stranger Things Box - Tonight, my buddy AJ was the DM for the DnD Stranger things Box. AJ did a great job, but what bothered me is that the adventure in the box wasn't very s...
4 weeks ago
Genius Loci

Map Friday - Featuring MapForge - With the fever behind me I now find myself on the cusp of the weekend, that time when family and real world needs take precedence over the more ephemeral a...
4 weeks ago
A Storybook World

Ghost Moon: The Wolfborne Saga Book 4 by Cheree Alsop - Ghost Moon: The Wolfborne Saga Book 4 by Cheree Alsop Amazon Global: smarturl.it/dvzuqs Zev has been given a new start in life, but cleanup after the eart...
4 weeks ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Red Sonja Birth of a She Devil, SubaComic Exclusive - SubaComic in the UK has gotten themselves an exclusive cover for the upcoming Birth of a She Devil mini series, available here https://www.redhotcomics.c...
4 weeks ago
The Warrior Muse

Writers Behaving Badly: Top Ten Alternatives - I've written about misbehaving writers in the past, but they've been rearing their ugly heads a lot lately. These days, being a writer doesn't get to be a ...
4 weeks ago
SWORD & SHIELD

FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HEREFrostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I put...
4 weeks ago
World of Ortix

[whY] The Shards - 1. All Shards revolve around some kind of central location, a place where immense power can be found. 2. Not all Shards are inhabited - condition...
5 weeks ago
The Ongoing Campaign

My Gaming Life, An Update And A List - My campaign of GURPS set in my own world of the Deindustrial Future is winding to a close. I have committed to running another GURPS game after that, this...
5 weeks ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Adventure Recaps: World of Samoth - 2014 - April 2019 - It's been a long time since I've posted any recaps from my long-running *World of Samoth* game. We've had quite a few hiatus periods for some long stretch...
5 weeks ago
GRUBB STREET

Play: Musical Number - *Nina Simone: Four Women* by Christina Ham, Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton. Seattle Rep through June 2. Every year the Rep throws into its mix a music...
5 weeks ago
Fantasy Ink

Michael Kaluta and House of Mystery, 1972-1973 - Michael Kaluta did many fantastic covers for *House of Mystery* and other DC mystery titles. Here's some House of Mystery covers from early in his DC care...
5 weeks ago
Dorkland!

The Patronage Of Paranormal Friction - You may or may not know, but I have launched a Patreon page. The reason for it is to help with funding the development of my paranormal fiction inspired an...
1 month ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Wigurd's Tragic Fall (LSotN Play Report, updated) - *Third post in April. BAMMM! There is a twist in the rules for Lost Songs of the Nibelungs where characters, true to the classic inspiration, can meet "an ...
1 month ago
Rather Gamey

. . . Aaand an Experiment with Color Copics -
1 month ago
STUFFER SHACK

Game Master and Player Disagree – Now What? - I’ve been into RPGs for a while now, and I’ve enjoyed both playing in and running the game. I guess I’d split running vs. playing as 50/50, so I’ve had my ...
1 month ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Monster from Lake Tagua (South American School, 18th Century) - [image: Monster from Lake Tagua, 18th C] Artwork found at Christies.
1 month ago
Hit Adjacent Ally

Bestiary By Kids For Kids... Mostly - I once ran a game of Dagger (kid-friendly OSR clone compatible with most old rules) for my kids. They still remember it. Thinking back on that gave me an i...
1 month ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Lycanthropy for Fun and Profit! - Due to the Passover holiday, we had 13 gamers turn up for game night, including 8 kids(my daughter included). We decided to "split the party" and run an ad...
1 month ago
OEF

Read Wormy from First to Last - Happy Birthday Dave Trampier! Dave and I have something in common, we share the same birthdate. I was reminiscing about the Wormy comic strip and found thi...
1 month ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video - A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We miss you! To view video, click here Memorial Video Note - The original video...
1 month ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Thinking out loud about Procedural Generation - DunGen has been around awhile now. The theming tags are a success in making the kind of rooms & monsters used make sense together when applied, but the ran...
1 month ago
Toyriffic

Fisher-Price Little People Sesame Street SCORE! - I scored so incredibly big time last weekend at the flea market, coming home with all the Sesame Street Fisher-Price Little People stuff you see here for ...
1 month ago
The Savage AfterWorld

"Unskilled" Skill Attempts In Cryptworld/Timemaster/Rotworld - So you're playing Cryptworld (or Timemaster or Majus or Rotworld -- any of the Pacesetter-brand RPGs) and you want to perform an action you're unskilled at...
2 months ago
Dynasty Zero

Spring Break - Last week was spring break for my boys so we decided to head south and visit Portland, OR. Specifically, Powell's Books and Guardian Games. Now, we've be...
2 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Thoughts on Arneson's "Armor class" - He said it lots of times, like this: " I adopted the rules I'd done earlier for a Civil War game called Ironclads that had hit points and armor class. It m...
2 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

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

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

OWB Air War: The Mighty Mitchell B-25 - Had a request for the B-25. I was going to just edit it into the post here but I found it to be a fascinating plane and the more I dug into it the more pic...
2 months ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

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

Session 4: Into the Wolf Creek Ruins - Session 4 is in the books. This is the first session with @erik tenkar and @Jason Hobbs, along with @Joethelawyer and @Matt Jackson. The party is unravelin...
2 months ago
The Grand Tapestry

The New Zoo Crew (2?) - 1 Swamp 'Troglodyte' Wetlander Scout 1 Cephalomalian Wetlander Psion 1 Skyger Technician There appears to be a burgeoning land-grab on ___-Beta, a Warm Ter...
2 months ago
Forgotten Runes

Garycon report - Hitched a ride with a couple of friends from the grognards podcast up to Garycon Last week. We ended up off-site at one of the myriad one-star motels that ...
2 months ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

#FuckYeahSuedeBikini Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity - I used to have "Fuck Yeah, Suede Bikini" on Tumblr, but then gave Tumblr up. I miss this one, and may just start reposting here as though it were Tumblr. T...
2 months ago
Armchair Gamer

Gaming with the Kid: Fighting Crime Trying To Save The World (part 1) - I truly enjoy the SuperTeam Family blog. The Powerpuff Girls, it turns out, aren't a pure rip-off of the Kryptonian power set. Each of the girls have their...
2 months ago
Troll and Flame

3/15 Friday Trivia Travisty - A question a week, answer the following week, until I get bored or forget. All questions from the 2ed AD&D *Players Handbook*, *Dungeon Masters Guide*, ...
3 months ago
ABRAXAS

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

A Pipeful Of Trouble Adventure By Bret James Stewart From D-oom Products For Labyrinth Lord Or Your Old School Campaigns - "All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves a...
3 months ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Deconstruction of the game Shogun/Samurai Swords/Ikusa - A common occurrence in video gaming is the “deconstruction” of a game, an attempt to describe how the design works, perhaps what it derives from. While I s...
3 months ago
Middenmurk

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

Our First Kickstarter! - Support the Kickstarter here!
3 months ago
A Life Full of Adventure

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

Blogomancy - Arise, oh blog of mine! Come forth from the depths of obscurity and become my geeky voice once more! Ok, let’s see if it sticks this time. I’m hoping to ma...
3 months ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Over at Strange Vistas - I checked the stats, and my last post telling people I moved has gotten over 120 views, while at the new blog I'm lucky to get single digits. So what have...
3 months ago
House of Self-Indulgence

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

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

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

Howlin' Wolf Records: "DJINN" music by BC Smith [Limited Pressing of 250 Cd's] - *Available as a limited pressing of 250 CDs, Howlin' Wolf Records proudly present BC Smith's score for DJINN. Juxtaposed against these vividly jagged ...
4 months ago
Under Siege

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

Gervan, Sorcerer - [image: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/833940055972909486/] *Gervan* *Level 3 Sorcerer* *Hit Points*: 9 *Willpower*: 5 *AC*: 15 *Attack*: 1 *Flaw*: ...
4 months ago
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things

Book Review -- Mechwarrior Dark Age: Pandora's Gambit - [image: Pandora's Gambit]Pandora's Gambit by Randall N. Bills My rating: 3 of 5 stars A short review of this one. Like a lot of genre fiction, this one just...
4 months ago
Kaijuville

Happy 113th Birthday, Robert E. Howard - Today marks the 113th 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
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

Splitting This Blog in Twain: New Gates & Glamours Blog - I noticed that most of my posts on this blog the past few years have been announcing new games I’m working on, games I’ve completed, games on sale over at ...
4 months ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Maps and Mapping Stuff, aka the hexcrawl writing game - I've finally done the thing I've been meaning to do for decades, which is assign a functional scale to the Shadowend map. I did this to break it into a hex...
4 months 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...
4 months 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...
4 months 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 months 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...
5 months 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 ...
5 months ago
Robert Atkins Art

Work Files - Character Design - Spider-Gwen
5 months 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 ...
5 months 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. ...
5 months 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...
5 months 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 ...
5 months ago
Mythmere's Blog

Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not doin...
6 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...
6 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
9 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....
9 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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, ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
1 year ago
the musings of huginn and muninn

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

Zordon N. 38: Terzo Millennio (Third Millennium), published in October, 1976 - Remember Vursals, the mind-controlling winged space lions? Well, after conquering the home planet of the peaceful Dikters, they ate so much Dikter flesh ...
1 year ago
Sword+1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
1 year ago
The Book of Worlds

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

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

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

Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...
1 year ago
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...
1 year ago
Steve's Gamer Blog

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

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

Uleiul de cocos bio folosit atat in alimentatie cat si in cosmetica - Unul dintre cele mai bune ingrediente pe care le puteti folosi atat in alimentatie, cat si in cosmetica, este uleiul de cocos bio. Cu nenumarate beneficii,...
1 year ago
The Lands of Ara

Harbinger - Since I last checked in I have played some *Labyrinth Lord* off and on, but not for quite awhile, and my online group has basically fizzled out -- the cam...
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 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
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! -
2 years ago
A Return to the Keep

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2 years ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

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

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

5 on Friday -- Set 316 - Spinning Friday tunes since 2010... Although I started this year's April *A to Z Blog Challenge* with a strong opening week, I'm also continuing to ret...
3 years ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...
3 years ago
Dungeon's Master

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
4 years ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

I'm a Sucker for Battlemats, so I had to Share this Kickstarter - Figured I'd dust off the ol' blog to share this... I'm a sucker for a good battlemat... (just take a gander at these posts: link). I recently relocated an...
4 years ago
Sassy Vixen Publishing LLC

We've Moved to Our Website and Tumblr - *As always, welcome to the Sassy Vixen blog. As you can see by the photo, we've decided to move to the blog on our website and those on Tumblr. This was...
4 years ago
Land of Phantoms

Back on the Rack - It's been a long time. But I'm still here. Still working on stuff. Over the last few months, here's what I've been up to. I took a brief hiatus around the ...
4 years ago
Twisting Minds One Word At A Time...

Crazy Four Books : Review ~ Sweetest Temptations by J.C. Valentine - Crazy Four Books : Review ~ Sweetest Temptations by J.C. Valentine: Synopsis From USA Today Bestselling Author J.C. Valentine comes a sizzling story ab...
4 years ago
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
4 years ago
Ramblings of Sheldon

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

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The RPG Corner

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Design du Jour

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Bad Librarianship Now!

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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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