The Other Side blog: May 2007

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Musical Monday: Time to Change the World (Daniel Rojas) -
7 minutes ago
Tower of the Archmage

Agranzarax from #ReaperMini Bones V - Friday the 16th my Bones V shipment arrived. Friday the 23rd I took the day off and painted my first mini from the set - Agranzarax the black dragon! dr...
1 hour ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Justice League #65 - *Justice League #65* was released last week and as it has a strong crossover feel with Checkmate. That makes me happy. The book basically has two plots r...
2 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Jonstown Jottings #45: Night in the Meadow and other Spirit Encounters - Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made content, but for m...
3 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

On Fantasy Naming - Since I read Lin Carter's worldbuilding advice in *Imaginary Worlds*, at least, I've had an interest in names and neologisms in settings. I certainly hav...
3 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

RPG Talk: Building the Campaign Soundtrack - *Category:* Music *Last article published:* 29 April 2021 *This is the **73rd** post under this label* I've found a lot of joy creating soundtracks for my ...
5 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number.

Mubi Monday: Nadia, Butterfly (2020) - As Mark Kermode, eminent UK film critic and long-running champion of *The Exorcist*, is prone to tell/remind us, in his view, *Jaws* is a classic film th...
9 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

Star Wars Comics: Crimson Empire #2-3, X-Wing Rogue Squadron #27, Shadows of the Empire - Evolution #1 - *Crimson Empire* is a strong series so far. It appeals to me for much the same reason *Rogue Squadron* does: it offers the perspective of a military grunt...
9 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Savage Bounty by Matt Wallace #Fantasy - *Series:* * Savage Rebellion # 1Format: Paperback, 400 pagesRelease Date: July 20, 2021Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press Source: PublisherGenre: Fantasy...
10 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft: Creating Domains of Dread - Now that I've made posts covering all of the domains in *Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft*, I want to do a brief overview and review of the rest of the b...
11 hours ago
Cross Planes

World of Warcraft: Tauren Origin for Worlds Without Number - Art by Rogier van de Beek *Tauren* *Level 1* They gain a +1 to their Constitution or Strength Modifier up to a maximum of +3, their maximum Syste...
13 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Dissing the Call of Cthulu Quick Start Rules.....for a Purpose - [image: Dissing the Call of Cthulu Quick Start Rules.....for a Purpose] Today the podcast I helped with dropped, and while I'm not above self-promotion,...
14 hours ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Bella Donna Turns 40 This Year - I loved her and this album for decades. I wore out many copies in College and University.
16 hours ago
The Spirits of Eden

Pursuers In The Deep [7.3] - An hour after meeting with her personnel leaders, Norn finally saw with her own eyes the gravestone-like block of metal that was Ajillo substation. Jutting...
17 hours ago
GRUBB STREET

Political Desk Pop-Up: Primary - Yeah, we've got a strong sense of voting exhaustion. It seems like we just HAD a major election, and people are still whinging about THAT one. And it is ...
18 hours ago
A character for every game

Shadows of the Ruinous Powers – Session 68 - (Being a series of quick game notes trying to account for the events of many sessions of playing through The … Continue reading →
20 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Psychon Gods Oaths - *Post Apoc Cults* Gifts are more technological and related to AI gods technical speciality. Some of the oaths are stranger, their origin stories are less ...
21 hours ago
Quag Keep

Volo's Guide To All Things Magical -
23 hours ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Obscure Adventure Review: Desert Plots - Amazon Mutual #2, Desert Plots Mary Ezzell (The Dragon Tree, 1983) The Dragon Tree was part of the flourishing horde of low-budget D&D-compatible publish...
1 day ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Succubus Sunday - I love the plus-sized succubus artwork by Puerto Rican artist, Munrou.
1 day ago
Points of Light

Making Bad Characters Isn't Inherently Good (or a Substitute for Personality) - *Really quick: if you want something similar to Dungeons & Dragons, but which focuses on fun, usability, and quality—yet isn't grossly overpriced—as oppo...
1 day ago
False Machine

Her Grace of Wyrms - I am moving house soon and the heat is driving me mental so posting will be slow. Here is some more development on the Queen Mab project with Alcopopstar w...
1 day ago
The Troll Dens

Opposed Roles in Roleplaying Games - I love opposed rolls in roleplaying games. I’ll use OPRO (Opra is taken) as an acronym because I can guarantee you, I will tire of writing ‘opposed roll’...
2 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

The African Queen (1951) - Only John Huston could have convinced a major movie studio to let him film on location in Africa in 1951, despite all the logistical problems. Having H...
2 days ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

Why I (usually) oppose RPG design intentions - I can't find it for the life of me, but in one of the Mage the Ascension books (the Revised Era of the late 90's, not the M20 stuff), there was a gre...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Into The Borderlands - Digging through old podcasts, blog posts, and reviews is (for me) a bit like prospecting for precious metals: most of what I find is frustrating (either em...
2 days ago
SciFiChick.com

Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares – Book Giveaway! - Courtesy of Disney Hyperion, I have a copy of Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares by Tehlor Mejia for one lucky winner! Contest is open to US resid...
3 days ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Simpler Treasure Codes - So, I did all that stuff about mnemonic treasure codes, and then I decided there was a way to make the mnemonics much easier to read and more compact: (1...
3 days ago
MINION FACTORY

Hang Ten! - BATGIRL Some old school superhero action that is sorely needed today.
3 days ago
Erotiterrorist

Have You Listened to God is an Astronaut? - God is an Astronaut is the name of an Irish post-rock band. Now, I have no idea what post-rock means but the band itself creates entire albums of sweeping ...
3 days ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

[Fan Film Friday] Fallout: Diaries Fan-Film -
3 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Masters of the WWE Mr. T - I don't normally contribute to the economy of eBay action figure scalpers, but the distribution of both the MOTU Origins and Masters of the WWE action f...
3 days ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

OPEN GAME CONTENT: NORSE SUBCLASSES FOR FANTASY RPGS - Hervor Dying After the Battle of the Goths and Huns, by Peter Nicolai Arbo is in the Public Domain via Wikimedia CommonsThis is another entry in a series...
3 days ago
Fabled Lands

Manners maketh man - *“It was their pity Driss hated. They seemed not to be aware that he could destroy them at any moment he chose. Destroy them and loot the little safe in ...
3 days ago
Realms of Chirak

Return to Live Gaming Part II - D&D 5E Returns (some re-impressions) - Our second week of gaming has resumed in the live venue, which has by coincidence been an awfully nice and quiet place to game on Tuesday nights, shared...
3 days ago
A Storybook World

Your Next Level Life by Karen Arrington - *Book Summary* If you’re a Black woman in business and feeling stuck or trapped by other people’s expectations of what you can achieve, it’s time to st...
4 days ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

A wish that may be coming back to haunt me - Back in 2016, while reviewing the dismal *SWORDS OF SORROW* event, I expressed the wish that Italian artist Mirka Andolfo could one day secure at leat a ...
4 days ago
deeply shallow

#bookreview: Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa | Daryl Kho - [image: Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa]Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa by Daryl Kho My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don't recall how I stumbled upon t...
5 days ago
Trollsmyth

Neo-classical Gaming Revisited - It’s been a while since I’ve discussed neo-classical gaming. The basic idea is made up of two components: 1. - The core activity of playing g...
5 days ago
Thac0 forever!

Cooking Part 1: Hunger - For this system I am using the Fatigue system from Combat & Tactics/Spells & Magic and the starvation system from Wilderness Survival Guide. Every character...
5 days ago
Monster Island News

Vampirella #25 Arrives This October With Wedding Bells! - From Dynamite Entertainment Yes, you read that right. Not a fake out, not a dream - Vampirella's 50th anniversary series is coming up on a massive celebr...
6 days ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Urban Legend - *Batman: Urban Legends #8* *(October, 2021)* *Cover by Colleen Doran* "Fear State" Tie-In. Someone has hacked into the Oracle Network and has started spre...
6 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Sexing Up Language - Patrick S, the False Machine, made me think about languages in RPGs. This is one of those areas, I feel (like underwater adventuring and flying combat) w...
6 days ago
Bat in the Attic

The popularity of tabletop roleplaying and explosive growth in digital sales. Interesting DrivethruRPG numbers yet again. - So recently I visited a Barnes and Nobles for the first time in forever. While looking through the store I came across this. and in a bit of a surpris...
1 week ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

New Project? - Right before bed last night, I had an idea. It may be a dumb one. We'll see. I've spent the past year or so tinkering with my Treasures, Serpents and ...
1 week ago
A Very Creepy Blog

Highlights of Warren Publishing (Part 4) - Today I cover three separate stories from Jose Bea. Bea provided among the most bizarre stories and artwork that Warren would feature in its magazines, a...
1 week ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Ø2\\'3|| - A little play-report with notes (Season 1, Episode 1: Deadly Electric Pussy-Cat Fart) - *I had an opportunity to DM *Ø2\\'3||* the other day, first session of a two-session gig (favor for a friend, nice people to game with). Other than havin...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

I cast magic missile - I was walking along Queen Street East in my neighbourhood this morning when I came upon a television or movie crew working outside of a coffee shop. This i...
1 week ago
I Fly By Night

The Court of Worlds Project is Launched - The Court of Worlds project is go for a real start. Research and planning is done, and I am getting down to work! I am releasing it as a toolbox, Tool B...
1 week ago
In Places Deep

A Product Half the Nightwick Regulars worked On - *a portrait of the author('s character)* Michael, better known to Nightwick aficionados as Frederick Bull and those who follow the Tales from the Rattlebo...
1 week ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Louis Moe - Ragnarok, 1898 - [image: Louis Moe - Ragnarok, 1898] - source
1 week ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Deconstructing Diplomacy - (Originally appeared in Diplomacy World #154, the free flagship magazine of the Diplomacy-playing hobby)The following is edited and modified from a transcr...
1 week ago
Elf Lair Games

Coming Soon: The Night Companion for Night Shift: VSW - They Walk Beside You in the Night... *The Night Companion* is the first sourcebook for the Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Role Playing Gam...
1 week ago
The Wasted Lands

Coming Soon: The Night Companion for Night Shift: VSW - They Walk Beside You in the Night... *The Night Companion* is the first sourcebook for the Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Role Playing...
2 weeks ago
The Warrior Muse

Damien Larkin's Release: Blood Red Sand - *Mars will run red with Nazi blood…* After World War Two, Sergeant McCabe knew the British army could send him anywhere. He never imagined facing dow...
2 weeks ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

IG-11 - Sister found out how much the IG-11 cost ... she is upset ... my IG-11 should be here soon ...
2 weeks ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *BOCETOS VARIADOS (16) * *VARIED SKETCHES (16) * Bocetos de "femmes fatale" en mi libreta. "Femmes fatale" sketches from my sketchbooks.
2 weeks ago
herding cats & burning soup

Tasty Delights-- What's Been In My Kitchen Lately - I'm just doing a terrible job of getting blog momentum going other than the odd garden post. Oof! I've been spending my time at the pantry, in the garden. ...
2 weeks ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

On Hiatus... - Dreaming dragon dreams, for a while... back someday, sooner or later...
2 weeks ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

On Hiatus... - Dreaming dragon dreams, for a while... back someday, sooner or later...
2 weeks ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hey, what's going on in here? - It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...
2 weeks ago
Troll and Flame

New B/X Megadungeon Campaign - Got the itch. Starting new OSE (B/X) roll20.com campaign centered on a published megadungeon (being cagey about which cause, I don't know, surprise?). ...
2 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Magic Items From Facebook - Here are three magic items for use in your campaigns, based on images from the Internet (two from Facebook) which I do not own. Enjoy! *Scroll of Bafflem...
3 weeks ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

Elder Scrolls games and Elder Scrolls Online - part 2 - In my last post I described how I was on the search a few months ago for an online multiplayer game to enjoy with my friend "T", from back in my homet...
3 weeks ago
Stargazer's World

Getting Back Into The Game - It has been quite some time since I last posted on this blog. For me writing about the hobby always is easiest when I actually play in or run games. Someth...
3 weeks ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday Special Edition - Halfway through 2021 - It has been a while since I made a 40K post but that doesn't mean I have not been active so I thought I would share some updates. We have played a fe...
3 weeks ago
Thoul's Paradise

Journey to Stonedeep (spoilers) - *Art by Ed Lee* The introductory adventure (or “ready-to-run quest”) provided in 1995's *Everway* Box Set takes up about half of the 64-page *Gamemasteri...
4 weeks ago
Mesmerized by sirens

Fantasy paths (1981) - Three rarities from 1981.
4 weeks ago
The Grand Tapestry

Eve of Eviction? & Other Stuff - [please excuse any typos] OK, so, I am no longer doing parts delivery, left that for a one-week stint working at a gun and pawn store for one dollar more a...
4 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Going Through the Spells: Find Traps - Yeah I went for the obvious, but still funny meme. The next spell up is Find Traps. I think it's a straight forward spell, but let's take a look. *Old Sch...
4 weeks ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Tivoli on Crowdfunding! - The Finnish role-playing game Tivoli is up on the Mesenaatti crowdfunding platform. Written by Kristel Nyberg and illustrated by Ninni Aalto, it’s a Powere...
5 weeks ago
All Games Considered

Armor Goes Clank 028 June 16, 2021 (Cave Cave Cave) (1:05:59) - Two guys walk into a cave...and talk about video games and safety tools. -- Download mp3 (24.4 MB) *Show links* - RPG Safety Toolkit on Twitter ...
5 weeks ago
Back to the Dungeon!

FKR: Free Kreigsspiel: VHS Punk '89 (CORRECTED) - Here is my first big trip inot the FKR land of blog posting. I hope to do it more frequently as the Blogosphere has come back alive once again... Ma...
1 month ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

O.G.R.E. RPG - A rough collection of notes, lists and scribbles of ideas is slowly taking some sort of shape. O.G.R.E. stands for Occultists, Grunts, Rogues and Eccl...
1 month ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

CoC 18: I see SAND PEOPLE! - * Investigators:* - Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast - Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts ...
1 month ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Updated Gnome Class (OSR D&D-BECMI) - *T*he next character class on my update list is the *gnome*. The experimental version I'd posted back in March was a bit controversial. Some readers didn...
1 month ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) Cover reveal! - Heya folks, got a new cover in for Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) and thought I should share.
1 month ago
Quest for Fun!

I'm Successful, Now What? - I've been thinking about a trade show presentation based on the Harvard Business Review article on how successful small businesses eventually reach an i...
1 month ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

I Backed MAZES, and So Should You! - Ever heard of Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying? If not, go check out the Kickstarter for a deluxe hardcover of the game (and much more). This neat little RPG wa...
1 month ago
Lasgunpacker

Weekend Paint Work - On Sunday the wife and kids went with my mother-in-law to Yosemite for the night, leaving me with the dog (and chores). Like an idiot, I thought it woul...
1 month ago
The Cryptic Archivist

Tim Kask's Adventure Gaming Magazine Available in PDF - Adventure Gaming magazine is available on DriveThruRPG! Adventure Gaming, vol. 1, no. 5, November 1981 I've written in the past about Adventure Gaming magaz...
1 month ago
[Retro-Z]

06-06-2021 - *So as the world keeps changing, so do things die and sometimes in a good way. I have a question, I have been designing a great amount of shirt designs ...
1 month ago
Krell Laboratories

A Dragon and His Wrath - [image: Jason Statham in Wrath of Man (2021)] *Thou hadst been better have been born a dogThan answer my waked wrath! * *--Williams Shakespeare, Othello, ...
1 month ago
LotFP: RPG

EU Webstore Shipping Update - The post office raised their rates for parcels going outside of the EU as of May 1, and we had to raise our rates to match. The increase was 66% in some ...
1 month ago
Loudwater

FA1 3/11/1359 Mistwood Mine Monsters (1275 XP) - Simon N. (GM):GM: OK I think you had a short rest end of last session http://frloudwater.blogspot.com/2021/05/fa1-3111359-entering-mistwood-mine-650....
1 month ago
Sword+1

Ten Dead Rats Character Sheet - I have created a quick & dirty character sheet for Ten Dead Rats, it can be downloaded from my sidebar or here.
1 month ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Ten Years Of This Nonsense - I've scheduled this post to go up at 12:01AM my time on the 27th of May, because that is the tenth year that this blog will have been in existence. Unli...
1 month ago
Ruminations of a Geek

Vaccinated Gaming - Well, we're back to playing in person. A couple games of GMT's Apocalypse Road, a couple one on ones of Stargrave, and now a group minis game, a variant ...
2 months ago
Written In Blood

Talking about Free Books - Tim Niederriter invited me on his podcast this week to talk about how to use free books for the best possible reach. Check it out! http://www.timnieder...
2 months ago
World of Ortix

Pain RPG - Untitled -
2 months ago
Kidbits

IWSG Goodness for May! - It's IWSG time!!!! What is that? In the words of the founder, Alex J Cavanaugh, the IWSG is here 'To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts an...
2 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

How Big is Blackmoor? - Surprisingly, nobody really knows. In the *First Fantasy Campaign* Arneson described drawing his first Blackmoor map: * "The basic campaign area reprod...
2 months ago
House of Self-Indulgence

Untamed Cowgirls of the Wild West Part 2: Jammy Glands from the Rio Grande (Rinse Dream, 1993) - Contempt... pure, unadulterated contempt. You can feel it pouring off the screen. If your climax-based discharge resembles molasses, monetize that shit, ...
2 months ago
Armchair Gamer

Running Cyberpunk RED (Dual GM) - This year, a friend and I have been more or less alternating the reins on a Cyberpunk Red campaign.We've been marinating in the various videos online and ...
3 months ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Coming Soon... - Blazing Six-Guns - a cinematic western miniatures game by C. Brackett
3 months ago
Dynasty Zero

Damn Lulu - A while back Lulu updated their website. It was a debacle. I, and I believe others, had their libraries destroyed up. I lost many of the PDFs I had a...
3 months ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

50 Years of Blackmoor! - Today, April 17th 2021 marks the 50 year anniversary of the first official Blackmoor Game session. The session was announced in Dave Arneson's fanzine,...
3 months ago
The House of Little Fears

A New Door is Opening - Head on over to FunSizedGames.com for some exciting news about Little Fears. https://www.funsizedgames.com/2021/04/14/a-new-door-is-opening/
3 months ago
Ellen Dugan's Blog of Witchery

Cake Pops, Charms & Do No Harm is Released! - Good Morning! Book 11 in my Legacy Of Magick series is available TODAY! You can choose either a 315 page paperback for $11.99 or the Kindle for $2.99....
3 months ago
Forgotten Runes

Kickstarter 2021 Update - Once again gentle readers it is time to review my collection of Kickstarters. Although I have tried to cut back once again I find I have signed up for fa...
3 months ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

The Afterlife of the Shadowend - Beings in the Shadowend are composed of three parts: body, or *corpus*; mind, or spirit, called the *essae*; and soul, or *vitae*. The body, the physical...
3 months ago
Strange Magic

The Scurrilous Garden - After switching to digital artwork a few years ago, I've started drawing and writing in notebooks and sketchbooks again. Inspired by Christian's Gath Campa...
4 months ago
Teach Game Design

"Good old Udemy" (not) - Good old Udemy.I was unable to submit tax paperwork because the submission process failed many times over the course of some weeks.Now that I need a 1098/...
4 months ago
Swords Against the Outer Dark

The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
4 months ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

OSR Review & Commentary On Swords and Super-Science of Xuhlan Campaign Setting By Terje Nordin For The Warriors of the Red Planet Rpg - * "Swords and Super-Science of Xuhlan is a campaign setting for use with the Warriors of the Red Planet Roleplaying Game.* *New character races: Mutant, ...
4 months ago
Spirit of the Blank

Remembering Morgan Ellis - I've been trying to write this for the past 10 days, on and off, so stick with me. Morgan Ellis, a good friend of mine, died last week unexpectedly. I s...
4 months ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Okay, this place got a little messed up! - *I need to update the live blog feed below and in my great super-skills deleted it. So I have to fix it, that might take awhile cause I believe you have...
4 months ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
4 months ago
Carjacked Seraphim

My Ideal OSR Campaign Structure/Setting/Settings - Hi there, it's me, back from a long hiatus... Anyway, I had a thought that I might assemble a series of blog posts where I ruminate upon my favorite bi...
4 months ago
STUFFER SHACK

Circle of the Moon Druid Magic Item - Looking to enhance a Circle of the Moon Druid, but having a hard time finding a magic item that can do it? Look no further... The post Circle of the Moon...
5 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

A Game of What-if Pt 1 - It has always been on my mind, the familial bond between Chainmail and D&D. I have always been entranced by the OSR titles that explore that DNA. I have...
5 months ago
Kaijuville

Where the Wheat Grows Tall zine on Kickstarter - *Gaming Zine Quest Kickstarter post #2: * Where the Wheat Grows Tall is an old-school fantasy adventure for low level characters inspired by Slavic myth....
5 months ago
Rended Press

A Surprising Expanded Petty Gods Update - Richard LeBlanc posted this morning that Lulu.com finally responded to his inquiries about why *Expanded Petty Gods *was yanked and his Lulu.com account ...
5 months ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

I moved ages ago, but forgot to tell anyone - I decided to get my own domain name: strangevistas.org and have been posting there for over a year. When Adam at Barking Alien mentioned that he wanted...
5 months ago
Ostensible Cat

Let the Good times roll - a bit of a ramble and Basalt Keep update - So for various reasons, I feel like social media platforms like Facebook, Mewe, Twitter, etc. don't really do it for me when it comes down to really get...
5 months ago
Father Dragon Writes

Grandmother Dragon Forever - It feels like centuries since the last time I wrote something for the Dragon Cave. Only something of great importance would drag me out of my retirement...
5 months ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections - Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game, Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue and The Tom...
6 months ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

How I Started - I skipped a “Year in Review” type post this year, in no small part because 2020 pretty much sucked. I live in NY state, so we were among the first that...
6 months ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! - Today's the day!The day that Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! :D Brought to you by Paolo Greco of Lost Pages (lostpaolo @ Twitter), with lovely art by ...
6 months ago
destination unknown

Legends of Gath #64; T is for Traitor -
6 months ago
Servitor Ludi

Other Fictions: Weird Modes - My new year's resolution for 2021 is to stay adamantly positive about the world. In that vein, I'd like to recommend a few fictional universes for you a...
6 months ago
Robert Atkins Art

Pencil Samples 2020 - Robert Atkins Comic Book Pencil Samples
6 months ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

End of an Era - After some reflection, I have decided to no longer update this blog. I started this blog as an experiment back in June of 2009. I had discovered ...
6 months ago
Dorkland!

Influential Books And Authors - So there's a thing going around about influential writers, and I thought that I would give it a stab. I was going to write this up as a Facebook post, but ...
6 months ago
Genius Loci

[White Star] Race - Husk - White Star Core edition – Military Campaign This race assumes a campaign structure that is primarily human-centric and takes cues from my earlier invol...
6 months ago
A Field Guide To Doomsday

Behold... KRYNNGEENO!!! - This Aetherian Fightin' Feline used to be female. Stuff Happend. Deets to follow.
7 months ago
The Hopeless Gamer

NEW BLOG ALERT - So I'm not sure anyone will be reading this, but I have returned to the world of blogging, this time on a different platform and with a gaming focus muc...
7 months ago
The Savage AfterWorld

Zombies Shuffle Back Home: My Reacquisition Of SPI's Dawn Of The Dead Game - Back in 1980, I was 13 or 14 years old and was just starting to discover what my hobbies and interests were going to be. I liked monster movies, and board ...
7 months ago
Almost Darwyn Cooke's Blog

some snippets from Darwyn's comicbooks - Cal here - Working on sorting through about 200 of Darwyn's old comicbooks. They'll be going up for sale at some point to benefit The Hero Initiative. N...
7 months ago
Wishful Gaming

I keep doing this - Sometime near the end of each year, I open up my blogs and realize I haven't posted in many moons. It's not that I don't have anything to say (in fact, i...
8 months ago
A Paladin In Citadel

NEW Appendix N Video Review Series - Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his inves...
8 months ago
Highmoon's Ponderings

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
8 months ago
Sand Castles and Snow Forts

Prepping for NaNo - It's that time of year, my friends! Have you signed up for NaNoWriMo? It's National Novel Writing Month. If you've never tried it, this is the link to ...
8 months ago
THE HORRORS OF IT ALL

- PLEASE VISIT MY OTHER BLOG *HERE* FOR MORE POSTS --THANK YOU!
9 months ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Forgotten Depths - Dungeon Crawling Tile Action - So it appears that all I do is pimp out Kickstarters on this blog once every eighty years... ... but this one needs some love. Check it out - Forgotten...
10 months ago
Fantasy Ink

Coloring the Bernie Wrightson Coloring Book - This guy is coloring Bernie Wrightson's *Color the Creature* coloring and doing a hell of a job. Here's a link to his web site and some more examples.
10 months ago
Justice League Detroit

2016 Vixen Trailer - DC Remixed by Barnes Bros. TV - With a cameo by Green Arrow Connor Hawke....
10 months ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

Geekerati Reviews: For Coin & Blood 2nd Edition by Gallant Knight Games - In 2018, Gallant Knight Games published a role playing game entitled For Coin & Blood. The game was designed with the intent of capturing the freeform mec...
10 months ago
My Old-School Renaissance

Is there a game I can join? - My Arcanum game has dwindled over several years of play to an annual event, and now three of the four kids who were once its greatest enthusiasts are no...
10 months ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

RPGaDay 2020 # 18 Investigate - The last investigative RPG I ran was called InSpectres. I'm sure I've written about it on the blog before. It's a fun, light little horror comedy game th...
10 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

LOTFP Review: Fermentum Nigrum Dei Sepulti - *A strange stone, tumbling through the void of endless space and into the secret history of the world… the cursed legacy of a doomed witch’s family… a ...
11 months ago
The OSR Library

Still Alive - It's been a crazy year since the last post. I got married last Halloween. Yay! My diabetes kicked my ass. Boo! I've been in physical decline since bef...
11 months ago
OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS

To his friend... - 3 new OVC comics every week, only on my Patreon! Become a Patron!
1 year ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

NTRPG CON XII LIVE BLOG DAY 5.1 - Last game of the con: Mike Kelly's *Traveller - End of the Imperium*.
1 year ago
Ode to Black Dougal

The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon - As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1. This isn't ...
1 year ago
Tankards & Broadswords

The Map for my Current DnD Campaign - So maybe two months ago, when we all realized that lockdown wasn't just going to last a couple of weeks, a number of us agreed to try playing a Dungeons an...
1 year ago
5 Stone Games

So what do you want to play that you haven't played? - My list is pretty short The Fantasy Trip. Its sort of GURPS 1/2 for the uninitiated, simpler but still quite familiar and with its own charms. Werewolf. E...
1 year ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

A Look Inside the New Deadlands Kickstarter - This isn't a normal "Tommy's Take", because I don't have a full book in front of me, but a review copy of the new Deadlands book on Kickstarter right now. ...
1 year ago
People them with Monsters

Character Sheet for 5E - I was up late last night enjoying the quiet in my house and looking for a way to entertain myself. I decided to make this character sheet in Excel that gav...
1 year ago
SWORD & SHIELD

DIE 20! - Blame the stay at home order if you like. Well you cannot blame it for what this is. I guess the social distancing and stay at home order gave me uninter...
1 year ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - All Good Things Must Have a Beginning - It has been quite some time since last I posted here on the blog and a lot has changed. 2019 ended and 2020 began, my 1E AD&D face-to-face campaign came t...
1 year ago
Hill Cantons

The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons - And now the News... In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...
1 year ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Gamma World: Wasteland Weirdos - This post is basically just an image dump to use for ideas for Gamma World....
1 year ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

Hate hijackers ...but here is a couple of new and old pieces - have been inundated by lots of hijackers using my little blog to spew their own agendas - personally, besides saying, 'piss off' they should find there own...
1 year ago
Dyvers

Closing Comments. - Due to the influx of spam comments on Dyvers I am closing the comments. I'm not currently doing anything with this blog, but I don't want to see the commen...
1 year ago
Back to the Keep

Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...
1 year ago
Gaming Ronin

Power 10 for 5E D&D. - As I play more and more fantasy role-playing games, especially D20 variants, I find that some of my favorites are the ones that boil the entire leveling ex...
1 year ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

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

Gen Con 2019 - Pictures and Brief Recap - Last August me and my local gaming pals, Steve Ellis and Matt Ryan, made a road trip to Gen Con. Steve is an artist who does the excellent Only Living Boy ...
1 year ago
Wild West History

Lotta Crabtree, Protege of Lola Montez - [image: Lotta Crabtree.] *Lotta Crabtree. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. I love the contrasts in this photo, the sweet innocence of her expres...
1 year ago
EXONAUTS!

New Year's Day Tradition: Saving the Galaxy! - In what's become a bit of a tradition now around New Year's Day, the Geeklet and returned to Fantasy Flight Games in Roseville to play our homebrew Star Wa...
1 year ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

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

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

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

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

D&D is a game about resources - Sometimes it pretends to be a game about stories, or adventures, but it isn’t. It’s a game about what you have- hit points, weapons, armor, spells, gold, a...
1 year ago
Sharing Links and Wisdom

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

FINAL HOURS on my new Kickstarter. Please pledge! - Well, folks, I'm in the final hours of my Kickstarter and we're about $404 shy of funding. I'm hitting my networks in a last ditch effort to raise that fin...
1 year ago
A Coffee Driven & Adventure Bound Life

Kenali Lebih Dahulu Gejala Asam Urat - Janganlah kira sepele perih sendi yang terjalin dengan cara seketika pada pagi hari. Itu pertanda asam pembuluh, serta Kamu butuh mempersiapkan obat asam p...
1 year ago
Gamers & Grognards

Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
1 year ago
The Freedom of Nonbelief

Another link dump. - People still think that Disney bought tickets for CM. Captain Marvel Release date: Friday, March 8, 2019 Search-string “captain marvel empty theatres” Abou...
1 year ago
Adventures in Nerdliness

Subway Crawl Classics - Preliminary Thoughts - So, Dungeon Crawl Classics is my game these days, and we have been toying with playing the game in non-standard settings, such as the Age of Enlightenment....
1 year ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

Hail Jeff Rients, Howdy Timothy Brannan and Hello Nigeria! - Nearly eight years after last posting, I decided to crank this old Model T up again. Because reasons. What's fascinating to me is how many views I got: a...
1 year ago
She Never Slept

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

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
1 year ago
Toyriffic

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

Lots of Microlite20/74/5e Goodness - I have recently discovered Brian Mathers’ blog, The Gnomish Embassy. Brain’s blog has a large number of posts for Microlite20 in general although his Micro...
2 years 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 years ago
Rather Gamey

. . . Aaand an Experiment with Color Copics -
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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,...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
What Worries Jeff Dee?

Tabletop RPGs offer living, infinite worlds - I enjoy computer RPGs (CRPGs) like Skyrim, but one can't escape their finite maps or even just pick up a grain of sand. Tabletop RPGs (TTRPGs) lack those ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Beholder Pie

Here Be Dungeons 21: Ataaz Muhahah - My final draft design of Ataaz Muhahah - the "Laughing Gorge" - developed for Wizards of the Coast's "Tomb of Annihilation". Oh, how I wish I'd come up wi...
2 years ago
Aggregate Cognizance

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

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

A lighthearted open letter to Greyhawk fans. - Let me start by saying I don't dislike Greyhawk. I play in a current AD&D 2nd ed. game set in that setting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor also, as the settings de...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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 years 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...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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...
3 years ago
The City of Iron

Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to https://necroticgnome.com/blogs/news. This blog will remain indefinitely, but will ...
3 years ago
Fantasy Heartbreaker

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

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

The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...
3 years ago
space1970

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

Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he was...
3 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...
4 years ago
Gorgonmilk

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

- I love that he looks exactly like would would think a young Patton Oswalt looks like.
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Barbaric Frontier

Better pics -
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 years ago
Purple Duck Games

Moving - The Purple Duck Games blog can now be found here.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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?
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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, ...
6 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!
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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....
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 years ago
Cavalcade of Perversions

- Hi!
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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??!!
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 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,...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
8 years ago
Vibrant Oxymoron - An Obsessive Society

Gold Key Star Trek Comic Issue 2 Tyvek Mighty Wallet - A few months ago, I was working at my job when my best friend came over and told me that she had gotten something for me and gave me the most amazing walle...
8 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
8 years ago
Bad Librarianship Now!

Worra beauty -
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
9 years ago
A Pagan Tapestry

Happy Ostara - Ostara is my favorite Sabbat. And I am certainly not the only one (even though my basic practice is rooted in Celtic beliefs with an overlay of Bast). L...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
The Old School Renaissance Group

Good News! The OSR at GenCon Again! - I'm passing along a post by Bill Barsh of Pacesetter Games & Simulations... :-) I would like to announce that for the second straight year, there will be ...
9 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. ...
9 years ago
The Geek Gazette

Quick comic recommendations and reviews - There are a lot of really great comics out there and with the changes at Marvel & DC there is a lot to be excited about for comic book fans. Here are a few ...
9 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 years ago
A Borrowed Book of Charms

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

More Dreaming Games - I'm trying to get this down while the dream is still fresh and has not yet faded, so it won't be very coherent... The dream started in Washington, DC, wher...
11 years ago
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Untimately

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Goblinoid Games

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Pull Up A Toadstool

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Cat Miller Books

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NeoGrognard

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Rebecca's Dystopia

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Old School Random

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RPG Blog II

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Bonnie Rae, Just Words...

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Où Est Mon Dinosaure?

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Bite My Book

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

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