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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Angolstad Cathedral and the Convent of Saint Rivka - Today's post features two dangerous religious sites within Veil. Angolstad Cathedral is inspired by the rumors that circulated about the Knights Templar ...
32 minutes ago
Monster Island News

Nevada Summer Events - Hottest Festivals & Activities | Escape Guide - Nevada is the place to be this summer for non-stop fun, excitement, and one-of-a-kind experiences under the sun. From May through September, the Silver...
2 hours ago
The Grand Tapestry

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4 hours ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Let’s Convert the Monster Manual: Boar, Brain Mole, Brownie, Buffalo, Bugbear, Bulette, and Bull - I’ve been asked to convert the original *Monster Manual* in a manner similar to my conversion of the *Fiend Folio*. I am going to do this a bit different...
5 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Deal of the Day - Formoria: The Dark Age (ShadowDark/System Neutral Setting) - I seem to collect RPG settings. Ever since *AD&D 2e*, with its endless proliferation of settings, it seems like I collect more settings than I'll ever ...
6 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

OSR Commentary - Orbital Decay (MicroRed version) From The Red Room, Red Novanexus, & The New Flesh Rpg Setting - This blog post picks up right from this blog post here. How does one balance Orbital Decay (MicroRed version) From The Red Room, Red Novanexus, & The N...
8 hours ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Quorvoth Unbound exploring the Gardens of Ynn - I’m playing in the wonderfully odd setting of the Gardens of Ynn. We are using a playtest edition of James … Continue reading →
9 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

Grigori Vasilyevich Romanov (1923–1998) - *General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985–1998)* *Chairman of the State Defense Committee (1986–1998*) Grigori Vasilyevich Romano...
10 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog….

[New Magic Item] Dart of Truthfulness - Dart of Truthfulness ‘Ouch!’ Arakam exclaimed as he removed the dart from his arm. ‘What the…?’‘Are you on a mission to rob the tomb of the manticore king?...
11 hours ago
Quag Keep

Thieves' Guild IV (1981) - From the back cover: When the upstart Black Hand organization challenges the Guild's control over the city's thieves, there's action aplenty and danger g...
14 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Hyperion to a Satyr: V.ii. The Readiness Is All - Hyperion to a Satyr - The Fire and Water Podcast Network's Hamlet Podcast - continues Siskoid's scene-by-scene deep dive into Shakespeare's masterwork, di...
17 hours ago
For It Is Man's Number

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) - I have praised the Final Destination movie series before. Even the worst film in the series manages to be average, as opposed to painfully unbearable, an...
21 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

Food Adventures: The Mushroom Forager - The Mushroom Forager is a husband and wife team who lead guided mushroom forays around Vermont. This past weekend, we joined their tour at the Green Mount...
21 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - When We Go Missing by April Henry #YA #Thriller #Suspense - *Series:* * Standalone Format: * *Hardcover, 272 pages Release Date: May 13, 2025 Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books Source: PublisherGenre: Young Adul...
22 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Adventure Seeds for Ethyria - This is a map where I will add rumoured locations for my Ethyria game. I'm using Dungeon Mags, Advanced Adventures Compendium vol1-4, and some old-school...
23 hours ago
CROSS PLANES

Monster Monday: Tonberry for Shadowdark - TONBERRY for Shadowdark Click here for a PDF. “Sneaky beings that slowly creep through the darkness carrying knives and lanterns. Their incessant, i...
1 day ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Music Monday - Kekka Orai - As I’ve mentioned previously I love My Hero Academia: Vigilantes. It was a great manga and season 1 has been fantastic. I’ve had the opening theme “Kekka O...
1 day ago
Realms of Chirak

Narrowing the Game Nights Down - I've been gaming a lot in recent months....too much by a long stretch, as the fun of hanging with friends and supporting my son's desire to run games ov...
1 day ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday - Monday Edition: Death Guard - The Death Guard codex coming out and all the hype around DG being good again did get my attention and inspired me to break out the Plague Marine kits ...
1 day ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Miskatonic Monday #355: The Outbreak 1854 - Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of A...
1 day ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Supergirl #1 References and Homages - I reviewed *Supergirl #1* last week when it came out and I was very impressed with how writer/artist Sophie Campbell created a story of a young hero, fin...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

The Omega Team - Here's an idea for a campaign for an action/covert mission rpg. *Outgunned* is what I'm thinking of, but it would work with something like *Top Secret/S.I...
1 day ago
GRUBB STREET

Recent Arrivals: All This and North Texas, Too! - There has been a slow accretion of new games here on Grubb Street for the past few months. Kickstarters fulfilling. Old games I found at my favorite loc...
1 day ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Monsters in Flying Swordsmen 2E - I've been writing up the monsters for *Flying Swordsmen 2E*. I have around 50 of them (monsters and animals, not stock NPCs) total, and around 20 left to...
2 days ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

The MN Gathering 2025 to take place on Aug 21 - The Minnesota Gathering is a small meeting or micro convention (their term) where friends of Dave Arneson, original Blackmoor players and other gamers ...
3 days ago
World of Ortix

Not So Perfect Invisibility Potions - Yay, Potion of Invisibility! Roll 1d10: 1. Potion works as intended; its user becomes blind for 1d12 minutes after the potion's effect ends. ...
4 days ago
MINION FACTORY

Watching From Behind the Sofa! - BEHIND THE SOFA BTS - WAR MONGERS BTS - SILVER MENACE BTS - DOOM BRINGER BTS - DESTRUCTION WARRIOR BTS - JURASSIC BIPEDS BTS - EV...
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) - *The Return of the Living Dead *turned out to be a surprising cult hit. Written and directed by Dan O'Bannon and based on a story by John A. Russo, one...
4 days ago
Coins and Scrolls

Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz - History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever reason,...
4 days ago
Fabled Lands

"The God in the Bowl" (a scenario of the Hyborian Age or the Selentine Empire) - “The God in the Bowl” is one of Robert E Howard’s classic early Conan adventures – a locked room murder mystery, no less, and with a baroquely fantastical...
5 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Marches pre-launch. - I'm excited to announce that my third Kickstarter launches on Wednesday, May 28th, just two weeks away! Click the link below to get notified when it goes...
5 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Yoon-Suin 2nd edition print release PRE-ORDER - *First there was Yoon-Suin, and it was good* *The Gods of the God River saw it, and saw it was good* *The Yali of the forest danced when they saw it* *...
5 days ago
Krell Laboratories

Hide Me Among the Graves - *"And mother, when the big tears fall, (And fall, God knows, they may) Tell him I died of my great love And my dying heart was gay. And mother dea...
5 days ago
A Storybook World

Spider's Lace - In dawn’s soft hush, the meadow breathes, A silver thread among the leaves. No trumpet sounds, no footsteps tread— Yet there it waits, a woven thread. ...
6 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Between the Ages - Following on from last week, here are some events that might happen between Ages. Other than the inevitable *Roll d66 for each Knight:* 11. You suffere...
6 days ago
False Machine

A Review of MALUSTRIOUS BROOD - A book of monsters, of visions. A 102-page pure art book with “12 iconic monsters from the pastiche swirl of d&d's fantasy pool …. “Gnome, Nereid, Salaman...
1 week ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Black Monastery & Mint Julips - Session 276 was played on 03/23/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 9 (Me) Koltic, ...
1 week ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *PROCESO DE PÁGINA DE GALAXY OF MADNESS #9 * *GALAXY OF MADNESS #9 PAGE WIP* Proceso de página de mi etapa en la serie GALAXY OF MADNESS escrita...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Something Different - Um. I'm going to be focusing my attention elsewhere for a while. Please don't expect much (or any) blogging for the rest of May. [*there will definitely be...
1 week ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Frost Giant Friday - "Frost Giant Centaur Battle" by Akerion - Frost Giant Friday - "Frost Giant Centaur Battle" by Akerion
1 week ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Legends of Dragonore Ignytor - My preorder for this *Legends of Dragonore Ignytor* was finally fulfilled through BBTS recently after months of delay past the initially projected deli...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

OSRIC the Third - The wise sages at Mythmere Games are hard at work on the third version of *OSRIC* (“Old School Reference and Index Compilation”). You can support this proj...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

OSRIC the Third - The wise sages at Mythmere Games are hard at work on the third version of *OSRIC* (“Old School Reference and Index Compilation”). You can support this proj...
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

Isle of Dread - Have you been to Sharks Bay? - Not far from the village of Tanaroa and the great wall there is a bay with narrow beaches that is inhabited by several especially aggressive Bull Shar...
1 week ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Adventure Writing Session Turns Into a Hex Crawl - Last Thursday I got on to do another Adventure Writing Session and Paul Turner joined me. We decided to use his zine, Critical Hit to roll up a hex flowe...
3 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

How many editions of D&D, Part II - Back in July of 2022 I made a frivilous post on my thought regarding how many editions of D&D there really were. I came up with 8. Since then I have ent...
3 weeks ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] News on the March! Episode VII. - This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and setup...
3 weeks ago
The Ongoing Campaign

[Obscure Games] Rolemaster - Originally published as an alternative combat system for *Dungeons & Dragons*, followed up by an alternative magic system and finally an alternative ch...
3 weeks ago
The Troll Dens

State of the Trolls: April '25 -
4 weeks ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Birds Of Prey #9 - *Birds Of Prey #9* *Variant Cover Artwork by Ejikure*
5 weeks ago
Stargazer's World

Is it too early to revisit D&D 4th Edition? - My feelings toward D&D 4th Edition are mixed. When I first read the rules back in 2008 I immediately fell in love. I really liked 4E’s powers, the evocativ...
5 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

The Next 52 (26?) Pages - As promised, here is the pdf of the first 26 of the Next 52 pages. It's an expansion to my preferred homebrew adventure game system that, like the Expert...
1 month ago
Quest for Fun!

Pro Active Price Increases - Consumers see retailers raising prices ahead of tariffs as something unethical. It seems to depend on whether they like your store. If the retailer is d...
1 month ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

Adventures in the Three Kingdoms - A while back I worked up a combined, modified map, based on three old-school *Heritage Dwarfstar* mini-game maps from *Barbarian Prince*, *Goblin*, and ...
1 month ago
Blog of Holding

Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual - As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than oth...
1 month ago
Pulsipher Game Design

A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...
1 month ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Pure Ruby -
1 month ago
Trollsmyth

Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...
2 months ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition, Year Two - Some years ago, I read through all of Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition. I covered the products from 1991 in a pair of posts and then kept up the posting...
2 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Warring States: A Mini Setting for Old-School Fantasy RPGs - This is another "mini-setting" that I posted as a series of graphic images on Twitter and Instagram just about a year and a half ago, but thought it was ...
2 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

D&D Class: The Cryptreaver - BBC, Tales of the Old Bailey (unknown artist)This derivative of the *D&D BECMI* thief class describes a specialized tomb robber and somewhat of a scaveng...
2 months ago
Servitor Ludi

The New Game: Completed - With huge apologies to anyone out there who has been waiting for this, I'd like to bring to a close the *TenStones* Glass Bead Game that I started in *Dec...
2 months ago
Lasgunpacker

Beta Strike - This weekend past, I had the chance to play Alpha strike again with P, this time to celebrate the completion of his new hobby and gaming shed. It is har...
3 months ago
The Wasted Lands

Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum - Additional Thoughts on Alignment In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...
3 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...
3 months ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...
3 months ago
Elf Lair Games

Reminder: We have MOVED! - Just a quick reminder, folks! The official Elf Lair Games blog has merged with my Wasted Lands fantasy blog. If you're following us, we can now be found...
3 months ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

Another Year Gone - Hello 2025! I'm a little disappointed, since I did not achieve my New Year's Resolutions for 2024. My main resolution was to run a campaign. Specifical...
4 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...
4 months ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

2024 Retrospective - A pic I thought was cool on FB, just to grab attention. I didn't do much of anything in 2024. My health took a nose dive this past year, although, looki...
4 months ago
The Cryptic Archivist

New English Rule Book for Star Trek: The Invasion of Klingon Empire - Get the Rule Book on BoardGameGeek.com *Star Trek: The Invasion of Klingon Empire *(Tsukuda Hobby, 1982) Scott Muldoon and I have completed our English tran...
4 months ago
Literalchemy

Knight in the Ruins of the End [S1.11] - Gertrude opened her eyes. She felt something soft and plush between her legs. Dim illumination filtered from under the door, and when she began to move ...
4 months ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...
5 months ago
The House of Little Fears

Favorite Child - As much as I love Streets of Bedlam, Wyrd is Bond, Normal, Texas, and all the other worlds I’ve created over the years, Little Fears remains my favorite ch...
8 months ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

Monster Entries Inspired by Dragonbane - As I compile information for my fantasy setting into a document for tabletop use, I find inspiration in the *Dragonbane* Bestiary entries. Instead of mer...
8 months ago
Armchair Gamer

More Moria - Thanks to Free League's Moria: Through the Doors of Durin sourcebook for their Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, we have an updated & official map, guid...
8 months ago
The Savage AfterWorld

The Savage AfterWorld -- From Gaming Blog To Publishing House - Although The Savage AfterWorld (TSAW, for short) has fallen silent for a while, it's never gone away. Folks still stop by to read old reviews of different ...
1 year ago
HeroPress

Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
1 year ago
Katie Salidas

Shout out to My MMA coach and my youngest kiddo for this amazing new book -
1 year ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Now Available] Hawkmoor Geographica -- A Shadowdark Campaign Setting - *Hawkmoor Geographica* *Designed for use with the Shadowdark RPG* *By James Mishler and Jodi Moran-Mishler* *Hawkmoor Geographica* describes the geography o...
1 year ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
1 year ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Monster Stat Concept: Disposition - Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they mi...
1 year ago
Forgotten Realms Campaigns

Sexy Goblins? - Not sure how I feel about this...
1 year ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Red Sonja Pearl's Before Swine - So Dynamite have (as of Feb 2023) ended all Red Sonja series, but have decided to launch an Indiegogo campaign for a cosplayer and "influencer" writing ...
2 years ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Almost Time !!! - Only Two ,ore Weeka... Ans it will be Gallow'een
2 years ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) - [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970]Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970 [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover Illustration 1970]Shonen Maga...
2 years ago
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...
2 years ago
destination unknown

Legends of Gath #69; Two Skellies Under a Fig Tree - There's a lot to be said for finding a vine or fig tree to sit under with your guitar.
2 years ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Just a Note... - Hey, all. Just a quick note to visitors who may be trying to download a character sheet, adventure, whatever: I closed down my hosting account for the s...
3 years ago
Being Retro

Billy F'n Gibbons: "She's On Fire" - *William Frederick Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American rock musician who is the guitarist and primary vocalist of ZZ Top. He began his career...
3 years ago
Genius Loci Games

~Into the Unknown~ - Sorry, couldn’t help myself! Seriously speaking though Pacesetter games have just released a 5e version of Into the Unknown which Pacesetter describes as...
3 years ago
Thoul's Paradise

It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
3 years 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. ...
3 years ago
osarmory.com

Design Journal: Star Wars Playtest Characters! - I mentioned in my post last Thursday that I ran my first playtest of my new rules engine last Wednesday, and it went swimmingly! I also mentioned that I wa...
4 years 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 years 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 years ago
A Very Creepy Blog

NIghtmare #20 - Sebastian Boada provides the cover for this issue of Nightmare, cover dated August 1974. We start with the one page "Horror Fragments: The Demon Whale" by ...
5 years ago
STUFFER SHACK

The Kickstarter has Funded! - Our first Kickstarter has funded in the first day. Pretty pumped! Some of you reading this have already received some version of these accessories in the...
5 years ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Call of Cthulhu 9: the Wolf Within! - The Clue January 27th, following up on clues from Session 8, the investigators traveled North to the village of Lesser Edale in Derbyshire to investigate...
5 years ago
I Fly By Night - clash bowley's blog

Blood Games 4 Bestiary - We are currently working on the Blood Games 4 Bestiary. We are completely revamping it. I just essentially copied the original bestiary when I came out sit...
5 years ago
BACK TO THE DUNGEON!

Reevaluating My RPG Gamer (NON) Life - CAUTION LANGUAGE! *After the 4E Apocalypse and the OSR* Well my old group from back in 2006-2009, well some of the people started to suck and make it n...
5 years ago
Troll and Flame

VR Digital Table Top - Been lot of OSR / Nostalgia posts here recently. Just to show I'm also hip to new fangled things too. Virtual Reality isn't as smooth and effortless as oth...
5 years ago
Armor Goes Clank!

Armor Goes Clank 018 February 5, 2020 (I Don't Know What This Andorra Country Here Is) (55:45) - Brian pretends he's an expert on the Ottoman Empire, both hosts talk about their favorite video games of the 1990s, and Mark lays some Man from Taured know...
5 years ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
5 years ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Not Necromancy... - I am indeed alive! AN incredibly busy year of travel just got more crazy as the year ended. In between I continued to work and play-test a different mag...
5 years ago
Geekerati

[From the Archives] Episode 24: An Interview with Jeff Mariotte and a Discussion of Vampires and Other Things that Prefer the Night - On October 15, 2007, Jeff Mariotte visited our show for a short 15-minute interview that helped us kick off a conversation about Vampire movies and televis...
5 years ago
Mesmerized by Sirens

PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB! - My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
5 years ago
Horror Blogger Alliance

Howlin' Wolf Records presents "BETTER WATCH OUT" and a few more to complete your Holiday! - One more score in the end of the year... Howlin' Wolf Records presents "BETTER WATCH OUT" music by Brian Cachia. BETTER WATCH OUT is a horror/dark comed...
5 years ago
Thac0 forever!

The Infernals - Soooo,the beholder ended up sucking to the point where I don't even want to post pics until I paint it again. However, work has been a bit light this week ...
5 years ago
Kaijuville

Still here, part 2 - As mentioned in Part 1, I've been posting more elsewhere and I need to refresh this neglected blog. Along with more gaming content, I want to update the H...
5 years ago
Graph Paper Games

Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
5 years ago
Strange Magic

The Hanging Cage - This is a pair of short encounters for use with Basic Dungeons & Dragons although it can be used with other editions and game systems without much extra wo...
5 years ago
Teach Game Design

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...
5 years ago
Spirit of the Blank

[DFAE] Ace Squadron's Aces - [image: Related image] The ships of Ace Squadron, which consists of "aces," all have the word "Ace" in their names. I'm not sure if this is confusing or j...
6 years 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...
6 years 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 ...
6 years ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...
6 years 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 ...
6 years 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...
6 years 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...
6 years ago
Sword+1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
7 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...
7 years ago
Rended Press

Lasers & Feelings & Assorted L&F Mods - *THIS LIST IS NO LONGER UPDATED AS OF 2022-10-18* *I have a soft spot in my heart for Lasers & Feelings. I use it in my Digital Narratives class to introdu...
7 years ago
Ostensible Cat

A little playing around - So, I've been going through some of my older work and giving it the colour treatment. Daisey does most of my colour work but I do like to play around with ...
8 years ago
Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

Full-Armor Alexa and more fiction excerpts! - More Alexa concept art, this time regarding the heavier armor that she brings along when she knows she will need it. At first, I was really in love wit...
8 years ago
Dynasty Zero

Vikings on my Mind - Crap. I'm doing it again. I can never focus long enough on one campaign idea to get any meaningful work done on it. A couple of months ago it was *White ...
8 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...
9 years ago
Secrets of the Shadowend

Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e] - I'm experimenting with dual-stat blocks for monsters. This is a first draft, so expect changes and feedback is strongly desired. *Update: Revised stat block...
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