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Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Batwoman by Jeff Spokes - *Batwoman #6* *(August 2026)* *Cover by Jeff Spokes*
1 hour ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

This Week in Geek (9-15/08/26) - *"Accomplishments"* In theaters: One Night Only AKA The Sex Purge is just a silly romcom and most bad reviews seem to want it to be something else, eithe...
4 hours ago
Stargazer's World

RPG a Day 2026 – Day 16: Composure - Welcome to Day 16 of #RPGaDay2026. As I explained in my Day 0 post, I’ll be creating NPCs based on the day’s prompts and the week and day modifiers present...
9 hours ago
The Grand Tapestry

[Positively, Stellar] - 💖Oh, My Love, The Stars Were Meant Only For Us Tonight (Sacred Night)(C) 2026 Kyrinn S. Eis All Rights Reserved Worldwide
13 hours ago
Seed of Worlds

d12 books of the ruin-infested swamplands (GLÅUGUST 2026 #2) - Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2025, challenge #2 is from a list by Prime - "Books as treasure. No spellbooks." A list of books that were scattered t...
19 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog….

[New Magic Item] Seven Silver Teeth - Seven Silver Teeth ‘This is troglodyte territory,’ Zharvis the ranger-guide whispered.‘I will need a short rest before we proceed,’ Uzeb the Wise said.‘Did...
22 hours ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

RPGaDay 2026 Day 15: Endurance - Now we're making a male NPC for Cow Town and just surviving in Cow Town is an act of Endurance. And for all that we've talked about how horrible it is, m...
1 day ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Dark Provinces and the prisoner's dilemma - PSYCHOLOGY, GAME THEORY, AND THE PRISONER’S DILEMMA The design of Dark Provinces is explicitly informed by modern psychological theory, especially the HE...
1 day ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

OSR Commentary - Detail and expanded overview of Bloody Arduin rpg - Arduin: Bloody Arduin represents the modern flagship direction for David A. Hargrave’s iconic Arduin multiverse, published under Emperors Choice Games & M...
1 day ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday: Knights & Angels & Wolves Again - I have managed to make steady progress on finishing up the Grey Knights unit by unit these last few weeks. This week it was the last of the 3 regular ...
1 day ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Friday Fantasy: Haunting of Beggar’s Creek - *Haunting of Beggar’s Creek* is a scenario for Shadow of the Weird Wizard, the roleplaying game set on the world of Erth in the Borderlands between the re...
1 day ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Pit of Despair – The Sump - “The Pit of Despair” is an excellent name for a prison. It drives the point home that this isn’t a … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Mystara Could Return Says WotC's Bilsland - In a recent interview with Ted from NerdImmersion, WotC's head of D&D Greg Bilsland was asked about whether WotC would consider to publish more of the ...
1 day ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Supergirl #16 - *Supergirl #16* came out this week, the first chapter in the Kingdom of Zod crossover. While I am thrilled that the opening chapter is in the Supergirl b...
2 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Greyhawk Rising - Last year, I was working on a blog series doing my own take on the world of Greyhawk. As it goes with these things, my interest petered out after a bi...
2 days ago
The Armchair Squid

Star Trek: Ferengi Love Songs - Episode: "Ferengi Love Songs" Series: *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* Season 5, Episode 20 Original Air Date: April 21, 1997 via Memory Alpha Quark is depresse...
2 days ago
A Storybook World

Under Cover of Chaos by By Liz Wanic with Rebekah Wanic - “… a fast-paced thriller that plunges the reader into the morally complex world of a UN humanitarian mission in Bangui...a must-read for fans of thrille...
2 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan: Does that sound weird to you? - Session 325 was played on 3/29/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, ...
2 days ago
Fabled Lands

The future's not ours to see - *Whispers Beyond The Stars* is set twenty-five years from now in one possible future. I wouldn't bet on that being the actual future, history being such ...
2 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Beautiful Sample Contents from The Great North - Once summer holidays are out of the way, I will be launching the Kickstarter for The Great North, described long ago as 'Yoon-Suin but in Northumberland'...
2 days ago
GRUBB STREET

Book: Book about Books - * The Bookshop; A History of the American Bookstore* by Evan Friss, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2024 *Provenance:* Village Books and Pap...
2 days ago
The Troll Dens

Teasers! -
3 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Pete Fenlon on the Rise and Fall of Iron Crown Enterprises - Throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s, Iron Crown Enterprises was my favourite role-playing company. Of course, like most, I started out in this hobby pla...
3 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Pete Fenlon on the Rise and Fall of Iron Crown Enterprises - Throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s, Iron Crown Enterprises was my favourite role-playing company. Of course, like most, I started out in this hobby pla...
3 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Braelin Map - I realized I hadn't posted this yet. This is the map I made of Braelin, the starting town of the current Krevborna campaign.
3 days ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - Red City by Marie Lu #Contemporary #Fantasy - *Series:* *The New Alchemists (#1) Format: 420 pages, Hardcover Release Date: October 14, 2025 Publisher: Tor Books Source: LibraryGenre: Contemporary...
3 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Combat Math in Missions & Mayhem - Yeah, another math post about the mechanics of *Missions & Mayhem*. These ( here, here, here, and here) get a lot of reads, but rarely much comment. I ass...
4 days ago
Bat in the Attic

The Northern Marches is the Deal of the Day and 50% off! - One of the biggest challenges of publishing today is getting people to look at what you produced. This is why tools like DriveThruRPG's Promotion Points ar...
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

A Blade in the Dark (1983) - I'm sure there was a lot of pressure on Lamberto Bava to be like his dad but, with his frequent collaborations with Dario Argento, he went in a quite di...
5 days ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Music Monday - Play Dead (Part 2) - Back in June I posted the music video for Ice Nine Kill's Play Dead. The song and video are based on one of my favorite horror video games, Dead By Dayligh...
5 days ago
Save Vs. Dragon

BXDMG (WIP): Language Comprehension - *People who've played in my games know that I'm sometimes big on languages in game play (which ones the PCs do/don't know, especially in regard to creatu...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Beyond The Supernatural - More personal history: I wrote in my last post that while *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* was the first Palladium game I purchased, I wasn't really introduc...
1 week ago
Quest for Fun!

The $139 Board Game - Among the many misconceptions about game stores is the amount of money they make on a sale. I wrote a post like this years ago. A decade has gone by, so ...
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

Do I have a thing for anime Cat Girls lately? - I grew up with dogs. My family always had dogs. One or two at most. But cats were not something we had as kids. I think it might be a Scottish thing....
1 week ago
MINION FACTORY

Corpus Delicti! - FVOC #111 - SOLOMON GRUNDY Born on a Monday, died on Saturday, he brings a new meaning to the word Zombie.
1 week ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hasturi, City of Heroes - Hasturi is one of the most ancient cities in the region, second only to Pazzix. In its distant past, it was a small, walled city-state on the Isle of E...
1 week ago
The Ongoing Campaign

AD&D Combat - House Rules - Here are some house rules changes to the AD&D (1st edition) combat system intended to tune it a bit to suit my sensibilities. I think shields should be m...
2 weeks ago
CROSS PLANES

Invincible RPG: I want to succeed more often and not break the Stunt rules - I really like the Invincible RPG and therefore the Dice Pool version of the Year Zero Engine. However, only succeeding on 6s and Pushing aren't what I wa...
2 weeks ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Boss Fight Studio Conan & Red Sonja - I purchased these on a whim from Nerdzoic, never having experienced a Boss Fight Studio figure in-hand. While I don't have much in the way of these cha...
2 weeks ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Glaze my Hydra - Im playing my Theros campaign, Lv 12 now with D&D5.5 and when my Ravenloft game ends at club i might run it there. Like...
2 weeks ago
False Machine

The Common Store of Monsters - I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth. As part of the re-write I have re-organised the ‘Pariahs of the Earth’ monsters ...
2 weeks ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] News on the March! Episode XVI. - 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
Realms of Chirak

Too much Text in RPGs vs. Not Enough Text - In 2026 I finally realized that the tabletop RPG market appears to be heavily weighted in two directions: those games of enormous page count, laden with...
3 weeks ago
BASTIONLAND

Konkord - Peace Operations - *[A former Konkord Star Major, name since redacted, in response to an audience question at the Windfall Orbital State of the Dragon Conference. Recording...
3 weeks ago
GROGNARDIA

Reconsiderations: Death and Resurrection - Needless to say, I've been very remiss in writing new posts for this blog, even within the context of the less rigorous schedule I proposed two months ag...
3 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

- While you may not be aware of this, I was writing fiction and poetry long before I was publishing RPG material. If you are interested: https://www.patreo...
3 weeks ago
Monster Island News

Get Ready for Fun! Join Us for Major League Collectibles' Epic Anniversary Bash and Score FREE Comics! - 🌟 *Celebrate Major League Collectibles' 2nd Anniversary with Us!* 🌟 Join us from today through Saturday for an exciting anniversary sale you won't wa...
4 weeks ago
Krell Laboratories

Blind Beasts and Red Angels: Erotic Obsessions in the New Wave Gothic Films of Yasuzo Masumura - *I did some writing a some years ago for a webzine called Film and Fishnets which appears to be defunct. Navigating to the url of my articles returns a "...
5 weeks ago
Coins and Scrolls

Film Notes: A Selection of Recent(ish) Obscure(ish) Horror Films - Horror has a (well-earned) reputation as a wastebin genre. Here are a few horror-adjacent films, largely without jumpscares, musical stings, and cheap tr...
5 weeks ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Character Record Sheets for the Adventurers Backpack (Castles & Crusades) - Link to the sheets: Castles & Crusades Adventurers Backpack Character Record Sheets by the Dungeoneering Dad My Castles & Crusades character record sheet...
5 weeks ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

Remaining Dormant at This Blog (for now). - I haven't updated this blog in a bit and I'm not sure how to proceed at the moment. I'm not going to delete it take it offline *even if I decide to neve...
5 weeks ago
World of Ortix

The end... of something - All my products on DTRPG and Lulu will be available until the end of August. Then, I'll nuke all my content on both stores. It may return one day but I d...
5 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

The Spirit of '26 - I couldn't let the quarter-millennium anniversary of my country's founding go unremarked! I don't really have anything sufficiently profound or inspiring...
1 month ago
For It Is Man's Number

Prime Time: Hidden Agenda (1990) - There's always reason to be wary when about to watch a film set during, or around, "The Troubles", which is all I'm going to say about the setting for *Hi...
1 month ago
Armchair Gamer

Back to the Basic (and Expert)? - I have recently been dabbling in D&D once more. I picked up Old School Essentials and also began rummaging through my D&D 5E (not 5.5E) rules to run a smal...
1 month ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *LÁMINAS DE AGAINST HOPE * *AGAINST HOPE** PLATES* Láminas personalizadas en A5 para la edición francesa de *Against Hope* de Komics Initiative....
1 month ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI - AI ImageThere isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Mo...
2 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

A Different Way to Look at the AD&D Hardcovers - Yesterday on my *YouTube Channel*, I published a video about the *"Mid-1980s Shift" in Advanced D&D* 1st Edition. Its received a lot of great and insight...
2 months ago
Gothridge Manor

Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
2 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Immersion is not what you think, player - *Here we go, another post on the Substack. I think I can claim that I'm back at it. There are already two new essays lined up, and I'm aiming at one a we...
3 months ago
Lasgunpacker

GeG Swap meet II - The FLGS had another Swap Meet on Sunday, which was also proximate to the Kid's birthday. This is the third time I have been to one of these now, and ho...
3 months ago
Blog of Holding

Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...
3 months ago
Katie Salidas

Helping Authors Achieve Their Publishing Dreams - Crafting a complete and compelling story is hard work. It's late night fights with uncooperative characters, bouts of crippling impostor syndrome, and t...
4 months ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

The Dungeon Hates You! - The Dungeon is *alive*. The Dungeon considers the monsters that reside in it to be its children – if they are not, in fact, its “children” via some eldrit...
5 months ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
5 months ago
The Cryptic Archivist

Spatial Paradigms of early CRPGs and Adventure Games - This post is part of my ongoing research into the spatial aesthetics of digital games. It is cross-posted between my Traversing Virtual Dimensions blog a...
5 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...
6 months ago
Mesmerized by Sirens

Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...
6 months ago
Dynasty Zero

MSJX Blog - Today I want to mention Matt Jackson's MSJX blog. MSJX is full of fun gaming stuff. Little games, small maps, compact character sheets, actual game pla...
6 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...
6 months ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

You’re So Cute When You’re Angry: A Micro-Larp - So we had a course at the university called Games of the Oppressed. From the curriculum: In this three-day workshop, students will be introduced to concept...
6 months ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Stonehell Session 3 (January 23rd) — Same Campaign, Entirely New Party - On January 23rd, we held the third session of my Stonehell campaign. The really interesting thing about this session is that none of the three player...
6 months ago
Beyond the Pale Gate

The Cycle: Movements VII-IX - Movement VII — The Fracture of the Archetype Thesis The first structural fracture in OD&D occurs when the game begins to incorporate classes whose identit...
7 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2025 Kickstarters - My Annual update on the Kickstarters I have signed up for. Note that for some, which I have marked (pdf), I have received the final pdf although the fin...
7 months ago
Sword+1

I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
7 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...
8 months ago
Quag Keep

Dragon #301 - second copy -
8 months ago
BACK TO THE DUNGEON!

1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...
8 months ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...
9 months ago
Ostensible Cat

Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
11 months ago
Literalchemy

The Solstice War: How It Would’ve Gone, Part 1 - So! In 2013 I started The Solstice War, the beginning of my webnovel journey. I am going to be honest and say I’m a little bit embarrassed about it looking...
11 months ago
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword

Sonja Reborn - New Series...yay... - "In a contest to decide the fate of the world, the ancient (and codependent) gods The Light and The Dark transport Maggie Sutherland, a young Bri...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 year ago
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness

Pure Ruby -
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Forgotten Realms Campaigns

Sexy Goblins? - Not sure how I feel about this...
3 years ago
Dr. Theda's Crypt

Almost Time !!! - Only Two ,ore Weeka... Ans it will be Gallow'een
3 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...
3 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...
4 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.
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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. ...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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." ...
5 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
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...
9 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...
9 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...
10 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...
11 years ago

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