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The Grand Tapestry

[1979 Electronic] - 💖ChatGPT: If I encountered this without explanation, I'd describe it as: A 1979 West German research-facility demonstration piece, performed by a black-an...
3 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

The Goblin Riddle Trap - Here’s another fantastic goblin trap I will need to use. You can check out the last one I shared here.To break the flimsy bar I’d say it’s a DC 12 Strength...
7 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

The villainous Gemini from Thundarr the Barbarian For Sword of Cepheus 2nd Edition - Bringing the 80s Saturday-morning post-apocalyptic swagger of Thundarr the Barbarian into the gritty, OSR-style mechanics of Sword of Cepheus 2nd Edition ...
9 hours ago
Gizmo's Reviews

#Review - The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by C.M. Waggoner #Cozy #Fantasy - *Series:* Standalone *Format: *212 pages, Hardcover *Release Date:* March 17, 2026 *Publisher:* Ace *Source: Publisher* *Genre: Cozy Fantasy* *A pra...
11 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog….

[New Magic Item] Widow’s Teacup - Widow’s Teacup Thoz drained the teacup and sat back in the chair, regarding the leaves left behind.‘What did Uncle Drezu do with the enchanted crow bar tha...
12 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Stonehell B Team: Fairy Magic, Keep Out! - Session 320 was played on 2/15/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 5 Kob...
14 hours ago
Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

Review: Supergirl #14 (v8) - *Supergirl #14* came out this week, the next chapter in Supergirl's battle with the Black Flame in Kandor during the *Reign of the Superboys* mini-event....
15 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

[Parsulan] The Durendine Heads - *Photo by Paul Glazzard* The head of Vorlas is on display in the Revolutionary Museum in Kingshead, shielded from the ravages of time by magic so that it ...
16 hours ago
MINION FACTORY

Jedi Duel! - OBI-WAN KENOBI vs DARTH VADER Vintage fight of the fates.
16 hours ago
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

What a Card: Gravesworld - *Being a look back at cards from the Star Trek CCG, and what I thought of them back when they were fresh and new... in EPISODE order. The mission from Th...
18 hours ago
Fabled Lands

Portal fantasy - In the first six seasons of *Doctor Who* (that's the First and Second Doctor episodes, if like me you had no notion at the time about TV seasons) the TAR...
19 hours ago
el blog de Victor Santos

- *PROCESO DE PORTADA DE AGAINST HOPE * *AGAINST HOPE** COVER WIP* Proceso de *variant cover* para la edición francesa de *Against Hope* de Komics Initi...
20 hours ago
The Troll Dens

Castle Let in Aihrde -
22 hours ago
The Armchair Squid

Star Trek: By Inferno's Light - Episode: "By Inferno's Light" Series: *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* Season 5, Episode 15 Original Air Date: February 17, 1997 via Memory Alpha Garak episode!...
22 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

Satan Helps Elucidate Skywalker's Rescue Plot - To cut a long story short, I was recently on a long-haul flight and ended up watching *The Empire Strike Back *and part of *Return of the Jedi *on the in...
1 day ago
A Storybook World

Shalom Barbie by Barbie Lavick Van Cott - I have been waiting more than a decade to read *Shalom Barbie*, and it was absolutely worth the wait. I devoured this book in just a few days and ...
1 day ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Off to Mad Mesa & Promise City! - My first exposure to Boot Hill was in the back of the DMG when it released in 1979. Prior to … Continue reading →
1 day ago
There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road

- It's been a couple of weeks. My goal has been to post here weekly, but at least I'm posting more frequently than I have been for a while. I got exposed ...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

The Doomed Yee-Haw Roundup - We've been doing group watches of Weird Westerns over on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server. To keep it varied, I've tried to run...
2 days ago
GROGNARDIA

Reconsiderations - Toward the end of his life, St Augustine began a project called in Latin the *Retractationes*. Often mistranslated as "retractions," the title actually i...
2 days ago
Seed of Worlds

Actual Play: The Hole In The Oak - tl:dr; fun old school dungeon, menace telegraphed by the corpses of adventurers, bigger than it seems with lots of secrets that can get missed even when pl...
2 days ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] News on the March! Episode XV. - 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...
2 days ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

My One Stop How To Grapple Guide for d&d5.5/2024 - I made this as all these rules are all over the book. This came about from an elemental monk player wanting to grab a trex or...
2 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Factions Without Borders - *Intergalactic *is going to be the first game I make that actually has a canonical map. Not that this is the whole galaxy, of course, but it’s a start. ...
2 days ago
GRUBB STREET

Scams - We are awash in scams these days. Mysterious Docusign demands. Emails claiming to be from the Geek Squad or PayPal announcing that someone purchased a i...
4 days ago
Super-DuperToyBox

Kenner POTF Dewback, Sandtrooper, Jawas - I'm collecting more of the conventional 5POA-type Star Wars figures than I am the later 1995 Power of the Force figures, but there were a lot of vehicle...
4 days ago
Batgirl - Mera - Batwoman

Batwoman and Friends by Derek Charm - *DC Pride Through the Years* *(June 2023)* *Cover by Derek Charm*
4 days ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Miskatonic Monday #437: The Light on the Hill - Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of...
4 days ago
Stargazer's World

Want to Roleplay Masters of the Universe? - You just watched the new Masters of the Universe (MotU) movie and are excited about the possibility of playing a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) set in t...
4 days ago
Expelled Grey Matter

Send Help (2026) - Sam Raimi, except for the premiere episode of *Ash vs. Evil Dead*, had backed away from directing after the disastrous flop *Oz the Great and Powerful*....
5 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI - There isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Morale Che...
5 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

All Systems are Go - I finished editing my *Missions & Mayhem* core rules draft, as well as *Cryptids & Conspiracy* and *Bughunts & Bedlam* modules based on the feedback I go...
5 days ago
Realms of Chirak

Increasing Appreciation for Old-School Essentials - Laat night I managed to get our Friday group to start a classic B/X D&D campaign using a blend of the Erol Otus edition Basic and Expert rulebooks, with...
6 days ago
CROSS PLANES

Pocket Dark Sun: Dune Reaper & Gaj - * Dune Reaper:* *"The reaper prowls the sandy wastes in wild packs, leaping from dunes to ambush and impale its prey on its scythe like limbs."* *Combat ...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

"JB's Mailbag" Returns! - The "Q" post in my A to Z series is on the way, but it needs a bit of a re-write (it's just overlong and "over-meander-y"). So in the meantime, I thought I...
1 week ago
Krell Laboratories

Revisiting The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Its Progeny at Horror 101 - Seeing the original 1956 version of *The Invasion of the Body Snatchers* when I was nine years old was a formative experience for me, which I discuss wit...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

Off to North Texas Con - So everyone knows I will be at North Texas Con this week. My books and maps will be for sale at the Black Blade Publishing Booth. I am running three sand...
1 week ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Some Random Worldbuilding - So many game settings draw heavily on Tolkien. Even when they try to move away from him, like *Dark Sun*, the tendency is toward the human-dwarf-elf-hob...
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

I think Gilligan's Island helped inspire my Superhero Setting - I mentioned once or twice that my Futuristic supers/cyberpunk setting HAVEN was based in large part on the Pacific island techno nation described in ...
1 week ago
Monster Island News

Why Spider-Noir is the Must-Watch Show for Fans of Classic Cinema and Superheroes! - * Unraveling the Web: Why 'Spider-Noir' is the Ultimate Nostalgic Thrill Ride!* Written By *Ken Hulsey* *Terri* and I have a new show that we are hooke...
1 week ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday: More Orks - Progress was slow this week but I have another Grey Knight Terminator squad *almost *ready to go in the case. I'm still fighting the stupidly fiddly na...
2 weeks ago
False Machine

The DOOM approaches! - THE FINAL HOURS! THE COUNT-DOWN BEGINS! The Kickstarter for Doom of the Dark, the nightland adventure from Patrick Stuart (me) and Amanda Lee, is nearly o...
2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Quest for Fun!

The Expense Post - *The Expense Post (Or: Why I Stopped Posting My Numbers)* I was at a game convention yesterday, hanging out with industry friends, talking store numbers....
2 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

Resonances and Dancing Babies - In *"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,"* Borges sets up a fascinating thought experiment. Can someone stretch their mind far enough to be able to re...
5 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Lords of Chaos! Free League also producing a Stormbringer game? - Well this is a bit confusing. Just two days ago I mentioned that Goodman Games announced that they will be producing material based upon Michael Moorcock...
5 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Lords of Chaos! Free League also producing a Stormbringer game? - Well this is a bit confusing. Just two days ago I mentioned that Goodman Games announced that they will be producing material based upon Michael Moorcock...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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...
1 month ago
Save Vs. Dragon

House Rule: Sharing Potions - Something my players have tried (off and on again) is splitting potions—particularly if many in the party are in need of healing. In furtherance of my...
1 month ago
For It Is Man's Number

Reminders Of Him (2026) - I don't quite know how it happened, but I think I have now seen all of the recent movies that have been adapted from Colleen Hoover novels. If you don't ...
1 month ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

DaveCon 2026 happening this Weekend - DaveCon 2026 takes place this weekend, April 24th-26th. Organised by its founder Victor Dorso, the list of special guests include Blackmoor alumni such...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 months ago
World of Ortix

Death Moon Hallucinations - Gibberish stuff for the game I currently work on. Yup, I shifted my posting duties from here to Substack - but I do not plan on giving up on this blog. Ha...
2 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...
2 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...
3 months ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Castles & Crusades Spells Sheets by the Dungeoneering Dad - [Link to the sheets: Castles & Crusades Spell Sheets by the Dungeoneering Dad] I've been on a bit of a tear making Castles & Crusades sheets (you can see...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Sickle & Torch - For many of us, 0-level play was our first experience with DCC RPG. Throw a bunch of nobodies into an awful situation, and see which ones come out alive....
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 months ago
Coins and Scrolls

Book Notes: The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction - I've been reading *The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction*. It's a collection of mythological, spiritual, moral, hist...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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.
5 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...
5 months ago
Quag Keep

Dragon #301 - second copy -
6 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...
6 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...
7 months ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...
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...
9 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...
9 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...
10 months 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 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...
1 year 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...
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...
3 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.
3 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. ...
4 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...
6 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...
6 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
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...
8 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...
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...
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...
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