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OSR Commentary- A More Mythologicial Approach To The Doppelganger For Your Old School Campaigns - I'm trying to recall when I first stumbled upon the original Dungeons & Dragons Doppelganger? I know that way back in 1980 I had a PC wizard snuffed out by...5 hours ago
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B/X Essentials Print Edition Errata - The first *B/X Essentials* book was published in September 2017, so nigh on a year ago. Due to the diligent work of the folks who've been helping out with ...6 hours ago
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THIS DUNGEON IS UNSTABLE! - This used to be the way out.For use when the dungeon itself becomes structurally unsound. Roll d6 once/turn, roll below on a 1-2. d12 1. Menacing rumbles,...8 hours ago
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Footbridge (terrain WiP) - I've made a start on a new piece of scenery, a foot bridge crossing a narrow stretch of river. The tile is sized to fit with my other river pieces, but I...8 hours ago
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#RPGaDAY2018 DAY 18: Art that inspires your game. - Day 18, Second Weekend. *DAY 18: Art that inspires your game.* There is a lot of art out there that inspires what I do. For starters, I LOVE old woodcut ...11 hours ago
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Felltower B-Team, Assemble! - Tomorrow is our next game of Felltower. Unfortunately, two of the players that came last time can't make it. It seems like to the players that's enough tha...12 hours ago
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Giovanni Canavesio - The Hanging of Judas, 1492 - [image: Giovanni Canavesio - The Hanging of Judas, 1492]12 hours ago
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None Of You Care Enough About Textiles - As is becoming traditional for interviews, the more interesting and original the content, the fewer the views. I suppose that makes this your chance to be ...16 hours ago
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Divine Appearances - The following can be used to create randomized templates for demi-gods, extraplanar creatures, diety’s mortal avatars, godly minions, and the like. Using t...21 hours ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS 32 HALFLING ROOM. - 32 HALFLING ROOM. The arena masters can be cruel and five halflings were captured and trained as gladiators. 5 Halfling Hoplomachi (AC 7; MV 9”; F2; hp 9 e...21 hours ago
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Obsidian: The Age of Judgement - *Publisher Blurb:* *"The corebook to the Obsidian universe, this book has all the rules, mechanics, history, setting, and players that are used in t...23 hours ago
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(Pathfinder) Haunting of Harrowstone - By: Michael Kortes Paizo Pathfinder Level 1 When Harrowstone Prison burned to the ground, prisoners, guards, and a host of vicious madmen met a terrifying ...23 hours ago
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[REVIEW] The Museum of Living Arts - *The Museum of Living Arts (2018)* by Miihkali Tuominen and Thaumiel Nerub Published by D-OOM Products Low levels The Museum of Bad Xerox Machines Murderou...1 day ago
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2000th Post - Did you folks know this is my 2000th post? Seriously though I didn't think I'd keep this thing going this long or become as invested as I am. Here's a list...1 day ago
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How the Rules Should Read - Before I start, I want to warn my readers that this isn't going to be an easy post for some to read, because it involves domestic violence. I would recomm...1 day ago
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Free GM Resource: Creation and Depiction of Fantasy Cities - [image: Free GM Resource: Creation and Depiction of Fantasy Cities] This week's Free GM Resource is a neat little "guidebook" for creating Fantasy Cities fo...1 day ago
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Five Rings Get Their Fifth: A Starter - It is a curious thing, but the latest iteration of the Legend of the Five Rings roleplaying game is as much a descendant of John Wick’s 1997 adaptation of...1 day ago
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Uncle Matt’s RPG Studio Guest – 8/17/2018 - Hey everyone! I just wanted to put a quick note out there that I’ll be one of the guests (along with Douglas Cole) on Uncle Matt’s RPG Studio tonight at ...1 day ago
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a little wisdom - Found this quote while doing some research wholly unrelated to D&D type stuff: The good craftsman seeks out the commonplace and tries to master it, knowin...1 day ago
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34 Good Traps - A good trap should: - Announce its presence. - Allow interaction and investigation. - Have impactful consequences for the victim. I've gone on before ab...2 days ago
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OSR: Pirate Artifacts - More ideas for the Pirate GLOG system (now released). In a low magic setting, a simple artifact or tool can change the course of an entire game. Consider t...2 days ago
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[Three Hexes] Zantra - Sky Islands of the Windlords - *Campaign: **Solid clouds covered in vegetation and vast skies are what make Zantra a unique world, home to the Windlord species! Zantrans sport a mix of a...2 days ago
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What's Doing in My World? - The Goblin StompCast episode 6 is up! In an attempt to keep things fresh and grow the listenership a bit, the podcast will now feature a weekly convers...2 days ago
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Mapping a Giant Tree Trunk - I've had some preliminary thoughts on mapping a giant tree, beginning with the trunk. Have a look at the following diagram, which is a section of a trunk: ...2 days ago
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Cool Stuff: Freyja's Wrath - Today we have another post full of pictures of Cool Stuff! Another Kickstarter has delivered it's lovely metal and resin goodness into my grubby mitts. Thi...3 days ago
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Mord Mar - Session 5 - We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers: Moira, the Magic-User Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?) Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...3 days ago
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Real Life: Car Emergency - So yesterday our only car crapped out on us. The transmission went out on it but they told us that it wasn't anything we had control over. The car was in g...3 days ago
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The Stars are Right! - Had a character-building session for the new campaign last night. After we worked out who the characters were going to be, I dropped just over a thousand w...3 days ago
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SJ Games opens the door for The Fantasy Trip - In a very interesting bit of news, SJ Games announced they are going to instituted a limited publishing agreement where fans of TFT can publish on Wareho...4 days ago
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The License to Slay and Lapsus Calami (or Look at What Folks Are Doing Now)... - Ok, so we like stuff; and people who like stuff are fortunate to be part of a small-press community that makes *good* stuff. So get ready for a post where...4 days ago
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Experimental Operations Command vs Gygaxian Ecology - These recently came out and got me interested in my Long Stairs stuff Basically modern armed forces vs gygaxian monsters Im gonna remaster my old PDF to ...4 days ago
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The Jenkin - Witches possess a uterus, which was an organ invented by Flesh to ensnare souls, in order to steal ambition and intelligence for its unruly tissues. Witche...5 days ago
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Monster Monday - Troglodyte - Troglodytes show up in some of the most iconic modules. First up: S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. 18 of the buggers hang out in the Greater Caverns. They...5 days ago
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Patreon - I have started a Patreon in order to develop more projects. Currently I develop *OSR products* and my big new project *Valkyria: Shieldmaidens of Asgard* b...5 days ago
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Apocalypse World agendas - The core of The Master of Ceremonies chapter involves three agendas and 11 principles, where agendas are the abstract goals of play and principles are mean...5 days ago
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Brindlemarsh has launched! - The newest adventure from FSG The twelfth (12) kickstarter from Fail Squad Games has just launched. Brindlemarsh is the continuation of the Brindle serie...6 days ago
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Thoughts on the Cinematic inspiration for Blackmoor Castle. - Here is me having a little fun - don't take any of this as gospel, but rather as a speculative investigation. I'm about to spin a "Just So" story that sou...6 days ago
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Final Fantasy 7 - When the idea that I might want to make tabletop games first wormed its way into my brain, I set myself two goals. I wanted to make an RPG based on Metal G...6 days ago
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Chaos, Them!, Baba Yaga's Hut, Food Storage, Matchmaking, and More.... - Now that the map of the Briars is done the Company of the Dark Moon (i.e., 85% of PCs in the campaign) gave one to master bard Llewellyn the Black, sold ...6 days ago
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D&D, OSR and "anticlericarism" - Although I understand the reasons to have a certain "anti-cleric" feel (i.e., the intent of removing the cleric class from the game or making it less impor...1 week ago
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Getting Board: Onitama Review - So, while tabletop RPGs are most certainly my passion, I also enjoy board games on occasion. I'm particularly a fan of two-player abstract board games, esp...1 week ago
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Making Mead - Abernathys Own Mead The post Making Mead appeared first on Follow Me And Die!.1 week ago
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New Preview for Patreon patrons - Hi all! I’m still new at this whole Patreon thing, so apologies if I’m still feeling my way around. I’ve posted something for Patreon backers only; it’s a ...1 week ago
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Lyonesse map draft - The good people at the *Design Mechanism* have shared this draft of their map of the 'Elder Isles' for their forthcoming *Lyonesse *RPG (based upon their ...1 week ago
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Advanced Adventures on Kindle - I've finally figured out how to put the Advanced Adventures line into Kindle file format so now I'm uploading them to Amazon. So far I've got 1-4 up and wi...1 week ago
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On the Physical Space - Module designers, can we talk? It's not me, it's you. This is 2018, not 2000. Why am I still seeing modules with flat spaces, square rooms, and two dimen...1 week ago
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Dave Arneson's "Adventuring Is..." Cartoons - Sometimes you need to stop dissecting the roots of *Chainmail *for long enough to appreciate the humor that the authors of *Dungeons & Dragons* infused i...1 week ago
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HYDRA - Init +1.5/per head Melee Atk • bite +#HD (1d6) Ranged Atk • ice breath +5 (1d7+1, 20/40/60) AC 14 HD (# of heads)d12+(#) MV 120 Act (#HD/3)d20+(#HD/2)d...1 week ago
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The Witcher RPG is out - I was just wondering what has happened to the Witcher RPG and whether it is still in production. And it turns out to have finally been released after huge ...1 week ago
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Open S&W White Box Play-by-Post - There is an open Swords & Wizardry White Box play-by-post on the S&W forum, it sounds like an interesting setting, … Continue reading →1 week ago
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Victorious at Arkansas RPG Con! - Hello all, This is a quick shout-out to the Arkansas RPG Con, being held THIS Saturday August 11th in the Little Rock area. More info can be found at: http...1 week ago
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Bandit Tables: Get More Out of Your Bandit Encounters - The party travels through the winding game trail. Up ahead a loud whistle cracks through the air. Immediately, angry shouts from above, to the left, and to...1 week ago
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#GenConHaul 2018 - This year’s Gen Con is over. Yes, I had to wake up early to fight for parking and it was a crowded, chaotic, mess. And yes, I had to wait in line for a w...1 week ago
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Blackwater Bay update - I have been working here and there on a new, fully vector, map of my little setting. I thought I would share an update. This is just a screenshot on where ...1 week ago
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Mirror, Mirror - d10 Random Table Logical Madness - 1. Interlopers from an alternative dimension are attempting to murder and replace key inhabitants of the city. So as to better identify their fellow consp...1 week ago
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Temporary Hiatus - The 3 Toadstools will be on Temporary Hiatus for the next few weeks. The owner intends to try and hunt down a few Dragons, and those damn bandits that hav...2 weeks ago
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His Eternal Progress - *Emperor tortoises have walked the earth since before the rocks were cool; each is followed by a train of pilgrims hoping to glimpse the wisdom of the gods...2 weeks ago
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Your Reputation Precedes You... - Characters in Old School D&D and in others OSR games begin as nobodies. They are usually common people without significant past deeds that would make them...2 weeks ago
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Gygax Day - Today would have been Gary Gygax's 80th birthday. That has led some folks to unofficially declare today "Gygax Day." In honor of that, and inspired by a re...3 weeks ago
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Brane and Brane and Again Brane! What Is Brane?! - So here's my crack pot "theory" of FTL travel in a nutshell. Any relationship to current physics is purely coincidental. If you see one let me know! I dig ...3 weeks ago
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Behind My DM Screen - DM Screens are something you can put minimal thought into or you can take great care in crafting and modding to fit your style of gaming. Some folks are ha...3 weeks ago
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U-Con Event Submission Is Open! Now With Deadlines - It's event submission time for U-Con! As the OSR Track and Tekumel Track event coordinator I am looking for Referees, Judges and Dungeon Masters to come ...3 weeks ago
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Enchanted Weapons - *The Void Dagger* goes to Shadow A liquid metal blade contained within a vial. Able to vary its length and shape while becoming solid. Can also be formed in...1 month ago
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A request for grodog's Castle Greyhawk playtesting stories - I'm starting to work in earnest on the writing required to complete the levels from my version of Castle Greyhawk that have received the most playtesting o...1 month ago
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The Crack'd and Crook'd Manse Review - I ran a game of Call of Cthulhu recently. It was a one off for some random people on Roll20, using a scenario from Chaosium's Mansions of Madness collecti...1 month ago
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Pieces I am Working For Into The Unknown - *Finishing...* *Breakthrough to the Bridge* *An LGTSA Tractics Scenario Battle Report* *© 2018 by Robert J. Kuntz.* *Scenario Designed and Adjudicated...1 month ago
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A Small, Quiet Plea - There has been a great deal of discussing political agendas, social grievances, and personal attacks within the little corner of gaming that is my hobby....1 month ago
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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. You're missin...3 months ago
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E is for Earths - ...of the parallel variety, that is. I'd love for Light City to be accessible for all sorts of supers gaming. I also just love a good, wacky multiverse. ...4 months ago
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How to Format a Bigass Table for Hex Describe Fast - Say you've got a big ole' list of gameable things - like from a blog post, pdf, or personal document. You're just dying to add to the Hex Describe Bible, b...4 months ago
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BX Combined Rule Book Printed and Bound - Just put this together this morning. I had printed the pages long ago, but had never bothered to bind them. Talking with +Gothridge Manor and +Rob Conley...4 months ago
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Don’t Sleep It’s Broken - Expanding/editing my comments from What Makes Something Broken G+ thread: “Broken”, for me, is anything that makes normal character choices, tactics, or ro...5 months ago
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Publishing #9: Deploying the Open Game License - Unlike the earlier covers that cover your creative content, this covers the boring-but-necessary-for-some-projects details on how to deploy the Open Game L...7 months ago
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Growing the OSR if you want: part 2 - So, based on the various realizations I talked about in the last post, what are the things I'm trying to do in 2018 that will boost the signal of the OSR a...7 months ago
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New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults - A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex Zisch, an...8 months ago
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Updated Links - Hi Folks, I have finally updated the links on the right. Currently just for the Red cover. More to come... Oh and the game name is staying the same! ha9 months ago
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The Warlock's Tower - *F*or over eighty years, the Warlock lurked in his tower of stone, crafting all manner of trinket and bauble for the many curious novice and veteran travel...9 months ago
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Swords & Wizardry Light-Themed Birthday Party - Last month, my wife and I helped our oldest to celebrate his birthday in style. Ever since 2013, we have hosted a themed birthday party for our now-15-ye...9 months ago
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Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas - Teetering on the edge of a new, start-now, well-paying political job (i.e. demanding AF) I get one last reprieve of gainful unemployment this weekend: Nor...1 year ago
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