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Saturday, April 7, 2012
From The Far Far Past of the RPG Internet...
Back in the way way back, I used to print out word text documents for my free RPGs.
The good old days. My university had a gaming newsletter for a while that I would contribute ASCII art and cartoons to. It was a way back when there was a whole 2 high speed dot matrix printers in the computer lab. I've still got a box somewhere with hundreds of pages of green and white printer paper with gaming stuff somewhere... I think... I'm going to have to go look in gamehalla.
I tend to accrue PDF/other electronic materials rather than hardcopies and use a Kindle to read them: the wall of plain text is superior for a small e-reader.
Reminds me a lot of the gaming walk-through text files. :) I'm still in a quandary about printing large docs. I think I need to go on a book binding course!
All hail impoverished artists and print-on-demand book stores! ;)
Putting Down Roots
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The comments upon the previous post, What Good are Town Maps?, brought up
some points I mean to take up ... but I feel I need to make it clear that
the rea...
EMO Light - House Rules for Planet Psychon
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Psychon book has had some editing and more coming through shortly I hope so
weekend I get back will re layout psychon with fixes and some edits. Will
do ...
Light City Foes: Stardust Is Available Now
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To coincide with the release of Avengers: Infinity War I've released a new
Light City Foes book detailing my Thanos analog for the Light City
multiverse. Y...
This Old Dragon #153
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Going into a bit of a mystery era for me. It is January 1990, the 90s are
officially here. *Born on the Fourth of July* is still in theatres, but
the mu...
[Three Hexes] The Iron Child
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*Campaign: **Where there was once peace and prosperity, now there is war
and famine, and all wonder if the cloud of evil that has lain over the
Great Yello...
MERP - Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs
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*From the web:*
*"Umbar: Haven of the Corsairs is a MERP (Middle Earth Role-Playing)
Campaign Module published by Iron Crown Enterprises. The game modul...
Witch Bolt for Rules Cyclopedia
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The zombie lumbered toward Fulhoff, arms outstretched, necrotic energy
oozing off its body like the flesh sagging off its bones. Behind him the
wight laugh...
Vrock — repaint
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This is an old WotC D&D pre-painted figures, a Vrock (or Type I Demon, as
they once were known).
I gave it a rough-and-ready repaint, just enough to make ...
Less aggressive restocking of Felltower?
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For my GURPS DF / DFRPG game Felltower, I've generally been fairly
aggressive on the restock. I check the real-world gap between games and
make my rolls an...
OSR: Multiclassing in the GLOG
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The GLOG makes multiclassing ridiculously easy. All classes have 4
templates (A, B, C, and D). You get one per level (1-4) and you have to
take them in ord...
Migration Underway
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Hey all!
Just a quick note that the migration to the www.greyhawkgrognard.com site
has begun. New content will be posted there, rather than the Blogger sit...
MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FOUR 105 HALL OF COLUMNS.
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105 HALL OF COLUMNS. The stone pillars are carved to resemble scowling
Triskelions, all except for the one labeled 'X', which has a laughing
Triskelion fac...
[D&D] [Greyhawk] The heavens above
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The heavenly bodies above Oerth are mentioned in various evocative snippets
spread throughout the canon, but those details are often vague, sometimes
contr...
Into the Borderlands review
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Into the Borderlands is a hardcover compilation of the training modules B1
and B2, both originally published in 1979, along with conversions for fifth
edit...
Savage Worlds - Saturday Morning Savages
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I am currently taking a break from the traditional d20 (D&D) style of
gaming. And in doing so I discovered Savage Worlds for the first time. For
$10 you ca...
Navron’s Sinister Stair
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By Mark L. Chance Spes Magna Games S&W Levels 2-4 Old-timers still speak of
Narvon the Charmer, albeit in hushed tones, as if the long-dead cleric
might he...
After a War
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There is a sub-genre of fiction (detective fiction usually) which is set in
the aftermath of a war. A nonexhaustive list of this includes films such as *The...
Lunch Time Podcast About Disorganization
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I like Anchor because when I'm on lunch I can grab my phone flap my lips
for a short time and make a quick podcast. However, I lost all my back
episodes ...
Free GM Resource: Les' Wash Recipe
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[image: Free GM Resource: Les' Wash Recipe]
I'm being quite selfish with this week's Free GM Resource, which is
basically just some free information that wi...
Arden Vul Books Appendix Edited
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I've just put the final edits on the Arden Vul Books appendix and thought I
should share some rough numbers with you. There are 182 books or crystals
in t...
A week is a long time in 40K. What the FAQ?
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The last couple of weeks have been very exciting in the 40K universe. We've
seen the Dark Eldar Codex released (more on that later in the post) and the
Big...
InnCursion OPD 2018
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You can download the pdf here or to support the One Page Dungeon Contest,
you can buy one of the compendiums (including this year’s, when it comes
out), th...
The Dachshund Dungeon
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I did not intend to do another one of these. Certainly I didn’t intend to
make another one quite so soon after the last one. But then I was
re-reading Zak’...
The Chronicles of Nolenor – Play Reports #6 and #7
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(Link to prior sessions) Real date: 9/24/17, 9/30/17 In-game
date: September 8th, EY632 PCs: Ambrose (Warrior – Fighter now L2) Asher
(Footpad …
Continue ...
Redirect to: Beneath the Leaves of Kaendor
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I started a new website dedicated to my attempts at writing Sword & Sorcery
stories set in the world that has come together over the last couple of
years. ...
The Conjunction of Fates
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So I have decided that before my groups launch into *The Ruathain Campaign
Trilogy* I will break them in with an introductory mini Campaign. Since
some ...
Three Weird Books
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This is one of those things I had sitting around as a mostly complete draft
for a long time. Finally finished it while at O’Hare yesterday waiting for
my ...
SCALING ARMOR for 5e D&D
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The latest post might have been a bit confusing.
This is easier, I hope. Well, if you want a different idea - even simpler -
then let me draw that for you....
All for Ten Bucks
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This Week Only This week all Fail Squad Games paperback modules are just
$10. Even the full color specials – Time to clear the shelves and make room
for ...
MCC: The Arrival
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Goodman Games launched their kickstarter for Mutant Crawl Classics on June
24, 2016. Fulfillment was originally estimated for fall 2017 but after
backer...
Norse Bestiary Alphabet
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It's been another one of those dry spells on this blog. I've been juggling
several projects all at different stages. A couple of the OSR things I have
in t...
B/X Essentials: Monsters -- Writing Complete!
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It's been a long, hard haul, but I'm delighted to announce that my
completely fresh Open Game Content rendition of the classic Basic / Expert
monsters is...
Isles of the Dead: Twine Edition
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Remember when I entered the One-Page Dungeon Contest with a dungeon that
was meant to be run after a TPK?
A fellow named David Sky has made it into a Twine...
Vintage Gaming
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The OSR has taken a good deal of flack lately because of the various groups
vying for 'control' or domination of the group per sa. So, I am a little
tired ...
[REVIEW] The Red Prophet Rises
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*The Red Prophet Rises (2018)*
by Aaron Fairbrook (Malrex) and Prince of Nothing
Published by The Merciless Merchants
3rd to 5th level
The Red Prophet Rise...
A Lyonesse FRPG is coming!
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Exciting news from the good people at the Design Mechanism: they will be
producing a freestanding RPG (using the *Mythras* rules) based on Jack
Vance’s c...
On the Crypt Contents
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I'm not exactly angry about this, but more like I don't understand it.
There's a crypt. Inside there are lots of coffins and places where they put
dead pe...
Review: For Coin and Blood
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I remember hearing vaguely about *For Coin & Blood* some time ago, but it
seemed to pass me by before I got a chance to investigate. Then Diogo
Nogueira, a...
E is for Earths
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...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. ...
A Micro Review of Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells
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*Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells* is my newest RPG project and it is being
crowdfunded right now over IndieGoGo. It’s a game about sword and sorcery
adventur...
Cutting Edge Mercenaries of Bastion
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Bastion's hired guns are known for seeking the most unusual equipment of
the electric epoch. Sometimes they enjoy their signature weapon a little
too much....
Language Puzzle
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This is a sample 'ancient language' puzzle that you could modify or use in
your own game. When making these problems, I always look at some word
samples fr...
Dragon Heresy – A Quick Review
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+Doug Cole is running his long awaited Kickstarter for his 5e based RPG
Dragon Heresy. Dragon Heresy is a Norse/Viking themed RPG. The Kickstarter
is to ...
Halfway to Nowhere
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My latest creation -*Operation Starfall: A Strange Mission Against Time*,
went live on RPGNow yesterday. Without giving too much away a Word War Two
Specia...
Details on Faeries for the Majestic Wilderlands
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Two years ago I made a post how I got a handle on how faeries work in my
setting. The basic issue is that there are multiple interpretations of why
faeries...
How to Format a Bigass Table for Hex Describe Fast
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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...
Visual Summary of Hesep
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This looks like a fun idea. So here we go...
From my current weekly campaign, I'm picking the city-state of Hesep. It's
location, where a major river meets...
Sharing the Game: The Value of the Club
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My Photograph
I did not belong to a D&D club. When I started playing in/around 1981/82
there were most certainly such things in some places, but none in...
Monster Monday - Basilisk
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Today, I continue to highlight a monster found in Rappan Athuk. There are 3
days left on Frog God's Kickstarter. I am thinking of moving Monster Monday
ove...
BX Combined Rule Book Printed and Bound
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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...
Secrets of the Not-Dalluhn Manuscript
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The Beyond This Point be Dragons manuscript has had an interesting history
in the OSR community, a history marked both with fascinating revelations
and, at...
The Charisma Check
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You’ve Got ChaRAZma!: The Charisma Check I’ve always felt Charisma got
short shrift as an attribute. Defining Charisma as personal magnetism and a
type of ...
Don’t Sleep It’s Broken
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Expanding/editing my comments from What Makes Something Broken G+ thread:
“Broken”, for me, is anything that makes normal character choices, tactics,
or ro...
UNFATHOMABLE PDF OUT TODAY
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CLICK ON THIS DriveThruRPG LINK
It's an old school Underworld setting and adventure location in the form of
a 108 pg PDF, souped up with hyperlinks (inc...
Publishing #9: Deploying the Open Game License
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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...
Growing the OSR if you want: part 2
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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...
New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults
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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...
Updated Links
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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! ha
The OSR News - Revival Edition
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*Some Recent New Releases*
*Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival* from Kabuki Kaiser.
Author - P. Crespy. Artist - Evlyn M.
Available in PDF for $4.99...
The Warlock's Tower
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*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...
Swords & Wizardry Light-Themed Birthday Party
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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...
Big Easy Noir
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*Deadlands: The Weird West*, the alternate history Wild West/horror RPG
published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group is so good that it merited an
Origins Aw...
The good old days. My university had a gaming newsletter for a while that I would contribute ASCII art and cartoons to. It was a way back when there was a whole 2 high speed dot matrix printers in the computer lab.
ReplyDeleteI've still got a box somewhere with hundreds of pages of green and white printer paper with gaming stuff somewhere... I think... I'm going to have to go look in gamehalla.
I tend to accrue PDF/other electronic materials rather than hardcopies and use a Kindle to read them: the wall of plain text is superior for a small e-reader.
ReplyDeleteI remember those days, too... some of my favorite times were on the barebones IRC chans back in the early 90s or with the ascii rogue-like games, etc
ReplyDeleteyep, IRC and later AOL chatrooms.
ReplyDeleteeven played in a AD&D game via AOL chat back then. Shit got too expensive, even though the GM was great
Reminds me a lot of the gaming walk-through text files. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm still in a quandary about printing large docs. I think I need to go on a book binding course!
All hail impoverished artists and print-on-demand book stores! ;)