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Blogs of Inspiration & Erudition
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A Curious Thing
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Like most boys of my generation, of my part of the world, I learned to read
in the first half of first grade, when I was about six. But I don't
remember...
3 hours ago
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A 12th Century Tour, Part 1
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In the 12th century, Benjamin of Tudela traveled from his home in northern
Spain to Baghdad and beyond. He followed pilgrimage and trade routes,
visited sc...
3 hours ago
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Thin posting week & orcs WIP
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Today and this coming week I have a large amount of additional work to get
done. Because of that my usual daily posting schedule is going to get
interrupte...
7 hours ago
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DEAL OF THE DAY: WEG D6 Ghosbusters Has Been Cloned!
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One of my favorite systems of all time, outside of those based upon D&D is
the WEG D6 system. I absolutely love it. One of my favorite games ever
published...
12 hours ago
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Back to B2
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Lady-love wanted to play some D&D this weekend, something quick and dirty
without much prep. So she rolled up a gnome wizard botanist/inventor and I
duste...
12 hours ago
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Fresh Water and the Lake as Dungeon
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Yesterday I dredged the pond for blanket weed. In amongst each netful of
juicy brown squelchy organic mess from the bottom - rotting vegetation,
gooey mud,...
12 hours ago
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OMG: Level Setting and American Indian Mythos
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To start this first post on One Man's God I wanted to set some levels on
what I want to look for, in particular, what constitutes the top end of
what is a...
13 hours ago
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Etinerra at War - Winter 70, 58 AD to Spring 30, 59AD
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*The Duchy of Pisces, attacked and cut off from the rest of the Kingdom by
the fearsome Bestials, is counterattacking! Duchess Childress has marched
her lo...
13 hours ago
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Baraloba: Along the Hewbank
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This post is one of a series presenting the hexmaps of Baraloba and the
areas around it. You can see …
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15 hours ago
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1d10 Random Lost Treasures & Artifacts of the Dames Blanches Table For Your Old School Sword & Sorcery Campaigns
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We should profane the service of the dead, To sing a requiem and such rest
to her As to peace-parted souls. Act V, scene 1, line 259.William
ShakespeareHam...
15 hours ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FOUR 131 THE BELL.
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131 THE BELL. The niche in the corridor holds an old metal bell. If rung,
make a roll on the random encounters table to see which wandering monster
shows u...
18 hours ago
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grodog's start in gaming - 1977: Cedar Avenue, Star Wars, and Holmes Basic
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As with many who began to play D&D in the late 1970s, I started playing in
1977 (the summer of 1977, in my case), and began to play with what is
now-known ...
18 hours ago
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Chamber of the Serpent
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New Realms Publishing Labyrinth Lord Levels 1-3 Delve into the dark depths,
explore ancient halls and chambers in search of gold, glory and adventure!
But ...
20 hours ago
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MGP - The Slayer's Guide to Demons
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*From the web:*
*"Evil, chaos and destruction; deprivation, insanity, unmitigated cruelty.
Pain, horror and madness. The ultimate incarnations of da...
20 hours ago
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Flesh Golem & Harpy
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These two minis were painted concurrently with Blightfang, and so used the
same pallet of colors. Apparently my answer to “Painting Green Skin Is Hard
and ...
22 hours ago
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Tolkien exhibit at Oxford
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If you're a fan of Middle-earth, and you can manage a trip to Oxford
between the 1st of June and the 28th of October, you should ch...
1 day ago
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Lovecraftian Western Horror
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‘Cowboys and Indians’ lie at the heart of hobby. A great roleplaying games
back in the day began their explanation of what roleplaying was by drawing
para...
1 day ago
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Power from Paint: The Sand Viper Coven
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Deep in the darkened places of Comorragh lie the crafting halls of the
Haemonculi Covens. They do not work in metal or stone, neither wood nor
jewel; their...
1 day ago
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Hero’s Tomb Floor 2
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Continued from the first floor. The stairs down to this floor lead to a
stone landing facing a dark drop with a mechanical door to the right.
Across the da...
1 day ago
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First Published Atlas Honored in Today’s Google Doodle
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Today’s Google Doodle honors Abraham Ortelius who published the first
atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, on May 20, 1570. The Wikipedia article on
the atlas...
1 day ago
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30 Dungeon Origins
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Good dungeons have nigh-incoherent architecture. They exist to challenge
players, which is the exact opposite design goal to just about any
structure that ...
1 day ago
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Redbrick Water Features
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Don't roll all of these just a few fine or till gaps filled
Every level has one possibly more
*Redbrick Water Features*
Fancy magic potions cannot be kept...
1 day ago
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Podcasting....
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Well, I have been conned into trying out podcasting, so here you go, a
quick little podcast (I like mine under 30 minutes, this clocks in at just
over 10) ...
2 days ago
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Podcast: Starting Characters in a Campaign
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I just released my latest episode, Starting Characters in a Campaign. I'm
planning on starting a B/X Essentials campaign soon. I go over a few of the
thi...
2 days ago
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B/X Essentials: Monsters -- Introductory Text
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Close-up of the cyclops from the cover, by Andrew Walter
A major milestone has been reached: thanks to the assistance of my
wonderful wife, Rachel, the lay...
2 days ago
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Victorious in Open Gaming at North Texas RPG Con
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Matt Sims will be running a second session of Victorious at North Texas RPG
Con for those of you who won’t be able to make Mike’s game on Friday! Matt
will...
3 days ago
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5e quick fix: Help Action
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*5e quick fixes are exactly what they say on the tin. Small house rules to
fix D&D problems you probably don't have. **Use them wisely!*
This is how it wor...
3 days ago
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200 Word RPG Challenge
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The 200 word RPG challenge starts today. I saw this on G+ and hadn’t heard
of such a thing! Mine is entitled “Moonlighting”. You can see all of the
2018 ...
3 days ago
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On OSR gaming releases 5/18/18
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Welcome to gaming releases this week!
This is my first attempt at something like this, so feel free to give me
comments and suggestions!
There were over 2...
3 days ago
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PSC 6pdr & Loyd Carrier (15mm) — review
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Here's another British WWII gun and tow in 15mm (1/100) from the Plastic
Soldier Company, this time the 6pdr (57mm) anti-tank gun and Loyd Carrier.
This i...
3 days ago
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Greyhawk’s World: Events of the Northwest Flanaess
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And as I wrap up my attempt to finish off the series of “Greyhawk’s World”
articles in Dragon magazine by Gygax and Kuntz, I have something that will
make ...
4 days ago
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The Wodlands 4 - The Painted Plain
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1. The Plains of Anaesthetic Fire.
2. The AntiGoblin Empire
3. The Whetstone Ridge
At some point in history, after the expulsion of the Crazed Theigns fro...
4 days ago
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Two More Tome of Tomes
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*Dread Kirowath*
Author: Briod Griwent
Race: Human
Dimensions: 8x10x0.5
Weight: 1 lbs.
Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
Rarity: Uncommon
Fields...
4 days ago
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(COF) Session 3: Burning walls of fire and the God of Death
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The party awakens to screams in the night and notice that Shadow in not
amongst them. Looking out the window of their second story room they see a
stockad...
5 days ago
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[D&D] Flanaess Cuisine
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Gary Gygax loved to talk about food and drink. As anyone who participated
in the online Q&A sessions with him at places like ENWorld and Dragonsfoot
can at...
5 days ago
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[REVIEW] The Arwich Grinder
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*The Arwich Grinder (2014)*
by Daniel J. Bishop
Published in Crawl! #9 by Straycouches Press
0-level funnel
Something has gone terribly wrong up in them hi...
5 days ago
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CONFUSION CRAWLER
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Init +3
Melee Atk
• bite +3 (1d6 plus poison)
AC 13
HD 8d5+3
MV 40
Act 1d20
SP hallucination aura 20'
Fort +8
Ref +2
Will +0
AL C
Exceedingly deadly, the...
6 days ago
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D30 folksy rumours of treasure locations
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1 the bottom of an old well
2 the tallest tree
3 the last farm before the swamp
4 North of the giant skull
5 where the wind doesn't blow
6 the glass spire
7 ...
1 week ago
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Review: The Darkness Beneath Dalentown
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The Darkness Beneath Dalentown is a Swords & Wizardry adventure for
characters of levels 8-12 by Tim Bannock and Matthew Bannock.
*At First Glance*
Firs...
1 week ago
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White Box FMAG Reference Sheets
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I’ve been meaning to update my S&W White Box reference sheets for a while,
and finally did so with modifications …
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1 week ago
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Dungeons and Dragons the most important gaming franchise in the world
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Forbes has written an article about the upcoming book *Dungeons & Dragons
Art and Arcana: A Visual History* an illustrated guide to the history and
evoluti...
1 week ago
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Mechanical audience
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The audience determines how your work is received and evaluated. Similar to
perspective in photography, it is impossible to be neutral in this regard.
You ...
1 week ago
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The first five maps and guidebook for the Wilderlands of High Fantasy is available for sale!
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I am pleased to announce the release of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy.
This is one of four products covering the eighteen maps that encompasses
the Judg...
1 week ago
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45 Years and Still Rolling!
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*I wish to thank all of my various fans, friends and family members that
have made it possible for me to wield my creative imagination and bring its
result...
1 week ago
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Old-School Gaming As Punk...
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Nothing too big this week. The real world, with its myriad stresses and
delights, has occupied a disproportionate (albeit appropriate) chunk of my
time. ...
1 week ago
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A Response to a Lousy Review.
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The tagline of this blog mentions that I rant.
Buckle up.
Ever know that guy that bad-mouths a movie, or a book, or something and
then you learn he h...
2 weeks ago
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Frugal GM will be a bit quiet for the month of May
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[image: Frugal GM will be a bit quiet for the month of May]
Just a quick admin post to let all 12 of my readers know that I'm needing
to take an unscheduled...
2 weeks ago
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The Darkness Beneath Dalentown is a new adventure for Swords & Wizardry and OD&D and it’s live now!
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The Darkness Beneath Dalentown is a brand new Swords & Wizardry/OD&D
adventure for four to eight characters of levels 8-12! Leveraging Swords &
Wizardry Co...
2 weeks ago
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I'm a player tomorrow!
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It's been nearly four years since I was a player in a FLAILSNAILS game.
Below are my guy and his associates. Tomorrow we'll see if any of them can
surviv...
2 weeks ago
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Please Update Your Link!
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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...
2 weeks ago
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May the Jokes be with you
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Not only is Star Wars magnificent, it also makes a wonderful base for
endless silly fun. These are some of the funniest things I’ve come across
on the inte...
2 weeks ago
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TAROT GOBLINKO - DARK FANTASY MEDIEVAL PUNK TAROT DECK
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[image: Sean Aaberg - TAROT GOBLINKO OROBOROS]
[image: Sean Aaberg - KING OF CUPS]
[image: Sean Aaberg - STRENGTH]
[image: Sean Aaberg - 3 OF COINS]
[ima...
3 weeks ago
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Yodeling For Yokels or The Further Misa(d&)dventures
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This is the one of those posts that points out the lack of current posts.
Over the last week or three, there has been postponed Labyrinth Lord
(twice, one ...
4 weeks ago
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Isometric Dungeon #8: 2D to 3D
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I've just posted isometric dungeon tutorial #8: how to convert a 2D map
into a 3D isometric map.
4 weeks ago
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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 ...
4 weeks ago
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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...
4 weeks ago
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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...
4 weeks ago
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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...
5 weeks ago
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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. ...
5 weeks ago
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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...
5 weeks ago
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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....
5 weeks ago
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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...
1 month ago
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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...
1 month ago
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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...
1 month ago
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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...
1 month ago
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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...
1 month ago
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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...
1 month ago
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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...
1 month ago
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D&D in the News (1978): Funny Dice in Iowa, with Zeb Cook
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"We're known down here as the strange people with the funny dice," begins
Bob Waltman, describing the reputation of the group that met at the
University ...
2 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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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...
3 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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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...
5 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas
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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...
11 months ago
Fascinating. Now I have to decide what to get. I already have Book of War and By This Axe in my basket, what else? Oh, Magical Theorems & Dark Pacts maybe?
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