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Blogs of Inspiration & Erudition
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Freebooters, OD&D Piracy
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Freebooter takes OD&D and divorces it from elf game worlds and places it in
the golden age of piracy. It was created by Night Owl Workshop. I've talked
abo...
4 hours ago
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Update to NPC's Lie
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If you have access to the masterclass blog, I just wanted to give a head's
up that there is a small update that I have added to the end of the post,
which ...
5 hours ago
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OSR: Miscellaneous Alexandrian Monsters, Part 1
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*The Wonders of the East* is an Old English miscellany written in ~1000 AD.
It's not quite an itinerary or a bestiary. Unlike Benjamin of Tudela's
factual ...
9 hours ago
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Operation Unfathomable
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This just arrived for me from DriveThruRPG, the softcover POD book by Jason
Sholtis of his long-running Swords & Wizardry FRPG campaign.
I got it primaril...
10 hours ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FOUR 159 ALMOST CHIMERA ROOM.
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159 ALMOST CHIMERA ROOM. The door to this room is locked. It can be opened
with the key with the lion's head design from Room 160.
Inside are four creature...
12 hours ago
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Barrow Mounds of the Lich and Famous
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Burial mounds are a staple of fantasy games and stories. Today’s offering
is a collection of nine different burial mounds …
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17 hours ago
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Father's Day Weekend Gaming
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Had a fairly packed weekend game wise.
Friday was our local Public Library sale. Sometimes we can find some gems,
but this time all we found was this book...
18 hours ago
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1d12 Random Stone Age Gang Encounters Table For Your Old School Sword & Sorcery Campaigns
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Evin had seen the sign for 'horns of power' carved into the trees nearly a
dozen paces back in the treeline. The subhumans had been trailing him for
the be...
18 hours ago
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An Overwhelming Sense of Loss
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By Roger E Burgess III Red Flag OSR Levels 1-3 Or, The Occasion Of a Visit
Into The Underworld By Way of The Grand Entrance To The Ancient Dwarven
Fortress...
21 hours ago
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Dragon Heresy Introductory Set PDF - Arrived!
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Douglas Cole's Dragon Heresy Introductory Set PDF was released over the
weekend. I downloaded my copy and I've been digging into it.
I'll try to get up a r...
21 hours ago
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Morpheus - Operation: Hitler!
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*From the back of the Book:*
*"They told me to kill Hitler!*
*Innocent Dreamwarriors, drafted and shipped off to Europe to assassinate
"the man tha...
21 hours ago
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Cassie the Gnome Sorceress & Fairy Familiar
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Currently on my workbench are Cassie the Sorceress (in bones) and the
little creepy fairy familiar (metal). My goals for Cassie and her fairy
familiar are ...
22 hours ago
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One Page Dungeon Contest Results In
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Results are in for this years contest! Congratulations to all the winners.
I will be doing quick reviews for all the entries again this year once the
pdf ...
1 day ago
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Enter the Third Horizon
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*The Dying Ship* is a scenario for use with the Middle East-influenced
Science Fiction roleplaying game, Coriolis: The Third Horizon. Originally
published...
1 day ago
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The Homogenization of D&D
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Ease of communication promotes assimilation. You only have to look around
you for a few seconds to notice that. TV and the internet are bringing us
all tog...
1 day ago
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The Gift: Trouble at Leoric's Logging Camp
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Time for another journey into the depths of the Vault my faithful
Venturers! This month's D&D game (scheduled for a couple of weeks time)
will see the play...
1 day ago
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A Seaward Travelogue: Clothing and Food
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Adding details in the background is important, so in addition to the high
level overview of Seaward here is more of a travelogue.
*Clothing*
Typical clot...
1 day ago
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Stay in the Loop by Subscribing to our Mailing List!
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For those *who have not ordered from TLS/TLB games, *we have a new address
for subscribing for updates:
*mailinglist@threelinestudio.com*
We have mo...
1 day ago
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LotFP Class: Warlock
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People act as though making deals with devils is so damned dangerous.
Devils are an embodiment of cosmic law. They’re constitutionally incapable
of breakin...
1 day ago
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B/X Essentials: Adventures and Treasures -- Draft Text v0.1.0!
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Illustration by Michael ClarkeWhat with *B/X Essentials: Monsters* being
close to wrapping up, my thoughts are beginning to turn vaguely to the
fifth book...
2 days ago
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Multiclass-ception: MCing into your own class (D&D 5e)
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I hear people ask this on the internet, but never in my group. It sounds
like an interesting thought exercise: could your D&D character "multiclass"
into a...
2 days ago
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Bit of a fail
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Last night when I got home I thought I might try and do another podcast
with anchor. I had downloaded the app, figured I'd use my onboard mic from
my table...
2 days ago
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Free RPG Day Book
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Happy Free RPG Day
New compilation of stuff from my blog
https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-on-folk-19464459
3 days ago
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A note on my Spider Cult of Mirkwood Campaign posts
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As you may have noticed, I’ve posted a lot about this campaign over the
past day or so. The reason: my *Adventures in Middle-earth* campaign is
starting up...
3 days ago
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Thugs & Mooks by Lurker
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Greetings all, The below is a contribution from “Lurker” on the Troll Lord
forums. He’s running a Victorious game set in modern times, and created the
foll...
3 days ago
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Sale at Gamescience
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OK dice nerds. I just got an email that there is an 18% off orders of $20
or more at Gamescience. There is no code; it is automatically added in the
cart...
3 days ago
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The Rains of Colorless Fire
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The catastrophe that ended the ancient Suloise Imperium, known as the Rain
of Colorless Fire, has long fascinated Greyhawk aficionados. The official
canon ...
3 days ago
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Six Wands that Kinda Suck
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So sometimes I like to try to rip off MERP (*Middle Earth Role Play*) for
D&D ideas. Today's idea started by asking the question, "Why do MERP wands
suck ...
3 days ago
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Elite: Not So Dangerous
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The Thargoids are here! For definitions of “here” that are limited to
certain locations in the game *Elite: Dangerous*, anyway. And ObisidanAnt,
premier j...
4 days ago
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Streaming matters for trad play
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Midcentury, many educated people thought that hanzi, Chinese writing, was
an albatross holding back Chinese modernization and economic development.
This in...
4 days ago
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[Three Hexes] On Vacation!
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I am enjoying a week off, doing absolutely nothing important and enjoying
every second of it!
Merlin Sleeping in the Woods - Eleanor Fortescue Bricksdale ...
4 days ago
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The Wodlands 7 - The Actual Wodlands
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1. The Plain of Anaesthetic Fire.
2. The Antigoblin Empire.
3. The Whetstone Ridge.
4. The Painted Plane.
5. The Vermilion Sea.
6. The Large Goblin Collider....
5 days ago
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Knights of the Old Republic: Shadows of the Sith Empire
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I went with Star Wars, reviving my idea for a Knights of the Old Republic
campaign in which Darth Revan was succeeded by a Sith Empress. So far, all
of th...
5 days ago
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The Olde House (1974-1979)...
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So yesterday I found my old house on Google Maps*. I lived there four and
a half years, seemingly the totality of my childhood right up to my dawning
adol...
6 days ago
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Alternate Vancian Magic System for OSR Games
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*Beware where you prepare your spells!*Okay, let me get his out straight
away. I am not an Jack Vance scholar, literature major, or real wizard. I
just lo...
6 days ago
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MARSH GHOST
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Init +10
Melee Atk
• hatchet +2 (1d6)
AC 10
HD 2d12
MV 60, fly 30
Act 1d20 + 1d16
SP ghostly
Fort +8
Ref +8
Will +3
AL C
Look, you just don't want to spe...
6 days ago
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Free RPG Day, Running OD&D Games At Guild of Blades in Clawson, Michigan
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This Saturday is Free RPG Day! In previous years I've talked about running
games for the day, but haven't gotten around to it. This year I'm
participating ...
6 days ago
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[REVIEW] The Quarrymen
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*The Quarrymen (2016)*
by Duncan McPhedran
Published by The Zorathan City State Press
3rd level, 6-10 characters
*[NOTE TO MY PLAYERS: STAY AWAY FROM THIS ...
1 week ago
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The Monsters & Villains of the Moathouse PDF
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So I finished one task this morning for my series of One-Page Adventures
for Temple of Elemental Evil.
It is the list & stats of all the monsters and villa...
1 week ago
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Erik Tenkars Swords & Wizardry Light
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So I recently picked up another half dozen copies of Swords & Wizardry
Continual Light. My players had the idea to just dedicate an entire book to
a Chara...
1 week ago
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Modrons, Mephits & Mayhem Free Enhancement Guide now available at DMsGuild!
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Modrons, Mephits & Mayhem is not only a fun standalone adventure, it’s also
featured in the nine-adventure compilation curated by M.T. Black and Travis
Leg...
1 week ago
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Mordenkainen, in 1974 and today.
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This weekend at the Wizards of the Coast "Stream of Many Eyes" event I got
my hands on a copy of *Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes*, which is "built on the
wr...
1 week ago
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The Chronicles of Nolenor – Play Report #10
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(Link to prior sessions) Real date: 1/6/18 In-game date: September 28th,
EY632 PCs: Ambrose (Warrior – Fighter L2) Asher (Robber- Thief …
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1 week ago
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A Piece of Gaming Mecca or Magic Item?
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Magic Items and Nostalgia This piece of cardstock vibrates with the essence
of gaming. The artisanal paper is hand-made from sample adventure
printings, ...
2 weeks ago
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Stream of Many Eyes – WotC Previews New Story
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After last year’s Stream of Annihilation that previewed Tomb of
Annihilation, it was clear that WotC has embraced streaming of live play
D&D. This weeken...
2 weeks ago
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The OSR is what you want it to be!
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Just keep in mind when you read about what the OSR ought to be or ought to
be doing that the widespread use of open content under the OGL means that
the O...
2 weeks ago
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On the week of June 1st in classic gaming
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It's been a rough day, and I'm doing this late, so I apologize for paucity.
I've also gotten some feedback about layout and discussion of products. A
lot o...
2 weeks ago
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Dinosaurs Fuck Off
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So settings have a prehistory--the stuff that happened way before the
common era. They're usually either:
(a) tediously enumerated with faux-mythology, or...
2 weeks ago
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Kickstarter: Chose Your Own Sci-Fi Stock Art!
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James Shields has a Kickstarter, Chose Your Own: Sci-Fi Stock Art, that
I've never seen done before. A mix and match collection of stock art that
can be ...
2 weeks ago
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The Sage: Rescuing a lost Blackmoor Character Class
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Tucked in the back of TSR's *Supplement II Blackmoor *is a curious
expansion on the sage NPC. It's curious because this section contains
quite a bit of de...
3 weeks ago
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UNFATHOMABLE NOW IN BOOK FORM (PLUS COMICS)
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JUST LOOK AT THIS STUFF
Pretty Sexy
GO HERE: Operation Unfathomable on RPGNow
AND HERE: OU Players Guide
AND HERE: OU Print Pack
AND THIS JUST IN
A bunc...
3 weeks ago
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Two Tome of Tomes
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*Blackcloak, Terror of Westhame Forest*
Author: Dirk Ringdon
Race: Human
Dimensions: 8x8x0.5
Weight: 2 lbs.
Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
Ra...
3 weeks 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 ...
4 weeks 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) ...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks 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...
5 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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.
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 months 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. ...
2 months 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....
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
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...
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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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
7 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...
7 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...
1 year ago
I wasn't on sale yesterday. After your Black Friday sales posts, I headed over to DrivethruRPG to see if ASSH was on sale. It is one of the OSR games that I really want to buy...
ReplyDeleteI bought it this morning. Been a good read. Can't wait for my red box to arrive in the mail!
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