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Whisky and D&D 6th Edition
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I like whisky.
The whisky industry is in an interesting moment: more whisky is being sold
around the world than ever before, and while this has caused cert...
Role Aids: Tower of Magicks
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*From the back cover:*
*Years before, a demon lead horde assaulted the lone Tower. Now you must
enter the dread Tower where magic has gone wild to d...
[REVIEW] Sailors on the Starless Sea
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Happy to meet you on the Starless Sea
*Sailors on the Starless Sea (2012)*
by Harley Stroh
Published by Goodman Games
0thlevel funnel for 15-20 characters o...
DCC: Doom of the Savage Kings
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Here we go. The band continues with an adventure that is second only to
the ultimate funnel and quintessential DCC adventure *Sailors on the
Starless Se...
The Throne of the Gods
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By Joseph Mohr 1e Levels 15+ Rumors have reached the adventurers about the
recent discovery of the legendary Throne of the Gods. This epic level
journey wi...
The Exile
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I'm writing another adventure. It was a small idea but it's already
spiraling out of "manageable" and into "I may never finish this".
Essentially: a sorce...
Strahd: House of Durst, Dust, and Death...
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Have you ever had a sprite stab you in the chest? Has that ever been the
best thing that’s happened to you that day?
I do not understand these people. The...
OSR: The Grand GLOG Playtesting Review
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The GLOG is Arnold K's fantasy heartbreaker homebrew. I've been using it
for, oh, ~50 sessions now. At ~4 hours a session that's 200 hours of
accumulated p...
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dicerollers
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Have y'all seen the newest shirt being released by Exalted Funeral? It
combines gaming with one of my favorite b-horror flicks, C.H.U.D.! The art
was desig...
TBBYANR: The Wasted Lands
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Whoa. A *Best Blog You Are Not Reading* post?
Yes! This is a feature I wanted to bring back for 2019 to give a shout out
to some lesser know, lesser read ...
Harbinger Unheeded – Frank Mentzer Out at GaryCon
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Today Gary Con’s Luke Gygax announced that Frank Mentzer will no longer be
an Guest of Honor at Gary Con. Luke’s post is linked above via the Gary Con
Face...
The Citadel at Norðvorn Kickstarter
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Douglas Cole over on Gaming Ballistic has just launched a Dungeon Fantasy
Kickstarter. A mini-setting called The Citadel at Norðvorn. If you like
viking t...
Knight's Heraldry Generator
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A simple heraldry generator for use with Hex Describe. Paste the below text
into the bottom box, type [heraldry] into the top box, and click submit.
Typ...
Structures of the Apocalypse: Part 3
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My companion to this is a city map of broken hill which is a almost city
capitol of the outback Australia. I want it to be sandbox city for...
Grills Gone Wild
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This is a piece I designed for my own campaign, for use with 2d dungeon
tiles. It could also be used with 3d tiles, but I haven't sized it to fit
in with ...
Eschatologies
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To make anything very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary.
When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes
to it...
Mistakes and Community Expectations
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I'm afraid this is another post completely devoid of game content, but a
rare post on the state of the RPG online community. In particular, this
relates to...
Are You Tired of Being Human and Good Posture?
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Pruning spam from the comments is damn near a daily thing. It's not unusual
to wake and find some ad for Australian limos or alternative utility
companies...
Eldritch Foundry and the birth of Uud
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The Gods of the Old World* have taken vengeance on me. After crapping on
(or constructively criticising) Games Workshops world-building like a
little rat, ...
Old-School Essentials: The Big "What's New" Post
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So I've been going on about this *Old-School Essentials* thing recently,
which I'll be bringing to Kickstarter in a few months. As you are probably
aware, ...
Creating with Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells
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I finally received my hardcover copy of Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells by Diogo
Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing. I've been reading through the PDF like
craz...
The OSR News: February 16, 2019
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The return of the News Spotlight, a fist-full of One Page Dungeons and I
link something from Deadline Hollywood. Al Krombach makes an interesting
return t...
The Mouth of Spring
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*In every town, village, and hamlet are women who have seen beyond fear,
who are strong enough to push back winter and bring new life to the lands.
Their p...
Crossing the Streams of Time and Space
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Whenever I am at a loss about how to make my dreams for my Greatest
Campaign Ever™ closer to reality, I go back to reading old posts on Against
the Wicked ...
Star Trek X's First Eight
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*These Are the Voyages: Mission Compendium Vol. 1* is an anthology of eight
ready-to-play adventures for use with Modiphius Entertainment’s Star Trek
Adve...
I Stand with Mandy.
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If you haven’t yet, please read these much better accounts written by more
relevant figures. Nothing I can say will be as valuable as what they’ve
said. Ma...
Random friday
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A bunch of things on my mind today.
First things first, our favourite anchorcaster Colin "Spikepit" Green
released his 100th episode! and it's absolutely f...
XRP in a Bundle of Holding
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I'm pleased to say that our One on One Adventures Compendium is part of a Bundle
of Holding, the Bundle of Holding for Two #2.
This bundle focuses on games...
Plot Points…the reverse of Victory Points?
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Greetings, First my apologies for over 2 weeks without a post. There were
extenuating circumstances, but in the end they are irrelevant. I am a
humble cur....
Our Game Spaces are a Reflection of Us
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CW/TW - brief mention of sexual assault issues.
Yea, this post is because of the revelations of abuse by former girlfriends
Mandy, Vivka and Hannah of Zak ...
Lake Geneva Days, Still Writing
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I have been spurred to remember--due to the recent explosion of those
accusing Zak S. of his many abuses--one of the reasons that I am writing *Lake
Geneva...
Building An Encouraging And supportive Community
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I have been honored by some of my Twitter followers for my positive
presence there. On Twitter, I have been mentioned as one of the positive
influences i...
Party Roles for Players and Legacy Points
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A friend of mine is writing a really great game centered around mercenary
guilds and how to handle them in an Old School RPG kind of way. His name is Feli...
Tolkien trailer
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The first trailer for the forthcoming biopic of J.R.R. Tolkien is now
available for your viewing pleasure (all 55 seconds of it). You can watch
it, and rea...
Trap Tuesday - Outside the Dungeon
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So far we have been talking about dungeon traps. But, traps are a wide and
varied subject. Today, we're going to talk about a different kind: the
political...
Top Dungeons and Dragons News
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We should remember the past, lest. . .
If it were a fad, you wouldn't be reading about it right now.
Dungeons & Dragons was always a fast starter. The firs...
The TAGMAR universal table
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Look at this beautiful thing (source):
It is an "universal" table (used for skills, combat, etc.) from the
Brazilian RPG Tagmar (supposedly based on Star ...
Profane and Profound Prep Part 2
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This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release,
along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a
Saint 8000...
Dream Cover - In Search of the Unknown
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Frank Frazetta was born this day February 9, 1928, in Brooklyn, NY. I'm
dedicating this "Dream Cover" post to him.
In Dream Cover posts I imagine being the...
Franklin Cascaes (1908 - 1983)
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[image: 4 - invenção de contos]The Nightmare, 1969
[image: 4 - invenção de contos]O Boitata, 1968
[image: 4 - invenção de contos]Witch of the Modern Times,...
A Great World map for Blackmoor
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*....Dave Arneson decided to begin a medieval fantasy campaign game for his
active Twin Cities club. From the map of the "land" of the "Great Kingdom"
and ...
We Has Met the Enemy Part Four
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With the Triumph en route to the Flying Dutchman, the Martian Admirals saw
an opportunity to at once cripple Earth's Asteroid Belt operations and
destroy t...
Exquisite Dungeon
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Yesterday while we were waiting for some of the usual gang to arrive at The
Dungeon Tower FLGS it occurred to me that we were trying to run a long-run
ca...
D&D's 45th Birthday
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Back when D&D turned 40 in 2014, I put up a post about the date I favored
for celebrating its anniversary: the last Sunday in January. Today, January
27,...
[D&D] Reflecting on the Hall of Many Panes
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Shortly after the turn of the century, Gary Gygax's posts to his email list
and on message boards began talking about a new adventure he was running in
his...
Last Post
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I finally published my new website at,
https://www.gothridgemanor.com/blog
For those who have a blog roll, it would be cool if you could updated my
addre...
Battle Report: Warhammer 40K, Guards v. Orks
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As we continue the odyssey of learning W40k live Jack and I fought mano a
mano where he had Orks and I had the IG.
We decided to leave doctrines and stra...
B/X Mummy Rot
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I did not care for any of the versions of Mummy Rot I found around the web,
so I made my own B/X version. A little softer initially, and I think it
allows ...
The Elves of 74'...
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As much as we like AD&D's multi-classing rules, they weren't exactly a
master class in technical elegance. But they weren't all that bad either
because; r...
SHORT BREAK.
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I'm going to take a break for a week or so and will start up again in the
New Year. Thanks for reading and we'll start with Level 6 when I get back.
Tsillodeed of 0
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So I saw this amazing picture a while back by my now favorite artist Dirk
Detweiler Leichty and immediately got this idea for an adventure which I
ran that...
Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor
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Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation
with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not
doin...
New website!
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Slowly but surely, all the content here will make its way — in updated
form! — to my new website: timbannock.com. For fairly obvious reasons, that
site wil...
check this out
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I am right now in a workshop on gamification in faculty development. I
just took this interesting quiz on gamer type:
https://gamified.uk/UserTypeTest2016...
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 (RSS feed is
h...
Review: Tiny Dungeon 2e
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After reading *Eorathril *and *For Coin & Blood*, Gallant Knight Games has
really become a publisher I respect for their OSR work. Seriously, they do
OSR r...
Total Sales for WB:FMAG
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Hi Folks,
It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White
Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game.
*LULU*
Print: 396
PDF: 433
*OBS*...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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d12
1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute
of Annihilation*
2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadungeo...
My Recent Trip to the Land of Make Believe
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Happy Friday to all the eyeballs that fall here! Let's start the day with
a fresh podcast, maybe something a bit longer, with two people having a
convers...
Mord Mar - Session 6
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We weren't able to play Mord Mar last week, due to a family funeral. This
week we played on Monday for the first time, due to kids returning to
school and ...
A Small, Quiet Plea
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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....
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
What Makes a Great Sandbox Adventure Great?
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For going on six months now I have been doing an on-again/off-again
read/reread of favorite or suggested sandbox products. Unbidden the same
driving questi...
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