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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Reminder - Tavern Chat Tonight - 9 PM Eastern - It's NOT Hidden Behind a Secret Door ;)
Tavern Chat is tonight, 9 PM Eastern. Fair warning, your bartender is suffering from a cold from hell. I might sound like shit but thankfully germs aren't spread through Discord ;)
Where? Simply follow the invite. Open Bar is where the voice chat is. You can lurk - we don't mind...
Back after a bit
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Sorry for the lack of posts. I am learning a new language and it is taking
up a lot of my time.
Sadly, learning R will have nothing to do with anything I...
Online DF game seeking players
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In case you missed it, a new weekly online DF is launching:
DF Whiterock
I am actually available that time - Friday 8 pm to midnight Eastern Time -
but I ...
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...
Battle Star: Trek Wars Review
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Battle Star : Trek Wars is the newest and (potentially) last Alpha Blue
release. This book is 76 pages of wonderful sci-fi sleaze. There is a
standard vers...
Painting Ingrid
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After converting Ingrid to better match the character she's going to
represent (giving her a bow and rapier), last night I got to painting.
I started wi...
Psychon game in Sydney 2018
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Using two rules one from a good looking geniarse on G+ i forgot the name of
- if player goes to to toilet or goes to get a drink or snack so does the
char...
The Dehydrator and MDF Flock
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This is the first outing of my new (second-hand) dehydrator, courtesy of
Pixi, and it does a sterling job of drying out paint-tinted MDF dust. So
I'd call...
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 ...
Grognard's Progress
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I'm sorry, but there will be no podcast today.
The reader may remember last week that I edited a podcast for last week,
only to find that the export file w...
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...
Greyhawk Module Machete Order
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A few weeks ago, I puzzled through the chronological sequence of some of
the iconic adventure modules of early D&D and the Greyhawk setting; the
Giants/Dro...
Twelve Days of Dadi’Van
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By Thom Wilson ThrowiGames S&W Levels 3-5 Dwarves from the village of
Whundarn have a serious problem: they have been unable to produce female
children for...
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 ...
[D&D] The trade road from Narwell to Verbobonc
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Most trade in and out of the Wild Coast region of the *World of Greyhawk*
goes by water, through the bustling seaport towns of Safeton, Fax, and
Elredd. Ho...
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....
I'm still here
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Just wanted to inform everyone that I am still around.
Just need to take a bit of a break.
I'm still on said break.
I just need to let my brain and body rest...
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...
Eidolon mode
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Ryuutama mechanizes a limited degree of referee fudging through a conceit
where the referee plays a character called the ryuujin. In translation,
this mean...
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...
Take a U Turn
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Here's a table when you need to take a campaign U turn.
1. A beloved NPC turns up dead the next morning.
2. A God falls from the sky, dead. It rains icho...
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...
Book Notes: Albion's Seed, Part 3
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I'm going Albion's Seed, David Hackett Fischer's cultural history of the
United States, and copying interesting and gameable content. In Part 1, I
covered ...
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...
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