The Marxman Aims True
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While I normally try statting out characters from existing media, I've
created some characters too. Marxman is an aging archer from one of my old
Mutants a...
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GURPS DF Session 221, Felltower 140 - Second GFS Assault, Part I - Date: 4/11/2026 Weather: Mild and sunny. Characters *Chop*, human cleric (367 points) *Duncan Tesadic*, human wizard (355 points) *Hannari Ironhand*, dwarf ...12 hours ago
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Corpse Husbandry - By ShanklimbSelf PublishedOSRLevels 4-6 In recent months, strange mushrooms have erupted across a corner just outside the Mulchgrove. Local foragers report...23 hours ago
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I Hate Myself and Want to Die (or, Frog-People World) - Not really. But I did just spend an hour drafting a post only for it to disappear into the ether. All the way through, I noticed that the autosave functi...2 days ago
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The Lost Great Crystal Debate - In a late and desperate attempt to shore up my ‘relevance’ I have been scouring the internet for evidence that I exist, and have stumbled into the tragic...2 days ago
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SoloDark: Four Drunk Priests - Dabbling into some solo play using SoloDark. Rolled up the party last night. 3d6 down the line and pick the best class for the results. It was tragic. ht...4 days ago
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The Myth of Death as Stakes... - It's been said, especially in old-school circles, that character death is essential to the pulse-pounding stakes good adventures depend upon. Combat means ...6 days ago
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Artemis II and the view of the Earth - Long-time readers of my blog know I have a long-standing abiding interest in space exploration. One of my hobbies is flying space simulators and writing ...1 week ago
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Consolidated AD&D Weapon Characteristics List - Having spent the last few days down a research rabbit hole, I ended up compiling a chart of AD&D weapon characteristics, adding some "missing" entries an...1 week ago
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[ZINE] Echoes From Fomalhaut #14: Into the Worn Lands (NOW AVAILABLE!) - Echoes From Fomalhaut #14I am pleased to announce the publication of the fourteenth issue of my fanzine, *Echoes From Fomalhaut*. This is a 52-page zine d...1 week ago
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Tempo - Been tinkering with some advice for pacing a game of *Intergalactic. *I suspect I'll go a bit further than this, but it's a start. The speed at which the...1 week ago
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Session 0 & 1 - I have started playing a little White Box game during my lunches and whatever free time I can muster during the week (which is not much due to idiotic coll...3 weeks ago
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Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...3 weeks ago
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Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...5 weeks ago
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What roleplaying games are you playing now? What games do you want to play? - I've been writing this blog for almost seventeen years now. Yet I've rarely addressed any questions to you, the human beings who look at these posts from...5 weeks ago
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The March 1636 Lantern is Published - Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have noticed that I mistakenly published it as free access for 56 minutes. I was just so ...1 month ago
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Gary Con 2026 Registration - Silver Badges get to register for events at Noon Central today (February 21, 2026). Somehow I thought I failed to register for running games this year and ...1 month ago
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RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026, Day 9 - The Big Bad™ - Rolling on with Barking Alien's RPG CAMPAIGN TOUR CHALLENGE... *Day 9 - Who's in charge here?* *Who are the major movers and shakers in the campaign?* As t...1 month ago
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Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...2 months ago
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Book Notes: The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction - I've been reading *The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction*. It's a collection of mythological, spiritual, moral, hist...2 months ago
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On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...3 months ago
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...5 months ago
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Musings on the OSR Blogosphere and Forums - Link to discussion There are some posts on the historical OSR blog scene that I’ve read recently from the Grumpy … Continue reading →6 months ago
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How do you do piracy… in SPACE!? - Interstellar space travel in Iridium Moons was always going to be a form of hyperspace jump like in Star Wars or Traveller. Simply because it’s the one for...6 months ago
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A long overdue hobby update! - Welcome back to the Vault everyone! 2025 is going by in a blur; I last posted in February, almost started a post in March and now it's the end of May. W...10 months ago
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Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over 1,000 ...11 months ago
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...1 year ago
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Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...1 year ago
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Writing playlists for all occasions - Hello again! Going off the idea of inspiration elaborated on by the prior post, I also have music playing while I write my various games and fiction pieces...1 year ago
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The Tarot of Pips - Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a secr...1 year ago
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Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic item rese...1 year ago
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It's been a bit - Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and other st...1 year ago
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*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace - A lot of SF (including a certain 2D6 RPG grandaddy) deal with ancient aliens taking humans from Earth and dropping them, fleas and all, on one or more w...2 years ago
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Last move - to self-hosting! - As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at) Blog: ht...2 years ago
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Clean Your Room - Looking back at my little blog here. That last post… wow, I was having fun playing WOW Classic! That was August of 1999 and I was having a blast… it was ...4 years ago
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Steve Jackson Interview - James Maliszewski recently did an interview with Steve Jackson over on his Grognardia blog. Steve chats about the beginnings of The Fantasy Trip and upcomi...5 years ago
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The Hero’s Journey 2nd Edition, Campbellian roleplaying at its best! - (this review done using the reviewers own purchased copy) I have been a James Michael Spahn fan since he wrote his Swords & Wizardry Companion. His writing...5 years ago
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ToAD Monster of the Week: Crocoman - Now that I'm back doing the blog thing I thought I would use Tome of Adventure Design to create monsters for The Black Hack. Using the monster tables in th...6 years ago
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OCHRE SAND - Init +0 Ranged Atk • fire burst +3 (1d14+1, 20') AC 17 HD 3d6 MV 60 Act 1d24 SP 'breath' weapon, sideslip, perfect silence, morphing Fort +5 Ref +8 Will...6 years ago
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie - When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there was a strang...6 years ago
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The Faithful - An Optional Archetype for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Revised Edition - Work on the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is moving along. This will be a hefty tome, with a LOT of tools and new options to customiz...6 years ago
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Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...6 years ago
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Fiction in Airhde - On a whim this weekend, I picked up some fiction off the TLG store. *A Houseless God & Other Tales* and *The Mirrored Soul & Other Tales*, both by the T...6 years ago
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Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots of redu...6 years ago
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The Withered Crag available now - I just enabled the sale of the PDF version of The Withered Crag at DriveThruRPG a few minutes ago, and the custom print version will be available startin...6 years ago
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Annihilation Rising Goes live - The latest in Fail Squad Games’ Quick Kick projects has gone live and needs your support!! This project is only running 11 days and ends on 5/28/2019! ...6 years ago
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James's Celebration of Life - We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined us tod...6 years ago
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Trap Tuesday: A step back - I will get back to Tomb of Horrors soon. I found a topic that was interesting enough to take a break. While interacting in a 5E group on Facebook I talked ...7 years ago
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Let's Talk About Pacing! - The idea, I think, is that the RPG is ultimately about the long game. Even rolling back to the early days of Basic & Expert, the goal of the player was...7 years ago
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Profane and Profound Prep Part 2 - 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...7 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.7 years ago
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...7 years ago
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New website! - 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...7 years ago
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Please Update Your Link! - 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...7 years ago
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Total Sales for WB:FMAG - 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*...7 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - 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 megadunge...7 years ago
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Mord Mar - Session 5 - We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers: Moira, the Magic-User Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?) Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...7 years ago
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Yodeling For Yokels or The Further Misa(d&)dventures - 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...7 years ago
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Bundle of Fantasy Age - Bundle of Holding: Dragon Age/Fantasy Age: Available until March 12. PA Presents: Fantasy AGE Freeport live play Green Ronin in 2018 The Fantasy Age RPG ma...8 years ago
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New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults - 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, a...8 years ago
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...8 years ago
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Swords & Wizardry Light: Session # 6 - Two months after our last session (thanks to things like 8th grade finals, a 4 year-old's birthday and party, Father's Day, etc.), we finally had our next ...8 years ago
Moe T - the man behind The Windsor Gaming Resource.
ReplyDeleteWasn't sure if I should post here or not as the last year has been horrible for me and all of my blogs have suffered due to it. I hadn't updated in months.
That said, I do plan on getting back to it.
So the Windsor Gaming Resource blog is a spot where you can find out about gaming events in the Windsor Ontario Area. In addition you will find reviews and other gaming discussion.
w-g-r.com
Sanctum Secorum (Sanctum.media) is a DCC RPG/Appendix N literary podcast that focuses on taking materials and bring them to the table. We discuss a number of DCC adventures, and feature one adventure, every episode. Anything DCC RPG related we are interested in so that we can broaden our scope for the podcast. In addition, we are looking to branch out our blog-side by reviewing DCC RPG and system neutral materials. While DCC RPG Materials are the focus of our podcast, getting more system neutral materials in front of our listener base is in keeping with our mission, helping people bring creativity and variety to their gaming tables.
ReplyDelete"...sell yourself..."
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought you said that the Tavern wasn't a whorehouse! :P
If you are a blogger looking to review Stock Art: Dungeon Scenes, Fantasy Characters or Wizards, email me at Gwythaint.ny@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteFor publishers it is worth noting:
ReplyDelete-Are you looking for you unsolicited manuscripts / queries?
-Are you looking for new artists?
-How do you pay? Terms / timelines, etc.
-List one product that successfully captures your company's vision.
-List one product that is under appreciated, and why you think it should be appreciated.
adding this as a sticky
Deletegmbgaming... Greg Barry, recently attended Gary Con... typically stick to east coast Conventions when I can attend
ReplyDeleteHey, I'm getting my game, Project Vanquish, ready for funding on Kickstarter. I'm hoping to get as much publicity as I can manage beforehand and during. I'd be up for interviews in various media, probably in a couple weeks.
ReplyDeleteIt's here at Drivethru if you're interested in playing and/or reviewing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/180035/Project-Vanquish-Free-Beta
Well, I'm a little late to the party I see. I'm Thom Wilson, the one man band behind ThrowiGames and Nomad Gaming. I write adventures for 1E, 5E and my own system, SRS (Simple Roleplaying System). Most of my SRS work is free to download on my website, but occasionally I have materials printed.
ReplyDeleteI also write for other publishers (most recently, 'Affliction' for Fail Squad Games). I have about 3-4 unpublished adventures (pre-edit stage) ready for any who may be looking for a quick 16-24 page adventure to publish. I'm also working with a well known author on new sci-fi material due out later this year.
I'm currently revising SRS (v2.0) and playtesting another of my creations throughout 2016 for a 2017 publication. I have three books in the works right now: Affliction (part 2) for Fail Squad Games, Into the Wreckage (a 1E Gamma World adventure for NTRPGCon) and Island of Blight (part 2 in the Trail of the Serpent Queen series).