I'm currently thumbing thru Villains & Vigilantes re-release, the Judges Guild Initial Guidelines book, Dark Heresy - Dead Stars, some Labyrinth Lord stuff, a pile of Chaosium releases, some indie game stuff... if anyone has a preference give a shout out below and I'll get to it. Otherwise, I slog thru as I slog thru.
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Brewkessel Level 1 - By Tom Holmgren OSE Level 1? Once upon a time, there was a wonderful school of spellcraft and sorcery called Brewkessel. 62 years ago it vanished in a flas...3 hours ago
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Miskatonic Monday #88: The Orphanage - Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series of books for *Call of Cthulhu* under the Miskatonic University Library Associati...3 hours ago
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How the map of Faerûn changed over time - A discussion came up about how much the map of the Forgotten Realms was changed in size over the various editions, and I sat down to finally get a definiti...4 hours ago
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Familiars - I spent two days rewriting and expanding the explanation of this spell, now the longest spell page on my wiki: What a headache ... and long overdue, thou...10 hours ago
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Felltower pre-summary - We played Felltower today and: - Gerry layed down some large-area magic - Ulf hid in the back - reinforcements arrived - and not more of the "six fingered...13 hours ago
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Pestilential Painting: Plague Surgeon Work In Progress - Welcome back to the Vectorium! This week has passed in a blur, but I have managed to squeeze a brief painting session in. I'm working on a Death Guard P...20 hours ago
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Commentary On Modifying the Free OSR Adventure Module 'Grandfather's Rain' By Kevin Crawford For - ACK's Barbarian Conquerors of Kanahu & Colonial Troopers Knight Hawks rpg - So for the past couple of days I've been quietly working on a campaign world of a post apocalyptic nature & so far there are some campaign notes that I've...1 day ago
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Play report: Blackstone - On Black Friday we had a long, involved session set in Blackstone, my AD&D 2e Players Option campaign, which is 14 years old ('the new campaign'). The...1 day ago
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Alternate Appendix P - Appendix P of the AD&D *Dungeon Masters Guide *is a set of instructions for “Creating a Party on the Spur of the Moment” - generating pre-experienced cha...2 days ago
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GURPS Nordlond Bestiary Kickstarter - Douglas Cole of Gaming Ballistic is having another GURPS related kickstarter. This time it is a bestiary for his Nordlond setting for the Dungeon Fantasy...2 days ago
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Hacking - This *Bastionland Editorial *was originally sent as a reward to all Patreon supporters, and is released freely on this site a week after its original pub...3 days ago
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Free GM Resource: OSE Basic Rules - [image: Free GM Resource: OSE Basic Rules] I got an email from Necrotic Gnome telling me about an update to a freebie that is the Old-School Essentials: ...3 days ago
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Jumping in at the Deep End - On Starting Reading a Series Halfway Through - When I was about 10 or so a friend of mine came to school one day with a book he'd got from the local library. It was something called *The Fellowship of...3 days ago
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Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale DTRPG sale - DTRPG is making a Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale. It includes more than 12.000 titles... but don't worry, I'm here to help! Here are some of my favorites. ...3 days ago
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Psionics Revision Lv Two - Ongoing spell list revisions. I did have schools for psionics but I have abandoned it as rules limiting people that tak...3 days ago
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On the Edge of the Map - I still recall when I had to wait till Monday to call the Library of Congress to find out things. You don't really know what's out there. We see a lot m...4 days ago
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The Jelly Kid Family - Jelly Kids Undead are corpses puppeted by demons. Not jelly kids, though. I'm not sure what's puppeting these things, but gosh if they aren't friendly! ...4 days ago
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[REVIEW] In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe - *In the Shadow of Tower SilveraxeIn the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe (2021)* by Jacob Fleming Published by Gelatinous Cubism Press Low- to mid-level In a...4 days ago
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation - [image: Evil-Lyn the real star] It is late Tuesday night (now early Wednesday morning) and I just finished binge-watching *Masters of the Universe: Revela...5 days ago
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The Deadly Illusion of GenCon 1978 - As much attention as *Game Wizards *lavishes on conventions, there was more still before the manuscript was cut down to size. Convention tournaments in...5 days ago
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Character Themed Campaigns in Greyhawk - While it might not be a good fit for a long-term campaign, there is a type of game in which most of the players agree to play a particular type of characte...5 days ago
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Warhammer is a Satire Now - If you are a dorky, low status white man, at some point in your life you look around to see that you are surrounded by other, dorky, low status (probably ...1 week ago
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Stonehell: Lost Level: All About the Arachnids - Session 182 was played on 9/26 Morgana, Mage 8 (Reggie) Karl, Dwarf 8 (Julia) Darryl, Cleric (NPC) Biffin takes the magic book to study for the next 6 we...1 week ago
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Grenadier: The Fine Art of Ugly... - The old Grenadier line, the official AD&D miniatures from the 1980s. Love 'em or hate 'em, there were undeniably better products on offer (Ral Partha com...1 week ago
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Microfiction + Film Notes: Dune 2021 - Take It To The Top "I'm sorry!" he squealed, holding his hands in the air. "It's not my fault!" "What to you mean?" I said, doing my best to seem gri...1 week ago
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Printing Issues (again) - I'm using this model, a 1:100 scale Artilleriewagen, to try to iron out some issues I've been getting with my resin prints. You can see some diagonal l...1 week ago
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People of the World, Spice up Your Life - I have seen the *Dune*. It’s good, but, like all “content” now, too long. The forms of many designs are quite nice (love the costumes of the imperial de...2 weeks ago
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Six Guns and Snake Men! - First of all apologies for my lackluster publishing schedule on this blog. Second for the time being at least I am turning to pulp action. I recently pu...2 weeks ago
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A Greyhawk Guide to Blackmoor - I think it is time to put down the pen on this one. Thank you all for your patience over the past year+ that I have been head-down buried in work on th...2 weeks ago
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Troika! - ISMs (A sneak peak) - I have 2 projects currently on the go, which I've been trading off writing each. The following are excerpts for the Troika! project. *Locations* *The...3 weeks ago
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Why Travel to the Grand City of Epic Grandness? - A black magic black market where you can get things you can't get anywhere else. The Running of the Gorgons. Win Fame and Fortune in the Arena...1 month ago
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A Full-Time RPG Income - What does it take to earn a full-time income from RPGs? This is a back-of-the-envelope calculation to illustrate one way of looking at this. The RPG mark...1 month ago
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Kiwi Gandalf - News from Middle-earth: "New Zealand council ends contract with wizard after two decades of service" "The official Wizard of New Zealand, perhaps the on...1 month ago
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FKR – Free Kriegsspiel Revolution - Today I came across a tweet mentioning the OSR and FKR. I had not heard of the FKR, so I had to ask what it was. The first article I read was on Board Ga...1 month ago
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The Worm Ouroboros - The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E. R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological tradi...1 month ago
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Who Wants an Adventure? A Cool Location? How about an NPC Card? - July I created three 'things' for my Patreon. You can see *Viviana* above. She is my 34th NPC Card. An elven mage with some anger issues. She is statt...3 months ago
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Papers & Pencils 10 Year Anniversary - I started this blog 10 years ago today, on August 8th, 2011. It began as a desperate groping towards meaning. Dedicating myself to writing meant I could ca...3 months ago
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Greyhawk (and grodog) News Miscellany - Some updates from or of interest to World of Greyhawk fans: - Virtual Greyhawk Con 2 to be held from 1 to 3 October 2021 was announced by Jay Scot...3 months ago
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Errata for the Victorious Rulebook - The following isn’t comprehensive, but is based on issues players of the Victorious RPG have brought to my attention. If you’ve noticed any such rules issu...3 months ago
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This Google Doodle is freaking awesome - So I'm starting to write this post on Friday evening, and the week at work was a bit stressful this time around, so you could probably put one of those ...4 months ago
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This Blog has Moved! - I’ve moved this blog to a self-hosted one, on the same server running my old-school gaming forum, this blog will … Continue reading →5 months ago
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Encounter Critical news?!? - So rpg bad boy Venger Satanis has bought the rights to the best game that isn't D&D.5 months ago
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Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) Cover reveal! - Heya folks, got a new cover in for Silent Night (The Salt Mine 16) and thought I should share.5 months ago
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What's wrong with megadungeons? - I ran across a megadungeon article from last July. I know, I am a little behind, as I was dealing with my cancer when it came out. In the blog, DM David ...6 months ago
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Guess it's not meant to be - for now - Well, I tried. I got some folks interested in possibly playing a run through the classic module U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. I just could...7 months ago
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My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter! - I can't believe I didn't post about it here! The Dead are Coming, Screams Amongst the Stars and Running Out of Time are on *Kickstarter right now!* Thes...1 year ago
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Maximum HP 004, one week to go - Just one week to go for Maximum HP issue #004, the undead. We are pushing through stretch goals and wracking up contributions for the best issue yet. We...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Undermountain Map Origins - As documented on the Ruins of Undermountain sales page, "TSR didn't actually use Ed Greenwood's original maps," at least not in their entirety. This post d...1 year ago
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A Campaign Begins for Newbies - Like many of you, the affects of the Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted how hundreds of millions of us fellow mutants interact and function in our jobs, co...1 year ago
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WB:FMAG Total Print Sales - Hello Folks, The last time I did a quick sales report was in September 2018. I pulled reports from Amazon, Lulu and DrivethruRPG from October to current fo...1 year ago
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The Minotaur for Old-School Essentials - *Minotaur* *Requirements:* Minimum STR 9, Minimum CON 9 *Prime Requisite:* STR and CON *Hit Dice:* 1d10 *Maximum Level:* 8 *Armor:* Leather, including shield...1 year ago
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The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons - And now the News... In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...1 year ago
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WIZARDS OF POHJOLA - Init +0 Melee Atk • sword or dagger +1 (1d5 or 1d3) Ranged Atk • hot iron sparks +3 (1d4+2 to two targets within 20' but not closer than 5') AC 14 HD 12d...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, TSR's Co-Founder Now Available - LINK to Description and Ordering: https://www.tlbgames.com/collections/the-red-book-line/products/merlynd-the-magician1 year ago
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New AD&D Greyhawk Campaign Notes - I recently launched a new AD&D campaign on Fantasy Grounds. Although we're using the 2e ruleset FG released earlier this year, my only books for reference...2 years ago
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The Withered Crag custom print version for sale again - Just re-enabled the direct sales button for the custom print (classic style detached cover) version of F4 The Withered Crag, and also for F3 Many Gates of...2 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...2 years ago
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Home Sweet Home Azeroth - A very simple mash up of the World of Warcraft Cinematic Trailer and Classic Announcement set to Mötley Crüe “Home Sweet Home” from the Theatre of Pain a...2 years ago
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D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets - In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one for small/medium targets (i.e. man-sized) and one for large targets (giants and...2 years ago
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James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video - A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We miss you! To view video, click here Memorial Video Note - The original video...2 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...2 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...2 years ago
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SHORT BREAK. - 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.2 years ago
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Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - 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...2 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...3 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...3 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 megadungeo...3 years ago
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Mord Mar - Session 6 - 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 ...3 years ago
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A Small, Quiet Plea - 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....3 years ago
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Don’t Sleep It’s Broken - 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 years ago
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Swords & Wizardry Light-Themed Birthday Party - 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...4 years ago
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