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Lenard Lakofka RIP - Another legend from the early days of D&D, Lenard Lakofka, has passed away. In addition to the “L” modules, Lakofka helped to shape the world of Greyhawk...2 hours ago
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October Horror Movie Challenge - Parasyte: Part II (2015) - PlotShinichi decides to go on the offensive and hunt down the parasytes that have invaded Earth. However, there are those that know of his existence and a...4 hours ago
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Remembering Len Lakofka - Just got word a bit ago that Lenard "Leomund" Lakofka passed away this morning. Len and I got along well even when we had a difference of opinion. I l...5 hours ago
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[REVIEW] A Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City - *A Visitor's Guideto the Rainy CityA Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City (2020)* by Rich Forest, with Andrew D. Devenney, Alisha Forest and Bill Spytma ...5 hours ago
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The Continuing Outer Realm War Round Two - Godbound/Cha'alt Play Session Six - Manticores & Tactical Demons - So last night it was the middle of the Godbound/Cha'alt/Stars Without Number Session & here's where the party had to deal with a Cha'alt manticore. It too...6 hours ago
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On Spending Money - In systems where you don't spend your gold for direct increases in power (i.e. there is no "wealth by level" table), what do you spend your gold on? This i...9 hours ago
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Spell Research as Freeform Magic System - One of the reasons I like to go back and re-read the old rulebooks is that I inevitably find something that I didn't notice on previous readings. Or that I...13 hours ago
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Friday Fantasy: Wizards & Spells - There is no denying the continued and growing popularity of *Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition*, with it having appeared on the television series *Strange...13 hours ago
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40k: Tyranid Progress Update - Buckets of Nids and Stripping Tips - Thanks to a bit of luck and a few good deals, my Tyranid army is speeding along. Most of the kits have been in production for 15+ years, so used Tyranid ...17 hours ago
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Tomorrow Men - Buy Our Playsets and Toys! - So our GURPS Gamma Terra GM put up this post about our characters: Gammatober Day 22: Tomorrow Men Here we are, in a very accurate depiction: The sad ...1 day ago
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Kickstarter: Pin Editing and Art Update - *Editing* Emily turned her edits over and I am going through the comments and corrections. Another back and forth should do the trick and meet the compl...1 day ago
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Painting a World with Monster Blood - Before I get into the post, it's time for me to once again remind you that if you've been enjoying GRIMLITE and reading about its development, you can su...1 day ago
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Reaper's Gloomstalker (Hooked Horror) - Playing a bit of catch up here at the Tower... these Hooked Horrors Gloom Stalkers were painted over the summer, and I only just got around to taking pic...1 day ago
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Martians, Godzilla, and Werewolves; Oh My! - Greetings everyone, I don’t normally plug other blogs (except when I feel like it)….but this one is pretty sweet: https://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.c...2 days ago
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Gelly Cube - (Another in my attempt to 'Goosify' the Top Ten Emblematic D&D Monsters) More correctly, the 'Gelid Kjub', 'Silent Square', or 'Sorrowful Solid Square'. S...2 days ago
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Australis Barrows – The Halls of Eternal Ice - By Robin Fjarem lalath OSR/Generic Level ? A bright red star has appeared in the sky. People call it the Evening Star. Ever since its arrival strange thing...2 days ago
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DTRPG's Halloween gold run - free stuff! - DTRPG's Halloween sale is on!* Almost all of my own products are 25% off due to the sale, since I write mostly dark fantasy stuff. Dark Fantasy Basic and ...3 days ago
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Lets just call it a dungeon : level 2 WIP - Level 2 24 rooms 2 big bads : red dragon, Shrieker (or something similar) Level 4 monsters 1. Monster no treasure owlbear Neither li...3 days ago
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Free GM Resource: WikiArt.org - [image: Free GM Resource: WikiArt.org] I might be in the minority, but I find artwork important to my gaming experience. I like to use art to "punch up"...3 days ago
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Adventures in Marshall Barony, ep 11&12 - THE CAST O' CHARACTERS:CURRENT ROSTERVance - Yozzat, a dwarfJoe - Olwen Door-Hinge-Bane, a human rangerTim - Raymondo M., human thiefSteve - Dosta Grimm, a...4 days ago
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Virtual TsunamiCon 2020 - A Resounding Success! - My thanks to the indefatigable Erik Carl and his cohort of admins, helpdeskers, and technical wizards for putting on TsunamiCon 2020 Virtual Con this ...4 days ago
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I Want to Break Free - God knows I want to break free...from Drive Thru RPG. Yes, I said it. I hate that site. I hate publishing through it: the eye-watering royalties (30% as ...4 days ago
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Stoneage Slaughter - Got four-players to my stoneage dnd clone day. All onto 11 levels now. Boron the warrior the hero of...5 days ago
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Pestilential Painting: First Outbreak - Welcome back to the Vault. Usually at this point in the blogging year I would have been working towards Octoberfest and writing about the process, culmi...5 days ago
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Forged in the Dark - Looking over my older posts, I’ve started talking about Barbarians of Lemuria some five years back, and been thinking about how to combine elements of it w...5 days ago
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First Look at Heroes’ Feast - I’ve got a new video up, a first look at the official D&D cookbook.5 days ago
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New Photo Backdrop - I threw together this generic ETO terrain backdrop for photographing things on. I used a manila card folder, which is why there's a visible crease righ...6 days ago
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Giveaway: A Copy of Hunters in Death - How would you like to get a copy of Hunters in Death? Well Matt Jackson ordered two copies and said to give the other one away. So let's do that. Jus...1 week ago
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d6s to Roll for Wandering Monsters in 1980 - It doesn't get more old school than rolling a d6 to check for wandering monsters in a dungeon. In the early 1980s, rolling a "1" meant you were in for...2 weeks ago
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 - 1939) - [image: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - Azot, Fosfór i Arsen (z cyklu kompozycji chemicznych) (tech. mieszana), 1918]Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Arsenic (fro...2 weeks ago
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Fiends, Folios, and the Edge of Amateur... - As yours truly and his beloved are crafting the new Pits & Perils, I've been mining some (much-needed) inspiration from gaming's antiquity. If the origi...2 weeks ago
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The Dead Are Coming - People - 10 - People Zombies can be really scary but one of the most dangerous encounters is other people. They are desperate, just like you. 10.1 - Sample Pe...2 weeks ago
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The Bombing of the Quick Stop Gas Station Bench - *One of the ingredients that's coalescing for Bunkers & Billionaires is a completely surreal mission landscape. Rogue intelligence agents and terrorist c...2 weeks ago
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Unwanted Undead Adventurer - I follow a few ongoing manga series on Comixology—Delicious in Dungeon, Made in Abyss, Goblin Slayer. Ubel Blatt, though that is finished and I am way behi...3 weeks ago
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We Are Not Alone - As this splendid isolation drags on, I’ve dipped a toe into board game design. Well, it’s really sort of a board game/RPG hybrid called “We Are Not Alone...3 weeks ago
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A Tower in the Wasteland - I've decided to just write a dungeon without spending too much time overthinking it. Stream of consciousness, etc. *1 TOWER* Bent-backed and smooth-sided...4 weeks ago
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Playtest of my Mass Combat Rules - Report - The sons and I broke out my new mass combat rules and playtested all weekend. We started with Orcs vs Elves (using the number for a max-sized group of...4 weeks ago
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Why Follow ME, And Die! - For those new to my blog, podcast, and YouTube channel, I wanted to explain where Follow Me, And Die! comes from. Origins Back in the mid 80’s my brother...4 weeks ago
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Labyrinth Lord OEC House Rules - I mentioned starting a Labyrinth Lord Original Edition Characters (OEC) campaign recently, and having created some house rules. I tried … Continue reading →1 month 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 month 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 month ago
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Fitting the Great Kingdom onto the Flanaess - Here we go. For fun, take a look at the map below. What you are looking at is one of the best medieval maps of the world, produced in 1154 by geograph...1 month ago
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Melee Weapons of the FUTURE! - Coming up with hand-to-hand weapons for sci-fi games is fun. You can really let your imagination run wild with options. While what follows are not the ...1 month ago
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Just sharing a side project - Not a Love Song - Hello, all who happen upon this corner of the interweb! I am enjoying some days off of work this week and thought it might be a good idea to pay a tiny ...1 month ago
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A Taxonomy of Old-School D&D - As a hobby for nerds, there's a strong appetite among D&D fans to make lists and categorize things, and this extends not just to elements within the game...2 months ago
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The Goblin Bazaar - The Goblin Bazaar is located in the first room on the second sublevel of my Five Years Left megadungeon. All manner of useful things can be found for sale ...2 months ago
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The Halls of Arden Vul Complete Nominated for an ENNie award! - Proud to say that The Halls of Arden Vul Complete (the PDF version of AV) has been nominated for Best Adventure for the 2020 ENNies. To celebrate, I'm runn...3 months 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...3 months ago
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Sometimes, the best move is not to play... - I had to do something really hard this weekend, I had to cancel my monthly tabletop Zoom AD&D game, as well as my bi-weekly online AD&D game. I'm taking a...4 months ago
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A to Z of Megadungeons - I've seen a couple of A to Z's lately and decided we needed one for megadungeons. So here, we go. A is for Architect Someone needs to build the megadungeon...4 months 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...5 months 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...5 months 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...7 months 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...7 months ago
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We Has Met the Enemy Part Five - The Earth Defense force’s first attempt to build a battleship was classic Dunning-Kruiger effect. They had never built a battleship before. They had built ...8 months 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...8 months 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...9 months 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-magician10 months 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...11 months ago
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Dolmenwood Campaign Book: Planning Update - As work on the final digital rewards for the Old-School Essentials Kickstarter is entering the end stages, my thoughts are slowly returning to "the next bi...11 months 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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! ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...2 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 ...2 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....2 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...2 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...3 years ago
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