Let Me Ask the Room
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Two questions for the general zeitgeist.
*First*—has anyone actually downloaded The Lantern's PDF? Patreon doesn’t
tell me, and I’d genuinely like to kn...
Team Chagrinspire start the Gateway Kingdom
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Mostly writing homebrew rules stuff and several other drafts.
Writing more Chagrinspire again.
*Game play sunday*
Players now Lv10 an...
Projects Day (er...week)
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Been kinda busy today already.
Reloaded Python and a new IDE for it to refresh my skills. Plus I am
entering into what I call "Secondary Research" mode ...
MAC Attack is Live
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I just launched *MAC Attack* on Backerkit.
If you've been following this blog at all then you've seen me write about
it before. If you follow the link ab...
Operation Ogre (1979) - First Printing
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From the web:
The 1979 Pacificon AD&D official tournament dungeon, which details the
capture of an Elven Princess by a band of fierce new monsters: Ice O...
Mythic Armorica for Mythras
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The *Mythic Britain* series for *Mythras* has a new instalment: *Mythic
Armorica*. (I first mentioned this supplement – and included a preview of
its map...
Superman (2025)
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SynopsisSuperman must deal with his actions and the perception of those
around him.ReviewWhile I love Christopher Reeves, David Corenswet is my
Superman. ...
On Three Games
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Table Top RPG's are always three games.
When I was a youth, there was an early Nintendo Entertainment System game,
called Bayou Billy. The Nintendo at t...
Sour Grapes
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By Stephen SmithMister Smith DesignOSELevels 1-3 SIPPING ON SHADOWS FROM A
BOTTLE OF BETRAYAL! Ardin Winery, once a flourishing estate, is now on the
brink...
GP instead of XP?
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This is another crazy D&D idea I've heard while researching for the last
post: *ditch XP entirely, just pay the GP (for training, carousing or
whatever) an...
Inheritance
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I inherited some minis from my friend Belle.
They're mostly GW medievalish types: peasants, artisans, criminals, and a
bishop (who might well be classe...
A Twisted Tale of the Tongue...
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nce upon a time, when yours truly was a much younger DM, I planned what was
supposed to be your standard town-next-to-the-dungeon affair. Problem was,
re...
How I Run OD&D Combat
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Link to discussion
Over the years I’ve settled on a way to run 0e/OD&D/White Box combat that
keeps the action moving and is pretty simple, while covering...
Free GM Resource: Some Good Old-Fashioned Map Porn
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[image: Free GM Resource: Some Good Old-Fashioned Map Porn]
I've been a little *obsessed* with Kingdom Come Deliverance (KCD) this last
couple of weeks. N...
[NEWS] July 30% off site-wide sale
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Now 30% off!
I am pleased to announce that, starting from July 1 and ending July 20, I
will be holding a site-wide sale on all currently available EMDT pr...
Loopy Tombs
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This poast was inspired partly by reading James Holloways 'Tome of Tombs'
- a zine of Tomb creation which you can find here;
https://james-holloway.itch...
Community Greyhawk – Grey Grimoire Issue 5
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The Grey Grimoire is a pdf fanzine produced by a number of well-known names
in the Greyhawk community. It clocks in at 31 pages, and has 10 articles,
rangi...
Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, Last Day!
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My Kickstarter for Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: the Northern Marches
is now in its last day!
Link to the Kickstarter
Random Party Generater
Everyb...
Traveller is Retro-Futuristic
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Traveller is an endlessly fascinating game to explore in the 2020s. Its
first release was only three years after Dungeons & Dragons, but unlike
D&D, which ...
What to do on a Gaming Break
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It's summer again. Well it's supposed to be but with temperatures lingering
around 40 it doesn't feel like it. Most summers I take time off. A couple
mon...
I come from the land of the ice and snow
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So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate
random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city,
castle, and...
A long overdue hobby update!
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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...
Progress With My Card Game
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On February 9, 2018 I was struck with inspiration for a card game idea that
I brought to Gary Con 10 and play tested away most of the rough edges. I
had th...
Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz
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History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any
citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever
reason,...
Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives
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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 ...
Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun!
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Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the
time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the
unfathoma...
The Hungering Dark
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Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you.
Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone.
The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
Articulations
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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...
Writing playlists for all occasions
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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...
The Tarot of Pips
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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...
Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report
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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...
It's been a bit
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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...
*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace
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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...
Last move - to self-hosting!
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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...
Clean Your Room
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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 ...
Steve Jackson Interview
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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...
ToAD Monster of the Week: Crocoman
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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...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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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...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*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...
Fiction in Airhde
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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...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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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...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
The Withered Crag available now
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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...
Annihilation Rising Goes live
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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!
...
James's Celebration of Life
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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...
Trap Tuesday: A step back
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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 ...
Let's Talk About Pacing!
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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...
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...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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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...
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...
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...
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 megadunge...
Mord Mar - Session 5
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We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers:
Moira, the Magic-User
Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?)
Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...
Bundle of Fantasy Age
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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...
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, a...
Swords & Wizardry Light: Session # 6
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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 ...
It's either him or Krampus!
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