The B&T looks really interesting. Thanks again for this give-away. If any thing it spotlights material not considereed before. Thanks again Erik. Happy Holidays.
Vows & Vaesen
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*Vaesen: City of my Nightmares* is a campaign for Vaesen – Nordic Horror
Roleplaying, the Roleplaying Game of investigative folklore horror set in
ninete...
The Lost Great Crystal Debate
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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...
Manhandled Podcast
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The final season of The Boys has started. It's brutal, entertaining, and I
believe the show is going to get a worthy send off. Some folks say the show
is c...
City of the Ape-Men
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By Gabor LuxEMDTOSRICLevels 5-8 Linquar the Eternal has fallen, its palaces
and temples decaying in the teeming jungles. Few dare to head for the misty
isl...
SoloDark: Four Drunk Priests
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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...
The Myth of Death as Stakes...
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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 ...
Artemis II and the view of the Earth
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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 ...
Consolidated AD&D Weapon Characteristics List
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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...
Tempo
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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...
Grenadier "Night Hag" - 1986
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While I was looking through some accumulated boxes of stuff, I found one
containing a whole bunch of old white metal miniatures from Ye Olden Times.
Thi...
Muster-y Machine
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Inevitably, *My Liege,* is in part a response to the BECMI Companion set
from 1984 by Mentzer, Niles, and Spiegel. Their dominion rules go in a
completis...
Session 0 & 1
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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...
Referee Sabotage
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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...
What color is paut? Sigh.
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I think when you've played with a group long enough, and they've asked
every question imaginable, they imagine up new ones to torment you.
Actual question ...
The March 1636 Lantern is Published
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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 ...
Gary Con 2026 Registration
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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 ...
On a Happy New Year
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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...
Mutants and Wizards
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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...
Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards
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10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons
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Description
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Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer
Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
Rob Kuntz at Lucca Comics & Games 2025
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If you are planning a trip to Europe (like right now) and wish to catch up
with me in person, make sure to book a detour via *Lucca Comics & Games*,
...
Musings on the OSR Blogosphere and Forums
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Link to discussion There are some posts on the historical OSR blog scene
that I’ve read recently from the Grumpy …
Continue reading →
How do you do piracy… in SPACE!?
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Narf.
ReplyDeleteMerry christmas! :)
ReplyDeletePut my name in! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteNice stuff.
ReplyDeleteVery cool stuff! Thanks for arranging something cool like this, Erik!
ReplyDeleteha HA! Treasure in the most Christmassy of spirits! =)
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteJohn's a great guy.
ReplyDeleteFa la la la !
ReplyDeleteThat Tales of the Space Princess sounds pretty boss.
ReplyDeleteOSR Christmas, the w00tenating!
ReplyDeleteOn the Fourth day of OSRmas my DM gave to me,
ReplyDelete4 Charming lyra birds
3 Henchmen,
2 Tuckers Kobolds,
and a Lich King playing possum in a Gallows Tree!
Count me in!
ReplyDeleteI believe I have enough blood, so I could do with some more treasure!
ReplyDeleteOn the 4th day of OSR Christmas my gif friend gave to me...
ReplyDeleteOnce again, I'm in
ReplyDeletePars Fortuna Basic is very interesting so the full game should be wicked awesome!
ReplyDeleteNever seen any of those things. Very neat.
ReplyDeleteThe B&T looks really interesting. Thanks again for this give-away. If any thing it spotlights material not considereed before. Thanks again Erik. Happy Holidays.
ReplyDeleteThat looks good! I'm in!
ReplyDeleteNice gifts.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!!!
ReplyDeleteMore gifts!
ReplyDeleteMy hat is in the thing.
ReplyDeleteI've heard a bit about about the firs and last in that list, but not the second. Please put me in the drawing, sounds like good stuff.
ReplyDeleteSo, i stop lurk for a while and what do you do? Start handling out free stuff? And all i have to do is comment?
ReplyDeleteComment!
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
ReplyDeleteOld School Santa looks like he might come down my chimney looking for treasure to cart off! :)
ReplyDeleteMerry X-Mas! :-)
ReplyDelete[Insert witty comment here.]
ReplyDeleteComment.
ReplyDeleteWould love a shot at these - please count me in!
ReplyDeleteAwesome. These would be great to have.
ReplyDeleteThrow my name in the hat please!
ReplyDeleteJust keeps gettin' better!
ReplyDeleteSeason of generosity indeed
ReplyDeleteHurray for Space Princesses...
ReplyDeleteCool, man, cool.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious to read Blood & Treasure . . .
ReplyDeleteDude! You rock! And so does John Stater!
ReplyDeleteAll I want for Xmas is some blood & treasure.
ReplyDeleteAll I want for Xmas is some blood & treasure.
ReplyDeleteGifts? Gifts!
ReplyDeletePlease exclude me from the drawing for B&T (or let me claim an alternative prize), because I already have it.
ReplyDeleteCount me in, thanks for the freebies!
ReplyDeleteSounds pretty good. Would love to have a copy of Pars Fortuna to go with Space Princess.
ReplyDeleteFYI, You've been linked from http://www.reddit.com/r/osr/ . Throw my name into the bag of holding and drawing too.
ReplyDeleteThat Space Princess thing looks pretty sweet.
ReplyDeleteIN! More great looking stuff from John Stater :)
ReplyDeleteCount me in. Please.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Fourth time lucky? Happy holidays!
ReplyDeleteCome on papa need some new OSR stuff!
ReplyDeleteTrying again...
ReplyDeleteOnce again, it would be fun to pick sommat up.
ReplyDeleteNow back to blorging
In like Flynn
ReplyDeleteHappy hoildays
ReplyDelete3 fascinating looking systems! I'd be excited to read, try, and steal ideas from any of them!
ReplyDelete3 fascinating looking systems! I'd be excited to read, try, and steal ideas from any of them!
ReplyDeleteAssuming that winning one day doesn't knock you out of the rest of the prize opportunities, count me in.
ReplyDeleteDid I miss this? I hope I didn't miss this.
ReplyDeleteHobbits and Holmes, I'm in!
ReplyDeleteHappy Christmas to All!
ReplyDeleteCurious to check these out!
ReplyDeleteHat in the ring again
ReplyDeleteMerry Axemas!
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear some tales from that sexy space princess over a tankard of ale.
ReplyDeleteI'll be glad to have it.
ReplyDeleteBecause of it being Sunday my 4th day of Christmas from Cards Against Humanity didn't arrive, but thankfully there'll be some love here.
ReplyDeleteOn the 4th day of OSRxmas my true love gage to me, four fiendish folios
ReplyDeleteNot a spammer. Trust me.
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ReplyDeleteCan I have Pars Fortuna please! Why thank you :P
ReplyDeleteGood stuff
ReplyDeleteI've been interested by blood and treasure, festive greetings.....
ReplyDeleteBlood & Treasure sounds cool...
ReplyDeleteBoogah!
ReplyDeleteInteresting collection.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the great offer.
ReplyDeleteYou know how to awaken the sleeping Internets, Mr. Tenkar :)
ReplyDeleteCool, perhaps I will be lucky.
ReplyDeleteOoh! Good stuff! I haven't picked up Blood & Treasure yet, but I've been meaning to!
ReplyDeleteNice selection of stuff!
ReplyDeleteOnce more into the breech.
ReplyDeleteOn the fourth day...
ReplyDeleteI love a good OSR giveaway!
ReplyDeleteArr, matey, kill the red shirts with ye olde vibro-cutlasses, loot the bloody treasure, and hie off for parts unknown!
ReplyDeleteMerry OSRmas!
ReplyDeleteBig money, no whammies!!!
ReplyDeleteSo how do you pronounce OSR? I tend to read it as Oh Sir
ReplyDeleteOh it's not too late to jump in! Great gifts Tenkar, thanks!
ReplyDeleteOh *I hope* it's not too late to jump in. Lol sorry, got too excited :P
DeleteWhat's the time? ;)
ReplyDeleteKeep on chugging OSR Christmas
ReplyDeleteCan't believe I forgot about the first three days because I was off work.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the 12 days of Xmas
ReplyDeleteMore good-looking material!
ReplyDeletecool stuff
ReplyDeleteGreat selection, and three chances to win? Yes please!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to win some great loot!
ReplyDeletethey are nice!
ReplyDeleteWitty comment entering me into the contest placed here.
ReplyDeleteWestward leading, still proceeding,
ReplyDeleteGuide us to thy perfect Light.
Ooh shiny!
ReplyDeleteI think I missed the window on this one... been gone all weekend, what I miss?!
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