There's my planet, in the center of the map - Gemi.
All you need is a dollar (to have your upgraded Beta Disc mailed to you), and a dream ;)
Fucker appears to get bypassed by the trade routes too...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
There Are Many Planets, But This One is Mine - Gemi B400442-B
There's my planet, in the center of the map - Gemi.
All you need is a dollar (to have your upgraded Beta Disc mailed to you), and a dream ;)
Fucker appears to get bypassed by the trade routes too...
I Finally Have My Traveller5 Beta Upgrade Disc - and no desire to even read it...
On April 18th, 2008 I ordered the Traveller5 Beta Disc. I had some fond memories of playing Traveller back in my High School and College years, and thought this would be a fine way to catch up. Betas are betas, and the early version was a confusing mess, at least to my eyes. Besides, I ordered the Classic Traveller disc at the same time, and that was the shiny that kept me occupied and distracted.
I did remember the promise of an updated disc when T5 was complete, but in truth, all that was forgotten until the T5 Kickstarter. It took me a while to figure out what the "beta supporters" were going to get, and when I saw we were promised the disc, there really was no reason for me to jump into the Kickstarter.
Then, no disc. I later found out I had to Paypal FFE $1 to "verify my address". Nope, it was apparently to pay the shipping. Whatever.
Five years and the Mongoose Traveller Edition later has lost me any excitement for T5. But hey, I'm assigned a world. Maybe I should look that up ;)
A Completed Kickstarter: Maelorum, an epic Gamebook
Maelorum was due in January and shipped in April. Updates were informative and frequent, so it never really felt all that late.
When it arrived earlier in the week, it actually came with 2 copies of the book - one numbered and one standard, which means I get to share ;)
It's a damn heavy book, coming in at trade paperback size and 430+ pages. As it is a solo RPG adventure book, I think I'll try to read an entry or two a night and see how long it takes to get killed or succeed :)
I'm impressed enough by the offering to look forward to Volume Two.
edit: for those looking to pick up a copy, the store is here: http://maelorum.com/store/
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks - Cartoon Style Walk Through
This thing is huge. Go to the WotC site and grab this, White Plume Mountain and Tomb of Horrors. They are truly classic walkthroughs.
I would put a ::spoiler alert!:: but if you are reading this blog you've probably played through these modules numerous times ;)
Friday, April 12, 2013
Let Loose the Hounds! Time to Spread the Word About the S&W Appreciation Day
April 17th, the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day, is a mere 5 days away. I already took the day off from work and figure to run a LotR Marathon in the background as I take care of keeping everything updated.
There is still time to spread the word. I've seen mention of the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day blogfest popping up on G+ in the Swords & Wizardry Community and on a few blogs, but you are mostly preaching to the choir there.
Spread the word on G+ publicly. Share it on Facebook (did I just say that?). I'd say "tweet" it, but I hardly ever tweet myself ;) Hit the usual forums. Hit the unusual forums. The S&W Appreciation Day event isn't just for the community, it's there to grow the community.
We currently have 127 blogs signed up to participate. If that isn't major event in the RPG Community, I don't know what is (well, yes I do - look at what the current news is ;)
The blogs:
2 - Secrets of the Shadowend - Something wicked this way comes
4 - Mad-Kyndalanth - 'to share good stories afterwards'
5 - Dizzy Dungeon - New School falls for the OSR
6 - Gothridge Manor - OMG, its full of Sleestaks
7 - Lapsus Calumni
8 - 19th Level - Musings on RPGs & Fiction
9 - Sycarion Diversions - "One day, Spelljammer will return!"
10 - Dorkland!
11 - Worlds Galore
13 - Daily OSR fix - Random tables makes me smile
15 - Realms of Chirak - "Eclectic Gaming Madness from Camazotz"
16 - Quickly, Quietly, Carefully - OD&D exegis, retro stupid fun
18 - Hereticwerks
19 - RPG Delisi - A Turkish blog about RPGs
21 - Semper Initiativus Unum - Rethinking Classic Tropes, Sharing History
22 - Red Box Denver - Old School Adventure in Denver
23 - Bat in the Attic - Hexes, Sandboxes, and Wilderlands
24 - Reverend Dak dot Blogspot - Bicycles, Beer and 20-sided Dice
25 - The Ongoing Campaign - Obscure Games and Famous Ones
26 - The Other Side
27 - d20 Dialectic
28 - Once More Unto the Breach - Rediscovering the joy of roleplaying!
30 - Fear No Darkness - reasons...not rules
31 - Mythmere's Blog (Mr S&W Himself ;)
32 - Gamers & Grodnards
34 - Six Sarcophagi
35 - Edgar's Game Blog
36 - Spes Magna Games
37 - The Space Cockroach's Hideout - Space, Modern and fantastic Adventures
38 - inthecitiesdotcom
40 - Tenkar's Tavern - "OSR To the Core!"
43 - Porky's Expanse - a nebulous region of hobby space
45 - Roll to Carouse!
46 - Ilea jacta Est - A 20-Sided Look at Life
47 - Blood & Battle - Swords & Wizardry resources, reviews, recaps
49 - Sandbox of Doom
51 - Battle Axes and Beasties - Sporadic Babbling about Various Stuff
52 - Apathy Blogs
54 - Strange Stones - Strange Stones: Demons, Rogues, and Lemurian Barbarians
55 - Mystic Bull Games
56 - Le Verre Violet - Hexcrawls, Blackmoor, Carcosa and OD&Dities
57 - The Sorcerer Speaks! - Purple Sorcerer News, and stuff
58 - The Crazy GM
59 - O Druida Hierofante (The Hierophant Druid) - Swords & Wizardry in Brasil
60 - The Rusty Battle Axe - Home of Haiku: The RPG
61 - Keith Davies -- In My Campaign - Too heavy for Tenkar's reading ;)
62 - Necropraxis - OD&D, rules hacking, necromantic musings
63 - Rended Press - Free typos deal double damage!
64 - Hunter's Quarry
65 - hDan's YAGB - Traveller, D&D and related interests
66 - Like Being Read to From Dictionaries - It's Like Reading A Dictionary
67 - Vargold - The Wolf-Time
68 - The Wizard's Chest - Gaming Like We are 10
69 - Wampus Country - Whimsical tall-tale fantasy frontier
70 - Troll & Flame
71 - Epic RPG Blog - San Diego's RPG Scene
72 - Kingdoms in Trevail - Infrequent & random old-school gaming thoughts :)
73 - Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog - Microgames, Monster Games, and RPG's
74 - Swords & Dorkery - the name is the description
75 - Dice of Doom - Old School Cool
76 - Infinite Dragons - Adventure Unlimited
77 - Dyson's Dodecahedron - Award Winning Dungeon Design
78 - The Ultimate Josha - RPG reviews, stories, and thoughts
79 - Places to Go, People to Be - RPGs are easily accessible self-expression
80 - Tales From the Tower - Recaps, Campaign Info, Game Art
81 - Tenfootpole - Hypocrite reviews OSR adventures
82 - Ynas Midgard's OSR Blog - irregular musings and content for D&D
83 - Castelli & Chimere (Castles & Chimeras) - My musings on D&D (OSR)
84 - What Do I Know? - One Gamer Yapping; Many RPGs
85 - Dungeon of Signs - Drunken OSR glossolalia
86 - The Frothy Friar - Advancing back to basics
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87 - Edgar's Game Blog - Recaps, Philosophy, & Games Within Games
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88 - The Adventures of the Clock Caravel - Eclectic Crowdsourced Virtual Steampunk Roleplaying
78 - The Ultimate Josha - RPG reviews, stories, and thoughts
79 - Places to Go, People to Be - RPGs are easily accessible self-expression
80 - Tales From the Tower - Recaps, Campaign Info, Game Art
81 - Tenfootpole - Hypocrite reviews OSR adventures
82 - Ynas Midgard's OSR Blog - irregular musings and content for D&D
83 - Castelli & Chimere (Castles & Chimeras) - My musings on D&D (OSR)
84 - What Do I Know? - One Gamer Yapping; Many RPGs
85 - Dungeon of Signs - Drunken OSR glossolalia
86 - The Frothy Friar - Advancing back to basics
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87 - Edgar's Game Blog - Recaps, Philosophy, & Games Within Games
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88 - The Adventures of the Clock Caravel - Eclectic Crowdsourced Virtual Steampunk Roleplaying
89 - Requiem for a Muse
90 - Scottenkainenland
91 - EdoWar's Blog
92 - Pilgrims Guide to Zeitgeist - A journey into the worlds i play in
93 - Forgotten Runes
94 - @ Padre's - Dragonquest lives on!
95 - Heropress
96 - Basic Fantasy RPG Blog - The Basic Fantasy RPG Blog
97 - Rather Gamey - "How squirrel tastes."
98 - Into the Dungeondark - TPKs Continue Until Play Improves
99 - ubiHEX
100 - Mesmerized By Sirens - Carrying the torch of defunct fantasy role-playing games
101 - Tower of the Lonely GM
102 - The Frog God's Blog - where you can be the frog, not the flies
103 - The Dice Are a Lie
104 - Acirema Mountain - Playing the first Finnish rpg
105 - Ruthless Diastema BlogCast - Life From a Gamer's Perspective
106 - Jack's Toolbox - tools and tips for DMs
107 - Infinite Dragon - Mostly OSR-themed game blogging
108 - Lost in Time - D&D, Jorune, and other gubbins
109 - Jasper's Rantings - Random D&D/OSR/RPG and Geekish Amusements
110 - D20 Dark Ages - From 1989 to the Present
111 - The Iron Tavern - Cold Dwarven Ale and Casual Conversation
112 - Machpants' Blog - Mashing S&W for my kids
113 - My RPG Characters -
114 - The Campaign Expanse - Settings perilous and other sundry
115 - Hexgeneration - Post Punk & Old School Role Play
116 - The Warlock's Home Brew -
117 - iDungeon Crawl - RPGs, macs and other things
118 - Theoretical GM - Sporadic Musings and Adventurous Ideas
119 - Aeons & Augeries -
120 - Observational Epidemiology -
121 - Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things - Being the demented ramblings of a crazy person
124 - Under Siege
125 - New Grog on the Block - OSR from a younger perspective
127 - Barbarians of Provo
128 - Back to the Dungeon
129 - The OSR Library
130 - 5 Stones Games
131 - Realms in the Mist - gaming, the osr, reviews, and house rules
132 - I Am Teh Badger - Gaming, geekery and groanery
134 - Der Goblinbau -
135 - Alex Schroeder: RPG - Old School Sandboxing & some code
What Type of Articles Do You Want to See in the Relaunched Knockspell?
As I posted earlier, +Matt Finch is relaunching Knockspell with the help of the community response to the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Blogfest (coming your way April 17th and currently sitting at 126 participating blogs).
Now, as someone that plans on submitting material to the Knockspell relaunch, I figured I'd ask the community at large:
What do you want in your Knockspell?Classes, spells, adventures, encounters, monsters, NPCs, charts, tables, GM advice - the list is nearly infinite, which is why I ask - what do you want?
Matt might be the man putting the package together, but Knockspell belongs to the Swords & Wizardry Community and the OSR at large. Without the community's participation, it simply won't be.
So, even more important than what you may want to find in upcoming issues of Knockspell is:
What do you want to write?You ARE going to submit something, right? ;)
Matt Finch to Relaunch Knockspell!
It seems the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day bug has fully bitten +Matt Finch :
One of the key ideas that will help this work is that several of the bloggers who are writing material for the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation day will allow Knockspell to publish their work in printed/pdf form. To that end, I will be asking all of you who are participating to send me a letter (the form of it later in the post) containing your approved form of the manuscript and the permission to use it.This is awesome news. Hopefully the community can supply Matt with enough material that it could actually release on a quarterly basis :)
Read the full details at Matt's Swords & Wizardry Blog.
Frog God to Put Swords & Wizardry Releases on One Day Sale for the S&W Appreciation Day
If the fact that nearly 125 blogs are participating in the Swords & Wizardry Blogfest isn't enough, Frog God games has just announced that they will be putting their S&W releases on sale for 25% both at the Frogs own store and d20pfsrd.com on April 17th, to coincide with the blogfest.
I think it will be time for me to grab the Rappan Athuk subscription...
The blogs:
93 - Forgotten Runes
I think it will be time for me to grab the Rappan Athuk subscription...
The blogs:
2 - Secrets of the Shadowend - Something wicked this way comes
4 - Mad-Kyndalanth - 'to share good stories afterwards'
5 - Dizzy Dungeon - New School falls for the OSR
6 - Gothridge Manor - OMG, its full of Sleestaks
7 - Lapsus Calumni
8 - 19th Level - Musings on RPGs & Fiction
9 - Sycarion Diversions - "One day, Spelljammer will return!"
10 - Dorkland!
11 - Worlds Galore
13 - Daily OSR fix - Random tables makes me smile
15 - Realms of Chirak - "Eclectic Gaming Madness from Camazotz"
16 - Quickly, Quietly, Carefully - OD&D exegis, retro stupid fun
18 - Hereticwerks
19 - RPG Delisi - A Turkish blog about RPGs
21 - Semper Initiativus Unum - Rethinking Classic Tropes, Sharing History
22 - Red Box Denver - Old School Adventure in Denver
23 - Bat in the Attic - Hexes, Sandboxes, and Wilderlands
24 - Reverend Dak dot Blogspot - Bicycles, Beer and 20-sided Dice
25 - The Ongoing Campaign - Obscure Games and Famous Ones
26 - The Other Side
27 - d20 Dialectic
28 - Once More Unto the Breach - Rediscovering the joy of roleplaying!
30 - Fear No Darkness - reasons...not rules
31 - Mythmere's Blog (Mr S&W Himself ;)
32 - Gamers & Grodnards
34 - Six Sarcophagi
35 - Edgar's Game Blog
36 - Spes Magna Games
37 - The Space Cockroach's Hideout - Space, Modern and fantastic Adventures
38 - inthecitiesdotcom
40 - Tenkar's Tavern - "OSR To the Core!"
43 - Porky's Expanse - a nebulous region of hobby space
45 - Roll to Carouse!
46 - Ilea jacta Est - A 20-Sided Look at Life
47 - Blood & Battle - Swords & Wizardry resources, reviews, recaps
49 - Sandbox of Doom
51 - Battle Axes and Beasties - Sporadic Babbling about Various Stuff
52 - Apathy Blogs
54 - Strange Stones - Strange Stones: Demons, Rogues, and Lemurian Barbarians
55 - Mystic Bull Games
56 - Le Verre Violet - Hexcrawls, Blackmoor, Carcosa and OD&Dities
57 - The Sorcerer Speaks! - Purple Sorcerer News, and stuff
58 - The Crazy GM
59 - O Druida Hierofante (The Hierophant Druid) - Swords & Wizardry in Brasil
60 - The Rusty Battle Axe - Home of Haiku: The RPG
61 - Keith Davies -- In My Campaign - Too heavy for Tenkar's reading ;)
62 - Necropraxis - OD&D, rules hacking, necromantic musings
63 - Rended Press - Free typos deal double damage!
64 - Hunter's Quarry
65 - hDan's YAGB - Traveller, D&D and related interests
66 - Like Being Read to From Dictionaries - It's Like Reading A Dictionary
67 - Vargold - The Wolf-Time
68 - The Wizard's Chest - Gaming Like We are 10
69 - Wampus Country - Whimsical tall-tale fantasy frontier
70 - Troll & Flame
71 - Epic RPG Blog - San Diego's RPG Scene
72 - Kingdoms in Trevail - Infrequent & random old-school gaming thoughts :)
73 - Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog - Microgames, Monster Games, and RPG's
74 - Swords & Dorkery - the name is the description
75 - Dice of Doom - Old School Cool
76 - Infinite Dragons - Adventure Unlimited
77 - Dyson's Dodecahedron - Award Winning Dungeon Design
78 - The Ultimate Josha - RPG reviews, stories, and thoughts
79 - Places to Go, People to Be - RPGs are easily accessible self-expression
80 - Tales From the Tower - Recaps, Campaign Info, Game Art
81 - Tenfootpole - Hypocrite reviews OSR adventures
82 - Ynas Midgard's OSR Blog - irregular musings and content for D&D
83 - Castelli & Chimere (Castles & Chimeras) - My musings on D&D (OSR)
84 - What Do I Know? - One Gamer Yapping; Many RPGs
85 - Dungeon of Signs - Drunken OSR glossolalia
86 - The Frothy Friar - Advancing back to basics
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87 - Edgar's Game Blog - Recaps, Philosophy, & Games Within Games
-
88 - The Adventures of the Clock Caravel - Eclectic Crowdsourced Virtual Steampunk Roleplaying
78 - The Ultimate Josha - RPG reviews, stories, and thoughts
79 - Places to Go, People to Be - RPGs are easily accessible self-expression
80 - Tales From the Tower - Recaps, Campaign Info, Game Art
81 - Tenfootpole - Hypocrite reviews OSR adventures
82 - Ynas Midgard's OSR Blog - irregular musings and content for D&D
83 - Castelli & Chimere (Castles & Chimeras) - My musings on D&D (OSR)
84 - What Do I Know? - One Gamer Yapping; Many RPGs
85 - Dungeon of Signs - Drunken OSR glossolalia
86 - The Frothy Friar - Advancing back to basics
-
87 - Edgar's Game Blog - Recaps, Philosophy, & Games Within Games
-
88 - The Adventures of the Clock Caravel - Eclectic Crowdsourced Virtual Steampunk Roleplaying
89 - Requiem for a Muse
90 - Scottenkainenland
91 - EdoWar's Blog
92 - Pilgrims Guide to Zeitgeist - A journey into the worlds i play in
93 - Forgotten Runes
94 - @ Padre's - Dragonquest lives on!
95 - Heropress
96 - Basic Fantasy RPG Blog - The Basic Fantasy RPG Blog
97 - Rather Gamey - "How squirrel tastes."
98 - Into the Dungeondark - TPKs Continue Until Play Improves
99 - ubiHEX
100 - Mesmerized By Sirens - Carrying the torch of defunct fantasy role-playing games
101 - Tower of the Lonely GM
102 - The Frog God's Blog - where you can be the frog, not the flies
103 - The Dice Are a Lie
104 - Acirema Mountain - Playing the first Finnish rpg
105 - Ruthless Diastema BlogCast - Life From a Gamer's Perspective
106 - Jack's Toolbox - tools and tips for DMs
107 - Infinite Dragon - Mostly OSR-themed game blogging
108 - Lost in Time - D&D, Jorune, and other gubbins
109 - Jasper's Rantings - Random D&D/OSR/RPG and Geekish Amusements
110 - D20 Dark Ages - From 1989 to the Present
111 - The Iron Tavern - Cold Dwarven Ale and Casual Conversation
112 - Machpants' Blog - Mashing S&W for my kids
113 - My RPG Characters -
114 - The Campaign Expanse - Settings perilous and other sundry
115 - Hexgeneration - Post Punk & Old School Role Play
116 - The Warlock's Home Brew -
117 - iDungeon Crawl - RPGs, macs and other things
118 - Theoretical GM - Sporadic Musings and Adventurous Ideas
119 - Aeons & Augeries -
120 - Observational Epidemiology -
121 - Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things - Being the demented ramblings of a crazy person
122 - About Bruce Heard, D&D, and new stories
123 - Places to Go, People to Be
124 - Under Siege
125 - New Grog on the Block - OSR from a younger perspective
126 - …and the sky full of dust.
127 - Barbarians of Provo
121 - Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things - Being the demented ramblings of a crazy person
122 - About Bruce Heard, D&D, and new stories
123 - Places to Go, People to Be
124 - Under Siege
125 - New Grog on the Block - OSR from a younger perspective
126 - …and the sky full of dust.
127 - Barbarians of Provo
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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...11 months 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) - [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970]Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970 [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover Illustration 1970]Shonen Maga...3 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 ...3 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...5 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...5 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...5 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 ...6 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...6 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...6 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.6 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...7 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...7 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
