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Tarot Sheets - I've been meaning to get this work done for ages, since Pandred brought it up and Agravain found the images for me ~ thank you again, good sir! These are m...3 hours ago
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Grey Tiger - This is an earlyish version of the Tiger 1, the PzKfw VI, before the changeover to the dunkelgelb base colour that occurred in February, 1943. This is how...5 hours ago
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Tomorrow: Felltower - Tomorrow is Felltower. I did not do a lot of prep today. Saturday is a day when I do some last-minute prep, but honestly I never get a lot done the night ...8 hours ago
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Greyhawk’s World – The Periphery - I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I posted one of these (mainly because I was diverted by doing the Baklunish series which just ended), but here...10 hours ago
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Cultural Idea – the Dead Are Put to work - I have an area in my campaign world that is yet to be visited by player characters, so I haven’t worked out all the details. The area is a place with hig...11 hours ago
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Road Crew Game 5/18/2019 The People of the Pit - Road Crew game tonight, 7pm EST using Fantasy Grounds. DCC #68 is a level 1 adventure by The Dark Master himself, Joseph Goodman. What happens when we st...14 hours 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! ...18 hours ago
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RPGA - Moonlight Madness - *From the back cover:* *The moon rises, and you feel yourself start to change. Fur sprouts from your palms, your fingers turn to claws, and a howl r...20 hours ago
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Spire of the Kobolds - By Megan Irving Aegis Studios O&O / BX Levels 1-2 The Untamed Gauntlet has many mysteries. The Spire is one of them: a huge tower of gleaming rock pointing...23 hours ago
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The Symbaroum Campaign III - *Yndaros – The Darkest Star* is ‘The Third Episode in the Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns’, the campaign for Symbaroum, the near-Dark Ages fantasy rolep...23 hours ago
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An Arthurian Take On G1-3 Against the Giants (1e) By Gary Gygax As Old School Campaign - "Giants have been raiding the lands of men in large bands, with giants of different sorts in these marauding groups. Death and destruction have been laid h...1 day ago
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Witch Character Class Pt1 - This is for my homebrew - will=wisdom Might have to tweak a bit Spell list will be separate blog but will be made up from ot...2 days ago
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Crypts and Things Sale - Until the end of May the products in D101 Games’ *Crypts & Things* line are all 25% off at DrivethruRPG. *Crypts & Things* is my favourite rules light(-ish...2 days ago
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New Class: The Beekeeper - Honeyed heroes. Wardens of the hives. Masked protectors of our buzzing pals. Beekeepers use a d8 hit die. They gain experience and roll saving throws as a ...2 days ago
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Power from Paint: Mayhem 19 Raid Report - Welcome back to the Vault once more! The Kabal of the Sand Viper have raided Real Space once more and returned to Commorragh with a bittersweet mix of Glor...2 days ago
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Batwoman: New Trailer and Vigilante City - Super busy at work today, but something cool came up on my feed. The new First Look trailer is out for the CW's Batwoman. I have been a solid fan of the c...2 days ago
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Humanity Restored - On Twitter (!) recently, @BrianBloodaxe brought up level drain, which reminded me how I ran it in OD&D for Vaults of Pahvelorn. What follows is a slight re...2 days ago
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WrenMen - Making Halflings Interesting? - To me anyway. This is my addressing Halflings for Eldritch Foundry, essentially by making them a genetically-engineered sub-species created to inhabit Ram...2 days ago
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OSR: Academic Classification of Spells - Boff! Magazine, a weekly satirical periodical, ran a comic illustration. In first panel, a solemn conference of wizards sit around a table eating dinner. T...3 days ago
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Electric Devices - Bastion is Electric now. There are still Oddities we don't understand, whether they're from Alien visitors, the output of Underground Machines, or just thi...3 days ago
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The USP of RPGs and the Phenomenology of New Beginnings - There is no word in English to my knowledge which describes the feeling one gets at the start of a fictional adventure. We have words like "excitement", "a...3 days ago
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Wednesday RPG update thingamabob blog postie - I apologize if I've been a bit quiet lately. I keep thinking "I should do a blog, or do another podcast". But by the time I sit down to do it, everything...3 days ago
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Compendium Kickstarter News - We've now reached the mid-way point of the Kickstarter campaign for the compendium. The fifth battle update went out this morning, showing the beginning of...3 days ago
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Author on the Crusader Podcast - Greetings all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I and my lovely wife Liz will be on the Crusader Podcast quite soon. For those not in the know, The ...4 days ago
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Was Google+ Gaming's Camelot? - Okay, so it's been a little over a month since Google+ died (at least for the gaming community), although most of us escaped to new online homes well befor...4 days ago
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AD&D Experiment - Generate a dungeon at the table in play - I had a problem. I had no dungeon and my game started in 3 hours. To be fair, April has been a shit month. We had to put our beloved dog Bear to sleep afte...4 days ago
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Good Referee Practices - Preview of SS&SS 2e Chapter - Part II - *Continuing with the previews of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells second edtion, now the second part of the Good Referee Practices I began sharing on this ...4 days ago
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Unexpected "Vacation" for the Frugal GM until May 20th. - Guess who went on a business trip and forgot his laptop charger? The same guy who also bought a replacement "universal" charger at the airport that didn'...5 days ago
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Red Book™ Line--Free PDF MAJOR UPDATE - *Three Line Studio has posted a 10 page/1.1 meg PDF file as an Update and Proposed Product Line Map for the Red Book™ Line. Very Exciting! Download at this...5 days ago
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Three New Shattered Moon Novels. - Suzi's written three novels set in the world of the Shattered Moon! They're about the Church of Parkour and the trials and tribulations of one of their Si...6 days ago
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Knives, armor, and a solution (3 random thoughts) - Some random thoughts I had this week. *1. Knives (and fists)* Have you ever held, or even seen, a fighting knife? Goggle it if you want. This thing is REA...1 week ago
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Winter's Daughter: Shipping Update - I just wanted to post a very quick update on the fulfillment of the *Winter's Daughter* pre-orders. Here's the full rundown: All Orders Have Been Shipped...1 week ago
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[REVIEW] The Hidden Tomb of Nephabti - *The Hidden Tomb of Nephabti (2019)* by Jeremy Reaban Self-published Levels 5-7 Mummies. Why did it have to be mummies? Should you want to explain the conc...1 week ago
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Exploration System, Part 2: Practical Encumbrance - Encumbrance in D&D has always ranged from bad to terrible. The idea behind encumbrance is actually great. The default assumption for the first decade or so...1 week ago
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Oh, the '80s! - *I just cut this from an article I wrote for dlair/net about the Tales From the Loop RPG. It was extraneous there, but I liked it so much, I'm dropping it ...1 week ago
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On the Hateful Campaign - Bryce Lynch wrote a review of my module, Eyrie of the Dread Eye. He tagged it as "The Best" which I am honored and humbled by. Sadly, wherever I stand to g...2 weeks ago
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Monster from Lake Tagua (South American School, 18th Century) - [image: Monster from Lake Tagua, 18th C] Artwork found at Christies.2 weeks ago
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A Host of Swords - I infrequently post about magic items unique to my games (see Magic Item under labels) but I rarely talk about swords, especially powerful ones. But I ...3 weeks ago
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New White Box FMAG Play-by-Post - My friend John is starting a White Box sandbox at the Smoldering Wizard forums – Beyond the Borderlands. You can … Continue reading →3 weeks ago
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Fat Goblins Games is having a huge $1 sale - So Rick Hershey of Fat Goblin Games is buying a house and needs cash so he is having a $1 dollar sales on 95% of the Fat Goblin Games inventory over on D...3 weeks ago
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Mysthea (something epic this way comes) - [image: Mockup of the hardback book] *An ancient, crystal-encrusted planet is rocked by war. As Kingdom fights Empire and the borderlands are caught in th...3 weeks ago
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Read Wormy from First to Last - Happy Birthday Dave Trampier! Dave and I have something in common, we share the same birthdate. I was reminiscing about the Wormy comic strip and found thi...3 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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Upcoming: The Withered Crag - A new module is in the works: *The Withered Crag*. For low-level characters. Hopefully in time for NTRPGCon in June. Here's the back cover art by Alex Zisc...4 weeks 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 ...5 weeks ago
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The Ghast - The process by which a person becomes a ghoul is poorly understood. One popular theory is that ghouls are created when the higher souls are weakened by can...5 weeks ago
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Cairn Hills Lairs - The 1st and 2nd Fluted Cairns - I've been noodling on more regional Greyhawk adventure locations, and the Cairn Hills continue to call to me---there's LOTS of room in them thar hills for ...1 month ago
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Thoughts on Arneson's "Armor class" - He said it lots of times, like this: " I adopted the rules I'd done earlier for a Civil War game called Ironclads that had hit points and armor class. It m...1 month ago
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[D&D] More miscellaneous AD&D house rules - A few more miscellaneous AD&D house rule bits and pieces I've had sitting around. This material would've been included in the AD&D Companion except that I ...1 month ago
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GROVER - With apologies to Michael Smollin and Sesame Workshop... Init *last* Melee Atk • hold back +6 (stops movement for one round) AC 8 HD 2d4 MV 10-20 Act 2d1...1 month ago
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Session 4: Into the Wolf Creek Ruins - Session 4 is in the books. This is the first session with @erik tenkar and @Jason Hobbs, along with @Joethelawyer and @Matt Jackson. The party is unravelin...1 month 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 month ago
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Gary Con XI - Another Gary Con is in the books. Sticking to tradition, I roomed with the same guys as last year (Judge Jeff of Spellburn and Appendix N, weird illustrat...2 months ago
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Monster Challenge (The Black Hack) - I have become quite infatuated with the second edition of The Black Hack as of late and over in the MeWe Black Hack group a fellow going by the name Arcum ...2 months ago
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Major Announcement: The Lone Bards - As you know, I am part of a Kickstarter that has funded and ended today. *Cade's Big Book o' Booze* The writer of the Zine is Justin Isaac of Halls of the ...2 months ago
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The Complete OD&D Illusionist - The Illusionist in *Dungeons & Dragons *was created by Peter Aronson, an early Boston-area fan. In 1975, Aronson submitted an initial description of Illu...2 months ago
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Somebody stop me - This system is basically an unholy hybrid of Into the Odd and a few of my previous experiments here and here. Design goals: - Remove hit points - Ti...2 months ago
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Slumbering Ursine Dunes: The Extended Dance Version (Series Omnibus) - *[Before we get into today's matter at hand, if you find this blog helpful and most of all want to help me get a new Hill Cantons book out please consider...2 months ago
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Harbinger Unheeded – Frank Mentzer Out at GaryCon - Today Gary Con’s Luke Gygax announced that Frank Mentzer will no longer be an Guest of Honor at Gary Con. Luke’s post is linked above via the Gary Con Face...2 months ago
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New Reference & Handout Pack available for The Hyqueous Vaults - From the Better-Late-Than-Never Department, I just uploaded a Reference & Handout Pack for The Hyqueous Vaults, that includes an un-keyed map for virtual t...3 months 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...3 months ago
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We Has Met the Enemy Part Four - With the Triumph en route to the Flying Dutchman, the Martian Admirals saw an opportunity to at once cripple Earth's Asteroid Belt operations and destroy t...3 months ago
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Character Motivation in OD&D – More Than Murder-Hobos - A fundamental assumption in OD&D is that all player characters want treasure (after all, it's the source of the vast majority of XP awarded). But this does...4 months 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.4 months 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...5 months 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...6 months ago
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check this out - I am right now in a workshop on gamification in faculty development. I just took this interesting quiz on gamer type: https://gamified.uk/UserTypeTest2016...6 months 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...6 months ago
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Review: Tiny Dungeon 2e - After reading *Eorathril *and *For Coin & Blood*, Gallant Knight Games has really become a publisher I respect for their OSR work. Seriously, they do OSR r...7 months 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 months 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...7 months 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 ...8 months 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....10 months ago
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E is for Earths - ...of the parallel variety, that is. I'd love for Light City to be accessible for all sorts of supers gaming. I also just love a good, wacky multiverse. ...1 year 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...1 year ago
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The Warlock's Tower - *F*or over eighty years, the Warlock lurked in his tower of stone, crafting all manner of trinket and bauble for the many curious novice and veteran travel...1 year 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...1 year ago
Congratulations Reese!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Reese, no I am off to order a copy.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Reese, no I am off to order a copy.
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ReplyDeleteWoo Hoo! Thank you Erik! Email on it's way...
ReplyDeleteYay Reese!!
ReplyDeleteNot to be a noodge, but since i haven't seen/heard anything I just wanted to check if you got my email, Erik. Thanks again - I'm just eager to dig into this lovely beast. :-)
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