I love Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead films but wonder how well it will translate to an ongoing TV show...a 2 hour film, I could see that. A whole film season???? Hmmm.
Adventures in Marshall Barony, ep 13&14
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THE CAST O' CHARACTERS:CURRENT ROSTERVance - Yozzat, a dwarfJoe - Olwen
Door-Hinge-Bane, a human rangerTim - Raymondo M., human thiefSteve - Dosta
Grimm, a...
[REVIEW] The Palace of Unquiet Repose
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*The Palace of Unquiet ReposeThe Palace of Unquiet Repose (2020)*
by Prince of Nothing
Published by The Merciless Merchants
Levels 3-5 (HAH!)
Know, oh ...
Poster Teaser
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This is a terrible teaser, especially if I don't come through and make it
... and on some level I'm writing about it today to keep myself motivated.
...
Character Creation Challenge: WITCH Fated Souls
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[image: WITCH: Fated Souls]
We are getting near the end of this challenge and I find I am sad to see it
go. I am going to revisit these characters all at ...
OSR: Massive Community Hexcrawl - Complete
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The Massive Community Hexcrawl is finished. 42 different people
contributed hexes and encounters. Starting from nothing (no prompts, no
direction, no th...
Clock Strike Zero, D&D adventure review
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By Bill Petrosky, Matt Sisk, JP Fridy Minor Realm Games OSRIC/5e Levels 2-4
Join a cast of ambitious, fledgling adventurers as they stop if in the
bucolic ...
How to be a Bad Player - Combat Edition
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I've written a bit of advice about being a good player, mostly for GURPS.
Trying to be a good player is hard. So let's be bad players! It's way
easier. Or ...
Witcher Crone Comparison
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The coloured version of this Witcher Crone is one that I printed some time
ago on my Ender 3 in PLA at 0.08mm. The monochrome one I printed today on
th...
Non-Combat Solutions
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I’ve grown tired of combat. I prepare scenarios and some of them beg for
combat, such as a hungry animal or ravenous monster. However, others don’t
neces...
[Yoon Suin 2nd Edition] Aphid Man
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The 2nd edition of Yoon-Suin will soon be upon us. Flee in terror before
its 12 adventure sites, many extra appendices, plethora of random encounter
tabl...
Nick the Pike, a reintroduction
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Who doesn't love a "let me tell you about my character" blog post?
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After a disastrous battle, Niccolo found himself unempl...
D100 Random Apoc Baggage (Fixed repost)
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Was accidentally posted unfinished so fixed now
Sorry or Invasion day in Australia today
Hanging with magpies in underpants
Warm & humid but not uncomfo...
Free GM Resource: Smithsonian Open Access
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[image: Free GM Resource: Smithsonian Open Access]
This week's Free GM Resource is another one of those "*as valuable as you
want to make it*" kind of thi...
Sky-Child and Monster Count
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Ok the previous post got us close to fifty non (or less) vilent monster
ideas for Goose-Gold & Goblins.
I told myself that when I got to fifty I could sto...
Kickstarter Updates and Fullfilment
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*Fulfillment Process*
Fulfillment didn't go quite as smoothly I thought it would. The main issue
is that I mistakenly thought I could handle this with up...
Ask the Stars - The Right Questions
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As the name might suggest, Ask the Stars relies heavily on questions.
While the Signs and Positions give you the answers, they're not much use
unless you...
Miskatonic Monday #59: The Posse
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Between October 2003 and October 2013, Chaosium, Inc. published a series
of books for *Call of Cthulhu* under the Miskatonic University Library
Associat...
Weapons distinctions - brief D&D history
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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you might know my favorite
editions of D&D are B/X and probably 5e, but I like to take ideas from all
edition...
Deck of Many Things with a Bonus!
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One of my favorite magic items of all time, The Deck of Many Things. I was
cruising on Amazon checking out some random gaming trinkets and this one
popul...
A History of Hero Points: Fame, Fortune and Fate
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"Hero Points" was the name given by *James Bond 007 *(1983) to a quantified
resource players could expend to alter the results of a particular system
res...
3 bold adventurers, 3 dead adventurers
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I was feeling some anxiety this morning (the plague being in the land gets
to me sometimes) so I decided to distract myself with a couple old Tunnels
& T...
More Fantasy TV: Westeros and Middle-earth
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It looks like there will be no shortage of fantasy television shows in the
near future. In addition to the potential *Dungeons and Dragons* series
that I...
A review of "A Fool's Errand"
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The prince was kind enough to take a look at my latest adventure "A Fool's
Errand"
You can read the review here:
https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpre...
The Only DM Advice in Brechewold, I Swear
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A subject fraught with peril, to be sure, but I gotta admit I'm feeling
good about this lil nug I wrote as part of the Brechewold intro:
This book does not...
On Abstraction and Saving Throws
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Modern systems seem to assume a baseline representation - i.e. I rolled
twice, so each roll represents a swing of my sword or I can possibly move
up to 10'...
The weird Demographics of Vampire populations
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One thing that has always been left very unclear about Vampire: The
Masquerade (maybe in part deliberately) is the question of the scale at
which the vampi...
New Video: Dragonne Magazine
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A few people have expressed confusion as to what exactly my “Dragonne
Magazine” is. I endeavor to clarify the origin, and intent, and hopefully
have a bit ...
Obscure Mythical Monsters
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I don't often indulge in creating new monsters, but over the years I've put
together a few here and there. Some of these I briefly published
elsewhere, bu...
New Release: Miscreated Creatures
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Miscreated Creatures in Hardback (Lulu) Miscreated Creatures in PDF
(DriveThruRPG) If we lived in a world without adventure games, I think I’d
still have w...
Necrotic Gnome Website
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It's been a long time since I last posted on this blog... and the reason
for that is that I'm now posting news and updates at necroticgnome.com
directly....
Why I Don't Mind Aerith and Bob
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Although I have gone into details on names in my campaigns before let's
talk about it again. Why? Because it is on my mind, no more than that.
In the B...
Pits and Progress, Perils of Product...
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Okay, sad news. Life happens, and real life takes priority over our
imaginary ones, even the semi-real companies that publish the games we
play. Recent...
Muster
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Eero Tuovinen is crowd-funding a discussion about old school play: Muster:
A Friendly Primer to Challengeful Dungeoneering. Why, you might ask, is
another ...
That information is not available…
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One of the more…interesting?…Yeah, let’s go with ‘interesting>’! One of the
more interesting parts of being a Genteel Magistrate is to keep a group of
hero...
AD&D Poison Notes
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In *Dragon* magazine #81 (January 1984) the article "Taking the Sting Out
of Poison" by author Chris Landsea offered truly exhaustive coverage of the
top...
My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter!
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I can't believe I didn't post about it here!
The Dead are Coming, Screams Amongst the Stars and Running Out of Time are
on *Kickstarter right now!* Thes...
The Inn Between
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This all basically grew from the idea of What If Spirited Away, But D&D?
First of all, wiser souls have spoken of this before. The ruleset would be
GLO...
Quantum D&D
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A funny thing happened to D&D in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s: it got
popular. It went from a game everyone learned from someone whose knowledge
of the...
Dolls and Devils
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French Resistance sent a bizarre tale to Allied Intelligence. A French
doctor, a Vichy traitor, was collaborating with the Third Reich. Doctor Le
F. had...
Maximum HP 004, one week to go
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Just one week to go for Maximum HP issue #004, the undead. We are pushing
through stretch goals and wracking up contributions for the best issue yet.
We...
The Bombing of the Quick Stop Gas Station Bench
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*One of the ingredients that's coalescing for Bunkers & Billionaires is a
completely surreal mission landscape. Rogue intelligence agents and
terrorist c...
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...
Undermountain Map Origins
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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...
Sometimes, the best move is not to play...
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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...
A to Z of Megadungeons
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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...
A Campaign Begins for Newbies
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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...
WB:FMAG Total Print Sales
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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...
The Minotaur for Old-School Essentials
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*Minotaur*
*Requirements:* Minimum STR 9, Minimum CON 9
*Prime Requisite:* STR and CON
*Hit Dice:* 1d10
*Maximum Level:* 8
*Armor:* Leather, including shield...
WIZARDS OF POHJOLA
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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...
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...
New AD&D Greyhawk Campaign Notes
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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...
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...
Home Sweet Home Azeroth
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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...
D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets
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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...
James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video
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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...
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...
SHORT BREAK.
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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.
Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor
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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...
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...
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 megadungeo...
Mord Mar - Session 6
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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 ...
A Small, Quiet Plea
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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....
Don’t Sleep It’s Broken
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Expanding/editing my comments from What Makes Something Broken G+ thread:
“Broken”, for me, is anything that makes normal character choices, tactics,
or ro...
Swords & Wizardry Light-Themed Birthday Party
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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...
How did I miss that this was a TV series?
ReplyDeleteI love Bruce Campbell and the Evil Dead films but wonder how well it will translate to an ongoing TV show...a 2 hour film, I could see that. A whole film season???? Hmmm.
I read it was a 10 episode season.
DeleteGroovy... unleash the boomsticks!
ReplyDeleteStarz is kicking ass. Outlander, Black Sails, this!
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