Not near my desk at the moment so my tablet will have to make due.
Just a short reminder that the weekly Tavern Chat is in 2 hours.
Be there or be not ;)
bf
Tenkar's Tavern Community Updates
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
RPGNow
Tenkar's Tavern Discord Server Events - link - https://discord.gg/fReGmuD - Click to embiggen
Blogs of Inspiration & Erudition
-
-
Some OSR Commentary On The Legacy of 50 years of Dave Arneson's First Blackmoor Game Session - Today was one of those days were we were very busy at the shop & didn't have a huge amount of time to get secondary blog post up. And then family stuff ca...5 hours ago
-
Sword & Sorcery & Cinema: Clash of the Titans (1981, 2010) - Double Feature! *Clash of the Titans (1981)* I can't talk about monsters all month and NOT pop in the stop motion masterpiece of Clash of the Titans. I...7 hours ago
-
The First PC to Die, Ever. - According to Dave Arneson's *Corner of the Table* newsletter, Vol. III, #4 "There will be a medevil "BRAUNSTEIN" April 17, 1971 at the home of David Arn...11 hours ago
-
-
A Simple Dungeon, adventure review - By Micah Anderson Self Published Generic/Universal Seven rooms filled with traps, magic, monsters, and treasure. Fight a Troll! Help a Halfling! Defeat an ...20 hours ago
-
Dark Tales - Published in 2015, Shadow of the Demon Lord is roleplaying game which feels like a combination of *Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay* and the *Dungeons & Dragons...21 hours ago
-
Who wrote the Fiend Folio? A-E - The cover of the original 1981 *Fiend Folio* says "edited by Don Turnbull." The monsters inside were written by seventy different people, half of whom c...22 hours ago
-
Jonas Suyderhoef - Hell (After Rubens) 1623 - [image: Jonas Suyderhoef - Hell, After Rubens, 1623]1 day ago
-
Friday Roundup 4/16/21 - A few quick pointers to things to read this week. - I've been listening to Bret Devereaux get interviewed about the Battle of Helm's Deep and the Siege of ...1 day ago
-
d100 Merchants - When next your players wish to go shopping, they may discover that this store is tended by someone with their own rich internal life. This post was written...1 day ago
-
Rappan Athuk: The Mouth of Doom: Yowza, it's Yaza! - Session played on 4/11 Nick the Pike, Fighter 6 (Me) Borumar, Thief 9 (Josh) Tim the Elf (Jake) Lada the Thief (Robby) Darryl, Cleric (NPC) Biffin, Fight...2 days ago
-
Artist Spotlight: Luigi Castellani - Luigi Castellani's work is someone I've used for years. His artwork ranges the entire gambit of fantasy, to sci-fi, cyberpunk, to halflings riding owlbea...2 days ago
-
[NEWS] Helvéczia: Announcement and Preview - *Helvéczia: cover art by Peter Mullen* *“Venture into a rugged land of stamp-sized, steadfastly independent petty states, populated with robber bands, pi...2 days ago
-
Gone To The Frogs 2 : Rewards From Frog Patrons - Sequel to: https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2021/04/gone-to-frogs-1-d12-mysterious-frog.html So when your benevole...2 days ago
-
Matrix Games from an RPG Perspective - I spoke very briefly about Matrix Games in this post, and since then my fascination has grown enough that I'm actually running one right now. There's a p...3 days ago
-
GURPS 4e in physical form - NOTE: *This review concerns only the physical manifestation of the rules; I make no judgement whatsoever here about the usefulness of the GURPS rules and...4 days ago
-
Recursiveness - Dan Olsen of Folding Ideas posted a video essay about Pink Floyd's The Wall today. It's a pity that the movie itself is not the subject of Olsen's disse...4 days ago
-
OSR: The Monster Overhaul Update - 85% Done - The *Monster Overhaul* has reached another milestone. 17/20 chapters are complete and 10/20 chapters have art completed or in progress. Iguanamouth What i...4 days ago
-
5e Manual of Arms: Armor & Shields - now availiable! - Here is an organized compilation of all my recent thoughts on 5e armor: [image: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/291153/5e-Manual-of-Arms-Armor--Shield...4 days ago
-
The Sunlands - How long has it been since I just straight-up invented something purely for the blog? A long time. ... The Sunlands would be ever-haunted by the ghosts ...4 days ago
-
Glaciers & Glyptodons - One of the very first things I blogged about (more than five years ago...geez...) finally got its shot on the videoconferenced tabletop last night. The...5 days ago
-
Free GM Resource: Pixabay - [image: Free GM Resource: Pixabay] One thing I'm always on the lookout for is some free art for use in future projects. Now I prefer to grab old illustr...5 days ago
-
Pestiliential Painting: The Third Outbreak - Welcome back to the Vectorium! Another couple of fruitful painting sessions has resulted in the completion of my third squad of Plague Marines. OK, the ...6 days ago
-
Some Mosaic Strict Sets Appear! - Forty eight days ago, I wrote up Mosaic Strict, a somewhat light-hearted set of compliance rules for making modular parts of RPGs. It asked, what if ther...1 week ago
-
Skurmish! Player maps - I put together some player maps so they can track the hexes they've explored and to track troop movement across the battlefield (I will be providing these ...1 week ago
-
Another Harn Day: The City of Azadmere and Kingdom of Kaldor Hardcover Kickstarter. - *City of Azadmere* Columbia Games released their latest Harnquest the dwarven city of Azadmere. If you needed a dwarven city in your campaign this is the...1 week ago
-
Size Matters, So Digest This... - When we first published Pits & Perils, lots of people assumed it was a digest-sized affair because, you know, Dungeons & Dragons. The rules, which defin...1 week ago
-
Can’t see the forest for the trees - Given how many fantasy worlds are dominated by uninhabited wilderness, and how much the generic image of fantasy is based around forests, it’s pretty surpr...1 week ago
-
A Date for Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! Galore - Everything leaves a trace. That's been my guiding principle researching the history of early wargames and role-playing games: any commercial product t...1 week ago
-
New Video: Reading the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting, Part 4 - Hey-o! There’s a new video up on the channel, where I continue my read-through of the World of Greyhawk Glossography. In this edition, I discuss the advent...2 weeks ago
-
grodog's post-GaryCon-XIII Repose - Part 1 - Yet-again, I had a wonderful time at GaryCon this year. Here's the first part of my post-convention recap, working off of my schedule for GaryCon XIII!...2 weeks ago
-
Guess it's not meant to be - for now - Well, I tried. I got some folks interested in possibly playing a run through the classic module U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. I just could...2 weeks ago
-
Time Marches On - It’s probably the historian in me, but one issue I’ve had with running a long-term Victorious chronicle is that of time moving onward. I suppose it’s a pro...2 weeks ago
-
Started a new notenook - Along time ago, I was complaining to Matt that I never complete anything. He made me a nice 6x9 booklet with graph and hex paper and lines. It's basical...2 weeks ago
-
DM's Report: Solo Adventure - Sir William - Most of the players in Seaward are content with the PCs they have, but Jack wants a new one. So now we're doing Discord-based solos 1-2 times a month....2 weeks ago
-
Swords and Sorcery House Rules PDF available again - Many years ago I put together some 'swords and sorcery' house rules for *Swords & Wizardry *(also usable with older editions of D&D, such as '0e' and 'B/...3 weeks ago
-
Dieselpunk Manifesto Part 14: A Nest of Spies and Villains! - 130-144 Buck is pursuing a Mongol assassin through Niagara when he encounters Lanlu -'the Emperor's favorite!' Quick aside, Lanlu is a scheming social clim...3 weeks ago
-
The Reasonable DM - The English common law relies to a surprisingly large extent on a single magical word: "reasonableness". It appears everywhere. Businesses must make "rea...3 weeks ago
-
On time running out - I've been live streaming for 19 hours. I will continue to do so for another 10!! My Kickstarter just crossed 12.8k!!! Don't miss out. You will be sad. Y...3 weeks ago
-
-
Emulating Battle in Roll20 - For session 70 of my Sunday AD&D game on Roll20 I decided to do something different. A former player who had to drop due to personal issues had some unex...4 weeks ago
-
Return to the Known Lands Sessions #8 and #9 – Cabin and Cellar - Dates: 11-8-20, 11-21-20 PCs: Gato (Halfling FM 2) Osan (Elf F/MU 1/1) Dorful (Elf F/MU 1/1) Omes (Half FM 1) … Continue reading →4 weeks ago
-
You Died - You Died is a book about Dark Souls, written by a pair of game journalists. It was first published as a simple paperback and then reimagined as a deluxe ha...4 weeks ago
-
Myconids - Psychology Humans are very contemptuous of orcs. They are brutes, never shying away from any cruelty. And they are warmongers, always divided against ea...1 month ago
-
New Cover for The Salt Mine - Heya folks, got a new cover in for Dark Matter (The Salt Mine 15) and thought I should share.3 months ago
-
Necrotic Gnome Website - 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....3 months ago
-
AD&D Poison Notes - 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...4 months ago
-
My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter! - 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...4 months ago
-
Quantum D&D - 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...5 months ago
-
Maximum HP 004, one week to go - 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...5 months ago
-
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...7 months ago
-
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...7 months ago
-
Undermountain Map Origins - 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...9 months ago
-
A to Z of Megadungeons - 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...10 months ago
-
A Campaign Begins for Newbies - 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...11 months ago
-
WB:FMAG Total Print Sales - 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...11 months ago
-
The Minotaur for Old-School Essentials - *Minotaur* *Requirements:* Minimum STR 9, Minimum CON 9 *Prime Requisite:* STR and CON *Hit Dice:* 1d10 *Maximum Level:* 8 *Armor:* Leather, including shield...1 year ago
-
The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons - And now the News... In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...1 year ago
-
WIZARDS OF POHJOLA - 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...1 year ago
-
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...1 year ago
-
Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, TSR's Co-Founder Now Available - LINK to Description and Ordering: https://www.tlbgames.com/collections/the-red-book-line/products/merlynd-the-magician1 year ago
-
New AD&D Greyhawk Campaign Notes - 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...1 year ago
-
The Withered Crag custom print version for sale again - Just re-enabled the direct sales button for the custom print (classic style detached cover) version of F4 The Withered Crag, and also for F3 Many Gates of...1 year ago
-
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...1 year ago
-
Home Sweet Home Azeroth - 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...1 year ago
-
-
D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets - 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...1 year ago
-
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...1 year ago
-
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...2 years ago
-
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...2 years ago
-
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.2 years ago
-
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...2 years ago
-
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...2 years ago
-
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...2 years ago
-
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...2 years ago
-
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 ...2 years ago
-
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....2 years ago
-
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...3 years ago
-
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...3 years ago
No comments:
Post a Comment