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Planning Hereafter
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The Pluspocalypse draws nigh. What are we to do? Well, for my part at
least, this is where the wind has been blowing. In terms of social media,
activity se...
Character Class II: Cooler and Meaner
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I firmly believe that images like this have seriously fucked
up our capability of seeing these classes as larger than the wooden
depictions that have been s...
Relationship Between Characters
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Artwork for Dark Streets & Darker SecretsAs I am writing the draft text of
the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells, I am compiling
things fr...
Kickstart Your Weekend: Codex Egyptium
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The next book in the Castles & Crusades Mythos Series is now being
Kickstarted.
C*astles & Crusades Codex Egyptium*
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
British Regional Accents: A Guide for American DMs
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So, I sat down and tried to watch the first episode of the first Critical
Role campaign. I gave up a few minutes in. I had half an idea to write a
series o...
More Frostgrave Plastics!
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In spite of what I said I was gonna do with figuring out what figures would
be most useful for Frostgrave, I ignored that and just built some more
minis. I...
Role Aids: Witches
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*From the back cover:*
*For centuries, witches have been a source of fear and trepidation. Even in
this day and age, the imagery of pots of gruel, bony ...
Short Posting Break / Writing Update
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I'll be taking a break from posting until, most likely, Monday 2/25. I'm
finishing up some writing, and I have a professional certification this
weekend th...
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead (2011)
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Synopsis: A horror fan and his friend experience real life terror as they
find themselves caught in a living Night of the Living Dead. The Good: This
film ...
The Metallic Room
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The hero's have worked their way thru the megadungeon, in search of
treasure and the evil mage who rules the surrounding lands with an iron
fist. The cam...
[Three Hexes] The Vacation of Death
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*Campaign: **Death is sick and tired of the murder-hobos, the attacks on
good people by evil monsters, the never-ending carnage, the constant
headaches (an...
The forthcoming Middle-earth series: Calenardhon?
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As noted at this blog previously, Amazon Prime is coming out with a
television series set in Middle-earth. *Rotten Tomatoes* has posted an
article that goe...
The Joy of Two (Dimensions)
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Here's tonight's initial game setup — the tiles are cobbled together from
FDG's "Ravensfell Sewers" papercraft dungeon tiles set in Photoshop and
printed ...
Beasties II now on DriveThruRPG
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Both Print & PDF versions (including package deal) are live now on
DriveThruRPG.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/265978/Beasties-2
This Wall Near My House
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I have been trying to get friends interested in this wall near my house,
which has a lot of historical graffiti on it.
Absolutely no-one is interested in m...
And the (Spam) Hits Keep on Hittin'
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Johnson is Back!!!This one was a comment on (appropriately enough) Creepiest
Spells in 5e:
My name is ALICIA From united states i never know that spell ca...
Winter's Daughter: Maps Are In!
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I am delighted to announce that the cartographer for the upcoming
*Dolmenwood* adventure, *Winter's Daughter*, is none other than the
hyperdimensional Karl...
[REVIEW] Sailors on the Starless Sea
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Happy to meet you on the Starless Sea
*Sailors on the Starless Sea (2012)*
by Harley Stroh
Published by Goodman Games
0thlevel funnel for 15-20 characters o...
DCC: Doom of the Savage Kings
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Here we go. The band continues with an adventure that is second only to
the ultimate funnel and quintessential DCC adventure *Sailors on the
Starless Se...
The Throne of the Gods
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By Joseph Mohr 1e Levels 15+ Rumors have reached the adventurers about the
recent discovery of the legendary Throne of the Gods. This epic level
journey wi...
The Exile
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I'm writing another adventure. It was a small idea but it's already
spiraling out of "manageable" and into "I may never finish this".
Essentially: a sorce...
OSR: The Grand GLOG Playtesting Review
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The GLOG is Arnold K's fantasy heartbreaker homebrew. I've been using it
for, oh, ~50 sessions now. At ~4 hours a session that's 200 hours of
accumulated p...
Harbinger Unheeded – Frank Mentzer Out at GaryCon
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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...
The Citadel at Norðvorn Kickstarter
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Douglas Cole over on Gaming Ballistic has just launched a Dungeon Fantasy
Kickstarter. A mini-setting called The Citadel at Norðvorn. If you like
viking t...
Knight's Heraldry Generator
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A simple heraldry generator for use with Hex Describe. Paste the below text
into the bottom box, type [heraldry] into the top box, and click submit.
Typ...
Structures of the Apocalypse: Part 3
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My companion to this is a city map of broken hill which is a almost city
capitol of the outback Australia. I want it to be sandbox city for...
Mistakes and Community Expectations
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I'm afraid this is another post completely devoid of game content, but a
rare post on the state of the RPG online community. In particular, this
relates to...
Friday Filler: Deep Sea Adventure
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*Deep Sea Adventure* is tiny game of desperate survival in which a
disparate diving team make a series of dives on a wreck despite a lack of
air. Publishe...
Creating with Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells
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I finally received my hardcover copy of Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells by Diogo
Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing. I've been reading through the PDF like
craz...
The OSR News: February 16, 2019
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The return of the News Spotlight, a fist-full of One Page Dungeons and I
link something from Deadline Hollywood. Al Krombach makes an interesting
return t...
The Mouth of Spring
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*In every town, village, and hamlet are women who have seen beyond fear,
who are strong enough to push back winter and bring new life to the lands.
Their p...
Crossing the Streams of Time and Space
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Whenever I am at a loss about how to make my dreams for my Greatest
Campaign Ever™ closer to reality, I go back to reading old posts on Against
the Wicked ...
I Stand with Mandy.
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If you haven’t yet, please read these much better accounts written by more
relevant figures. Nothing I can say will be as valuable as what they’ve
said. Ma...
XRP in a Bundle of Holding
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I'm pleased to say that our One on One Adventures Compendium is part of a Bundle
of Holding, the Bundle of Holding for Two #2.
This bundle focuses on games...
Plot Points…the reverse of Victory Points?
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Greetings, First my apologies for over 2 weeks without a post. There were
extenuating circumstances, but in the end they are irrelevant. I am a
humble cur....
Lake Geneva Days, Still Writing
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I have been spurred to remember--due to the recent explosion of those
accusing Zak S. of his many abuses--one of the reasons that I am writing *Lake
Geneva...
Building An Encouraging And supportive Community
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I have been honored by some of my Twitter followers for my positive
presence there. On Twitter, I have been mentioned as one of the positive
influences i...
Trap Tuesday - Outside the Dungeon
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So far we have been talking about dungeon traps. But, traps are a wide and
varied subject. Today, we're going to talk about a different kind: the
political...
Top Dungeons and Dragons News
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We should remember the past, lest. . .
If it were a fad, you wouldn't be reading about it right now.
Dungeons & Dragons was always a fast starter. The firs...
The TAGMAR universal table
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Look at this beautiful thing (source):
It is an "universal" table (used for skills, combat, etc.) from the
Brazilian RPG Tagmar (supposedly based on Star ...
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...
Franklin Cascaes (1908 - 1983)
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[image: 4 - invenção de contos]The Nightmare, 1969
[image: 4 - invenção de contos]O Boitata, 1968
[image: 4 - invenção de contos]Witch of the Modern Times,...
A Great World map for Blackmoor
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*....Dave Arneson decided to begin a medieval fantasy campaign game for his
active Twin Cities club. From the map of the "land" of the "Great Kingdom"
and ...
We Has Met the Enemy Part Four
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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...
Exquisite Dungeon
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Yesterday while we were waiting for some of the usual gang to arrive at The
Dungeon Tower FLGS it occurred to me that we were trying to run a long-run
ca...
D&D's 45th Birthday
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Back when D&D turned 40 in 2014, I put up a post about the date I favored
for celebrating its anniversary: the last Sunday in January. Today, January
27,...
[D&D] Reflecting on the Hall of Many Panes
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Shortly after the turn of the century, Gary Gygax's posts to his email list
and on message boards began talking about a new adventure he was running in
his...
Last Post
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I finally published my new website at,
https://www.gothridgemanor.com/blog
For those who have a blog roll, it would be cool if you could updated my
addre...
Battle Report: Warhammer 40K, Guards v. Orks
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As we continue the odyssey of learning W40k live Jack and I fought mano a
mano where he had Orks and I had the IG.
We decided to leave doctrines and stra...
B/X Mummy Rot
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I did not care for any of the versions of Mummy Rot I found around the web,
so I made my own B/X version. A little softer initially, and I think it
allows ...
The Elves of 74'...
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As much as we like AD&D's multi-classing rules, they weren't exactly a
master class in technical elegance. But they weren't all that bad either
because; r...
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.
Tsillodeed of 0
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So I saw this amazing picture a while back by my now favorite artist Dirk
Detweiler Leichty and immediately got this idea for an adventure which I
ran that...
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...
check this out
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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...
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...
Review: Tiny Dungeon 2e
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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...
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 megadungeo...
My Recent Trip to the Land of Make Believe
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Happy Friday to all the eyeballs that fall here! Let's start the day with
a fresh podcast, maybe something a bit longer, with two people having a
convers...
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....
E is for Earths
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...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. ...
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...
Publishing #9: Deploying the Open Game License
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Unlike the earlier covers that cover your creative content, this covers the
boring-but-necessary-for-some-projects details on how to deploy the Open
Game L...
The Warlock's Tower
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*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...
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...
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