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Blogs of Inspiration & Erudition
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Sage Today: hereditary weapon I - The Hereditary Weapon adopts a privilege of elves, who receive a +1 bonus to hit with sword and bow, the ability supposes that other peoples coming of age...5 hours ago
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Yog - All theories about the city of Yog are unlikely. *The Lost God* There is a story about Yog that is almost certainly false. It goes like this. A long t...10 hours ago
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Incremental Progress - Today was another day of working on my book - this time, an editing pass. It takes a lot to write a sentence and sometimes even more to cut it down to a be...11 hours ago
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Play Report - The Crimson Queen - *Drazznappan*= *Immaculate Consumption* in the Old tongue. *Ode to the Crimson Queen:* *There is an old song that many a bard sing, famous in every taver...12 hours ago
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[BEYONDE] Thief: The Metal Anniversary - Rooftop exploration in *Feast of Pilgrims* *Thief: the Dark Project*, a unique and moody stealth game, was released late November 1998. It was instantly re...14 hours ago
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Character Growth and Dungeon Stocking - How do you stock your dungeon? The current and long-standing understanding of dungeon stocking in Dungeons & Dragons is that the design intent of the game...16 hours ago
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OSR Review & Commentary On Courtney Campbell's Megadungeon issue #1 From Hack & Slash Publishing For Your OSR or Old School Campaigns - Just got off the phone with my wife to thank her for her gift. The second gift arrived this morning & that's Courtney Campbell's Megadungeon issue #1. This...19 hours ago
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Brave New Mutant: Year Zero - At the end of the fourth and most recent campaign and campaign set in Free League Publishing’s *Mutant: Year Zero* post-apocalyptic future, there remained...1 day ago
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(5e) The Third Protocol review - MT Black Self published 5e Level 4 The Oracle of War has been recovered from the Mournland. Its creators respond by activating the third protocol, an instr...1 day ago
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I'll make a cup of coffee for your head - As is probably obvious from some of the stuff I've posted on this blog, I'm old and don't always understand new and interesting things. For example...TikT...1 day ago
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T5 – Beneath the Temple of Elemental Evil - This has been a long time coming! The first in my series of expansions/addenda/replacements for the classic T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil, and the GDQ Gian...1 day ago
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Cubicle 7 to end Middle-earth RPG lines (Updated) - Some dramatic news out of Cubicle 7: We have some very unfortunate and unexpected news to share. Contractual differences arose recently which we have be...1 day ago
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Tarot Witch of the Black Rose: Origins TPB - Stuck inside What we all need are comics and games, so here is a Kickstarter from my friends Jim and Holly. *Tarot Witch of the Black Rose: Origins TPB* ...1 day ago
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Virtual GaryCon "Celebrating Greyhawk" Seminar -- tonight 8-10pm CDT - Tonight I'm going to participate in our second annual "Celebrating Greyhawk: A Fandom Renaissance" seminar at GaryCon. You can review last year's semin...1 day ago
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Seaward: Massive Update - The players decided to do a focused scout inside Skull Mountain so set off through the Briars with a party heavy on thieves and light on fighters (althou...1 day ago
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Pieter Huys (1519 - 1584) - [image: Pieter Huys - Inferno, 1570]Inferno, 1570 [image: 37.262]The Last Judgement, 1555-60 [image: Pieter Huys - The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1577]T...2 days ago
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RPG and design, II - Crunch x Fluff - In my latest post about RPG design, I mentioned two functions for RPG books: "Manual" and "Encyclopedia". One comment in that post mentioned an interesting...2 days ago
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Bulette - This is an old WotC pre-paint, one of the lucky-dip figures they were selling in boxes of about ten assorted minis way back when. The poor unfortunate ab...2 days ago
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Podcast Episode 32 - Interview With My 1x1 OD&D Player - My Wife! - My first guest on The Dungeon Master's Handbook! I interview my wife who has been the player in our 11 year one on one OD&D campaign. She talks about wha...2 days ago
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Difficulty in Bastionland - Electric Bastionland doesn't have modifiers, difficulty classes, or many of the mechanics that other games use to differentiate between an easy task and a ...3 days ago
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13 - The Go-Go-Go God Vroom - Scrap has identified an Heraldic Beast. And in antipodean trickery, answered again with Sorcerer Knights. And asked,what is this? Possibly Howard Bloom ht...3 days ago
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Covid-19, the Wilderlands and Printed Poster Maps - I just got a notice from Onebookshelf that their card/poster printing facility was shut down as part of their state's efforts to combat the spread of Covi...3 days ago
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The End of the World As We Know It - With the world in meltdown about a disease that may kill about 0.5-1% of the people who catch it, to use a commonly cited figure, it is worth reflecting th...3 days ago
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A few handy sites for running games - It seems that more than any other time in history we are talking about and playing games online. I've noticed a few handy apps in the last few days that m...3 days ago
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Quick Thoughts about the Secrets of Blackmoor: The True History of Dungeons & Dragons - [image: Quick Thoughts about the Secrets of Blackmoor: The True History of Dungeons & Dragons] Earlier this month I got my DVD copy of Secrets of Blackmoor:...3 days ago
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Hatchets, Buried Here... - Well, we're back from our equivalent of Hell Week, only it was more like a hellish *t**wo** damn months!* It all started back in February with a cough and...4 days ago
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CoronaCon! Map 6 - Yeah another week of work from home has started. I spent yesterday in multiple long phones calls, a FOUR HOUR long teleconference, and am basically already...4 days ago
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Modes of Fantasy - What are the most influential works of adventure fantasy? If you consider, somewhat arbitrarily, the last 10 years, I suspect the list would be something l...5 days ago
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Stone age shenanigans - *Stone Age Sorcery Game Session* So some new characters made and only one person bailed over medical stuff (sniff). Party now includes Fighter hunter an...6 days ago
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The Halls of Arden Vul Complete Now Available - The Halls of Arden Vul by Rick Barton and published by Expeditious Retreat Press is perhaps the largest, and most ambitious megadungeon ever produced! And,...6 days ago
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If Failure isn't Interesting, Skip It! - We’ve all seen 5e DMs do it; a player asks a question and the DM reflexively asks for a skill roll. Prof DM over at the Dungeon Craft vlog says, “Don’t do...6 days ago
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Frostgrave: Vapour Snakes - Welcome back to the Vault my fellow Venturers. In these uncertain times it seems frivolous to be writing about toy soldiers and board games, but whilst we ...6 days ago
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OSR: Rules of Thumb for High-Energy Physics - This post was written while moderately feverish. You've been warned. It's good to have handy approximations for D&D purposes. You're about 5' tall. If you ...6 days ago
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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 week ago
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On America In Crisis - Today marked a 75% growth rate of the pandemic, and 2/3rds of all completed corona outcomes in the U.S. result in death. ( https://www.worldometers.info/cor...1 week ago
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Free Adventures for the Plague - I've seen several folks offering up free adventures due to the current plague-ridden world we currently live in. I just wanted to remind folks that over ...1 week ago
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Updates and Ostriches - Hello all, Just a couple of quick things this time around. First I have it on excellent authority (my wife) that Act II of Evil in the White City has pas...1 week ago
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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 week ago
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Prepping A Card Game To Order Sample Deck - For the past couple of weeks I have been working on building the deck for my card game to order play test deck number four. I have icons that a play test...2 weeks ago
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Shadowrun Awakenings - *From the cover:* *Awakening: New Magic in 2057 is a sourcebook for Shadowrun, Second Edition. It revises and expands on existing rules for magic in Shad...4 weeks ago
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d100 Additional Reasons the Wizard is More Than They Seem - Finding myself in the mood to write another d100 table, I went looking for inspiration amidst the accumulated heap of unfinished work in my drafts folder. ...4 weeks ago
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Identifying the Dice of the 1970s - How can you recognize a polyhedral gaming die made in the 1970s? The video above gives my tips for collectors and researchers who want to roll old schoo...5 weeks ago
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We Has Met the Enemy Part Five - The Earth Defense force’s first attempt to build a battleship was classic Dunning-Kruiger effect. They had never built a battleship before. They had built ...5 weeks ago
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Forgotten Gems of the OSR – The Phoenix Barony - “Small but Mighty” is how I would describe The Phoenix Barony, a fantasy adventure setting by David Bezio, the creator … Continue reading →1 month ago
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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...2 months ago
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per request - In a comment to a previous post, Scott Anderson asked for a new batch of Vyzor-style henchmen. Here you go. I hope they serve you well! I'm pretty sure I ...2 months ago
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Heroic Legendarium By The Numbers - As I inch closer to completion of The Heroic Legendarium and have gotten to the point where the contents are pretty much finalized (I just need to finish w...2 months 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...2 months ago
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My Kickstarter Task List - I recently made a list of all the tasks that I can remember doing while I ran the Kickstarter. I'm sharing it here in the hopes it helps someone who is thi...2 months ago
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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-magician3 months ago
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New Map of the Elf Empire and Southern Isles - I’ve been having fun developing a new map-drawing style that I think is finally reaching a certain level of maturity. And yeah, it owes a lot to Matthew Ad...3 months ago
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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...4 months 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 customize...4 months ago
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Dolmenwood Campaign Book: Planning Update - As work on the final digital rewards for the Old-School Essentials Kickstarter is entering the end stages, my thoughts are slowly returning to "the next bi...5 months ago
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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...5 months 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 months ago
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Saving Throw fundraiser fanzine for James D. Kramer - You may know Jim Kramer from his Usherwood Publishing modules & supplements, or his work helping produce works like OSRIC and Knockspell. You probably didn...6 months ago
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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...7 months ago
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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...8 months ago
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Exorcists For Hire - Three months back I wrote about giving quest givers some kind of existing relationship to the PCs to make adventures more personal and to create a stronger...9 months 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! ...10 months 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...11 months 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 ...11 months 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 year 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...1 year 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.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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....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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years ago
Very cool ... thanks for posting this!
ReplyDeleteSurprised but happy they didn't do a 1e PHB cover.
ReplyDeleteNeat!
ReplyDeleteThey should have done a 1e PHB cover.
ReplyDeleteDon't know Diceman, but did recognize the others!
ReplyDeleteI got all the references except diceman, which is embarrassing as I own 4 of its 5 issues.
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