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Blogs of Inspiration & Erudition
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Silly Stuff with Statistics - Yesterday I did what I always tell people not to bother with. Work out the population numbers and distribution of classed and leveled NPCs for your setting...3 hours ago
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Snow permitting - Felltower tomorrow - We're getting snow now, turning into rain and ice. So it might be too slippery to get to Felltower tomorrow. But if we do, it'll be a short crew. Hayden th...11 hours ago
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UPDATE 1 - Charting The Flanaess: a Settlements Distance and Mileage Chart - In May last year I began work on building a Settlements Distance and Mileage Chart for the Flanaess, but the project has lain fairly fallow until recently....13 hours ago
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23rd Class: Conventions - Early in the course, in describing how a Novice DM handles the processes behind running an unfamiliar, complicated role-playing game, we discussed Stuart D...15 hours ago
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(5e) Quest for the Demon Slayer - by Ed Shatto Self Published 5e Levels 3-5 For levels 3-5. This is the first of four modules in a series. In this module we learn of an impending demon war,...18 hours ago
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Fire & Lightning - Using May Fair Games Role Aids - Wizards by Bill Fawcett (Editor) For Campaign Construction - "For sheer power, originality, & cunning, no other group approaches Wizards. Collected here are original articles written by the creators of some of the mo...18 hours ago
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Pyramid #4 - *From the web:* *Contents* *The GenCon Experience by Derek PearcyCover Story: Castle Falkenstein by Mike PondsmithGURPS Book of the New Sun by Mic...19 hours ago
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Screen Shot VII - How do you like your GM Screen? The GM Screen is a essentially a reference sheet, comprised of several card sheets that fold out and can be stood up to ser...19 hours ago
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The OSR News: January 19, 2019 - John Stater's return with Nod 35, an Arduin supplement and a new Traveller sector are just some of the cool stuff awaiting you, in this week's OSR News! N...23 hours ago
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You Walk Into a Tavern - Verisimilitude. The "sense of place". One minute the DM is just talking about chairs and mead and then suddenly she inserts a few more details and the sc...1 day ago
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OSR attributes - Along with beliefs about particular games, I also asked respondents about their attitudes toward several game elements and common approaches to rules. I ch...1 day ago
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Random Fungi Available Now - Get It Here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/264489/Random-Fungi?manufacturers_id=6654 *?affiliate_id=470115 * This is a collection of random tables f...1 day ago
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Revisiting 40k: Eldar - Eldar were "my" army back in my *Warhammer 40,000* playing days, so revisiting modern Eldar material has the feel of visiting very old and dimly-remembered...1 day ago
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“I Know What You Did Last Adventure” - A New Way to Begin a Game - Art by Rafael Balbi for Solar Blades & Cosmic SpellsI love the *Adventure Title Generator* in the *Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Addendum* book and the...1 day ago
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The Winter Witch in Print! - Got home last night after a LONG day at work to a little brown box I have been desperately waiting for. Inside was my print copy of *The Winter Witch for ...2 days ago
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The Traveller Book - This just arrived for me today. ==> I like Traveller, both as a RPG system and as a milieu, and my own space opera campaigns have tended to be fairly heav...2 days ago
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Simplified Encumbrance for OD&D and Clones - In the 1974 D&D rules, encumbrance was tracked in coins. The PC’s miscellaneous equipment was assumed to always weigh 80 … Continue reading →2 days ago
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A Review of the Gloomspite Gitz Battletome for Age of Sigmar - (I haven’t forgotten about that list of things I would do for December, I will still do them. But I was reading this and wanted to talk about it.) Haven...2 days ago
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[Three Hexes] The Exodus - *Campaign: **The Night of Horrors saw the city walls fall and the Necromancer's unliving pour within, killing and destroying all that they could find. The ...2 days ago
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10 Predictions for 2119 - Some random thoughts on what will be 100 years from now. All vehicles will be electric. You will be able to order any body style from a catalogue of every ...3 days ago
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On Early Tropes, Eggs and Raising Young Monsters - From the very beginning of Dungeons and Dragons, Pokemon was a thing. Not only was Charm Person and Monster often used to fill out ranks for henchmen, man...3 days ago
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Battle Report: Warhammer 40K, Guards v. Orks - 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...3 days ago
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Trap Tuesday: A Pressure Plate - Wooden Door from Dungeon KeeperLast week I dove into the basics of traps. This week I will give you a complete trap. Taking one of the basic building bloc...5 days ago
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Free GM Resource: Google Slides - [image: Free GM Resource: Google Slides] This week's (*I know I haven't been too consistent lately*) Free GM Resource is a bit unexpected, at least to me. I...5 days ago
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Finished Gaslands Scatter Terrain - With some paint, glue, sand, and grass flocking, I have finished up the scatter terrain I started here. I really enjoy my shipping containers, although the...5 days ago
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OSR: Mob Rules - One of my favorite Dickens books is *Barnaby Rudge*. It's not my favorite - I don't think it's *anyone's* favorite - but it's got some very interesting fea...6 days ago
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A Point of Conflict - Greetings, I find myself caught in a bit of a conundrum when it comes to Victorious setting and detail, particularly when it comes to the less pleasant asp...6 days ago
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Beaker Beasts - As I was driving to run errands, I thought to the homonculous my magic-user in our Sunday AD&D game on Roll20 created last week. As per the 1e Monster Ma...6 days ago
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Packing Boxes for the Move - I announced a while back that I am moving Gothridge Manor to a new home. I've had my fill of all the Google nonsense and ineptitude. I know no company is ...6 days ago
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Power from Paint: Screaming Jets - Welcome back to my dark corner of Comorragh my fellow Archons. I've been busy applying paint to my latest Dark Eldar unit in advance of next month's First ...6 days ago
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Fuck the King of Space: Post Mortem - We played the last session of Fuck the King of Space on December 29th, 2018. The game ran for about a year, with a total of 23 sessions played. I decided t...6 days ago
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B/X Mummy Rot - 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 ...1 week ago
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Five Years of Free Adventures - As I published my most recent adventure, I realized that I've been doing this for *five years*. Stellarium of the Vinteralf was published in January 2014! ...1 week ago
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Speed, initiative, bonus actions and the action economy... - *Happy new year!* These year I'll write about monsters, weapons, yadda yadda, let us skip this stuff for now. So, here is a brief idea after a long hiatus...1 week ago
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The Future that was promised - Look like we are going to get part of the future that science fiction said we would get. It not a rendering but an actual test article that will do VTOL te...1 week ago
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The Creature That Ate My Village - So reader Michael Lee asked in a comment (bloggers love them apparently) *This sounds cool Chris! You mentioned a basic...1 week ago
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Dolmenwood / B/X: Wilderness Exploration Rules - Image from *B/X Essentials: Core Rules*, by Tom Kilian Following on from some discussion last night in the *Necrotic Gnome* group on MeWe, relating to encu...1 week ago
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How to Describe Your Setting - So yeah, I'm on a bit of a Conan kick. The game made it worse, it didn't start it. I've been re-reading the Howard stuff and Conan really feels like REH at...1 week ago
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The Elves of 74'... - 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...1 week ago
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The Stonewall print books are ready and e-books are up for pre-order - I'm excited to begin my new authorial career with four short novels about a fella named Stonewall who finds himself trapped in a gonzo post-apocalyptic wor...1 week ago
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Temple of the Flayed Lord - In case you need some inspiration for a new *Cthulhu* *Mythos *style cult (also eminently useable for fantasy and historical role-playing games): Mexican...2 weeks ago
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Adolf Dehn (1895 - 1968) - [image: Adolf Dehn - Whore of Babylon, 1946]Whore of Babylon, 1946 [image: Adolf Dehn - Nocturnal Visitors, 1946]Nocturnal Visitors, 1946 [image: Adolf Deh...2 weeks ago
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Public Service Message: James Ward is not a plagiarizer. - "I’m going to print this out once a year for the rest of my years. I absolutely hate it when ignorant people say TSR/me acted in copyright infringement for...2 weeks ago
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Whisper in the Crags - The latest 5e / S&W “Quick Kick” adventure from Fail Squad Games is coming to a close tomorrow (January 3rd). There was only a little more than a week to...2 weeks ago
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Diplomacy 2019 - I have a hankering to run a game of (email) Diplomacy next year. Anyone interested? Email greyhawkgrognard@gmail.com if so with the words “Diplomacy 2019” ...2 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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Monster Design from Classics - The Lich - The Cocktail Codex makes the bold claim that there are only six cocktails, with all recipes able to be linked at least tangentially to one of these root r...3 weeks ago
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Tonisborg: The Lost Level of the Lost Dungeon - In our first discussion of Tonisborg Here, I mentioned that we had the key for Levels 1-9 written on the side margin of the maps, but for level 10 the key ...3 weeks 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 weeks ago
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WYVERN - Public Domain ImageInit +2 Melee Atk • bite +4 (1d4 + poison) • claw +1 (1d6+1) AC 16HD 4d12 MV 60 fly 120 Act 1d20 + 1d16 SP gaze Fort +7 Ref +6 Will ...4 weeks ago
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[REVIEW] The Village and the Witch - *The Village and the Witch (2018)* by Davide Pignedoli Published by Daimon Games low levels The Village and the Witch Underwater Basketweaving, you say? No...4 weeks ago
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Tsillodeed of 0 - 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...5 weeks ago
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The Two-Headed Serpent for Pulp Cthulhu - The Two-Headed Serpent is a campaign for Call of Cthulhu and its supplement Pulp Cthulhu, written by Paul Fricker, Scott Dorward, and Matthew Sanderson, t...5 weeks ago
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Art & Arcana review Barnes & Noble version - This review of the "exclusive" Barnes & Noble edition of *Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History* supplements Trent Foster's detailed review of ...5 weeks 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 month ago
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And the News from the Hill Cantons - What Ho, Frog Demons is finally out (print is still behind due to some more snafus with the printing of the maps and other quality issues, give us another ...1 month ago
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Stock Art - Tentacles and Old Ones - I've recently started to release some stock art on DriveThruRPG. I've done some drawing in the past and a few years ago I received a Wacom tablet. Shortly a...1 month ago
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[D&D] Three new cleric spells - Three new spells available exclusively to clerical devotees of the campaign's "god of wine" or other equivalent figure (Aegir, Dionysus, Inari, Ninkasi, Ol...1 month ago
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Artistic Arcana: Scruby Fantasy Miniatures and TSR - *Dungeons & Dragons *grew out of a tradition of miniature wargaming, and distributors of figurines were among the first companies to supply D&D to hobby ...1 month ago
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Our Favorite Adventure Modules, And What We Learned From Them – Essay Book - Front Cover Here’s another item I picked up from the Goodman Games warehouse sale. This is also a collection of essays from a Kickstarter. This one was f...2 months ago
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Sigh... - “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time2 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...2 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...2 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...2 months ago
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Fleshing Out Lord of Heaven - I've been thinking more about Lord of Heaven. I want space opera, but I want everything to feel mossy and overgrown. Yoda's planet, not the Death Star. Feu...2 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...3 months ago
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Octhorrorfest, Ghost Stories: 1D12 Hauntings Tables For OD&D and other RPGs - Octhorror is here again! That means, of course, several supernatural posts and game aids for your help get your game in the spirit of the season! You shoul...3 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*...3 months ago
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Sandoval's Folly - <> //This is the Profit Rockit. Sorry we can't do that. There is a Patrol ship inbound. I...3 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...3 months ago
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My Recent Trip to the Land of Make Believe - 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...4 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 ...4 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....6 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. ...9 months 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...10 months ago
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Publishing #9: Deploying the Open Game License - 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...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
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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