yeah. I have a game next week and it would have been great to run. Mot going to buy a holiday thing with a January delivery date. Seems like a great idea though
Miskatonic Monday #364: The Borrowed
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Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s
masterpiece of...
Peoples of the Foross Sector
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Since I last wrote about the different humanoid species of Iridium Moons,
the setting has undergone a number of changes, with some peoples being
gone, othe...
Music Monday - Vigilantes
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Here's another MHA track from Rustage, this time focusing on Vigilantes.If
you want to add a few is these vigilantes to your game check out the
following ...
Battle for Neraka
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By Simone ZambrunoiClassic Dungeon AdventuresOSE"Low to Mid Levels" In
Battle for Neraka, players assume the roles of the forces of good besieging
the temp...
In The Labyrinth (1980)
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From the web:
This 80-page rule book allowed the micro board games Melee and Wizard to
be expanded into a full-fledged role-playing game. Released at th...
AD&D 2e reaction table
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The AD&D 2e reaction table is... interesting:
Compare it to the BECMI reaction table, discussed here.
The tables are different for several reasons, but th...
How My Thinking Process Made This
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It should come as a surprise to no one that presently I'm deep in the
process of getting the second issue, the September Issue, of the magazine
sorted an...
Against the Court of Urdor – Part 5
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*Misty Vale, Queen Blàithnaid’s Elfstone, and the Warden’s Pendant *
[Map of the Cursed Lands]
Our heroes – *Einar* *Quicksilver*, the Green Elf rogue of...
The Moathaus
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Been a loooooong time since I picked up my tablet and drew a map. I
started working on this map well over a year ago. Today I replaced my Apple
Pencil (li...
Farmer Drama 1 Chagrinspire Farm Life
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As domain play in my Chagrinspire game and bastions available in my Ethyria
games time to look at daily life for farmers in these sett...
Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight
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There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons
& Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in
a ...
Lie Back and Think of Rivendell
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In *Leviathan*, Thomas Hobbes raises the important question of elf
reproduction *avant la lettre *when he opines that Adam and Eve could not
have been, a...
[BLOG] News on the March! Episode IX.
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This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on
Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and
setup...
Making Tracks
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This project has been on my back-burner for quite some time now.
I decided to make a set of decently detailed running gear for a 15mm (1:100
scale) Pan...
d72 Squires
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By the book, Squires get a pony, a dagger, and an okay weapon from a d6
table.
[image: A person in armor riding a horse with two men in helmets
AI-gener...
It's time to get graphic with Grozz...
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And now, for something completely different...!
(Sort of.)
I've mentioned my good friend Art (AKA Grozz) before here on Monstrous
Matters when I wrote a b...
On the Best Art
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I just wanted to say, I don't know if people know this.
I hire Jeshields to do art for my projects because he captures that classic
style in his black a...
Ogre Miniatures at Historicon 2025
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I got to run two games of Ogre Miniatures at Historicon this weekend. Both
times I ran the Ceasefire Collapse scenario, and both times had one person
who’d...
Stargazer (A New System)
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I haven’t had a regular over-the-table tabletop game in years. In that
time, I’ve wandered pretty far afield. Time for a new system, methinks.
Inspira...
A Twisted Tale of the Tongue...
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nce upon a time, when yours truly was a much younger DM, I planned what was
supposed to be your standard town-next-to-the-dungeon affair. Problem was,
re...
How I Run OD&D Combat
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Link to discussion
Over the years I’ve settled on a way to run 0e/OD&D/White Box combat that
keeps the action moving and is pretty simple, while covering...
Loopy Tombs
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This poast was inspired partly by reading James Holloways 'Tome of Tombs'
- a zine of Tomb creation which you can find here;
https://james-holloway.itch...
What to do on a Gaming Break
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It's summer again. Well it's supposed to be but with temperatures lingering
around 40 it doesn't feel like it. Most summers I take time off. A couple
mon...
I come from the land of the ice and snow
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So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate
random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city,
castle, and...
A long overdue hobby update!
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Welcome back to the Vault everyone! 2025 is going by in a blur; I last
posted in February, almost started a post in March and now it's the end of
May. W...
Progress With My Card Game
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On February 9, 2018 I was struck with inspiration for a card game idea that
I brought to Gary Con 10 and play tested away most of the rough edges. I
had th...
Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz
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History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any
citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever
reason,...
Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives
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With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at
the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over
1,000 ...
Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun!
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Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the
time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the
unfathoma...
Articulations
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Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign,
has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective
house rule...
Writing playlists for all occasions
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Hello again! Going off the idea of inspiration elaborated on by the prior
post, I also have music playing while I write my various games and fiction
pieces...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from
“off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic
item rese...
It's been a bit
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Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and
haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and
other st...
*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace
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A lot of SF (including a certain 2D6 RPG grandaddy) deal with ancient
aliens taking humans from Earth and dropping them, fleas and all, on one or
more w...
Last move - to self-hosting!
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As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to
self-hosting.
I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)
Blog: ht...
Clean Your Room
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Looking back at my little blog here. That last post… wow, I was having fun
playing WOW Classic! That was August of 1999 and I was having a blast… it
was ...
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...
ToAD Monster of the Week: Crocoman
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Now that I'm back doing the blog thing I thought I would use Tome of
Adventure Design to create monsters for The Black Hack.
Using the monster tables in th...
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...
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...
Fiction in Airhde
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On a whim this weekend, I picked up some fiction off the TLG store. *A
Houseless God & Other Tales* and *The Mirrored Soul & Other Tales*, both by
the T...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
The Withered Crag available now
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I just enabled the sale of the PDF version of The Withered Crag at
DriveThruRPG a few minutes ago, and the custom print version will be
available startin...
Annihilation Rising Goes live
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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!
...
James's Celebration of Life
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We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a
bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined
us tod...
Trap Tuesday: A step back
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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 ...
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...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
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...
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 megadunge...
Mord Mar - Session 5
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We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers:
Moira, the Magic-User
Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?)
Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...
Bundle of Fantasy Age
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Bundle of Holding: Dragon Age/Fantasy Age: Available until March 12. PA
Presents: Fantasy AGE Freeport live play Green Ronin in 2018 The Fantasy
Age RPG ma...
New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults
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A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by
Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex
Zisch, a...
Swords & Wizardry Light: Session # 6
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Two months after our last session (thanks to things like 8th grade finals,
a 4 year-old's birthday and party, Father's Day, etc.), we finally had our
next ...
I was tempted to back, but a holiday module in January, didn't quite work for me. Mr Spahn is worthy of support, greta stuff usually.
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