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Blogs of Inspiration & Erudition
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More Operation Uranus
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I'm not exactly sure why I've gotten hooked on Operation Uranus in Gary
Grigsby's War in the East. Maybe because I'm reading about Case Blue (the
German op...
43 minutes ago
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The Stygian Garden of Abelia Prem
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By Clint Krause Red Moon Medicine Show LotFP Levels 1-2 This 31 page
adventure uses about twelves pages to describe around fifty locations in a
manor and ...
1 hour ago
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Stonehell: Alwin is a Free Elf!
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Session 130 was played on 3/26
Joho, Mystic 6 (Chris)
Karl, Dwarf 8 (Julia)
Hobart (dog)
Alwin, Elf 2 (Robert)
Boris, Cleric 2 (Jeff)
Torchbearers - Rolesta...
1 hour ago
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Phylactery #1
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Do you want a plethora of amazing OSR content for your games? Of course you
do! Planet X Games has you covered. I recently snagged an original copy of
Phyl...
6 hours ago
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Scrye Magazine
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Here's another post where I talk about other random stuff I've done over
the years. You might not care about it. That's okay. There's also the
chance yo...
8 hours ago
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Some Castles & Crusades Thoughts on Judge Guild's House on Hang Man's Hill By Jon Mattson
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The nice part about Castles & Crusades is the modular nature of the system.
One can go forward or backward on compatibility when it comes to dealing
with v...
9 hours ago
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Back of a Beermat Rules for Tolkienesque BECMI or BX Magic
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If I were to run a game in Middle-Earth - Blue Wizards or otherwise - I
would probably use Basic Holmes/Moldvay/Mentzer D&D, and most likely the *Rules
Cyc...
16 hours ago
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Who Does It Serve?
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*"Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet."*
-- Jane Smith, *Mr. & Mrs. Smith*
For those begging for adventures to have stories ... storie...
17 hours ago
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Review: ePic Character Generator
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I like to think I have some solid talents. I am at an age where I know what
I can do well and what I still need to learn how to do better. And what I
am ...
18 hours ago
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Knight Errant Generator
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This is from the upcoming *Yellow Book of Brechewold*. I'm thinking about
putting out a zine of just the enchanted forest section while I finish the
full b...
21 hours ago
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Some Fantasy Trip Goodness
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Douglas Cole at Gaming Ballistic has a new kickstarter up called More
Perilous Journeys.
It is a collection of five adventures for The Fantasy Trip RPG by ...
22 hours ago
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Death Metal
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*The Debasement of Metal*
According to the Metal Heretics, metal was an invention of the Great
Spirits of Earth, who had seen far enough into the future to...
1 day ago
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B/X Loot vs. Danger
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Continuing my investigations into B/X monster treasure, I wanted to
understand how dangerous it is to get xp from different types of creatures.
There are s...
1 day ago
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Records of Inixon, Day 19: Escape from Meenlock Prison
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Day 19: 13th Day, 8th Month, Year 507 The next morning the group returned
to the mansion of the pirate queen Farah, while across the harbor smoke was
still...
1 day ago
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grodog's Mega-Dungeon Maps - Revising and Expanding the First Two Dungeon Levels of My Castle Greyhawk
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In one of my two concurrent Greyhawk campaigns, the players are exploring
the dungeons beneath Castle Greyhawk, which has been pushing me to revise
and exp...
1 day ago
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Free GM Resource: HeroQuest Ye Olde Inn
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[image: Free GM Resource: HeroQuest Ye Olde Inn]
I was watching some YouTube this weekend and came across some
history/documentary concerning D&D and I stuc...
1 day ago
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The Dead Shall Rise
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I see you have ventured back to the Vault once more. Whilst the warm summer
sun tempts us away from the painting desks, there is dread chill in the
crypts....
1 day ago
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[Fanzine Focus XX] Hearts in Glorantha Issue 1
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On the tail of the Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the
rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nonofficial
public...
2 days ago
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"Hail Caesar" Bases
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After I'd started printing the movement trays for my *Hail Cæsar*
formations, I started the arduous task of cutting up some 30x30mm MDF bases
for individu...
2 days ago
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Token Quick Megadungeon
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Ok im interested in megadungeons again so here is an 80s style faction
filled wonderland. I have another one based on a more open plan I like more
but th...
3 days ago
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Armies of the Iron League Part One
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In preparation for a super-secret new project that may or may not debut
sometime next March in a certain Northern Tier state (ahem), I’m delving
into the a...
3 days ago
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Possible Ideals
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Recently I was thinking to myself: people have written some words about
tabletop RPG theory (understatement of the decade). This work is often
“empirical” ...
3 days ago
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Shintobox - a failed idea?
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This is a post about a concept I was developing for 'Soft D&D'.
It’s an idea which I have found does not quite pan-out. I couldn't bring it
to a reasonable...
3 days ago
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QA06 - The Lower Septic
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I picked up PunkApocalyptic-the-rpg (link) and one of the released
adventures involves a location called the Lower Septic. Here is what the
rulebooks says ...
3 days ago
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The preoccupied mind
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It's 12:42 am, it's not even really that late.
*(So the new blogger gui is weird right? right). *
I've just realized in the last few months that I get v...
4 days ago
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[BLOG] The Anatomy of a Dungeon Map
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Over several years, in posts and forum comments, Yours Truly has ranted and
raved about the general decline in mapping quality in tabletop roleplaying
ga...
4 days ago
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Matthias Gerung - Satire of Indulgences, before 1536
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[image: Matthias Gerung, Satire of Indulgences, colored woodcut, before
1536]
[image: Matthias Gerung, Satire of Indulgences, before 1536]
4 days ago
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Podcast Episode 38 - Reading Unearthed Arcana - Paladin, Druid, Fighter
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Join me as I continue my a series of episodes where I read through the
(in)famous supplement to AD&D: *Unearthed Arcana! *Will I use UA in my
campaign? L...
4 days ago
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GRIMLITE
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Following on from this week's confessional.
I mentioned some of the things that I enjoyed about miniature gaming in my
youth, along with those that detract...
5 days ago
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The Wretched Hive - my first published adventure!
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So, here is my first published adventure, *The Wretched Hive*.
It is an expanded version of an old one page dungeon.
Here is the blurb:
*A titanic insect...
6 days ago
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OSR: Extra Ultraviolet Grasslands Vehicle Upgrades
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Here are some extra vehicle rules for Ultraviolet Grasslands. Fuel costs
are here. Normally I try to provide attribution for images, but in this
case there...
1 week ago
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Thoughts on 5e and Roll vs. Role-Playing
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I’ve been playing 5th edition D&D (5e) on and off since September, which,
for me, has really cemented the divide …
Continue reading →
1 week ago
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Player's Guide Part 2: Places
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While it's usually not too large of a concern, PCs need a place to live.
When you're doing hex crawls or exploring a meg-dungeon. A few coins
represent y...
1 week ago
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Facts about Odd Alley and Weird Way
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Odd Alley and Weird Way were created by Gary Gygax as an inter dimensional
nexus-point and goblin market. “The Strange Occurrence on Odd Alley” was
announc...
1 week ago
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Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells 2nd Edition - Factions in Action
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Due to their importance and influence on the sword and sorcery adventures,
Factions can effectively be treated as characters and, as such, can
influence ...
2 weeks ago
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Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D
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Sometimes, for whatever reason, you can't get together with your *Dungeons
& Dragons *group in person. Long before *D&D *came out in 1974, people had
use...
2 weeks ago
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Revising Plans
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I’ve gotten some unsettling news, on top of all the pandemic induced issues
of the last several weeks. My last two annual physicals my PSA (Prostate
Spec...
2 weeks ago
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Flagellants (Pits & Perils)...
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We're of a medieval mind these days, and thinking about Pits & Perils as we
dive into the coming second edition. Here's a bit of fanaticism for *your*
gam...
3 weeks ago
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Was Original Blackmoor a Greyhawk Campaign?
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When Arneson drew his original map of the Northern Marches and sent it off
in a letter to Rob Kuntz in March of 1971, it is unclear what he intended.
Yes, ...
3 weeks ago
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Lovecraft Country coming to HBO
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Looks like HBO may have a something to fill the void left by *The Watchmen*
and *The Game of Thrones*: it’s *Lovecraft Country*, a series based upon
the 20...
3 weeks ago
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From the “Blast from the Past” Section:
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Greetings all, Here’s more proof that Victorious‘ 10-year development
wasn’t the longest in RPG history. Or even Steampunk for that matter.
Space: 1889 was...
3 weeks ago
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A Campaign Begins for Newbies
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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...
3 weeks ago
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WB:FMAG Total Print Sales
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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...
4 weeks ago
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What we owe the Western
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Note: This was written by me in 2017 and was formerly on another site.
I am far from the first person to note that role-playing games, especially
fantasy R...
5 weeks ago
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MURDER OF CROWS
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It is a bad omen when a murder of crows is spotted in the sky. Amongst
those who know it is said that when conjunction magics express creation,
swarms of ...
1 month ago
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Trollsmyth Does the Borderlands
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Yesterday, my wife and I were talking about choice in D&D, and that lead to
a chat about dungeons. Apparently, she’d never experienced the classic
dungeon...
1 month ago
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The Halls of Arden Vul #2-#7 Bestseller at DTRPG!
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This makes me happy. Congrats to Richard Barton and Andreas Claren for
making the #2-#7 bestselling titles at DriveThru....
Here's the Bundle link if you'r...
1 month ago
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The Halls of Arden Vul Complete Now Available
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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,...
2 months ago
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The Minotaur for Old-School Essentials
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*Minotaur*
*Requirements:* Minimum STR 9, Minimum CON 9
*Prime Requisite:* STR and CON
*Hit Dice:* 1d10
*Maximum Level:* 8
*Armor:* Leather, including shield...
2 months ago
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On America In Crisis
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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...
2 months ago
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The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons
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And now the News...
In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the
Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...
2 months ago
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Shadowrun Awakenings
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*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...
2 months ago
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d100 Additional Reasons the Wizard is More Than They Seem
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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. ...
3 months ago
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We Has Met the Enemy Part Five
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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 ...
3 months ago
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WIZARDS OF POHJOLA
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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...
3 months ago
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per request
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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 ...
4 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, TSR's Co-Founder Now Available
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LINK to Description and Ordering:
https://www.tlbgames.com/collections/the-red-book-line/products/merlynd-the-magician
5 months ago
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New AD&D Greyhawk Campaign Notes
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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...
6 months ago
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Dolmenwood Campaign Book: Planning Update
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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...
7 months ago
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The Withered Crag custom print version for sale again
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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...
7 months ago
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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...
8 months ago
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Saving Throw fundraiser fanzine for James D. Kramer
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You may know Jim Kramer from his Usherwood Publishing modules &
supplements, or his work helping produce works like OSRIC and Knockspell.
You probably didn...
8 months ago
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Home Sweet Home Azeroth
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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...
9 months ago
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Dungeoneering Blog
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This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
9 months ago
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D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets
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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...
10 months ago
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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!
...
1 year ago
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James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video
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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
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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 ...
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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.
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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...
1 year ago
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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 ...
1 year ago
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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....
1 year ago
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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...
2 years ago
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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...
2 years ago
Erik, I tried to get SWL printed double-sided on 11x17 inch paper today, but it kept hanging up at about 43%. Has anybody had similar problems, or is there a way to print this out nicely on one page?
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