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Working on demons and demonology the last couple days, being commissioned
by a reader to do so, I can't help notice the illogic of much detail that's
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The D&D Movie We Want - I saw this referenced the last few days, and finally found the original video. It’s only a commercial, but it is .. AWESOME. The post The D&D Movie We Wa...5 hours ago
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Regimental Reporting: Cadia Rises Defiant! - Welcome back to the Officer's Mess! I've been enjoying the lazy Bank Holiday weekend, and that's meant plenty of time to get some games of 40K played. Frid...8 hours ago
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Map Porn - I am not very active on reddit, but I do occasionally drop in, primarily to visit this subreddit. It is called "Map Porn". It features map porn. There is n...9 hours ago
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[Fanzine Focus XVI] Black Pudding #4 - On the tail of Old School Renaissance has come another movement—the rise of the fanzine. Although the fanzine—a nonprofessional and nonofficial publicatio...9 hours ago
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Using The Complete Book of Beholders from Goodman Games For Dungeon Crawl Classics or Any Old School Campaign - Yesterday I wrote about Castles & Crusades along with one of the better fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons books that I've bought Ghosts of Saltmarh. Today I...10 hours ago
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Runequest - Griffin Mountain - *From the back cover:* *Griffin Mountain details an area 800 kilometers wide. Elder Wilds is where non-humans live and high adventure thrives. Balaz...12 hours ago
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Felltower Elder Tongue - Collected Facts - This post collects a number of notes about Elder Tongue, one of the hidden languages of my Felltower campaign. The original description is here: *Elder To...14 hours ago
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Great Things Come in FOURS - So about 24 hours ago this happened, Yes, I hit *4,000,000* page views! Thanks to everyone that keeps coming here to read my posts and ramblings. I am als...1 day ago
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More Variety In Adventure Structure - Panzerliion on Twitter mentioned this: I retweeted it and added a thread with my response: In essence this is about the need for more variety in in how a...1 day ago
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(5e) Masque of the Worms review - By Kelsey Dionne The Arcane library 5e Level 1 Baronness Elenore Rennet has yet to return home from a masque at Moldavia Manor two nights ago. Can the play...1 day ago
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Free one sheet dungeon pdf - Handy for when you have a wizard to hunt or visit... Link to print and fold zine below (this image just front) Wizard...2 days ago
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Retail Déjà Vu - This is going to look familiar to those of you over 30. You may remember when D&D was sold in Sears stores. I actually never got any of my stuff from Sear...2 days ago
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On a Trip Though Hell - I said every day this week, but let's pretend like Thursday didn't happen. I wasn't expecting my daughter's kindergarten graduation to be so. . . disruptiv...2 days ago
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FotVH PLAIN TEXT PDF available for Pay What You Want - Continuing our policy of releasing infinite versions of the same thing, we now have a Plain Text PDF of Fire on the Velvet Horizon available on Drivethru f...2 days ago
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OSRIC now has a wiki - OSRIC, the first retro-clone, now has a wiki available. A useful resource for people using OSRIC to run 1st edition campaigns. You can read the announceme...3 days ago
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CASTLE GREYFALKUN™ UPDATE - *Castle Greyfalkun™ Organization* *© 1973-2019. Robert J. Kuntz. All Rights Reserved.* *North 2** Mordenkaine's Menagerie* *North 3** The Terrible Tunnels...3 days ago
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AFF discussion over at Known World, Old World - If you are a fan of Advanced Fighting Fantasy, I'd suggest heading over here: https://drbargle.blogspot.com/2019/05/aff-your-adventure-starts-here-part-one...3 days ago
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Compendium Offset Print Run - The Trilemma Adventures Compendium will now be manufactured by an *offset print run*. Ever since I conceived of this book, I've been on a knife's edge ab...4 days ago
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A Twofer of Free GM Resources from Lord Zsezse Works - [image: A Twofer of Free GM Resources from Lord Zsezse Works] My unfortunate vacation lasted a day longer than expected because the new laptop charger arriv...5 days ago
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The Withered Crag Cover Preview - Cover illustration by Del TeigelerThe Withered Crag is an exploration-based module with avian and glass/crystal themes, opportunities for combat and climb...5 days ago
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Cheap Plastic Crap - I was idly browsing around AliExpress one day, looking for Cheap Plastic Crap that might be useful to me for wargames terrain, and happened upon this. It'...5 days ago
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Good Referee Practices - Preview of SS&SS 2e Chapter - Part III - *Now for the last part of this preview of Good Referee Principles that will be part of the Running the Game chapter of the revised edition of Sharp Swords...5 days ago
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The Realms of Reality - Two months ago I wrote about an idea of one day running a campaign in a downsized Planescape setting that has only 8 outer planes and 4 inner planes. Plane...5 days ago
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Wraiths in my campaign - From a comment that I made on a post in the Old School Gamers Facebook group... decided to make a post out of it. My players have run into these enough tha...6 days ago
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Game of Thrones concludes - Some thoughts on the ending of the *Game of Thrones*... [Spoilers below!] So that’s that. While I think that the last two seasons were the weakest of the...6 days ago
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Bounded accuracy in combat: OSR, D&D 5e and Dark Fantasy Basic - *Warning: this post got very technical, very fast. Is mostly about number crunching through editions. Hope you enjoy it anyway.* So, D&D has this thing whe...1 week ago
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Greyhawk’s World – The Periphery - I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I posted one of these (mainly because I was diverted by doing the Baklunish series which just ended), but here...1 week 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! ...1 week ago
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New Class: The Beekeeper - Honeyed heroes. Wardens of the hives. Masked protectors of our buzzing pals. Beekeepers use a d8 hit die. They gain experience and roll saving throws as a ...1 week ago
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Humanity Restored - On Twitter (!) recently, @BrianBloodaxe brought up level drain, which reminded me how I ran it in OD&D for Vaults of Pahvelorn. What follows is a slight re...1 week ago
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OSR: Academic Classification of Spells - Boff! Magazine, a weekly satirical periodical, ran a comic illustration. In first panel, a solemn conference of wizards sit around a table eating dinner. T...1 week ago
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Electric Devices - Bastion is Electric now. There are still Oddities we don't understand, whether they're from Alien visitors, the output of Underground Machines, or just thi...1 week ago
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Author on the Crusader Podcast - Greetings all, I just wanted to let everyone know that I and my lovely wife Liz will be on the Crusader Podcast quite soon. For those not in the know, The ...1 week ago
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Was Google+ Gaming's Camelot? - Okay, so it's been a little over a month since Google+ died (at least for the gaming community), although most of us escaped to new online homes well befor...1 week ago
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Three New Shattered Moon Novels. - Suzi's written three novels set in the world of the Shattered Moon! They're about the Church of Parkour and the trials and tribulations of one of their Si...1 week ago
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Winter's Daughter: Shipping Update - I just wanted to post a very quick update on the fulfillment of the *Winter's Daughter* pre-orders. Here's the full rundown: All Orders Have Been Shipped...2 weeks ago
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[REVIEW] The Hidden Tomb of Nephabti - *The Hidden Tomb of Nephabti (2019)* by Jeremy Reaban Self-published Levels 5-7 Mummies. Why did it have to be mummies? Should you want to explain the conc...2 weeks ago
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Monster from Lake Tagua (South American School, 18th Century) - [image: Monster from Lake Tagua, 18th C] Artwork found at Christies.4 weeks ago
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A Host of Swords - I infrequently post about magic items unique to my games (see Magic Item under labels) but I rarely talk about swords, especially powerful ones. But I ...4 weeks ago
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New White Box FMAG Play-by-Post - My friend John is starting a White Box sandbox at the Smoldering Wizard forums – Beyond the Borderlands. You can … Continue reading →4 weeks ago
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Mysthea (something epic this way comes) - [image: Mockup of the hardback book] *An ancient, crystal-encrusted planet is rocked by war. As Kingdom fights Empire and the borderlands are caught in th...4 weeks ago
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Read Wormy from First to Last - Happy Birthday Dave Trampier! Dave and I have something in common, we share the same birthdate. I was reminiscing about the Wormy comic strip and found thi...4 weeks 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...5 weeks 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 ...1 month ago
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The Ghast - The process by which a person becomes a ghoul is poorly understood. One popular theory is that ghouls are created when the higher souls are weakened by can...1 month ago
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Cairn Hills Lairs - The 1st and 2nd Fluted Cairns - I've been noodling on more regional Greyhawk adventure locations, and the Cairn Hills continue to call to me---there's LOTS of room in them thar hills for ...1 month ago
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Thoughts on Arneson's "Armor class" - He said it lots of times, like this: " I adopted the rules I'd done earlier for a Civil War game called Ironclads that had hit points and armor class. It m...1 month ago
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[D&D] More miscellaneous AD&D house rules - A few more miscellaneous AD&D house rule bits and pieces I've had sitting around. This material would've been included in the AD&D Companion except that I ...1 month ago
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GROVER - With apologies to Michael Smollin and Sesame Workshop... Init *last* Melee Atk • hold back +6 (stops movement for one round) AC 8 HD 2d4 MV 10-20 Act 2d1...1 month ago
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Session 4: Into the Wolf Creek Ruins - Session 4 is in the books. This is the first session with @erik tenkar and @Jason Hobbs, along with @Joethelawyer and @Matt Jackson. The party is unravelin...2 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...2 months ago
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Gary Con XI - Another Gary Con is in the books. Sticking to tradition, I roomed with the same guys as last year (Judge Jeff of Spellburn and Appendix N, weird illustrat...2 months ago
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Monster Challenge (The Black Hack) - I have become quite infatuated with the second edition of The Black Hack as of late and over in the MeWe Black Hack group a fellow going by the name Arcum ...2 months ago
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Major Announcement: The Lone Bards - As you know, I am part of a Kickstarter that has funded and ended today. *Cade's Big Book o' Booze* The writer of the Zine is Justin Isaac of Halls of the ...2 months ago
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The Complete OD&D Illusionist - The Illusionist in *Dungeons & Dragons *was created by Peter Aronson, an early Boston-area fan. In 1975, Aronson submitted an initial description of Illu...2 months ago
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Somebody stop me - This system is basically an unholy hybrid of Into the Odd and a few of my previous experiments here and here. Design goals: - Remove hit points - Ti...2 months ago
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Slumbering Ursine Dunes: The Extended Dance Version (Series Omnibus) - *[Before we get into today's matter at hand, if you find this blog helpful and most of all want to help me get a new Hill Cantons book out please consider...3 months ago
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Harbinger Unheeded – Frank Mentzer Out at GaryCon - 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...3 months ago
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New Reference & Handout Pack available for The Hyqueous Vaults - From the Better-Late-Than-Never Department, I just uploaded a Reference & Handout Pack for The Hyqueous Vaults, that includes an un-keyed map for virtual t...3 months 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...3 months ago
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We Has Met the Enemy Part Four - 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...3 months 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...4 months 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.5 months 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...5 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...7 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*...7 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...8 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 ...8 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....11 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. ...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...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
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