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The Gygax 75 Challenge: Week One - Not long ago, when I was in the lands east of the Sun and west of the Moon, I chanced upon a near-forgotten PDF: The Gygax 75 Challenge. The conceit of t...
8 months ago
Blood & Iron RPG

Fantastic Heroes & Witchery - Medieval - The documents below outline my *Fantastic Heroes & Witchery* adaptation for a high-medieval campaign, drawing on Arthurian literature, fairy tales, and l...
8 months ago
Jon Brazer Enterprises

PF2e: We Did Not Expect an Inquisition in Our Kingmaker Game - For the random kingdom event during my group’s Kingmaker game this past weekend, they rolled an inquisition. We started off with a kingdom turn and then th...
8 months ago
BACK TO THE DUNGEON!

1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...
8 months ago
The Engine of Oracles

A New Review of “The Uncanny Highway” - [Review] The Uncanny Highway: Blue-Plate Special Edition
8 months ago
Known World, Old World

Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
9 months ago
Dorkland!

Peacemaker And The Charlton Action-Heroes - Peacemaker is over, for now, and I am working on some basic research so I can do some profiles of Charlton Action-Heroes for the blog. I have some research...
9 months ago
Dungeonskull Mountain

Escape, Engagement, and Eucatastrophe - Artwork from GRIDSHOCK 20XX by Grey Wizard A sentiment that I've been seeing often lately is wanting to avoid games that take place in post-apocalyptic...
10 months ago
Spriggan's Den

How do you do piracy… in SPACE!? - Interstellar space travel in Iridium Moons was always going to be a form of hyperspace jump like in Star Wars or Traveller. Simply because it’s the one for...
10 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
10 months ago
Lurking Rhythmically

Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 358: 357, Plus One in the Chamber! - *Before you say anything:* Erin is fully aware of the nomenclature sin she committed. She did it just to make Weer'd and other gun purists twitch. *In...
11 months ago
Lunar Law Hurdles – The Dream Forge

Great Review for “Dusk and Dawn” - Issue 1/2025 of the Fenix magazine arrived in my mailbox on Aug 15. It contained a wonderful review about my collection of SF stories Dusk and Dawn. The re...
11 months ago
RPG Brainstorming

perfectly normal sign. - wakewithgiggli: perfectly normal sign.
1 year ago
The @DailyDwarf Blog

Great Expectations - Not long after I’d started reading White Dwarf, like – I suspect – many other readers, I fancied I could contribute to the magazine too. Given my love of m...
1 year ago
Remixes and Revelations

OSR: Spectacle Fighter - This is a new variant of my Fighting Man class. It is designed to be the anarchic sister to the Free-Form Wizard, to lend that same air of gleeful unpredi...
1 year ago
Playing at the World

Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - 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 ...
1 year ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
1 year ago
Notes From Under the Kyak

Using Swords & Wizardry Method for Generating a Random Hoard (Via AI) - I wanted to try the S&W hoard generation rules, but it requires a LOT of rolling. I figured that would be a good task for AI (Gemini, in this case). I ha...
1 year ago
Monster Manual Sewn From Pants

MALUSTRIOUS BROOD art book available - I've been meaning to have a print on demand book available of original drawings of mine and now this deed is done! MALUSTRIOUS BROOD!!! In this 102 p...
1 year ago
The Forbidden Mazes of the Jennerak

BLACK ANGEL One Page RPG Adventure & Rule Sheet -
1 year ago
Pulsipher Game Design

A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...
1 year ago
The Lair of Evil Dr Ganymede

[Flesh and Blood] Living Legend Leaderboard data analysis – Blitz! - (Note: This is a follow-up to my previous post that discussed the Living Legend points of heroes in the Flesh and Blood TCG. That post looked at the Classi...
1 year ago
…and the sky full of dust.

Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...
1 year ago
Bernie the Flumph

Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What can m...
1 year ago
Felbrigg's Gaming Blog

A random table for an Angry GM - Wandering Monster "Rolling" table Roll 1D6 + (1 per room traversed) 1 - 1D3 Rats 2 - 1D3 Centipedes 3 - 1D4 Orcs 4 - 1D6 Goblins 5 - 1D4 Evil Elves ...
1 year ago
Concrete Lunch Gaming

More D&D - We are now 22 sessions into our D&D campaign. I need to write up the one we played yesterday, but here is the campaign blog again. https://langwondnd.blogs...
1 year ago
Inspired Mythos

Design Notes: Adventures in Fantasy for ArneCon 2 - I'm posting this after I run the game at ArneCon2. So though I'm documenting this as I go, by the time anyone reads this these steps will be behind me. *...
1 year ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

The Humanoids by Jack Willamson - I had my hopes up for this one. After all, “With Folded Hands” is a bona fide super-classic short story. Yeah, sure. Isaac Asimov was onto something when h...
1 year ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

The Player Agenda in Hide & Seek - I think one of the hardest things to impart to a reader of any ttrpg is what playing the game should feel like, but yet nothing more useful you can say....
1 year ago
Wine and Savages

??? - So…social media is kinda going to hell. Bluesky is pretty nifty, but I hate Twitter-like experiences. Maybe I’ll just revive the old blog.
1 year ago
Really Bad Eggs

And Now For Something Completely Different - I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller* character each ...
1 year ago
Explore: Beneath & Beyond

Original Scenarios Resurrected XI: The Tower of Mrannor (1980, Andrew Ravenscroft) - *Welcome to the eleventh entry in the series Original Scenarios Resurrected, wherein D&D scenarios from the 70s and early 80s are republished with the pe...
1 year ago
Strange Flight

The Tragedy of Tekumel - In 1974 I obtained, and first started to game master, White Box Dungeons and Dragons. A year later I got hold of the boxed set of Empire of the Petal Thron...
1 year ago
Fear the Boot, RPG Podcast

Bonus Episode 104 – WPC 1: random traits - * (0:24) A joke to an AI becomes a show topic. * (2:48) Characters born in a cursed forest, without sunlight. * (7:48) Characters who compulsively collect…...
1 year ago
Actual Play

Epoch of Rysos, Episode 14 - The technology park turns into liminal horror.
1 year ago
Searching for Magic

New Experience in D&D Clones (Breaking the Old-School Cycle) - Alvario Tapia's art evokes the lost lands of the Bitter Reach wrapped in ice and snow! The older versions of D&D, such as B/X and BECMI have a lot going f...
1 year ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...
1 year ago
Lohwand

All At Sea - Sea Voyages on Lohwand - * Sea Voyages* Being a system for adjudicating the fate of fleets and supply convoys and the like around the seas and oceans of my Lohwand campaign. The...
1 year ago
Shit My Players Say

Cleric: *coughing* I’m DYING! Paladin: Okay, well mute yourself so you don’t interrupt the... - Cleric: *coughing* I’m DYING! Paladin: Okay, well mute yourself so you don’t interrupt the session. DM: Damn Cleric: *mutes* Fighter: “Okay well die qu...
1 year ago
Gaymers do it on the Table

Anyone know where to watch Moana 2 for free? - While several avenues exist to view the highly praised film Moana 2 Onl𝚒ne Strea𝚖ing offers a versatile means to access its cinematic wonder From heart...
1 year ago
Signs in the Wilderness

Oracles; or, letting a Surprising Future derail your Story and Confound the Players - *At last the ragged wanderers found themselves at the sacred grove. There they sought an audience with the Oracle of the Broken Stone, to ask the one qu...
1 year ago
Fictive Fantasies

Inspectres in Grifton - On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly pulled out and ...
1 year ago
The Big Red Couch

Gen Con 2024, Some Time Later - Craig went to Gen Con, and is forcing you to hear about it,Ben tries to moderate this audio equivalent of a “What I Did On My Holidays” slideshow,And we as...
1 year ago
Say; Hello Spaceman

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) - Some very cool suits from the third *Guardians of the Galaxy* movie. The many colours are a bit of a homage to Kubricks 1968 movie *2001**: A Space ...
1 year ago
The Reef

That’s it, I’m out - TL;DR: This will be the last convention I work on. I’ve tried to build up the tabletop gaming community for decades. I started by running events at convent...
1 year ago
The Id DM

Emily Armstrong Goes to 11 - I know what you want But it’s not gonna be what you like That’s a lyric from “Mona Lisa,” the third track on Dead Sara’s sophomore album, Pleasure to Meet ...
1 year ago
Game in the Brain

Moved to Gameinthebrain.com or blog.gi7b.org - You will notice I'm more active now in blog.gi7b.org
1 year ago
die heart

A New Blog Theme - Here’s a little update on the blog. I haven’t been playing games recently, so there are no new blog entries. But the website won’t go away any time soon, a...
2 years ago
Cyclopeatron

When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, w...
2 years ago
Creative Nonsense

Terra Elves of Modun - The Terra Elves of Modun Frequently also known as Cave Elves, Platinum Elves, Giant Elves, and Elves of the Kassarang Desert, and especially as Terra Elves...
2 years ago
The Savage AfterWorld

The Savage AfterWorld -- From Gaming Blog To Publishing House - Although The Savage AfterWorld (TSAW, for short) has fallen silent for a while, it's never gone away. Folks still stop by to read old reviews of different ...
2 years ago
Twilight of the GM

*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace - 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...
2 years ago
RPG Knights

Dark Space Review - I was recently approached to review a product called Dark Space. It is a Lovecraftian Role Playing Game (RPG) book written offering a variety of scenari...
2 years ago
HeroPress

Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
2 years ago
Axes and Orcs

Of Urbanity in Troika! - This was sparked by someone asking about Orbital Intelligence's crapland. which is about crappy suburbian.I jokingly call it a crappy suburb of Troika! (t...
2 years ago
Playing Dice with the Universe

On Play-Style - Welcome to the third post wherein I lay the groundwork for this blog's future direction. Today, I want to discuss the concept of *play-style* as it perta...
2 years ago
Copper Dragon Games

This Blog is Ugly (And I’m Cool with It) - I have a tendency to avoid doing stuff until the conditions are just right. Can’t film that video series yet because I’m not satisfied with how my mic soun...
2 years ago
O My Ruritania!

Historicon 2023 - I can't believe it's been a year since I last updated this blog, I've been sadly remiss. I do want to give a report of my experience at Historicon 2023...
3 years ago
StanShinn.com

Practical Implementation of Accessibility - Let's look into the practical aspects of making your digital content accessible. Website Accessibility When it comes to website accessibility, there are ...
3 years ago
Christian Gamers Guild

RPG-ology #68: Expertise - This is RPG-ology #68: Expertise, for July 2023. I was packing up ground beef for the freezer. Generally if I have a bit of money and there’s a good price …
3 years ago
xenoglyph

A Moiu Spaceship - The Moiu are one of the first aliens that humans met out among the stars. Their spacecraft are all unique, built with the sapience that is required for hyp...
3 years ago
The One Shot Podcast

57. Focusing on Focus - Hannah and Evan discuss their personal experiences and struggles with focus. A new kind of work requires long stretches of sustained focus, disrupting old ...
3 years ago
Ballgowns and Battleskirts

Dissecting a Trope: Ancient Man, Young Woman - Contains spoilers for Sarah J Maas's "A Court of..." series, though I've only read the first 2 books and I really enjoyed them and you should read them too...
3 years ago
Rather Gamey

Is There Anybody Out There? - Testing . . . testing. Is this thing on? -Ark
3 years ago
The Immaterial Plane

Eberron for Savage Worlds Revised! - Eberron for Savage Worlds has been republished with updates and expanded content and is now available in print and PDF through DriveThruRPG.com!
3 years ago
The Mudworld Blog

Sudowrite and ChatGPT For Writing Fantasy and Roleplaying Game Content - How to write fantasy fiction and roleplaying game content in a sensible and ethical manner. A quick test of ChatGPT and Sudowrite. The post Sudowrite and...
3 years ago
The Geek Flag

Mad Max custom figure - This amazing custom was posted on ebay at the beginning of 2023. The seller's account was listed as Old Colony Hobbies. It looks like there are a lo...
3 years ago
Frak, Frel, and Other "F" Words

Finally Into Oldenhaller Contract - This coming Friday – 13 Jan – we’ll be doing 1.03 which is Oldenhaller Contract proper. I skipped over pretty much all of the stuff from Act 1 which sets s...
3 years ago
RPG Research Website

Cognition - Using RPGs to Enhance the Learning Process, from the Cognitive Neuropsychology Perspective - This could be applied to all RPG Formats in various ways, with different strengths and weaknesses presenting in each format: Tabletop, Live-Action (LARP), ...
3 years ago
Black Ray Gun

70sscifiart:“Through the Reality Warp,” by Boris Vallejo, 1976 - 70sscifiart: “Through the Reality Warp,” by Boris Vallejo, 1976
3 years ago
UbiquitousRat.net

GURPS: Renaming Skills - The key intent for my fantasy world is to create a primal, primordial, prehistoric, and deeply primitive Otherworld. Given that my chosen rules set is GURP...
3 years ago
Technoskald's Forge

Cthulhu Style Investigations - Over the last year or two, I’ve played a good bit of Call of Cthulhu and related games. While I love many things about that particular game, I don’t like t...
4 years ago
destination unknown

Legends of Gath #69; Two Skellies Under a Fig Tree - There's a lot to be said for finding a vine or fig tree to sit under with your guitar.
4 years ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Just a Note... - Hey, all. Just a quick note to visitors who may be trying to download a character sheet, adventure, whatever: I closed down my hosting account for the s...
4 years ago
Gamer: The Blogging

A Tale of Two Laptops - This is a story of two laptops that failed within a few weeks of each other, and the very different experiences that followed, which I'll tell in the for...
4 years ago
The Gnomish Embassy

The Bombers #6 - *6* Rolfir recovered his topaz that he had used in the recreation room that had served as his spell foci. When asked about a second portal to the lowe...
4 years ago
Jewel in the Skull

Art by Jason Sholtis - Art by Jason Sholtis
4 years ago
Brighton and Hove Role Players

Merry Skifness - It seems that we have had now our final dance at the Belmont Railway Club after many years of cheap ales and even cheaper music performed by the residen...
4 years ago
Grimaldi Cascade

Bioshock's Big Daddies for GURPS - Changing it up from past Mothership content, I've been experimenting with GURPS for potential solo projects and group projects recently, and I figured I...
4 years ago
Shit Roleplayers Say

Paranoia isn't a bug, it's a feature - Before heading off to bed, Julius was fed some bottles of blood to make him wake up again, and that's just as well, as half his face seems to be missing...
4 years ago
Thoul's Paradise

It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
4 years ago
Mythcreants

This feed has moved and will be deleted soon. Please update your subscription now. - The publisher is using a new address for their RSS feed. Please update your feed reader to use this new URL: *https://mythcreants.com/feed/*
5 years ago
The Ramblings of a Displaced Nerd

The Battle of Cherry Blossom Snow - Cherry Blossom Snow takes place after Heroes of Legend, on the other side of the Empire, and sees everyone working together to defeat Akuma no Oni, who is ...
5 years ago
Swords Against the Outer Dark

The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
5 years ago
Chimerical Realm

New Year, New Character Day 22: Pendragon - New Year, New Character Day 22 Pendragon Pendragon is a game where players take on the roles of knights in Arthurian Britain. That's it. There's no rog...
5 years ago
Take On Rules

The Why of a Blog? - Because Writing Helps You Learn Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing. — Erling Kagge, Walking: ...
5 years ago
Reality Refracted

Eleven Years! That's Probably Long Enough... - This blog began in January of 2010. It moved to Blogger on January 10th I believe but started before that. The nice thing about starting in 2010 is it m...
5 years ago
DwarfCrypt

My second most beautiful miniature! / Moja druga najpiękniejsza miniaturka! - *Janek / Johnny* *urodzony / born 15.11.2020*
5 years ago
Hari Ragat Games

The Madness Strikes Again ... -
6 years ago
Swordfish Islands

A Kickstarter - [image: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pandesmos/worldbuilders-notebook] Hello, Swordfish Islands is far from dead, but blogging has definitely take...
6 years ago
don't get stuff from amazon! workers are on strike

definitelygayrpgideas -> needledreamweaversrpgideas - definitelygayrpgideas -> needledreamweaversrpgideas
6 years ago
Probably Gay RPG Ideas

Not looking for a relationship, just sex.. -
6 years ago
Superhero Necromancer

Using the Rainy City with Zweihänder Grim and Perilous RPG - Daniel Fox's *Zweihänder* is another good fit for the Rainy City. It has an evocative, grotty style and a great range of character options that would, I th...
6 years ago
Keep on the Heathlands

Enter the Midnight World- Mental Health and Gaming - I remember the first time I was depressed. Not sad, not down, legitimately and medically depressed. It was one of the worst phases of my life, but so has...
6 years ago
Talking Game

Ready To Play vs. Tournament Legal Play - I was at Fantasium a week or so ago, and saw that they had received the first shipment of the new *WWE Dice Masters*. They had the Campaign Box and both of...
6 years ago
Tales to Astound!

Pendragon Character Creation Booklet - I have updated the King Arthur Pendragon Character Creation Booklet I posted over a year ago. (How did a year go by!!!) The character creation rules are st...
6 years ago
The Sign of the Frothing Mug

Skalag's Secret Sight - Level: 3 School/sphere: Divination Range: Caster Components: V, S Duration: Inst. Casting Time: 1 minute Area of Effect: 10 foot radius Saving Throw: Yes (...
6 years ago
STUFFER SHACK

The Kickstarter has Funded! - Our first Kickstarter has funded in the first day. Pretty pumped! Some of you reading this have already received some version of these accessories in the...
6 years ago
Billy Goes to Mordor

Call of Cthulhu 9: the Wolf Within! - The Clue January 27th, following up on clues from Session 8, the investigators traveled North to the village of Lesser Edale in Derbyshire to investigate...
6 years ago
You Don't Meet In An Inn

Fantasy Craft: The Last City Part 09b - You Summoned Karkat - The first arc's epilogue continues as we learn what is happening in Enclave in the remaining winter months, and then the party has a shopping montage ...
6 years ago
I Fly By Night

Blood Games 4 Bestiary - We are currently working on the Blood Games 4 Bestiary. We are completely revamping it. I just essentially copied the original bestiary when I came out sit...
6 years ago
The Horn of Rohan Redux

Mythcon 51: Guests of Honor Announced - Mythcon 51: Guests of Honor Announced We are thrilled to announce our Author Guest of Honor for Mythcon 51 is *Rivera Sun*, the author of *The Dandelion I...
6 years ago
Random Acts

MANGANI: Ape Folk of the Heroic Age - *MANGANI* (ORIGIN) The Mangani (aka Alma, Squatch) are a species of higher apes that can be found around the world where they are traditionally associated ...
6 years ago
Peter's RPG Software

Vacc Suits - This is a WIP, I am just combining the article from JTAS 9, that covers vacc suits up to TL-8 with the article in GDPs World builders Handbook that covers ...
6 years ago
Heroes & Other Worlds

Not Necromancy... - I am indeed alive! AN incredibly busy year of travel just got more crazy as the year ended. In between I continued to work and play-test a different mag...
6 years ago
EXONAUTS!

New Year's Day Tradition: Saving the Galaxy! - In what's become a bit of a tradition now around New Year's Day, the Geeklet and returned to Fantasy Flight Games in Roseville to play our homebrew Star Wa...
6 years ago
The Horrors of Anglypur and Corporate Space

Recent Published Artwork! - Here's a sampling of pieces I've done for the upcoming modules Lost Treasure of Atlantis and the Sea-Wolf's Daughter for Northwind Adventures/Astonis...
6 years ago
Bad Wrong Fun

Thursdays in Thracia – Part 21 - This is Part 21 of my Thursdays in Thracia B/X Dungeons & Dragons Campaign, an actual play of Jennell Jaquays’ The Caverns of Thracia. For more context, st...
6 years ago
Gnoll Train!

Grogcon 2019 after action report - Wow, what a weekend! My work and career often keeps me away from playing games on a regular basis or attending conventions, so I used some vacation time t...
6 years ago
Oh, the subhumanity!

Indefinite Hiatus - Due to intermittent technical problems on a dying computer and life-changing personal problems, I can't see myself gathering up the motivation to even keep...
6 years ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
6 years ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

- *In this installment, we learn that you can make a percentile system really complicated if you keep adding special results and that DQ doesn't stand for "D...
6 years ago
Liberation Industries

Liberation Hiatus! - Heya listeners! Here at Liberation Industries, shocking as it sounds, we do occasionally do other things. So with Lee and Sy skipping the country and Paddy...
6 years ago
Walking In Shadows

Death & Dinosaurs: Introduction - As it is my birthday, I have been thinking about my personal history with roleplaying. I did not start way back in the seventies or early eighties like som...
6 years ago
fictoplasm

Tinyletter - Hi there. I’m experimenting with something new: a newsletter powered by Tinyletter (Mailchimp). If you’re interested, use the form below (also found at thi...
7 years ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Spire: The City Must Fall, or, “Menzoberranzan Writes Back” - I am probably late to the party on this, but just this past week I discovered the game Spire: The City Must Fall. It looked absolutely fascinating, so I th...
7 years ago
Kinks & Crits

Albums of the Month: June 2019 - At the end of each month, I pick the six albums I've listened to the most over that month, then post them in no particular order. Here are this month's pi...
7 years ago
Age of Ravens

Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other chara...
7 years ago
Spirit of the Blank

[DFAE] Ace Squadron's Aces - [image: Related image] The ships of Ace Squadron, which consists of "aces," all have the word "Ace" in their names. I'm not sure if this is confusing or j...
7 years ago
Dungeons & Dutch Ovens

The World of a Thousand Gods: A New Setting for Solo RPGs - In the last couple of months, I've been inspired to write up a brand new setting to play in. The idea was inspired by several video games, books, and movi...
7 years ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

STAR EAGLES: Reflections on Kickstarter Project Expectations - When Kickstarter launched a decade ago, on April 28th, 2009, it helped to create a new kind of business model that allowed businesses and individuals to ra...
7 years ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James's Celebration of Life - 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...
7 years ago
The Jank Cast

The Do This, Get That Guide On Example of Literature Review - The Downside Risk of Example of Literature Review For instance, some of them just have zero opportunity to deal with dozens of assignments that keep bombar...
7 years ago
Dice and Decisions

Recent Games... - ...but not RPGs! It's spring break here for my daughter, so lots of family time, the odd snatched hour or two of work to keep things ticking over, and litt...
7 years ago
A German Geek

A Return to Maztica - Around the year 1990, TSR started producing a number of expansions to the Forgotten Realms which were based on historical cultures. These included *Kara-tu...
7 years ago
Maximum Rock & Role Playing

Dick Dale - I'm sad today because one of my personal heroes has passed away today. Dick Dale was 81, and to me that's too young for a man who was such a giant talen...
7 years ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

A Pipeful Of Trouble Adventure By Bret James Stewart From D-oom Products For Labyrinth Lord Or Your Old School Campaigns - "All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
7 years ago
Biomassart

Last in line. - Two Type A Free Traders near the gas giant Mairposa IV
7 years ago
Tabletop Manifesto

Rewards for Roleplaying - There's something deeply satisfying about moments of peak roleplaying. We all have a go at it when we're at the table, in one wway or another. Sometimes it...
7 years ago
Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

RIP Tomi - Still mourning the loss of Tomi Ungerer. If you haven't checked it out, read my interview with Tomi from a few years back. :( And the fabulous *New York ...
7 years ago
Blessings of the Dice Gods

Removing Support from Zak Smith - [UPDATE February 14th, 2019: Zak has issued a statement responding here. I am not convinced to change my position below, but it introduces some doubt. I m...
7 years ago
Unofficial Games

So long and thanks for all the fish - If you want to find me someday check here
7 years ago
Fake Gamer Grell

This is why we broke up, Stacey - The weekend is quiet, and a slightly melancholy time for many of the new acquaintances. Dante opens the mansion up to the group, but only he, Nicole, Sandr...
7 years ago
IxD&D - Jed McClure

Hyperborea - I have been digging deep into the works of Clark Ashton Smith recently, especially his Hyperborean Cycle stories that have strong connections to the myt...
7 years ago
Playing with Electrons to Make Stories

Necromantic Giant Power-Fist OR I took way too long making this. - Hey folks, been a while since I last posted, this is mostly because I got sucked into making this thing look as "perfect" as I could. The name and design a...
7 years ago
One Yard Hex

Eidol Summoning—Two Sample Eidols - Some of the earliest eidols that many practitioners learn to summon are counterparts to mundane creatures drawn from various Otherworlds. Here are two such...
7 years ago
Of Dice and Men

War Cults of the Southron Reaches Preview - The Bloodied Brotherhood - *Another preview of War Cults, this time a full Cult! Ares is a fairly typical God of War, but the real fun comes from dealing with the fallout from having...
7 years ago
Spells and Steel

Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed - Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying games. The 1959...
7 years ago
RPG Circus

Season 10 Episode 20 - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! - *Welcome to Season 10 Episode 20 of RPG Circus* *Episode Topics* - We Bid Farewell to all our listeners * Hosts* - Jeff - Paul - Chris ...
7 years ago
OUTLAW D&D

Update - 9/25/18 - Although things have been silent here and at our other blogs, fear not. There's a lot going on behind the scenes. The Outlaws have been gaming regularly, ...
7 years ago
Under Siege

Ballista: How the Base Rules Work - So... you picked up a copy of a Ballista Adventure and you have dice in hand along with some characters. What next? If not using one of the many existing...
7 years ago
HinterBlog

Nature of What Attracts People to RPGs - Ask yourself why do you play RPGs? What is the root of the game to you? Follow me on the journey of explorations.
7 years ago
The Whole Wide World

My Latest Kickstarter is Live! - Just taking a moment to let everyone know I have a new Kickstarter in process for Troll Lord Games! The Fifth Edition Player's Guide to Aihrde is now live...
8 years ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

T-E-E-N-T-I-T-A-N-S! TEEN! TI-TANS! LET'S GO! - Cover by Alan Okamoto Yesterday, we looked at the *Champions* write ups for the X-Men in Different Worlds. Today, we look at Issue #30, cover date Septem...
8 years ago
Mutation Apocalypse

Random Scavenged Items "As Seen on TV" - Just an odd idea I had for a post apocalyptic scavenge table. 01. 3 Way Poncho 02. 5 Second Fix 03. Allstar Innovations True Touch Deshedding Glove 04. BeA...
8 years ago
The Drunk Umber Hulk

The One Ring RPG Documents - Don't mess with Dain. Heya folks! I've been away for a bit, busy with life and all that. I'm currently involved in an ongoing The One Ring campaign tha...
8 years ago
Carapace King

Dikes Fall, Session 5 - *Tower of Babel* by Brueghel The party approached the central spire and see an enormous wooden gate. Mangus pushed the gate open "respectfully but firmly...
8 years ago
Whitehall ParaIndustries

Age of Heroes 5.0.3 Released - Short update. I've revised the Age of Heroes core book to 5.0.3. All corrections/additions/changes are found in the 5.0.2 errata. The only difference in t...
8 years ago
Pretentious, Overwrought, Nihilistic Trash & RPGs

The Cult from Diablo 3 - Before going to bed I tend to play some Diablo 3 for a bit. It doesn't have much to do with table top RPGs, as let's face it, it's little more than a sc...
8 years ago
The Book of Worlds

Hinterverse, a Glossary - Antikytheron, the Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown. Arcturean Arm A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse. Argos The birth...
8 years ago
Outsyder Gaming

Welcome! - My name is Josh, and I'm a gamer. This site collects my current and past gaming ventures in one place. Feel free to browse the archives if you're looking f...
8 years ago
Held Action Theatre 1: World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl Part 1 – Held Action

Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Clue: The Great Museum Caper is a game from my nerdly youth that, sadly, I never got to play truly.[1] I admired its place of honor on a shelf for years, a...
8 years ago
MusesDice.com

Roll Call: Lando's Origin - *Real Name*: Regent Lando of Satyrs Crossing, Kingdom of the Rising Winds, Grand Keeper of Kin Errant, Esquire *Public Identity*: Lando the Lost Satyr (link...
8 years ago
Lost Garden

Cozy Games - For this year's Project Horseshoe, an annual game designer think tank, our workgroup dug deep into how to design cozy games. What a productive, happy group...
8 years ago
Warlock's Sanctum Games

MoT: Shapershifters/wereforms (template) - Shapeshifters are a common trope in many tales. These rules will focus on the classic werecreatures of mythology. Having an alternative animal form the...
8 years ago
http://infinitemachinegames.tumblr.com/

OSR: The Drow, Part 1 - OSR: The Drow, Part 1: This is an excellent take on the Drow, and apparently a blog I need to start following.
8 years ago
Halfway Station

Lessons from 2017 - “I never heard of a puppeteer refusing to face a problem. He may merely be deciding how fast to run, but he’ll never pretend the problem isn’t there.” – La...
8 years ago
Improvised Radio Theatre - With Dice: January 2017

Plus One Per Adjective - Download This month, for our sixtieth episode, Roger and Mike are inspired by music, get decadent, and consider their equipment lists. The inspirational ...
8 years ago
Rule of the Dice

10 More Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios - Last year I shared a list of 10 Random Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios based on my ad-hoc zombie survival/horror game (which is kinda like a DCC Funnel b...
8 years ago
Adventures and Shopping

Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE “Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
8 years ago
Tales from the Tower

More Kesmai Corporation Isle of Kesmai images - Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged here guys. Here's some more fun Isle of Kesmai images showing the various stages of creating the Isle of Kesmai...
8 years ago
Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Rose Bailey

Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter is live! - The Cavaliers of Mars Kickstarter has launched! Head on over to the campaign page to see more, including a full-text preview! Read More ...
8 years ago
Leaving Mundania

Practical Tips for Writing Larp Critique - This is a little bonus advice from Alex Roberts and Lizzie about the nuts and bolts of writing larp critique. It’s loosely connected to our recent three-pa...
9 years ago
Rended Press

Lasers & Feelings & Assorted L&F Mods - *THIS LIST IS NO LONGER UPDATED AS OF 2022-10-18* *I have a soft spot in my heart for Lasers & Feelings. I use it in my Digital Narratives class to introdu...
9 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
9 years ago
Ramblings of Jacob and Delos

Introducing Grave the Maestro D’ - I’m jumping the gun a little bit here, but I’m just super excited. Friend of mine is going to be running an Apocalypse World play by post soon(ish) and t...
9 years ago
No School Grognard

New Dawn Session 22: July is not a Quiet Month - *Precis*: The PCs plan to spend July retraining their army, but the Orcs have other plans. The 22nd session of my GURPS Fantasy Mass Combat game New Dawn ...
9 years ago
Expanding Universe

The Irinites - The Lunar Empire, as any beef-faced Heortling oaf will tell you between heroic swigs of mead, is chaotic. Yeah, yeah, there's the roads and the water works...
9 years ago
Jerreth Esq.

Easter: A Recap, a Review, and a Saga - Happy Easter everyone! As I missed out on the third event of the *Medieval Chaos* season because of work, and the fact that I haven't posted for a bit over...
9 years ago
Design Notes

New Adventure for AZ on the Way - So, Adventure Locale #1: White Star Trailer Park is coming soon! It's a location based adventure for my zombie apocalypse game, AZ: After Zombies. When it'...
9 years ago
Dice Ritual

Concrete Cow 17 - So I've returned from *Concrete Cow 17*. Back from the paved desert of lost roundabouts that is MK and a weekend of being once again immersed in the wond...
9 years ago
Jasoomian Dreams

Women in Combat - Three undesirable things occur when you integrate male and female troops; 1) Dating, which jeopardizes morale secondary to jealously and rivalry, ...
9 years ago
Vircades Project

You best not miss... - Guns don't kill people, murderhobos kill people! Specifically, when they engage ED-209 in a firefight for control of the strategically vital playground ...
9 years ago
Department V

Grand Tableau: Guide to the Fortune Deck - Everway’s original Guide to the Fortune Deck gives upright and reversed meanings as well as correspondences for the 36 cards in the Fortune Deck. The PDF d...
9 years ago
The Illuminerdy

Behind the Screen – In the Army Now - Ever since the days when I pitted my entire G.I. Joe collection against my brother’s Transformers in the Great Toy Wars of 1987, I’ve been a fan of army-sc...
9 years ago
Renovating the Temple

Mapping doors - Doors are driving me a bit batty. I should explain. Architecturally, one of the things old-school dungeon mapping has gotten right, I tend to think almost...
9 years ago
A Dark and Quiet Room

O Antiphon (December 23)—O Emmanuel - O Emmanuel, God with us, Our King and Lawgiver, the expected of the nations and their Saviour: Come to save us, O Lord our God. Amen. O Emmanuel, Rex et le...
9 years ago
Understand. Think. Then write.

Paper #6: Scholarly Identity, or “Wait, You Can Get a Degree In That?!” - My journey to becoming a PhD student in English focusing on Game Studies has been convoluted. As a Master’s student, I focused on Professional Writing be...
9 years ago
Book Scorpion's Lair

Comixology - I don't know why this escaped me for so long, but Amazon has it's own site for selling comics in digital format and it's awesome. Comixology offers all the...
9 years ago
Rachel Bonuses

Rumors about Froghemoths - Just thought I'd come up with some ideas for everyone's favorite giant three-eyed alien monsters. Roll a dice or whatever to find out which ones are true. ...
9 years ago
Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old

Four Frightening Games to Play on Halloween - Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls! It's that terror-rific time of the year when the air gets colder, the leaves start to change colors, and people embrace t...
9 years ago
Gaming Ronin's Ramblings

Grammaton training (Savage worlds) - The character is trained in quickly calculating shooting angles and committing rigorous gun kata to muscle memory. The character is an expert in snap shoo...
9 years ago
League of Extraordinary Felines – Ed Plays Games

League of Extraordinary Felines - These are the characters for my upcoming “League of Extraordinary Felines” game at Big Bad Con. Once I have the character sheets done (hopefully in a day ...
9 years ago
Realmwright

Living with Immortals - What have I been up to lately? Well, let's see, "lately" encompasses the 608 days since my last post, so the answer is both "quite a lot" and "a whole lot ...
9 years ago
ST Wild: On Roleplaying

Making Boffer LARP Classes - I've spent the past few months working on a new set of boffer LARP mechanics for a Science Fantasy game involving a "interdimensional solar system" where s...
9 years ago
Savage Swords of Athanor

- Oh, for crap's sake, it's been nearly a year and a half since my last post. In the meantime, my wife and I bought a house, I had a huge pile of projects at...
9 years ago
Orcsamongus!

Still Losing Weight! - Still down! Yay! I’ll post more details when I feel like it, just living my life and enjoying my new freedom from the prison of too much body mass. Still g...
9 years ago
Blue Boxer Rebellion

Dungeonteller: Beyond the Core Books - FYI for all of you who snagged free copies of Dungeonteller Fantasy RPG during the "Happy Birthday '2' Dungeonteller" giveaway a few weeks back: add to you...
10 years ago
Logic is my Virgin Sacrifice to Reality

Voyages in Auvergny – The Guyourne Byway - While crumbling in places, the thick cobblestone of the Guyourne Byway runs through lush farmland and the occasional copse of trees, a monument to a previo...
10 years ago
The Rusty Battle Axe

Cardinal Spider--Montporte Dungeon Campaign Critter - *CARDINAL SPIDER* Cardinal spiders travel in small roving bands made up of 2-8 males and 2-4 females. The males are the smaller of two (about 60 pounds in...
10 years ago
The Omnipotent Eye

The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...
10 years ago
Mapping worlds

A mappers review of Ipad Pro - It’s been three months since I bought my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. So I’ve had some time to test it thoroughly. My expectations for the iPad was really hi...
10 years ago
Watching Earth 616

ANNOUNCEMENT: THE JUDGEMENT OF BONES - My latest D&D adventure collection is available to buy here. Five tales centred around moral dilemmas to challenge adventurers of any level. These can be i...
10 years ago
The Free RPG Blog

Delicious, exploratory campaigns in Mythosa by Bruce Gulke - Mythosa is a system agnostic game setting with a consistency and depth that comes with years of honing. It has recently made the welcome transition from w...
10 years ago
Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols

WMLP! #7 Update - …and on the seventh issue they rested. ...for, like, over a year. But, behold! The WMLP! crew is back in action and issue #7 is in the works. Dr. Brainu...
10 years ago
Fainting Goat Games

Kickstarter for Against the Axis is Live - Start the New Year the right way - punching Nazis with Steve Perrin! This supplement will be compatible with ICONS, Savage Worlds and SUPERS Check it out an...
10 years ago
Dice of Doom

Dice of Doom Podcast 046: Thoughts on D&D 5th Edition and wrap up of Temple of Elemental Evil - In this episode of the Dice of Doom Podcast, we discuss Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, past editions of D&D and the industry in general. We also wrap up o...
10 years ago
Doctor Belmont

Why Star Wars: The Force Awakens Will Suck - There, now that I have your attention let me explain. I personally plan on watching the new Star Wars film and will most likely enjoy it. I have just gro...
10 years ago
My Dice Are Older Than You - The Archive

Theron Reads Superhero Fiction - Welp, I haven't posted here in a couple of years, but I need someplace to host a large post. Nerdy9th Rules apply: no negative comments, please. For this #...
10 years ago
The Sandbox of Doom

Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...
10 years ago
RPG Creatures - a free online Bestiary

The Tar'Bukhi - This is the second creature created and added to my new *Patreon* project. You can support my monster making and give it speed through http://patreon.com/ca...
10 years ago
almostoldschool – retro RPG blog

Time For A New Adventure? - This is not the post I had originally thought of for post #150 of this blog. Every so often in life, a person realizes that they are just going through the...
10 years ago
Pitfiend

The Black Sun #3 -
10 years ago
World of Wonder

Paper Experiments - I tried playing with a limited color palatte and a reduced number of images today. Everything else was open to whatever I wanted to do; I just couldn't use...
11 years ago
Castles & Cooks

One-Hour Library Review: The Cypher System Rulebook - Bottom line, this book is an excellent resource for people who want an adaptable, innovative system that works for a variety of settings. It is not a colle...
11 years ago
A Pack of Gnolls

Back in the Saddle! - This Pack of Gnolls has finally begun a new Dungeons and Dragons game! I was gifted a Fifth Edition Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual for Christmas thi...
11 years ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

Mage the Awakening: No Mean City - Way, way back in 2011 I spoke about starting a Werewolf: The Forsaken Game chronicile in Glasgow. It kind of fell through, but I've about to start DMing a...
11 years ago
O V O Y Y A M A R

Part Seventeen -
11 years ago
Porky's Expanse!

Dragons as dungeons and titan diving - *My post at the House* this week got a bit out of hand, trying to cover just a little too much. I did manage an approach to going *inside* the big kits, ...
11 years ago
Raymz Games

Part 2: The End Times Cometh Returns - Warming: Naked Hodor ahead. Above: not Warhammer. Now we'll go into making an actual Agenda system that was inspired by Triumph and Treachery mechanics a...
11 years ago
SANDBOX EMPIRE

Deep Carbon Observatory: The Flooded Land - This is pretty accurate... http://youtu.be/icVt30uiagw *CATEGORY* Adventure *WHAT* The always provocative and endearingly arcane Patrick Stuart at Fal...
11 years ago
They Stalk the Underworld

ECHOLALIACS - *Number Appearing:* 2-8 *Size:* 10' to peak of cone *Armor:* Rolls of thick, dense hide as plate armor *Resilience:* As 8 human warriors *Intelligence:* S...
11 years ago
No School Like The Old School

(SW) Fearsome Critters: Cake Walk - *Savage Worlds* is the role-playing game that bills itself on being "Fast, Furious, and Fun." Over the years I've played elvish warriors, pulp adventurer...
11 years ago
RPG Expo

Doomtown: The Town has Changed - I was one of the "unfortunates" that did not start playing Doomtown until AEG put out the Boot Hill edition, but I feel in love with the game immediately. ...
11 years ago
Dice Troop

bankaibilly: May the Dice Gods forever seek your head on a... - bankaibilly: May the Dice Gods forever seek your head on a pike.
11 years ago
The Campaign Expanse

Orcs and Art - With the nod to inclusivity in the 5E Basic Rules, the art has come under additional examination to see if WotC could walk the walk now that they've talke...
11 years ago
Total Party Kill

Retired / Conspired - It's been some months since I've updated *Total* *Party* *Kill*. My inspiration ran somewhat dry. I needed a kick up the arse. That kick had been provided...
11 years ago
Gaming All Over The Place

Assumptions of a 5e World: Races, Part III: Halflings - Oh, Halflings... A lot of people have some pretty strong ideas and criticisms about Halflings--and most of it valid. The evolution of the D&D Halfling has...
11 years ago
gloomtrain

Fairy Locations 21-30 - 1. Here, the Giant of Slumbering Days runs down his prey of lost sheep and lost shepherds and innocent travelers. He does so merrily, with great ...
12 years ago
Ask the Dungeon Master

Congratulations! Your PC is Pregnant! - The Dungeon Master is back with another awesome gaming question! Our illustrious reader asks: How do you feel about pregnant characters? How do you handle...
12 years ago
Dagda's Workroom

Blazing Spear: Rulaani Clayborn Interview - *Wrote this up to illustrate one of the major cultural perspectives in Blazing Spear- that of the Rulaani Empire, which has rapidly expanded in the last ce...
12 years ago
Twisted Tales

Matthew Dawkins (The Gentleman Gamer) interviewed by David McWilliam about horror role-playing - Matthew (YouTube's The Gentleman Gamer) has been tabletop role-playing since the age of 18 and making RPG-related videos for his popular YouTube channel si...
12 years ago
Claw/Claw/Peck

Marvel Caper! - I’ve recently embarked on an experiment to modify the Caper! rules for a superheroes game— specifically a game of superhuman private security contractors i...
12 years ago
Abalux's Weblog

Gauderis Athelstane, the Ring of Basalt and Crimson - Gauderis Athelstane, Ring of Basalt and Crimson and Primordial of Security, takes the form of a massive ringworld of basalt and red jade. Her nature is to ...
12 years ago
Game Theory

Some thoughts about Shadow, Sword and Spell - Shadow, Sword and Spell is a fun game. Or at least I had a fun time playing a recent two adventure mini campaign. Though I will say that I really enjoy pl...
12 years ago
Castle Dragonscar

Support My Friend's Patreon Page Cause He's Awesome - Hey guys, if you like supporting independent artists / musicians and creative types then please check out my friend Mike TV of the band Get Set Go's Patreo...
12 years ago
guy-wires

The Only Fantasy World May You'll Ever Need - First, this will make more sense if you go here: http://eotbeholder.deviantart.com/art/The-Only-Fantasy-World-Map-245738593 [LINK FIXED] The original artis...
12 years ago
Fame & Fortune

unlikely treasures 2: even still more loot for the taking - Roll d12 for the loot! 1. *Matched set of masterwork half-plate & masterwork heavy shield with silver shield spikes (1400gp).* Weighs 70lbs. A...
12 years ago
Strange New World

New Report from G-9 - The survey team in G-9 has found a new species: *Saurians* Saurians (*lacerta entia Keplerii-Martinii*) are shy, greenish humanoids, approximately 2m tall...
12 years ago
Aggregate Cognizance

I Be Sucking At Regular Blogging Lately - There's just been a lot going on, so I've taken a brief break from blogging - as well as participating as much social media. I blog because I enjoy it, and...
12 years ago
Gameplaywright

New Blogging and Updates - Hi there! We’re renovating the site over the next few months, so some content might move around a bit. If you want to see what we’re blogging these days, y...
12 years ago
The Hardboiled GMshoe's Office

[Q&A] Diane Sauer (Legends and Lies) - [20:01] <+DianeSauer> My name is Diane Sauer, long, long time gamer, in fact been gaming since around 1980. [20:03] <+DianeSauer> I've played all sorts of g...
12 years ago
Dreams of Flesh and Spirit

Not The End...But A New Beginning - I first started Dreams of Flesh and Spirit as a way to revive content from my old Tribe 8 websites, and post any new content that I created, ideas I had, e...
12 years ago
Asshat Paladins

[Savage Worlds] Alternate Hindrances - I'm a big fan of Savage Worlds and am more than willing to mix it up with the rules a bit. I picked up a little indie game called The Shadow of Yesterda...
12 years ago
Not Just Another Gaming Podcast Blog

I hope you didn't miss anything! - *I hope you didn't miss anything!* (a recap of the last few weeks at NJAGP) It's been crazy here at Not Just Another Gaming Podcast Studios this ...
12 years ago
Geekin'! Podcast and Blog

Why I Love Loki And Hate His Fans – Lyesmith - Loki is the epitome of duality. He’s creator AND destroyer. He’s a father AND a mother. He’s male AND female. He’s good AND evil. To the core. While Loki i...
12 years ago
Exchange of Realities

Impractical Applications: A Long Time Pausing - The short version is, I’m going on indefinite hiatus. The long version is, I need to. I have a lot of things going on right now, but more importantly, I’ve...
12 years ago
Infinite Stars

The Ancient Marches - By Richard Hazlewood – May 2011 I woke as the light hit my face. Squinting, I raised my hand to shield my eyes and let myself adjust to the bright light...
12 years ago
The RPG Corner

[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
12 years ago
Dave's Blog

A Hole-in-One - A few important news bits to share: Your calendar just got 1/7th of 100% cooler. Thursdays are now #TileThursday where you can draw a new tile for the mapp...
13 years ago
Bum Rush the Titan!

20 Questions for Akenia - Because I'm starting this game next week and I'm actually pretty excited about it, I figured I'd go ahead and answer Jeff's twenty questions for Akenia. ...
13 years ago
The Journeyman GM

Journeyman GM 100th Blog Post Retrospective - It’s a bit overdue, but it’s time to celebrate the 100th blog post of Journeyman GM! I started this blog almost two years ago and have written quite a bit ...
13 years ago
Countersong

Map hexer web app - I’ll be back eventually but I decided to post this cooperative thing in the mean time. So I saw this post from Zak yesterday about putting hex numbers on m...
13 years ago
Imaginos

Custom Gloom Card Box Part 2 - Finished my box up today and have the photos to show (almost) start to finish. I say almost because I did not take photos of the box before I got the wood...
13 years ago
Vaults of Nagoh

Lets Read Mythus pt 25 - *Mythus* spell lists: my face when. Last section of the *Advanced Mythus* spell lists sample castings, which so far have been boring enough to make a C...
13 years ago
Cradle of Rabies - From role to games

Random dungeon content generator - So, you have a map? Let's make stuff in there! (There are many of these in basic sets of rules in different games, but this is for fun). *Roll d10* 1. It'...
13 years ago
English Roleplaying in Berlin

Low Life: Rise of the Lowly - Hello everyone, for a new Savage Worlds campaign I'm looking for one or two more players to join us for some weird fantasy/science fiction hijinks in the L...
13 years ago
Comments on: RPG Articles

By: Begin at the Beginning: RPG Campaign Creation Resources - [...] Campaign, Adventure, and Encounter Design Articles (https://www.roleplayingtips.com/rpg-articles/#design): A list of articles on the Roleplaying Tips...
13 years ago
Rogues and Reavers

Murderous Menagerie: The Hounds of Skaith - *I am Flay.* He was big. The ridge of his spine would have reached Stark's shoulder. His withers were high and powerful. The thick neck drooped with the we...
13 years ago
Robin D. Laws

Find This Blog At Its New Home - [image: page hit counter] After serving for many years as my main blogging site, I've retired this LiveJournal. Find me wherever I have roamed by clicking ...
14 years ago
Virtual Cript

Crazy Mages of Verdan Arcanis - Verdan Arcanis offers the possibility for mages of different schools of thought to have a few bits of magic that work better. Here are a few: Mad scientis...
14 years ago
Under A Blood Red Sky

Touchdown - Well, we finally did it. I managed to get my family relocated to Edmonton in Canada. There's a zillion things we are catching up on and trying to do so I c...
14 years ago
Pencil & Dice

Hiatus - I have been out of touch with the blog for quite some time. I have been so focused on other pursuits (especially newspaper reporting), that I have not had...
14 years ago
Off to Jupiter

Poll Response 11 - So, our games are equally spread throughout time, from 1974 to 2012. Interesting. Anyone have any ponderings on this subject?
14 years ago
Philosophy of Games

What indie rpgs do you love? - As I stated in my last post, I've been fairly busy over the past two years. And although I've had time to do some gaming (mostly DnD and WoD) I haven't ha...
14 years ago
Teaching Game Design

Remote Lectures - Here's an all-too-common lament from teachers who aren't located in a game development hub like San Francisco: "I'd love to have some guest speakers from in...
14 years ago
The Open-Ended Machine

Measuring fluke and Command and Control - This article describes how to quantify the amount of bad luck (or fluke) that affects the unfolding of a game. It also allow to quantify how much the stoch...
14 years ago
Iron Rationales

Gamicon is Coming! - That time of year has rolled around once again; time for Gamicon in Iowa City, which is happening the 11th thru the 13th of February down at the Iowa Stude...
15 years ago
No Payment Required

WFRP - Agitators - Apologies for the break in service. I've been furiously scrabbling to get a playtest document together! Here is an unofficial document for WFRP published ...
17 years ago
Bernal Alpha

Astounding Days - *Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography*; Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Bantam-Spectra, March 1990) Take this book, along with Greetings, Carbon-Ba...
20 years ago
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The Grand Tapestry

[Music] - 💖' Friday Offering '(C) 2026 Kyrinn S. Eis All Rights Reserved Worldwide
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Pits Perilous

Beating the Planetary Blues... - World building is a central tenet of tabletop gaming, and it certainly illuminates the sheer immensity involved in a living planet. Vast continents spann...
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Break!!

It's Dangerous to go alone: Random Standard Weapons (FREEBIE) - An adventurer's starting gear varies a lot in BREAK!!, with numerous factors from character creation influencing it. There are two things that everyone e...
1 week ago
ars ludi

I Left Out the Reaction Shot, a Dev Journal - When I was a kid watching movies with my Dad, he would sometimes frown and say, “they left out the reaction shot”. What he meant was the movie showed some ...
1 week ago
Into the Odd

Konkord - Peace Operations - *[A former Konkord Star Major, name since redacted, in response to an audience question at the Windfall Orbital State of the Dragon Conference. Recording...
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Elthos RPG

On the Use of Race as a term in Elthos RPG - In recent years, many tabletop RPG communities have discussed whether the long‑standing fantasy term Race should be replaced with alternatives such as Ance...
5 weeks ago
Bounty Hunters of the Atomic Wastelands – UKRP Design Collective

A New Logo for Polar Blues Press - I’ve been working on updating the logo for Polar Blues Press. The new one looks something like this. It’s a first step in a planned refresh of the art acro...
1 year ago
The Artifact RPG

Thoughts on maps - One of the things I’ve struggled with for The Artifact is maps in combat. The issue has been that most combat happens at hundreds of meters to kilometers a...
2 years ago
Hero Kids RPG

Hero Kids Bundle of Holding 2020! - For the next 17 days, the *Bundle of Holding* is offering the best value *Hero Kids* deal! The Bonus Collection includes the *Hero Kids *Fantasy products...
6 years ago
Carpe Omnis

Line of the Night: Sentinels - In between major long-term campaigns with my Seattle group, we decided to do a short-run game of the new Sentinels RPG. Over the course of a few months, ...
6 years ago
Room 209 Gaming

Year-End Donations - Since July 4 of this year, Room 209 Gaming has been donating all proceeds to the ACLU and RAICES. We also submitted Forthright Open Roleplay for a DTRPG ...
6 years ago
Shadows of Esteren - Medieval Horror RPG

Adeliane is on Bandcamp - Our fourth album Adeliane is available on Bandcamp. Adeliane is one of the mort important figure of Shadows of Esteren's universe. *You take your body o...
6 years ago
Accursed RPG

SWADE Update! - The Adventure Edition Update for Accursed is now freely available for download from DriveThruRPG. This is just a bare-bones document, to help players who w...
7 years ago
The City of Fire & Coin – Dig a Thousand Holes Publishing

Wolfspell Kickstarter Ends Sunday Night! - It has almost been a fortnight since the super blood wolf moon ushered in the Wolfspell Kickstarter. Much has happened these past two weeks. We have funded...
7 years ago
Dungeons & Differentials

Turkey Tarrasque - In honor of Thanksgiving I present to you the Turkey Tarrasque, Turkeysque for short. He'll be utilizing the basic framework I discussed earlier for unive...
7 years ago
Icar RPG - the free science fiction RPG - Blog

Reigniting progress - Progress has crawled along since I decided to work on version 5. Partly due to family constraints and partly because I wanted to try my hand at writing a c...
7 years ago
For Honor...and Intrigue

The Historical D'Artagnan - Over on the Osprey Publishing Forum I came across a post that mentioned this nice video (translated from French into English) about Charles de Batz-Cas...
9 years ago
DSL Ironworks

Building the worlds of the ENIGMATIC universe, part 2 - As promised, here is the continuation of the previous post, in which we discussed the radii of super Earths. After some research, I did find a few tidbits ...
9 years ago
Roll for Critical

Baroque Space Opera is 30% OFF through February! - The Tyrant has decreed that this is a time of love and happiness! Now and through February, *Baroque Space Opera is 30% OFF digital and print (after print ...
10 years ago
JAGS Blog

New site. Books Online - If you go to www.jagsrpg.org you'll be redirected to the new site (done with Wix). It's still under construction and will be for some time--but you can now...
10 years ago
Warriors of the Red Planet

Warriors of the Red Planet RPG now available - -Whew-! That was a fair bit of work, but Warriors of the Red Planet RPG is now online ready for purchase. I decided to go with Lulu for now. Remember this ...
12 years ago
Rogue Space RPG

Solstice savings! - Hey a fine fellow (Christopher Bernardi) let me know there is a code to get 20% off on Lulu for a limited time! Through June 23, save *20% on Lulu.com'...
12 years ago
Hunter Gatherer Games

Where are you going, where have you been. - Whew, long absence. Where have I been for 4 months? Well, work got crazy, and my gaming attention has been taken up by several games that aren't Apocalithi...
13 years ago
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Kobold Press

Memoirs of a Lich: Schools – August 7, 2026 - In my vast experience, while there are eight schools of magic, there are roughly three types of people with arcane power. The post Memoirs of a Lich: Sch...
3 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog….

[New Magic Item] Candle that Lights Another Room - Candle that Lights Another Room ‘What do you see?’ asked an anxious Dhiv.‘It looks like a quartet of goblins. No hobgoblins! No, they must be orcs. No, the...
6 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Weird Revisited: Kung Fu Dark Sun - *As when I wrote this post in 2019, I've been watching some wuxia film lately, and then there was the announcement of a new edition of Dark Sun, so it seem...
11 hours ago
Dungeons & Donuts

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12 hours ago
Critical Role

FAN ART GALLERY: Chaotic Spirits - Our fan art gallery for the weeks of 8/3! The post FAN ART GALLERY: Chaotic Spirits first appeared on Critical Role.
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

July ‘26 In Review - Starting the month with 100 degree days certainly is a miserable way to kick things off. On the upside, the Dungeon Dwellers RPG kickstarter arrived. Nic...
1 day ago
d20 Pirates

First Preview for Artifacts & Enigmas of Ancient Greece: The Shield of Achilles - Here's the Shield of Achilles, one of the six prizes included in the upcoming supplement *Artifacts & Enigmas of Ancient Greece*, for use with *Treasure ...
1 day ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Traders From Below - There is little active trade between the settlements of the Netherdeep and the surface kingdoms. The Stony Ridge Outpost is … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawkery Comics: Cultists #47 - Hello fearless readers! The *Cultists of Tharizdun* have been speed running through the *Slavers* series of modules, currently *A-2 Secret of Slavers Sto...
1 day ago
tenfootpole.org

Barrow of the Five Kings - By Dougal CochraneSelf PublishedDolmenwoodLevels 3-4 Recent events have awakened the antler-crowned wraiths and the ancient mound now yawns open. The Antle...
2 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Third Novice Advance - We did another "level-up" session for the ongoing Krevborna game. Here's what the players grabbed for their characters: Anastasia took the New Power edge...
2 days ago
Bardess' Pathfinder Place

The Bardess’ Library #22 Is Out! - The latest issue of The Bardess’ Library is online. The theme is: Virtues! Tomorrow, there will be a little piece of exclusive content on my Patreon pag...
2 days ago
Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Tuesday Magic Item – Friend Finding Bracelet - Gollaon and Voddick watched as the daughter of their charge moved through the crowd with purpose, occasionally reorienting herself. The pair followed behin...
2 days ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hasturi, City of Heroes - Hasturi is one of the most ancient cities in the region, second only to Pazzix. In its distant past, it was a small, walled city-state on the Isle of E...
3 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Interdimensional Space Time Continuum Bait-and-Switch Ground Rules - One of the most perillous moments in any D&D campaign is the Interdimensional Space Time Continuum Bait-and-Switch. If you do not know what that is, let ...
3 days ago
Save Vs. Dragon

New Monster: Gasfruit (Drooling Menace) - DESCRIPTION: A gasfruit (a.k.a., "drooling menace" and "chartreuse fungi") is a nearly spherical fungal organism measuring 4'–8' in diameter. Its leath...
3 days ago
The Bedrock Blog

ROLLING DICE IN WANDERING HEROES OF OGRE GATE - DO YOU COUNT SUCCESSES IN OGRE GATE? This post is more of a small point of clarification about* Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate* and the Network system. Som...
4 days ago
The 3 Toadstools

Murder mystery - The local adventurers guild named "fernleaf and associates" is basically a sleuthing agency. The patron is an older elf named Flynn fernleaf. He pays wel...
5 days ago
Tribality

Dark Sun Returns to Dungeons & Dragons in 2027 - Wizards of the Coast announced at Gen Con 2026 that Dark Sun will return to Dungeons & Dragons in February 2027 as the game’s first setting developed spe...
6 days ago
Throne of Salt

Dan Plays Games 12 - Index Gravity Circuit Some games, you just know from the bleeps and bloops on the main menu: Gravity Circuit has some immaculate bleeps and bloops, and i...
6 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Movie Review - Spider-Man Brand New Day - I saw the new Spider-Man film a few hours ago, and I really liked it. Here's a bit of spoiler-free review. First off, for the moms worried about cursin...
6 days ago
AuldDragon's AD&D Blog

Hyperion, the Watcher Above - The fifth of the six Titan sons is Hyperion, who is more akin to Okeanos in outlook and personality than his other brothers. He is a god of light, and thro...
6 days ago
The Alexandrian

Ex-RPGNet Review: A4 – In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords - The Slavers saga comes to an end with a whimper instead of a bang. Originally Published March 16th, 2002 This review builds on my reviews of A1: Slave Pits...
1 week ago
Applied Phantasticality

RPGaDay2026 Is Nigh (Over There) - RPGaDay2026 is nigh, and this year I shall be observing it exclusively (probably) through Decidedly Six-Sided by interpreting each daily prompt as part o...
1 week ago
Fantasy Maps by Anna B Meyer

Gen Con 2026 - Leaving for Gen Con in a few hours!This will be my 9th Gen Con, but my first since COVID so it was a while since I was present for the best four days in ga...
1 week ago
The Realm of Zhu

Griskynne of the Gáldaethra - From across the world of Vlätkrig the Griskynne of the Gàldaethra gather.On a rare moon, a Gàldaethra may be born that is unalike to hir sisters. Blessed b...
1 week ago
False Machine

The Common Store of Monsters - I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth. As part of the re-write I have re-organised the ‘Pariahs of the Earth’ monsters ...
1 week ago
GRUBB STREET

Theatre: Shakespeare in a Quarry - * The Comedy of Errors* by William Shakespeare, directed by Susan Weingarten, Shakespeare Northwest, Rexville-Blackrock Amphitheatre, Through 7 August. ...
1 week ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] News on the March! Episode XVI. - 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...
1 week ago
Order of the Stick

1347: Lowball Offer - http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1347.html
2 weeks ago
Into the Odd

Konkord - Peace Operations - *[A former Konkord Star Major, name since redacted, in response to an audience question at the Windfall Orbital State of the Dragon Conference. Recording...
2 weeks ago
The Android's Dungeon

Art by • Larry Elmore - dungeonlust: Art by • *Larry Elmore*
2 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

- While you may not be aware of this, I was writing fiction and poetry long before I was publishing RPG material. If you are interested: https://www.patreo...
2 weeks ago
d4 Caltrops

d100 - How Do Those Wizards Know Each Other? - Recently when re-watching *The Last Unicorn* for the umpteenth time, I noticed something interesting in a scene I know I had seen so many times before: ...
2 weeks ago
Kill It With Fire!

Add A Fucked Up God To Your Campaign - Worshipers symbolically killing an effigy of a saint of killers That title is an exhortation. NSFW, and trigger warning for bad things. I was thinkin...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

The Living World Sandbox Campaign - So for a couple of years, I've been slowly putting together an explanation of how I run tabletop roleplaying campaigns, and I finally got a good intro an...
3 weeks ago
Age of Dusk

[Actual Play] Stonehell Delve XIV (AD&D 1e); Justice - Year 1869 of the New Imperial Calendar, Senectus 18 Now at last follows the conclusion of that venture, undertaken under the name of Gunnard the Priest on ...
3 weeks ago
The Setting to End All Settings

Dragonlance: Law vs Chaos - Been thinking of Dragonlance again lately. And one thing that strikes me is that the setting works so much better on a classic Moorcockian axis of Law vs...
4 weeks ago
Dragons Gonna Drag

Justin's Random House Rule Generator - Oh no, Justin insists on using house rules for D&D again! Roll some dice to see what he ruins changes this time. Level Limit - *50% chance* of a limit, t...
4 weeks ago
MSJX

Young Washington and 1753 - I saw Young Washington last weekend and absolutely loved it. If you know me, you know the Revolutionary War era is my favorite time period. I have always f...
4 weeks ago
Coins and Scrolls

Film Notes: A Selection of Recent(ish) Obscure(ish) Horror Films - Horror has a (well-earned) reputation as a wastebin genre. Here are a few horror-adjacent films, largely without jumpscares, musical stings, and cheap tr...
4 weeks ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Character Record Sheets for the Adventurers Backpack (Castles & Crusades) - Link to the sheets: Castles & Crusades Adventurers Backpack Character Record Sheets by the Dungeoneering Dad My Castles & Crusades character record sheet...
4 weeks ago
Popular Enchanting

The Scavenger and the Dwarf - As of yesterday Junksphere is funded! Also the analytics are telling me that all five stretch goals should be in the realm of possibility, which would ki...
4 weeks ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

TSR's Roger E. Moore Writes for Blackmoor Themed issue of Threshold Magazine! - I almost cannot believe it, but the fan magazine for the D&D World of Mystara has just released its 38th issue. As always, the magazine, produced by th...
1 month ago
Eldritch Fields

[Dungeon] The Shining Hexahedron - This is a small dungeon mapped to the outer and inner surface of a cube. I made this for the EXTREMELY BYZANTINE 5-ROOM DUNGEON jam. Have fun! *Download t...
1 month ago
Hill Cantons

The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance - Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are. For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of Marlinko, Kezmaro...
1 month ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

How I read “theory” - Over the past couple of years I have lacked the time to write long blog posts that really work out my thoughts on a topic, so I have not blogged. Which is ...
1 month ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI - AI ImageThere isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Mo...
2 months ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

[Quick Review] Steadings & Followers - For those players and gamemasters interested in a quick and easy system for building settlements then I would take a look at Sibling Dex's *Steadings & F...
2 months ago
The Hapless Henchman

The Backrooms: Terrifying Dungeon Crawl - SO I had an early cancellation this morning, and lots of errands to do but like a wide spot between when I had to do stuff and pick up my kiddo, and then a...
2 months ago
DIY & Dragons

My 2025 in Review - Continuing my annual tradition, here are some of my favorite things from the last year. I think this is the first year where I've had to decide not to shou...
2 months ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Undead Programming and You! - The only thing an Undead will do of its own volition is defend itself from an aggressor. The spirit binding the corpse prefers to do nothing. The only hig...
2 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

A Different Way to Look at the AD&D Hardcovers - Yesterday on my *YouTube Channel*, I published a video about the *"Mid-1980s Shift" in Advanced D&D* 1st Edition. Its received a lot of great and insight...
2 months ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

al-Alam al-Wasat Classes - The classes detailed below represent a series of editorial choices. Some options are unused (or to be precise, sometimes shunted to the "foreign classes"...
2 months ago
Fantasy Adventuring Blog

Building a Tower (Part I) - I wanted to build a tower. Faced with the failure (or, in some ways, 'critical planning success') of my chapel model (as described in an earlier post), I...
2 months ago
The Renaissance Troll

Dol Amroth Captain - It's been awhile since I added anything to my Dol Amroth forces. Recently a friend sent me a *Guards of Traitor's Toll *sprue. It's a really nice spru...
2 months ago
Gothridge Manor

Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
2 months ago
Intelligence Check

D&D Did You Know’s: Sitting and Kneeling in Third Edition - Being prone is a fairly common condition in D&D 3.5, as well as related iterations of the d20 System such as Pathfinder 1E or d20 Modern. From martial char...
2 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Immersion is not what you think, player - *Here we go, another post on the Substack. I think I can claim that I'm back at it. There are already two new essays lined up, and I'm aiming at one a we...
3 months ago
Blood of Prokopius

Christ is Risen! - *Hades took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen. O Death, where...
3 months ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

26.Q1 Hobby Update - Despite being rather busy with work, the first few months of 2026 ended up being surprisingly fruitful on the hobby front. Role-playing games - I r...
3 months ago
Knights of the All Mind

A Fillable Old-Style Player's Character Record Sheet - So as not to ignore players I developed a 5.5e Character Record Sheet in the style of the original pad of sheets for Moldvay & Cook B/X Dungeons & Dragon...
3 months ago
The Mystical Trash Heap

Consolidated AD&D Weapon Characteristics List - Having spent the last few days down a research rabbit hole, I ended up compiling a chart of AD&D weapon characteristics, adding some "missing" entries an...
4 months ago
What Would Conan Do?

What WOULD Conan Do? - I can finally answer that question. He would move his blog to DSell.me. Reasons! 1. Google is both generally evil and liable to suddenly cut se...
4 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

Still Alive... really. - Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices a...
4 months ago
DMiurgy

Thoughts on Autocrats of Night & AD&D Dungeon Guidelines - My Autocrats of Night campaign, wherein the players were to delve the enemy megadungion and steal a Dragon Orb to break the power of the nasty dragon-ri...
4 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...
4 months ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
5 months ago
Legacy of the Bieth

"I Share My Dreams with Ghosts" - Espionage Mechanics for Star Wars d6 - I've been running the Andor Game for nearly 20 sessions (19 as of this past Saturday), and I've been *really *happy with the results so far. I've been st...
5 months ago
stefan poag

Bad Unicorns and 2026 - Hello all – it is the second month of 2026 and I haven’t yet posted anything here – so here is at least something. We have been struggling with S.A.D. and ...
5 months ago
The Tao of D&D

The March 1636 Lantern is Published - Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have noticed that I mistakenly published it as free access for 56 minutes. I was just so ...
5 months ago
CRAWL!fanzine

Introducing Crawl! Mega-Edition, No.1 - Early backers can save 20%! So sign up! *https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/29a422e8-bf87-42f6-91b8-481931622751/landing* First let me re-introd...
5 months ago
The Cryptic Archivist

Spatial Paradigms of early CRPGs and Adventure Games - This post is part of my ongoing research into the spatial aesthetics of digital games. It is cross-posted between my Traversing Virtual Dimensions blog a...
5 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...
5 months ago
Straits of Anián

ignore all previous instructions - [image: UNDER THE SKIN] *We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is within us.* *Hᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ* *was furious. So loud and discordant were these youths ...
5 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Sacrament of the Minotaur - This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign. This ...
6 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...
6 months ago
I Don't Remember That Move

STRANGE AEONS - LIMA - Alright I'm doing this and the next one and then I'm going to stop. Poetess Magda Portal is secret agent for revolutionary party. Sits in corner of Lima...
6 months ago
The Acorn Afloat

World-building using stuff I found in my bathroom - This is a foolproof and highly untested world-building exercise where you only need a bathroom and some imagination. The more people you share the househ...
6 months ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Stonehell Session 3 (January 23rd) — Same Campaign, Entirely New Party - On January 23rd, we held the third session of my Stonehell campaign. The really interesting thing about this session is that none of the three player...
6 months ago
The Mule Abides

Addendum to the official policy of the Mule - [image: Hanging around with Benito.]
6 months ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

The Reassembulation Will Be Messy - I’m reassembulating wizardthieffighter.com on a different platform, in a different format and style. This reassembulation will be messy. Most links will di...
6 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2025 Kickstarters - My Annual update on the Kickstarters I have signed up for. Note that for some, which I have marked (pdf), I have received the final pdf although the fin...
7 months ago
Rotten Pulp

High-Impact Enemies in Mythic Bastionland - There's been a lot of chatter about how combat in Mythic Bastionland can sometimes feel a bit too easy - especially when you have a larger group of 4+ k...
7 months ago
DYVERS

The Trouble with War - Recently I introduced a war into my home game. Two factions aligned against each other and they began fighting in the capital of Bissel, Thornward. The im...
7 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

2025 Gaming Summary and 2026 Plans - I didn't blog at all in 2025 because I was too busy gaming. I was playing in two weekly 5e (2014) campaigns and running a weekly Imperium Maledictum camp...
7 months ago
Hack & Slash

On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
7 months ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

Rings Of Reminder - It wasn’t an existential threat like it was for many—but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been. I am still not over stuff t...
7 months ago
Sword+1

I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
7 months ago
Metal Earth

Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide - Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am fascinated with 19th century Lon...
7 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...
7 months ago
Goodberry Monthly

Under Gallax Hall - Level 4 - Monastery - *"I'm challenging myself to try and write at least 1-3 rooms per day to crank this thing out in like... 3 months, maybe?"* -Me, about 5 years ago. Been ...
7 months ago
World Creators Toolbox

New Campaigns - It has been a year since I posted. What happened. I started a Shadowdark Campaign as I mentioned in my last post. But I did not want to post the session...
8 months ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...
8 months ago
paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blog

The Sky Scions: Part 2 - The Sky Scions: Part 2 Friday, November 7, 2025 Are you ready for our 40th Paizo blog report across the past ten years? Here it is, with the newest rele...
9 months ago
paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blog

The Sky Scions: Part 2 - The Sky Scions: Part 2 Friday, November 7, 2025 Are you ready for our 40th Paizo blog report across the past ten years? Here it is, with the newest rele...
9 months ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
9 months ago
My Terrible Sorcery Is Without Equal In The West

Cauldron Con AAR: Day 3 & Final Thoughts - Hello Blogland. The spine-tingling conclusion to my European adventure at Cauldron Con is here!! *DAY 3* I awoke feeling not too worse for wear consideri...
9 months ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Rob Kuntz at Lucca Comics & Games 2025 - If you are planning a trip to Europe (like right now) and wish to catch up with me in person, make sure to book a detour via *Lucca Comics & Games*, ...
9 months ago
Classic RPG Realms

Classic D&D TSR Modules - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth 1976 What is a "classic" module? Taking the definition from the Six Cultures of Play article we can say that modules made during...
10 months ago
Meanwhile Back in The Dungeon...

– Eleni Tsami - – Eleni Tsami
11 months ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...
11 months ago
Ostensible Cat

Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
11 months ago
1d30

Defiance Of Darkness Campaign Journal I - DEFIANCE OF DARKNESS SESSION 17/12/25 @ Mythic Games Santa Cruz Our Heroes:Sylvia, Half-Elf Female CLR-1 / RNG-1 (Brandon)Kale, Human Male MNK-1 (Brandon)T...
1 year ago
Lost Pages

A Wraithblade to Bind a Murderer’s Soul - Wraiths are the restless souls of brutal murderers. They cannot find rest in death, and keep on tormenting the living, leaving behind a long trail of pain....
1 year ago
Questing Beast

Roll Windows - These days I mostly post on my Substack, but I thought I’d share this one here. Three months ago I ran a poll over at Questing Beast looking how GMs actu...
1 year ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Deep Space & Derelicts: Basic/Xenotech version, an idea for a game - here's a little idea for a game that's been floating around my head for a while. what if early D&D had been based around classic scifi rather than cl...
1 year ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
1 year ago
evil baboons or perhaps mandrills

THE WOUND LOGIC - THE WOUND LOGIC These are not commandments. They are fault lines. Pressure responses. Sacred malfunctions. Each one is a site of tension, and some are ...
1 year ago
Monster Manual Sewn From Pants

MALUSTRIOUS BROOD art book available - I've been meaning to have a print on demand book available of original drawings of mine and now this deed is done! MALUSTRIOUS BROOD!!! In this 102 p...
1 year ago
The Cromcast: A Weird Fiction Podcast

Season 21 Episode 6: Dealer's Choice! - Welcome back, all. We're rounding out our 21st season with a series of Howardian film selections from the Cromrades:Jon - All the President's Men (1976)Lu...
1 year ago
textgolem

Giants of the Middle West - When summer comes, and the heat hangs in the air, the giants appear low on the horizon matching ponderously from some distant sea. Chimes hang over man...
1 year ago
Wondering Monsters?

The Shattered Continuum an OSE Bri-Fi Setting: Pt 1 Character Classes - I've recently read Austin Kleon's 'Show Your Work', and Seth Godin's 'Practice: Shipping Creative Work'. The first is about growing an audience and market...
1 year ago
…and the sky full of dust.

Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...
1 year ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
1 year ago
Swamp of Monsters!

Nate Hack - Here's the basic idea for Nate Hack: Base rules are AD&D Ability scores, classes, advancement, spells, and experience gain are AD&D, except classes go ...
1 year ago
The Wasted Lands

Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum - Additional Thoughts on Alignment In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...
1 year ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...
1 year ago
Trilemma Adventures

The Tarot of Pips - 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...
1 year ago
Don't Split the Party

Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - 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...
1 year ago
Alesmiter

Exploring the Wilderness - Life with Rocs - *More solo play with post background after the jump. Next time they should be at the tomb.* Vineyard’s Bounty, 8th Rising. On the Old South Road in the ...
2 years ago
Tracy Hickman

Hickman’s GenCon 2024 Schedule - This year is the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Coincidentally, it is also the 40th Anniversary of Dragonlance which was first released at the G...
2 years ago
CritRoleStats

New Blood, Old Regards - Greetings! Although the Stats Team is still in a state of retirement, we’ve periodically updated several of our Campaign 3 Running Stats categories and gal...
2 years ago
world of Eradu

2024 update - BXDH2024 is a thing. rules are solid at this point running a second Bloodbath Dungeon competitive campaign for 2024 (prizes in December) Enchiridion of...
2 years ago
Land of Nod

Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...
2 years ago
What's on my Mind

Civics Tests and American Fascism - This is all going to be in response to this political news, “Vivek Ramaswamy, the youngest GOP presidential candidate, wants civics tests for young voter...
3 years ago
Save vs. Hollowing

1d30 Tragic Losses in Your Past - This basically came to me in a vision the other day. It appeared in my head as a near fully formed idea: what if you could generate a Berserk-esque horric ...
3 years ago
Roll For Initiative

Special RFI Reunion Show - The RFI crew reunited to discuss the SSI Gold Box AD&D Computer games over on The Evil DM Youtube channel. Here is a portion of that video. If you want to ...
3 years ago
Crossing the 'Verse

On a change in perspective - Well great . . . shit’s gonna get weird, isn’t it? Apologies, dear reader, but it turns out I’m having another moment. I think I might call it an epiphany....
3 years ago
Wampus Country

Legends of Law: Von Hoff - Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite as mu...
3 years ago
Wildspace: The Spelljammer Fanzine

Shalandain, Crusader Paladin - (AD&D 2nd Edition 1993 Trading Card #32) The human paladin named Shalandain is the second-in-command of the Company of the Chalice’s ongoing operations on ...
4 years ago
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...
4 years ago
The Gnomish Embassy

The Bombers #6 - *6* Rolfir recovered his topaz that he had used in the recreation room that had served as his spell foci. When asked about a second portal to the lowe...
4 years ago
Rolang's Creeping Doom

What’s in the Wizard’s Mug? - Mmmm smells good! Just a sip… 1d8 1- A potent shrinking potion. You are now swimming in the cup alongside a drenched wizard. 2- Hot Green Slime. That’s w...
4 years ago
Middle Finger of Vecna

Announcing: Book of Extinction - We're working with a good friend of ours, Lucas Zellers (@SparkOtter), to craft a new book that gives life to extinct animals through Dungeons and Dragons:...
4 years ago
Telecanter's Receding Rules

Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...
4 years ago
Necropraxis

The Worm Ouroboros - The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E. R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological tradi...
4 years ago
THOUGHT EATER

My FREE RPG 12v12 Is Out Now!!!! - I hope everyone is well. I am very excited to be able to share a little game I have been working on for a while. 12v12 is a D12-based multi-genre RPG, an...
4 years ago
Last Gasp

As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks - Remember STEAL THE EYES OF YASHOGGHUH? Still working on it. The post As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks first appeared on Last Gasp.
5 years ago
The Dragon's Flagon

A new beginning - I've been blogging here for a while now, but I think it's time to move on to a new blog with a new title. There's a lot of dragons and flagons and flago...
5 years ago
Necrotic Gnome

- This blog is no longer maintained. For news on Necrotic Gnome please visit our official website: necroticgnome.com/blogs/news.
5 years ago
Incunabuli

A First Impression - *Jalisco tugged his sleeves.* His cufflinks flashed in the setting sun. Chamber music lilted neath the vaulted pergola, and the scent of wine and cut cyp...
5 years ago
An Idle Mind's Gaming Thoughts

[Starfinder] Ohran Zyge (Old-Timer Soldier 20) - *Ohran Zyge* LG Chelonian Male, Old-Timer Soldier (Instructor) 20 “The Sneaky Turtle” *Player Character Build by:* Harold R. Nichols, Jr. *Read More* *N...
5 years ago
Derek Holland's blog

Technology that Enhances Spells -
6 years ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Ghost Riders of Geoff - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#75200
6 years ago
Teleleli

The Last Day In Iram - I haven’t been doing much that’s relevant to this blog for several months. But I have written a short (200 paragraph) gamebook, called ‘The Last Day In Ira...
6 years ago
Daily Planescape

writingwithcolor: Common Micro aggressions: African Americans... - writingwithcolor: *Common Micro aggressions: African Americans and/or Black People* Anonymous asked: What are some common micro-aggressions that a black...
6 years ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

Owl Con Live Blog 2.2 - Who knew that in the bowels of the Humanities building... ...Professor Norm offered a course on the Caves of Chaos??? Meanwhile, behind the screen... And....
6 years ago
The Daily Bestiary

New Tennis? We Got That. - New Beach Bunny? We got that too. The New Indie Canon is live now to 11 PM (Tues, 02/18/20, US Eastern). *Tune in! http://wmuc.umd.edu/wmuc-high.m3u*
6 years ago
Goatman's Goblet

Spoils of the Gorgon Coast: The Degenerate Heir - As the kickstarter for the Zinequest Quartet winds down, I find myself in awe of the amount of folks who seem interested in my project; especially given t...
6 years ago
Buildings Are People

Caverns of Thracia session log: February 2, 2019 - System: B/BX. Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) and Emily (Bagira.) *If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may reque...
6 years ago
Random Acts

MANGANI: Ape Folk of the Heroic Age - *MANGANI* (ORIGIN) The Mangani (aka Alma, Squatch) are a species of higher apes that can be found around the world where they are traditionally associated ...
6 years ago
Unlawful Games

Prinny Dood! - Prinnies are the souls of the dead who are working off their lives of sin either in the heavenly or infernal realms before they are able to reincarnate...
6 years ago
Henchman Abuse

session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...
6 years ago
Treasure Hunters HQ

RIP Christopher Tolkien - LONDON (AP) – Christopher Tolkien, who played a major role protecting the legacy of his father’s The Lord of the Rings series, has died. He was 95. The Tol...
6 years ago
Neradia

Winter's Daughter Play Report and Review - *"Delve into the **fairy-haunted **forest of **Dolmenwood"* *"The tomb of an ancient hero, lost in the tangled depths of the woods. A ring of standing ston...
6 years ago
To Distant Lands

Graded success for roll-under d20 - This is a sort of half-baked add-on inspired by Call of Cthulhu 7e's graded difficulty system for roll-under d100 resolution. It assumes 3d6-based ability ...
6 years ago
THE LAST DAY DAWNED

A Humoural Theory of the Undead - Sanguine and Melancholic Undead - In the world of Sea Wolves undead are classified according to the science of the Four Humours. An Imperial scholar explains below: Any Imperial Scholar of...
6 years ago
Oubliette Magazine

Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans - 2019 was a good year for the business. The two highlights for me were getting *The Black Hack Second Edition* rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers ...
6 years ago
F. Wesley Schneider

morbidfantasy21:Alucard by Christian Angel - morbidfantasy21: *Alucard *by Christian Angel
6 years ago
Red Box Vancouver's Blog

The Nightmares Underneath 2nd Edition - I don’t use this blog much anymore, but since I don’t have a new website set up yet, I should announce this here: The second edition revision of The Nightm...
6 years ago
The Grumpy Old Troll

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
6 years ago
Dungeons and Drawings

The book is out! - The *Dungeons & Drawings *book is now AVAILABLE! You should go get it! For those of you in London, please come see us at Gosh! this Friday the 15th, whe...
6 years ago
hellahexi

why aren’t demons scary? pt. 3 - I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you. Demons are almost always boring. Part 2 here. Part 1 here. It really doe...
6 years ago
Occultesque

Someone Has Been Here - It is rare that a group of adventurers are the first to have plumbed the depths of a perilous dungeon. Others have doubtless tried, possibly succeeded. Wic...
6 years ago
Cruel & Unusual Punishment

Them Bones of Adventuring - XXV: Stealth Revisited - *An ongoing exposition on table procedures for common exploration feats and rules, which began here with part one*. *Introduction* Though for the most tr...
6 years ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

- *In this installment, we learn that you can make a percentile system really complicated if you keep adding special results and that DQ doesn't stand for "D...
6 years ago
sword peddler

TFH&P Release Notification Signup - Dear Friends, This game is very near to completion, and there has been a flattering amount of interest in the game since the kickstarter campaign ended. So...
6 years ago
Tales from the Flaming Faggot

Whence the Labyrinth? - Dungeons are probably the most common adventure locale in role playing games; they were the cornerstone of every adventure in the early days, and remain po...
6 years ago
Thorn's Chronicle

Handmaidens of Petra: Equal Measure - Jasna shifted her gaze, blue eyes narrowing as she met the woman’s cold, emerald eyes. *I see you for what you are,* she thought. Did the woman’s eyes wi...
6 years ago
Professor Pope

Eulogy for Andre Pope - This was the Eulogy I gave for my brother, Andre, who passed away on August 20th, 2019. *Eulogy for Andre Pope* *By Nakia Pope* *24 August 2019* I will s...
6 years ago
D and D Doodle

- I'm posting a little more regularly over on my Twitter account: @owlbearmaps Please come join me!
6 years ago
Journey Into the Weird

Elsai Overview - Elsai is a small planet and the only inhabited one orbiting its star. From its spaceport—nothing more than a flattened chunk of rock used by stellar scum—E...
7 years ago
Old School DnD

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
7 years ago
Campaign Chronicle

Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - 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...
7 years ago
Lawful Indifferent

Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...
7 years ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...
7 years ago
Strange Magic

The Hanging Cage - This is a pair of short encounters for use with Basic Dungeons & Dragons although it can be used with other editions and game systems without much extra wo...
7 years ago
Old Wives Tales

Höllenzwang by Franz Hein - Höllenzwang by Franz Hein
7 years ago
Shards, Sidh, & Sorcery

Pamphlet Up and Other News - I've been spending a lot of time browsing the ttrpg materials on itch.io, and I'm somewhat impressed. Itch.io is a game distribution platform primarily for...
7 years ago
Zombiecowboy's Game Blog

The Forbidden Wilderlands Calendar - One of the big efforts I'm trying to make in my Forbidden Wilderlands campaign is to keep proper track of time. I'm using a modified version of the Wilder...
7 years ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James's Celebration of Life - 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...
7 years ago
OGN Articles

RPG Kickstarter You Should Back: (Press Release) The Dungeon - We were so impressed with the Battlemats created by Loke Battlemats, that when we saw they had sent us a press release regarding their upcoming Kickstarter...
7 years ago
d20 Despot

Which Would You Rather Fight? - Today's Monster Monday tackles that age-old question that has plagued mankind for eons - which would you rather fight: a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized...
7 years ago
Dungeon Inspiration

GUIDE: NAMING A TOWN OR CITY - transmutetheblankpage: This post was originally from a FAQ, but since the original link is now defunct, I am re-posting it here. There are many things t...
7 years ago
ABRAXAS

A commentary by Dr. Tommaso Tamihatco on certain excerpts of "A Little Diary that Fell from the Moon," by Fr. Filippo Dell'Amore - Tommaso Tamihatco, Man of Letters, Snakebird Clan * I look down on an earth rotating from Fifth to Sixth. I see Tseen Tsang crack open. From the mouth o...
7 years ago
The Three Hs of Gaming

Collected Gamable Links - Below are links filled with gameable ideas and tools collected throughout the years of Google Plus, now stored here for posterity. *Gaming sites and links*...
7 years ago
Dungeons and Digressions

Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...
7 years ago
Blessings of the Dice Gods

Removing Support from Zak Smith - [UPDATE February 14th, 2019: Zak has issued a statement responding here. I am not convinced to change my position below, but it introduces some doubt. I m...
7 years ago
PLANET ALGOL

Regarding Zak - https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes responsibility ...
7 years ago
Middenmurk

A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria - This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the fantas...
7 years ago
AnarchyDice

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...
7 years ago
wmusswtwbf

Review – “Dave Arneson’s True Genius” by Robert J. Kuntz - Rob Kuntz’ brief monograph, Dave Arneson’s True Genius, is: The most important work written about what constitutes an RPG to date Quite likely the most imp...
7 years ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Opportunistic Griffons - Hello and welcome back to the first post of 2019. I hope the new year has started well for you. I'm making up for lost time with five monsters for you this...
7 years ago
Castle Triskelion

MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
7 years ago
Castle Greyhawk

Ch. 5, Page 27 - "This calls for a celebration," Otto said. "Yeah, let's go get stinking drunk back at the Green Dragon," Quij said. "I wouldn't say no to something with a ...
7 years ago
Finch's Folio

Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - 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...
7 years ago
DNDKids

The giant giant adventure - I wasn't in the mood to run any games today, so instead I decided to exploit the brains of ten kids in order to create a campaign. I quite like what this r...
7 years ago
Beholder Pie

Here Be Dungeons 20: Camp Righteous - Click to make big My final draft design of Camp Righteous and the House of the Crocodile, developed for Wizards of the Coast's "Tomb of Annihilation".
7 years ago
Greyhawk Grognard

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...
7 years ago
Medieval Melodies

Dangerous Magic: Alternate Magic Rules - With great power comes horrible consequences Greetings! Will here with something that's *not* a Failed Magic Items article for once. A little while back...
7 years ago
Save Versus All Wands

Save Versus All Wands Contest: What is the Value of the Coin Hoard? - Treasure Type H Announcing the third annual (well, not quite) Save Versus All Wands contest! You can read about and see the results of the first two - *...
7 years ago
The Dungeon Dozen

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 megadunge...
7 years ago
War for the City of Peace

Chicken-Egg, Book-Website - I started blogging five years ago with a little website called d20 Dark Ages, where I joined the bandwagon of Old School Renaissance writers, critics, and ...
7 years ago
The Furthest Lands

Ordinary Starting Item / “I Search the Body” Table (d00) - A table of one hundred starting items for character creation or searching bodies. Each item is worth 1d6 x 10gp to an appropriately interested person, and...
7 years ago
Dungeon of Signs

Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR...
8 years ago
Roll for Initiative

Starfinder: Earth and the Cthulhu Mythos - As we prepare to start our first Starfinder campaign in a few weeks, I have been thinking more about the Starfinder setting. There are a lot of pretty c...
8 years ago
Dungeon Smashing Empire

the MOONS of KOS - Kos has five moons. 1. the White Huntress Largest of the moons. Unwavering and constant, crowding the horizon. She lightens the seaward prow, bathes t...
8 years ago
Bunions & Barnacles

1d12 Hirelings - 1. Esquival the Freshmaker - Obese baker with dreams of being a knight. Surprisingly tough, but gets winded easy, -4 Svs vs Exhaustion from travel. Treat...
8 years ago
Roll for Surprise

The Fungus that re-visited Blackeswell - Hi Reader! Do you remember a little module by the name of *The Fungus that Came to Blackeswell*, first ambulant around 2013? Yes? Then sadly the mind-bore ...
8 years ago
Built by Gods Long Forgotten

Thouls - Thouls are undead abominations. Patchwork creatures, they possess a strangely refined version of the canibal cravings of ghouls. They will chew off a part ...
8 years ago
The Sophisticated Barbarian

Rocking Thule #1: Ruins of Kal-Ne-Moz - So here is this setting of *Sasquatch Studios*, *Primeval Thule*. It has been released quite a while ago for five popular systems - Pathfinder, 13th Age, S...
8 years ago
Travels in Orbis Immobilis

[6] Volume I, Summer's Night - Part One, Sescut and Cutset, the Mother and Child (e) - The Talkers do not have a religion in the way that civilized beings elsewhere understand it. Instead, each tribe has a pantheon of folk heroes. These are i...
8 years ago
Salt in Wounds

Meet the Iconics - Dibus Morelskein Druid (Circle of Fungus) - Want more? January is the last month to preorder the Salt in Wounds Campaign setting. Place your preorder or learn more about the project here. *After he...
8 years ago
The Goblinburg Notebook

How to Make Goon Master Character in Macchiato Monsters - [image: http://chaudronchromatique.blogspot.ie/2014/10/goblin-enchantress-with-shaman-and.html] *Some time ago,+Samuel Guillon's character managed to convi...
8 years ago
Melancholies and Mirth

DUNGEON#3:TOTALT JAVLA MORKER - PDF here It's a simple 13 room dungeon I've ran for new players to figure out how OSR is played. The dungeon can be easily adapted for your purposes b...
8 years ago
Unvisible Citadel

New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults - 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...
8 years ago
Ars Magisterii

Thule - "Some call it the Winter Isle, others the Dead Island. Most call it Thule." From Insomnium "It seems it was not always thus. Even after the Great Winters, ...
8 years ago
M E T A L vs S K I N

The Prick of Transposition (Magic Item for D&Dish things) - This throwing dagger would appear mundane but for it's lack of wear and dark maroon stain. If it has tasted the blood of it's wielder and is thrown, whoeve...
8 years ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
8 years ago
Adventurers Lesbian

pigeonbits:Here’s SWEETROCK, the 24 hour comic I drew this year! - pigeonbits: Here’s SWEETROCK, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!
8 years ago
dungeonsandcaverns.wordpress.com

Starfinder Roleplaying Game – First Thoughts - Last May, Paizo announced they were working on a new roleplaying game called Starfinder. This science fantasy RPG would be based upon the Pathfinder rules,...
8 years ago
RENFIELD'S CAT

Rules v0.1 - WHAT IS THIS THING? This is an as yet unnamed DnDalike RPG rules system aimed at simplicity and a more tactical, board-game-like combat system. CHARACTER ...
9 years ago
Fists of Cinder and Stone

(Video) Game Review: Crawl - So my gaming group all hang out together and one of us had this new video game, Crawl from Powerhoof We got so distracted we didn't even play out sched...
9 years ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
9 years ago
Dungheaps+Dragons

Folk Heroes: Jan MudappelFor the most part, the Yoomans of the... - *Folk Heroes: Jan Mudappel* For the most part, the Yoomans of the Yooman Place largely worship the Bountiful Mother BOSURA. In addition to Bosuranism, th...
9 years ago
The City of Iron

Dolmenwood: d30 Encounter Tables - I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago. I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic which...
9 years ago
Howling Tower

Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press. We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat room-shaped. That’s a h...
9 years ago
The Rusty Dagger

Daily Monster Art- Anhkheg - Again, I don`t think I`ve ever used these in a game.They are pretty gross gribbly beasts. Spitting acid and chomping and such. They kind of make me think...
9 years ago
Over the Misty Mountains

DM Lessons: Mea Culpa - I play a fairly house-ruled version of D&D 5e with lots of more old-school elements to it. One of the most noticeable elements is my Modified XP and Levell...
9 years ago
Rachel Bonuses

Rumors about Froghemoths - Just thought I'd come up with some ideas for everyone's favorite giant three-eyed alien monsters. Roll a dice or whatever to find out which ones are true. ...
9 years ago
Lost in Time

Session report: The Cleansing of Cameth Brin (3) - CONTINUED FROM HERE. Regrouping in Talugdaeri after the debacle with the trolls, our chastened heroes spend some days resting and recuperating. The loss of...
9 years ago
Like Being Read To From Dictionaries

D&D Competition August 27, 2016 at Boise Public Library - I'm running half of the tables of D&D 5e at the Boise Public Library Comic Con. Check it out: Can you win Dungeons & Dragons? Can you hold on to your wit...
9 years ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
10 years ago
The Weirdlands of Xhuul

5E Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Conversion File Finished. - I finally got this done. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_fdDsNnLe_LRVRpb2ZTS2xGbzg Enjoy!
10 years ago
Role High

A take on Class - These classes are written with the underlying philosophy that both players and GMs want to see PCs become interesting, unique actors in the world. They are...
10 years ago
The Lands of Ara

My Online LL Group is a Treasure - *Members of my "home" Labyrinth Lord group in fall 2010. * I recently wrote about experiencing DM burnout and consequently placing both my Labryinth Lord...
10 years ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...
10 years ago
Mentioned in Dispatches

Review: Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls - Part II - Character creation is at the heart of any RPG. It is part if what sets them apart from board and card games. I usually go into a new RPG campaign with ...
10 years ago
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS

Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...
10 years ago
People them with Monsters

Another d66 Item Chart - For TOON or whatever gonzo thing you're into... 11. Sword 12. Laser Gun 13. Can of Fart Spray 14. Net 15. Pet 16. Guitar 21. Candy Bar 22. Fire Extinguisher...
10 years ago
Crawljammer

Three Games for TotalCon 30! - I will be at TotalCon 30 next week, in historic Mansfield, Massachusetts, running three games and playing in a bunch more. Fellow Goodman Games writers Br...
10 years ago
Legacy's RPG Blog

Game Session 3 & 4 - Megan, Jeff, Mitch, Wendy, Rachael, Robert Our adventure picks up with the Howling of the worgs in the distance. Though unarmed, the Worgs charging towards...
10 years ago
Tabletop On the Desktop

2015: The Year D&D Paid - THANK YOU!!! To all my blog readers, compatriots on Google Plus and especially all my customers, you have made 2015 an amazing year for me. My sales at ...
10 years ago
inthecitiesdotcom

Top OSR Products of the Year - 1) “Fire on the Velvet Horizon” by Patrick Stuart. Ostensibly a new addition to the “Monster Manual” genre, this complex, dense, and wonderfully illustrate...
10 years ago
Oaths and Fates

In Search of the Unknown: How the Party Gathers - [image: B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland] B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland In a classic D&D adventure, characters in search of adventur...
10 years ago
Realms of Faerie

Patreon is a go! - Now, now, before you get your hopes up, I'm not coming out of Blogger retirement just yet... But I did want to pop by and say that after ample tweaks and ...
10 years ago
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
10 years ago
The Cartography of Thorfinn Tait

Emirates of Narwan - +Bruce Heard is posting a series of articles on the +World of Calidar's *Emirates of Narwan*. This arid nation in the southeast of the Great Caldera is one...
10 years ago
Detect Magic

How and Why to Make PCs Suffer - This weekend I'll be playtesting a couple games I've been working on. If all goes well, there should be some interesting post material gained from that. An...
10 years ago
Yawning Portal

Making Monsters Memorable - I remember when I first started playing D&D. Like many earlier players of the day, my initiation took place in the Caves of Chaos, Keep on the Borderlands...
10 years ago
almostoldschool – retro RPG blog

Time For A New Adventure? - This is not the post I had originally thought of for post #150 of this blog. Every so often in life, a person realizes that they are just going through the...
10 years ago
Anarchy Dice

House Rules Evolved: Better Battle Tactics - With a new campaign in the works, I am kicking my house rules update into high gear. Combine that with a big change coming up in the next week and I am ge...
10 years ago
Lampblack & Brimstone

Freebooting on the Frontier [2] - *My last entry recounted the first hour of a three-hour session, and this one covers only about the next half-hour of actual play time.* After everyone equ...
11 years ago
DUNGEON ADVENTURES

Deep Dungeons - Hello.............. Life changes and things get hard. I no longer play in a band and I am not dating Amy anymore. I have spent time fixing up my game room a...
11 years ago
GM Games

The Manor, Issue #8 - Where is it going? USA $5.00 USD Canada $5.50 USD Rest of the World $6.00 USD Issue #8 is also available in PDF at RPGNow and Lulu. This issue is fil...
11 years ago
Land of Phantoms

Back on the Rack - It's been a long time. But I'm still here. Still working on stuff. Over the last few months, here's what I've been up to. I took a brief hiatus around the ...
11 years ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...
11 years ago
They Stalk the Underworld

ECHOLALIACS - *Number Appearing:* 2-8 *Size:* 10' to peak of cone *Armor:* Rolls of thick, dense hide as plate armor *Resilience:* As 8 human warriors *Intelligence:* S...
11 years ago
Dandy In The Underworld

Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde - Just above the ranks of the criminal underworld but falling just short of respectability, there exists a shadowy, ill-defined "half-world" populated by a ...
11 years ago
From the Ashes

Art! Valère Bernard - Just found this guy. I can't find much about him, other than he died in the 30s. Some seriously awesome stuff, though - I've just spent the last hour sur...
11 years ago
Giantsbridge

First Impressions: Player’s Handbook, Fifth Edition - I haven't been posting a lot on this blog, mostly because I've haven't been as involved in the tabletop gaming community since my son was born. I've been ...
11 years ago
Dovearrow's Blog About Feminism & Gaming

DnDnG: A Short Documentary - So I know it’s been a long hiatus and it’s probably going to be a long one again after this post. Still, I couldn’t resist posting this video.
11 years ago
Daddy Grognard

Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus - Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they invest...
12 years ago
Warriors of the Red Planet

Warriors of the Red Planet RPG now available - -Whew-! That was a fair bit of work, but Warriors of the Red Planet RPG is now online ready for purchase. I decided to go with Lulu for now. Remember this ...
12 years ago
Forsaken Ages

An Age Forsaken - The fantasy setting whose development I have been chronicling here is formally called *The Forsaken Age*. It is intended for more or less out-of-the-box us...
12 years ago
Weird Opera

Faces of Pretomournon:The Dwarf with the Eye-patch - Ibbo A strange-looking creature, small and stocky, but broad and strong. Maybe it's a small man, or maybe a large gnome. Maybe it's a member of an unknown...
12 years ago
Dragons in my house

Dungeon World - Dungeon Starters and Adventure Starter list - I have been unable to find an up to date version elsewhere, so I decided to prepare a list of the available Dungeon Starters, Adventure Starters, and adven...
12 years ago
The Badger King's Den

Happy new year! - Boy... I really need to update this more often. Well, another year begins. Last year had some highlights, like attending my first con with PrairieCon in Br...
12 years ago
The Jovial Priest

My FIVE favourite house rules - Two more rules added and then republished to my last 'Three favourite rule' post. 29th August 2013: "Long time no post. Life, work, other priorities. But ...
12 years ago
The Yaqqothl Grimoire

Still alive and more useless crap - I wonder if anyone still reads this blog. Anyway, things have been changing at the speed of light in the last few months so I feel like a little update is ...
12 years ago
Mythellaneous Conjurings

Check It Out... - And speaking of building new worlds...I've been a regular reader of Rob Conley's Bat In the Attic blog for a while now. He's a dedicated gamer with an ext...
12 years ago
Gaming on the Precipice

Megadungeon Bindings! - When I used to game all the time, most of my GMing took place in Waterdeep and Undermountain in the forgotten Realms. In order to keep everything organize...
12 years ago
Lance of the Beast

House Rule: Torches Shall Be Consumed! - I've always considered *timekeeping* pretty annoying in old-school gaming: keeping track of turn-based spells' duration, shifting from rounds to turns or...
13 years ago
Neitherworld Stories

A Single Google Search for All the RPG Inspiration Pictures You Need - One of my new gaming buddies recently asked for advice about finding inspirational pictures for RPGs. He'd been mostly looking at video game concept art (w...
13 years ago
Magician's Manse

Palace of the Wind Sultan, Part 1 - Maps for Wednesday's heist game. 2 more maps coming tomorrow afternoon. *Outside* * Level 1* *Level 2-3*
13 years ago
Vaults of Nagoh

Lets Read Mythus pt 25 - *Mythus* spell lists: my face when. Last section of the *Advanced Mythus* spell lists sample castings, which so far have been boring enough to make a C...
13 years ago
A Wizard in a bottle

Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.
13 years ago
Drama, Dice and Damsons

Hrrmph - Had a very dodgy (i.e. non-existant for the most part) internet connection for the last few days. Forced of necessity to concentrate on stitchery and show...
14 years ago
Stygian Archives

Magic Item: Dog Charm - “Ooww!” moaned Vilas in a rather high pitched voice. He did find himself in a bed with a pretty serving girl just as he had planned for tonight. Yet the ci...
14 years ago
Thunderstone_Campaign

Medals of the Dragon Throne - The troop stood silently in the village square, surrounded by the folk of the village as well as the curious looks of travellers passing through. Battlelo...
14 years ago
Underworld Cleaning Service

Hirelings - Early Edition D&D (Part 1) - Gygax wants you to use Hirelings & Followers! Period. I made a post yesterday about the fact that my players aren't raving fans of using hired muscle in t...
14 years ago
Shatterworld

Of the Gods: Phanes, God of Fauna - Phanes is "The Horned God". He is lord of all natural creatures, including Man. He is the God of Life, and held in highest regard among all other gods thro...
14 years ago
My Girlfriend is a DM

Review: Players’ Option: Heroes of Shadow, Part Two - In part one of our look at Players’ Option: Heroes of Shadow, we discussed the new classes and class builds. In this installment, we’re going to take a loo...
15 years ago
ENCOUNTER

Encounter #4 Out Now! - Issue #4 has finally escaped confinement! Sorry about the delay everyone, but regrettably 'real life' got in the way again (don't ask). As the time blew ou...
15 years ago
Valley of Blue Snails

Pallas Cat - I am fascinated with the Pallas cat. If you notice, the pupil of their eyes are round, not slit-like other cats. Since it is Monday, here is a random beh...
15 years ago
Witless Wonders

Monsters: Bloodscales - This is the first time I've tried to write a race for D&D, so if you see something that needs tweaking, go ahead and tell me about it. *Bloodscales* *Armo...
16 years ago
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Stockholm Jyhad

The Stockholm League - July 29, 2026 - Greg Boychuk art for Uncontrolled Impulse, an Ishtarri staple. Two league games were played in the fifth round of our ten week league. Standard tou...
6 days ago
V:TES Thoughts

Rising Out of Torpor 2026 - I didn't realize it's been almost three years since my last post. So much has happened in the game since then. *V5 Expanded* When the 5th edition of th...
6 days ago
Darker Days Podcast

#307 Realm of Fire - NuNuMunda - Chris is joined by David In this episode, they discuss; Warmachine, 40k, Trench Crusade, Necromunda. Sign up to back Eat the H.I.V.E. Music by Muzapro...
1 week ago
VTES ONE

Results Spanish National VTES Championship 2026 - The Spanish National VTES Championship 2026 has been played on June 27th, 2026 in Alcalá de Henares (near Madrid), Spain with 159(!) players attending the ...
3 weeks ago
Monica Valentinelli

See You at Gen Con 2026! - Events for this year’s Gen Con opened for registration and tickets for my events are almost sold out. You can click on Valentinelli at Gen Con Indy to fi...
5 weeks ago
Justin Achilli

Revisiting the Venerable Borderlands - I like the Keep on the Borderlands. It’s a self-contained ecology of adventure gaming, good for new players to learn systems and substantial enough for exp...
7 months ago
Secrets of the Masquerade

“Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons,… - the-doctor-and-the-asshole:zack-creeper:seven-very-hot-fish:blueelectivire:sour-charity:nebulous-nebu...
1 year ago
Satyros Phil Brucato

The Verge of Our Future - Eight years ago, I wrote that seeing Trump win was like watching Luke miss the final shot in the Death Star trench and get blown up by Darth Vader because ...
1 year ago
The Techgnostic Psychonaut

[Mage 2: The Dethroned Queen] New Legacy: Dancers of the Masquerade - Out of Character (OOC): Chronicle: Mage 2: The Dethroned Queen Venue: Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition Chronicle Storyteller: Jerad Sayler Assistant Storytel...
2 years ago
Gaming with Brett S.

Burn what you must - Greetings fellow Methuselahs! I bring exciting news. No longer am I merely evaluating the spoilers posted by others. Now I have my own spoiler to preview. ...
3 years ago
Technocrat Tower

Inserido o Capítulo 15 da Crônica O Legado de Dédalo - [image: Capa do Legado de Dédalo] Veja o texto completo aqui.Preview Na noite do dia anterior, ao chegar em casa Boca Torta escutou a segunda fita cassete ...
4 years ago
Underground Theater

Midwinter 2022! - Patrons of the Underground, We have reserved our game space for the Midwinter Gaming Convention which runs from Thursday, January 13th to Sunday, January 1...
4 years ago
World of Darkness News

Episode 155: What Game Are You Playing? - In which Eddy, Matthew, and Dixie discuss the games they’ve been playing lately and come up with some recommendations! - Eddy is low key high - Is...
5 years ago
Midnight Express

Episode 62 - In the shadow of the Black Chantry [VTES] - Adrian is joined by Hugh Angseesing of Black Chantry Productions to chat about Vampire: the Eternal Struggle Fifth Edition. An overview of the game is p...
5 years ago
Blog - By Night Studios

Blood and Betrayal: Redemption, Cancellation - COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the State of Florida. Out of concern for the health and safety of our fans, employees, and local communities — and in ...
6 years ago
Walking Away From Arcadia

Storyteller Vault Reviews: Kiths of Arcadia - Welcome to another interview with a Storyteller Vault creator. Today, Victor and Simon are chatting with Charlie Cantrell from Radio Free Arcadia Publish...
6 years ago
The Vampires of San Francisco

Spring 2019 Update - Hello gamefans! Getting straight to the point: yes the lack of updates has been criminal at best. Thank you to everyone who has reached out through various...
7 years ago
Eddy Webb

First Days With My BAHA - A couple months ago I had my surgery for a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA for short). Here’s my post-op photo. Soon after I got my healing pouch thing rem...
7 years ago
Tales from the Hell Mouth

New Starter Decks - Black Chantry have released some excellent new starter decks that allow you to buy and play straight out of the box with a decent deck. The decks contain ...
7 years ago
Force of Personality

Game from 18/12/02 - What's happening, Metuselahs? I kinda deserve the Inquisition because this game is from aages. However, the update is here. For that evening's showdown, 6...
7 years ago
Tales of Blood. A Vtes Love Story!

Interesting times - I started playing VtES a long time ago. Played almost every week a couple of years. And acted as Prince of Oslo for about five years. I loved this game. Th...
7 years ago
HUNFRAGMENT

Game Night Wednesday - Hi folks! This is really just a quick and dirty style post I wrote in a few minutes. I just arrived back home from playing v:tes. Seems like Wednesday has...
8 years ago
Whisker's VtES

NSOM defined - At the moment there are two ways to oust methuselah from game of VtES. Reduce the player’s pool to zero, by whatever means, or foil his/her withdrawal at...
8 years ago
Parting the Mists

Alternate Seemings: Seasons - Hello fellow former Arcadians! Pushing Simon's house rules for interregnum seemings out the door. These rules extend tentacles into a lot of different part...
8 years ago
VTES European Championship 2017

Attendance of VTES European Championships 2008 to 2017 - This is summary of the attendance of VTES European Championship events in the past 10 years. 2008 (CZE) 2009 (ESP) 2010 (FRA) 2011 (POL) 2012 (HUN) 2013 (S...
9 years ago
#In The Name of the Moon Moon

The Kitsune No-No Place - There is no joy here. Not for you. Get out, foreign barbarian.
9 years ago
worldofdarkness

Scenario Competition Finalists Announced! - The official This World of Darkness scenario competition is nearing the end. 55 writers and designers submitted 63 synopses. Out of these, our distinguishe...
9 years ago
Czech Vtes

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle - The past, the present, the future - It has been 14 months since my last post on this blog. Though I was sure I will drop V:tes for sure, I played through the year 2016. Granted the rated drop...
9 years ago
Kismet's World of Darkness Blog

Detecting Fetches - One of the major PCs in my Changeling game is a budding Jack Ketch (which means he hunts fetches for changelings who want to take their lives back but don’...
9 years ago
VTES Consumed

Amaranth:DB Proxy / Deck tool - Am pleased to announce Amaranth: https://amaranth.vtes.co.nz It started off as a tool to test the redesigned cards — but grew from there into a fully fledg...
9 years ago
Thoughts Betrayed

Redesigning V:TES: card text - In the first article, I've listed the graphical design mistakes that are present in V:TES cards, and given clues and suggestions about how to fix them. I'...
10 years ago
The Pulse of the Night

Session 2 – Shit Happens – 02.01.2016 - This session was pretty heavily focused on Sarp (Pete Robbie), you will have to read the next session to see what the others did. Pete Robbie After the fig...
10 years ago
The Inconnu

Wall pitfalls – an essay in Arrogance - Intro: For a long time I’ve been intrigued with Tzimisce Walls, because I constantly see people using decks that are not optimal, in my opinion. I’ve also ...
10 years ago
Read The Damn Book

Updated D&D 5E Player's Reference Sheets - I know it's been a while, but I finally got around to updating my Player's Reference Sheets. It's only a few small changes. I fixed a couple of typos and...
10 years ago
The Laughing Hyena

Kupala Rising - Kupala Rising: werewolfccg: Combat the Wyrm wherever it dwells and whenever it breedsThe falling of the Shadow Curtain around Russia was initially celebr...
10 years ago
VTESNetwork

Playing the Game - 3. Playing the Game Turns proceed clockwise around the playing area. Each player’s turn is composed of the following five phases, in order: 1. Untap Phase ...
10 years ago
VTES Rants

ACC 2015! - Just got back home from Taiwan and I’ve only had 4 hours of sleep so I’ll just post the new ACC champ: Todd Idashkin using Euro Brujah! Yes, another ACC wi...
10 years ago
DeviantArt: WoD-Club's gallery

The Beast Emerges -
11 years ago
A World of Darkness

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11 years ago
Juggernaut Of VTES

A long gap and a lot of images. - Some updated card images so I can link them easily. There has been a lot of talk about 'full bleed' style cards and redesigning VTES cards.
11 years ago
March of Madness

(Deck) Blessing of the Malk 94 - I have been bandying about the idea that what you need in terms of ousting power is the ability to reduce your prey's pool by 15 within two turns. If you c...
12 years ago
Reins of Power

The Feminist Reading of the EC - So, I was in the EC of VtES this year. Thank you, Stockholm, it was great! And what great greatness it was! The people were great, the venue was located...
12 years ago
Paxie's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Blog

thewitchesofeastwood: Pending approval from her creator, Miss... - thewitchesofeastwood: Pending approval from her creator, Miss Justice (Jae) ‘Firecracker’ Wheeler, Fianna Philodox.
12 years ago
The Crocodile Temple~ V:TES in Australia & New Zealand ~

Rulings from the Rulings Team 5-09-2013 - The latest set of rulings is out. Please read these VERY carefully as they will be in effect for the AUSNZ CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES. Please let everyone in you...
12 years ago
Lord of the Clog

Swedish ECQ 2013 - Tournament Report - First of all - sorry for the late report. Between eye-surgery and taking care of two kids full time I haven’t found that much time and energy to write la...
13 years ago
VtES European Championship 2012

Finnish EC 2012 T-Shirt - One of few new t-shirt design seen at the EC 2012 in Budapest, Hungary was the one from Team Finland. The Polish team also sported a new t-shirt design (ev...
13 years ago
Charlotte By Night

Photos: Tournament on Saturday - VTES Tournament July 16
15 years ago
Malkavian Haven

Spectres - As in vampires there are also ranks withing the Wraiths, Specters are the most feared, they have only pain and fear as their companions and wish to sprea...
15 years ago
Behind The Dark Gift

Abraham Van Helsing - I’m back from the dead, my beloved blood suckers. And today I bring you some information about Van Helsing… There are a lot of vampire legends in the world...
16 years ago
Carnivàle of Shadows

Chapter the Nineteenth: In which three Seasons have transpired & a Tragedy is performed - What has transpired over the last year... Due to irreconcilable differences in the management, the Midnight Circus has split. Some of the members of the Ci...
16 years ago
Blogging in Darkness

Into the Mist: Chapter 1, Scene 1 - So, here’s what happened in the first session of Into the Mists: Mikhail moved in, and went to the hospital to see what life would be like their. The Hospi...
16 years ago
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Centauri Dreams

The Ones Who Look Outward - Thinking about a great filter through which a civilization must pass before its survival is assured usually leads to catastrophic scenarios, such as planet...
1 day ago
Stellar Reaches

PCs are a Different Breed - “Anyone who has been shot in the leg and tried to walk immediately afterward was not hired as the technical consultant on this movie.”— Roger Ebert on Gunm...
3 days ago
Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera

Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953) - A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphic...
6 days ago
Traveller

Kinunir Session 5: Into the Dome - Our intrepid group of 4 was down to 2 last session for reasons. Deciding the 2 would stay in the research pinnace while Jake and Moses entered the dome. ...
1 week ago
Yet Another Traveller Blog

Starports and Bases - It's been a while since my last post, but I've been busy working on a new Traveller supplement, tentatively titled *Starports and Bases*. The project dra...
2 weeks ago
Ancient Faith in the Far Future

Random Encounters and Events for that New Colony - Continuing with my ruminations on colony/settlement formation and the adventure potential of the same, I present another new random encounter table. Wh...
1 month ago
Alegis Downport

Smoke over Station Street Review - Smoke over Station Street is an adventure supplement for the Independence Games ‘Rider’ American-western setting, utilising the Cepheus Engine rules set. I...
2 months ago
The Zhodani Base

Fuchsia Zone – Joke #1 - Fuchsia Zone is not just a heroine. She can also be a comedian (or not). Are you a veteran Traveller player? Download video
3 months ago
BITS X-Boat News

TravCon UK 2026 Registration is NOW OPEN! - [image: TravConUK2026website] The wait is over! Registration for TravCon UK 2026 is officially live, and we can’t wait to welcome Travellers from across ...
4 months ago
Spinward Scout's Way Station

Pilot skill information - I'm crossing my fingers, hoping this is Fair Use. As the Pilot skill doesn't list a specific Characteristic to add to the skill, here are ideas that I thin...
7 months ago
Spaceflight History

ROMBUS: Reusable Orbital Module - Booster & Utility Shuttle (1963) - Engineer Philip Bono described his conceptual ROMBUS launch vehicle as a crew-carrying system, though he did not describe the crewed spacecraft it would la...
1 year ago
Traveller Illustrated

Vehicle – Empress Grav APC - Just a preliminary image for now Back to Vehicle List
1 year ago
Traveller Map News

And now we're 20 - Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of TravellerMap. Since I'm lazy, go read the 10th anniversary post for some history.
1 year ago
Delta Quadrant

First real Traveller session for years! - Yesterday we played Traveller for the first time since the 1990s (maybe 1992-93 something). It was a session zero with character generation and the first p...
1 year ago
Traveller Adventures

PDF Review: On Wine Dark Sea - This has been a neglected blog over the past decade I have had it, however, I can always take time to review gaming supplements. This is one of them, a...
1 year ago
Amber Zone

The Warrior of the Stars - Amber Zone theme song. From the fictional TV-show Amber Zone set in the Traveller RPG Universe. Made with Suno. Just for fun. Image made wíth Midjourney. L...
2 years ago
The Log of the Grayswandir

126-1117 – Mupikaa - Derek discusses his plans with Saahna
3 years ago
Traveller High Society

I'm Working on an RPG Book - Some of you may know by now that I'm writing an RPG book. I started on it two weeks ago. My plan was to learn how to use Scrivener, which I had bought a co...
3 years ago
Traveller The Game

100dt Sublight Transport, TL10+, AF4, SL (Atmo+2), 4G thrust, 4 weeks dur., DM0, Pass=12/24, 25.638McrImp. - Sublight Transport, Boeing/Mitsubishi Model 7A7; Ser.000672 TL10 100dt Hull, HP=40, Streamlined, 6Mcr. +Radiation Shielding, 2.5Mcr. +AF4 Crystal-Iron Ar...
6 years ago
Contact Light

Hello world! - Welcome to . This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
6 years ago
Tales Of The Wizard Nebula

Discussions and Expanded Setting Info ... - The following has been taken from 3 separate threads of comments between a fan of the setting - a fellow named 'Warren' and myself. I post this here for th...
6 years ago
concept ships

Reusable Lander for Crewed Mars Missions by Lockheed Martin - Concept spaceship art by our good friend Adam Burch. Check out this article featuring Adam's work by Lockheed Martin! Keywords: Lockheed Martin Unveils ...
6 years ago
My Traveller Universe

limited run – old scout ballcap - As described in my earlier post, I currently have 3 Scout caps on offer. I don’t do many at once … MORE +
7 years ago
Play Space

Tinkering with the new Celestron NexYZ phone clamp. Looks like a usability upgrade from the less… - Tinkering with the new Celestron NexYZ phone clamp. Looks like a usability upgrade from the less adjustable one I’ve been using.
7 years ago
Biomassart

Last in line. - Two Type A Free Traders near the gas giant Mairposa IV
7 years ago
Wayhaven Traveller

- *Loose Ends, Part II (Coda) * *048-1109, Narmada, Red Sun City, Arcology Delta Emerald Six Nine* “He’s here?” asked Baron Ian Richards, “And he’s stil...
8 years ago
Transstar News Network

CT Character Experience & Improvement Revisited - Post originally appeared here 28 December, 2014. Reposted for edits and to restore proper authorship. For many players, especially those who came to the h...
8 years ago
SciFi Ideas

Starting Point: Family Trees - [image: 9064569110_31b6418782_b]Daddy's gone. He got infected, I don't know when.
8 years ago
Gypsy Knights Games News

Now Available! - The Slide, our newest adventure campaign, is now available at DTRPG! *The race is on!* The Slide is a pirate route leading from the Winston Subsector of Cl...
9 years ago
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9 years ago
Behind the Claw

Episode 032 - Classic Traveller deserves its own podcast...and that's why I do this crazy show :) Here's episode 32, with another bunch of ideas for the Traveller refe...
9 years ago
Thornwood-Daarnulud Institute

Everything is a bloody learning experience. - For once I am going to be lazy, even though I know I will regret this action later when I want to reference something I foolishly mention only here in this...
10 years ago
Waystar High Port

The 5th Outrim War: Eanzhshent Geithurebr Epliavlefr - The Republic of Geithur Naval Force - *The Geithurian Republic is an alliance of ten non-Imperial systems in the Lymethius subsector, and a member polity of the Outrim Alliance. With a total ...
10 years ago
MTU: The Festrian Renaissance

T5? - So on the ONE hand, I'm running (well, walking) a game via roll20.net using Classic Traveller, with combat using an adapted Mayday and Snapshot thus far. G...
10 years ago
damnspacebar

Ship Shape - This amazing link was just sent to me by my friend and host of ContactLight.net Ship.ShapeWright.com It randomly constructs a polygon spaceship. You can k...
10 years ago
Traveller AAR

Flight of the Penguin, ep 1.2 - Some moments passed. The others looked at Hiram; his head was still down, focused on his datapad. The voice came back, testier this time. "Approaching ...
12 years ago
Alkonost Rising

Preview - Type-52 Submachinegun - The Laana-made Type-52 Submachinegun is a very cheap and simple submachinegun, produced by Liberation Industries (state-owned by the Liberated Worlds gover...
12 years ago
Traveller in the 3rd Dimension

Experimentation...thoughts? - This is a rough draft of (essentially) trading card sized reference cards for the Bastards of Foreven. Currently the prototypes include NPCs, small cra...
13 years ago
Shaun's Solo Traveller

Researchers Attack! - Kamiri - *Narrative* *Trak and Jem hurriedly left Garrison and were jumping to the Kamiri system...* After a week in space and Garrison far back in their minds, Tra...
13 years ago
Dream Ticket

AHL, Animal Encounters, and the Roman March Pace - Azhanti High Lightning (AHL) does not really account for Animal Encounters. I don’t really count the rules for blobs. They are pretty close to a Gelatinous...
15 years ago
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The Data Haven

Storymaker #7 - I finally managed to get caught up in all of my assorted projects and just decided to break out my storymaker deck. I’ve used this recently at local conven...
6 months ago
FASA Games, Inc.

Move Order By Stand Size - Move Order By Stand Size Hello Leviathan fans, today I am talking about movement and providing an optional rule for…
6 months ago
neo-anarchist.com

Shadowrun Origins: Episode 96: Elven Fire 4 - Shadowrun Origins: Episode 96: Elven Fire 4 The team has been hired by Lone Star to prevent martial law in Seattle! Now they’ve extracted a certain nightcl...
2 years ago
Shadowrun

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3 years ago
Shadowrun 5

CasinoTop Featured FanDuel - CasinoTop Located in Canada, CasinoTop is the largest and most comprehensive online casino guide. It not only helps you find the best casinos in Canada, bu...
3 years ago
The Arcology Shadowrun Community Podcast

John Wick Director TAPPED for D&D Series – Tabletop News: Jan 24, 2021 – SCN Live - – Derek Kolstad of John Wick series is developing a D&D television series – Our Shores, a collective of 3+ RPGs from RPGSEA (South East Asia), now on Kicks...
5 years ago
Drek Happens: A Shadowrun Podcast

Episode 6: Death in the Family - The final episode of Season Two is here! The 2nd season is officially complete and Episode 6 ends with a bang. The mission to sabotage Horizon is nearly co...
6 years ago
Panda Gaming Grove

Earthdawn 4E: Anatomy of a Horror 06 - J'osh the Vexing Son - *This is the sixth 4E Anatomy of a Horror, an ongoing series about Earthdawn Fourth Edition. Introduction and Index.* *Everything contained here is the w...
6 years ago
Run for your lives!

prokopetz: “So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.” “That’s right.” “At the... - prokopetz: “So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.” “That’s right.” “At the request of a princess.” “Right again.” “And you, wh...
6 years ago
I Guess We're The Good Samaritans Now

punkozarts:art for the double sided Haruka standee I finally got... - punkozarts: art for the double sided Haruka standee I finally got sent out to be made! THE FAM IS COMPLETE Y’ALL
7 years ago
Shadowrun inspiration

lightresist: Jaewoo Kim - lightresist: * Jaewoo Kim*
7 years ago
GMing Shadowrun

A awesome DnD 5e AL stream! Dragon Heist chapter 1! -
7 years ago
Vagrant Workshop

The Void - There are many ways to reach the Outer Shell, but none of them are available to the public. *“The Galactic Underground—as well as a few other organizatio...
7 years ago
Lava Monkey Games

Live from Barsaive: Episode 30 - Interview with Josh Harrison, Earthdawn Line Editor Highlights Include Gencon is coming up (even though it was already over by the time I posted this) Lots...
7 years ago
Earthdawn Blog

RPG food rations for various races - “Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine” The following gallery shows food- and trail-rations of various RPG characters and races that were used during R...
8 years ago
Azaael's Shadowrun Haven

New Melek commissions! - So my buddy https://twitter.com/MoogMigMagMoog did this lovely commission of Melek once again! He is so much fun to get commissioned. She even put a bonus ...
8 years ago
(Shadow) Run from the Future

Crimes against humanity, hazmat suits and potato chips: a typical day in the life of a Shadowrunner - Well this happened. Okay, I need a better summary for that last run then that. Right. Anyway, it began when we retrieved MCT’s prototype drone from DeckCo...
8 years ago
The Caffeinated Penguin

On school shootings - “five of these incidents have occurred over the past five-plus years since 2013, claiming the lives of 27 victims (17 at Parkland)” Source: https://www.usa...
8 years ago
Shards of Legend, an Earthdawn Blog

Airships? - It's time to prepare for later adventures, and knowing that Airships and Riverboats are such an iconic part of Barsaive, I decided to make a few, just in c...
9 years ago
Critical Glitch, a Shadowrun Podcast

Episode 049: Shadowrun Anarchy - Our long awaited return (Even if it was just by us) we talk about some of the games we have been playing and our views on Shadowrun Anarchy. The show is ...
9 years ago
So You Want to Run Shadowrun

Pork 5 Ways - Monster Hunting - In Frankfurt, Germany, Mr. Black enjoyed eating at The Singapore-a Chinese restaurant (the ONLY one in Frankfurt!) that served a dish called Pork Five Ways...
10 years ago
Running the Shadows

Off Topic: Shadowrun Returns - I wanted to pop in to say that no, I've not fallen back off the face of the earth. Instead I've been stuck in that enviable, in tiring, position of having ...
10 years ago
Power Walking In The Darkness: The Unofficial Shadowrun Blog

Homebrew Theater: Dual-Wielding Actions - Today’s going to be a bit different from previous weeks, as our Homebrew Theater will be custom actions. No new gear or shotguns shells as we’ve been doing...
12 years ago
Of Rats and Gangs

Cyphar - Han asked me to be his second at a cyber duel. He had pissed off a young woman named Dee and she blew him out of the water after two seconds or so. Han was...
13 years ago
Shadowrun Team Creation

Metavariants - Here is a list of the Metavariants listed in Runner's Companion if anyone wants a rundown of other races to play. Keep in mind the Build Point cost for pic...
13 years ago
Shadowrun TCG Returns!

New Shadowrun deck-building card game - On 14 December 2012, Catalyst Game Labs linked to a mysterious video, hinting at something big for the Shadowrun Universe. And boy, they did not dissappoin...
13 years ago
"The Unnamed" an Earthdawn Blog

Around the Campfire: An Adventurer's Journal / Episode 6 - Currently discussing the events of Episode 6. Finding themselves finally in a position to do something about searching out the object of their quest, the p...
16 years ago
GM Paragon's Shadowrun Blog

Shadowrun: In the Beginning. - Hoi Chummers: I updated the character information below on Oct. 2nd, 2009. My group is about to start a Shadowrun 4th edition game, so I have repurposed my...
16 years ago
Earthdawn

Coda. - The war on the bloodlores was long and arduous lasting nearly two years. The effect of the battles could be seen as far as Iopos and Kratas, a swath of des...
17 years ago
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Deadlands (and other Western RPGs)

For the Deadlands RPG designed by Pinnacle

Cutouts and music for tabletop simulator for weird western role-playing - submitted by /u/Nosams_Reliquary [link] [comments]
1 day ago
Forbeck.com

See You at Gen Con! - Once again, I’m off to my favorite event of the year: Gen Con! I’ve gone to it every year since Gen Con XV back in 1982, which makes this my 45th year in a...
1 week ago
News – Pinnacle Entertainment Group

We’re Movin’ On to the NEW PEG Website - This week, our move from the old PEG site (peginc.com) to the NEW (shop.peginc.com) nears completion, and to ensure it all goes as smoothly as possible for...
4 months ago
a weird west inspo blog

‘A Centaur playing with his Son’ by Otto Bache, (1839 - 1927). - letsblogwithmama: caffeinatedowlbear: p0pp3t: enchantedbook: ‘A Centaur playing with his Son’ by Otto Bache, (1839 - 1927). ‘The Centaur Playing With ...
11 months ago
Visionary Comics

CHECK OUT VISIONARY’S COMPLETE LIBRARY AVAILABLE NOW! - Visionary now has a list of our entire library of available trans-media titles published through various publishers and with various clients! 25 Titles Tot...
2 years ago
weird west

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3 years ago
Weird Weird West

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3 years ago
Pine Box Entertainment

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
3 years ago
deadlegendslarp

2nd Edition Released!! Now what? - Hey folks, now that the rules are published, what are you to do? Well, first off we did the hard part. We already went and adjusted your XP for any advance...
7 years ago
Weird West Roundup

Shuttin’ down the site - Well, Pards, it’s been fun. But I just can’t keep track of my own author website AND my other reviewer site, which focused primarily on live theatre in the...
8 years ago
Mob Justice

Doomtown Worlds - I’d decided that getting to Manchester for 10am was a bit unlikely, especially on a Sunday since Public Transport tends to be a fair bit worse on Sundays. ...
8 years ago
Fantasy Americana

n this acclaimed collection of short fiction, author J. Malcolm... - n this acclaimed collection of short fiction, author J. Malcolm Stewart brings together four, pulse-pounding tales of suspense, magic and mystery. In thi...
8 years ago
Weird War 2

OPERATIVES CLEARED FOR DUTY -
9 years ago
The Gadgetorium

Welcome to The Gadgetorium - Hello, and welcome to *The Gadgetorium*! This place is home to a *Doomtown: Reloaded* player from Russia, *mplain*, and his friend *pvdel*. Here we analyze...
9 years ago
Weird West - new forum threads

Type - Weird Scientist - Another Type linked from the *Concepts (Types & Foci) Page* - Cypher System. I felt the mad scientists were unique enough for a type, esp in the way they...
9 years ago
Stories applauded for by Greg Gorden on Medium

A Rough Analysis of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - *A Rough Analysis of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* *NOTE: The analysis that follows is derived from two film versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of ...
10 years ago
The Weird West Emporium

The Gunslingers Grave: A Blood Moon Rises! Werewolves in the Old West! - For the past 2 years at Knott's Scary Farm there's been a Western maze called Gunslingers Grave that mildly dabbled in the Weird West. You followed i...
10 years ago
Dark Times in the Crescent City

A Preview Introduction to the next episode - Detective Frank Mulder stepped away, having a strong urge to get back from the carnage at the Bucket O’ Blood. His friend Phil Boyle, was still in the hand...
11 years ago
DeviantArt: Dead-Lands's gallery

Welcome to the Deadlands group on Deviantart ! -
12 years ago
Tumblrweeds from the Weird West

squidtree: The Owl - squidtree: The Owl
12 years ago
Guns In the Cauldron

The Legend of Pecos Jake - We return to Aces & Eights with our heroes settling into Lazarus and finding their place — while news spreads of their return to the Cauldron and rumors gr...
13 years ago
Deadlands: Where Have All The Angels Gone?

Session 8 - Dwight Lancaster - God so clearly labelled Matheson as a loudmouth and a troublemaker that he actively attracts situations of extreme danger even when his judgement seems r...
15 years ago
Deadlands: The Adventures of Change and Stone — Terrible Warriors

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GURPS

T Bone's Games Diner

散髪用ハサミ Luna DX-70-30 - 商品詳細この商品はほぼ未使用に近く、切れ味は全く落ちていません。元々68000円で売られていたもので、あまり売られていない商品だと思います。指を入れるところ...
11 hours ago
Chain Link and Concrete

The Ashville Heights Neighborhood Watch: A Sample Crew for Urban Decay - Back at the beginning of July, I posted my overview of the game "Urban Decay". I thought the title was interesting enough to try and test out live, so I...
18 hours ago
RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts

The Chinese Shawl, Patricia Wentworth - 1943 mystery/thriller, fifth in the *Miss Silver* series. Laura Fane is newly of age, and in London to take charge of her inheritance. She meets a smashi...
1 day ago
Of Paper Men and Plastic Monsters

Swords in the Time of Guns - GURPS is fundamentally based on reality (or at least realistic adventure fiction) and reality has a ranged weapons bias. People often ask "How do you ma...
4 days ago
Don't Forget Your Boots

GURPS Supers Newport Academy #7: “Invitation to the future.. of the 1970’s: Part II” - Fem-bot roll call. Locked doors and bad footing. Boob-guns and grandfathers. Possessed roller skates. A six-headed wipeout. “I think we’re going to just pa...
5 days ago
DF Whiterock

DFRPG Arden Vul Session 61: Exploring Rudishva Teleporters - Date: Basilsday 11th Lucrios, 2994 AE Weather: Hot, sunny Player Characters: Ioannes Grammatikos Byzantios, Archontean cleric of Demma (Demented Aveng...
5 days ago
Generic Universal Eggplant

GACKS AAR: Week 12/Session 10 - GACKS AAR: Week 12/Session 10Now that was an intense week with lots of activity on the faction level. Let's see the SEEN posts first.Barbarian RefugeesLarg...
6 days ago
Dungeon Fantastic

Felltower Updates - I did a little blog maintenance today. I updated the DF Campaign page with links to to last 5 sessions, and also a link to the heavier crossbow rules we us...
2 weeks ago
Ravens N’ Pennies

Master Index - Ravens N’ Pennies – Index Campaigns Boil and Bubble Index Carpe Blogeim Index Designers Notes Index Gamemaster’s Guidepost Index GURPS 101 Index Melee Ac...
2 weeks ago
Worlds Beyond Earth

The Blog Index - At the request of a reader, I have made an index for most of the pages on this blog. Hopefully it will help people find things better. It also can be a u...
4 weeks ago
Northport

Two Great Losses - This week we lost Jane Yolen and David Hockney. Jane Yolen was a brilliant fantasist with a delightful sense of humor, who was a powerful influence on my r...
1 month ago
Octopus Carnival

Review: GURPS Gun Stats - Imagine the following situation: you want to feature a certain gun in your campaign, but you want to do it “properly”. You’re not the kind of GM who woul...
5 months ago
Insidious GURPS Planning

Ritual Path Magic- Charms Granularity - Some options that add additional grit to charms. Charms By default charms are lightweight and fragile items meant to be destroyed quickly via a Ready mane...
6 months ago
Dice and Discourse

GURPS House Rule: 4d6 for Untrained Skill Attempts - In *GURPS*, when a character tries something they don’t have a skill for, you usually default to a related skill or attribute with a penalty (often -4 fo...
9 months ago
Dark Paths and Wandered Roads

GMing at GenCon 2025 - *In about 9 hours I leave for GenCon! * This year, 2025, will be my 3rd trip and I will once again be GMing some games, and of course, playing in others...
1 year ago
Just Roll 3d6

Quanto Custa uma Aposta na Lotomania? - A Lotomania é uma das loterias mais queridas da Caixa Econômica Federal no Brasil, especialmente por sua mecânica única: você marca 50 números de 100 e pod...
1 year ago
Armin's GCA 5 Blog

Package Updates - GURPS Basic Set 4th Ed.–Characters.gdf [Modifiers] Heir, +5/+10, gives(=+((@indexedvalue(me::level, 10, 40, 190, (10^(me::level-1))-10) – @indexed...
1 year ago
Nature Kills: A Hexcrawl for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy

Thoughts on conworld calendars - Yes, we’re still playing and yes, I have to get a lot of logs up. Those are as much for me to have a reference as anything else, and I feel lazy. But th...
1 year ago
GURB- The Generic Universal Roleplaying Blog

Fictional Firepower: M240 Incinerator Unit (Aliens) - Aliens is an awesome movie, I don't think I'll get to many counters to that statement (and if you do; hey! It's a free country, you can be wrong if you w...
1 year ago
The World of Lycretia

Session 22 – The First Semester (Part 1) - Summer Vacation is Over! The summer passed relatively uneventfully for our heroes. For Sylas, he spent time trying to avoid thinking about his heritage he ...
2 years ago
Ra's Head

Origami Classical Dragon - The next dragon in the book is Classical Dragon by Kyohei Katsuta. Like the previous HJ Dragon, this one offers a decent balance of difficulty and effect. ...
3 years ago
Apotheosis of the Invisible City

So at your local wizarding school ... - Following a thread on the official GURPS forum on altering *GURPS Magic* to fit a setting of a magic school, I present these spells for the edification o...
3 years ago
Mailanka's Musings

Wordpress Update - It's been the first full month of Wordpress. If you haven't transitioned, here's what you might have missed! - A Backer-Only Post on my Pitfighting D...
4 years ago
Sean Punch's Journal

Another week in the life of GURPS - This week is named Hugh. The news: • Another week balanced between writing and project management on things I can't share right now. • My updates to the W...
4 years ago
GURPS Mega Dungeon

8 days to go! - Only eight more days to back Nordlond Bestiary and Enemies Book! They are almost at the goal for production. Take a look at the Rokk Edla! I’d keep your Ha...
4 years ago
Game Geekery

SITE ISSUES – March 20th+ - Having a few battles with WordPress gremlins, so the site will be a mess for a bit (including the file downloads!). Sorry for the hassles, hope to have thi...
5 years ago
PK's Game Recaps and Tidbits

Everything finally moved to MyGURPS wiki! - I've just completed an important transition. Everything on this LiveJournal that isn't a game recap, character sketch, etc. has been moved onto the new ver...
6 years ago
Above the Flatline

Progress Was Made - Today saw a lot of progress with the hex map. I've created a new map that is based on 5-mile hexes, places dots for each of the 25-mile hexes from the prev...
6 years ago
The Adventures of Temian Fell – Bonus Mini-Episode: A Crippled Hand – The Collaborative Gamer

Creating Halewater VI – The Blacksmith - In my last few posts I’ve been creating the little hamlet of Halewater – a hometown for a hypothetical fantasy PC. I’ve been proceeding on the assumption t...
7 years ago
Let's GURPS

Cheat Sheet - Conditional Injury - If you are interested, check it out. Conditional Injury is a wound based system to replace the hit points in GURPS. I don't necessarily prefer one or the...
7 years ago
Path of Houserules

Aggression and The Last Gasp - I’m working on putting together a new campaign, a fantasy action/political intrigue one called Tales of Heian Twilight. There are going to be some vague ...
7 years ago
Dungeons On Automatic

Lava Golem - *"That's not the normal golem box.""What do you mean?""I mean we don't usually get golems delivered in crates made of shaped obsidian enchanted wit...
7 years ago
n-Body Politics

Transformative Tech: Production - All of that new technology is nice, but you can’t use it if you can’t get your hands on it - and for that, you need to produce everything. This post is me ...
8 years ago
Further Up the Spire

Session: ‘Til Death Do Us Part - An early Valentine’s Day session after expected player count suddenly dropped from six to three. Delilah Kamiens: Bourgeois girl obsessed with alchemy (Pot...
8 years ago
Bloggish Mutterings on Celti

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes - Happy holidays, folks. Been a while since I’ve posted, I know. Less than a year this time, at least! Since you last saw me, there have been… changes — and ...
8 years ago
The Fossilized GURPS Blog

Masks, Personas, and Flesh-Shaping: Playing With Shapeshifting (And a Few Other Advantages) - Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s unthinkable and shameful that we’re nearly through the entirety of October, yet I haven’t written even one post for the bes...
8 years ago
Johnny 3d6

Tinker, Titan, Rebel, Spy - Session 1 - Tinker, Titan, Rebel, Spy - Session 1 After Action Report Preface: I've been excited about Mailanka's ongoing Psi Wars project for sometime now. It's the...
8 years ago
Blogging at Default, Taking Extra Time

The Aquarians - The Second Human Empire are a state of Aquarians and a highly militaristic government led by the mysterious Gemini throne and The Twin Queens. As the name ...
8 years ago
The Phantom's Belch

Marvel Reboot Designer's Notes: The X-Men, Xavier Institute, and Mutants in General - Children of the atom. Mutants in the mainstream and Ultimate Marvel Universe are generally hated and feared, thanks in part to extremely loud bigots...
8 years ago
Hard Maths

Meta: The Return - Me, returning to my blog. The Internet, 1983 (colourised). So it's been a while. The main reason for this was that the players for the game I had been pl...
8 years ago
Sleepless Nights: The Vampirism Power – dice and lives

Sleepless Nights, Session Five: Speak of the Devil - I’ve fallen badly behind on these session reports: I just ran the seventh session of Sleepless Nights last week. I’ll try to catch up. Prussia/Poland, summ...
9 years ago
Panhumanity's edge

宁静的龙 (Níngjìng de lóng) - Session 1 - Microgravity caper - 宁静的龙 The Níngjìng de lóng (Serene Dragon) is a Mudlark-class Utility Space Vehicle (USV) registered in Duncan Silas as an independent tramp freighter. It ...
9 years ago
Southern Style GURPS

Magical Style: The Way of the Rookery - Point-blank, this style is inspired heavily by the Dishonored series of games, and there are many bits that call back to it. The character classes from th...
9 years ago
Orbs and Balrogs

Bretwalda - Daggers of Oxenaforda pt.2 - Ousted - *Location*: Oxenaforda area, Danelaw's territory, Border with Wessex. *Time*: January *Character Cast*: - Brynjar the Stern (Jason) - Eydis, ward of...
9 years ago
hoploloblog

How to make Monster Variants (Template) - This is the blank template you can use to make your own monster variants! Culture word Arts and Recreation word Deoculture/Religion word Food word Govern...
9 years ago
Apocalyptic Analysis

Analysis: Back to GURPS at last...but why? - 2016-12-20 Back to GURPS! But why? First, some background on the lack of GURPS After almost 3 years of near-weekly GURPSing from 2012-2015, we stopped p...
9 years ago
RPG Gulag: Random thoughts about GURPS

GURPS Effect: Salarians - Biological Templates for Council Races: Part II Salarians think fast. Move fast. Speak fast. Broken sentences. Can get annoying quickly. Caution advised w...
9 years ago
Into the Storydark

[GURPs] Converting Morrowind - I am tentatively toying with the idea of using the GURPs system to run a game set in Morrowind. One of the reasons I love that game is it takes the normal ...
9 years ago
Orbital Vagaries

IW 7 - Big in Japan - Context The crew of the CAMEROON extracted two bait hunters and three baits from the clasp of engineered raptors. Anika spent a while on the operating tab...
10 years ago
Set Adrift, On 3d6

Dungeon Fantasy Interlude – Rude, Crude, and maybe a third thing, but probably not: A barbarians guide to arms & armor! - Hello again, friends! You may have noticed a lack of recap this week, which is sadly due to illness. That doesn’t mean I’ve put my GURPS books on the shelf...
10 years ago
The Red Mouser

Setting: Suez 56 – Character templates - I’m currently working on a new setting/scenario taking place during a particular episode of the Cold War: the Suez Crisis of ’56. I intend the game to be f...
10 years ago
Into The Trees and Caves of Olde

The Opposition Makes Ready For The Duel - The beeswax dripped slowly down the side of the candle's cylinder, the inferior workmanship of the candle showed as the candle burned unevenly and the wic...
11 years ago
GURPS Afterburner: Jetman123's Thoughts on GURPS

With Your Pants Down: Why the Fighting While Seated technique isn't cinematic - Jacques-Louis David's *La Mort de Marat* In GURPS, there are several stances characters can be in. They can be standing, kneeling, crouching, sitting, pro...
12 years ago
Fragments of the Last War

Fragments of the Last War 1.3 - *Eifer, Tirane, AC 9 * *Most of the party was away this week, so I converted Nota'Cor and Mal into Savage Worlds characters. I thought the game played smo...
12 years ago
Mad Mountain Geek

Meanwhile, On a different plane of reality. - In a central office of the Academy of Cartography, home of the Map Makers guild. "Dean Nostuff sir, a new correspondence from young Upiyo." "Just put it o...
12 years ago
ThreeDeeSix

Goblins in the forest 1 - *This is the beginning of an adventure I have created for my 6 year old sister, Chloe. She is playing Balerie. My Dad is playing Maldor.* Balerie the fig...
13 years ago
Roll and Shout

Divine Favor prayers: the odds - I use GURPS Powers: Divine Favor in my Circus Sophia campaign. If you are not familiar with it, it allows a character to pray to the gods to grant some sor...
13 years ago

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In Nomine

Moe Lane

‘The Idiot.’ - The Idiot, Stan Rogers #commissionearned
18 hours ago
Book of the Neglected

Attercap: Aemilius - Header image MAT Preview by jademacalla Not all starting-level celestials for In Nomine need to be recently fledged or created. Aemilius … Continue reading →
1 year ago
War of Souls: The Power of Seven

Frankenstein's Cables - This is a (long-delayed) summary of the first In Nomine Fate adventure I ran. We ended up with four players: - Ruth, playing Andromeda (aka Andy Carpen...
9 years ago
In Nomine Collection

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Nobilis

"Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine"

fast fourier transform - philippesaner: jennamoran: winston-ramone: jennamoran: I do think Skeletor’s parents are at least a little to blame for naming him that What if that’...
6 days ago
A User's Guide to the Apocalypse

Jenna Moran is kickstarting a print run of this new tabletop... - Jenna Moran is kickstarting a print run of this new tabletop RPG, called *Glitch*. This is a cross stitch piece I did* that looks like the cover. *Glitch...
6 years ago
Hitherby Dragons

Out of Buffer #7 - Hm. I’m not back yet? Here, have the stream-of-consciousness writings that define what The Frog and the Thorn is about. Wait, no, let’s start with the full...
7 years ago
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine

- *an example quest card*
12 years ago
Jenna's Fairies RPG

Intermittency - We're now past the first bloc of posts. I am distracted by a new project, working title Dreaming Waters, so this will continue once I feel I can take time ...
16 years ago
Nobilis Play By Post

Imperator: The Angel Sulaya - Sulaya was born when the heavens struck the Earth. The aftermath allowed Heaven to see only its own beauty even when gazing down. Sulaya wishes for the B...
17 years ago
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Unknown Armies. You Did It.

Zontar of Venus

Sexploitation # 40
Black and WTF

1915 A boy between two mounted lobsters caught off the New...

Cyberpunk 2077 / Cybergeneration

Straight from the Screamsheets – R. Talsorian Games

Cyberpunk RED Alert! – July 2026 DLC – Megatoken Pack & Black Chrome Is Here! - Some DLC are self explanatory, and this one is no exception! Now and then, we release utility-based DLC. This time, you can say this one fills two roles in...
1 week ago
Neural Archive

[SG:U] Street Stories 5 - Kingdom of the Blind - I'm pleased to announce another *Street Stories* release for *Sprawl Goons: Upgraded* (or any cyberpunk system of your choice). Kingdom of the Blind is...
8 months ago
Datafortress 2020 - Tabletop Wisdom

MASSIVE UPDATE TO THE DATAFORTRESS 2020 CYBERPUNK ARCHIVE - Greetings programs, I Know, I know, it has been a ridiculously long time since there were any updates to the site. I apologize for that, I am afraid I...
9 months ago
Neon Dystopia

Welcome to the Neon Dystopia Website - Well we did it! We hit the button. The website is now alive, even if...
3 years ago
Vircades Project

You best not miss... - Guns don't kill people, murderhobos kill people! Specifically, when they engage ED-209 in a firefight for control of the strategically vital playground ...
9 years ago

Pendragon

Blog - David Larkins

The Gygax 75 Challenge: Week One - Not long ago, when I was in the lands east of the Sun and west of the Moon, I chanced upon a near-forgotten PDF: The Gygax 75 Challenge. The conceit of t...
8 months ago

Eclipse Phase / Transhuman Space

Adam Jury

Sharing Export Profiles in Affinity Publisher - This article is funded on behalf of my generous Patreon Supporters. Please visit Patreon and support my work. There are varying reward tiers depending on...
6 years ago

Inspiration

AWOL - The Ancient World Online

Open Access Journal: Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens Reports - Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens Reports In April of 2019 the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań’s authorities prepared the list of documents ne...
5 hours ago
Centauri Dreams

The Ones Who Look Outward - Thinking about a great filter through which a civilization must pass before its survival is assured usually leads to catastrophic scenarios, such as planet...
1 day ago
The Curious Rambler

Curious History Review: August 2026 - Great Britain’s animal symbols… The rooster that represents France… London’s most curious birds… The cats that sold gin… You’ll find them all in this mon...
1 day ago
Luxor Times

Discovery of Rare Tomb Headstones Reshapes Understanding of Ancient Burial Landscape in the Nile Delta - An Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered a collection of rare tomb headstones, clay coffins, funerary amule...
1 week ago
Ghost of the Writer

you, reading this. you’re a creature now. reblog to creature your followers - creatures-in-posts: pikadxrat: you, reading this. you’re a creature now. reblog to creature your followers this *creature* is *you*
5 weeks ago
The War Wheel! – Blackhawk Comics #56, September 1952 – Steve Lopez's Big Blog o'Fun

Keymer – So 2026 Norway Chess Open – It was…a game - Sommmmmmebody got a little bit miffed that I punned on Wesley So’s name a couple of days ago, and suggested I apologize. Oh, yeah? Look, all I said was tha...
2 months ago
The Multicolored Diary

A to Z Reflections: A year of great themes! - Okay, confession first: I barely survived this year's challenge by the skin of my teeth. A lot of real life events intervened and I was trying to swim with...
3 months ago
ODESSEY PRODUCTIONS

Flea Class Scout Gunship Concept - Finally got around to finish this project in3D. For some reason the Flea concept caught my eye and just had to model it in 3D"No AI generation "after vi...
3 months ago
The Demon Hunter's Compendium

The Vârcolac - Vampires are an incredibly diverse lot. Each one has its own quirks and characteristics that make it unique, and therefore some are more formidable than...
5 months ago
stefan poag

Bad Unicorns and 2026 - Hello all – it is the second month of 2026 and I haven’t yet posted anything here – so here is at least something. We have been struggling with S.A.D. and ...
5 months ago
Red Flag Walks

Autumn 2025: An online course on Radical Women, 1918 to 1978 - This autumn I will be teaching an online course using Zoom on Radical Women, 1918 to 1978. I am a freelance historian and have been researching and writi...
11 months ago
Road of Knives

Kiss/Kiss (2025) - Perlu diketahui, film-film yang terdapat pada web ini didapatkan dari web pencarian di internet. Kami tidak menyimpan file film tersebut […] The post Kis...
1 year ago
Coolhand

Musings on Modeling Reality - Finite Vs Infinite Vs The Un-Knowable - Greetings friends, it is so very nice to be able to talk to you all on this platform again - after all, if you were not here, what would be the point in ...
1 year ago
Hyperwave

Dracula Magazine #11 , New English Library 1971. - megatrip: Dracula Magazine #11 , New English Library 1971.
1 year ago
A Book of Creatures

- Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year from ABC! What better than to mention a seasonal being? Below are a depiction of the Callicantzari by Ja...
1 year ago
Sepiachord

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2 years ago
Random Story Prompts

The hero wakes up with prominent wristbones in the ruins of a palace. https://t.co/2PEbP39Gpl - The hero wakes up with prominent wristbones in the ruins of a palace. https://t.co/2PEbP39Gpl
3 years ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) - [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970]Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970 [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover Illustration 1970]Shonen Maga...
3 years ago
Clear Air Turbulence

Cthulhu by JasonEngle - Cthulhu by JasonEngle
6 years ago
G.0.D.

Southern Oregon last week… now the ladies are all down. - Southern Oregon last week… now the ladies are all down.
6 years ago
Inspiratori

Crystal Green Tara - Crystal Green Tara https://www.etsy.com/NepalArtsNCrafts/listing/677299659/masterpiece-buddhist-crystal-green-tara?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManag...
7 years ago
Diceperado

theamazingdigitalart:Occult Philosophy by Svetoslav Petrov - theamazingdigitalart: *Occult Philosophy* by *Svetoslav Petrov*
7 years ago
Appendix N

The West is Dying: Book 1 Fall of the First World - The West is Dying Book 1 Fall of the First World Written by David C. Smith $2,99 Kindle $19.99 Paperback I read a few of David C. Smith's books back in...
8 years ago
SciFi Ideas

Starting Point: Family Trees - [image: 9064569110_31b6418782_b]Daddy's gone. He got infected, I don't know when.
8 years ago
Bibblings, Barbara Paul

Wayward Moon, Denny DeMartino - Wayward Moon, Denny DeMartino (2001) Review by Ian Sales There’s little point in reviewing the plot of Wayward Moon as it makes little sense and is almost ...
8 years ago
Supernova Condensate

That’s no moon - …or is it? Here are some objects which may or may not be moons, shown to scale. Enjoy! Organised by diameter: Endor – 4900 km Mercury – 4879 km Luna – 3474...
8 years ago
Unusual Historicals

Author Interview: Xina Marie Uhl on WHITER PASTURES - This week, we're pleased to welcome author Xina Marie Uhl with her latest release, *WHITER PASTURES* (Icebound series). Here's the blurb about the novelet...
8 years ago
concept robots

Spider robot LF-6 by Ivan Laliashvili - Spider robot LF-6 by Ivan Laliashvili. Keywords: concept spider mech robot eight legged arachnid motorized concept mechanical design technical illustrati...
8 years ago
Rich Longmore

Plumed Owlbear -
9 years ago
Fantastic Maps

How To Map A Large Canyon - Vast canyons are awe inspiring. They thwart quests, halt armies, and tell the tale of vast cataclysms from times past. In this quick tutorial I’ll outlin...
9 years ago
Mike Brown's Planets

Europa is hot! - Europa is hot right now. With the planning for the Europa Clipper mission underway and talk even of a lander, scientists are paying more attention to the l...
9 years ago
The Art of Narrative

songesoleil: Once Upon a Time.1904. Oil on board. 25.5 x 18 cm.... - songesoleil: Once Upon a Time.1904. Oil on board. 25.5 x 18 cm. (10 x 7 in.) Art by Edward Reginald Frampton.(1870/72-1923).
9 years ago
Demonagerie

British Library, Add 17333 detail of f28r. Apocalypse... - British Library, Add 17333 detail of f28r. Apocalypse (Revelation) with commentary by Berengaudus, in parallel Latin and French. c1320-1330
10 years ago
The City by the Brink

Chapter 1.2: Perceptions - Sunday, February 8, 2065 The Old Mint of San Francisco, located at 5th and Mission, is one of the oldest buildings in the city. “The Granite Lady”, as it h...
10 years ago
theSkinnyStiletto

2016 Golden Globe Rundown - We don’t know why, but lately the Golden Globes have started to become theSkinnyStiletto‘s favorite red carpet! Maybe it’s because it’s the first major re...
10 years ago
concept aliens

Sky Monster from The Leviathan - Alien creature from Ruairi Robinson's The Leviathan, illustrated by Jim Murray and designed by Jordu Schell. Keywords: concept flying alien fish like sky...
11 years ago
Six Degrees of Sir Thomas Urquhart

Adiabatic - *Meaning*: not involving the transfer of heat, or im-pass-able to heat. An adiabatic process is one in which no heat is exchanged. It's related to the First...
12 years ago
The Currents Of Space

AggieCon - Hey y'all, I'm gonna be in College Station, Texas over the weekend, showing my art at AggieCon. My art will be up in the art show, come by and say hi if y...
12 years ago
THREADS OF ADVENTURE!

Knight's tomb found under parking lot - It's not just his royal majesty Richard III, that took a dirt name under a parking lot--it turns out a knight has been found under a lot in Scotland. Th...
13 years ago
Random Story Prompts (@RandomPrompts) | Twitter

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Star Wars

Tales From the Sabaac Table

Episode 4: I Wish Me a Holocron - IT’S HERE!!!!!!! https://youtu.be/tYpoW298cSk Advertisements
7 years ago

Star Trek RPGs

Gen-lis Vuhlkansu

i12 TWS: convincing AirPods clones at only $19.99? - jdgoshop: [image: image] Sold for forty euros on Amazon, the i12 TWS are clones extremely close to Apple’s AirPods. Offered five times cheaper than Appl...
6 years ago
Star Trek: To Boldly Go

Known Space - [image: TBG Star Chart]
8 years ago
FAR TREK RPG

Live Long and Prosper - paingu by jason mordeno Sorry to say, the chance to get a physical copy of Far Trek has transported away. No reason to fret because you can freely downlo...
10 years ago
Gen-lis Vuhlkansu

vibrant-oxymoron: I’m trying to recover from severe drug addiction and an eating disorder and I’m... - vibrant-oxymoron: I’m trying to recover from severe drug addiction and an eating disorder and I’m very sick and my mind feels like it is dead. Please sto...
11 years ago

Little Fears

Jason L Blair, Writer & Game Designer

Ponderings As I Near 50 - The world is not waiting for me. I used to know that. I used to hustle. I strove. I put it on the line. Now, after 25 years of working, succeeding, I feel ...
4 weeks ago

Superhero RPGs

Lead Capes - A Superhero Wargames Blog

Superhero Media: Spiderman - Emissary from Hell, Spiderman! Yes, you may know *Spiderman* (note the lack of hyphen) as either *Japanese Spider-Man* or *Spuidaman*, depending on where...
3 days ago
Champions Latest Topics

Who are the Masters of Crime? - A long time ago, in a world that could be ours, Palladium Games published their Heroes Unlimited. At the back was a sample adventure with --- The Masters...
5 days ago
Green Ronin Publishing

Green Ronin to Publish Nobunaga’s Black Castle RPG - Sengoku Doom Metal Fantasy Compatible with MÖRK BORG Seattle, WA: Green Ronin is proud to announce that it will publish an English language edition of ...
1 week ago
Steve Kenson

It’s Christmas in July! - It’s time for the annual Christmas in July sale over at DriveThruRPG, and Icons Superpowered Roleplaying is included under the palm-tree with dozens of pro...
3 weeks ago
Post-war hysteria (Part 1) – Atomic War #1, November 1952 – Steve Lopez's Big Blog o'Fun

Keymer – So 2026 Norway Chess Open – It was…a game - Sommmmmmebody got a little bit miffed that I punned on Wesley So’s name a couple of days ago, and suggested I apologize. Oh, yeah? Look, all I said was tha...
2 months ago
Blog - Everyday Superhero Training

Escaping The Swamp Of Sadness - In "The Never Ending Story" the Swamp of Sadness bogs you down with despair. You sink if you try to walk or swim out, you sink if you throw a fit, you si...
5 years ago
The Bamfsies

2019 BAMFSIES Gamer's Choice Poll for Best Superhero RPG Release is Live (Choose your top 3 - and add in any we left out) - You can find the poll here : https://poll.fm/10482787
6 years ago
The New Scrap Pile

Walking on Sunshine - Torpedo was defending Landshark from Eye Candy's suggestion that he shouldn't be on active duty when he got a call informing him that Morgana had perfect...
7 years ago
Mutants & Masterminds

Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook: Pre-Order and PDF - The Mutants & Masterminds Basic Hero’s Handbook is now available to pre-order in our Green Ronin Online Store and through participating brick-and-mortar ...
8 years ago
Midnight's Citadel

Make Mine V&V !!! - I’ve have had V&V 3.0 / Might Protectors since its initial early Kickstarter releases, I’ve wanted to Love it … but like my friend Tim Knight of HeroPress...
8 years ago
Spectrum of Madness

Villains & Vigilantes: Search for the Sensei / Revenge of the Yakuza (Real Review) - I first learned about Villains & Vigilantes when I was on a backpacking trip one summer. Our group stopped at this little town somewhere in North Caroli...
8 years ago
Blog

Patriotic Superheroes - Patriotic Superheroes ca_lazerdwarf Tue, 07/04/2017 - 10:44
9 years ago
VANGUARD VAULT!

Vanguard: Issue 226: The Return of Cthulhu - After countless millennia, Cthulhu and his pantheon of terrifying madness return to Earth at last. They would soon remake the world in their horrific imag...
9 years ago
Mutants And Masterminds- The GM's Resource

Inevitables - The Fiend Folio of D&D introduced us to a class of creatures called the inevitable. While drastically under-powered compared to their flavor text in the Fi...
9 years ago
Base Raiders: Superpowered Dungeon Crawling

New Superpowers: Glitched Reality now available! - “Did you ever want to save and reload your game but in real life? Here’s how.” A black market dealer to a potential customer in the Underground. Buy Glitch...
9 years ago
DC Paradox Tabletop Campaign

Episode 3: The Kaiju Attacks! - APOLOGIES FOR THE LONG DELAY GM’s Note: This adventure took place more than 2 years ago and alas, I forgot to do the blog post for the epic conclusion! (Ap...
10 years ago
Comics Madness

Missed! Ran out! Dang! Unnhh! - Let’s begin with a serious observation: this is art by Carmine Infantino we’re talking about, and that is a woman’s body for a woman character – no “object...
10 years ago
Eidolons!

Benn Pares - © DC Comics / Used without permission *Origin:* Birthright *Real Name:* Benn Pares *First Appearance: *Superboy starring The LSH #213 [DC Comics December, ...
10 years ago
Chris Claremont: Mind Control Central

Ye Olde Avengers Rhyme & Repetition... - *Once again, this blog shifts its focus from Chris Claremont and his mind control shenanigans to reviewing Chris' fellow comics creator Kurt Busiek's most...
11 years ago
Millennium City and Beyond!

Champions Battlegrounds Fatal Attractions pt.1 - 28/01/2015 I am exhuming this blog to save some reports of our gaming sessions in the superhero world of Champions. We did play the first 2 parts of Champi...
11 years ago
Sterling Leonine Glory Unleashed

Writing. - I am busy writing. I have lately been sticking to making my blogs--the few of them I post, as Vlogs. I feel that I come across better as a speaker than a w...
11 years ago
Silver Age Sentinels Characters

The Thing (Marvel) - Name: The Thing AKA: Ben Grimm Description and Character Notes: 150 point build (Secret Wars Thing) While on battleworld can switch forms. Body: 7 Mind: ...
13 years ago
Vigilance Press

Where do we go from here? - Having taken a look at the very beginning, now it's time to ask, as Buffy and the gang once sang, "where do we go from here"? For those not in the know, J...
14 years ago
Occasional Characters

Tentafred - Frederick Feelie is not what he appears to be... actually he IS what he appears to be, a mind-bending monster from beyond space and time. [image: Tentafred]
16 years ago
THE WORLD OF GODLIKE

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Empire of the Petal Throne

Heroes of the Age

Is it 2026 Already? Oh My! - Gaaah?! Is that the year? That can't be right? My last post was in 2022! Surely there is something wrong here, Well there is...all the links seem t...
7 months ago
Tekumel Collecting

The Battle of Thráya - I recently succeeded in luring Michael Lung over to the house for a miniatures battle and discussion of Tékumel. If you haven’t heard of Michael, he is on...
4 years ago
chirine's workbench

It's been a decade, now... - This is a tough time of year for me. So, with your indulgence, here's this link to a post I did a decade ago... EDIT: I have no idea why it didn't take. S...
4 years ago
The Tékumel Club

Reminder: The 40% off Tekumel Club Sale ends Jan 19th! - *Smiley want to say something...* Just a reminder that this sale ends January 19th! A great opportunity to save 40%! Or 50% if already a Tekumel Club m...
6 years ago
The Tékumel Project

Dricheans for Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago? - *Some Yan Koryani* *Painted by Akarsh* I was disappointed when North Star cancelled (or put on hold?) the plastic box of Dricheans, the Bronze Age c...
6 years ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...
7 years ago
The Slayers of Ssü

Merry Christmas - I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Although it has been quiet around here lately, I haven't abandoned the blog yet. Merry Christmas P.S. San...
7 years ago
Pagálnikèlikh gàQadóshumashumámrakoi

Patterns Discerned 3: The Demons of Hrü'ü and Wúru - Twelve demons are somehow affiliated with the Supreme Principle of Change Hrü'ü and His cohort Wúru. However, in general this is a motley grouping, whose a...
7 years ago
Fate of Tékumel

Tékumel Sourcebook Chiaroscuro - I just completed a read-through of *Swords & Glory Volume 1: The Tékumel Sourcebook*. This reading spanned several years, from before my mom's passing ...
7 years ago
Skein Of Destiny - Tekumel News

BLOG - A new Tekumel Blog about, apparently, actual play. - It can be found here. It is, at the time of this writing, quite new, with only two posts. My apologies for the long quiet spell. Life has interuppted, but,...
8 years ago
The Superior Force

It has been a bit - Well, in the interim, I have been prepping for a career change, and this blog has been lying fallow, as most of my game energy has been devoted to learnin...
8 years ago
What do you do in Tékumel? Here's some examples

The Clan of Sky Blue Water - Into the Cistern The last of the temple gongs had just finished ringing in the hour of the Dawn when the explorers gathered under the cistern pavilion. T...
8 years ago
Cooking on Tekumel

8 Nov = 18 Brumaire - Whoa, it’s an anniversary! No, literally; this year it really is. What’s that thing that doesn’t repeat, but just rhymes itself? As an American who can’t t...
9 years ago
Darren King's RPG Blog

Tekumel - Session 17 - The last few sessions were all single-session makeshift adventures, a consequence of having a couple of months with a very spotty gaming schedule. Now the...
12 years ago
The Glory of High Adventure

Re-Assessment - I didn't get much work done on the campaign this week – I've started a new job late this August and have been training for it. I've been too tired most day...
14 years ago
ix

Transfinite: Humanspace Design Notes - Responses to DHBoggs - More Humanspace design notes in the form of addressing some questions by DHBoggs from this post. *DHBoggs wrote: Adventurer – Should NOT be allowe...
15 years ago
The Shen Blog

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Tékumel :: The World of the Petal Throne

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Ars Magica

Games From Folktales

The Book Hunter by Arthur Macy - I remember having a discussion at a writers workshop about 30 years ago, when I suggested that if all you did was respond with aphorisms you were less a pe...
2 days ago

Everway

The Everwayan

Have Things Changed? - One of the players in my virtual Everway game at U-Con last weekend asked what was different about running Everway virtually, and was it more difficult t...
4 years ago

Gamma World / Mutant Future

A Field Guide To Doomsday

Lunar Livin' - Found in the wild. I'm a sucker for cutaway pics. They make dandy pre-fab dungeon maps!
3 months ago
GAMMA WORLD WAR!

GW's Dark Future board game is getting a digital upgrade! - If your particular flavor of Gamma-style games runs to the road warrior side of the genre, then you'll be pleased to hear that Games Workshop's board ga...
9 years ago
Barrier Peaks RPG

Barrier Peaks Cartoon - Click to embiggen…
13 years ago
Gamma World

Starbase 102 - [url=http://hub.webring.org/hub/gammaring?id=16][img]http://img.webring.com/s/wu/um_8104/um_8104_t.png[/img][/url] Keith's Home of Gaming, Science Fiction, ...
28 years ago

Big Eyes, Small Mouth

MangaKast – A PodCast of All Things Manga

My Lover is Just Too Innocent to Handle / Koibito ga Ubu suite Komaru (Vol. 1) by Hirota - I’m not sure what I was expecting from this title but ‘lover’ seems a little strong of a word here given just how innocent the story is… at least so far. A...
4 weeks ago

Middle-Earth Role-Playing

Sacnoth's Scriptorium

The Cat Room - So, today we were back with our volunteer two-hour weekly stint in the car room. This time it was just four cats in three cage: one bonded pair and two sol...
6 days ago
Unfinished Trails

Cycle In Review: Ered Mithrin - With the next deluxe expansion arriving on my doorstep this past weekend (an unusual advantage of not attending Gen Con this year apparently), I wanted to ...
7 years ago
Midgardsmal

Watercolor Mini Series - This series I created is really an exploration of trying new techniques with watercolor and learning more about my family. Looking through pictures from ma...
7 years ago

Glorantha

Timinits & Trolls

Monster's Apprentice - I have received my (alas) digital copy of issue No.1 of *Monster's Apprentice*, a magazine written, laid out and illustrated in the spirit of the old *S...
6 days ago

Fate

FATE SF

"Anarchy in Amhor" - *Source: https://library.ucf.edu/news/buffalo-soldiers-legacy-honor-value/* Last night, I ran the *John Carter of Mars RPG* for six players as part of o...
7 years ago
Spirit of the Blank

[DFAE] Ace Squadron's Aces - [image: Related image] The ships of Ace Squadron, which consists of "aces," all have the word "Ace" in their names. I'm not sure if this is confusing or j...
7 years ago
Cernunnos Cave

D12 System Dev Diary 4 - Saved by the works of someone better than I. Should be the strap for this post. The longer version is that I kind of forgot that as a Cortex backer I hav...
8 years ago
Spirit of Greyhawk

Cleric Spell "Know Alignment" - Know Alignment (Divination) Reversible Properties *Difficulty:* 2 *Range:* 10' or within the same zone as the cleric. *Duration:* The rest of the scene *Co...
9 years ago
Station53

[Actual Play Report] Fate Core: I Fought The Law - Two sessions in as many months! I am on a roll! The campaign begins its downward spiral towards its Big Apocalyptic Showdown in earnest, the gang officiall...
11 years ago
The Fate Archives

Fate Worlds Volume 2 Worlds in Shadows Review - So, this is my review of the second Fate Worlds book, Worlds in Shadow. Again it needs to be stated that I am listing them from my least to most favorite...
12 years ago
Finding the Fate of the City of Doors

Design Blog 8: Revising an Earlier Idea and Bringing the Boomstick - I think the last post has helped to solidify most of the remaining mechanical bits of what I want to do mechanically with the system. It still needs some ...
13 years ago
The Drowning Woods

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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

AWESOME LIES

HIRING AND FIRING - REVIEWS. A look at Hirelings of the Old World.
3 weeks ago
Ex Profundis

Dark Mechanicus Mutant Abominations - Deep in the underhive, the thralls of the Dark Mechanicus serve their masters in their search for arcane technology and new subjects for their experiment...
8 years ago

Space: 1889

Frank Chadwick's Space:1889

Germany on Mars in 1889, in The Dream Forge - Anders Blixt in Stockholm Sweden writes a thoughtful and entertaining blog entitled The Dream Forge, covering a wide range of fantasy and science fiction t...
12 years ago

Savage Worlds

Zadmar's Savage Stuff

Fractured Frontiers (One-Page RPG Jam 2026) - The first One-Page RPG Jam took place in 2020, and my submission (The Fools Who Follow) was also the first one-page RPG I ever created. I've taken part eve...
1 week ago
Tales From The Savage Troll

MapTool Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE) Framework - Much time has passed since I worked on the Savage Worlds framework for MapTool. I am resurrecting the project for two reasons: RPTools recently announced ...
6 years ago
Savage Bloggers Network

Savage Bloggers Network Turned 10 This Year - It was ten years ago in September that the Savage Bloggers Network was born in this thread on the old PEG forums. Happy anniversary, savages!
6 years ago
Dolomite's Savage Blog

Thanksgiving Idea - So I have been reading a meme about Thanksgiving and it got wondering about a one Holiday game. Basically it talks about how it is impossible to get a re...
7 years ago
Sitting Duck's Journal

Savage Brainstorming: Nightbane - *New Hindrance* Caster (minor) Note: Only available to humans with Arcane Background Your powers require that you perform spells and incantations to use the...
9 years ago
Savage Bones

Hölleritter - *Attributes: *Agility d6, Smarts d12, Spirit d12, Strength d12+2, Vigor d12+1 *Skills:* Fighting d8, Intimidation d12, Climbing d10, Knowledge (Things Man ...
11 years ago
Cheyenne's Savage Sheets

Savage Paranoia 2013 - So I'm getting ready to run another filler game with my current crew - and I'm making it a Savage Worlds Paranoia game. And since I'm ME, the first thing I...
13 years ago
A Yelp in the Dark

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Numenera

Transmissions from the Ninth World Podcast

MCG Panel at Dragon Con 2016 - Monte Cook Games hosted a panel at Dragon Con and TF9W host Jim Ryan was there to capture it. Here it is for your listening pleasure! Stay tuned for some u...
9 years ago

Call of Cthulhu (Lovecraft was a Racist)

Reviews from R'lyeh

Friday Fantasy: The Grotesques’ Grotto - Up in the hills there is a grotto out of which a babbling spring rises where it is said that ghostly echoes of lurid ritual mania from millennia ago can b...
5 hours ago
yog-blogsoth

FLORIS DEMON - FLORIS DEMON "The dense tangle of figures that fills the pictorial space is oppressive in its effect, all the more so as the painting is a monumental alta...
1 day ago
Propnomicon

The Book of the Third Eye - Mille Cuirs brings us another impressive example of tomecraft with the Book of the Third Eye. Featuring a hand-tooled leather cover with custom made in...
1 day ago
Horror Story – Paula Cappa

The Art of Quiet Horror - August 4, 2026 On a quiet night, softened light emerges. A shadow plunges you into a chasm. Hands drag you deep into the cold. It whispers darkly. Inside t...
3 days ago
Lovecraft eZine

Nathan Ballingrud talks to me about depression - If you suffer from depression, I think you'll appreciate this episode. It's the first in a new depression interview series. Nathan Ballingrud is my guest.
2 weeks ago
A Podcast to the Curious – The M.R. James Podcast

Episode 99 – Curfew by Lucy M. Boston - This episode Mike and Will examine Curfew by Lucy M. Boston, a childhood tale of haunted bells, unearthed coffins and post-Jamesian highjinx aplenty. Big t...
1 year ago
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 562 – Fat Face - Episode 562 – Fat Face Listen on Patreon Patton Oswalt returns to help us size up the Michael Shea classic FAT FACE! Warning: some language and themes not ...
4 years ago
The Dunwich Review

Dead Lies Dreaming - While this is technically the 10th Laundry Files book, Dead Lies Dreaming is more of a stand-alone story in the Laundry Files universe than a continuation ...
5 years ago
Miskatonic University Podcast

Scenario Seeds From The Pool - What follows was my attempt to bring some thought structure to the Daphne du Maurier short story “The Pool” that I covered in Episode 185. Most of this is ...
6 years ago
william hope hodgson

New HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND edition! - I was previously sworn to secrecy over this but, with the recent announcement this past weekend, I can now inform everyone that a new edition of THE HOUSE ...
8 years ago
HUMAN MOLLUSK

THE MELVINS gig poster - Here's a silkscreen poster I designed for the Melvins.
10 years ago
thisyellowmadness

Publication History - Alphabetical Publication History Timeline
10 years ago
voice in the nightland

A quick note to my subscribers - I have completed my final semester and am preparing for graduation! In the mean time, I’ve started my job search. Since my life’s currently in a state of f...
11 years ago
Cthulhu Doodle

Map Monday - Thought I'd start a map of the Miskatonic campus. Please let me know of anything which absolutely must be included (I'm hardly a Lovecraft expert) or why i...
15 years ago

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