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Le Maréchal MacMacron - (pardonnez-moi pour ce partage d'une image par IA, dont on connaît les effets environnementaux délétères...) Si Sarkozy se voyait en Napoléon III (popul...
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Old School FRP

Elves? No, they skipped back into the forest years ago. Santa’s shop is run entirely by tinker… - Elves? No, they skipped back into the forest years ago. Santa’s shop is run entirely by tinker gnomes these days. (Larry Elmore, from “All about Krynn’s ...
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Grimdark, the bad guys - Every good group of heroes need a bunch of baddies trying to destroy the world, right? How about some weasels, badgers, and rats? Plus a vile swamp lord?An...
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Monsters and Manuals

My Shoe is Safe - Yesterday's quiz was a toughie. In it, to recap, commenters were encouraged to guess at what the following pieces of art, generated by Substack's own AI ...
1 day ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

The Bogatyr (AD&D Class) - *What follows is a re-working of the Cavalier class, as well as my first attempt at "writing a class" for 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The clas...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Single Axis Outer Planes - There are a lot of very reasonable criticisms regarding the Gygaxian Great Wheel of Outer Planes, though I also like a lot about it. I've spent a fair numb...
1 day ago
Leicester's Ramble

Shadowdark: Bloggah's Blog #13: The Slogging - Well, doesn't smell like burning, at least. *A day of opposites, now I'm freezing my giblets off. * You're looking a bit blue there, I noticed. *Out of ...
2 days ago
Halls of the Nephilim

"What A Bunch Of Clowns." "Dangerous Clowns." - I love James Gunn's Creature Commandos. The animation is fantastic. The voice work is phenomenal. The story is entertaining and I love the characters. Oh a...
2 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Worse Wounds - I'm testing out an alternative wound system for *clears throat* *Intergalactic Bastionland.* This game is very much at the "throw everything into a docum...
3 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

A History of Horrible Experiments - The hunt for Patchwork Jack continues! This session brought some horrific revelations about the site they had been lured into by their quarry and the mys...
3 days ago
Jeffs Gameblog

Latest Releases Now Available from the US Webstore + YEAR END SALE! -
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Hack & Slash

On Manifestos - The paid media was instructed to not print this. To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a leng...
4 days ago
The Wasted Lands

Santa Claus and the Friday the 13th Christmas Special for NIGHT SHIFT - I have been working a lot on *NIGHT SHIFT* and *Wasted Lands* lately, so I see everything through this lens. So when one of my friends on Facebook poste...
1 week ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

The Duwamish Longhouse - So, for a long time now I've been wanting to visit the Duwamish longhouse the (reconstructed) dining hall / cultural center and museum and gift shop al...
1 week ago
False Machine

Ælf-Adal - VotE Remastered Development - Their Origins in Dream They come from out of Nightmare, though whose, or why, no-one remembers now. They may have been the dying dream of a coma-locked god,...
1 week 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 week ago
gg no re

Eight Dudes Looting Offbrand Hogwarts – Brewkessel Actual Play - We actually play Brewkessel, by Kettlesberg Games (Tom Holmgren). It’s (currently) two levels of a Hogwarts-themed megadungeon. (We also had a million play...
1 week ago
Blog of Holding

a quick peek at 2024 Monster Manual math - As a monster designer, I’m interested in seeing where the 2024 Monster Manual takes monster design. How compatible are 2014 and 2024 monsters? What are the...
2 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Tower of Xenopus: Mazes & Minotaurs RPG adaptation by Tony - In the comments to "Zenopus Built a Tower", Part 46 of the Holmes Manuscript series on this blog, reader Tony wrote in about his adaptation of Holmes' *...
2 weeks ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

All That Glitters - Continuing the earlier thoughts about gold in classic D&D… Over the years, one overall trend in my perspective on playing or running TTRPGS is an inc...
3 weeks ago
The Disoriented Ranger

All the holidays, all the prices ... (and some news!) - *The short of it is: all my games are on the cheap from now on until January. It is the season, after all. And while I'm here, I might as well talk a bit...
4 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Thoughts on the US Election - Or…Where Do We Go From Here? When I was in high school, I learned an important lesson about debating. It isn’t enough to have a strong position yourself;...
4 weeks ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Curse of Strahd - for Shadowdark - I started running a game with my neighborhood gang for *Horror on the Hill*, a classic module from the 1980's. Meanwhile, my high school group voted to ...
4 weeks ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

An Interview! With Sarah Carapace! - 1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core (li...
2 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Star Frontiers: Volturnus Racial Abilities - [image: Ul-Mor in desert] As you'll know if you followed the spring season of Dan's Olde Time Minis Show, I've been playing the classic Star Frontiers ga...
3 months ago
Necropraxis

D&D Player’s Handbook 2024 - Being an incomplete, visual review of the 2024 Player’s Handbook. I got a copy of this almost entirely on the strength of the new cover art: (This is the “...
3 months ago
From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

New Planar Magic Items - Hellsguard, Mephrytis, Ring of Planar Vision, and Four New Potions - I've been busily working away on various projects since the end of April, including attending the North Texas RPG Con in Dallas from 5-10 June 2024 (and ...
5 months 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 ...
9 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
1 year ago
Metal Earth

The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come. - To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff. The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game design. In the past I...
1 year 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...
2 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 ...
3 years ago
Troll and Flame

Old-School Essentials Online Tools and SRD - My 2nd favorite incarnation, OSE, of my favorite D&D rule set, B/X. [My 1st favorite is Necrotic Gnome's previous, B/X Essentials, cause it was soft backe...
4 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...
4 years ago
Double O Section

There's a New James Bond Song! Listen to Billie Eilish's "No Time to Die" - Wow! We're so close to the release of a new Bond movie now that a new James Bond theme song has been released into the world! Listen for yourself to Bill...
4 years ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
5 years ago
Mage of the Striped Tower

Apollo 11 - Every Harrowing Second of the Apollo 11 Landing Revisited in a New NASA Video: It Took Place 50 Years Ago (July 20, 1969) To get a better sense of why the...
5 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...
5 years ago
Hill Cantons

And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to indulge m...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Joeskythedungeonbrawler's Blog

BACK AT IT AGAIN - OKAY………….. WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!? AGOOD QUESTION FOR ANSWERING BUT I WILL ONLY SAY THIS: THE MOVIE TRON IS A TRUE STROY AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TOO!! ANYW...
5 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...
5 years ago
Módulos RPG

Curse of the Weaver Queen, por Tim Kask - Lançada em 2013 pelo (infelizmente terminado) selo "Eldritch Ent.", Curse of the Weaver Queen é um belíssimo trabalho de Tim Kask, veterano na indústria do...
6 years ago
1d30

Dragon Scale Armor - Running a 1e campaign now featuring a dragon (a few, actually, but one main dragon). So dragonparts will be on the treasure menu eventually. If the PCs get...
6 years ago
MUTANTS AND MAGIC

Pathfinder 2 (Playtest) Session Zero - *After a long hiatus I've decided to return to writing here on my blog. Tabletop role playing has been a favorite hobby of mine for years. Even though...
6 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...
6 years ago
Musings on DragonQuest

Making a Living - Healers - DragonQuest is somewhat unique in that characters who wish to improve in skills, weapons or spells must spend a defined period of time before achieving tha...
6 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...
6 years ago
Sword+1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 years ago
Subterranean Design

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7 years ago
@ Padre's

Bucket List item - Dragonquest 4th Edition - My first and longest love in gaming has been Dragonquest. I am so thankful that Dad suggested it instead of D & D. Nothing against my many friends t...
7 years ago
The Restenford Project

Notes from the Nystul campaign - In pursuit of further knowledge of the Restenford realm, I was wandering around over at the Dragonsfoot Archives the other day and found this old issue of ...
7 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...
7 years ago
Lost in Time

Session report: The Cleansing of Cameth Brin (4) - CONTINUED FROM HERE. Cautiously the party negotiates the narrow staircase, which makes a bewildering multiplicity of twists and turns as it descends for ov...
8 years 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...
8 years ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Appendix N: May 2016 Edition - I've been looking for some decent bookcases for about four years. I finally came across the bookcases, above, which a used bookstore were getting rid ...
8 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...
8 years ago
Carto Cacography

The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep -- Almost There - My Kickstarter campaign was a success! In the next 4-5 months, I will officially become an 'author' with a novel available on Amazon. And a few short mon...
8 years ago
The Lair of the Evil DM

Adventures on the 7th sea – Campaign specifics Part I - In any rpg campaign there will be "home rules" reflecting The flavor and tone of the campaign, the specific rule changes and, (of course) a Dungeon Master...
9 years ago
The Mule Abides

0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...
9 years ago
The Lone Delver

TrollsZine! #8 Is Waiting For You! - [image: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/137077/TrollsZine-8?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2238] *TrollsZine!* #8 is waiting for you! The eighth issue o...
10 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
Year of the Dungeon

Other than the vanished empires, ancient manuscripts, and armed rebellion, this post has nothing to do with gaming - Last month, this article showed up in The New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda . It describes how a team of librarians, archivist...
11 years ago
The Bastard's Blade

Christian Clerics (part 2) - Obligatory excuse for not posting more frequently: real life. [1] I can't apologise: things have been going really well, and I'm blessed with good fortune....
12 years ago
Rustfoot

The End - ...and so, we arrive at the last page in this story! Ironic as it may be, it will also be the first personal post. And last, of course. I've been thinking ...
12 years ago
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements

Under-rated items of adventuring equipage. - *Never dungeoneer without your oily rag. * Among the many uses of this inexpensive and over looked, but vital piece of equipment are; The oily rag is an...
13 years ago
Subterranean Design

Central Grandeur - As I research for more exotic adventures (though never knowingly illegal ones, I have to promise -- otherwise, how could I publish them?) my day-to-day tra...
15 years ago
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