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Halls of the Nephilim

Music Monday - Go Monkey Go - This one is a blast from the past. Released in 2000 and performed by Devo, Go Monkey Go is a tribute to Mojo Jojo, the primary antagonist of the Power Puff...
1 hour ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

PLANET MOTHERFUCKER: MONDO MONO EDITION NOW AVAILABLE! - You can't keep a good game down, and it turns out you can't keep a bad-ass game down either. *PLANET MOTHERFUCKER* is back in a brand-new edition that co...
10 hours ago
Leicester's Ramble

Getting Rid of Pests at The Shrine of Qriarae - A second recent campaign encounter scenario, prettied up for public consumption. A few weeks ago, the party was seeking out a relic for the merchant cla...
1 day ago
Anniceris

Justice League of America n°94-99 (1971-1972) - Suite du survol des *Justice League of America* n°86-92 pour se demander si le même scénariste (*Mike Friedrich*) avait une sorte d'unité de vision sur c...
1 day ago
Old School FRP

Dragons across multiple genres vs barbarians, fighter planes, and spaceships – Covers for Micro… - Dragons across multiple genres vs barbarians, fighter planes, and spaceships – Covers for *Micro News* magazine, - Issue #6 (December 1987) - #11 (...
1 day ago
False Machine

I Read Generators of Underground Worlds - Previously I asked my audience for examples of large-scale cave generation and, essentially, no-one had what I was looking for; I meant Nation Sized, unde...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Go Long - Eh. I really don't have time for this. But.... So, I was reading this post by Mr. Maliszewski the other day, as well as its associated links. All things co...
2 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

[Parsulan] Scavengers and the Field of the Fallen Colossi - *Art by Guy Wurley* The ramshackle boomtown called Salvage by its inhabitants and the Scrapyard by outsiders is built amid the fallen combatants of an anci...
3 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Great Nobility of Harry Potter - I am of the view that there is no pursuit that is more noble and no task that is more worth doing than writing novels. Call me romantic; call me delud...
3 days 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...
4 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Circuits and Rallies - I'm back from holiday! I guess coming back to familiarity after a few weeks of novelty got me thinking. Sometimes you repeat the same stuff over and over...
5 days ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Moldvay Basic finally available in Print on Demand - Great news: The "B" of "*B/X*", the rulebook of *the 1981 D&D Basic Set*, commonly known as the *Moldvay Basic*, is finally available in print-on-demand...
1 week ago
Blog of Holding

Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...
3 weeks ago
From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

Castle Greyhawk Four New Dungeon Level Maps Revealed - CZ Act 1 "Alpha Preview" Map TLG published a Castle Zagyg "Alpha Preview" to CZ1 backers on 2 April 2026, showing one-quarter of The Cellars, level 2 of C...
3 weeks ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

Happy Tolkien Day - So, Happy Tolkien Day, for those who celebrate with a cup of tea, old books, and the good green things of the earth. --John R --current reading: MacDon...
1 month ago
gg no re

Roll Tide or Naw? What kind of Game is D&D—and More - The ggnore crew is back with the classic lightning-round opinion panel, ROLL TIDE or NAW? Topics discussed: Make a Search Check YouTube: https://www.youtub...
2 months ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Sickle & Torch - For many of us, 0-level play was our first experience with DCC RPG. Throw a bunch of nobodies into an awful situation, and see which ones come out alive....
2 months ago
The Mule Abides

Addendum to the official policy of the Mule - [image: Hanging around with Benito.]
3 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...
4 months ago
The Restenford Project

The Return of Fairwind - A while back devoted listener Snickersnax pointed out that Fairwind denied herself and her daughter the accompaniment of ladies-in-waiting and personal m...
4 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.
4 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...
4 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...
4 months ago
Jeffs Gameblog

jimbo update -
4 months ago
Hill Cantons

Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards - 10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons # Name Description 1 Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
6 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....
7 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...
8 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

Why Magic Users Suck at Fighting - [image: Rincewind in colour by holepunch on DeviantArt] Often I find myself thinking about common critiques of classic D&D and trying to formulate response...
9 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...
9 months 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...
11 months ago
Double O Section

Amazon Studios to Adapt BLACKCLAW'S DOOMSDAY PLOT as Next 007 Movie - Former Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke may be out, but evidently some of her ideas live on at the studio. Salke had advocated making 007 “less dangerous...
1 year ago
@ Padre's

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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
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
Necropraxis

Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
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...
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
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...
7 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...
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
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...
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...
7 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 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
Subterranean Design

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8 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
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...
9 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...
9 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
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...
10 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...
10 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...
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...
11 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
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...
12 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....
13 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 ...
14 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...
15 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...
16 years ago
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