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Halls of the Nephilim

The Trickster - I've mentioned my obsession with Dead By Daylight a few times recently. This is the first of the games killers I've statted out for SURVIVE THIS!!. While h...
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Leicester's Ramble

A Most Unfortunate Party - More Shorts Inspiration - Well, If I'm going to steal his maps, I might as well use the title he gives 'em. Here's a good little space. Some finished rooms hidden within a cavern ...
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Old School FRP

Space Marines, tactical ground combat game for sci-fi miniatures by A Mark Ratner – This is the… - *Space Marines*, tactical ground combat game for sci-fi miniatures by A Mark Ratner – This is the 1980 2nd edition by Fantasy Games Unlimited with Jeff D...
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Raven Crowking's Nest

Blooderflies - Yesterday, I learned that one of the fan-created monsters in *Dungeon Denizens II* is the "Blooderfly". I wonder if this will be similar to the "blooder...
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Hack & Slash

On The Goal - I decided if I knew so much about games, I made one. You couldn't ask for better feeling feedback. I've been making games since I was little. If you're ...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, October 1984 (week 3) - Inm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on July 19, 1984. *Justice ...
1 day ago
BASTIONLAND

Berkblasters - Following on from last week's *Slugblaster-Planescape* mashup, let's look at some crews loosely inspired by the Factions of *Planescape*. A few of the in...
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Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

The Horror at Hickory Park - I broke one of my own rules: I ran a *Call of Cthulhu* game set in the modern era, instead of using the 1920s or the Victoria era. In this game, the char...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

"Dear JB" Mailbag #35 - *Still in Mexico and having a great time...* *Dear JB:* *My sample size isn't dozens and dozens, but I do DM for more than one group. A really sad patter...
3 days ago
Anniceris

De vos tombeaux le tour dévotieux - *Egalité* Le cimetière est un lieu moderne, né avec la démocratie. On séparait auparavant des ordres, la fosse commune, les amoncellements de squelettes ...
5 days ago
Metal Earth

The Map that broke the blog, behold the city of Mesiquitar - I’ve been wanting to start posting again for a long time, but for years, I felt that I had to have a big project that I could post as a series of entrie...
6 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

How to Describe a Campaign Setting in One Song or Less - A long, long time ago, I can still remember when I wrote a post that made me smile. It was called How to Describe a Campaign Setting in Twenty Five Words...
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gg no re

How to Talk to People in Middle Earth – The One Ring 2e Rules Review - IRL, when I need a Favor from Someone, I mentally assign a Difficulty Class to that Request and then look within my Soul to see what Skills I have that wou...
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False Machine

Loopy Tombs - This poast was inspired partly by reading James Holloways 'Tome of Tombs' - a zine of Tomb creation which you can find here; https://james-holloway.itch...
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From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

Sneak Preview for Return to Perinthos - a Fundraiser Tribute to Jennell Jaquays - On Friday, 27 June 2025, my copy of *Return to Perinthos: A Memorial Dungeon for Jennell Jaquays* arrived on my doorstep, the output from the *Return to ...
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Dreams in the Lich House

Curse of Strahd Campaign (ShadowDark) - Mid-Campaign Update - Our ShadowDark-based *Curse of Strahd* (COS) campaign ("Holiday in Barovia") has been motoring along at a fine pace. We're very consistent, playing mos...
3 weeks ago
1d30

Equipment Damage X in 6 - “The dragon’s breath roars around the elf, roasting him in his armor until there’s nothing left but cremated bones … and his perfectly-intact bow, leather ...
5 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Ruined Tower of Zenopus Goes Mithral! - *Find it here* I haven't had much free time lately, hence the dearth of posts, but here's a quick update on *the Ruined Tower of Zenopus* 5E conversion...
5 weeks 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 month ago
Jeffs Gameblog

I come from the land of the ice and snow - So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city, castle, and...
1 month ago
The Mule Abides

Getting Back in the (Worm’s) Saddle - Wow! So, it’s been… (checks notes) …12 years since I last posted here? That’s as many as four threes. And that’s terrible. During that time I was heavily i...
1 month ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

Fink-Nottle's Delight - Fink-Nottle's Delight So, today we sent down to the botanical gardens in Federal Way to see how the rhododendrons and bonsai were doing. When we'd ...
1 month 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...
3 months ago
Blog of Holding

Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual - As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than oth...
3 months ago
@ Padre's

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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...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...
5 months 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...
6 months 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...
7 months 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...
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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 ...
1 year 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...
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...
3 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 ...
4 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...
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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...
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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...
6 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...
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...
6 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...
6 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...
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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...
6 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
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...
7 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. ...
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 ...
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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...
7 years ago
Subterranean Design

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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 ...
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...
8 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 ...
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...
9 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...
9 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 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...
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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...
11 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....
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 ...
13 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...
14 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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