Is there a limit to how many roll-agains can happen? Or the time spent per book? A d20 list of "irrelevant information you learned instead" would be a wonderful addition
Slushpile Index
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Not every idea gets a post: all the rest gets dumped in THE SLUSH PILE.
Last updated 7/26/25
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Slushpost 1 (4/10/18)
Slushpost 2 (9/25/18)
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Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight
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There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons
& Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in
a ...
Reality Unbound: Reclamation
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By R.A. Lopez Hyperfantasy Handbooks d20/3.5/PF Levels 6-20 Your heart
skips a beat as you realize something and time seems to stop. This being,
this “God-...
Lie Back and Think of Rivendell
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In *Leviathan*, Thomas Hobbes raises the important question of elf
reproduction *avant la lettre *when he opines that Adam and Eve could not
have been, a...
d72 Squires
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By the book, Squires get a pony, a dagger, and an okay weapon from a d6
table.
[image: A person in armor riding a horse with two men in helmets
AI-gener...
On the Best Art
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I just wanted to say, I don't know if people know this.
I hire Jeshields to do art for my projects because he captures that classic
style in his black a...
Stargazer (A New System)
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I haven’t had a regular over-the-table tabletop game in years. In that
time, I’ve wandered pretty far afield. Time for a new system, methinks.
Inspira...
d100 - Vignettes for Faerie & Other Unseen Lands
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When the Characters find themselves haplessly traipsing about in very
strange places, be it Dolmenwood’s Realms of Fairy, the Gardens of Ynn, or
even the...
Dead Orbit Mall, a vaporwave cyberpunk zine
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Here, I published a new zine, I wrote and illustrated Dead Orbit Mall, a
reskin of Dark Fort, the solo game that inspired Mork Borg. I say reskin
but it be...
A Second Summer LEGO RPG Jam!
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Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting
Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings,
adv...
I come from the land of the ice and snow
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So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate
random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city,
castle, and...
Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz
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History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any
citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever
reason,...
Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun!
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Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the
time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the
unfathoma...
Directions in an Empty Place
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a d20 table of information sources in the trackless nowhere Hydramwt and
Pele-Peq came upon a lonely crossroad. Behind, the Pianure of pale-blown
weed and...
Chatbot and the Demiurge for Solo Play
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I have been playing around with my solo protocols, the d6 demiurge (
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/347048/the-d6-demiurge-protocols-for-solo-pl...
Another Underclock
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I've been using Arnold's Underclock since about 5 minutes after that blog
post dropped. It's great!
Trouble is I do miss the "oh shit there's something her...
Articulations
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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...
Notes on a semi-successful skill system
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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...
As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks
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Remember STEAL THE EYES OF YASHOGGHUH? Still working on it.
The post As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks first appeared on Last Gasp.
Spoils of the Gorgon Coast: The Degenerate Heir
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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...
Prinny Dood!
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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...
Thursdays in Thracia – Part 21
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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...
Elsai Overview
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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...
"The Gardens of Ynn" Referee Control Panels
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I recently picked up Emmy Allen's excellent *The Gardens of Ynn*, and I
think this will be the next adventure I run. I still have an itch for *Alice
in Won...
Goodbye and Good Luck
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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...
Dolmenwood: The Book of Monsters So Far
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Since the announcement of the work on the Dolmenwood book of monsters in
*Wormskin* issue seven, I've been meaning to write a quick blog post about
it.
Fi...
Is there a limit to how many roll-agains can happen? Or the time spent per book? A d20 list of "irrelevant information you learned instead" would be a wonderful addition
ReplyDeleteNo limits, but some information isn't in any given book, of course.
DeleteI like your addition. Write it so I can add it!