Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) who had only played 5e and Emily (Bagira) who has played many of my games. If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
System: B/BX.
Players: Emily, John, Erin.
We played as if Sasha's character simply wasn't there. If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
System: my Knave hack. Players: Emily, John, Erin and Sasha
If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may request spoiler-free notes from me if you like.
Satan Illustrated My Bestiary
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I have spilt rather a lot of ink dealing with the subject of AI art.
(Rather too much perhaps - see previous posts here, here, here, here, here,
and here...
On Manifestos
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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...
The Black Ruins
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By Corey Ryan WaldenSelf PublishedOSRLevels 1-3 Blackened esoteric
obelisks, henceforth known among most folk as ‘The Yore Standing Stones’,
dot a strangel...
CSC Campaign Report 3: The Library
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Now we're cooking with fire: the downtime investigation clocks roll out in
full force here, and it was the best move I ever made in the game. You get
to ...
Dungeon Stocking - Expanded
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When Stocking Dungeons, we sometimes turn to using Dice to Randomly
Generate the Room Contents. In B/X and its successors, we’re presented with
this love...
The d6 Sceptres
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Give your Knights something better to whack with.
*The Butcher’s Bludgeon*
d10 Long
When the wielder *Smites*, the attack gains both +d12 and *Blast*.
C...
This Is Why This Has Lasted Six Years
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I just got this last week.
It's from a friend who saw my ex- and I every week. As usual, we stayed
friends after and she didn't believe any of the bullsh...
Blue Sky Temple, Revised
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Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky.
It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed
together.
This week, I ...
Layout work in progress!
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Luna have stared laying out Sofia's text combined with my illustrations
and the result is sumptuous! To help us finish and print this #MorkBorg
adventure,...
OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats
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Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using *Magical
Industrial Revolution*. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just
want t...
Powers Enumerated I
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Spells By Any Other Name Would Cast As Harsh. POWERS ENUMERATED:OLDTECH &
FANTASCIENCE These are the accepted and known secret sciences,
indistinguishable ...
Saga RPG - The Hiven (Player Character faction)
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I have been running a Silmarillion inspired play by post game all of this
year, where the players take on the roles of creator spirits and then the
leade...
Class Social Features
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Unsatisfied with the number of class features in PF2e/5e that pertained to
the social characteristics of each character class, I went and wrote a few.
Th...
An Interview! With Sarah Carapace!
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1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good
friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core
(li...
D&D Player’s Handbook 2024
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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 “...
Concerning the Future of Traveller
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I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various
books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as
from Ma...
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...