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.
Estates of the Eliari
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By Leon AtkinsonBasic Fantasy ProjectBasic FantasyLevels 3-5 What Secrets
Lie Mouldering in the Estates of the Eliari? Long ago, the enigmatic Eliari
merch...
When Did Action-Packed Prologues Begin?
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Without further ado, let us commence the Great Monsters & Manuals Group
Research Project 2026.
The 'prologue' as such is a concept that goes back at leas...
Public Domain Roundup 2026
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Let’s get this year started on the right foot (well, as right as we can get
given the Circumstances) with more art liberated from the shackles of
copyrig...
On a Happy New Year
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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...
Magic Item Generator
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With a little bit of digital elbow grease, I’ve finally managed to create a
Generator that produces Magical Items from the dozens of d100 Tables I’ve
cre...
Merry Hexmas 101 - Coal Mountain
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Prismatic Wasteland has announced a new Blog Bandwagon. This time, it's
adding hexes to a hexcrawl based on the Christmas movies of Rankin & Bass.
For my e...
Secret Santicorn 2025: Two Forges
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The Forge of Yakul
Yakul was obliterated, and his temples were sunk. Memories of the dead god
were struck from the souls of men. A heavy punishment was ...
Two-Player Head-to-Head D&D
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Unfortunately for my wizard, Game 1
ended exactly the way this looks
*1. Both players generate a 1st-level magic-user in any system.*
-You each get a sin...
Fragging Out
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Intergalactic work continues.
I'm constantly reminding myself that the first *Mythic Bastionland*
playtests (then *Primeval Bastionland*) were based on ...
Under Gallax Hall - Level 4 - Monastery
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*"I'm challenging myself to try and write at least 1-3 rooms per day to
crank this thing out in like... 3 months, maybe?"*
-Me, about 5 years ago.
Been ...
OSR: Treasure for Dungeon / Room Stocking
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Dungeon stocking is tricky. Over and over, people ask "How much treasure
should I include per room / dungeon level / PC?"
The answer varies enormously be...
What is the point of the OSR?
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Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes
his post with some questions.
So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
Gormand's Larder is back
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Hello, I made a 36 pages extended edition of my old zine Gormand's
Larder. You get the digital version
here: https://evlyn.itch.io/gormand-larder
An Appendix N(VLG)
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A few days / weeks / units of time ago I saw Prismatic Wasteland’s round-up
of people’s appendix Ns. Well, thought I unto mine self, I have just such a
one...
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...
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...
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: d30 Encounter Tables
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I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago.
I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic
which...