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.
Into the Many-Towered Twilight
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By NikolineSelf PublishedOSRLevels 2-6 Kurhan has three hills: Tell Os and
Tell Hyr and Tell Kur. Of these, it is Tell Kur who is oldest and most
feared. S...
Minor Worlds
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So what about those unsettled and unexplored worlds in *Intergalactic
Bastionland*?
They won't get the same detail that the main worlds get, but I want t...
Bookpost 21
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Bookpost Index
*The Author of the Acacia Leave*s, Ursula K LeGuin
LeGuin writes about ant language for a few pages. It’s good, unsuprisingly.
*Enchantre...
Referee Sabotage
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It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine
this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning;
perhaps robb...
What Is the OSR? A Different Take.
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This past January, I had the privilege of attending the Philadelphia Area
Gaming Expo and participating in a discussion panel on the State of the
OSR. T...
Variegated Vocabularies for Limited Languages
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R
ecently I was seized with the idea that what if some of the “Languages” the
Players gain access to in these games had a more Limited Vocabulary of
Wor...
Guest Post - More Thoughts on Space: 1999
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I wrote a guest post on the *Flashback Universe Blog*!
I recently started watching the show *Space: 1999*, and my friend Trey, who
operates both *Flash...
The Reassembulation Will Be Messy
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I’m reassembulating wizardthieffighter.com on a different platform, in a
different format and style. This reassembulation will be messy. Most links
will di...
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...
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 ...
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
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...