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.
All the Right Notes: On Notekeeping
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As we all know, YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME
RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT.
Since I think time records are really just an aspect of keepi...
d100 - Collective Nouns for Numbers Appearing
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For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by the
sometimes-weird words we use for Groups of Things. In my youth, I came
across the boo...
Fly me to the Moon
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By Kabuki KaiserSelf PublishedOSRHex Crawls - Levels 1-whatever. Don’t fuck
up Danger Will Robinson! The vibe here is how I would live my life if I
could. ...
What do people know about the Mythos? Part 2
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Picking up from where we last left off.
Tlācayoh
A headless spirit, said to have been born from the anger of a woman
murdered by her wicked husband for ...
Intergalactic Bastionland Public Playtest
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*Intergalactic Bastionland* is now ready for public playtesting.
Go here to find everything you need.
We're a way off the Kickstarter yet, but you can b...
Gender Among the Elves
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There are only two genders: male and female.
Men are strong, stoic, brave. They protect the weak and build great things.
Women are sensitive, kind, and ...
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
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...
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...