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.
On Bounty, Yukgluk G'Chuck
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d100 - Side Effects from Bargain Basement Potions
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In most of my Campaign Settings, I try to emphasize that Magic is a rather
Rare and Wonderous thing. You’ll seldom find Arcane Artifacts for Sale in
Mark...
Dan Plays Games 8
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In a semi-concerted effort to play and finish games I own rather than
buying new ones, several games on this list will be those I’ve played
before but ha...
Timekeeping
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In my last post, I dropped a DM Cheat Sheet in Appendix D but I never
actually explained how to use it.
You are of course free to use it however you wish...
Cursed Blood and Cold Steel
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By A. UmbralCthonic CreationsOSRLevel 1 Beneath the shadowed walls of
Crow’s Keep, treason festers in whispered secrets and quiet deals. The
war-weary King...
The 'I Want' PC
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Readers who do not live in the dank earth beneath rocks with only woodlice
and earthworms for company will no doubt have heard of something called *K-Pop
D...
like an influencer, but stupid
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Among the new releases from James Edward Raggi the Fourth's dark fortress
in Finland is *The Music of Ericha Zann,* Jimbo's misanthropic take on the
bard...
The Knightly Grind
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Just got back from GenCon, so this one is fuelled by jet lag.
In triple Ennie award winning *smash hit* *Mythic Bastionland *there are a
number of effec...
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 ...
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...
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...