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.
Why, why, why, Delilah?
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I recently recorded a podcast episode for higher-level backers of the
Yoon-Suin 2nd edition kickstarter, in which I was subjected to some tough
questions...
We Won The 3 Castles Award (Again)
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Like Red & Pleasant Land before it, Nebulith, our Japanese-themed LOTFP
book, just won the prestigious (and very heavy) Three Castles Award.
This award ...
The Tower of the Standing Stones
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By Marco G. FossatiSelf PublishedDragonbane/OSRI think this is a BRP system
… hear the tale of Ardana, a mage who defied the Dragon Emperor and
vanished wi...
Space is for Fantasy, not Sci Fi
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*Mythic* has a lot of blank spaces left open for improvisation. In my
experience, this works well enough, granting many advantages too.
Improvise a castl...
Off to North Texas Con
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So everyone knows I will be at North Texas Con this week. My books and maps
will be for sale at the Black Blade Publishing Booth. I am running three
sand...
My 2025 in Review
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Continuing my annual tradition, here are some of my favorite things from
the last year. I think this is the first year where I've had to decide not
to shou...
How I Do It (feat. The Great Lady)
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I mentioned at the end of She Sings At the End that I had a half-written
essay about how I did it. This is the refurbished version of that essay,
merged ...
Undead Programming and You!
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The only thing an Undead will do of its own volition is defend itself from
an aggressor.
The spirit binding the corpse prefers to do nothing. The only hig...
d100 - Where Does That Lamp Oil Come From?
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Sometimes, I like to confront a few of the curious questions that
occasionally come up in various Settings. This time I decided to tackle
that ubiquitous...
Adventure Game on Cardboard
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Here is the game I have been running most recently, that was written on
cardboard, in scanned PDF format:
https://mraston.itch.io/adventure-game-on-ca...
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...
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...