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 Sectors, Quickstarted.
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* Less than 48 hours left! Don't miss out!*
I know explaining it doesn't do it, sometimes. So let me show you.
Can you see how fun sectors are to make? ...
Tomb of the Iconoclast
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INTRODUCTION
LEVEL 1 (TBD)
LEVEL 2 (TBD)
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Five days ago an outlaw returned to your town, raving and muttering
incomprehensibly. Before being put to d...
What Paranoia?
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I have a handful of games that I don't want to outright review, but would
like to talk about briefly.
Because I'm away for the next few weeks, with famil...
Occluded Keep of the Doomed Elementalist
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By Eon Fontes-MayYouCanBreatheNow GamesOSRLevels 3-4 For as long as we can
remember, the landmark has been a facade of solid stone. False windows and
doors...
Sci-Fi: The Andalusian - A Sci-Fi Heist Module
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The Andalusian is a free 31 page space opera heist module, designed for my *Squishy
Space* system (also free).
*PDF Link*
The Andalusian is not as luxuri...
Personal Reflections on the OSR at 1,990 Posts
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This post is the 1,989th published at Monsters & Manuals. That's a lot. I
have been writing this nonsense for sixteen years, which might actually be
befo...
There's A New Zak Book Available for Pre-Order
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I have a new art retrospective book coming out now available for pre-order.
The price will jump in a few days, so if you're interested, best to grab
one ...
d100 - Intriguing Incense Or Curious Candles
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Single-Use, Consumable Magical Wonders have always been some of my
favorites, especially when they present the Players with incredibly
specific solutions...
XP Potential as Inverse Encumbrance
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Back in March, prompted by a discussion on Discord, I was perusing Jon
Peterson’s Playing at the World to see if there was any discussion of
rerolling HP o...
Antediluvian fantasy civilization generator
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For a thing I am working on. You could combine it with:
https://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2024/05/grimdark-fantasy-descriptor-table.html
*Click t...
Exploding Autogolems
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[image: two autogolems racing under the beams of a hypercolony]
Recently, someone on the stratometaship (my patreon discord server) asked
about thoughts on ...
Random Ship Encounters on the Sea of Fish
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So over 10 years ago I said I would write a follow-up to this blog post and
I never did. So this post is dedicated to DM_Lazenby who brazenly called
me ...
Update and Marchebranche is getting in print!
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Well my desire to post weekly vanished after only one post. I guess there
is a big different between blog journaling just for fun while you play
games and...
Bad Weather after Judgment Day
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The world has ended and the weather is fucking terrible.
Oh it's not as bad as a decade ago, when the poison storm of a Gas Front
would sweep through and tu...
Another take on demihumans as social constructs.
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I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had
already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant
orig...
Skull Rabbits and The Pale Lion
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A silly kitbash I did (*"What if _______, but skull??"*) that felt
afterwords like it needed lore:
Skull Rabbits appear much like regular white rabbits -...
Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start writing!
The post Hello world! first appeared on Last Gasp.
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...
Unlawful Update
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Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind
y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I
continue ...
New Home!
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This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I'll no longer be
updating on this blog primarily due to all the spambots that plague this
platform. ...
Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release
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A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012
Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at
Dr...
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...
Migration
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A note to anyone checking this blog:
I've moved my blogging activity to https://necroticgnome.com/blogs/news.
This blog will remain indefinitely, but will ...