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.
Darklantern
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Follow up to City of the Siege
*Tenmenfend* stands as a ruin of its former self, a double-walled city
built around the deep chasm which contains the *Da...
Abbotsmoore
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By Stuart WatkinsonSelf PublishedOSELevels 1-3 What was once a sprawling
expanse of magical innovation is now a few scattered buildings covered in
muck. Ye...
d100 Ways to Get Dragged Into an Isekai
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My hand has been forced. Layla is to blame for this.
These work very well as PC backgrounds
How'd You End Up in Another World, Anyway?
1. Visited by ...
Bad Things Happen: Unknown BFGs, Twits and Witches
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As a father I have become reacquainted with the books of Roald Dahl, most
of which I haven't read for well over thirty years. One of the things I
have been...
The Theory of the Labyrinth
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A good part of the magic of D&D is from a specific aesthetic effect it
shares with several other types of fiction that I'm going to call The
Theory of th...
Stars & Worlds
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Here's what a star currently looks like in *Intergalactic Bastionland*.
Remember, this isn't space as we know it, so here the usual black void is
replace...
Shit Future (Online) Random PC Generator
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* Click the buttons and get a cyberpunk player character! *
(Intended for use in Shit Future Online - a grindless faux MUD - COMING
SOON!)
(Get Shit Fu...
Check out this fashionable fellow.
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I was looking at the *Tunnels & Trolls* stuff on the ebays and stumbled
across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it
was p...
My 2024 Bloggies Nominations
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The 2024 Bloggie awards are here, and *DIY & dragons* is a finalist in two
categories!
*official BLOGGIES 2024 art ‘Blugtarp Blogeye and Weyman the Well-...
Fragments of a Journey
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I’ve got a new story + art post over on the substack. The time has come to
begin culling and consolidating my different online presences. They simply
take ...
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...
Bat in the Attic Games and 2025
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Happy New Year Folks!
This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening
with me and my plans for the upcoming year.
Personal
I ...
Return to Doodle Land
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At last you can all visit the Doodle Land with Tunnel Goon or other
whimsical adventure games! https://evlyn.itch.io/doodle-landHexagnome did
wonderful wo...
Blue Sky Temple, Revised
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Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky.
It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed
together.
This week, I ...
OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats
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Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using *Magical
Industrial Revolution*. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just
want t...
An Interview! With Sarah Carapace!
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1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good
friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core
(li...
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...