destination unknown: November 2011

good reading

The Dungeon Dozen

Domestics on Duty at the Sorcerer's Tower - d12 1. Trans-dimensional consultant: the ghost of extinct sentient beetle 2. All services performed by host of rejected golem-brides 3. The homonculibrarian...
50 minutes ago
The Other Side blog

More updates - Not much going on today for a blog post. Just a bunch of random updates. Digital Orc is trying to organize an Old-School/Grognard blogger meet-up. His site...
1 hour ago
The Happy Whisk

104 Sales Mark - Tim just hit his 104th sale of Knowledge Illuminates. I'm super duper proud of him for passing his goal of 100 and reaching 104. Woohoo. I love how excite...
1 hour ago
Underworld Cleaning Service

Reefer Madness - I just caught Reefer Madness on Netflix last night - at least part of it. I haven't seen it for probably 20 years, but it never fails to deliver. :) In h...
3 hours ago
I'd Rather Be Killing Monsters...

John Carter's Bogus Journey! - Turns out that John Carter isn't the 19th Century Southern gentleman we thought he was, but - according to this excerpt from his journal in Marvel's "ada...
4 hours ago
My Dice Are Older Than You

Owlcon Wrap Up - The Games I Played - I'm home with a sick kid and I'm not feeling too great myself, so I figured before I go into write-ups of my two *Feng Shui* games, I'll give a bit of a sh...
5 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Has the Hobby Completed a 360 (Devils & Demons in D&D) - I had this thought while lying in bed last night after my Super Bowl viewing / eating / drinking. Are we returning to the early days of the hobby? Are be...
6 hours ago
Rustfoot

The Grinding, part 4 of 4 - Nothing travels as fast as bad news, unless you're a powerful force of nature that grinds everything into a powder. As the grinding swept across the countr...
7 hours ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Zogorion, Lord of the Hippogriffs [review] - *I* will be honest here, I picked this up for two reasons because I had never heard of Jason Sholtis before reading through this zine. The first reason was...
7 hours ago
Grumpy RPG Reviews

Video: 5E D&D Spoilers - http://grumpycelt.podbean.com/feed
8 hours ago
Porky's Expanse!

Symbiogenesis, you and me - Over the weekend I worked on a location for the Triffles series, a fallen orbital lodged in bedrock called Shiven, which has a strange ecology, but maybe n...
8 hours ago
Creative Mountain Games

New Marvel Avengers Trailer - There's a new Avengers trailer that debuted during the Superbowl. Enjoy!
8 hours ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Target Rich Horror Gaming - Blogthulhu continues! I've been looking at how to structure a Cthulhu campaign and enable some of the free-form sandbox play we enjoy so much in old scho...
9 hours ago
Untimately

Terrafugal Rope - A terrafugal rope is a length of rope (usually fifty feet) made of an unknown but vaguely silky material. These items fall up rather than down. If you rele...
9 hours ago
Gothridge Manor

One More Sale - I have 99 sales of Knowledge Illuminates. I released it on the 16th of February last year. Its anniversary is coming up quick. I'm hoping to reach 100 sal...
9 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Mystery House - It's most often found at the end of a stretch of dirt road, be it along a lonely bayou in the South, perched precariously on a ridge in the Smaragdines, ...
10 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Barking Alien's Questions Answered - I answered Zak's questions, now here's Barking Alien's set. 1) What is the most common type of environment or terrain encountered thus far in your current ...
11 hours ago
Ostensible Cat

Saturday Game Night - Back to the Caves of Chaos! The group had to head back to the Keep to reprovision. The kobolds in the previous encounter used some rather nasty tactics t...
13 hours ago
Save Vs. Poison

New Guys - We added another guy last week to our Sunday group. He's turned out fine so far. This week we added another new guy. He fit right in and I think will be an...
17 hours ago
Grognardling

Gaming Survey - So, I was on Mike Monaco's site today and saw that JB of B/X Blackrazor is doing a survey for gamers. It's 125 questions long and took me about 20 minutes....
17 hours ago
The Lands of Ara

The Assassination Solution? - I have posted before about my concerns over the *Advanced Edition Companion* Assassin class, and I have even made a "Decree" in an attempt to severely limi...
19 hours ago
My Pants Are Haunted

Copy Pasta - [Cheap filler content, but I want to get into the habit of posting regularly. Cut & Pasted post to my players from our Facebook group. Bonus: The Venture's...
19 hours ago
Swords & Dorkery

“There’s no tequila in my Long Island, because I am not a college student looking to puke on my roommate’s bed” - Alex Yeager, who I kinda knew in college, and is living la vida dorka working for some game company or other, just started a blog about his drinking proble...
19 hours ago
The Dwarven Stronghold

[Real Life] The Existence of Evil - I was all ready for a string of new posts today and a new map tomorrow. Then I turned on the news and was reminded that Evil exists on this earth. The bla...
20 hours ago
The Book of Worlds

Featured Artist: Matthias Grünewald - It's been a while since the last one of these, and this time I have something truly twisted for you. Matthias Grünewald (1470- 1526) is a bit special, in t...
21 hours ago
The Ongoing Campaign

AD&D 1E Adventures And Stuff - So, WotC is reprinting the 1st edition of AD&D. That's pretty cool, but what do you do with it? Adventures are very helpful to the Referee, and there exists ...
1 day ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News - Sunday, February 5, 2012 - *Allright! I've been slacking, badly, for the past several weeks! Haven't felt like blogging. Been ill and out of sorts, in general. Sorry, about that. * ...
1 day ago
Mik's Minis

Gunship Goodness - I've started reading the rules of Gunship: First Strike, and this week Miller and I were hoping to get in a game. One thing led to another, and we ended u...
1 day ago
stefan poag

Anarchistcoloringbook: Fragonard Museum - Just a simple re-post this morning. If you are not already following “Anarchistcoloringbook,” why not? Great collection of weird stuff. This morning I s...
1 day ago
Jeffs Gameblog

List of available AD&D modules - http://tinyurl.com/ADDmods Okay, so Wizards is reprinting the original AD&D corebooks, right? Cross our fingers that somebody who isn't already neck-deep ...
1 day ago
World of Wonder

SinSynn thinks about tanks - Hey folks, SinSynn here. So I realize this might totally be a guy thing, but... *How cool are tanks?* *...pretty cool, amirite?* I dinna care whether they...
1 day ago
The RPG Corner

[Solo GPC] 527: White Horse Vales - Here's an adventure I've been looking forward to running not just since the inception of the GPC but basically since I first bought the *Pendragon* 4th Edi...
1 day ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Simian Saturday - Not sure what is going on in this picture but it looks cool! Have a Great Simian Saturday!
2 days ago
Cyclopeatron

E-Z Swords - Video of Actual Weapon Outfitter - I will satisfy you.
2 days ago
scottsz

Loviatar VII - Hex, Spuds, and Rocky Soul - February brings another *Loviatar* to my mailbox. What's inside? Hex crawl content... The whole issue... *Really good hex crawl content.* Some of you ...
3 days ago
Rather Gamey

A Night At The Tavern - Well, after a few month drawing my head off, I'm not completely disgusted by what I'm spitting out. I'm still 10 light years from what I consider compet...
4 days ago
Have dice, will travel...

Number Crunching & Philosophic Meanderings - 32 days into 2012, and this is the 205th post for Have Dice, Will Travel. HDWT has 68 followers, although at least one of those is a duplicate of another,...
4 days ago
Back to the Dungeon!

CFRPG V0.91 - A few items edited and added to CFRPG. So far good reactions! The LINK feature does not so work cut and paste. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XVpb8_3o...
4 days ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Tastes Like Chicken - Cold chicken, that is. This is a still photo from a recent article about The Hobbit Movie. You can find the reference at TheOneRing.net.
4 days ago
Roll for Initiative

Pathfinder Minis: Another Viewpoint - I didn't say it would be a much different view point. I finally got my case from Paizo yesterday and I too got a full set. However my Dragon Booster was mi...
5 days ago
Risus Monkey

Terra Tori Episode Summary - After a rather long delay, we are finally catching up on our *Slaying Solomon* episode summaries. Up first, is episode 6.5: "Terra Tori", which initially "...
5 days ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

ICONS Villains: Blitzkrieg & Panzerfaust - Out of fascist Germany come the brother and sister team of Blitzkrieg and Panzerfaust. Nazi agents to sabotage the American war effort. Blitzkrieg Harriet ...
6 days ago
Carjacked Seraphim

CotMA Recap - Session (I've lost track...) Part A - TLDR (I describe in detail the last two expeditions to CotMA -- Spoilers ahead!!) Three weeks ago, we had our regular game night, but a few players couldn'...
6 days ago
Ook, she wrote

World Bird Wednesday: White-Eared Catbird - [image: IMG_5749] A White-Eared Catbird (Ailuroedus buccoides), a species native to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. They live in tropical forests, both in ...
6 days ago
The Clash of Spear on Shield

Some More Maps: The Surrounding Wilderness - Finishing up step one from "Six Steps to Starting a Small Campaign," mapping out the surrounding area. Here's a map of the immediate vicinity of Fairbrook:...
1 week ago
Realms of Faerie

Commission me! - That's right folks, I am available for commission work! To expand on what the above flyer says, I am now accepting commission work on a wide variety of su...
1 week ago
The Weirdlands of Xhuul

Preview of Pathfinder Battles: Rise of the Runelords Minis - Check out Paizo's Blog for the latest preview of the upcoming Pathfinder Battles minis set. There is no official release date yet. Also mentioned in the sa...
1 week ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Cthuhu Lives! - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21353-zoologger-unique-life-form-is-half-plant-half-animal.html
1 week ago
Professor Pope

Why Less is More -- My Pathfinder Character Dilemma - I'm currently playing in the serpent's skull adventure path and having a lot of fun. My group is solid, the adventure is a nice blend of mystery, explorat...
1 week ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

Dukes of Biohazzard - Chapter 2, Part 1 - *CHAPTER 2 “BECAUSE THEY’RE COUSINS” -- Character Creation As mentioned before, all PCs in The Dukes of Biohazzard are cousins. Them’s the rules. In fact...
1 week ago
Asshat Paladins

Year Two and Changes! - I've been writing this blog for two years now and I've been posting every day, covering a wide variety of topics, games and campaign settings. I am very p...
1 week ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

Session X:The Demon King of Thyatis part II - Euthalia in her more usual attire.Once again pampered, bathed, perfumed, manicured and appointed in the (not quite) manner she is accustomed too, Euthalia ...
1 week ago
Take On Rules

…And Finally, Bloodstone - See my previous session notes concerning our ongoing Bloodstone campaign. Village of Daedmyr Holden is unconscious from a Forte tax. Menas and a handful of...
2 weeks ago
Strange Magic

For Your Eyes Only - I'm spending some time reading through the new 5th Edition D&D rules today...
2 weeks ago
Dungeons and Digressions

Miniature Modeling and 3D Printing With Minecraft and Mineways - Minecraft players! Have you ever thought to yourself how cool it would be if you could export your creations into a 3d physical model to share with your pe...
3 weeks ago
Just Gaming

H:tV Bowen's Journal Thursday, September 13, 1956 - Morning has broken on another useless day. It’s cold and it’s only going to get colder. Doc got me a roof over my head, a couple of walls, and a place ...
1 month ago

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Death From Above