destination unknown: Legends of Gath #64; T is for Traitor

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Quag Keep

TLG - Vakhund: Into the Unknown -
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tenfootpole.org

She who is a fortress in Dark Water, adventure review - By Phillip Loe Chaptain Ahab's Leg OSR Levels 5-10 Persevering through years of sweat and failure, Mother Cordelia Giovanni of the Ignacian Monastic Order ...
11 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Ken Whitman's Deck Dice are At The Printers! ROFLMMFAO!!! - I was sent the above screenshot by a Taverner. Apparently, Kenny has a new scam scheme, deception, criminal enterprise, crowdfunding idea he intends to s...
18 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Making The Insanity Work - This is more about this nonsense posted earlier. I'm going to come right out and say it: I have a newfound appreciation for *Dragonlance,* the project/prod...
1 day ago
Save Vs. Poison

KantCon '21 Docket - So KantCon is happening, with social distancing and masks. I'm vaccinated. Everyone under my roof is vaccinated. Fuck it. I'm going. What I'm running:...
1 day ago
GROGNARDIA

Gygax's Inner Planes - I've commented before that, while I'm no fan of *Unearthed Arcana *as eventually published, I was conversely a big fan of much of the material Gygax was ...
1 day ago
The Other Side blog

Kickstart Your Weekend: We Got Movie Sign! - *Let's Make More MST3K & Build The Gizmoplex!* [image: MST3k Kickstarter] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/makemoremst3k?ref=theotherside I am a...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Weird Revisited: Two Towns - *The original version of this post appeared in 2018. These settlements go in this world, but certainly could be placed elsewhere.* *Tuskinth*: A village w...
1 day ago
Tower of Zenopus

ICONS Adversaries - Every superhero RPG needs bad guys. Given that they typically come with character creation rules as a core feature though, I'm not sure anyone really ...
2 days ago
msjx

Bored. - I am bored with fantasy RPGs.I know, I know. I get this way about once a year or so, but seriously, I am tired of the same old tropes and want something n...
2 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Art Contest and Prize - I run a weekly online BECMI game, now approaching its 20th session. One of the characters, Laren Dar (an Etruscan Fighter played by Patrick S) has amasse...
2 days ago
BARKING ALIEN

I May Have Spoken To Soon - I am at nearly 2000 views for May and it is only the 5th of the month. That's insane! I can't thank you all enough. It means a lot to me that people are ...
3 days ago
Jeffs Gameblog

a solo sandbox for Tunnels & Trolls - So I decided to put this together after being inspired by Tony Bath's *Setting Up a Wargames Campaign*. First I built a matchbox map, using 72 matchboxes ...
3 days ago
Hack & Slash

On Posting - Why doesn't so-and-so post anymore? That's a fair cop. Before I used to work and write on my own time. Now my work is making things, so that's where th...
4 days ago
Metal Earth

Weird Wood Murder Peak, the Observatory and Old Canal. - *18.* *Murder Peak: *A sharp-peaked basalt formation riddled with caves. The base of Murder Peak is surrounded by a ring of bones. The osseous remains of...
5 days ago
The Acorn Afloat

Sejten, a dungeon map, with some hooks - Have a vanilla dungeon map I did over the last two days, including the two smaller mountain range pictures showing the area around the lair/dungeon/slightl...
6 days ago
Jewel in the Skull

Art by Androidarts - Art by Androidarts
6 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Emulation - I mentioned this in my post the other day, and figured I'd write a dedicated post about it. A few weeks ago, I was checking out the NES Classic console...
1 week ago
stefan poag

Revsions - Here are 2 versions of the same illustration. I finished the first image but had a couple reservations about the image so I took the time to re-do it. The ...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Charles Peale – the fantasy artist - This is a post about the artist Charles Peale – no, *not *this guy! Rather, the artist who did a lot of the early interior black-and-white illustrations ...
1 week ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

SPCFKRS: Vehicle and Spaceship Rules! - Continuing on with SPCFKRS, here are the rules for vehicles and spaceships! *Mass Combat Rules:* Identical units can form into a battalion. They move ...
2 weeks ago
Late Night Zen

B/X monster: the undomesticated flying carpet - I don't know what the lizard's doing there A Brief Treatise on the Habits and Habitat of the Undomesticated Flying Carpet. It's been a miserable wet week ...
2 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Coming Soon... - Blazing Six-Guns - a cinematic western miniatures game by C. Brackett
2 weeks ago
Tower of the Archmage

Rappan Athuk: Mouth Of Doom: Beware Shadows! - Session played on 4/18 Nick the Pike, Fighter 6 (Me) Lada the Thief (Robby) Darryl, Cleric (NPC) Biffin, Fighter (NPC) Leisha, Cleric 1 (NPC) Cassandra,...
2 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Scrum Con 2021: online April 24-25 - This coming weekend, *Scrum Con *returns for the third time! This year's con will be solely virtual due to the ongoing pandemic; we hope to in-person ga...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Artist Spotlight: Luigi Castellani - Luigi Castellani's work is someone I've used for years. His artwork ranges the entire gambit of fantasy, to sci-fi, cyberpunk, to halflings riding owlbea...
3 weeks ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

2021 RPG Anniversaries - Just a fun little list of some of the games that have a jubilee this year: 10th Anniversary - Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2nd edition - HackMaster...
4 weeks ago
Leicester's Ramble

Stopping in at the Sweet Town of Treacle - I don't know why Treacle was given its name. It's just what's on the label... But the town has a dock, and smattering of buildings, and a few other struc...
5 weeks ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

Guess it's not meant to be - for now - Well, I tried. I got some folks interested in possibly playing a run through the classic module U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. I just could...
5 weeks ago
Strange Magic

The Scurrilous Garden - After switching to digital artwork a few years ago, I've started drawing and writing in notebooks and sketchbooks again. Inspired by Christian's Gath Campa...
1 month ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Request For A GURPS Expert - I've been playing *GURPS*, off and on, since the late 1980s, when a friend convinced me to get involved in a playtest for *GURPS Cyberpunk*. That turned...
1 month ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
1 month ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

End of an Era - After some reflection, I have decided to no longer update this blog. I started this blog as an experiment back in June of 2009. I had discovered ...
4 months ago
Dragons Gonna Drag

Odds & Ends 2: Holmes for the Holidays - Holmes Basic D&D has been on my mind once again lately. Jess and I both miss playing D&D in person - as opposed to the online roleplaying we've been doin...
4 months ago
Telecanter's Receding Rules

Curses for Mages - 1. Each syllable the scholar utters causes a hands-width of dark water to rise from under their feet. This water fills an area as far as they can ...
4 months ago
A Paladin In Citadel

NEW Appendix N Video Review Series - Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his inves...
5 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

LOTFP Review: Fermentum Nigrum Dei Sepulti - *A strange stone, tumbling through the void of endless space and into the secret history of the world… the cursed legacy of a doomed witch’s family… a ...
8 months ago
The Happy Whisk

HOME! HOME! HOME! (I love it!) - This is Whisk, reporting LIVE from Smoochie Face's office. I'm still in my jams, just ate a big-ass everything bagel with mock nuggets, local maple syrup a...
10 months ago
Ode to Black Dougal

The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon - As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1. This isn't ...
11 months ago
Hill Cantons

The Mauve Plague, Gravy Urns, and Batlace Frills: News from the Hill Cantons - And now the News... In a statement beamed from the Oracular Society today *Morafans the Rickmaster*, the Psychosocial Health Minister of the Overking, ha...
1 year ago
The Dwarven Stronghold

I Cast RESURRECTION!!! - So, I know it's been awhile. I didn't realize it had been quite *that *long. I hope some of you are still around out there. I know I've talked about some ...
1 year ago
Cyclopeatron

Gen Con 2019 - Pictures and Brief Recap - Last August me and my local gaming pals, Steve Ellis and Matt Ryan, made a road trip to Gen Con. Steve is an artist who does the excellent Only Living Boy ...
1 year ago
EXONAUTS!

New Year's Day Tradition: Saving the Galaxy! - In what's become a bit of a tradition now around New Year's Day, the Geeklet and returned to Fantasy Flight Games in Roseville to play our homebrew Star Wa...
1 year ago
Dungeons and Digressions

The Player's Handbook IPA - Well, I never would have suspected this would show up at the local corner store in this life. Huh.
1 year ago
The Clash of Spear on Shield

D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets - In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one for small/medium targets (i.e. man-sized) and one for large targets (giants and...
1 year ago
The Rusty Battle Axe

Back in the Saddle Again - Hey, I'm back. I plan on posting regularly, albeit less frequently that before my absence from this blog. You might notice that the post is authored by "A...
2 years ago
Asshat Paladins

Actual Play: Firefly "Old War Horses" Session 4 The Three-Body Problem - Session 4: The Three-Body Problem Friday, December 8, 2017 Dramatis Personae: - *Captain Ramsey Zook*, played by K - *General Samuel Zook*, played by...
2 years ago
The Lands of Ara

Harbinger - Since I last checked in I have played some *Labyrinth Lord* off and on, but not for quite awhile, and my online group has basically fizzled out -- the cam...
3 years ago

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Legends of Gath #64; T is for Traitor