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Tenkar's Tavern

Doing Something "Nice" for my Players.....and the Unintended Consequences - [image: Doing Something "Nice" for my Players.....and the Unintended Consequences] This is my second attempt at a post because my earlier almost-finishe...
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From the Sorcerer's Skull

Weird Revisited: Four Sinister Sorcerers - From the world of the City, here are five wielders of magic to challenge any party of adventurers: *The Algophilist*: He’s older than current civilization,...
12 hours ago
Quag Keep

The Curse On Hareth - The Companions -
14 hours ago
Leicester's Ramble

Dwarven Architectural Criticism, or Yozzat Makes Fun of Mega Bloks - (Wherein a friend shared pics of his 5-year-old's progress building a castle with Mega Bloks, and my dwarf PC gets all judgey- a quick freewriting exerci...
22 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Sword & Sorcery & Cinema: Barbarian Queen (1985) - [image: Barbarian Queen (1985)] Roger Corman. What can I say about Roger Corman? Well, to be honest, I am a huge fan. Sure his movies are schlock and ...
1 day ago
msjx

A map discovered! (overland style) - Last week the players stumbled upon a map in the bandit's treasure (a horde really...and they claim I'm a mean DM!) During Zinequest 3 this year one of the...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Reaper Minitaur Pink Demons - When Reaper did their Bones 4 kickstarter, one of their little stretch goals was a set of minitaurs... short minataurs. [image: Minitaurs (4)] They'r...
1 day ago
tenfootpole.org

Sulphur & Snuff, D&D adventure review - By Rook Self Published OSR Levels 1-3 A wicked theatre, a blue-skinned vizier, an imprisoned demon, evil noblemen and lots of torture, mutilation and canni...
1 day ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

Frass Galaxy, d6 Sci Fi RPG (Beta and somewhat draft). - Here's a Frankenstein's monster of a system cobbled together from a bunch of my recent games (Ordure Fantasy, Infinigrad Freelancer, Star Dogs and Shit Fut...
1 day ago
Hack & Slash

On Artifices, Deceptions, and Dilemmas - Hi all! My new book, Artifices, Deceptions, and Dilemmas is out in PDF on DTRPG. It will be on Kindle and in Print on Amazon by early next week, and on D...
2 days ago
GROGNARDIA

Time Flies - Today marks the sixth anniversary of my House of Worms *Empire of the Petal Throne *campaign. The campaign began in March 2015 with six players, four of ...
2 days ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

The Forgotten Smugglers Cave #8: Reef Cavern - *This is an installment of The Forgotten Smugglers' Cave, which starts at Area 1.* Area 3 Area 9 *8. REEF CAVERN: The tunnel south from from Area 3...
2 days ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

Review: Dragon Warriors - *Dragon Warriors* labels itself as "The Classic British Fantasy Roleplaying Game", and with good reason. It is the quintessential "British D&D", systemic...
2 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

You got kung fu chocolate in my sword & sorcery peanut butter! - Yeah, age (and nationality) test in the post title. Plenty of my readers are old enough (and American enough) to get the reference, but maybe not all. ...
2 days ago
BARKING ALIEN

Japan's Bizarre Adventures - PART II - It's *GM Appreciation Day* today and I just want to say, I appreciate you! Yes you! All of you; whether you run things the way I do or completely different...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

"Treasure" - Since today is *"GM Appreciation Day" *(I'm not sure I knew that was a thing), let me first take a moment to thank all the GMs and DMs I've had over the ye...
3 days ago
stefan poag

Baboon Attack -
3 days ago
Tower of Zenopus

Something stirs ... -
3 days ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

From the Vault: Gamma World Goodness! - [*I was considering posting some Gamma World materials I created back in the mid-'90s **- 1st edition, of course! - ** when I realized I already had scan...
4 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Game Is The Thing - I've been neglecting the blog - a combination of house refurbishment and lots of extra work, but also DMing a regular weekly game. I've remarked before t...
6 days ago
Jewel in the Skull

Buck Rogers redesigns by Arne Niklas Jansson - Buck Rogers redesigns by Arne Niklas Jansson
6 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Ravenloft 5e setting book coming soon - Like many who got into role-playing games, and especially *Advanced Dungeons & Dragons*, during the 1980s, I owned (and still own ... somewhere) a cop...
1 week ago
Gothridge Manor

Successfully Funded! Some Stats and Insights - The Zine Quest 3 Kickstarter campaign for The Many Crypts of Lady Ingrade came to a close. It funded within an hour and had a steady growth through the ...
2 weeks ago
The Acorn Afloat

Sketches sketches sketches -
3 weeks ago
Late Night Zen

The Why of You - You're a(n)... 1. Strong-limbed champion 2. Agile sneak 3. Delver into mysteries 4. Compassionate believer 5. Keen-eyed nature lover 6. ...
4 weeks ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

How to restart? (Again) - Hard to believe it's been nearly 8 months since I last posted, but here we are. COVID year two and still hanging in there. Family is good, nobody has ...
4 weeks ago
Jeffs Gameblog

Be Wary of Wizards - So I'm still putzing around with *Tunnels & Trolls* solitaire adventures. There's a lot of them. At least 25 full-length solitaire modules were published ...
5 weeks ago
Save Vs. Poison

Sorry I haven't finished my analysis of OSE druids.. - ...but I'm having trouble giving a fuck about anything right now. I'm sure I'll get around to it someday when my country isn't a fucking dumpster fire.
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 ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
3 months ago
The Ongoing Campaign

Abstract Combat In AD&D 1st Edition - People have deeply analyzed AD&D, especially the 1st edition, as part of the whole "OSR" project. Some detractors have characterized it as a "Rabbinic...
6 months ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

The Epic Tim Shorts and Rob Conley Joint Interview! - This was a blast! I was finally able to do a joint interview with Tim Shorts of Gothridge Manor, and Rob Conley from Bat in the Attic. They are good frie...
6 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 ...
6 months ago
Strange Magic

Ranger Character Class for B/X D&D - Rangers are human fighters who patrol the wilderness protecting the civilized lands from the encroachment of evil humanoids. They are skilled in woodcraft,...
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...
8 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 ...
9 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...
11 months 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 ...
11 months ago
Metal Earth

How I Run A Point Crawl - Apropos nothing, how I run a point crawl. Make a master map of a constrained area like an island, a valley, a plateau, a big oasis, ECT... Make a less comp...
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