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Roleplay Rescue’s Blog

Building Jack Cross (Alternity) - For some reason, I find myself back in 1998 and reading the Alternity Player’s Guide. I’ve decided to create a character and familiarise myself with the ga...
8 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

No Man's Land Trek Prep Nov Pt 2 - I have made a hex map with 375m hexes These have specific map locations Plus tables to make the few hexes between line...
9 hours ago
Throne of Salt

CSC Campaign Report, Part 1: Delta Green Player's Guide - From fall of last year into the spring of this year (a lifetime ago), I ran a real-life *Delta Green *campaign for some folks I found through the local t...
1 day ago
False Machine

Veins of the Earth - Workshop - 'Queen Mab's Palace' will be moving to layout soon. My gigantic review of Hugh Cooks 'Chronicles of and Age of Darkness' is done. What will False Machine b...
1 day ago
Rascal

A little bit toolbox, a little bit house rules: Blades in the Dark’s John Harper explains his return to Doskvol - Deep Cuts condenses seven years of Harper’s own experience with his most influential tabletop RPG
2 days ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

The Greywater Temple - One of the streams feeding this cavern pool runs grey with clay sediment, giving the location its name. A small … Continue reading →
2 days ago
Traverse Fantasy

Cinco: Inventory Items - Oh yeah, I forgot I was doing this! Here's some gorgeous art by Norn Noszka to start. :) Last time, I talked about the UX side of your character's invent...
2 days ago
Swamp of Monsters!

Death, Injury, and Retirement - I made a custom rulebook for my d&d game that's a mashup of AD&D 1e and Worlds Without Number, but I wasn't too excited about the death rules for either...
2 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Greatest Book in the History of Books - Do you know about the Japanese kids' book phenomenon, *Kobito Zukan*? Literally translated it means something like 'dwarf encyclopedia' or 'gnome encyclo...
3 days ago
Prismatic Wasteland

They’re Eating the Blogs - I am adding a new way for more people to read my posts, but they’ll take my blog over my dead body! I muse about the state of blogging and give some encour...
3 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1984 (week 2) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at the comics released on the week of Novenber 10, 1983. ...
4 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Juicy Details - Nova wrote about the concept of *Hyperdiegesis*, teaching me a new word in the process. I chimed in on discord, so I get a nice mention in there too. I g...
4 days ago
Twenty Sided Tale

Wednesday Action Log 11-13-24 - Still busy this week. I did manage to play a bit of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, nothing new to say about it, just a good game. What’s everyone else doing...
4 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Capitalism: A Horror Story - To be fair and spell out one of my biases at the outset of this post on my thoughts about Jon Greenaway's *Capitalism: A Horror Story*, I've long been sk...
5 days ago
Playful Void

I Read The Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024) - I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I ca...
6 days ago
I Cast Light!

OD&D: Opium, Dunsany & Dreamlands Part IV, The Dreamer - *This post straddles my prior dreamlands posts and the BX system I use frequently, hence the header. Click here if you'd like to see more of my dreamland...
6 days ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

Negative Space Reprise - *This is an update to an earlier blog post I wrote on rules and OSR games, which was published in the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out...
1 week ago
Githyanki Diaspora

Reddit GM Advice: Trust, the Wand of Orcus & Stone Polishing - In which I share my favorite bits of advice from various sub-reddits.
1 week ago
All Dead Generations

GYGAX'S FORTRESS - Gary Gygax is probably the best known name in Role Playing Games -- still, nearly 15 years after his death. Considered Dungeons & Dragons’ co-inventor and...
1 week ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

Dynamic Reality Gaming - *Dynamicland and Dynamic Reality Overview* As someone who is interested in the intersection of STEM and the arts, I'm a big fan of Nicky Case's blog, and in...
1 week ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

Saga RPG - The Hiven (Player Character faction) - I have been running a Silmarillion inspired play by post game all of this year, where the players take on the roles of creator spirits and then the leade...
1 week ago
Hi Wa Mata Noboru

Kokou no Hito (The Climber) Volume 9 - Ooookay, and now with this we are past the half way point of the series. 9 volumes done and 8 to go. This volume also finishes off the end of the K2 Simula...
1 week ago
Hobgoblinry

A Tin Soldier orc in a retro style - Here's an orc from Tin Soldier painted in a somewhat retro style with heavy blacklining in ink. Although I had originally based many of them on pennie...
1 week ago
Chgowiz’s Games

One Page Dungeon Templates - Back when David “Sham” Bowman and I came up with the One Page Dungeon Template, I used the Google “sites” tool to host files. That was back in 2008. Over t...
2 weeks ago
The Bedrock Blog

HEAVENLY FRAGRANCE SESSION NINETEEN - This was the nineteenth session of my Heavenly Fragrance Campaign, a living adventure for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, prepared using tools and procedu...
2 weeks ago
Blog of Holding

Bastions: And How to Make Them Pay – Maximizing Profits for Bastions in the 5e 2024 DMG - ANOTHER RORY GUEST POST! With the release of the 5e 2025 Dungeon Masters Guide, Bastions are official and can be easily acquired at 5th level for any DM wh...
2 weeks ago
The Setting to End All Settings

The Hobbit's Wilderland is classic D&D - Somewhere on reddit recently, I saw someone casually mention the different types of fantasy implied by *The Hobbit* vs* Lord of the Rings*. And it set my...
2 weeks ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

A PERFECT WIFE - *A PERFECT WIFE* *(It is Vampire Weekend! Have a **pontianak**-themed urban-horror investigative adventure. I wrote it with Kuala Lumpur in mind, but it s...
3 weeks ago
Goblin Punch

The Werewolf Rule - Ever since the nose-blind apes succeeded in driving them away, wolves have carried their hatred in their guts, like a cold embryo. Humans are slow, stu...
3 weeks ago
Blog of Forlorn Encystment

The 2024 Player's Handbook Wants the Player to Know All the DCs For Some Reason - I had a chance to look over the new *PHB* and wanted to record some of my thoughts about what I found there. This isn't meant to be an exhaustive changel...
3 weeks ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

An Interview! With Sarah Carapace! - 1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core (li...
4 weeks ago
Far Away Times

Making Games in ZZT - For the first time since 2017, I made a little game in ZZT! It's part of the upcoming 2024 Vextro anthology release, so I'll be publishing it in December...
4 weeks ago
A Knight at the Opera

In the Mouth of Madness - "Go on in, it's okay. You can see him." The Dungeon Master was frozen at the door. He was nervous for what he'd find on the other side. But that was his ...
5 weeks ago
Don't Split the Party

Psychotronic Gaming: The Basics - Not too long ago I celebrated the 45th anniversary of me starting an AD&D 1e campaign. I started the campaign before I was a teenager and it is still ...
1 month ago
Rosalind Chapman

Every Common Ranked by how much I want them to top me PART TWO - 14 Factions times 4 commons each is an ungodly 56 cards. Can you tell I’m procrastinating on work right now. ETERNAL COUNCIL She has very long figures and ...
2 months ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Draconis 2024 - My illustration for the Montreal's TTRPG festival is online:https://www.facebook.com/FestivalDraconisMore info on the convention: https://www.festivaldrac...
2 months ago
Bat in the Attic

Concerning the Future of Traveller - I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as from Ma...
2 months ago
DIY & dragons

My Barkeep Jam Entry - The Cockatrice Tail - *This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous pubcrawl locatio...
3 months ago
Myths RETOLD

Chill Hangs with Violent Men - Last weekend I was at the comic shop playing Magic, and I got paired with a guy of a sort you would not normally expect to meet in a comic shop playing Mag...
4 months ago
The Dungeon Dozen

A Bargain at Any Price: Unfathomable Bundle in Progress - This impecunious Underworld Otter knows a good deal when he smells it. If you crave* deep*, almost ridiculous discounts for your RPG materials, look no fu...
4 months ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

craft before craft — DIY RPGs and the meaning of a literary idea - *cool engraver guy on a 47 Workshop letterhead * *Let there be the clack of the shuttle flying* * forward and back, forward and* * ...
4 months ago
Sheep and Sorcery

Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding - I'm not a fan of Wizards of the Coast dragons. I don't really feel like this should be that controversial. The organization of dragons based on the colo...
6 months ago
clickbaiter

i am once again becoming a product - vote for me
9 months ago
Plastic Polyhedra

RPG Blog Carnival: Endings - Apologies for my lack of involvement over the last few months, real life gets in the way sometimes. I do have a post still in draft for the September Car...
11 months ago
The Esoteric Order of Roleplayers

New Addresses - For anyone who is still following us through Blogger, a quick announcement: we've relocated to our own website! (Only took ten years...) Follow us there...
1 year ago
Monster Manual Sewn From Pants

BEAST PEOPLE NAMES FOR BEAST PEOPLE - BEAST PEOPLE NAMES FOR BEAST PEOPLE 1. Secrete To Everyone 2. Hoot Forever 3. Dirty Fingers 4. Gusset Ma...
1 year ago
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - 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...
2 years ago
Magna Capra

Penny Minis – A tutorial - I’ve been interested in minis for a while, especially after reading Chris Mcdowall’s blog posts on his project Grimlite. The project drew me in considerabl...
4 years ago
Dungeons & Donuts

Dungeons & Donuts is Rebranding and Moving - dungeonsdonuts: I’m closing my social media accounts (Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram) on August 1st. For the past eight years I’ve been personally active o...
4 years ago
Joeskythedungeonbrawler's Blog

RE: ZAK - FUCK ZAK. MAY BE I;M WRONG TO NOT BE ZAK’S FRIEND. BUT FUCK HIM. **SPOILER HINT: I;M NOT WRONG!!!1
4 years ago
Middenmurk

Bestiary of the Fabled Occident - A long time ago I started to put together a bestiary. I've pursued various other projects in the time since but I still have a fair bit of material I'd lik...
5 years ago

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