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Traverse Fantasy

Simplifying One D&D's Bastions - People have praised the bastion rules from the *One D&D* playtest materials for massively simplifying the complexity of building and running strongholds ...
2 hours ago
Blog of Forlorn Encystment

On Necromancy - Necromancy is one of eight schools of magic in D&D. The eight schools, as they are known today, were - as far as I can tell - introduced in AD&D 1e, with...
2 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

The OSR is Much, Much Bigger Than You Think - I recently came across a fascinating article, called 'No one buys books', which, while misleadingly titled (it should probably be 'people only buy certai...
2 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Larry MacDougall's Gwelf - *Gwelf: The Survival Guide* (2021) is a gorgeous art book by Larry MacDougall who once upon a time did art for Palladium and *Magic: The Gathering*. I...
5 hours ago
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Tomb of Twins - Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my o...
5 hours ago
Twenty Sided Tale

I Bet You Forgot I was Playing WoW (so did I) - By which I mean I actually stopped playing World of Warcraft for the last few months. I got Cinderlynn up to level 60 and all the other characters to 20, o...
12 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Truckstopsylvania - The game group needed to blow off some steam with something dumb and fun, so I ran *PLANET MOTHERFUCKER* for 'em. Did you know that you can buy *PLANET M...
14 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Chagrinspire 76pg PDF on Patreon - This is up currently and grifting it here as was one of the most popular things I've done in the last few years. It will be getting some revisions over t...
1 day ago
Rascal

Celebrate Alien Day: Massive Sale Launched for the Multiple Award-Winning ALIEN RPG - In space, no one can hear you scream... with glee
2 days ago
The Setting to End All Settings

The 3 Mile Hex - The Natural Unit for Exploration - There will be interludes between the AD&D Appraisal series, to keep my own writing motivation going. I was going to do a 3-mile hex post outlining the vi...
3 days ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

Graxworm – Map 4 – East Eye Orreries - The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully miles long and large enough to contain a town … Continue reading →
3 days ago
False Machine

QuarHammer - I stumbled, addled, into my local semi-rural game store in search of off-brand Contrast paint to finish up Ionus Cryptborn, and while wandering around, I ...
3 days ago
Hi Wa Mata Noboru

3-Gatsu no Lion (March Comes in Like a Lion) 207 - If you haven’t seen it, check out our release of volume 17! It goes up to the magazine of equivalent of 201 and it took a ton of work to finish. Okay! Now ...
4 days ago
I Cast Light!

I CAST FIST!: Brawl Arcane 28 A Perfect Intro To Kit Bashing And Skull Smashing - From the Gardens of Hecate *DIY28* "Inquisition 28" is a term for a family DIY-games in the wargaming scene and akin to "Moldvey Basic" in the dungeons w...
4 days ago
Prismatic Wasteland

We Live Again - Rules for resurrection, soul transference, reincarnation, and cloning (in roleplaying games. If I knew how in real life, would I really be spending my time...
4 days ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

RPGs as Skirmish Games - Some friends were discussing how one might approach making RPGs play a bit more like skirmish war games. From my perspective, playing with minis and meas...
4 days ago
Githyanki Diaspora

Dolmenwood: The Battle of Willow Creek - tl;dr: Tamrin's Outlaw Friends drove off 11 Crookhorns, felling almost half of them but at a cost.
4 days ago
BASTIONLAND

A World in a Magazine - Four years ago, I wrote about my history with miniature games and getting back into them during the lockdown. Summer 1995 saw me seduced by the world of ...
5 days ago
Roleplay Rescue’s Blog

On HeroQuest - Back in 1989, no one would buy me HeroQuest. This was the year I left home and went to University, so I couldn’t afford it. In all those years, I hadn’t be...
1 week ago
Myths RETOLD

How to Write a First Draft that’s Bad and Sucks Ass - I have always been into the idea of “shitty first drafts,” but, embarrassingly enough, I had not actually read the chapter of “Bird by Bird” that the phras...
1 week ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

The Law of Unintended Consequences: A Two Party Competitive Game - The Law of Unintended Consequences is a competitive game played between two parties, managed by a single GM. One team are The Heroes, and the other team ar...
1 week ago
Swamp of Monsters!

The Keldwood - At the southern edges of Sardoom the Forgotten Curse, bordering the fetid lakes of Meregrave, Land of the Swollen Hand, sprawls a great forest which roam...
1 week ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

THE UNIVERSAL THING GENERATOR! - Need something?! Don't know quite what you need, but you know you need something? Is it an idea, a concept, a person, a group, a monster, a place? Whatev...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

The Release of How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and the Isle of Pyade - The Release With the successful conclusion and fulfillment of my Kickstarter, I am releasing How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and The Isle of Pyade to the publ...
2 weeks ago
DIY & dragons

Actual Play - Death by Dragon in The Incandescent Grottoes - My regular Friday night gaming group has been playing through Gavin Norman's *The Incandescent Grottoes*. It's a dungeon that's full of caverns of glowing ...
2 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Update and Marchebranche is getting in print! - Well my desire to post weekly vanished after only one post. I guess there is a big different between blog journaling just for fun while you play games and...
3 weeks ago
A Knight at the Opera

G Monsters at the Opera (Part 2) - A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: *Le Pape Formose et Étienne VI* ("Pope Formosus and Stephen VI") by Jean-Pau...
4 weeks ago
Throne of Salt

Dan Plays Video Games, Part 3 - Previous episodes: 1, 2 Balatro This game is fucking dangerous. Absolute chronophage. One-more-run taken to the extreme. Makes brain chemicals go brrrrrr...
4 weeks ago
Hobgoblinry

Rust Monster face reveal - The latest from my son ....
4 weeks ago
A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

Cast Adrift! - Koselleck, Benjamin, and Mudimbe arrive on time - *Between the Two my Heart is Balanced*, Lubaina Himid *"Time is a difficult topic for historians. I remember an occasion when I was in the history d...
1 month ago
All Dead Generations

Beyond the Crystal Frontier - A Gazetteer of the World - Fabulation, Tall Tales, & Lies. The gem robbers and drifters of the Crystal Frontier come from every corner of the world, but they are often reluctant to s...
1 month ago
Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours

How To Play The Revolution - So: I do not like the idea of TTRPGs making formal mechanics designed to incentivise ethical play. But, to be honest, I do not like the idea of any singl...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

GLOG Class: Bioweapon - I got this idea from mad gods on bear blog. Crab Evo from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman A thousand soldiers were slain. Too many to be tragic--this is just a fact...
2 months ago
Far Away Times

Cresting the First Peak: My Kaizo Mario Journey - I've been interested in the world of Kaizo Mario ROM hacks for years, ever since seeing *Invictus *get run at GDQ. Modern Kaizo hacks like *Invictus *are ...
2 months ago
Chgowiz’s Games

Happy Fiftieth, Dungeons & Dragons! - Although the exact date of first publication for D&D is not exactly know, it was in the month of January 1974 that Arneson & Gygax’s creation was introduce...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Blog of Holding

Dungeon Delver’s Guide is one of Polygon’s “best TTRPG books of 2023” - You love to hear when people like your work, so I was thrilled to see my Dungeon Delver’s Guide on Polygon’s best-of-the-year list for TTRPG books. I’m par...
4 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...
4 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...
5 months ago
Don't Split the Party

Play Report: Skull Mountain - At the end of the last Skull Mountain session the PCs had retreated to safety at Owen's redoubt, met with visiting elves, and recovered from injuries ...
5 months 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...
6 months ago
Sheep and Sorcery

Worldbuilding for my Daughter: Onwards to Dreamland! - I've accidentally started a new world building project. I started babbling about where my daughter could visit in Dreamland while putting her down for a...
6 months ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Another take on demihumans as social constructs. - I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant orig...
11 months ago
Rosalind Chapman

No one cares about anything that happened 1,000 years ago. - You’ve all played fantasy games, or even made fantasy games, that set up the stakes of their world with the EPIC BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, which typica...
1 year ago
The Dungeon Dozen

ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE DCC AT LAST - NOW AVAILABLE in PDF and Print on Demand:ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE (DCC)CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW! SO YOU SURVIVED OPERATION UNFATHOMABLE? Od...
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...
1 year 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...
3 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...
3 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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