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  • B/X BLACKRAZOR
    ASC Review: Emerald Caves - *Emerald Caves (Patrick Dolan)* AD&D adventure for three to six PCs of levels 4th-6th *I am reviewing these in the order they were submitted. For my review ...
    21 minutes ago
  • The Other Side blog
    Character Creation Challenge: Day 22, Katrina - [image: Katrina, Photo by Tayla Walsh: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-woman-wearing-a-pointy-hat-in-the-woods-5765355/] Photo by Tayla Walsh, Photoshoppe...
    3 hours ago
  • The Tao of D&D
    Three Other Affordances - In this part two post about affordances, part 1 here, I'll use three more basic games as structural models for a different approach to D&D, not as a repl...
    12 hours ago
  • The Alexandrian
    A Guide to RPG Grades on the Alexandrian - Long ago I wrote a guide to grades here at the Alexandrian, but at the time I was mostly focused on reviewing narrative works (books, films, etc.). I use t...
    13 hours ago
  • Gothridge Manor
    Map Attack #2 & Secret Doors - Here is the second level of the dungeon map. This time I just drew it with pencil while watch The Blacklist. Then went back over everything with Micro...
    5 days ago
  • Monsters and Manuals
    Games Workshop Against Satanism - An interesting theme is developing as the AI revolution unfolds: people don't have much of a problem with AI use in things they don't care about, but they ...
    1 week ago
  • What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...
    More Play Testing - One-on-One! - About an hour ago, Jeremy and I wrapped up a one-on-one play test of Missions & Mayhem. He rolled up a Fast Hero, which has been a popular choice. Stev...
    1 week ago
  • Bat in the Attic
    Heading out to PAGE - Packing up and heading to the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo. I’ll be running Scourge of the Demon Wolf and The Deceits of the Russet Lord on Friday and S...
    1 week ago
  • Hidden in Shadows
    Hello 2026 - I didn't post a lot last year and looking through my lists, I have a lot of unfinished and barely started posts to work on. The seeming slowdown however...
    1 week ago
  • Adventures in Gaming v2
    Cosmology: Tolkien's Redeemable Evil vs. Manichean Dualism - So the classic question, "What about the hobgoblin women and whelps" came up in our 2E AD&D game last night. We were going back into the dungeon to clear...
    2 weeks ago
  • Pits Perilous
    Mainstreaming's Trade-Off World... - There's never been a better time to be a gamer. It's our golden age. The mainstreaming of the hobby means we're no longer dismissed as nerds (not a pejor...
    2 weeks ago
  • DYVERS
    The Trouble with War - Recently I introduced a war into my home game. Two factions aligned against each other and they began fighting in the capital of Bissel, Thornward. The im...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Retired Adventurer
    2025 Gaming Summary and 2026 Plans - I didn't blog at all in 2025 because I was too busy gaming. I was playing in two weekly 5e (2014) campaigns and running a weekly Imperium Maledictum camp...
    2 weeks ago
  • Hack & Slash
    On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
    2 weeks ago
  • Greyhawk Grognard
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    3 weeks ago
  • Goblin Punch
    Secret Santicorn 2025: Two Forges - The Forge of Yakul Yakul was obliterated, and his temples were sunk. Memories of the dead god were struck from the souls of men. A heavy punishment was ...
    3 weeks ago
  • OSR Grimoire
    IM3: The Best of Intentions - IM3 "The Best of Intentions" (1987) by Ken Rolston is a D&D adventure for 4-6 Temporals, levels 1-2. *IM3 "The Best of Intentions" by Ken Rolston. Tongue...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms
    Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...
    5 weeks ago
  • Jeffs Gameblog
    jimbo update -
    5 weeks ago
  • Breeyark.org - "It's OK — Gary sent us."
    The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 2, Theatre of the Mind - The Underworld as Theme With Level 1 populated with monsters, treasure, tricks, and traps we can remind ourselves that we The post The Old School Dungeon ...
    1 month ago
  • Roles, Rules, and Rolls
    TSR's "A" series of adventures in unusually unruly strongholds: Introduction - Illustration from Slave Pits of the Undercity (1980) by David S. LaForce D&D was born in the castle. The Castle and Crusade Society of wargamers brought G...
    2 months ago
  • Urt's Outer Skin
    Duchy of Nosrion 500 BC - This is the Duchy of Nosrion, and surrounding lands in 500BC. The peak of the new Thonian Empire and just when the Alphatians begin their colonisation o...
    2 months ago
  • ZENOPUS ARCHIVES
    Metal Minis based on the Holmes Basic Set Cover are Forthcoming - *"Computer-generated" mockup from the Sirius Miniatures website.* Enworld reports that a set of metal miniatures based on *David Sutherland*'s cover for t...
    2 months ago
  • Known World, Old World
    Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
    3 months ago
  • Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign
    Rob Kuntz at Lucca Comics & Games 2025 - If you are planning a trip to Europe (like right now) and wish to catch up with me in person, make sure to book a detour via *Lucca Comics & Games*, ...
    3 months ago
  • Havards Blackmoor Blog
    ArneCon 2025 is a success organiseres say - ArneCon 3 is a big success say organizers! The convention honoring the legacy of Dave Arneson took place this weekend in St. Paul Minnesota. Special ...
    3 months ago
  • Fuzzy's Dicecapades
    Starship Building For Fun & Profit (?) - So, I mentioned in my half-assed attempt at a half-assed anniversary post that I had made my own set of rules and a supplement for the same. I'll be quot...
    3 months ago
  • Save Vs. Dragon
    Defining Full Telepathy vs. Limited Telepathy - I've been working on a pretty significant new d30-related book—well, really books... plural (more to come in future posts). And I realized I was assignin...
    3 months ago
  • Classic RPG Realms
    Classic D&D TSR Modules - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth 1976 What is a "classic" module? Taking the definition from the Six Cultures of Play article we can say that modules made during...
    4 months ago
  • Blog of Holding
    where are psionics from? - A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psio...
    5 months ago
  • About Bruce Heard and New Stories
    WWII Aviation Industry Part 4 - This article has been more of a whopper after having had a look at French and British wartime industries (click here for *France* or *Britain*). I posted...
    5 months ago
  • Echoes from the Geekcave
    Why Magic Users Suck at Fighting - [image: Rincewind in colour by holepunch on DeviantArt] Often I find myself thinking about common critiques of classic D&D and trying to formulate response...
    5 months ago
  • Breath of Mystara
    - Karameikos Location Mystara; Known World = Karameikos *How did these maps come to be* In 1994 I received a copy of the B10 box with the canon 3 mil he...
    7 months ago
  • Playing at the World
    Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over 1,000 ...
    8 months ago
  • Paul's Gameblog
    Martha the AI Dungeon Master - Over on the Wandering DMs channel, I’ve recently started experimenting with playing B/X D&D with an AI as my Dungeon Master. In my day job I’m working at a...
    9 months ago
  • RPG MUSINGS
    OSE House Rules For My Arden Vul Campaign - Continuing my series of articles about OSE and Arden Vul, this week I am going to talk about some of the houserules that I decided on as I prepped to start...
    9 months ago
  • Gundobad Games
    Fisher-Price toy turned GRIMDARK ADMINISTRATUM BUILDING!!! (Thrift-Store Terrain for 40k) - So: this thing cost $10 at a local thrift store. No doubt it was an antique secretly worth 85 Gabzillion bucks. Who cares? I had far more grimdark purpo...
    11 months ago
  • Delta's D&D Hotspot
    Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
    11 months ago
  • Signs in the Wilderness
    Oracles; or, letting a Surprising Future derail your Story and Confound the Players - *At last the ragged wanderers found themselves at the sacred grove. There they sought an audience with the Oracle of the Broken Stone, to ask the one qu...
    1 year ago
  • Dragons Never Forget
    Indulge Me - I miss magazines. There was a time when you could walk into any shop and you’d find a plethora of gaming magazines in the used bins and on the new shelves....
    1 year ago
  • for h in hexes:
    Physics Sage Abilities: LLM Edition - The other day, Alexis mentioned he was testing out ChatGPT to suggest sage abilities. I thought it might be interesting to apply this to my investigation...
    2 years ago
  • Old Guy Gaming
    Test - Learning This is a test post while I am learning the differences in the new to me visual and block (Gutenberg) editors. I will delete this post when I am d...
    4 years ago
  • The Dragon's Flagon
    A new beginning - I've been blogging here for a while now, but I think it's time to move on to a new blog with a new title. There's a lot of dragons and flagons and flago...
    4 years ago
  • 21st Century D&D
    My Online Activities Are Elsewhere - I no longer maintain this blog, or 21stcenturydnd.com. I now do all my online writing, blogging, and creating under one roof at www.maxwelljoslyn.com, wher...
    5 years ago
  • Treasure Hunters HQ
    RIP Christopher Tolkien - LONDON (AP) – Christopher Tolkien, who played a major role protecting the legacy of his father’s The Lord of the Rings series, has died. He was 95. The Tol...
    6 years ago
  • Cartonerd
    Favourite maps from 2019 - Maps that cross my path must be getting better. Since I started this blog as a way to critique what I perceived as poorly designed maps, the number of blog...
    6 years ago
  • Bardiches & Bathhouses
    Markwald - I have no intention of abandoning *Lukomorye* any time soon, but my goal was always expand into other historical-fantasy settings - a Central European-flav...
    6 years ago
  • Cruel & Unusual Punishment
    Them Bones of Adventuring - XXV: Stealth Revisited - *An ongoing exposition on table procedures for common exploration feats and rules, which began here with part one*. *Introduction* Though for the most tr...
    6 years ago
  • Thorfinn Tait Cartography
    Let’s Map Mystara 1985 - After a slow start, 1985 turned out to be Mystara’s biggest year yet, with the release of the full world map, as well as hex maps further increasing deta...
    6 years ago
  • Sir Poley
    On Overland Travel, Part 3: Random Encounters - In the first article in this series, I set out to prove Vaarsuvius wrong and to salvage Random Encounters in overland travel. In the second article in th...
    7 years ago
  • Faerie Tales & Folklore
    The Narrative Power of Emotion and Social Connection - One issue I have encountered with some regularity in my discussions with narrators and game masters is how to keep a group of adventures “on task” during a...
    7 years ago
  • Save Versus
    All Wands
    Save Versus All Wands Contest: What is the Value of the Coin Hoard? - Treasure Type H Announcing the third annual (well, not quite) Save Versus All Wands contest! You can read about and see the results of the first two - *...
    7 years ago
  • Stocking The Dungeon
    Stocking the Dungeon is now on MeWe! - I never did a lot of RPG stuff on Google+, for some reason the interface and spam I'd run into there just kept me from getting that into it. I was a bit sa...
    7 years ago
  • Spells and Steel
    Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed - Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying games. The 1959...
    7 years ago
  • For Honor...and Intrigue
    Early Modern Price List - Some time ago I switched from running Honor+Intrigue to Star Wars D6 so I haven't posted anything for H+I in quite awhile. But on a forum I sometimes frequ...
    8 years ago
  • Beyond the Black Gate
    Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...
    8 years ago
  • Semper Initiativus Unum
    Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
    8 years ago
  • Merric’s Musings
    Rules Spotlight: Surprise and the Assassin - The rules for the Assassin (a Roguish archetype) in the latest edition of Dungeons & Dragons include an extremely powerful ability: Assassinate. It’s the s...
    9 years ago
  • The Fodder Cannon
    Into the Crystalmist Mountains - Part 1 - Into the Crystalmist Mountains *A module compatible with the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG!* *by Lance Kepner* *A group of adventu...
    10 years ago
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