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Dracula, The Hunters' Journals: 6 November; Mina Harker’s Journal - Our hunt is at an end, but the cost is high. [image: Dracula - The Hunters' Journals] *Mina Harker’s Journal.* *6 November.*—It was late in the afternoon...
6 hours ago
Pits Perilous

Bitterblossom: The Small-Press Supremecy... - Our hobby has always been a small-press thing. Even now, with modern, corporate D&D, the pastime remains in the capable hands of the hobbyist, empowered ...
1 day ago
The Alexandrian

Ask the Alexandrian #15: Speedrunning Dragon Heist - S. & B. ask: In the Dragon Heist Remix, what should I do if the PCs head to the Brandath Crypts and find the secret door leading to the vault doors early? ...
2 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Why D&D Works - I had an epiphany Saturday night, something I'd been struggling with and considering for years: *why does D&D work*, i.e *why does it have staying power as...
2 days ago
OSR Grimoire

Master DM's Book: Monster List (Other Planes) - The monster list for Other Planes in the Master Set rules includes some powerful new creatures. *Other Planes*: *Illustration by Jeff Easley* Archon -...
3 days ago
Jeffs Gameblog

Broodmother Skyfortress by Jeff Rients - Review -
4 days ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Fred Funk's OD&D Set - Fred Funk has been mentioned before on this blog. He was one of Dave Arneson's players where he famously played Frederick, King of the Orcs from the Dun...
5 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

Update on Flying Swordsmen 2E - Progress has been slow, but I am making progress on the game draft. I've got the first draft of the character generation guide. It's only two pages, so ...
6 days 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...
1 week ago
Monsters and Manuals

Male Leads, Female Authors - I am currently in the middle of reading CJ Cherryh's really very good *Ealdwood* books - a superior example of the fantasy-knights-slip-into-faerie subge...
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Welcome new Greyhawk Fans! - With the publication of the new Dungeon Master’s Guide, there are doubtless going to be a lot of new D&D players interested in my favorite setting, the Wor...
2 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...
2 weeks ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

A Return to Greyhawk! - *"Behold Greyhawk" by Bruce Brenneise for the new DMG* A few days ago *DMs Guild* announced that *Greyhawk* is now available a campaign setting for co...
2 weeks ago
The Retired Adventurer

Yes, You Can Translate and Share Six Cultures of Play for Noncommercial Purposes - I've been getting a lot of requests to translate Six Cultures of Play into various languages and for those translations to be posted on various RPG sites...
4 weeks ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

al-Alam al-Wasat Kinds - This post concerns the "races" (now rebranded as "species") for the al-Alam al-Wasat setting. I'm going to stick with "kinds" (which is the term I used ...
5 weeks ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Star Frontiers: Volturnus Racial Abilities - [image: Ul-Mor in desert] As you'll know if you followed the spring season of Dan's Olde Time Minis Show, I've been playing the classic Star Frontiers ga...
1 month ago
Hack & Slash

On a Quote from the Land of the Rising Sun -
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
Hidden in Shadows

The Mystery of the First Blackmoor Map - In this POST from a few years ago, I was concerned with the issue of scale and distance in Blackmoor in the course of which I attempted to determine the...
2 months ago
Gothridge Manor

Far Away Land 2nd Edition Kickstarter is Amazing - Fay Away Land RPG Ed. 2 is now Kickstarting! It funded quick and has 22 days remaining as of this post. It is a unique setting and RPG that reeks of fun....
2 months ago
Paul's Gameblog

B/X Weapons - On Wandering DMs yesterday Dan and I were discussing the differences between OD&D and B/X and we got into the topic of equipment. Back in the day when I wa...
3 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

The Great Carriage - This is the second of three Mammoth Masher vehicles. For continuity, see the previous two War Machine articles: the *Command Chariot* and the *Vanguard W...
3 months ago
Gundobad Games

Tiny, scratch-built CHAOS DEATHWHEEL for Epic 40k - One of life's small pleasures: imagining a fun scratchbuild or kitbash, and then seeing it come to fruition. This little thing is a tank-sized "Chaos De...
3 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Mass Combat 3: Delta's Book of War (and its inspiration) - Back in the early days of the Old School Revival, Delta's D&D Hotspot was a place to go for thoughtful design and scholarship, firmly rooted in the class...
3 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

Moldvay Musings XXII: Experience for Gold - Hello again! Assuming anyone is still out there. With the recent end of our latest *Traveller* campaign, I’ve stepped away from the gaming table for a sp...
4 months 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....
4 months ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Living Rooms, Beyond the Living Room, and The Open Form Broadside - Living rooms set to liven up your RPG adventures, and a broadside journal set to stimulate those little grey cells... Rob Kuntz's latest releases! *Livin...
6 months ago
Classic RPG Realms

Early TSR Modules: A Study in Style - 1978 B1 In Search of the Unknown -- Classic dungeon crawl which was designed to train DMs in stocking and to some extent designing dungeons D1 Descent i...
6 months ago
Playing at the World

Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland - Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim Ward, who passed away just days before the convention. Ward was very helpful to m...
7 months ago
Fuzzy's Dicecapades

House Rule: Farfallans (Half-Bothans) for Star Wars d20 Saga - Who's still thinking about Star Wars? I am, and having recently picked up a well-loved copy of the *Saga Edition Core Rulebook*, I'm thinking I'll probab...
7 months ago
Breeyark.org - "It's OK — Gary sent us."

Grog’s House Rules – Supernumerary Spells and Other Magic-User Rules - Hey, how can the Ref make it more fun to play the BX Magic-User? You can try it the Grog The post Grog’s House Rules – Supernumerary Spells and Other Magi...
1 year ago
RPG MUSINGS

Running an RPG at a CON - RPG convention time is in full swing and that makes this a good time to give some advice to those who are thinking of running a game session at a CON. Here...
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...
1 year ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

The End - In January of 2011 I launched a new blog, this blog, *Adventures in Gaming version 2*. I had had several blogs before this one, most notably of course, *...
1 year ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
1 year ago
Urt's Outer Skin

Myskatyr Island - Style test - This is something I've been thinking about for a while, a more real world "atlas" style map. I'm still working on a few ideas about how I want to portray...
1 year ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Monster Stat Concept: Disposition - Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they mi...
1 year ago
Breath of Mystara

- Broken Lands Gazetteer Expansion Today 21-12-2022 GMT time 22:47 it is the original New Year, and then we have 12 days of Yuletiden. Overlapping all the ...
1 year ago
Signs in the Wilderness

The Island of Death and Rubies - Today I'm rolling up another random campaign. I'm choosing two of the three starting adventure opportunities to test out their roll-up tables, then lett...
2 years ago
The Tao of D&D

This is an Important Game Mechanic - *"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does some s$&...
2 years ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

The Brave Art of Running Away - In last night's game, on two separate occasions the player characters decided that discretion is often the better part of valor, and decided not to fight...
2 years ago
Thorfinn Tait Cartography

Let’s Map Mystara 1986 - Preface: I began work on this article in May 2019, right after finishing the 1985 article. That one took more than a year, but this one has taken even lo...
2 years ago
Cruel & Unusual Punishment

Them Bones of Adventuring XXVII - Short Procedure for Chases - *Introduction* My bid for captaincy of HMS *Obvious* meets a new chapter, with yet another hat throw unto the ring of marginal mechanics. As the totally ...
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...
3 years ago
Cartonerd

So long, and thanks for all the fish. - Thanks to everyone who has enjoyed my take on mappy things via this blog. But times move on, and I've not blogged here for nearly 2 years other than my e...
3 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hey, what's going on in here? - It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...
3 years ago
Sir Poley

On Creating a Frictionless Traveller, Part II: Character Sheets - The character sheet that comes stock with the edition of *Traveller* I own (Mongoose *Traveller*1st edition, 2008) leaves a lot to be desired, although t...
3 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...
3 years ago
Treasure Hunters HQ

The Crowning of King Harold - Here is a spooky story that comes from my latest novel, Lions Red and Gold, available now in digital and dead tree only on Amazon. I post it here in ho...
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...
4 years ago
Known World, Old World

Blood Sundown Review - I've actually been running games recently! Bully for me. I decided that I'd start reviewing the products I actually use - this was my first review on Driv...
4 years ago
DYVERS

Closing Comments. - Due to the influx of spam comments on Dyvers I am closing the comments. I'm not currently doing anything with this blog, but I don't want to see the commen...
4 years ago
Faerie Tales & Folklore

Archetypes, Talents, and the Evolution of Character - After an interesting conversation in a chat room on MeWe, I came to realize that it was time to publish an article on one of the most important ways any gi...
5 years ago
For Honor...and Intrigue

- The campaign is currently on a long hiatus, so this seemed a good time to post some stats.
5 years ago
Spells and Steel

"Alignments that aren't stupid" in action - I wrote about a new concept to map onto the term alignment some years ago here: https://spellsandsteel.blogspot.com/2015/12/alignments-that-arent-stupid.ht...
5 years ago
Save Versus
All Wands

Announcing the Contest Winner! (Plus Some Interesting US Coin Facts) - The third semi-annual Save Versus All Wands contest - What is the Value of this Coin Hoard - is over. $1,000 was the winning guess, only a bit below the ...
6 years ago
Stocking The Dungeon

A lighthearted open letter to Greyhawk fans. - Let me start by saying I don't dislike Greyhawk. I play in a current AD&D 2nd ed. game set in that setting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor also, as the settings de...
6 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...
7 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...
9 years ago

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