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Save Vs. Dragon

New BX Character Class: Ronin - I had a page in the CX1: Character Class Codes marked for a samurai, but feel like a ronin is a better fit. So here's my take on it... -------------------...
3 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

The River and the River - Near the Amazonian city of Manaus there is a place where the Amazon proper (the upper section of which in Brazil is called the Rio Solimões) meets the R...
22 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Mail Call Tuesday: Larina Nix KibiFig - [image: Larina from Kibifig] A little bit ago, I was approached by KibiFig after they saw my review here about the figures I had ordered. I had also spoken ...
22 hours ago
The Alexandrian

Games Unplugged Review – Cosmic Encounter (Avalon Hill) - Originally Published in Games Unplugged – March 2001 The latest release of Cosmic Encounter by Avalon Hill marks roughly the third incarnation of this game...
1 day ago
Bat in the Attic

Why is the Ogre there? - Joe's post on the Quantum Ogre raises an old question about sandbox play: when does moving an encounter around interfere with players' freedom to decide...
3 days ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

The Big Reveal (Missions & Mayhem Core Rules Cover Art) - I think I mentioned before how I met this artist, but if not, I'll repeat myself. A few months ago, my wife started taking classes to learn watercolor p...
5 days ago
The Tao of D&D

Encounters & Campaigns - https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/encounters-169609523?pr=true
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Dragonne #2 now available - The second issue of Dragonne is now available! BRW Games’ occasional journal of old-school gaming is back with two new features; To subscribe for free, and...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Game Day - Nope. Not football. *Futbol*. The school soccer season kicks off today...this will be my 4th season coaching my daughter's team, my tenth year coaching my ...
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Dave Arneson Game Day 2026 Approaching! - As usual, we are celebrating Dave Arneson Game Day on Dave Arneson's birthday, October 1st. The week leading up to Dave Arneson Game Day is often call...
1 week ago
Pits Perilous

Upgrading the Common Orc... - The common (some might say lowly) orc is ubiquitous in fantasy gaming, and while clearly dangerous in numbers, they can become stale with repeated use, e...
3 weeks ago
Gundobad Games

Back from the Void: "Where ya been, Gundobad?" - redux! - Well: hello again. It's been a year and a half since my last post, from February 2025. Meanwhile, any reports of my demise have been exaggerated (and hop...
3 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A3, Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords - Dungeon Module A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords by Allen Hammack Hey, we finally get to fight these guys ... right? Right?? *Imagine you had to ...
3 weeks ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hasturi, City of Heroes - Hasturi is one of the most ancient cities in the region, second only to Pazzix. In its distant past, it was a small, walled city-state on the Isle of E...
1 month ago
Breeyark.org - "It's OK — Gary sent us."

The Old School Dungeon – Review, Siting the Underworld in a Wilderness, and Keeping Things Fresh - Review There is no substitute for setting something aside and then coming back to it later on, if you can. The post The Old School Dungeon – Review, Sitin...
2 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI - AI ImageThere isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Mo...
3 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

Let’s Talk About Treasure Types (A) - * This is a new series (possibly?) that I am giving a go. We'll see if we get all the way through the list!* In a game like BX, treasure is a key compon...
3 months ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

al-Alam al-Wasat Classes - The classes detailed below represent a series of editorial choices. Some options are unused (or to be precise, sometimes shunted to the "foreign classes"...
3 months ago
Gothridge Manor

Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
4 months ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Moldvay Basic finally available in Print on Demand - Great news: The "B" of "*B/X*", the rulebook of *the 1981 D&D Basic Set*, commonly known as the *Moldvay Basic*, is finally available in print-on-demand...
4 months ago
Blog of Holding

Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...
5 months ago
OSR Grimoire

Gary Con XVIII - My friends and I attended Gary Con once again, this year, held from March 19-22 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. *Artwork by Jeff Easley* This time around, ...
5 months ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

The Dungeon Hates You! - The Dungeon is *alive*. The Dungeon considers the monsters that reside in it to be its children – if they are not, in fact, its “children” via some eldrit...
6 months ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
6 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...
7 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months 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...
9 months ago
Jeffs Gameblog

jimbo update -
9 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...
10 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...
11 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*, ...
11 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...
11 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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....
2 years 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...
3 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...
5 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...
6 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
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...
7 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
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...
9 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 advent...
11 years ago

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