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  • 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...
    29 minutes ago
  • B/X BLACKRAZOR
    Nazis - It's early in the morning, and I have a couple hours before I have to get the kid up for his cross-country training, after which I need to go down to the c...
    2 hours ago
  • The Other Side blog
    Fantasy Fridays: Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia - [image: Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991)] While my Fantasy Fridays are overtly about featuring fantasy RPGs other than Dungeons & Dragons, I fe...
    6 hours ago
  • Havards Blackmoor Blog
    François Marcela-Froideval ( 1958 – 2025) - I was saddened to hear about the passing of François Marcela-Froideval (10 December 1958 – 17 June 2025). I learned about this news via Frank Mentzer wh...
    13 hours ago
  • The Alexandrian
    Whither the Dungeon: Goblin Trouble - Did you know that the D&D 5th Edition core rulebooks don’t include an example of a keyed dungeon map? This is because D&D no longer teaches you how to prep...
    16 hours ago
  • What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...
    Gaming Swag from Japan - Over the weekend, my family took a little trip to Fukuoka, Japan. My wife currently has a broken toe, so she almost didn't go, but decided to go anyway. ...
    3 days ago
  • Monsters and Manuals
    Ogres, Elves, Evil Phantoms or Giants: YOU DECIDE - A year and a half ago, I wrote a post reflecting on Seamus Heaney's *Beowulf *translation, and specifically the passage close to the start in which the a...
    3 days ago
  • Hack & Slash
    On Play Reviews - Hi. I'm a game designer. I get play reports. Here's a play report from people I don't personally know and have never met (I've communicated with the GM...
    4 days ago
  • Greyhawk Grognard
    Community Greyhawk: Shadows Over Diamond Lake - Today we have Shadows Over Diamond Lake by Vitor Morelli. This is a 79 page pdf, but that might be a deceptive because the margins are immense and the text...
    1 week ago
  • Bat in the Attic
    The Old School Renaissance - Debates about what the OSR is have been going on since at least the late 2000s. Lately I seen more rounds of discussion on this topic on various forums ...
    1 week ago
  • ZENOPUS ARCHIVES
    Ruined Tower of Zenopus Goes Mithral! - *Find it here* I haven't had much free time lately, hence the dearth of posts, but here's a quick update on *the Ruined Tower of Zenopus* 5E conversion...
    2 weeks ago
  • Pits Perilous
    Excavating My First Fantasy... - I've been a fantasy buff going way back; but my introduction to the genre came by way of a non-fantastical source: dinosaurs and prehistory. Not surprising...
    2 weeks ago
  • Gothridge Manor
    What to do on a Gaming Break - It's summer again. Well it's supposed to be but with temperatures lingering around 40 it doesn't feel like it. Most summers I take time off. A couple mon...
    2 weeks ago
  • Jeffs Gameblog
    I come from the land of the ice and snow - So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city, castle, and...
    2 weeks ago
  • Save Vs. Dragon
    New Magic Items: Rings I - Earthwhisperer *Description* This heavy, rough-hewn ring is carved from a single chunk of dark deep-earth schist, with veins of lighter quartz running t...
    3 weeks ago
  • Breeyark.org - "It's OK — Gary sent us."
    Encumbrance – But what has it got in its pocketses, eh? - “Then they brought up their ponies, and carried away the pots of gold, and buried them very secretly not far The post Encumbrance – But what has it got in...
    3 weeks ago
  • Hidden in Shadows
    The Weird, The Wonderful, and The Garbage Pits of Despair - Arneson's works, like his life, is largely obscure to the D&D community. His best known writing credit is no doubt the TSR DA series starting with A*dven...
    3 weeks ago
  • Classic RPG Realms
    AD&D Appendix N: Poul Anderson "Three Hearts and Three Lions" - I didn't read this gem until much later in my Dungeons & Dragons life, but I was simply amazed at how clearly the book shaped Gary Gygax's formation of...
    4 weeks 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 month 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...
    2 months ago
  • Roles, Rules, and Rolls
    The Next 52 (26?) Pages - As promised, here is the pdf of the first 26 of the Next 52 pages. It's an expansion to my preferred homebrew adventure game system that, like the Expert...
    2 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...
    2 months ago
  • Adventures in Gaming v2
    Adventures in the Three Kingdoms - A while back I worked up a combined, modified map, based on three old-school *Heritage Dwarfstar* mini-game maps from *Barbarian Prince*, *Goblin*, and ...
    2 months ago
  • OSR Grimoire
    Gary Con XVII - Gary Con XVII took place in Lake Geneva this past weekend. A memorial service was held on Sunday, March 23 in honor of Ernie Gygax, who passed away on Feb...
    2 months ago
  • Blog of Holding
    Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual - As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than oth...
    2 months ago
  • Goblin Punch
    The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
    3 months ago
  • About Bruce Heard and New Stories
    D&D Class: The Cryptreaver - BBC, Tales of the Old Bailey (unknown artist)This derivative of the *D&D BECMI* thief class describes a specialized tomb robber and somewhat of a scaveng...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    4 months ago
  • Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign
    Into the Wild Blue Yonder: A Journey Through Blackmoor's Dark Realm - *We have been thinking about you.* *We know what you want from Rob Kuntz.* You want more than another brand-new RPG module. It has to be a *First Edition ...
    5 months ago
  • Echoes from the Geekcave
    All That Glitters - Continuing the earlier thoughts about gold in classic D&D… Over the years, one overall trend in my perspective on playing or running TTRPGS is an inc...
    6 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...
    6 months 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...
    8 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....
    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
  • 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
  • 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$&...
    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...
    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...
    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
  • Known World, Old World
    Troika! review/overview - As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a really te...
    5 years ago
  • Fuzzy's Dicecapades
    Alembics & Alchemists - I've been doing some more of my hysterical tinkering with the AD&D rules (treating 2e as an extensive revision of 1e, which is basically what it is in prac...
    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...
    5 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...
    5 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...
    5 years ago
  • Urt's Outer Skin
    Threshold - Threshold, the classic starting point for many a first foray into the Known World. This has been sat around on my hard drive for a while, almost, but not ...
    5 years ago
  • DYVERS
    2019 GREAT BLOG ROLL CALL IS LIVE - After working on the next iteration of the Great Blog Roll Call for the better part of the year I've finally finished it! This year's list has over 450 blo...
    5 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...
    5 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...
    6 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...
    6 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 - *...
    6 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...
    6 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...
    6 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...
    7 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...
    7 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...
    7 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...
    8 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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