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  • The Tao of D&D
    October Lantern Advance Copy Available - I've finished the advanced version of the October Lantern, posted on patreon. I've taken the requisite three hours rest and now I'm writing about it her...
    11 hours ago
  • What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...
    TTRPG in Korea Online SummerCon is Finished - So, the Online Summer Con is over. I think the game I was in Sunday evening closed out the event, since we went about 30 minutes over the end time (and ...
    13 hours ago
  • The Other Side blog
    Monstrous Mondays: Guardians of the Library - [image: Photo by Дмитрий Пропадалин: https://www.pexels.com/photo/knight-in-iron-armor-9968878/] Photo by Дмитрий ПропадалинStill working through a bunch o...
    1 day ago
  • The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms
    Star Trek Reviews: Picard - A couple weeks ago, I finished watching *Star Trek: Picard*. I put off watching Seasons 2 and 3 for a couple years, but since I was planning to cancel Pa...
    1 day ago
  • The Alexandrian
    The Vladaam Affair – Part 16B: Vladaam Slave Ship – Pride of Morrain - Go to Table of Contents The Pride of Morrain is named after a former scion of House Vladaam. Morrain was arrested for piracy during the War of Black Sails,...
    1 day ago
  • Classic RPG Realms
    Losing the Fire - The other day I came across a little video on social media of two guys siting outside, and the one turns to the other and says, "I just feel like I'm losin...
    1 day ago
  • B/X BLACKRAZOR
    "Dear JB" Mailbag #39 - *Dear JB:* *When discussing rolling stats and how I wanted the characters to use the point buy system suggested on the D&D Next website. Players really d...
    1 day ago
  • Adventures in Gaming v2
    Expanded Random Appendix N Campaign Concept Generator - Trey over at From the Sorcerer's Skull posted a Random Appendix N Campaign Concept Generator, and I took it and ran with it, expanding out the list to incl...
    1 day ago
  • Known World, Old World
    Product of Your Imagination - I was reminded, when digging out the D&D Expert rulebook, that TSR had possibly the best slogan of any RPG company. Products of YOUR Imagination. It follow...
    3 days ago
  • Hack & Slash
    On Two in one Day! - Free quickstart, has everything you need to get a group up and playing in 10 minutes. Contains *everything *you need to play. drivethrurpg.com/en/produ...
    3 days ago
  • Jeffs Gameblog
    Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
    1 week ago
  • Greyhawk Grognard
    Alien, Predator, and Bladerunner (and others!) in Chronological Order - I’m a big fan of the Alien, Predator, and Bladerunner franchises, and the fact that they all apparently intersect in a shared universe is really great to m...
    1 week ago
  • Havards Blackmoor Blog
    The MN Gathering 2025 - The MN Gathering 2025 is the annual meetup of Minnesota Gamers, including several of the original Blackmoor Bunch.This year the event took place last ...
    1 week ago
  • Goblin Punch
    Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...
    1 week 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...
    2 weeks ago
  • Monsters and Manuals
    The 'I Want' PC - Readers who do not live in the dank earth beneath rocks with only woodlice and earthworms for company will no doubt have heard of something called *K-Pop D...
    2 weeks 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...
    3 weeks ago
  • Breeyark.org - "It's OK — Gary sent us."
    The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 1 - Let us resume our work on Level 1 and briefly revisit our idea. As a new Ref we are just The post The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 1 first appear...
    3 weeks 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...
    3 weeks ago
  • Pits Perilous
    A New Epoch: Stone and Spell... - Why does fantasy have to be medieval? It doesn't, and our hobby provides numerous examples (Call of Cthulhu comes immediately to mind). Great stuff; but ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Gothridge Manor
    GM Companion for Shadowdark - Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top ten....
    4 weeks ago
  • Hidden in Shadows
    The First Dungeon Crawl in History - Mapping a Lost Session Report, Part II - Today detailed reports from game sessions are common. Until recently, some of the oldest I knew of were to be found in Alarums & Excursions, but only ra...
    5 weeks ago
  • Bat in the Attic
    Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight - There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons & Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in a ...
    5 weeks ago
  • Roles, Rules, and Rolls
    52 Pages at Canterbury (UK) Gaming Con - For my followers who can easily get to Canterbury in the southern UK on August 8-10, the local game shop is hosting a convention on the University of Ke...
    5 weeks ago
  • Urt's Outer Skin
    Thonia - outline map - And this is the outline map for Thonia itself, again at 24 miles per hex. A labelled version is on the way, but there is a lot of information to get in...
    5 weeks ago
  • Save Vs. Dragon
    Flatiron Building Map as Dungeon Level - Turned a map from the Flatiron Building in a single-level dungeon with 30 rooms (so I could add a d30 table or two to go with it—to come in a future pos...
    1 month 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...
    2 months 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 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 ...
    3 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...
    4 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...
    5 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...
    5 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...
    6 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...
    6 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 ...
    7 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...
    9 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...
    10 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...
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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...
    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...
    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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