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  • The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms
    My Absence Explained - I briefly mentioned in my previous post that my two-year absence from the old school RPG blogging scene wasn’t because I lost interest. In fact, I didn’t...
    2 hours ago
  • The Other Side blog
    Witchcraft Wednesday: Fane-born (Occult D&D) - [image: Photo by Vanessa Pozos: https://www.pexels.com/photo/mystical-halloween-portrait-of-a-witch-28759465/] Got some game time in my oldest last night...
    3 hours ago
  • Monsters and Manuals
    You Could Tell I Was No Purple Worm - The idea that the dreams we create in our minds while we sleep could emerge into reality is a rich seam for creators of imaginative fiction to mine. But ...
    5 hours ago
  • The Tao of D&D
    The Lantern is Now Tiered - Going forward, for those who are interested in seeing The Lantern PDF, copies must be paid for, either by joining the new $7 tier on my patreon or visitin...
    1 day ago
  • The Alexandrian
    Thought of the Day – Mother, May I? - To understand the concept of “Mother, May I?” in RPG design, start by looking at the D&D combat system: This system is based on a complete game structure w...
    1 day ago
  • Hack & Slash
    On the Best Art - I just wanted to say, I don't know if people know this. I hire Jeshields to do art for my projects because he captures that classic style in his black a...
    2 days ago
  • Greyhawk Grognard
    Ogre Miniatures at Historicon 2025 - I got to run two games of Ogre Miniatures at Historicon this weekend. Both times I ran the Ceasefire Collapse scenario, and both times had one person who’d...
    2 days ago
  • What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...
    Some Updates to an old Dungeon - The Seoul-based TTRPG in Korea group is gearing up for their Online Summer Con. The days haven't been decided yet, but it will be a weekend in August. I'...
    3 days ago
  • About Bruce Heard and New Stories
    Calidar: Dwarven Ironclad Main Turret - Dwarves of Kragdûr fly large, armored, steampunk-style gunboats, mostly in Calidar’s outer space. My plan is to draft a whole ship in detail and make it...
    3 days ago
  • Goblin Punch
    Stargazer (A New System) - I haven’t had a regular over-the-table tabletop game in years. In that time, I’ve wandered pretty far afield. Time for a new system, methinks. Inspira...
    4 days 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...
    4 days ago
  • Breeyark.org - "It's OK — Gary sent us."
    The Old School Dungeon – By Hand - G. Bruce MacKenzie It occurs to me that rather than repeating myself by simply providing adventure texts and maps it The post The Old School Dungeon – By ...
    1 week ago
  • Adventures in Gaming v2
    Now Posting on my Talismundia Blog - Most of my posts henceforth will be on my *Talismundia *blog, which covers my new campaign setting of *Talismundia*: Talismundia I plan to support *Tali...
    1 week ago
  • B/X BLACKRAZOR
    "Dear JB" Mailbag #35 - *Still in Mexico and having a great time...* *Dear JB:* *My sample size isn't dozens and dozens, but I do DM for more than one group. A really sad patter...
    1 week ago
  • Urt's Outer Skin
    New Maps - Map Revision Time Despite improving the process of time, I was never quite happy with a few aspects of how the maps worked. I disliked the font used to be ...
    1 week ago
  • Pits Perilous
    A Twisted Tale of the Tongue... - nce upon a time, when yours truly was a much younger DM, I planned what was supposed to be your standard town-next-to-the-dungeon affair. Problem was, re...
    2 weeks ago
  • Havards Blackmoor Blog
    Frank Mentzer Announces New Company Temporal Studios - Just the other day, the Youtube Channel of Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo Organizer Ron Meischker had TSR game designer legend Frank Mentzer on their sh...
    2 weeks ago
  • Hidden in Shadows
    Mapping The Oldest Dungeon Crawl Session Report, Part 1 - *The Dungeons of Black Moore Castle* (reprinted on pages 63-67 of the *Blackmoor Foundations* book), is the oldest tabletop RPG fantasy game narrative de...
    3 weeks ago
  • Bat in the Attic
    Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, Last Day! - My Kickstarter for Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: the Northern Marches is now in its last day! Link to the Kickstarter Random Party Generater Everyb...
    3 weeks 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...
    4 weeks 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...
    1 month 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...
    1 month 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...
    1 month 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...
    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 ...
    2 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...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    3 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...
    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...
    5 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...
    5 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 ...
    6 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...
    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...
    7 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...
    9 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
  • 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
  • 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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