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OSR Grimoire

CM3: Sabre River - CM3 "Sabre River" (1984) by Douglas Niles and Bruce Nesmith is a D&D adventure for character levels 18-22, set in the region of Norwold. *CM3 "Sabre River...
2 minutes 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...
15 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

On Winning - For one, brief moment...in *this* moment...I feel like I'm on top of things. This is not a very common feeling for me; so much of the time I feel like I'...
18 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Kickstart Your Weekend: Witches and Wizardry - Ah. Two of my favorite topics. Let's see what this weekend has in store for us on the Kickstarter front. *The Witches of Oz #1 - A Mature Magical Queer ...
19 hours ago
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse...

OD&D As a DM Instruction Manual - I've never really read through the OD&D books thoroughly. I only have them in PDF, and I've mostly just looked at sections here or there as a reference. ...
1 day ago
Monsters and Manuals

Play as Sculpture, Play as Prism - Watching my eldest child and friends engaging in imaginative play, I'm often struck by the fact that what seems to excite them is deciding who gets to be...
1 day ago
The Alexandrian

Ptolus: Running the Campaign – The Adventure Not Taken - DISCUSSING In the Shadow of the Spire – Session 37A: Dominic Departs They had an almost impossible number of possible courses to pursue. First, there were ...
2 days ago
Gundobad Games

Dynamic, Lethal Fighter, Quadratic Wizard (feedback, please...) - I'm having some thoughts about a possible simple way to make Fighters exciting again without much rules bloat. Pray tell me whether you think it's worthw...
3 days ago
Jeffs Gameblog

I saved the timeline! - One of the other participants in the game jam I joined produced a Game Boy adventure called OuttaTime. You can try it yourself in your browser here: http...
4 days ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Night's Dark Terror 14: Funny Things Happen on the Way to the Horse Market - *This is part of a series of posts with a scene-by-scene critique, appreciation, and improvement of the 1986 TSR module B10, Night's Dark Terror. * Afte...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

The Release of How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and the Isle of Pyade - The Release With the successful conclusion and fulfillment of my Kickstarter, I am releasing How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and The Isle of Pyade to the publ...
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Arts & Arcana on sale - get the original Tomb of Horrors - The Special Edition of the D&D artbook *Arts & Arcana* is currently selling for $69.99 on Amazon, plus when I look at the page I'm also seeing a coupo...
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Clerics of the Flanaess, Part 2 - Sorry it took so long to get to the next article in this series, but here we are! This continues the details of specialty clerics for the World of Greyhawk...
1 week ago
Hack & Slash

On the Sector Turn - It's very simple. There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents need to do: Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the...
2 weeks ago
Pits Perilous

Arsenic & Old Lace (a Review)... - The free-kriegsspiel revolution (or FKR; sometimes free-kriegsspiel roleplay) has been getting a lot of attention lately, which seems inevitable given re...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Blackmoor Like Map Used for Runehammer's Crown & Skull RPG? - Crown & Skull is a new TTRPG created by Brandish Gilhelm, Hankerin Ferninale and Ingrid Burnall and published by Runehammer Games. The RPG looks gr...
3 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

ShadowDark Magic Items - The next campaign I run will use the ShadowDark RPG. I'm not sure when that'll be (I'm hoping a little later this year), but ShadowDark is my choice. I'v...
1 month ago
Hidden in Shadows

Xandering, Jaquaysing, or Arneson-ing the Dungeon? - Yet another gamer firestorm arose shortly after the passing of Janelle Jaquays when it was noted that Justin Alexander had changed a rather well known p...
2 months ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

The 4th Category - New Year, New Release — and this one is a monument all to itself, a great fit for the 50th Anniversary of the launch of D&D™... Introducing *The 4th Cat...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

GLOG Class: Bioweapon - I got this idea from mad gods on bear blog. Crab Evo from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman A thousand soldiers were slain. Too many to be tragic--this is just a fact...
2 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Skyship Battle Playtest - I was exceedingly elated when I discovered a *blog article* Xaoseed wrote in 2021 about the game mechanics I posted back around that time. I didn't spot ...
2 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

The Tellian Sector: The Empty Synod - The Empty Synod looks around at the Imperium, at the galaxy, at its brutality and cruelty and waste and stupidity, and says "None of this is necessary. E...
3 months ago
Blog of Holding

Dungeon Delver’s Guide is one of Polygon’s “best TTRPG books of 2023” - You love to hear when people like your work, so I was thrilled to see my Dungeon Delver’s Guide on Polygon’s best-of-the-year list for TTRPG books. I’m par...
4 months ago
Dragons Never Forget

Sheldomar Valley Political Map - Over the last few days I’ve been a little fascinated by the Sheldomar Valley. The area between the Lortmil Mountains and the Crystalmist Mountains is home ...
5 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Fearful Ends Now on Kickstarter - [image: Fearful Ends book & cards on Kickstarter] The long-time passion project of my Wandering DMs partner Paul Siegel is currently funding on Kickstarter!...
6 months ago
Paul's Gameblog

Fearful Ends is Live on Kickstarter! - We did it! The project is live on Kickstarter! Woo hoo! Please check out the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2057300167/fearful-ends Th...
6 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...
7 months 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...
7 months 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...
8 months 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, *...
8 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
Echoes from the Geekcave

ShadowDark RPG: Marrying the Old and New - I recently stumbled across a Kickstarter for a new OSR product from a fellow longtime Garycon attendee. Kelsey Dionne has been a respected writer of 5e ...
1 year ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

Kadmeian classes - This is the last of three posts setting up the Kadmeian Mysteries setting. Here, we detail the classes of the setting. Some will simply be reflavorings o...
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...
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$&...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 years ago
For Honor...and Intrigue

- The campaign is currently on a long hiatus, so this seemed a good time to post some stats.
4 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 ...
5 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...
5 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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