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CONTEXT & GOALSI have a slight fascination with understanding how much creative mileage one can get out of the Basic D&D and a couple of sheets of graph paper. I hold this...Linked by the ring
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A play report from a recent run in MARATHON.***I've accepted a contract from CYAC in return for gear, but importantly, an introduction to TRAXUS, another corp trying to claw a...
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I bought some tengu from Reaper the other day just because I've always enjoyed corvid-folk and thought they would be a good miniature to have on hand. I even had a half idea...Linked by the ring
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DECLARE SPELLS & RETREATSA funny little rule that always trips up MUs, neophyte and acolyte alike, is the need for spells (and retreats) to be declared before initiative is...Linked by the ring
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THOUGHTS U: Search the top half of your Draft pile. Select one topic to post. Shuffle your Draft pile.2026 BLOGGIESWell, 2025 was a banner year for I CAST LIGHT! given that I...Linked by the ring
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Look at this crew! Who doesn't want to play the motley band of weirdos?! Mordheim: 99% Falling Rules 01% Grotesque VibesThis post is one part "how I got into Mordheim" and one...
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The Ultimate Warrior! Over at Save vs. Total Party Kill, Ram discusses a quick rule for determining death or unconsciousness at 0 hp or below by making a save versus Death. On...Linked by the ring
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A tentative title for "The Wine Dungeon"Sitting at the top of my list of "To-Dos" is a wine cellar that has metastasized, via the power of the mythic underworld, into a...
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There was a discussion in a Discord forum I inhabited about how realistic the encumbrance of ration is in BX D&D. That doesn't interest me. What interests me is what the PCs...Linked by the ring
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More than enough!I wanted to post a little bit about the starting area surrounding a campaign megadungeon. This is sorta a riff off the "Just Three Hexes" post...
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Ha ha! Burn!Preamble: For reasons, I realized I might need to allow players to be Skeleton PCs. I've seen undead classes before that march from skeleton (1HD) to vampire...
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I am currently trying to key Dyson's Winter Tombs as a Dolmenwood-by-the-numbers dungeon. As I was pondering the question of dungeon history, I realized Dolmenwood has a pretty...Linked by the ring
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OLD BUSINESSHow did I do on my 2025 goals? Well, let's see:Post more "good enough" adventures 😃Finish Serpent Psalms to complement Serpent Song Hymnal 😐Run another "family &...
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Link the pictureI had the good fortune of sitting down with DirectSun to discuss putting all the pieces together for a good puzzle dungeon.We chat about Nightwick Abbey,...
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! In my last post, I blogged about what I gave for the 2025 Secret Santicorn. On this day of gift-giving, I wanted to post what I received.My...
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The Nightwatch by RembrandtAn amazing work which is huge!I participated in the “Purple OSR”’s 2025 Secret Santicorn and received the prompt “Never Meet Your Heroes:...
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Depiction of 20 heraldic shieldsI find it easier to be creative when I have a prompt or some starting point rather than a blank slate. Its a seed from which ideas spring. And...
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While you are planning to carve up the turkey 🦃, here's how to carve up 🔪 PCs.Death & dismemberment tables are a bit of table "tech" I return to, because I think they are a...
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Its not *always* trial by combat... How law and order work in medieval societies can be used to enhance our pseudo-medieval fantasy games by providing important constraints.I...
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Want to learn more about the world of Nightwick from Miranda? You can follow her blog here and the ongoing development of Nightwick Abbey at her Patreon here.Previously in...
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from Wizard of BargeDue to playing a long-running, well, 6th level anyway, BX magic-user, I've had a lot of thoughts over the years about playing wizards in BX/OSE. I took a...
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This past week I went to the GameHole Con in Madison, Wisconsin. For the 12th iteration of the convention, it was me, along with 8,000 other gamers, plus three of my friends,...
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In the latest issue of Wyrd Science, B2 Keep At The Borderlands is brought up as a benchmark for the adventure style of Dungeons & Dragons in a discussion about a new game from...
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Original image from the Diablo pitch document, which nowfeels like an OSR doc from yesteryearWhy Megadungeons?Over on the Prismatic Wasteland Discord, a member asked...
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Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas Still LifeAnonymous Flemish painter, 1670s.It was interesting to reflect on images and aesthetics that...
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Over on bluesky, Zenopus Archives posts a new favorite Holmes/OD&D house rule: "...that thieves can fire into melee without penalty; i.e. no friendly fire". This is a great...
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Elric & Stormbringer by Piotr Jablonski*Sentient weapons and magic items should be like an annoying NPCWith great power comes a great lists of spurious demands. No matter if...