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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 &...

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,...

 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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

 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...

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,...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...