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Purple is total generated; black is deaths (aka poor decision-making; get gud)60% of the time, your PC's 100% alive!I appreciate this video from Mystic Arts because it does a...Linked by the ring
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Bosch from the Haywain TriptychI thought Jim Murphy's video about playing OD&D with the 3 "Little Brown Books" (or Delving Deeper or FMC) plus Strategic Review Vol 1 No 1 for...Linked by the ring
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Update (2026 08 02): 🗓️ Commenter Centaurion has gone the extra mile and not only created a calendar, but has also included the dates and locations of each of the courts below!...
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The Eye from The Baleful Gaze of Tabaldak's Geasmy 2025 Appendix N entryThis post by Gus L. over at All Dead Generations dovetails with a thought I had about a beholder kin...Linked by the ring
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Continuation of my series to edit a quick "Friday Night Dungeon" using Dolmenwood.Tomb of the Twin-Headed Hawk (Pg 4)Link to the Draft Document: Six Doors of the Forgotten...Linked by the ring
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"We'll stop here and finish it next session, no problem!"In my current megadungeon home game, we have not played for almost 4 months now because of a mistake I made. It's a...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...Linked by the ring
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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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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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Vanitas - Still Life with Books and Manuscripts and a Skull by Evert Collier This is a small collection of posts about my experiences, thoughts, and advice on how to run...Linked by the ring
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Context For How I PrepJumping in on the "How I Prep" series started at Roll to Doubt by describing how I prep for my megadungeon campaign using Miranda Elkin's Nightwick...Linked by the ring
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A campaign big on torches, less on tommy-gunsMy ideal Call of Cthulhu game would consist of the following materials:Copy of Cthulhu Dark, which is a small 3d6 dice pool...Linked by the ring
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Recently, I wanted to create a low-prep, dungeon-focused, easy-to-grok campaign to run online with my friends and family who've been asking to play some D&D. The first post is...Linked by the ring
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artist: Stefan PoagWhat if we design the random encounter table to function as computer RAM- to store short-term information/change without having to dig into the module or...Linked by the ring
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The shrine as seen by the playersThis past weekend I ran session 27th of Where Hell Comes to Prey, my home campaign set in Miranda Elkin's Nightwick Abbey. This "100-minute...
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A common problem quickly encountered when designing your own dungeon or stocking a map drawn by another is the optimal amount of treasure to add. A cousin to that problem could...Linked by the ring
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God forbid a girl have one night out away from her father withoutwaking up kidnapped and guarded by a three-headed trollWHAT MAKES A FAIRYTALE?Prismatic Wasteland created a...
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While many assume the OSR is dead, you would not know it from the discussion on Bluesky generated by Yochai’s OSR starter packs feeding into the OSR Feed. Among the discourses...Linked by the ring
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Oriental Adventures is a TSR publication often noted for two things. The one I want to talk about today is its regional events because the other has been far better handled...Linked by the ring
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This post straddles my prior dreamlands posts and the BX system I use frequently, hence the header. Click here if you'd like to see more of my dreamlands reskins.THE DREAM...Linked by the ring
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artist: Jan SteenI enjoy carousing options in general because they can add a bit of chaos to the predictable back-and-forth of megadungeon procedure. They are also a convenient...
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This one picture captures how many of the below materials are usedIts easy to get caught up in buying an expensive terrain set to run miniatures-based games of D&D or other...Linked by the ring
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Here is a small tweak, untested, for Mothership androids that might help provide a mechanic that makes them feel more unhuman.ASIMOVIC ANDROIDSYou are governed by the Three...Linked by the ring
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But seriously, "D-in-D" IS a good mangaJumping again on the gravy train that is Delicious in Dungeon posting. Here is a post by Grinningrat looking at how to do a Delicious in...Linked by the ring
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From the Gardens of HecateDIY28"Inquisition 28" is a term for a family DIY-games in the wargaming scene and akin to "Moldvey Basic" in the dungeons with dragons scene. The...Linked by the ring
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The OSW: Old-School WizardryLike the rest of the greater D&D collective, I too have been reading, and then watching, the very good Delicious in Dungeon. And like many, I too,...
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The Death of ArthurI was recently reading Peter Ackroyd’s Sir Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (written 1470) and was struck how its collective tales when taken together matched...
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Art by the fantastic DiTerlizziIn reading Marcia's review of her experience with Shadowdark, I contemplated on how I run my own OSE games. This is also fresh on my mind because...
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Yeah, no feelin'AN ORIGIN STORYIn the latest session of Where Hell Comes To Prey my Nightwick Abbey campaign, the players made an interesting gamble. Two players decided to...Linked by the ring
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SiblingsIn December, I finished Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero. I highly recommend the book in large part because it captures and conveys what its like to be...Linked by the ring
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A still-life painting might be a great source for these tablesI currently use a d66 "I Search The Body" table in my Serpent Song DM pamphlet. It's a classic of the OSR. Players...Linked by the ring
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I never feel that I have a good handle on retrospectives and I don't have awards to give out yet, so instead let me talk about an RPG goal that I have in 2024 given it is the...Linked by the ring
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I like this illo because it looks like the heads are singingSince running the "More Wine!", the wine cellar-turned-dungeon, I have been collecting various tables & rules that I...
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What self-respecting old-school blog would be complete without a carousing table? This is part of an effort to build my own pamphlet DMG, The Serpent Song Hymnal, which is a...Linked by the ring
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More microblogging from the scrap pile.I think the following might be one of the single best things I've written to make a BX monster seem fresh:➽ Monster Shaggy Humanoids:...Linked by the ring
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I got a text from a friend of mine that they were going to play their first game of D&D with 3 other people of which the designated DM has only played 1-2 times before.Although...Linked by the ring
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Over on Discord, I got into a discussion about the link in this older post that discussed the power of loops to make dungeons interesting. And I generally still think that is...Linked by the ring
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You did this to me!One of the neatest mechanics from InPlacesDeep's Nightwick Abbey that I have experienced is that PCs who are killed and left in the dungeon tend to return as...Linked by the ring
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"The Wine Dungeon"A dungeon resulting from having a morning cup of coffee, a random dungeon room/hall roller, and a single sheet of graph paper. I ended up with about 50...Linked by the ring