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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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Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu NiheiI was trying to get together some other new posts, but those are slow going so here is something that has been rattling around in my brain- how...
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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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Well, 6+1, but hey, you found an extra in the crypt...Work has been keeping me occupied, so posting has slowed down a bit, but here are some other great works that are in the...
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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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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...
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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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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...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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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...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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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...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