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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...
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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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Rounding out my final con report. While not the final, final day, Saturday was the last night for me running and playing games. On Sunday I did some catching up and a little...
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It was a fun second day (here's Day 1). I still don't think I have quite a good handle on how to navigate this con, but I did learn that if you run games, your name goes into a...
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I am going to try to make these updates shorter and punchier so I can actually summarize each day's blog. This is my first GameHoleCon since last year I sighed up but live...
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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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I am going to attempt to be more brief in these play reports. I think after 98 sessions, the dungeon-crawling aspect of play has been well documented. If you are still reading...
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The last days of the convention were a little bit of a blur as the later nights and DMing started running me low on energy (Day 1 & Day 2)MINIATURE PAINTINGIn lieu of gaming,...
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ReaperCon mascot SophieDUNGEON DWELLERS Session #3Back at it again with the ReaperCon homebrew system. This time I play the elf fighter and played around with the cleave and...
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I might clean this up at a later date with more detail Back in action at one of the most steady con in Texas. I brought two ribbons to the con. The first was for my Nightwick...
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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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TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!Session 17 of Where Hell Comes To Prey is my weekly (roughly) experience DMing Miranda Elkins' Nightwick Abbey. The last time I blogged about the...
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Be Your Own Goblin King (Save For Kidnapping Babies)"THE WINE DUNGEON": You can read about it here. A play report here. Quick pitch: You are dogsbodies hired to retrieve wine...
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If these horrid halls of Nightwick Abbey call to you, then please join Miranda Elkins' Patreon!Previously in Nightwick...This week's adventurers:Liminal Space (Changeling...
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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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While on vacation, I had the opportunity to introduce the kids I was with to Richard Garfield King of Tokyo. The kids picked it up very fast and had a lot of fun (I was happy...
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ONE MORE ROUND! Luke Gearing mixes up a d100 Carousing table for his Whitehack game. I think Luke gets it right here in that the table not just serves as an XP gamble, but also...
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HAVE YOU SEEN THE (PURPLE) SIGN?After 13 (!) sessions of Where Hell Comes To Prey, my campaign in Miranda Elkin’s Nightwick Abbey, a character has finally gone and gotten...
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If these horrid halls of Nightwick Abbey call to you, then please join Miranda Elkins' Patreon!Previously in Nightwick...This week's adventurers:Liminal Space (Changeling...
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Darkvison Ruins The Fun AgainIn my Where Hell Comes To Prey Nightwick campaign (latest on that campaign here), I have recently changed the way I track light from using an...
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I have just completed DMing my 10th session of Nightwick Abbey, an OSE megadungeon authored by Miranda Elkins and illustrated by Chris Huth. These posts will be a continuing...
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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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1HD MONSTERS ARE GREATER THAN THEY SEEM: Traverse Fantasy talks about how 1 HD monsters are a special case in that they often take effort to kill than their 1 HD indicates....
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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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Previously in Nightwick...This week's adventurers:Blossom (Rogue 6)Mechtilde (Fighter 5)Mayfly (Magician 5)Liminal Space (Changeling 4)Krupe (Cleric 3)Thekla (Magician 1)AT...
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I have just completed DMing my fifth session of Nightwick Abbey, an OSE megadungeon authored by Miranda Elkins and illustrated by Chris Huth. These posts will be a continuing...