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Characters Hoot (Owl Primal Chaos Worshiper) Varg (Wolf Troglodyte) Brick (Ogre Bogatyr) Flake (Owl Village Spirit) Leda (Human Vampire Hunter) Ripper (War Bear Imperial...
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OverviewOnto floor 2! This one I'll split in two, as we are only reading part of it for this week of the book club. And hilariously it opens up with this quote: Let's not...
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OverviewSo two things stand out to me about the key for the dungeon, so I'll mention them here and not for the other levels. The keys alternate between fairly terse...
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Over at the Gay Communist OSR Discord Server (I think that's what we're calling it nowadays, now that it is no longer just purple), there has been an ongoing Megadungeon Book...
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Characters Hoot (Owl Primal Chaos Worshiper) Varg (Wolf Troglodyte) Borg (Ogre Shock Trooper) Mortaron/Brick (Ogre Bogatyr) Flake (Owl Village Spirit) Leda (Human Vampire...
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Characters Hoot (Owl Primal Chaos Worshiper) Varg (Wolf Troglodyte) Borg (Ogre Shock Trooper) Mortaron/Brick (Ogre Bogatyr) Session RecapLast session the players agreed to...
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Characters Flake (Owl Village Spirit) Zlatia (Human Troglodyte) Grismelda (Human Religious Radical) Hoot (Owl Primal Chaos Worshiper) Reynaert (Fox Journalist) John Shepherd...
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Characters Flake (Owl Village Spirit) Leda (Human Vampire Hunter) Grismelda (Human Religious Radical) Reynaert (Fox Journalist) John (Opossum Trapper) Session RecapVenturing...
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Characters Flake (Owl Village Spirit) Leda (Human Vampire Hunter) Rabbit the White (Rabbit Professional Wizard's Familiar) Boris (Human Religious Radical) John (Opossum...
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Characters Hoot (Owl Primal Chaos Worshiper) Varg (Wolf Troglodyte) Flake (Owl Village Spirit) Grismelda (Human Religious Radical) Session RecapDuring their downtime in the...
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The Psoglav (or Pesoglav as I write it, because it rolls off the tongue better) is a chimeric creature, having the head of a dog (with one eye), the body of a man and the legs...
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Apparently the current bandwagon was started by Marcia B. and is about people writing a post with their own personal "Appendix N" style of inspirations and/or influences. Now...
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Characters Luna Berryfang (War Bear Bogatyr) Hoot (Owl Primal Chaos Worshiper) Varg (Wolf Troglodyte) Igor Lazarovich (Human Solar Priest) Session RecapThe party consisting of...
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Weird Writer suggested this as a topic/challenge for a post, and I think it’s a good idea, so here we go. I’ve run three short (~a dozen sessions each) OSR campaigns so far,...
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Back in the mists of time wizards decided to just take power for themselves and quickly formed an enormous and powerful kingdom run by magic. It predictably went absolutely mad...
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When designing material for play at the table, it is helpful to think about what exactly you are trying to design as that will inform what sort of work you need to prepare...
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Series IndexPart 4I have saved the most blatantly obvious of these posts for last. Yet it feels sometimes like the obviousness of this is not as clear as I or others might...
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I've started playing in NBateman's Wolves Upon the Coast campaign being run from the Rainbow/Purple OSR Discord. I wrote another post already which you can find here. This one...
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I've started playing in NBateman's Wolves Upon the Coast campaign being run from the Rainbow/Purple OSR Discord. While this post is, ostensibly, a session report in practice...
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I've played in three sessions so far of a pickup game of Anomalous Subsurface Environment (ASE), a very gonzo and science fantasy megadungeon, run by Mr.Mann on the rainbow OSR...
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"I roll to seduce the enemy commander!" PrefaceThe title is a simplification and shortening of the real statement. What I will explain below is how (Tabletop) Roleplaying Games...
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Here is a quick and straightforward guide on what will give you a good start if you want to get started on painting miniatures. I am not going to discuss getting miniatures or...
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I have been interested in checking out the wargame 2x2 Napoleonics ever since Chris McDowell posted about it on his blog. However between life, other hobbies that took priority...
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At my LGS’s monthly RPG event yesterday I ran a one shot using a modified version of the 5th edition Tunnels and Trolls system, running the OSE adventure Temple of 1000 Swords....
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The excellent Head Lopper by Andrew MacLean. I was so fucking tempted to just not migrate this post over. The amount of views it got on my old blog is frankly embarrassing and...
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Between August and November of 2023 I ran another campaign or iteration of The Greylands, which was my first ever OSR focused campaign that I ran back in early 2022. In this...
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Since it seems to be the thing to do on this last day of 2023, I am jumping on the bandwagon and writing a post about the year in review, specifically focusing on this blog....
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Series IndexPart 3 | Part 5Last month there was a post on Grognardia about "being a creator, not a consumer." While very good advice in general, let’s talk a bit more about...
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Series IndexPart 2 | Part 4Most hobbies, but especially tabletop RPGs, tend to be social activities to some degree. Many people become interested in a hobby as a way to find...Linked by the ring
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Series IndexPart 1 | Part 3 In four large cities with communities of early D&D adopters Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston cross-pollination proceeded quite...