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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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Series IndexPart 2 In four large cities with communities of early D&D adopters Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston cross-pollination proceeded quite rapidly. Each...
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SummaryThe party finishes clearing out the prison area on level 6, mostly by being constantly interrupted by wandering monster checks while they're trying to do stuff. Party...
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SummaryThe party meet with the head priest of the Elemental Chaos cult and discuss a truce and potential alliance. They also get rid of the living statues on level 5. They then...
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This was born out of a discussion with my partner, broadly on the topic of having the Druid-style play of animals as followers, but getting rid of the spells and other such...
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SummaryLevel 5 of the dungeon is explored further, then during downtime the party is visited by the strange warriors they met earlier, clearing up some more details of their...
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Thief's CandleCost: 150 gold Description: A small candle of yellow wax. Inside the wax is a preserved finger, wrapped with the candle’s wick. When lit, the candle’s flame is a...Linked by the ring
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A recurring bit of worldbuilding that has been going on throughout my Greylands campaign have been the Primordial Beasts - large, quasi-divine animals of varying power and...
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SummaryThe party continue with preparations for winter and the explore the next level of the dungeon, meeting some very strange people. Party members Verasha - Level 4Druid...
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Consider this a sort of part 2 to this previous post. After reading through some articles regarding alternate experience gain methods in the context of OSR play (notably this...
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I kept working on a replacement for the dwarf and halfling classes from B/X, similar to my take on the Elf, in a continuing effort to help define the setting of my campaign a...
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SummaryThe group returns to the dungeon underneath the manor house, slaying the beasts that have been hunting the talasumi and finally securing an alliance with them. Party...