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I've been re-reading the Hobbit & Lord of The Rings this year, so naturally my latest cartographic hyperfixation was to make a map of Tolkien's paracosm. I had initially...Linked by the ring
- Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: Two Dungeons of the Trollshaws Rise Up Comus
- Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project: The Shire (Complete) Rise Up Comus
- Eastfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
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- The Green Fields - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- A Tour of the Southfarthing - Middle-earth Hexcrawl Rise Up Comus
- The Marish - Middle-earth Hexmap Rise Up Comus
- On the Road from the Three-farthing Stone to the Bridge of Stonebows - Middle-earth Hexmap Rise Up Comus
- Took Country - Middle-earth Hexmap Project Rise Up Comus
- The North Moors - Middle-earth Hexmap Project Rise Up Comus
- Troubles in the Northfarthing Rise Up Comus
- From Little Delving to Nobottle to Long Cleeve Rise Up Comus
- Five Hexes Around Michel Delving Rise Up Comus
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The following system is in use in my Murdicog's Manse game. A couple people had asked for details, so I'm making it a separate post. Instead of rolling the usual six ability...Linked by the ring
- The 46er - May 2026 Table 46
- The Weedian (An ODnD Class) The Black Citadel
- Sacred Numbers: Alternative Birth-Signs Hags
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In this post, I argue that hexcrawls don't need to have a key for every hex, and might even be better if they don't.1 My perspective on this is influenced by my experience...
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The countdown on itch.io for the Antarctic Adventure Jam has run down. The jam is thus "over". Participants in the jam keyed areas covering nearly 5,000 hexes, an area roughly...
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I've been running Murdicog's Manse with the Underworld & Wilderness Adventures dungeon encounter tables. These provide nothing aside from the type of monster encountered...Linked by the ring
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The proposition: session reports are worth writing even if nobody reads them.1 1.Writing a session report is part of prepping for your next session. Whether or not the reports...Linked by the ring
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Last year I ran eight sessions of Castle Mordengard, my first time refereeing an OD&D campaign. It is currently on indefinite hiatus (for reasons given below), so I wanted to...Linked by the ring
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Please forgive me for indulging in a bit of pedantry. I've been brewing up this post for a while -- a recent discussion on the Purple OSR server reminded me of it, but I'm...Linked by the ring
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Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked about nearly as often:...Linked by the ring
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Jumping on a blog bandwagon pitched by Weird Writer of Roll to Doubt. Before a CampaignI always start with maps, usually one of the campaign overworld and one of the main...Linked by the ring
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I recently ran across a neat thread from 2008 on the Dragonsfoot forums where Geoffrey McKinney of Carcosa & Mike's Dungeon/World fame pitched the idea of treating the Holmes...Linked by the ring
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For the Antarctic Adventure Jam I'm working on keying ~950 hexes. I've been hand-stocking (a departure from my usual approach) and have taken this as an opportunity to test...Linked by the ring
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This is one of my few pieces of tried & true GM advice, developed during my one good 5e campaign but very useful for the OSR games I'm running now. I'm sure I'm not the first...Linked by the ring
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There are great resources for public domain ttrpg art out there (Jalopy Design, Yochai Gal's) but so far I haven't seen anyone mention Project Gutenberg as a source of visual...
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An encounter with the tarot should, therefore, complicate matters. In other words, we benefit most by approaching a tarot reading that amplifies the already intertwined...Linked by the ring
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In the conversation that led to The Mapping Game -- Conventional Dungeon Paradigm, Scribble & I imagined a few additional paradigms that could support a game focused primarily...Linked by the ring
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I have been tagged by Jay_zer0 to write a magic mask for Stella's mask relay. Mistuh has requested to go next. The Mask of Yngta PéDun-hued & nondescript, with a crinkly...Linked by the ring
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I have always found creative writing daunting (thus all my circuitous efforts over 2024 to do anything at all except buckle down & write). But for my Antarctic Adventure Jam...Linked by the ring
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My reaction to this year's Bloggie Nominees is a sense that the 'median culture of play' represented in the list has drifted further from that which I participate in (relative...Linked by the ring
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In Scribbles' REDUX campaign, we've been using character rosters, where each player has a list of (currently) 2-5 characters.1 An ingenious downtime system frequently imposes...Linked by the ring
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The following is a very, very basic introduction to incorporating randomization into a Typst document. Basic random number generationTypst is a functional language -- I am not...Linked by the ring
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Jenx of Gorgon Bones started a bandwagon, so here are some things I enjoyed as a youngster that still bounce around my head when I'm running &/or making stuff for games. Will...Linked by the ring
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I claim that footnotes1 are an under-utilized typographical tool for TTRPG texts, one that I have increasingly adopted2 for my forays into DIY elfgaming. I find it strange &...Linked by the ring
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Just a dungeon dressing table; there are many like it but this one's mine. It's arranged so that a 1 on the first die is always some kind of empty room (shout out to this post...Linked by the ring
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BackgroundPrismatic Wasteland recently posted Slush Magic, describing a WIP magic-word system grouped into five 'schools': I never liked D&D’s schools of magic. It just felt a...Linked by the ring
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I made a collection of over 100 6-mile hex maps covering most of the Earth's surface. 6-mile Hex Atlas of Earth by idraluna-archives I'm aware of a couple defunct attempts at...Linked by the ring
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There's lots to love & hate about Geoffrey Mckinney's Carcosa, but one feature that never fails to ignite my imagination is the bizarre naming convention used for high-level...Linked by the ring
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I like the idea of using dungeon stocking procedures but usually find them fiddly & time-consuming. I also find it hard to limit myself to procedural generation when I spend so...Linked by the ring
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One of the first things players usually notice about OD&D is the way abilities are de-emphasized relative to later editions. STR, INT, & WIS have no mechanical effect other...Linked by the ring
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Though it's been over a month since I posted an update on my Antarctic hexcrawl, the work continues. I've mostly been making piecemeal improvements to my stocking tables. This...Linked by the ring
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Earlier this year, I sorted the spell list for my campaign into 14 themed grimoires. I've found this to be a nice middle ground between 'mages get free spells from the ether...Linked by the ring
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This post is a submission to the January 2024 blog carnival and, after a fashion, the start of my own version of lore24. A while ago I used real-world data (with some...Linked by the ring
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This post was initially written for Prismatic Wasteland's January 2023 resolution mechanic blog challenge. It definitely doesn't meet the challenge's desired originality --...Linked by the ring