Kennis & Kennis, MADRID SCIENTIFIC FILMCavemen have formal names (those with stretched vowels) and informal (without stretched vowels). Addressing a caveman with their full...

     An Oiligan Soldier by An illustratorA selection of materials I wrote for Idraluna Archives behemothic Antarctica Adventure Project. I extend deepest thanks to An...

Put the Meta in Metamagic. Make spells feel uncanny and your players embarrassed. Material components, rituals, somatic elements: what if they were META? Extradiegetic? The...

 Pulmonoscorpius Paleoart by Vitor SilvaThree Hexes you could insert into your campaign - one island, one coastal, one oceanic. These hexes also represent my infinitesimally...

 by Odd Nerdrumd30 Weirder Weather-Months:This is part two of my weather trilogy. In Part One I made up a yearly calendar of weather with each month being composed of a single...

The Cloud, Odd NerdrumI asked myself, "Why must the Weather change?"The weather and the calendar are one and the same. 13 Weather-Months of 4 weeks each. 364 days. No...

Herein I present a smorgasbord - a spittlesome spitball - of dumb ideas (most half-formed) for meta, extradiegetic gimmicks and novelties relating to magic and spell...

The Bad Durrenberg ShamanHD: 1d6Level as: Magic-UserSave as: FighterWeapons: AnyArmour: Shields only, see belowFights as: No progression, see below. You are What You Wear: A...

 The word for food is slugs.by VergvotreThe following is the collated work of the late Emeritus Master and Polar Explorer Wimm Oxwoe, who through some mysterious method (now,...

Select thy snackSome proper dungeon bushtucker. Hey, don’t be squeamish, it's free HP.For when your players are truly beasts. While quick to eat they are somewhat bilious,...

Swift-hunter, Man-tamer,Talon-footed, Axe-beak,You play as these guys but if they were friends.Class Concept: This is a two character class. You play as both a sentient, Killer...

Yeah, I wrote these notes when I should have been being professional. It’s rough, ephemeral, unimpressive content and non-exhaustive but I was surprised by how little content...

Pushed into motion by the Appendix N Jam (find my entry here) I have engaged in an intensive, rigourous (and two-fisted) period of study, research and legwork looking into the...

   Low Tidings is a defensive one shot for Old School Essentials. Chiefly inspired by Fritz Lieber's legendary, picaresque Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series of stories, tales whose...

Lo, warriors! In ill caverns, places-weird and ruins-haunted, squat and gibber; lair-lurks, foul fiends, sea-things and stooped troglodytes, all atop spilling heaps of...

Some find that torches and light management generally to be easily forgotten during play. Something easily glossed over. This omission comes, often unknowingly, to the...

The Hunting Die - Improving Encounter Rolls or, a Predatory Encounters/Underclock AlternativeRather recently, I shared PREDATORY ENCOUNTERS which is a method to increase the...

PREDATORY ENCOUNTERS - IMPROVING THE ENCOUNTER DIE WITH TENSION, STEALTH & DUNGEON REACTIVITY, OR - A SIMPLE UNDERCLOCK ALTERNATIVEDo you want encounters to occur more...

Beneath the light of a blood-red star, a loping horde of savage hominids cross a primeval plain - a scantily-clad maiden slung across the sinewy shoulders of their brutish...

Bodies Shall Be Broken: A Free-Form Wound and Dismemberment System for TTRPGs.- Lets lose some body parts.Once per level (e.g. once at level one, again at level two, and so on)...

This post is for Loch of the Nothic’s Eye blog. I have previously written of the arctic, with the post; Doomed Polar Expeditions to Dread Hyperborea. This post shares some...

A particularly 'high STR, low INT' adolescence Ability Scores as Origin Stories3d6 down the line? Not this time. What if the process for rolling a character’s ability scores...

Hwæt! This tale begins in those earliest days when the Elves first awoke, when the world was not, and all things were beautiful. And the elves, whose fascinations were...

  And lo! From the ancient depths of misty primeval jungles and the murky, antediluvian, ruined worlds beneath our own, there emerged the Ape! Hirsute, thick-thewed and...

Throughout the entire RPG blogosphere in July 2024 this mysterious incantation was muttered, chanted, ululated unerringly and with great enrapt fervour: "Words! Linguistics,...

Or; On the Names of the QuernfolkA Wennish penny pamphlet pithily titled 'an unbelievable account of the atrocious apparitional attack on a sleeping and sickly Miss Dyedred by...

Canto II, Tom Phillips, 1981This July I will be stepping-in to host the RPG Blog Carnival. The premise is simple: create a piece of RPG content in-keeping with the month's...

Who are these fellas and what are their names? Groupe de sorciers by Lucas RousselMillions of names!Each name is made of three parts. A made-up morpheme, an English word and an...

This generator is based on my Simple Card-Driven Personality Generation post but repurposed for a solo game I am currently playing which is set in a tropey, savage and primeval...

No party wants to sit and watch another player fight a duel. I have and after a point, it's no fun at all. This is the inherent problem with duels in RPGs. Here's a relatively...