I was introduced to Tekumel in the 1980's with the books Man of Gold, and then Flamesong, by M.A.R. Barker (published by DAW). I bought and collected several games that I never...

This is me just trying to explain why I like and love older games. Why do I like Paranoia! but love Metamorphosis Alpha? Why do I like 3E D&D but love OD&D (plus Grey Hawk)?...

I blogged recently about playing in jay_zer0's Arduin Arcade The Howling Tower! Session #2 https://zer0.bearblog.dev/arduin-arcade-session-2-the-howling-tower/ . This has got...

This will be the briefest notes I can outline for this session. I also want to talk about what worked as a GM/DM in the session. Jantos Redspear (B.R.), and Arax (C.), were...

Note: I going to write this as a GM's notes. Detail will be missing. My goal is to convey a very brief summary of the session, and my thoughts on what how ideas worked. We were...

This exciting session: Bala (an Inpala Tribe Praxian, and Waha Initiate); Jantos Red Spear (an Esrolian Lodril Initiate); and Sequester (an Orlanth Initiate of the Praxian...

We join our heroes: Arax, the theist (a Daka Fal and Flesh Man initiate); Bala (an Inpala Tribe Praxian, and Waha Initiate); Jantos Red Spear (an Esrolian Lodril Initiate);...

Play report of highlights I recall from Super Adventure 4: Cinematic Edition--The Tower of Collage Van Hausen! Dungeon Master warenunförmig againstthecultofthecommodity . I was...

Game One, Friday night. Session five of Griffin Mountain, as GM. I tried several times to prep for this by rolling some extra encounters to mix in to the main course, a...

We join our Heroes for this session: Daranth (Hawkeyes); Grundle (N.); and Rosrolar (Strozek) in the middle of a Smilodon hunt. Olyander (Oly) was absent for part of the...

In this session the players: Arax, the theist (a Daka Fal and Flesh Man initiate); Bala (an Inpala Tribe Praxian, and Waha Initiate); Jantos Red Spear (an Esrolian Lodril...

This session opened with the party divided, Daranth (Hawkeyes) and Grundle (N.) had gained entry into Elkoi citadel. They had decided to party all through the night at the...

I blogged recently about playing in Dungeon Master (here after DM) jay_zer0's Arduin Arcade The Howling Tower! Session #2 (...

I finally gathered enough people for a Runequest 2 (Here after RQ) game set in Pavis and Big Rubble. I had five players online from all around the world. Session Zero went...

This week I had the pleasure of playing twice, once in a long running Harn world Campaign game, and the other in a Arduin OD&D (Original D&D) game set in...a Dungeon (for one...

Star Marauders! RPG. Releasing on May 10th, 2026. "Marauders crave riches, infamy and violent death. They travel the far reaches of space, striking fear into the hearts of all...

Some say this mask for beholding, Some say this mask is cool, I say this mask for confusing, It makes me look a fool... Upside, d o w n and outside in... This mask is MADE of...

Star Marauders! RPG. Releasing on May 10th, 2026. "Marauders crave riches, infamy and violent death. They travel the far reaches of space, striking fear into the hearts of all...

Principles of GM/DMing a game. Keep It simple. The famous KIS Principle. Most players don't need to know all the optional rules, or even most of the Core Rules of a game if the...

Roll call this week: Daranth (Played by Oldhawkeyes) a Storm Bull warrior; Grundle (Played by N.) a native Balazaring tribesman guide; Olyander (played by Oly) a Lhankor Mhy...

Notes: I will probably misremember something from twenty some years ago, and you may want to start with the first post in this (sub)series. Joining T. and I for this game was...

Now I had to break it to my players that I was going to be using Openquest rpg instead of RQ2 Classic. I lost one player to a switch in his jobs hours. The other two decided to...

So now I had one player for RQ Classic, and the next day a second fellow asked to join. Shortly thereafter he asked if he could invite his friend to the Game. So all of a...

Note: if you haven't read my previous posts in this (2003-04) series I recommend you start there. Also these are twenty plus year old memories, inaccuracies are inevitable....

Note, this is based on memories from over twenty years ago so there are inaccuracies. The first Griffin Mountain game I GM/DMed was based on ideas copied or stolen from books,...

After my first attempt at Runequest 2/Classic failed I was actually sad and more than a bit depressed. I contacted the Official Chaosium Discord server and talked about it....

(I added this TL;DR if I'm not having fun preparing a game system for use it matters to me.) Rather than discuss if game system matters I'm going to show when it matters to me...

For another view on the Session see unturnedhovel Between Sessions I discussed with the players the idea that all were related as cousins, or Blood-Brothers/Sisters. The only...

Our game is on an alternating week schedule, and this was our off week. I was delighted to see our final party member land in the Discord. We were joined by two other group...

Now I had a game system (OpenQuest rpg), a setting (Griffin Mountain), and I needed players. I started by recruiting from the Rainbow OSR server. After a couple of days I...