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I was reminiscing about skills in Das Schwarze Auge again the last few days, mostly while trying to think about ways of including the parts I really liked into my own DnDish...
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[Labyrinth Lord] Tomb of the Serpent Kings Session 1 (also MapTool) A while ago I started playing with some people on an online server. That was about the time when I decided...
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This is a 28 page “temple-crawling adventure” written by Munkao ostensibly for Into the Odd and Cairn (but actually largely system-agnostic), and set in the South-East Asian...
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Dungeons and Dragons was published 50 years ago, and almost immediately afterwards ‘zines and magazines appeared to give players and DMs more material to work with. And even...
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XVI 100 Village Notable Features (OSRVault) d10 Graveyard Dressing (Azukail Games) d12 Mysterious Vapours & Miasmas (Elfmaids & Octopi) DnD...
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XV In the beginning I thought I’d manage to make this a weekly kind of article. But sometimes I barely get a morsel of content for it,...
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Here’s a campaign starter I was thinking about using at one point soon: You are the hired help. You start as grunts, torchbearers, henchmen, wizard apprentices, etc. And you...
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Extracted images from 1688 maps (itch.io) D20 Things that can go wrong with too many Hirelings (Archons March On) OSR Psychic Powers (Remixes and Revelations) About those girls...
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I was searching through some old files on one of my storage disks when I came across this book again: Write Your Own Fantasy Games For Your Microcomputer by Les Howarth and...
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A bit late with this one, holiday season was way too busy for my taste, and I got distracted by some retro-computing projects (like my irrational fondness for Usenet and...
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Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much...
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The last few weeks I have been unduly fascinated by Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, a 2019 game that was supposed to make the whole of human evolution playable in a...
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This time a few more links than last week. Maybe even too many this time. News Reprint of Shadowrun 1st edition in the works (enworld) Random Tables d100 – Weird and Whimsical...
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I am currently going through a lot of trainings, and specifically I am doing something to work on my SQL knowledge. I only have hovered around the edges of the topic before....
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Thought In Defense of the Murderhobo (Grognardia) GM Aid Fairy Circles (Tales of the Lunar Lands) Paper Models The Village House (papermau) Sasayama Castle Paper Model...
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So I read a few articles the last few weeks about a new Dungeons and Dragons TV channel created by Hasbro which was supposed to launch soon. I didn’t look too deep into it. The...
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I actually have not had much time this week for blogging, even reading my feeds was an issue. Which is sad because there was a rather juicy amount of stuff to be found in them....
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Sometimes Britain is really weird. I was writing a post about money in Dungeons and Dragons when I remembered something odd we encountered when visiting Northern Ireland back...
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RPG History 1983: Enterprise – Role Play Game in Star Trek (Reviews from R’Lyeh) Game Aids Recovered: Other Crews (Benign Brown Beast) Bandits! Bandits! – an underrated...
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So let’s go through Das Schwarze Auge scenario B15 Im Spinnenwald (In Spiderwood), part of the 3-part campaign Die Entdeckung des Orklandes (The Discovery of Orkland) from...
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I have some nostalgic fondness for Flash Gordon. As I do for Prince Valiant, and the Phantom. Not actually because I read so many newspaper strips when I was a kid, except the...
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People don’t really differentiate between authors’ voices when discussing roleplaying game scenarios. There’s a bit of it when people are really into it. They will talk about...
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It turns out “Gantlet” is an archaic form of “Gauntlet”, still technically in use, but I assume most people coming across this might not recognize this. Not even native...
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Thought Loose Ends from Written Modules (Seed of Worlds) Surprising Surprise rules (Cave of the Dice Chucker) Hobgoblin Monks the Erasers of Afterlife Identity (I cast light!)...
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Let’s go through Das Schwarze Auge adventure B13 Der Streuner Soll Sterben (The Vagrant Shall Die) It has the secondary title Das Blutgericht von Thalusa (The Blood Court of...
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I have been working on my own setting for a while now, and I even used it in a few short games already. But I maybe really should put down what I actually want from the...
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Here’s a few ideas about Vancian magic in my setting: Magic is rare Wizards know they know only a tiny amount of the spells that their predecessors knew. Their response to this...
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Sigh. I now have taken my first step in collecting Pokémon cards, on account of my 7yo having doubles he thinks he doesn’t need. He was so proud of me having my own I could...
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I never had such a great opinion on NPC classes as they were published in supplementary material for Dungeons and Dragons. Chiefly magazines, but in 3rd edition at least they...