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By the way, did anyone already mention the OSR Search to you? It’s a search engine that searches only Old School Renaissance sources (mostly blogs). So if anyone would like to...
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One of the ideas I just was having while thinking about the Wilderlands and their inherent danger was the amount of Undead one might encounter. Where do all these come from...
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The only game I found which handled multiclassing in an elegant and simple way was D&D 3.X. And I had my gripes with that as well, the least being that it demanded a complete...
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I haven’t really been playing MMORPGs lately, not since I switched over to a Linux system in 2006, and so I am not really current with a whole lot of things here. MMORPGs never...
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A while back I was thinking about thief skills in D&D. According to the rules they are just for the Thief class, but how much sense does that make? Oh well, we are talking D&D,...
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I was looking for some interesting programs a while ago, and this popped up on my radar. I came across it when I was looking for ambient music for my games last year, but right...
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I normally take pride in going against first impressions and looking at the core of things to see what these things actually are worth. A while ago I looked into Hârn as a...
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I was lately thinking if it might be possible to have a bit more metagaming aspects in the development of my campaigns. Yes, I know, metagaming is EVUL! but I thought it might...
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Hmm… I was reading up on Gamma World (because I was thinking about doing some post-apocalyptic one-shot at one point) and came across this on Grognardia: Like many old school...
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This is an actual board from a cheap collection of generic games I bought a while ago. I would lie if I said I did not buy this exactly for this board. I had hoped for a few...
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Over the years there have been multiple attempts [1] to create a Doctor Who RPG. Unfortunately those were not as successful as one would expect. The last incarnation, Cubicle...
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Usenet was the first discussion board on the Internet, way before there were things like the world wide web or anything really graphical. Yes, there was a time when the...
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Turns out my post on robot horses was not completely off the mark, someone is currently developing something similar (and for the US forces no less): a pack-mule robot. The...
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The September 2012 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download. This month’s feature article is “Underworld Characters”, an expanded character generation...
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A Sky Full of Ships is a nice and very basic looking space combat system that I have been looking into lately. It simulates space combat between single ships rather nicely, and...
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Perry Rhodan is THE mainstay of German science fiction. Now in it’s fourth or fifth generation of authors and having broken the mark of 2600 issues in it’s main series...
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This might be of interest for at least some people: I recently came across http://olduse.net/ which is a historical exhibit. It posts Usenet posts as they were posted exactly...
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I had some time the last few days. I spent some days in the mountains with my girlfriend, just us, with cold showers and no internet or phone reception. And only one computer....
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Satboys Needed: planet with low to mid tech level and/or low population Artifical satellites are one of the main tools of interstellar civilization. Often they are one of the...
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Planetes is an excellent Japanese anime about debris haulers in space. The series is rather mature and thanks to the involvement of the Japanese Space Agency JAXA also one of...
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needed: E or D starport on small colony. Father John Xubulr has a problem: he is the priest for the local community on this godforsaken planet (or at least the only one at it’s...
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It’s possible. I thought so when I first read the rules, but it just happened to me. Without the famous Iron Man rules proposed by Mongoose even. For a short explanation:...
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Martian Dice Game… In Martian Dice you will roll 13 custom dice in an effort to set aside (abduct) Humans, Chickens, and Cows. With each roll you must first set aside any...
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Just some further details regarding Death: Other Deaths Sometimes different people can take on the role of Death when he is unavailable or otherwise busy. Technically this...
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I would be really interested in the history of this gem. Like this I only can describe it from what it says in the book itself, and that is not much. It still is fascinating....
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Monopoly is one of these games everybody has played at one point or another. Everybody knows how to play that game. Hell, most likely everybody reading this has a set of that...
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Now this one goes back to the early days of the hobby, and straight before the time when I got interested in the whole thing. Or rather: it fits in there in my first phase of...
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To my surprise nobody in my gaming group has ever played Settlers of Catan. Now, I am not a hardcore boardgamer, and Settlers, while fun and one of the best examples for modern...
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The Rite of Ashk-Ente Wizard 8* Duration: 48 turns Range: 10’ This spell summons Death (or whoever fills his role at this time) into a circle and allows the caster to ask any...