rootring
rooted in blogs, linked in a ringStuffed Crocodile
Visit site Feed Incoming links Search this blog
On the ring since 2026-06-25
Latest activity 15y ago
407 posts
Brick
Older posts · Back to profile
Earlier
-
It’s my own fault. Instead of having my first Call of Cthulhu session ever today (after months of having no time for anything) I got roped into doing yet another shift at work....
-
Okay, by now we all have heard about the usual suspects already. Yes, everybody knows that Vin Diesel, Wil Wheaton, even Robin Williams played the game. Stephen Colbert did not...
-
One thing that I haven’t heard mentioned anywhere in the last few years are the Netbooks. Not those small and handy computers everybody went crazy for the last few years. No, I...
-
Whatever happened to all those wonderful traps of yore? I know that traps in dungeons always seem to be a bit superflous in the modern systems (“Roll if you see something! You...
-
NOTE: All of these links are dead. The post is only here for historical reasons. For updated links go to [Tools] Free Character Portraits Redux Wizards of the Coast PC...
-
For some reason the German translations of the Midkemia Press books were 1. having different names for pretty much everything and 2. had much better covers. Especially the...
-
I just found that Midkemia Press has free downloads of their modules “The Black Tower” and “Towns of the Outlands” available on their website (look at the bottom of the...
-
Now that makes me all warm and fuzzy: someone posted about using my 2010 One Page Dungeon for their game. And they seemed to like it. Excellent.
-
Back in the 90s (starting with Moving Pictures) Terry Pratchett (yet to be knighted) changed his German publisher. A rather radical move in the market for someone who had been...
-
It’s the best time to make some plans for the future and it’s time to be happy. I’ve read this post and if I could I desire to suggest you some interesting things or advice....
-
Vinir No. Enc.: 2d4 (1d6x5) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 120’ (40’) Armor Class: 6 Hit Dice: 2 Attacks: 1 (weapon) Damage: 1d6 or weapon Save: F2 Morale: 9 Hoard Class: XIX...
-
Henchman (NPC Class) Requirements: None Prime Requisite: DEX Hit Dice: 1d6 Maximum Level: 6 Attack: As 0-level human Saves: As Thief Henchmen, the unsung heroes of the dungeon....
-
Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor.
-
Sometimes I wonder how this hobby managed to survive nearly 40 years… So, this was the level of humour in 1977? (yeah, I wasn’t even alive back then, so?) Very interesting:...
-
Way back in April (basically the Dark Ages in internet terms) Jeff Rients introduced a set of 20 questions for quickly fleshing out a fantasy campaign. Brillant idea. It just...
-
The Evil GM is wondering if Heroica by Lego might help us getting kids hooked on RPGs. And all of a sudden I am reminded of the times when D&D was the scourge of the Earth for...
-
Adventurers Needed! Desmond, Baron of Byrkwood, has a proposal for the characters: he spent a large sum for a custom-made set of dwarven weapon and armor for his eldest son, it...
-
Influences What always struck me as one of the best parts of Das Schwarze Auge was the wonderful way religion was handled in the background, especially in the early editions....
-
There are things one might expect from a movie like “Detective Dee and the Phantom Flame” and logic is not one of them. Still, the essential Chineseness, the unabashed...
-
Okay, this one is not intended to give you Dracula, this one is more that kind of folk legend vampire that is so common over the whole of Europe. I imagine them more to be some...
-
What? No, seriously, what? (No, I don’t know anything about this module. I just found it on a website, never saw the module itself)
-
So it was another day in the big city for me, and it must have been around 2000. The “big city” it was because it was the next town with Gaming Shops (in this case Bayreuth,...
-
Ratogres No. Enc.: 1d4 (2d6) Alignment: Chaotic Movement: 90’ (30’) Armor Class: 4 Hit Dice: 4 + 1 Attacks: 1 (club or bite) Damage: 1d10 or 1d8 Save: F4 Morale: 10 Hoard...
-
Ratmen No. Enc.: 2d6 (6d10) Alignment: Chaotic Movement: 60’ (20’) Armor Class: 6 Hit Dice: 1 Attacks: 1 (weapon or bite) Damage: 1d6 Save: 0 level human Morale: 8 Hoard Class:...
-
And a few small items for buffing up my Martian Bloodeaters from before. I think I should have created more potions, mostly because according to the treasure tables those are...
-
Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible,...
-
At the end of our last session we were discussing some of the more obscure games we had found over the time of our roleplaying career. Not that most of my players have that...
-
Martian Hematophage No. Enc.: 2d6 (4d6) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 30’ (10’) Armor Class: 8 Hit Dice: 4 Attacks: 2 Damage: Tentacles (1d4) or Beak (1d6), or according to...
-
My version of the UPP for Trane. For some reason I took some liking to this small world. But well, my players already wanted to move on. Trane HEX LOCATION: 2038 UWP: C639422-B...
-
Well, so finally I manage to get a group together for Traveller. Basically it was the same as my Das Schwarze Auge crew, with the addition of another of my colleagues. The...