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Somewhere in the 2009-2011 range, when I was just discovering the OSR scene, I ran across a retroclone which stuck out to me and zoomed up into my favorites for quite some...Linked by the ring
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After many years, I've finally gotten my brains together enough to start running a Legacy of the Bieth campaign again. It's brief spurts -- 2-3 hours over Discord -- but I need...
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Preamble -- On Helicopters and Hugos: Last year, an author named Isabel Fall wrote an amazing milSF story in Clarkesworld magazine, now titled "Helicopter Story," but...
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While I try to put together two actual posts of my own, here are a few recent(ish) OSR blog posts that I thought were interesting/compelling, and a little bit about why I...Linked by the ring
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The past few months have had me in an odd place re: gaming and publishing, and I've definitely been feeling burnt out. But stepping away from Twitter to get away from The...
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Inspired by a query from ZharethZhen on Reddit.4e D+D introduced the minion - a variant of a monster defined by having just a single hit point. This has utility in classic D+D...
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I just finished up a GenCon Online panel, War at the Table, with Basheer Ghouse. You should all go check out Basheer's work here. This was a heck of a lot of fun, and I really...
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Axes + Orcs has been tirelessly diving into the Troika design space, creating oodles of backgrounds. He got me inspired to write this up and submit it to the ongoing TroikaJam...
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Ba Chim seal of approval! (Art by Dreadbeasts) I posted this on RPG.net but it bears reposting (and expanding) here: Not quite RPG related, but Hydra heads Trey, Jason, and...
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Special thanks to Kazumi Chin, Fiona Geist, Camilla Greer, Michael Lombardi, and Robert Parker for their feedback and guidance. The design space associated with OSR games is...Linked by the ring
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“Portrait de Jeune Noir avec Arc” Hyacinthe Rigaud. Special thanks to Jerry Grayson and Lloyd Gyan for their input and guidance. Chill-of-Death and Unflinching-Gaze! The...
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Firstly: a salute to Evlyn M, an artist who was formerly a vibrant part of the online OSR community, but who has since withdrawn as a result of toxicity in the scene. Evlyn...
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James Introcaso, over at Worldbuilder Blog, released his own Appendix N a while back, and asked folks to contribute theirs. Attentive readers will recall that I've written one,...Linked by the ring
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I did one of these in late July - seems overdue for another roundup. Here's a curated list of "Some Stuff I Thought Was Cool," and discussing what I liked/found interesting...
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"And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control (of a game through preselected verbs and...
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Feline Incense Burner - LouvreKhorasan or Central Asia, 11th Century A talisman is a spirit within a body...it is domination because its essence is coercion and control. It...
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Putrefaction A scent that cursed be Crawler from The Descent (2005) Under cold dark dust From the darkness Rise a succubus From the earthen rust - Ghost, "Ghuleh / Zombie...
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Over on G+, there's been some discussion about how the blogosphere is dead and gone -- how the environment that made it fruitful no longer exists to provide a viable discussion...
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So. Stuff is awful in the real world. Hell, between the time I started this blog post and the time I'm writing this sentence, things have gotten worse. I urge folks reading...
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A brief plug before the main entry: the Hydra Cooperative is participating in a Hurricane Harvey relief bundle on DriveThruRPG, running through 9/12/2017. Pick up over $400 of...
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Firstly, a shoutout of thanks to Trey Causey for creating the badass blog banner above. I've gotta do a full site redesign at some point. Secondly... I was talking with Strix a...
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The astrologers gaze up at the heavens and say that the world is a pebble in a vast sea, that it and other pebbles circle the Sun, and that all that is and all that is yet to...
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Started listening to the Dead Games Society podcast. Their latest episode deals with early Battletech and MechWarrior, a subject near and dear to my heart. WHM on the move....
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Blogging has fallen off here at Legacy of the Bieth. (Was it ever on?) But it's for the best of reasons. Firstly -- I'm continuing to work with the Hydra Cooperative; earlier...
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I haven't been blogging as much as I'd like, so I put out a call for questions. "The Lady" Nicolas R. Giacondino Evan asked me "How do I get into Dark Heresy stuff if I...
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Mihrdya The "new" capital, only a hundred years old or so; the central citadel, hewn out of the rock underneath an impenetrable azure dome of Bieth manufacture; divided into...
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SR: Dragonfall So after playing through Shadowrun: Dragonfall last year, I started to get the hankering to get some tabletop Shadowrun in. This year, I've begun running a...
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Much pleased with the peace and good order of the city, the Caliph and his vizir made their way to a bridge, which led straight back to the palace, and had already crossed it,...
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A few days ago, Trey wrote about his preferences in play for gaming, after being instigated by known rabblerousers and troublemakers Jack and Paul. This looks like a neat...
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Halfway home they fought to see who should marry the woman. The powder spoke between them. Our man killed four, and took the woman home and married her. - "The Ogre and the...