Hack & Slash

On the Ecology of Elementals - "The earth itself stood against us. Fire walked. What can we do against such enormity?" -Cadrene Sergeant Allanso Illon, shortly before his execution. *No...
1 hour ago
BASTIONLAND

Bastion's Metroclimate - This was touched on in a previous age, but it's worth stressing that conditions in Bastion are never quite *fine. *There's always something to complain a...
7 hours ago
CROSS PLANES

RPGaDAY Day 3 Tactic - Hmmm...Tactic. Many of the RPG groups have used tactics to varying degrees of success. My Divine Soul Human Sorcerer, Clete, isn't very tactically incli...
10 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Fyzix’s Fleshbound Pendant - Fyzix’s Fleshbound Pendant Eznar the Elusive slipped quietly into the ancient temple. Missing stones in the roof here and there provided just enough light ...
23 hours ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

New Potion Fruits 01 - Prickly PearCherries. For some reason when assigning the fruit part of potion fruits, cherries are the first fruit to pop into my mind. It is perhaps bec...
1 day ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

On Fudging The Dice - Been a while, hasn't it? And now Ya Girl is back with her hot opinions. I'm doing discourse. God help me. here is a photo, because the algorithm likes tha...
1 day ago
Axes and Orcs

Troika List Update - Happy Monday Yall I've done some updates to the Troika List.Adding new things.Cleaning up links.A few titles had name and link changes, so I fixed those.A...
1 day ago
Utherwald Press

August 2021: Alyeskan Gazetteer - Scrapper's Island - Certainly been a while since we've had a Gazetteer post, so probably high time that was addressed. As ever this serves to explore the untamed wilds and ...
2 days ago
Archon's Court

OL519 Actual Play - ISK Halamandaris - This was the first session of Orbiters Local 519, back before it was fully complete. Luckily, the game really didn't change much during development (though...
2 days ago
Applied Phantasticality

#RPGaDay 2021 Begins - This year, I am participating in #RPGaDay2021 in the same manner as the previous two years, i.e. tweeting my daily responses throughout the month of Augu...
2 days ago
The Tao of D&D

Writing - A party joining together in D&D collaborating on goals and objectives will traditionally sort themseloves according to their class. Like any entity wishin...
2 days ago
Box Full of Boxes

Magic, Madness, & Sadness Part VI - A Handy Guide To Non-Existence - *Then an angel of the **Lord**appeared to him… When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: “**B**e * *not...
3 days ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Empirical Data on Spell Levels? - You know these researchers who published *a paper in PLOS ONE* are massive nerds. Because the paper determines how hard people think it should be to produc...
6 days ago
AnarchyDice

Avalanche Caldera - I finished my OPD 2021 entry for this year. It is a collection of islands of cooled rock in a steamy, temperate lake of lava. Something is keeping this ope...
6 days ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: The Monster Overhaul Update - Main Text Complete - All 20 monster chapters of the *Monster Overhaul* are complete! Iguanamouth In their revised order: 1 2 3 4 5 *People* *Dungeon* *Dragon* *Thinking Beast...
6 days ago
The 3 Toadstools

Seven months of isle of dread comes to a hiatus - We've just finished up a dungeon on the Isle and have decided to switch DMs for a bit. If we don't get back to the game, I'm quite happy with the resul...
1 week ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

Starship Blueprints - I've written these rules for a Star Wars game, but they can be sufficiently genericized for any space combat rpg. These are intended to handle ships the ap...
1 week ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[REVIEW] She Who is a Fortress in Dark Water - She Who is a Fortress in Dark Water*She Who is a Fortress in Dark Water (2021)* by Phillip Loe Self-published on https://captainahabsleg.blogspot.com/ L...
2 weeks ago
BEARDED DEVIL

Building Gossamer, Part 7 – The Verdant Quarter - The Verdant Quarter is now complete, meaning that the entire Gossamer map is likewise finished: Link to a more detailed image of the Verdant Quarter. Link ...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

The popularity of tabletop roleplaying and explosive growth in digital sales. Interesting DrivethruRPG numbers yet again. - So recently I visited a Barnes and Nobles for the first time in forever. While looking through the store I came across this. and in a bit of a surpris...
2 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

I cast magic missile - I was walking along Queen Street East in my neighbourhood this morning when I came upon a television or movie crew working outside of a coffee shop. This i...
2 weeks ago
Unlawful Games

The Book of GAUB is LIVE! - [image: Project] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lost-pages/the-book-of-gaub Story A finger trails the letters across a dusty tome. A finger poi...
3 weeks ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
4 weeks ago
Against The Wicked City

Publish or Perish: d100 reasons your wizard had to drop out of academia and become an adventurer instead - My department has been interviewing for new academic posts this week - and as I contemplated the mountain of incoming job applications, the vast majority...
5 weeks ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

End-of-Spring 2021 Update - It’s almost summer, and well past due for some updates. The next issue of AntherZine was supposed to be a Spring issue; it’s going to be late, but it is we...
1 month ago
Tarsos Theorem

SEACAT Collab! - I'm joining Luka as a co-designer of SEACAT! That's already quite exciting, but what is also awesome is I will be building an official digital SRD/com...
1 month ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Spherical Angels and the Gods They Serve - Angels are an enemy that my players have fought quite a few times over the years. These angels are nakedly technological - basically Modrons with a slice o...
1 month ago
Break!!

Small Update - Once again a few months pass and while we continue to work on things, a lot of them don't make for very good blog updates. Still, I can share some of th...
2 months ago
An Abominable Fancy

The Starshut Rules - This summer might require some one-shot filler sessions for one of my campaigns, as various players wander off on vacations. Feeling some nostalgia for S...
2 months ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Project Update Video -
2 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

Nymph Class (Gorgon Crawl Classics) - The Nymph has been the hardest class for me to put together for Gorgon Crawl Classics. It started off as a simple reskin of the Elf, a kinda-fighty spellca...
3 months ago
…and the sky full of dust.

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on theskyfullofdust.
4 months ago
A Swamp in Space

Mazes and Monsters - Hello all! It's been quite a while. Frankly, I've not had the time, discipline --not to get obsessed and sink all my time into blogging and RPGs--, or i...
5 months ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

40 Years in Fantasyland - Feb. 13th, 1981 was the day I first played D&D. It took place in an open space between several schoolrooms, and later that day, in an empty classroom, at...
5 months ago
The Benign Brown Beast

Cathedrals - Construction on York Minster Cathedral was finished in 1472, having begun c. 1220. For two-hundred and fifty years, the unfinished cathedral was a part o...
5 months ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! - Today's the day!The day that Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! :D Brought to you by Paolo Greco of Lost Pages (lostpaolo @ Twitter), with lovely art by ...
6 months ago
Flowers for the Titancorpse

The Garden of Orobas inspiration post - I've been working on this before and throughout all of the pandemic and it's not really finished yet. It's a fantasy comic that was originally supposed to ...
9 months ago
Basic Red

Permissions - This is the license for anyone wishing to use, reuse, rewrite, share, or publish anything on this site. I retain full and exclusive possession of all Basi...
9 months ago
ANT-LERRR

Navigating Complex Environments - If you look at Blighttown in Dark Souls, it'd be really boring to run as a dungeon. [image: 1688E9D6BA0D100CEC562ABBDBA7F60AA4C113CE (1920×1080)] The inte...
1 year ago
AL0 Lair of the Megagorgon

Gamma World 12`000 AD - My 20 answers to scraps questions 1. Yes, yes there are, many different types of them. You can play one as mutant animal, you can get one as a mount, no y...
1 year ago
ANXIETY WIZARD

Half-Organized Thoughts About Monsters - When I think of a Monster it's all images and impressions at first, then it eventually settles into something like this, a loose sort of novelistic encyclo...
1 year ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - All Good Things Must Have a Beginning - It has been quite some time since last I posted here on the blog and a lot has changed. 2019 ended and 2020 began, my 1E AD&D face-to-face campaign came t...
1 year ago
1d30

The Elf is Hardcore Mode - In 1E, elves can’t be brought back by 5th level Raise Dead, but they can by 7th level Resurrection or an expensive set of charges from a Rod of Resurrectio...
1 year ago
Animate Kratocracy

1d10 Derelict Ships - I’ve been trying to find good sci-fi/spec-fi material for an OSR-vein game, but I’ve been having trouble. My difficulties can be epitomized in a table...
1 year ago
Buildings Are People

Caverns of Thracia session log: February 2, 2019 - System: B/BX. Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) and Emily (Bagira.) *If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may reques...
1 year ago
....and then what happens?

mini-review: how to encounter - I've been delaying writing this post for a while now, and this thing noisms wrote about shared hallucination/imagination convinced me now is the time. I ba...
1 year ago
Back to the Keep

Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...
1 year ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

What the hell have you done to Stonehell? - I thought I'd increase the difficulty of running Stonehell slightly by reconfiguring the maps slightly. This is the test layout of the first level of the...
1 year ago
By Odin's Beard

The Howling Caverns (5e) - The hunched beast prowls the forest, sniffing at the still air. The roiling sky flashes and thunder breaks the silence. The time is near and the beast sens...
1 year ago
Above the Flatline

Every Day is GURPSDay! - Over at Gaming Ballistic, Doug is trying out doing his GURPSDay pull every day, so now we can see the latest blog posting any day of the week. Go check it ...
1 year ago
Crimhthan The Great's OD&D Blog

Blackmoor Week Day I 2019 - *Blackmoor Week* kicks off today and concludes on October 1st with *Dave Arneson Game Day*. [image: Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor - B-Ware - Sphärenmeisters Spi...
1 year ago
Blessings of the Dice Gods

Best Spam Comment Ever - Wow, I normally wouldn't give any sort of attention to a spam comment, but this was too fantastic to pass up (posted to several of my posts as comments and...
2 years ago
Miscellaneous World of Irregular Projects

Review of Gamemastering by Brian Jamison - Lately, I am reading Gamemastering by Brian Jamison and lets to have all the practicalities out of the way: - you can get it for free on his website or...
2 years ago
aelf

A Day in Deep Debt - Having already committed to making a one page dungeon in the month of April as my first solid contribution to the world TTRPGs, I thought I was set. Of cou...
2 years ago
A Life Full of Adventure

Goodbye Blogger/Blogspot World! - Not only is Google+ riding into the sunset, but I have also established a new blog so as not to be caught unawares the next time Google wants to take a pro...
2 years ago
Ars Magisterii

Magus' Music of 2017 - With 2018 coming to a close, it's time for... my top albums of 2017! (Yeah, 2017. I haven't finished digesting 2018's releases yet, haha - one needs a full ...
2 years ago
Advanced Gaming & Theory

The Great Google+ Exodus - I am irritated. The news says that Google+ was a failure, even though many of us prefer it. I suppose that if you place it up against Facebook, then every...
2 years ago
a blog full of demons

Two Horrible, Imperial Beasts [+ news about Patreon] - *Imperial forces have used cruel and terrible magics, cultivating soul upon soul to subject them to the Anti-energies that pervade the dark, empty spaces o...
3 years ago
Chronicle of a Sundered Era

New Race: Awakened Animals - I'm starting up a new Swords & Wizardry / Heroes of the Sundered Chronicles campaign which will be a 1-on-1 game with my wife. She asked to have a compani...
4 years ago
Captain InterStellar

Is Gravity Control Propulsion viable? - Link to my new article: http://vixra.org/abs/1506.0194
6 years ago

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