BASTIONLAND

Matrices - This *Bastionland Editorial *was originally sent as a reward to all Patreon supporters, and is released freely on this site a week after its original pub...
9 hours ago
CROSS PLANES

Numenera: 20 Rumors in Syzygy - Inspired by Jeff's Gameblog, below are rumors circulating around the city of Syzygy, the setting for my Numenera campaign. Fair warning: Some of th...
14 hours ago
The Tao of D&D

Worldbuilding 4b: Mivior - "When a fighter attains 9th level (Lord), he or she may opt to establish a *freehold*. This is done by building some type of castle and clearing the are...
22 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Orcish Oaken Battle Bow - Orcish Oaken Battle Bow ‘That is not a pretty bow at all,’ Olhmi the priestess commented as Murgi the thief strung the short bow. ‘It doesn’t have to be,’ ...
1 day ago
Coins and Scrolls

Film Notes: Ascension (2021) - *Ascension *(2021) is one of the best films I've seen in the past decade. Tradition Holy Scripture presents a kind of mirror to the eyes of the mind, so ...
2 days ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

Escape the Dark Castle - Game Review - Escape the Dark Castle is a cooperative card game for one to four players. The setup is easy and the rules are simple. A game takes about thirty to forty...
2 days ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

Dungeon Fragment 1-15 - This piece was created to be posted on the 15th, but since the Lunar project came along, and I had the opportunity to share that map, that bumped the space...
3 days ago
Applied Phantasticality

Dungeons & Dragons My Way - If I were to revise *Basic/Expert* *D&D* or *Old School Essentials* for my own purposes (and that's the "edition" I favor), these are the changes I would...
3 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Giants in the Earth and the pre-TSR Known World - Some interesting notes from the original “Known World” *Dungeons and Dragons *campaign setting have been made available for all to enjoy. (See this threa...
3 days ago
AnarchyDice

2021 In Review - 2021 was a year, with a change of jobs, continuing campaign, and generally being pretty busy. My total views this year went up, 4975 from 3560 last year. I...
3 days ago
Box Full of Boxes

Blood-soaked Fields & Corpse-choked Rivers -- a Battlefield Generator - “*The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don’t travel well into literature.” – **Am...
5 days ago
The 3 Toadstools

Gygax challenge map - I think the map is done. I'm leaving some room for additions. A few random ideas. The drej is abandoned but maybe inhabitanted by bandits now. Slain...
6 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Openquest SRD released! - Today the Openquest SRD was released by Newt of D101 Games. Openquest is an D100 RPG based on the open content of the Legends RPG released by Mongoose. I...
1 week ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[REVIEW] Seven Voyages of Zylarthen - *He Fights On!Seven Voyages of Zylarthen (2014/2017)* by Oakes Spalding Published by Campion & Clitherow The list of old-school games is long, and even ...
2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

January 2022: Signing Off - New Year, All Change. Regular readers should hopefully be aware of a pretty major change in personal circumstances for me that is looming soon (the pic ...
3 weeks ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

2021 Year End: Not Much Blogging For Me - Nope, not too much blogging this year. Running a weekly roll20 campaign, with all the statblocks and maps and nice looking tokens, takes time. But that h...
3 weeks ago
Against The Wicked City

Remnants of the Nameless Empire: more monsters from City of Spires - More monsters that my players have run into during my current City of Spires campaign. These ones lean further into science fantasy, as one of the key co...
4 weeks ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

After Gehenna - A concept for a VtM chronicle - OK here's the pitch: You know the concept people throw out sometimes in Vampire games, of a medieval (or pehaps older) vampire who's woken up from a mil...
4 weeks ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

GLOG Item Enchantment - If you have magic dice and know spells you can try to craft items. It's not rocket science (though whether or not it's rocket wizardry is still up for de...
5 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

New links post - Sorry that my blog is becoming a personal billboard but here are some updates: I am regularly posting on Patreon: https://patreon.com/evlynmoreauWhere to g...
1 month ago
The Benign Brown Beast

A Pair of Failed Careers - *Into the Odd* is my one-shot game of choice. It has just enough of everything. Just enough mechanics, just enough character, just enough world. I unders...
1 month ago
Archon's Court

Brain-to-Brain Communication (GLOG Class: Psychic) - *This was a collaboration with chloe, creator of Buckets of Blood. It was really nice to work with them.* What made you the way you are? Were you turned ...
1 month ago
Basic Red

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1 month ago
Hack & Slash

On the Edge of the Map - I still recall when I had to wait till Monday to call the Library of Congress to find out things. You don't really know what's out there. We see a lot m...
2 months ago
Axes and Orcs

The Holiday Sales Season - Instead of some cutesy pithy play on "Black Friday" I bundled up all the products that we have printed on cards with a hefty 69% (nice) off calling it the...
2 months ago
Unlawful Games

Unlawful Update - Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I continue ...
2 months ago
An Abominable Fancy

Superheroes, Tiny and Mathematical - I'm enjoying my time with the *TinySupers.* It's simple enough to learn on the fly, but flexible enough to model a variety of different activities. The li...
2 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

The Nameless World - Cosmology, Pollution, and Thaumalite - The Nameless World is unfathomably old. Thousands of empires have risen, fallen, and been ground to dust by eons of time and conquest. Most of the mainstr...
3 months ago
Break!!

Cutting Room Floor - We're finalizing the Game Master's section and poor Lord Vertex got cut, so I'll show him off here. Don't worry, he'll come back in something later.
3 months ago
Tarsos Theorem

SRDCAT Sneak Peek: Collections - My first post on WTF.com is up! It's the first glimpse of SRDcat's Collections interface, which helps us organize the vast amount of game objects that...
3 months 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 ...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
7 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.
10 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...
10 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...
11 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
3 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...
3 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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