Revenant's Quill

The Tao of D&D

Use of Miniature Figures with the Game - Although D&D is a game of imagination, occasionally it is necessary for clarification reasons to clearly define the player characters' positions with rel...
1 hour ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[NEWS] From Baklin to the Black Soup: News Roundup - I have been flying under the radar for a while now, and haven’t had a news in a long time – so here it goes: what has EMDT been up to? *** *B**aklin in ...
9 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Azmere’s Odd Necklace - Azmere’s Odd Necklace ‘What was that?’ the gnome illusionist asked with a hint of fear in his voice as he stared passed the crackling campfire. ‘I didn’t h...
1 day ago
Bernie the Flumph

Leopard Women of Venus is Now Available! - Through plague, through panic, through unrest, we finally pulled it off!Leopard Women of Venus is now available in PDF!Leopard Women of Venus (LWoV) is an ...
2 days ago
BASTIONLAND

GRIMLITE - Birthing a Horror - I've just split GRIMLITE into two documents. The first is the booklet-sized rulebook, complete with faction rosters and campaign rules, and the other is ...
3 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Ravenloft 5e setting book coming soon - Like many who got into role-playing games, and especially *Advanced Dungeons & Dragons*, during the 1980s, I owned (and still own ... somewhere) a cop...
3 days ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

Session Fifty-Five: Vermin at War - Note: For those unfamiliar with Dark Sun, psionics are called the Will for wild talents and the Way for trained psionicists. The tari raced forward, th...
4 days ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Setup of my new OSE campaign - I started a new Old School Essentials campaign, the campaign premise is something like: "what if Saruman had won and people now need to loot the dying fore...
4 days ago
Box Full of Boxes

Shanghai Shadowrun Part II - Thank you Jumbo Jackpots! - Howdy there folks! Thanks for tuning into for another installment of my Shadowrun 4e campaign overview. This is the skeleton for the second...
5 days ago
AnarchyDice

One Page Dungeon 2020 Results - Last year’s contest results and are in, and you can check out the winners here: https://www.dungeoncontest.com/ There is currently only a PDF version of 20...
6 days ago
BEARDED DEVIL

Hex Cabinet of Curiosities - If characters in Hex search a random body, treasure chest, thief’s cache, cabinet of curiosities, or even a sewer-drain or trash-can, here’s a list of thin...
1 week ago
Coins and Scrolls

40k: Crassus Command Vehicle - Brace yourselves for 40k minutiae. The Praetor Armoured Assault Launcher is usually pictured open, with its bank of ludicrous missiles on display. When ...
1 week ago
Archon's Court

Zine Quest Interview 4 - Ava - *My interview series continues with renewed fervor now that Zine Quest has begun. If you have an active or upcoming ZQ project and would like to schedule...
1 week ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

Habitats and Factions in Deep Space Bitches - In Deep Space Bitches, the world you put your players in is as important as the players themselves. This isn't a game about thousands of years of history...
1 week ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

Poor Brendan’s Update & Bug Hunt - The printing company that works with DriveThruRPG for their production is phasing out their saddle stitching. So, many smaller print books that used this a...
1 week ago
Against The Wicked City

72 encounters from the City of Spires - Apologies for the two month silence. The Covid situation has *fucked things up. * Anyway. The City of Spires campaign is still going strong, and will so...
1 week ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

I Was Wrong About Dungeon Design - So I've long been an advocate for my 30 minute dungeon/10 room dungeon method of adventure creation, wherein a short dungeon should be composed of 10 rooms...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

The Many Crypts of Lady Ingrade and Zine Quest #3 - My good friend, Tim Shorts of Gothridge Manor is in his last three days of his kickstarter, an adventure zine called the Many Crypts of Lady Ingrade. ...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
CROSS PLANES

The Most Played RPG System - I'm a backer of Privateer Press' Iron Kingdoms setting for DnD 5th Edition. I've loved the setting since it was released for DnD 3.0 back in the day and...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Applied Phantasticality

Cargoes & Castaways & Persistent Indecision - My biggest struggle with finishing *Cargoes & Castaways*, the game I originally designed with *Swords & Wizardry White Box* in mind, is that I no longer ...
2 weeks ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

What I consider good design - So, one thing that I've been considering recently is what a 'well designed game' even means to me. I don't think "Is it fun" covers it. Basically any ga...
3 weeks ago
The 3 Toadstools

The PC Graveyard PT 2 - *Jax windlehen * A Black Hack Character from one of Matt's games. I believe he died. This may have been the adventure with the weird unicorn and the fa...
3 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

February 2021: Frozen Skies Thoughts - There are times when the inspiration particle strikes and hit upon an idea whether something would work in a RPG project of mine, be it Frozen Skies or s...
3 weeks ago
Hack & Slash

On Artifices & Deceptions: Triggers, Timed - *Timed Triggers* This trigger just regularly springs the trap. Note that the trap may be set to use a timed trigger after the initial trigger is sprung. ...
4 weeks ago
Break!!

Murder Princess Art! - We're still working hard on the game, but hey, while' you're waiting here's some cool Murder Princess art!
4 weeks ago
Axes and Orcs

The Great Troika Sphere Jam #osr #troikarpg #ttrpg #troikaspherejam - A neat game jam is going on Itch.io to make spheres for Troika! in pocketmod format.Let's make tiny little Spheres that can fit in our pockets, micro sett...
5 weeks ago
Tarsos Theorem

Starfolk - Tiny, star-headed beings with wispy bodies of darkness, possessed of a mischievous nature and indefatigable curiosity. Their forms are small but their s...
5 weeks 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 ...
5 weeks ago
An Abominable Fancy

Lasers & Feelings, RetroRocket - Necro-Cavaliers of the Astral Galaxy reminded me of just how much fun John Harper's Lasers and Feelings is. So I made a hack. Like so many others have. ...
1 month ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Alignment II: Complications and Excuses - Revisiting my musings on the D&D concept of alignment ten years ago, I stand by the observation that conceptually, it's a mess. Is alignment: * A force t...
2 months ago
…and the sky full of dust.

Strangetober and Other Drawings - In October I take part in Emily Hare’s Strangetober, based on her excellent artwork. I managed to keep up and draw something every day, and although my dra...
3 months ago
Unlawful Games

D100+ Demon Generator - REMINDER! SITE HAS MOVED, UPDATES WILL DISCONTINUE HERE SOON. PLEASE UPDATE BLOG ROLLS TO: https://www.unlawful.games/ Baron Faraii by Andrew Baker So ...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
7 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Flashpoints - PCs in Mass Combat - Secret Jackalope is like Secret Santicorn but for Easter! Which I clearly missed, but I did it in the end! So here is my somewhat belated Jackalope gift for ...
9 months 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...
10 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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
A Swamp in Space

Secret Santicorn 2019: An Adventuring Economy - *"It's time for the best part of Santicorn - making things!* *Diaghilev requests the following gift:* *Adventuring/tomb-robbing is a cash-rich, high-turnover...
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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 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...
3 years ago
Captain InterStellar

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

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