Revenant's Quill

Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Mug of False Mugs - Mug of False Mugs Wizard, warrior and dwarf entered the inn. ‘This must be the place, we need to find the halfling in need,’ the wizard said looking around...
1 day ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

Undead Athasian Turkey - In honor of Thanksgiving, the United States holiday, I gave stats for the Athasian Turkey, which is mentioned in the Veiled Alliance sourcebook, last year....
1 day ago
The 3 Toadstools

Play report nightwell Barony session 2 - Jumped back in last night. The plan was to shoot for Friday evenings, however since we all work in retail this Friday will be hard. The players left off...
1 day ago
The Tao of D&D

Bronzing History - This is now the longest page on my wiki, with 35,847 characters thus far, or about 5,500 words. So, not as long as some of the posts on this blog. On the...
1 day ago
BASTIONLAND

d100 Chess Scenarios - So like everybody in the world I'm trying to play Chess again. I've done this every six months or so for the last decade, and the pattern generally goes ...
2 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

The Monsters of Trampier - I’ve mentioned before here how much I adore the art of Dave Trampier (“DAT”). His work very much shaped the way in which I visualize fantasy adventuring—...
2 days ago
Hack & Slash

On What to Do With a Dragon Corpse - My players were about to leave Thundertree, when they decided to look around to find a certain missing amulet. While they found the amulet, they also foun...
4 days ago
AnarchyDice

Building Another Battle Board - Between work being crazy busy and the holidays fast approaching, I haven’t had much time for blogging lately. I haven’t been slacking on the gaming or craf...
4 days ago
Bernie the Flumph

Them's Monsters! Now on Sale! - Them's Monsters! is now available as a PDF thru DriveThruRPG!This zine is full of monsters for your Dungeon Crawl Classics games, and includes the Dungle--...
4 days ago
Coins and Scrolls

40k: HamWarmer 24.5 - Tyranids (With Photos) - The swarm grows! I've also finished the *Faction: Tyranids (v0.1)* book for HamWarmer 24.5. That's 2 factions and the core rules done (and indexed here)....
5 days ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Theory - Hard & Soft Tools - Alright, here's a framework I've been using to analyse games. It's about the mechanical means by which players can exert their will onto the fiction. Onl...
6 days ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[REVIEW] Hideous Daylight - *Not so hideous cover art[REVIEW]* by Brad Kerr Published by Swordlords Publishing Low-level This 34-page module presents a small, self-contained adv...
1 week ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Keyed Version of the Cozy Land map - I added keying numbers to the Cozy Land map. I would like to try to write descriptions for all of them to do a mostly non-violent problems solving campaign...
1 week ago
The Benign Brown Beast

Two Flavors of Horror and Six Anomalous Media - Flavors of Horror I’ve been thinking recently about why the early episodes of the Magnus Archives hooked me so immediately. In addition to solid storytelli...
1 week ago
CROSS PLANES

Death Stars & Krayt Dragons: Ice Spiders of of Maldo Kreis for Dungeon Crawl Classics - *The spiders ranged in size from very small to starship-sized, and unlike most spiders, their head was in the center of their body, hanging downward an...
1 week ago
Box Full of Boxes

The Cranium Rats of Volmusia - A Short Adventure Path for B/X or 5th edition - The selection of a campaign defining threat is a tricky thing. If the issue is unassailable, the PCs are likely to feel as if a deus ex machina has b...
1 week ago
Archon's Court

Sunless Horizon Beta 2.3 Release - Commissioned from Scrap Princess *excited screeching* I've been posting about Sunless Horizon for about a year, and after finally getting it playtested, h...
1 week 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...
2 weeks ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

DSB: Androids, Technicians, and Visitors - *Previous Posts* Setting intro, the Fury and the Reconstructed Wonders and horrors of the galaxy, the Ghost and the Psychic Corpro-imperialism, the Dreame...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

Kickstarter: Layout continues for the Majestic Fantasy RPG, Basic Rules - Just a quick update that I am in the midst of layout. I have completed about half of the pages and just finished up the monster section. Here is the las...
2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

November 2020: Skywright's Guild Revamp - This month's post was prompted in part by a rethink of the relationship between skyships and airships in Frozen Skies and in part by a suggestion by user...
3 weeks ago
Against The Wicked City

20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer - I've written before about item-based problem solving in D&D, and the principle that creatively solving problems using whatever random junk you have lying...
3 weeks ago
Tarsos Theorem

Interdimensional Voyages Character Generator - This is an HTML version of the character generator for the discord game I've been running. It could be seen as a version 2 of this generator. (Based on Spw...
4 weeks ago
Axes and Orcs

We interrupt this blog silence for a crass commerical break - Crass commercial break:Physical zines of the complete Aetherjack's Almanac and Maiden of the Shrine of the Snubbed One are now available at Spear Witch.Bo...
4 weeks ago
Applied Phantasticality

A Very Happy Unmodule to You! - Nowadays, it is not uncommon to hear someone refer to "sandbox," "hex crawl," or "point crawl" to refer to methods of player agency in determining where,...
4 weeks ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

ADHD Update: Two Classes Only! - Click the image to check out the new version! So I know literally only last month I redesigned the magic system, but I did it again. Not too much has ch...
5 weeks 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 ...
5 weeks ago
Flowers for the Titancorpse

The Garden of Orobas (inspiration) - Orobas is a comic I am working on. I've been working on it before and throughout all of quarantine. It's a weird little project. It started out as an idea ...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

The races of Markwald/combining racial and background adjustments - The purpose of this post is twofold. The first, and by far the more straightforward, is just to illustrate how racial abilities might function if you dis...
1 month ago
Break!!

Art, Allies & Adversaries - While there isn't much to report (we're still at it folks!) I can share some art Grey has done for two of the game's Game Master Entities; The Chosen One...
2 months ago
BEARDED DEVIL

Building Gossamer Part 4 – The Wilting Quarter - After a couple of months of sporadic work, the Wilting Quarter is now complete, making Gossamer 25% done. Next up will be the Withered Quarter, Arawn’s dom...
3 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...
4 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

One Page Dungeon Contest 2020: Stela Obliterata - In these pandemic times, I have summoned seven redoubtable players from my previous one-shot games and campaigns to join in a weekly online game, following...
4 months ago
An Abominable Fancy

The Ruined Tower of Zenopus Campaign: The Portmaster's Garden Palace - In my ongoing campaign centered on The Ruined Tower of Zenopus, Portown is called Bandar Arzoo in the local language. Ruling over the town is the Portmas...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
7 months ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

Four Elements Map - Four interconnected geomorphs inspired by the idea of the four elements. I’m sending these as individual geomorphs for Dave’s Mapper, so these are availabl...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...
4 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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