BASTIONLAND

Ask the Stars - Hand, Mask, and Eye - Continuing on from the previous section, these three signs show three different ways of interacting with the world. Conjuring, coercive, or contemplative...
13 hours ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Project Update Video -
1 day ago
Hack & Slash

On The Thursday Trick: The Kissing Maiden - *This post was originally published in December of 2011. If you're interested in Tricks and Traps like these, be sure to check out Artifices, Deceptions, ...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Thiefbane Sword - Thiefbane Sword As Kvan the Slippery was advancing upon Bakra-do the latter used his newly acquired blade on his pursuer as they climbed the wall. Recogniz...
1 day ago
The Tao of D&D

Trading on Yourself - 24 million views ... Most of my advice to artists falls on deaf ears, but I'll keep trying. If you haven't, take some relaxed time to watch Foo the Fl...
4 days ago
CROSS PLANES

Horrific!: The Sentinel for Cepheus Quantum - *The Sentinel for Cepheus Quantum* The Sentinels are spherical metal devices used by the Tall Man for various purposes, primarily enforcement. They are ...
4 days ago
Box Full of Boxes

Shanghai Shadowrun Part III - The Queen Celeste & The Lucky Coin - Howdy there folks, this is the 3rd job overall in my Shadowrun campaign, you'll probably want to read both parts I and II, as well as my short articl...
5 days ago
Archon's Court

TeleGLOGela Archaeology - The TeleGLOGela was a crime against humanity perpetrated by the OSR Discord. Twice. Somewhere, *in theory, *there's something playable in it. In this pos...
5 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Delvers to Grow: One of GURPS 4e long standing issues fixed - My friend Douglas Cole of Gaming Ballistic has launched a new kickstarter for GURPS called Delvers to Grow. It is a series of options and templates that a...
6 days ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] The Scoundrel’s Progress (Helvéczia Character Generation) - First, news on *Helvéczia’s *progress! Production is well underway, and boxes on our checklist are ticked off one by one. It is a complicated list, but t...
6 days ago
The 3 Toadstools

Another page from the notebook - This is a slow burn, but I'm enjoying it. I've started a few spots, a hex page detailing tidbits from the main map. Now I've got this village drawn. S...
1 week ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

LEGAMON: Cataclys Legadex Expanded - The Cataclys region is named for the Cataclysm, an event centuries ago that drove out the old-world invaders. It's a joyous day to remember, when legends r...
1 week ago
Utherwald Press

May 2021: Clan of the Fallen - This month we return to the world of Frozen Skies by building some background lore, something that could possibly be used in games of Frozen Skies. It b...
1 week ago
AnarchyDice

One Page Dungeon 2021 Reviews (125-153) - This year, I will be again reviewing every single entry in the 2021 One Page Dungeon Contest. I’m thinking I will be splitting the 154 entries into four pa...
1 week ago
Applied Phantasticality

Table: Scrolls of Profound Deja Vu (Expanding Unknown Table) - Behold the Scrolls of Profound Déjà Vu! Do they not remind you of something? This is the twelfth table of the Expanding Unknown Table. *Scrolls of Profo...
1 week ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

The Daughters Of Cacophany for Vampire 5th Edition - *As with my post on the Kiasyd this is all completely unofficial and I have no idea what, if anything, White Wolf plan to do with the Sirens in v5. Thi...
2 weeks ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

Session Fifty-Nine: The Ogre Doom's Goal - Note: For those unfamiliar with Dark Sun, psionics are called the Will for wild talents and the Way for trained psionicists. The group ate a meal in Zi...
2 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Charles Peale – the fantasy artist - This is a post about the artist Charles Peale – no, *not *this guy! Rather, the artist who did a lot of the early interior black-and-white illustrations ...
2 weeks ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: 4 GLOG Classes for Loxdon College: Brawler, Duelist, Thief, and Dandy - The working title for the GLOGhack is "Pointy Hatted Rat edition". While writing and playtesting *Magical Industrial Revolution*, I worked under the assu...
3 weeks ago
BEARDED DEVIL

Hexian Cosmologies - The Six Planes Although a multitude of pocket-dimensions, demiplanes, pseudo-planes, and otherworldly subcreations have been documented by metaphysicians, ...
5 weeks ago
Tarsos Theorem

Inspirations - This began as a response post to DIY & Dragons' excellent post on childhood fantasy inspirations, but somewhere along the way I broke off the rails of th...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Against The Wicked City

Image archaeology: Paladin Girl - Who knoweth not of Paladin Girl? M:tG card art for *Knight Exemplar, *by Jason Chan (2011). Exemplary in more ways than one! Paladin Girl has become a cl...
1 month 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.
1 month ago
Axes and Orcs

A Review of Sorts of Brian Yaksha's "The Catlands Jazzband Gazeteer" - Brian Yaksha's "The Catlands Jazzband Gazeteer" is a setting book, intended specifically for Troika! but hey, its mostly tables about things and people a...
1 month ago
Break!!

Bellzuub! - The Unshaped are a dangerous threat, primordial beings with no defined body, they instead manifest as clusters of ideas that can take on a variety of for...
1 month ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

AntherZine – Available Now - The AntherZine is now available as a pay-what-you-want PDF at the Antherwyck DriveThruRPG site. This initial issue of AntherZine was largely written earlie...
2 months ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

New Philosophies - I haven't been posting recently, partially because I've been re-evaluating some philosophies of mine in relation to role playing games. I'm gonna outlin...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 months 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. ...
4 months 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...
4 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 ...
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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
9 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...
11 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...
11 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 ...
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...
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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