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The most important NPC in your sci-fi sandbox

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The Tao of D&D

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4 hours ago
An Abominable Fancy

Free Starspiel - Here is an update of the rules I previously posted as the Starshut Rules. These now have the benefit of a summer's worth of playtesting, which mostly res...
6 hours ago
BASTIONLAND

Rotation - 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...
14 hours 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...
21 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Ring of Glass Intangibility - Ring of Glass Intangibility Three days in the small town and Bakra-do had to move twice, the third location was windowless and suddenly the assassin was un...
1 day ago
Applied Phantasticality

The Goldilocks of Stat Blocks - Character stat blocks can either instill or kill inspiration. If it's too short, there's too little to work with; if it's too long, one's eyes glaze over...
1 day ago
Archon's Court

Xenoterrarium Cube - The Xenoterrarium Cube is a rare creation, beloved by the more space-obsessed breed of wizard. They are a living ooze, bred to replicate the environment...
2 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Terry Amthor RIP - At this blog I recently praised Terry Amthor’s amazing campaign module, *The Court of Ardor*. That module is one of my all-time favourites. While set in ...
2 days ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

Session Sixty-Four: Gray Plumed Mountain Part 4 - Note: For those unfamiliar with Dark Sun, psionics are called the Will for wild talents and the Way for trained psionicists. The twelve foot long braxat ...
3 days 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 days ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[ZINE] Echoes From Fomalhaut #09 (NOW AVAILABLE!) - Beyond the Gates of SorrowI am pleased to announce the publication of the ninth issue of my fanzine, *Echoes From Fomalhaut.* This is a 56-page zine dedi...
4 days ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Blending Troika's content - I had a lot of fun playing Pastel Schoolgirls with Evey as the GM, her RPG work is always unique and inspired. Since this is a Troika based game, you can ...
6 days ago
Coins and Scrolls

Film Notes: Old Dark Houses - *Magical Murder Mansion* is today's (2021/10/07) DriveThruRPG Deal of the Day. I don't usually do sales but it is October, the month of creaking mansions...
1 week ago
CROSS PLANES

Halloween Treat: Witchfinder Major Exeter Ambergris IX for Lamentations of the Flame Princess - *Witchfinder Major Exeter Ambergris IX **for **Lamentations of the Flame Princess* Armor 15, Movement 35’, 6 Hit Die, three attacks with blade 1d8+2 or...
1 week ago
Utherwald Press

October 2021: Savage Skies - Recently had the chance to do a one shot where we ended up running an air combat for Frozen Skies, again it seemed like the air combat rules had a solid...
1 week ago
AnarchyDice

Dungeon Keeping - Records that is. I realized I’ve got no digital copies of many of my marked up dungeon notes and print-offs. So I’m going to take the opportunity to digita...
1 week ago
The 3 Toadstools

Nifty OSR Products Oct 1 - YEAH! It's October! Here's hoping we don't have snow on Halloween this year. Currently we are actually above normal temps, but that can change in an ins...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Box Full of Boxes

Magic, Madness, & Sadness Part VII - My Own Private Waterdeep - Art credit: solstng “*Why don’t you just put the whole WORLD in a BOTTLE, Superman?*” - Lex Luther, Superman: Red Son No one wants to die. Sp...
2 weeks ago
Hack & Slash

On the Ecology of the Lammasu and Lamia - "*The offer she makes you seems like a good idea, but so does the worm on the hook to a fish*" - Aldervile, Neo-Imperian Speaker *Nomenclature*: Lammasu,...
2 weeks ago
Against The Wicked City

Magic bags and the things inside them - I've always thought that Aeolus's bag of wind from *The Odyssey *would be a great item for a D&D campaign. It's a bag with a wind inside it: point it in ...
2 weeks ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

LEGAMON: Travel Across the Land (Searching Far and Wide) - The commonly-accepted layout of the Cataclys Region. Here's some more rules for my Legamon region! What would a 'mon game be without exploration? On t...
2 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

Concerning the OSR, Everything is All Right. - Over the summer and recently I seen posts and opinions on the direction of the Old School Renaissance or OSR. Just keep in mind that due to how it came a...
1 month ago
Axes and Orcs

Upon Sir Gawain And The Green Knight - Last night I watched the A24 movie, The Green Knight. It was moody. Talking with my spouse the closest to other films I seen with a similar feel would be ...
1 month ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

One Page Dungeon 2021: The Paper Nest of Gabbro Grove - Last week was the OPD deadline again, and Paolo convinced me to do some kind of riff on the "giant beehive" adventure I am currently running my fifth edi...
2 months 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...
2 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 ...
2 months 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 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...
3 months 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...
3 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...
4 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.
6 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
1 year 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 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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