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The most important NPC in your sci-fi sandbox

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The Bogeyman's Cave

ADHD Update! - I've been fiddling around with my OD&D based house rules; Adventuring in Distressingly Hazardous Dungeons, and I think they're ready to be shared in an ...
10 hours ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

SAWN-OFF: Prayer - The world is full of powers and entities, few of which fit the conventional mold of gods. Just as you can speak with anything if you know its language, s...
11 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Shard of the Blue Sun - Shard of the Blue Sun Deadflower the liche drifted into the clearing. A half smile involuntarily shown on her dead lips before returning to her usual sombe...
14 hours ago
…and the sky full of dust.

Electric Bastionland: Worms and Zombies - Here is our latest gossip on events in the Buttermilk Borough of the ongoing Bastionland game: Since the last one, the treasure-hunters (or vagabonds as th...
17 hours ago
CROSS PLANES

Hail to the King, Baby: Robot X for Dungeon Crawl Classics - Jack "The King" Kirby's artwork and ideas are something that I appreciate the older I get. I'm loathed to admit it, but when Jack was doing the art for t...
1 day ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: Interesting Lists and Petty Gods - I love lists and categories. I really love lists that have internal logic (i.e. a reason for the entries to be listed), but still contain absolutely bonk...
1 day ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

Non-Dark Sun Creatures in Dark Sun - Dragonfly, Giant - There are many creatures from the various monstrous manuals that have been officially added to Dark Sun. I added some unofficially for my game and I'm s...
1 day ago
The Tao of D&D

Tao - In 1987, I had been running a group of players for about five years, including my wife Michelle. She was like the woman character from Knights of the Di...
2 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

Some Classic Dungeons and Dragons Settings to Return? - It looks like “Dungeons & Dragons Is Bringing Back at Least Three Classic Campaign Settings”: *Dungeons & Dragons* will be revisiting several classic cam...
2 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Advanced Edition Tables with Javascript - I continue to covert over some of the tables I made with Inspiration Pad Pro into Javascript. This time it is the Grenade Scatter tables from the DMG and...
2 days ago
Hack & Slash

On Megadungeon #5 - I hope everyone is doing well! Megadungeon #5 is available in PDF. Print will be coming soon! It's got new dragons and non-player character's, three a...
2 days ago
Box Full of Boxes

Ysengrim Overview - A setting for Lancer, Part I - *Planet Name: *Ysengrim (Reynard VI) *Union Ring: *Third Ring, Ural Line *Local Blink Gate: *Elbrus Station *System: *Reynard *Population: ~*2,500,000 (~4...
3 days ago
Archon's Court

King of Dust Zine! - My cyberpunk management game, King of Dust, has finally been released publicly - you can buy it on itch.io here for $4. Thanks for your patience - it's ...
3 days ago
Bernie the Flumph

Laser Ponies! 10-Days left on Kickstarter! - My friend and Leopard Women of Venus co-creator Leighton "Laser Brigade" Connor is currently kickstarting the 2nd Edition of his "RPG for Everybody" Laser ...
3 days ago
AnarchyDice

Showing Your Colors: Preparations, Plazas, and Pirates - With the upcoming challenges, the group decides after a short breakfast together to split up and search their respective libraries for information. Rila ch...
3 days ago
Against The Wicked City

Condensation in Action 9: Carrion Crown - As I try to get back into the groove of blogging again, I thought one good way to do it might be via another Condensation in Action post. I find these usef...
5 days ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Dead Girl Classes, for Mork Borg - Six new classes for Mork Borg, all of them dead girls. A bit WiP. Come with seperate equipment tables, which aren't done yet. Some CWs for roofies. *Th...
6 days ago
Unlawful Games

Shilling for The Wretched - OI! Have you heard about the new solo game about being miserable in space?! You haven’t?! WELL YOU BETTER GET ON THAT! https://www.kickstarter.com/project...
1 week ago
The 3 Toadstools

Update - I just joined Matt Jackson and the guys last week for a fun session. Here's the play report. http://www.msjx.org/2020/09/the-gatehouse-on-cormacs-crag-s...
1 week ago
BASTIONLAND

Specific vs Generic: Ornaments & Bricks - The settings that really grab my attention have a way of drawing you in with little details. Servo skulls in Warhammer 40k. Carrion Priests in Spire. The n...
1 week ago
The Benign Brown Beast

The Palace Semi-Infinite - The implicit setting of PALACE RUN. The palace is richly-appointed, labyrinthine, and endless. Some would say “infinite”, but it is surely partly bounded...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Presentation of my work in progress document for Orbital Megastructure - This is my main work in progress doc for Orbital Megastructure. I also have one for updating my equipment tables, one for my monsters manual and one for my...
2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

September 2020: Banshee Down - So in last month's post I promised that the follow-on post would be an adventure. And so here we are, an adventure involving the pirate gang known as the...
2 weeks ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[REVIEW] Sunlands - *Silvery finish not depicted[REVIEW] Sunlands (2020)* by Chris Longhurst Self-published Low to mid levels Hello, and welcome to part three of **ZINEMA...
2 weeks ago
Applied Phantasticality

#RPGaDay 2020 - As with last year, this year's #RPGaDay consisted of single word prompts, and again, as with last year, I gave my responses to them on Twitter (this time...
3 weeks ago
Axes and Orcs

What is the OSR? Who is OSR? - This is a broad response to the replies that crop up every time someone wants to get into the OSR scene that I've seen over 7 years. And that is to point t...
4 weeks 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...
1 month 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...
2 months ago
Flowers for the Titancorpse

sci fi items - ITEMS WEAPONS Weapon have a damage value and usually an effect. Players may choose to deal damage or deal the weapon’s effect when they attack, and the def...
2 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...
2 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...
3 months ago
Basic Red

Sunsetting This Place - I started this as sort of an R&D space and ready source document for games I was running using Basic and Expert over Skype. In time I started reading more,...
3 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...
4 months ago
Tarsos Theorem

Dice are Statblocks - Much like using playing cards as maps, and crafting using concepts this system is made in response to a problem. In this case the problem was: statblocks a...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
9 months ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

Markwald - I have no intention of abandoning *Lukomorye* any time soon, but my goal was always expand into other historical-fantasy settings - a Central European-flav...
10 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...
10 months 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 ...
10 months 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...
11 months 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...
1 year 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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