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Thinking about travel

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Winter's Daughter - Review

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FKR Revenant Sector Session 1 Report

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The Revenant Sandbox

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Make adventures, not systems

on September 10, 2020

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In praise of having few hit points

on September 03, 2020

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CROSS PLANES

Deadlands: Bear Creek Monster for Savage Worlds - *Bear Creek Monster* *for Savage Worlds Adventure Edition* *Wild Card* “The Indians have a tradition concerning a strange, serpent-like creature ...
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BASTIONLAND

Omens - (Note: This was written a week ago, before the current playtest release of Primeval Bastionland) Like the dreamlike mists that cloak its landscape, *Prim...
18 hours ago
Coins and Scrolls

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1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

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Adventures under the Dark Sun

Dark Sun Paper Miniatures 03 - These Miniatures are rather simple and fold into a tent. You can add extra weight by taping a penny to the bottom. Let me know if more of these would be ...
1 day ago
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...
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Applied Phantasticality

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4 days ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

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Axes and Orcs

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1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Forthcoming Númenor book and some thoughts on the Second Age of Middle-earth - I’ve always found the Second Age of Middle-earth intriguing. One reason is that, unlike the First and Third Ages, it is not a period during which any ...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

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The 3 Toadstools

Missing google drive files & reorganization - Hey everyone, recently google drive changed the way permissions are done. Because of this I am continually getting requests for previous files from post...
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Archon's Court

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AnarchyDice

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Cavegirl's Game Stuff

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Hack & Slash

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1 month ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

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1 month ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

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1 month ago
BEARDED DEVIL

The Universities of Hex - Here’s a small excerpt from the Factions chapter of the still-in-progress Hex Gazetteer. Each Faction (be it a school, a gang, a chivalrous order, a religi...
1 month ago
Box Full of Boxes

The Bearer - LotFP & OSE Custom Class - "*There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the ring, you were also meant to have it...an...
1 month ago
Break!!

Adventure site locations - Work continues...
2 months ago
An Abominable Fancy

Recruiting: Free Starspiel Play-by-Post - *Free Starspiel* *Star Frontiers by way of Free Kriegsspiel* With the promise of a little extra free time, this summer, I'm dipping my toes back in Play-by...
2 months ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Downtime in Zyan - Oh my, I am so bad at doing promotion but better late than never. If you somehow missed it, check out the KS campaign for Downtime in Zyan hosted by Ben L ...
4 months ago
Utherwald Press

January 2022: Signing Off - New Year, All Change. Regular readers should hopefully be aware of a pretty major change in personal circumstances for me that is looming soon (the pic ...
6 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

2021 Year End: Not Much Blogging For Me - Nope, not too much blogging this year. Running a weekly roll20 campaign, with all the statblocks and maps and nice looking tokens, takes time. But that h...
6 months ago
The Benign Brown Beast

A Pair of Failed Careers - *Into the Odd* is my one-shot game of choice. It has just enough of everything. Just enough mechanics, just enough character, just enough world. I unders...
6 months ago
Basic Red

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7 months ago
Unlawful Games

Unlawful Update - Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I continue ...
7 months 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...
8 months 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...
9 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
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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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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
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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
5 years ago
Captain InterStellar

Is Gravity Control Propulsion viable? - Link to my new article: http://vixra.org/abs/1506.0194
7 years ago
The Tao of D&D

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