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Games in the FKR tag

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In praise of "Rulings, not rules"

on October 30, 2020

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Islands of the Dreaming Sea

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Sci-fi Crawl Essentials - Locations

on October 16, 2020

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FKR Revenant Sector Session 3 Report

on October 08, 2020

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Money Wizards - Spells for OSE

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FKR Revenant Sector Session 2 Report

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The Tao of D&D

Busy Designing - Rest assured, if I'm not writing here, I'm writing somewhere else. My work was interrupted by the coincidence of life, but I've been able to get back in...
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Adventures under the Dark Sun

The Rat and the Mekillot. A Dark Sun Fable. - A rat was traveling along the High road in Nibenay. He was a very proud Rat, even though he was small and had a bad reputation, as all rats do. As the ra...
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CROSS PLANES

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Against The Wicked City

Escape from the Ghoul Queen! - This post is about a situation that arose in a recent session. One of my players suggested that I post it, and I thought it might be of interest as a cas...
1 day 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...
2 days ago
AnarchyDice

Modular Wattle & Daub II - With everything based in grey, time to get to painting. I use a white paint for the “daub”, golden brown for the wood, terra cotta for the roof, blue for t...
2 days ago
Tarsos Theorem

SEACAT Collab! - I'm joining Luka as a co-designer of SEACAT! That's already quite exciting, but what is also awesome is I will be building an official digital SRD/com...
3 days ago
Bat in the Attic

Adventures in the original Wilderlands of High Fantasy. - I made another map. This one showing where all the known adventures and supplements were set in Judges Guild Wilderlands of High Fantasy prior to it fir...
6 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Primordial Trickster - More work on this Primordial thing. This time thinking about a combination of Thief and a little bit of Illusionist. It's hard to show this in a blogpost...
1 week ago
The 3 Toadstools

Session 8 octopus! - When last we left our heroes they were at the tip of a peninsula in search of statues and gold! They left royan and ramses with boat and made there way ...
1 week ago
Archon's Court

Sunless Horizon Play Report #3 (Campaign 2 Session 1) - At the start of summer, I started a campaign the newest edition of Sunless Horizon. It's currently on hiatus, but we managed to play a couple sessions fi...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

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Beyond Fomalhaut

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Ten Foot Polemic

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2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

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2 weeks ago
Box Full of Boxes

Magic, Madness, and Sadness Part II - The Self-Imagined Self - “*Row, row, row your boat,* *Gently down the stream,* *Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,* *Life is but a dream.” *- Row Your Boat, Eliphalet Oram L...
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Applied Phantasticality

Setting Nomenclature II, or, More Dumb Names for Campaign Worlds - Previously, I mentioned the name change of one of my more recent settings (wherein *The Sundered Land* became *Some Dread Land*). Now I would like to des...
2 weeks ago
BEARDED DEVIL

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3 weeks ago
Break!!

Small Update - Once again a few months pass and while we continue to work on things, a lot of them don't make for very good blog updates. Still, I can share some of th...
3 weeks ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

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3 weeks ago
An Abominable Fancy

The Starshut Rules - This summer might require some one-shot filler sessions for one of my campaigns, as various players wander off on vacations. Feeling some nostalgia for S...
3 weeks ago
Coins and Scrolls

Book Notes: The War of the Fists - A few years ago, I picked up *The War of the Fists* by Robert C. Davis. I forgot about it until recently, and, on rereading it, realized it contained a l...
4 weeks ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

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5 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

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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...
1 month ago
Bernie the Flumph

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2 months ago
…and the sky full of dust.

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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...
3 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...
4 months ago
The Benign Brown Beast

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4 months ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

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5 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...
5 months ago
Unlawful Games

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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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
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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

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1 year ago
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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

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1 year ago
....and then what happens?

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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

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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

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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...
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...
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...
4 years ago
Captain InterStellar

Is Gravity Control Propulsion viable? - Link to my new article: http://vixra.org/abs/1506.0194
5 years ago
Axes and Orcs

Conversion Notes from BRP Mecha to Pendragon - The first two sessions of my Pendragon and BRP Mecha mashup were conversions from Pendragon to BRP, with percentile skills, a damage bonus, and a fuckton o...
7 years ago

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