Revenant's Quill

Akratic Wizardry

The Mittens of Redistribution - While I generally try to avoid bringing up politics in this blog (my “day job” is teaching and writing about political philosophy), I found this to be to...
11 hours ago
The Tao of D&D

Seriously Now - Looking at those three problems seriously. I'll introduce an answer to each in the form of a quote. *So she says, "Uh-uh, You don't have a challenge, you ...
23 hours ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Cosmic Usage Dice - The Black Sword Hack is about the end of the world but there is no pacing mechanic to trigger it end. I guess that you could establish that reaching level ...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Monster] Varnk - Varnk ‘Get that cat out of here!’ roared Stork as he fought back an imp to get to the door. ‘I don’t think it is a normal cat, it is standing up on two leg...
1 day ago
The 3 Toadstools

A review of "A Fool's Errand" - The prince was kind enough to take a look at my latest adventure "A Fool's Errand" You can read the review here: https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpre...
1 day ago
Bat in the Attic

The Central Mechanic of Tabletop Roleplaying Games - I participated in a discussion about how the game plays in tabletop roleplaying. The following is probably not constructive for the conversation but it do...
1 day ago
CROSS PLANES

Anxiety & Dragons - If you've been around here long enough you've seen me write about my mental illness--I have General Anxiety Disorder--which means, essentially, my fight...
3 days ago
The Bogeyman's Cave

Making FKR characters using Zweihander - Inspired by this post by Wizard Lizard over at Underworld Adventures. I like Zweihander from an aesthetic standpoint, I really do, but unfortunately I h...
3 days ago
Hack & Slash

On Abstraction and Saving Throws - Modern systems seem to assume a baseline representation - i.e. I rolled twice, so each roll represents a swing of my sword or I can possibly move up to 10'...
3 days ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

The Hurrums Who Wished for a King. A Dark Sun Fable. - After being free for so long, the hurrums of the scrub plains grew tired of governing themselves. They had too much freedom, they complained, and it had ...
3 days ago
Tarsos Theorem

Starfolk - Tiny, star-headed beings with wispy bodies of darkness, possessed of a mischievous nature and indefatigable curiosity. Their forms are small but their s...
4 days 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 ...
4 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Ask the Stars - The Positions - Onto the second part of my exploration of the Signs and Positions from Ask the Stars. While the Signs give you a sense of the core of the issue, the Posi...
4 days ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

The Unperson and the Spacer (Deep Space Bitches) - There are people that the world tries to make you forget. Tries to make your eyes glaze over, part of the scenery, not worth your time and most certainly...
1 week ago
Box Full of Boxes

It's a Sprawl World After All - a Module for Shadowrun - Given the prominence of Cyberpunk in culture with recent...events, my players were interested in playing a ttrpg with cyberpunk elements. Given that...
1 week ago
Bernie the Flumph

Olympian Class (Gorgon Crawl Classics) - Continuing with my Mythic Greece ideas for Gorgon Crawl Classics, this here is the working text for the Olympian. The Olympian is the toga-clad strong man ...
1 week 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. ...
1 week ago
Axes and Orcs

Troika! Bundle of Holding Benefiting Direct Relief #troikarpg - I, among several other very extremely wonderful and talented third-party publishers of Troika! conent are in the Troika! Bundle of Holding. I own and rath...
1 week ago
Archon's Court

Ask The Stars Microsettings - In the recent post containing Chris McDowall's solo RPG, Ask The Stars, he uses the oracle table within to create small 3-point settings. This seems like...
2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

January 2021: Through The Looking Glass - New Year, new post. Hopefully bit of an interesting read to start off 2021, namely some alternative takes on the setting of Frozen Skies. Some of these ...
2 weeks ago
AnarchyDice

2020 In Review - This year, the blog took a bit of a back seat to running a campaign and getting much busier at work. My total views this year went up, 3560 versus the 1171...
2 weeks ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BEYONDE] Nox Archaist, the Hottest Apple ][ Game of 2020/2021 - Nox ArchaistA little known but useful Internet fact: Ultima fans and their money are quickly separated. Yes, Gentle Reader, *YOU too* can make good money...
2 weeks ago
BEARDED DEVIL

Encounter Tables from the Hex Gazetteer - Work continues, slowly but surely, on the Hex Gazetteer. I thought I’d share some encounter tables for two districts, Mooncross and Suckletown – the first ...
3 weeks ago
Applied Phantasticality

Resolve This - I am keeping my resolutions within reason for 2021. To keep it as simple as possible and give myself the chance to surprise myself with better than expec...
3 weeks ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Progress on Dungeon Bitches - So. 2020 has been a heck of a year. In march, right as the 'rona hit, I started work on Dungeon Bitches as a project. It's a bit of a departure for me - ...
3 weeks ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

The Classes of Markwald - In this post, I'll be primarily talking about "reskinning" class lore for a late-medieval setting (such as Markwald). Aside from drawing on historical el...
3 weeks ago
Coins and Scrolls

10 Stupid yet Robust Games for Video Calls - 2020 is a weird year. A lot of people are relying on video calls for holiday gatherings. This is fine, but it does limit the type of holiday games that c...
3 weeks ago
The Benign Brown Beast

Crisis on Christmas: Coin Hunt - I’ve enjoyed hearing how people have made use of Crisis on Christmas Prime in the last few weeks. I hope that by providing a brief sample adventure it mi...
3 weeks ago
Antherwyck House Games Blog

End of Year Notes for 2020 - It’s taken almost a year, but the name of this blog has been revised to drop the “House” in the old Antherwyck House Games (it’s just Antherwyck Games, now...
3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Against The Wicked City

Miniature painting: The Baron's Men - This is the Baron. *Not the best of my miniatures, either in terms of painting or sculpting, but easily one of my favourites.* The Baron serves as the...
1 month ago
Break!!

On Villains (and more art) - Monsters and baddies are some of my favorite things to come up with when writing for BREAK!! or anything, really. Thinking about how they confront the pl...
1 month ago
…and the sky full of dust.

Strangetober and Other Drawings - In October I take part in Emily Hare’s Strangetober, based on her excellent artwork. I managed to keep up and draw something every day, and although my dra...
2 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 ...
3 months ago
Flowers for the Titancorpse

The Garden of Orobas (inspiration) - Orobas is a comic I am working on. I've been working on it before and throughout all of quarantine. It's a weird little project. It started out as an idea ...
3 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...
3 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...
6 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
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...
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 ...
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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