The Tao of D&D

Loss - I'm watching the 2021 film *Worth* on Netflix, with a woman walking in front of a wall of people who have been lost: There is no wall for covid deaths.
1 hour ago
Hack & Slash

On Megadungeon #6 - Hello friends! Megadungeon #6 is out! It's 3.99 and contains the Dagon, party fish people. A collection of diseases one can pick up in filthy places li...
11 hours ago
Coins and Scrolls

Minigame: "In 1973, President Nixon..." - I've invented a party game called "In 1973, President Nixon...". Feel free to nick it, adapt it, test it, and improve upon it. Letters of complaint shoul...
12 hours 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 ...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Spell] One Last Journey - One Last Journey Guvno cast the spell on the shore of the large lake as his companion, Murgi the thief looked about nervously. ‘I hear them in the trees,’ ...
1 day 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 days ago
Applied Phantasticality

Cast at What Cost? - I was ruminating on the subject of Vancian magic and how it relates to *Dungeons & Dragons** — spells are memorized; they are forgotten when cast; they ma...
6 days ago
BASTIONLAND

Into the Odd Remastered is LIVE - And we're LIVE! Click just about anywhere on this post to go to the Kickstarter page and get your copy of* Into the Odd Remastered.*
6 days ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[STUFF] Morthimion: The Crypt Level - *[Spoiler-free, player-safe section]* MorthimionTwo years have passed since the last update on *Morthimion*, a dungeon we have been exploring as a side-s...
1 week ago
Archon's Court

Eye of Newt and... uh... what was the other thing? (GLOG Class: Dabbler Cultist) - I don't know if this is a Buckets of Blood class, a starting point for Libra 2e, both, or neither. You've managed to get your hands on a powerful tome of m...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

MERP resurrected? Against the Darkmaster! - MERP (*Middle-earth Role-playing*) by ICE (Iron Crown Enterprises) is one of my favourite games of all time. It was the second game I played regularly (a...
2 weeks ago
Box Full of Boxes

Those Faiths Which Bind -- a Religion generator. - "*Give me that old time religion,* *Give me that old time religion,* *Give me that old time religion,* *It's good enough for me.*" - The Fisk Jubilee S...
2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

September 2021: Lionheart - As summer gives away to autumn and the final few months of the year, perhaps a good time to announce a project I've begun which I hope to have finished ...
3 weeks ago
Bernie the Flumph

Gorgon Crawl Classics: Foresight Spell - The titan Prometheus is the divine personification of Foresight. This gave him the knowledge to side with Zeus and the gods when they rose up against his f...
3 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...
3 weeks ago
AnarchyDice

Showing Your Colors: Once in Blue Moon - With time to think and get back into some of their coursework, the group levels up and learns some new spells. They put a bit of focus on information gathe...
3 weeks ago
CROSS PLANES

Back This: The Night Companion for Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars - Jason Vey and Timothy Brannan are two talented people who I've been fans of for years and their Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars was a hig...
3 weeks ago
Adventures under the Dark Sun

The Battle in Urik. A Dark Sun Fable. - A young man from a small village south of Altaruk set out to explore the Tablelands. He returned a year later and told everyone of his great adventures an...
3 weeks 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 ...
5 weeks ago
The 3 Toadstools

Nifty OSR Products August 18 - Some of these are new, and some of them I found whilst doing a deep dive. *The Pool Below* A group of three teenagers disappeared recently. They all r...
5 weeks ago
Break!!

Little peek at the setting section - Another "We're still at it!" post - I'm currently reviewing/revising the text and layout for the setting section and you know, I think it's looking prett...
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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 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...
2 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
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 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...
3 months 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 months ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Project Update Video -
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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
11 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...
11 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...
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...
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...
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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