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...
2 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-An oldschool gaming blog....

[New Magic Item] Halfling Warden Herb Pouch - Halfling Warden Herb Pouch Noddy Applewood, adventurous halfling warden, looked from the hilltop towards the jagged, snow-capped mountains in the far dista...
7 hours ago
Hack & Slash

On the Ecology of the Basilisk - "*I thought it was absurd. Certainly sculptors could create such statues—there's no mythical beast that turns men to stone. Never would have believed it...
10 hours ago
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...
11 hours ago
CROSS PLANES

Marvel Monday: Juggernaut for Godbound - *Juggernaut* *for Godbound Free Edition* *AC:* 1 (Requires a magic weapon to hurt) *HD:* 11 *Attack:* +10 x3 *Morale:* 10 *Move:* 50' *Save:* 7+ ...
17 hours ago
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...
1 day 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

Mythras Bundle of Holding - I thought that I would mention that there are four days left to pick up the *Mythras *Settings Bundles (PDFs): the “Starter Collection” (which includes th...
1 week ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[NEWS] HELVÉCZIA: Picaresque Fantasy RPG (NOW AVAILABLE!) - Helvéczia *“Venture into a rugged land of stamp-sized, steadfastly independent petty states, populated with robber bands, pious clergymen, wig-wearing p...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Utherwald Press

June 2021: State of the Press - Good grief, almost halfway through the year. We're now heading into summer (or winter for those readers residing in the southern hemisphere) as signalle...
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...
2 weeks ago
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

Magic Items - Bolt of Silence Weapon (bolt), common This magic bolt is much-prized by those seeking to move about unheard. Tipped with a glyph-graven head, when fired th...
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

What I've Been Up To Again - So I haven't posted here in months for a number of reasons: - My job has been picking back up again - I've been working on cleaning the apartment m...
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

With Great Power: a Superhero World - *A Quick and Dirty History Lesson* The first *superheroes *emerged into the fraught landscape of Prohibition-era American, post-war Europe, and the final d...
5 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Project Update Video -
5 weeks ago
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

Nymph Class (Gorgon Crawl Classics) - The Nymph has been the hardest class for me to put together for Gorgon Crawl Classics. It started off as a simple reskin of the Elf, a kinda-fighty spellca...
2 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.
2 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...
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

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...
4 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 ...
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

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 ...
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...
11 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...
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...
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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