Don't Hold Your Breath...
Click to make waaaaaay bigger...but Patrick and Kirin and I are working on turning this map into a dungeon.It's got like 200 rooms, we already wrote them up, just working on editing, stats, using...
View ArticleChristopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline At Skotos Tech Are Saving Up To Buy...
Two months ago this blog had its (and maybe any tabletop RPG blog's-) most plussed post since Blogspot started having plusses.That was the one pointing out that, despite the fact that although RPGnet,...
View ArticleYou're A Swashbuckler Now, Act Like It
Hey, guess what? You're a 5th level fighter.You know what your level title is: Swashbuckler. That's official--that's in the rules. You already been done already been a Hero--that was last level. Check...
View ArticleYou Have Exactly 24 Hours...
...to make sure one of the entries in the best free RPG thing of the year was written just for you.And the only price is one of the others must be written just by you.So get your request in to Secret...
View ArticleI Just Do Eyes
Here's something I lose sleep over:Why is it that--in movies and in comics--genre fiction* completely and comprehensively kicks not-genre-fiction's ass?Books can and do handle not-genre very well....
View ArticleIt's Some Damn Nice Wallpaper But I Will Never Own Wallpaper
At Indiecade again this year.Which is wonderful--it is not a convention. It calls itself a festival and it is. In the good sense of the word, like Maryland Deathfest is a festival, not in the way that...
View ArticleAnaxorchas
Anaxorchas is this overweight hairless demon with glass eyes.He's just like "Hellooooo! How arrrrre you? It's so nice to see people exploring, seeing what there is to see. You must come in and tell me...
View ArticleI Love This Old German Atlas I Got For A Buck
I also found a typed (like: typewriter typed) daily newsletter from a cruise ship in Greece ("And the winner of The Most Beautiful Costume is POSSIDON - Mr. Moel BOUVET") folded up inside the atlas.The...
View ArticleTalent Is An Actual Thing And You Have It
Game products assume things. Different ones assume different things.Small But Vicious Dog assumes you've played D&D before.The Star Trek RPGs assume you want to play a game about Star Trek.etc.One...
View ArticleAll The Magic
AD&D1 is the maxnificence for spells. It has versions of nearly everything that was in the previous editions, plus the ones afterward were never as weird._Well for a long time there's been this...
View ArticleVisual Random Encounters
I printed these out and taped them into my DM notebook...Some pictures are worth at least a paragraph.Like I wouldn't have put this picture in one of these here:Nice as it is, it doesn't do much more...
View ArticleD&Dability Study: Scheherezade, Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom
Roll d100 for a random plot element from...Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights by Sergio Toppi...1. ...the snowy peaks of Bashra, where Hyrkanian tigers lose their color in winter2. I have a...
View ArticleYour RPG Person Profile
Copy this and put it somewhere on your blog or some other static place that's easy for people to find. Like if some RPG person can find your name, they should be able to find this profile. It'll speed...
View ArticleSolution-Driven Adventures
I got 99 problems and they form an interlocking network of pistons in a vast adventure-generating engine There are more scripts than business cards in Los Angeles, so finding writing advice so simple...
View ArticleFree Weird Space Magic
Hereticwerks Space Age Sorcery dealie has some decent adventure fuel in it.also: weird nipplesBrazen MienSpell Level: Magic User 4thRange: CasterDuration: Permanent until dispelledCan only be cast once...
View Article12 Situations in 12 Pictures
I collect these and stick them in my notebook--I look for ones that convey a relatively large amount of information in one picture--easy for a GM to take in mid-session and easy to imagine any group of...
View ArticleFish Helmets, Lamprey Men, Economics, etc
Scrap Princess (of this here blog) trawls the web digging up exotica including coconut fibre armor. "The warrior holds a three-pronged weapon (taumangaria) edged with shark's teeth. He may also have...
View ArticleHalloween Pictures (Trigger Warning: Real Life)
Steve, (who plays Bill--human fighter, level 1) took most of these...They went Human Barbarian/Human Barbarian because it was easier than half-elf thief wearing pig's head for a hat/tiefling cleric but...
View ArticleThe Riveting Horror of Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline and Skotos Tech,...
Wandered over to RPGnet to look at Carcosa threads today and...Really? Still?It's months later you're still taking these peoples' money, RPGnet?Three months later?Christopher Allen, Shannon Appelcline,...
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