Clik here to view.
Felines of the Flat Planet
Snow leopards stalk the Northern Lands from the River of Unfathomable despair to Nornrik and beyond. Males have crystalline teeth. Females prize the taste of the hands of elves.Drownesia is home to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In The Wine Dark Sea of the 40,000 Isles, There Is Only Booty
The Rogue Traitors (or Trader Marines) menace all waters from Nephilidia to the Exotic East and from the Nornrik Kraal to the Colossal Waste.Some lack eyes, some lack hands, some lack legs below the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nosebleed Noir
(Sketch for a Chill of Cthulhu campaign)Desperation.No deep ones, no tommy guns, no Delta Green, but not purist Lovecraft either--the horror is too personal.The .45s do come out, sooner or later, in...
View ArticleI Just Play Here
Session before last, the girls went into a dungeon.That's good. I can prep for that.(TPK which I had to retroactively undo because I realized I did the math wrong in the last round so actually they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Is What Halfling Cities Are Like Now, Ok?
(Google + threw this together in about half a day. Good job, weird community.)Zak S:Halfling city. Not The Shire but like a whole city (not a village) of, for, by, halflings. What's that like? Do they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Internet Isn't Real. Chocolate, Incest, And Miniatures With Broccoli On...
Kirin Robinson wrote Old School Hack, a nifty, streamlined, award-winning free version of '80s D&D that, in addition to being played by real people, is also unaccountably popular among desperate...
View ArticleLoose Plot Threads
...for the D&D campaign, as of tonight.In case of dead end, roll d20 for which sin comes back to haunt the party...1. Mirror (Satine), one of the party's original thieves was resurrected in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Contessa, Giving Laser Eyes to Mummies, and RPG Art
THINGS TO KNOW:-Contessa is an online gaming convention and it's going to be good. I think Stacy Frivology got sick of hearing the best way to support women in gaming was to explain to half of them...
View ArticleCinematic
The floor crumbled away and the cleric (of Man Pac) fell into the underground channel, moving swiftly west.A fighter, keeping watch, bellowed loudly, causing something to stir on a channel bridge to...
View ArticleNot Immediately Obvious Feature of Occult Tome (Roll d100)
(Courtesy of everyone in this thread on Google + (add me if you can't see it).)This took 2 and a half hours to put together.1. If left in sunlight, always appears in shadow when next seen. 2....
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Is What Having An RPG Blog Is Like
So you eat cheese, you're eating cheese, your friends eat cheese you spresd it on crackers and it's tasty and there's cheese and then you go on the internet and write "Oh the cheese, I'm eating it, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just A Note About Some Contessa Stuff Going On Today
3.5 hours from this post:WTF is The OSR? is easy to answer. It's Max. But the people doing the discussing on this panel are supercool...Kyrinn of Urutsk: World of Mystery, which is that thing where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not Nearly Enough Horror Business (Some random tables)
Some Tables for Call Of Cthulhu or other horror games....(The first 3 tables all owe a debt to Cthulhu Gloom--thank you, Keith)Characters (d20)1, Obsessive mathematician2, Insane scientist3, Woman of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reasons Everyone You Know Is Dead Or Insane
Threw together some plot seeds using the first three results that I rolled up on yesterday's horror plot seed generator.I like this thing...._Fatally curious curatorDead but still communicates with the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Girlfriend Index
The Girlfriend Index is, quite simply, the number of different google results an activity returns when inserted at the beginning of the phrase "with my girlfriend'.Scholars differ on the precise...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Indifference Number
The crowbars are deployed.A scraping.Centipedes crawl out through the new black breach in the veined stone.The cleric with the 16 Int backs around the corner.Oh, who knew? The ArchLich has been...
View ArticleWe Will Indulge In Your Meatpies
So the company that makes D&D released a video of their R&D team playtesting a game, with one Mr Mike Mearls GMing.So what do we learn about the internal gamer culture at the company charged...
View ArticleElegance
Basic Role-Playing, the system which underlies Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Pendragon, Runequest and a buncha other games has this mechanic: you have a stat, you try to roll equal or under it.For...
View ArticleTwo Guys Walk Into A Bar...
Actually, for the purposes of this example, they haven't walked in yet, but they can peek through the window unseen.First Guy GM 1: The bar is completely empty except for the bartender who is behind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our Thief Drew This (PLUG PLUG PLUG)
So Satine Phoenix......who actual play report readers and I Hit It With My Axe fans may remember from such incidents as "I Got Killed By A Bunch Of Goblins On A Crappy Bridge"and fans of hot...
View Article