OSR Blogs
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ASC Review: Prophet's Spiral
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*The Prophet's Spiral (Ben Gibson)*
AD&D adventure for PCs of levels 3rd-5th
*I am reviewing these in the order they were submitted. For my review
criteria...
4 godziny temu
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Retrospective: Mark of Amber
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Because I’m focusing this month’s posts on the life, works, and legacy of
Clark Ashton Smith, I’ve been trying to find roleplaying game products to
discu...
5 godzin temu
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Heading out to PAGE
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Packing up and heading to the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo.
I’ll be running Scourge of the Demon Wolf and The Deceits of the Russet
Lord on Friday and S...
7 godzin temu
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Character Creation Challenge: Day 13 Jana & Sarana
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Today I want to explore two similar witches. Or more to the point, two
witches who approach similar magics and traditions of witchcraft from two
differen...
19 godzin temu
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The Instrumentality of Humankind
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*Lately, I've been thinking about my Scavengers of the Latter Ages idea,
which is sort of a "hard" science fantasy setting, and reconsidering some
asp...
1 dzień temu
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Hello 2026
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I didn't post a lot last year and looking through my lists, I have a lot
of unfinished and barely started posts to work on. The seeming slowdown
however...
4 dni temu
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OSR Christmas 2025- Return and Reboot Sunday, January 11th 2026
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This flu has been hard to fully kick, but I'm going to use this weekend to
catch up on and relaunch OSR Christmas. I'm still dealing with sinus
headaches...
4 dni temu
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Greyhawkery Comics: Under #23
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Happy New Year and welcome Underdark Denizens! If you're new to my short
story Under, go back with the links below to catch up. When last we saw, the*
sv...
6 dni temu
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Flags and states in open-world gamebooks
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I think it was Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson who first started using
keywords in gamebooks. Prior to that, a gamebook might say something like,
"If you me...
1 tydzień temu
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On a Happy New Year
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We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization.
What will that look like in sixty years?
Sinless is starting it's third yea...
1 tydzień temu
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May the Dice be Kind to You in 2026
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Me, when some of my graduate students tell me that they are into
role-playing games:
Me, when it becomes clear that by "role-playing games" they mean
ex...
1 tydzień temu
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Happy New Year!
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1 tydzień temu
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Up from the OSR - Venger Satanis and the C'orny C'ult of C'thulhu
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(as always mostly going on a decade or so old parcel of memories, so
please feel free to correct or expand on anything)
Like a lot of OSR personages I ...
2 tygodnie temu
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I have joined the cool kids on substack
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So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
2 tygodnie temu
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jimbo update
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4 tygodnie temu
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Glantri Reunion III: Timeskip Tables After-Action Report
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We had our first Glantri reunion session, and it was largely successful!
After 10 years of war and political shenanigans, the Company of Crossed
Swords (ou...
2 miesiące temu
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ArneCon 2025 is a success organiseres say
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ArneCon 3 is a big success say organizers! The convention honoring the
legacy of Dave Arneson took place this weekend in St. Paul Minnesota.
Special ...
3 miesiące temu
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New Website/Blog Space
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We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
3 miesiące temu
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OD&D Denham Tracts Monster Reference - Attacks/Damage in Standard OD&D Style
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OD&D Denham Tracts Monster Reference - Attacks/Damage in Standard OD&D Style
1. Alholdes - 1 claw/1d4
2. Apparitions - 1 touch/1d6 (ethereal)
3. Banshee...
4 miesiące temu
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Appendix N: September 2025 Edition
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It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be
updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection,
including s...
4 miesiące temu
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where are psionics from?
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A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I
haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation
for psio...
4 miesiące temu
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The Crypt of Atan-Thu
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I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising!
Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link:
htt...
5 miesięcy temu
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Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany
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Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that
doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough
theme...
8 miesięcy temu
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar
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This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final
continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla.
Witho...
10 miesięcy temu
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Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum
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Additional Thoughts on Alignment
In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun
exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...
11 miesięcy temu
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When did the OSR begin? 2008.
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I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across
a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought,
w...
1 rok temu
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A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets
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I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural*
("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the
para...
1 rok temu
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There Were Dice
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I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing
since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but
I *was ...
2 lata temu
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2e Character Sheet
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One of the most popular posts on this site over the years has been the 2nd
Edition AD&D character sheet I cooked up for our game in the early 90s. I
cleane...
3 lata temu
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Abiørn's Satchel
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This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of
rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and
sh...
4 lata temu
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The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight!
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*The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely
excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has
been ...
4 lata temu
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Not Necromancy...
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I am indeed alive! AN incredibly busy year of travel just got more crazy
as the year ended. In between I continued to work and play-test a different
mag...
5 lat temu
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
6 lat temu
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1: I am now an
author for EN World with a monthly column. Six lead columns have been
submitted to...
6 lat temu
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Dungeoneering Blog
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This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
6 lat temu
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No i bye old school
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*Dobra.* Wypierdalam, wreszcie z polskiego fundomu i z tego bloga. Ku
uciesze kuglarskich mas. To ta chwila, na która czekali polterowcy,
stulejarze, nazi...
6 lat temu
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The Mythology of Moog
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*Mythology of Moog*
*The following is a long-accepted translation from the Codex Incarnaeum
which describes the birth of the world. The views expressed...
6 lat temu
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James's Celebration of Life
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We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a
bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined
us tod...
6 lat temu
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Human Infravision
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Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice,
scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength
not normally vi...
6 lat temu
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Regarding Zak
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https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252
I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes
responsibility ...
6 lat temu
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
7 lat temu
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Save Versus All Wands Contest: What is the Value of the Coin Hoard?
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Treasure Type H
Announcing the third annual (well, not quite) Save Versus All Wands contest!
You can read about and see the results of the first two - *...
7 lat temu
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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available
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The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20
Comphrensive Edition* is now available.
*Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
7 lat temu
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Goodbye and Good Luck
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Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting
access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from
the OSR...
7 lat temu
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon!
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Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign...
*Current Player Characters:*
*Thenus* (Ranger)
*Wang Du* (Monk)
*Wolfheir* (Viking)
*Arg* (Half-orc)
...
8 lat temu
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Adventure Lookup
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This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com
Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far.
Should come in handy next tim...
8 lat temu
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Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon
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The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press.
We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat
room-shaped. That’s a h...
8 lat temu
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I Missed the LL Box Set News
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Now I know I’ve been out of the RPG circles for quite some time, but how
did I not hear of a freakin’ *Labyrinth Lord BOX SET*…and when can I *get*
one (m...
8 lat temu
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The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C
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My gut started bothering me a week or so before the last GenCon.
I had a previously set appointment for Aug. 21st and told my Family Dr.,
who recommended a...
9 lat temu
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Ausblick – RPG Blog-O-Quest Dezember 2015
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1. Das Jahr nähert sich dem Ende. Worauf freust Du Dich RPG-technisch am
meisten in 2016? Unter den momentan angekündigten Spielen gibt es
eigentlich keine...
10 lat temu
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Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now
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*The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here!
The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is
availa...
10 lat temu
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Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because
of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge.
http://www.theguardian.co...
10 lat temu
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Fin. With an update
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*Updated 2/24/15* - So when I wrote this over three years ago, I had a huge
life project come upon me, it was time to put my energy into something
else. I ...
10 lat temu
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Legends & Labyrinths
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Please visit us online at http://www.legendsandlabyrinths.com.
11 lat temu
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Meet the Party
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I'm back in Poland for a few days. Which means it's time to move my D&D
campaign a bit. I have little time left to the session, so just take a look
at the...
12 lat temu
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Closing Today
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The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time,
this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new
blog ...
14 lat temu
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Closed
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Nothing to see here. Move along.
14 lat temu
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Aerth
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Recently reading the Shadow of executioner and watching Beowulf movie
starring Christopher Lambert I wanted to run a sci-fantasy game. Since I
have many ma...
14 lat temu
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Kingdoms of Kalamar Play Report: Session III - Mopping up Bandits
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Last night's session went off well for the most part, though there was a
disagreement as to the procedure for treasure division amongst the players.
All sh...
14 lat temu
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Piece of Cake: Cthulhu Bits
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(Marcus: Heute zur Abwechslung mal ein Gastbeitrag meiner besseren Hälfte.
Ab und an wird sie in Zukunft hier hoffentlich das eine oder andere Posting
verö...
15 lat temu
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More Dreaming Games
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I'm trying to get this down while the dream is still fresh and has not yet
faded, so it won't be very coherent...
The dream started in Washington, DC, wher...
16 lat temu
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