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OSR Blogs
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Trapped In a Gray Town - I haven't posted about it in a while, but our campaign in *Nimble* continues. Since that last post, the party tracked the faerie kidnappers to the pla...
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A game of wits and wiles - Since Blood Sword was first released almost four decades ago, I wouldn't mind betting that plenty of GMs have used elements of the books in their rolepla...
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Blackmoor Week 2026 is here and Dave Arneson Game Day Approaching! - It is now less than a week until Dave Arneson Game Day 2026! If you have something planned for the week, now is the time to put your creative and gamin...1 dzień temu
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Manly Wade Wellman, Jackson, Sunny Valley and Appalachian Gothic - What started as an exercise for my *Witches of Appendix N* project has become a rather thorough immersion in the works of Manly Wade Wellman. I have spe...
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Greyhawkery Comics: Cultists #54 - Welcome back fanatics! Just to catch you up, the *Cultists of Tharizdun* were captured by *Markessa*, then dropped *In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords* t...
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Happy Hobbit Day - Today is the birthday of those two most famous of all hobbits: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. Hence, ‘*Hobbit Day*’. Also, yesterday (21 September 2026) was th...
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Being Creative with online session Discord Calendar Invites - In the face-to-face days we just used emails for our game scheduling and reminders. In the mid to late 90's we only played a couples times a month at...3 dni temu
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Dark Provinces: Personality Traits vs. Ability Scores - For more than twenty years I’ve wanted to design a role-playing game, where role-playing itself was the primary mechanic. That sounds obvious. Of cour...
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Why is the Ogre there? - Joe's post on the Quantum Ogre raises an old question about sandbox play: when does moving an encounter around interfere with players' freedom to decide...
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Dragonne #2 now available - The second issue of Dragonne is now available! BRW Games’ occasional journal of old-school gaming is back with two new features; To subscribe for free, and...1 tydzień temu
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Game Day - Nope. Not football. *Futbol*. The school soccer season kicks off today...this will be my 4th season coaching my daughter's team, my tenth year coaching my ...1 tydzień temu
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Can I Use NIGHT SHIFT for an SCP Tabletop RPG? - *Guest posting by Tim Brannan* My kids got me into SCP. Or, more accurately, they told me all about it, pointed me toward the Wiki, and then left me st...
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Reconsiderations: H.P. Lovecraft - This being the 136th anniversary of the birth of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, I thought it the perfect opportunity to write another installment in my incre...
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Hasturi, City of Heroes - Hasturi is one of the most ancient cities in the region, second only to Pazzix. In its distant past, it was a small, walled city-state on the Isle of E...
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Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...5 miesięcy temu
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Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
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The Unwritten/Unspoken Rules of OD&D part two - Taking a closer look at: 5. Never confront characters with threats they cannot either defeat or avoid. - 5b. Never confront characters with threats that ...6 miesięcy temu
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Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...
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Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...7 miesięcy temu
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On a Happy New Year - 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...
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I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
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New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.1 rok temu
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Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - 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...
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - 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...
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When did the OSR begin? 2008. - 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...
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A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - 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...
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There Were Dice - 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 ...3 lata temu
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2e Character Sheet - 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...4 lata temu
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Abiørn's Satchel - 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! - *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 ...
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Not Necromancy... - 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...
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie - 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 - 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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No i bye old school - *Dobra.* Wypierdalam, wreszcie z polskiego fundomu i z tego bloga. Ku uciesze kuglarskich mas. To ta chwila, na która czekali polterowcy, stulejarze, nazi...
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The Mythology of Moog - *Mythology of Moog* *The following is a long-accepted translation from the Codex Incarnaeum which describes the birth of the world. The views expressed...7 lat temu
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James's Celebration of Life - 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...
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Human Infravision - 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...7 lat temu
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Regarding Zak - https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes responsibility ...
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - 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? - 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 - *...
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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - 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 ...
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Goodbye and Good Luck - 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...
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
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Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - 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...9 lat temu
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I Missed the LL Box Set News - 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...
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The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C - 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 - 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 - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
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Fin. With an update - *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 ...11 lat temu
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Meet the Party - 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...
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Closing Today - 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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Aerth - 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...
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Kingdoms of Kalamar Play Report: Session III - Mopping up Bandits - 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...15 lat temu
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Piece of Cake: Cthulhu Bits - (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 - 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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