Top posts
Recent posts are down the right-hand column of the main page. Here’s a couple of older ones that tell you what I’m obsessed with:
Monsters: Formless Spawn of Azoth; Githyankifying mail; Matt Kish’s monster manual;
Adventure Seeds: one sentence adventure pitches; Coelomia, island of secrets; Sir John Soane, megadugeoneer; Heidegger’s Necronomicon;
Why Pokemon deserves a space on your gaming shelf: Endless attack fountain; Carcosan men + monsters matchup table
DnD Tourism: An observation on the Sea of O’Sr (ancient Greece isn’t many 72 mile hexes); Haut Koenigsberg; The Alchemist’s Baths; tunnels under Provins, France; Roman tombs; Kerguelen as Hyperborea; What’s the weather on Mongo?
Rants: five new sexes for your campaign; Why CHA is POW and should be the basis for magic; to haters of DnD’s big gold pieces; why I hate “pseudo medieval.”
Moby Dicks: are Cthulhu; fly in the sky (Timor Tom); feel pain too.
Recent Posts
- Good things about Phoenix Point – the world-building
- Architectural history for gamers 2b: mountains and misdirection
- Architectural history for gamers 2a: the holy mountain
- Architectural History for Gamers 2: telling stories with spaces
- How to have fun playing Phoenix Point
- Architectural History for Gamers, 1a: medieval and early modern forts
- Architectural History for Gamers, 1: why build city walls?
- XCOM in the mirror – Phoenix Point
- Learning from XCOM, 5: the bit that would be better as a TTRPG
- Maps of classic dungeons 4: the rats in the walls of the Opera Garnier
- an addendum to a really old post on Cha-based magic
- Learning from XCOM, 4: look how far we’ve come
- Epic inconveniences
- Learning from XCOM, 3: classes, advancement, and special moves
- Learning from XCOM, 2: a philosophy of cheating and balancing
- Learning from XCOM, 1: the rules that matter
- Art and Bitterness
- Learning from James Bond 4: Conclusions
- Learning from James Bond 3: Post-Soviet Chaos and the Age of Rage
- Learning from James Bond 2: 70s, 80s, the War on Drugs
- Learning from James Bond, 1: the 60s
- thoughts toward a flat earth campaign
- The PCs are a faction
- Have you tried ANT? A response to Marcia’s “OSR is Dead” post
- The Ritual
- An addendum to the previous post on magic and technology
- On the difference between magic and technology
- Let’s play pirates!
- On the regular hell that is the improved Spanish Prisoner con
- On the special hell that is the Spanish Prisoner con
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Scrap Princess
- Six Secret Books
- NooFutura available for purchase
- Leucrotta
- Weapon Breakage In Darksun
- Kickstarter Cognition Snare, 8th part of the Hexahedron of the Monks of Flame
- 6th Part Of Kick Starter Cognition Snare, The Hexahedron of the Flame Monks
- Kickstarter Cognition Snare: Hexahedron of the Monks of Flame : The Fouth Part
- Kickstarter Cognition Snare: Hexahedron of the Monks of Flame : The Second Part
- Demon Bone Sarcophagus Kickstarter Is Awrithe!
- 5 Point Star Faction System
Reading Appendix N
- New plan: Let the Wookiee (er, Combat Patrol) win
- My Corsair Voidscarred: the Void Tigers
- Housekeeping updates
- Everything: a working definition
- First level of the Black Furnace complete
- Pure joy: playing BattleTech with my kiddo
- Second lance of Long Nights ‘Mechs
- The Black Furnace level 1-A
- My first lance of ‘Mechs in 16 years
- My 2021 and 2022 in miniature painting
Roles, rules and rolls
- Hex Crawl 23 #154: Encounters in the Hills of Hama
- Hex Crawl 23 #153: Big Zi'iri
- Hex Crawl 23 #152: Small Zi'iri
- Hex Crawl 23 #151: The Gorge of Zi'iri
- Hex Crawl 23 #150: The Military Companies of Shasari
- Hex Crawl 23 #149: Quiet Farms on the Shi-Ar
- Hex Crawl 23 #148: The Temple of Aish Mashuila
- Hex Crawl 23 #147: The Lead Mines of Kuzza
- Hex Crawl 23 #146: The Bestriding Mountain Terkutta
- Hex Crawl 23 #145: The District of Kukutasha
Akratic
- Tales of the Variants
- Russ Nicholson RIP
- The Hedge Knight: Dunk and Egg coming to HBO
- Into the Unknown – The Akratic House Rules
- Beyond Dread Portals now on Kickstarter
- Swords and Wizardry revised now live on kickstarter
- Into the Unknown vs 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons
- OSR miscellaneous items: Swords and Wizardry revised and Shadow Dark
- Return to the Moathouse (Greyhawk campaign)
- More Middle-earth movies are coming
9&30 Kingdoms
- Drop Wolves Art
- Gems: A Short Series
- Marvel Reviews: Eternals
- Last-Minute d6 Dungeons: Map Glyphs
- Ethereal Components
- Portable Holes in a One-Plane Universe
- Last-Minute d6 Dungeons: Side Exits from Tunnels
- Last-Minute d6 Dungeons: Drop Dice Version
- Last-Minute d6 Dungeons: Exit Destinations
- Avatars and Airbenders (Review)
Lich house
- ACKS Greyhawk Report: Dungeon Level 1
- Lamentation Sales-O-Mania
- ACKS Greyhawk: From Hommlet to Nulb
- ACKS Greyhawk: Hommlet and the Moathouse
- How'd We Get Back to Greyhawk?
- Arise Dead Blog - I Have Need of You
- Favorite DM Advice of the Week
- Death and Skullport (an Undermountain play report)
- Game Report: Diplomacy on Undermountain Level 3
- Undermountain Level 3 Play Report: Commence the Beatings