Zatannurday: The Cypher Friends
+Mark Craddock over at the excellent Cross Planes blog has been doing a lot of stats for the Cypher System lately. His series, which has the great name "Cypher Friends", has been about all sorts of...
View ArticleMythic Russia
There are tons and tons of great mythic stories in the world. One of the ones I have always found to be interesting, though I know very little about them, are the Russian myths and fairy tales. In...
View ArticleMegadungeon Itch
I recently have been thinking about trying something I have never really done. I am talking about Megadungeons. I was reading this posting on megadungeons recently, and it got me thinking. I have...
View ArticleReview: The B/X Rogue
I love new B/X classes. If I have demonstrated nothing else here it is that. So when +Gavin Norman of the excellent City of Iron blog and Necrotic Gnome Productions came out with a new B/X class,...
View ArticleClass Struggles: B/X Classes
The last few weeks I have been focussing on various classes and it dawns on me that I need something along the lines of a B/X Class Compendium for myself. Not to publish or anything, but just my own...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
In the US it is Thanksgiving. Where we celebrate the day a bunch of starving refugees from another land came to a beautiful new country and systematically killed and enslave the indigenous population...
View ArticleKickstart Your Weekend: We have Movie (and Book) sign!
First off, I have to repost the MST3k Kickstarter. Lots more information including the first host and first Mad Scientist. Yup. That is Felicia Day as the new Mad. I was not a fan of her's originally,...
View ArticleFriday Night Videos: Paint it Black
In "honor" of Black Friday here are some of my favorite songs/videos about black. At least make an effort to stop at your FLGS this weekend. "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones takes us all the way...
View ArticleZatannurday: Legends of Tomorrow
The newest trailer for DC's Legends of Tomorrow is now out. It looks fantastic! Rip Hunter, the Atom, Firstorm, Hawkgirl, White Canary? Yeah sign me the hell up! Damn even Captain Cold is great in...
View ArticleBuried Alive!
Well sort of. I have about a week's worth of email to get caught up on and a ton of blog postings to read. Back when I can!
View ArticlePlaying In Hyperborea
I have been wanting to run a campaign using Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea for some time now. +Eric Fabiaschi over at "Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg...
View ArticleDear Harry, It's Not You, it's Me...
No. Actually. It's You. I LOVE modern supernatural and horror games. Just love them. Even ones I don't get to play often I still enjoy reading. Heck I have not played Mage in close to 10 years and I...
View ArticleClass Struggles: The Wizard, Part 1 Customizing Options
Posting about the Dresden Files yesterday and talking about psychics, witches and other classes has got me thinking about Wizards and Magic Users today. In truth you can't read, write and think about...
View ArticleDIY D&D
One of the great things about the whole self-publish, self-produce, osr movements is the ability to not only have games we loved in no forms, or books we never had (B/X Companion and Adventures Dark...
View ArticleConceptual Continuity: The World that Frank Zappa Built
Today is sad day. 22 years ago one of the greatest performers in music died. Frank Zappa. ETA: We also just learned that form leader singer of Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland has also died today. I...
View ArticleFriday Night Videos: Conceptual Continuity
Welcome to the Friday Night Videos salute to Frank Zappa. Earlier today I posted some people and things from Frank Zappa's Conceptual Continuity. Here are the songs and videos that inspired them....
View ArticleZatannurday:
In case you have been living in a bunker in Mojave, here is the trailer for the newest movie in the DC Cinematic Universe. I think it looks great. First up the sneak peek. I am going to say....dream...
View ArticleDCC and 0-Level Characters
Busy day today. I have Eighteen research design videos to edit. But I thought I would throw out something I am playing with for my next campaign, either my "Second Campaign" or my War of the Witch...
View ArticleReview: GAZ3 The Principalities of Glantri
Still spending a lot of time thinking about witches, wizards, schools of magic and witch queens. So naturally my thoughts turn to +Bruce Heard's masterpiece, GAZ3 The Principalities of Glantri. I have...
View ArticleClass Struggles: The Wizard, Part 2 The Wizard Class
Last week we discussed the Magic-User and his cousin the Wizard. One thing seems certain, the Magic-User is a bit overpriced in terms of XP. Also, and I am not the only one as we will see, the...
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