Alright! I'll be at PAGE 2 tomorrow through Sunday morning. If you will be there, please track me down and shake my hand :)
In the meantime, it's time to put up the gifts for OSR Christmas Days 9 & 10. More gifts are more better! Comment below before 6 PM, Sunday, January 20th, to be considered for a gift!
Gift 1 - Dragonlock Lost Caverns: Master Set FDG0410 ($50.00)
Gift 2 - Dragonlock Lost City of the Dwarves: Master Set FDG0411 ($25.00)
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Waiting to Exist
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What is this little underground complex? A basement. A dungeon of some
sorts? Maybe a resupply station? Or a prison? Maybe. Maybe all of them.
It's a pl...
Character Creation Challenge: The Ravenloft Weekend
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[image: Characters from the The Ravenloft Weekend]
Back in 1991, Grenda and I ran a weekend-long game of Ravenloft. We ran it
as the "Dreams of Barovia" var...
Friday Fantasy: Till Death Do Us Part
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*Dungeon Module GG1: Till Death Do Us Part* is notable for one particular
fact. That it is written and published by Heidi Gygax Garland—yes, the
daughter ...
Fuccubus Friday - Dreamqueen
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Dreamqueen is the child of Dr. Strange's foe Nightmare and a succubus that
he forced himself on. She inherited her mother's mystic powers and memories
upon...
Goofy gobs
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These goofballs might be showing up soon, we will have to wait and see what
the fates have in store for our little band of adventurers...side note: it
is e...
Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide (1994)
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From back of the book:
The Star Vikings of the Reformation Coalition Exploratory Service (RCES)
are always on the look-out for useful relic technology fr...
30 Quick Hexes of Chagrinspire
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*Quick new years personal grievances your welcome to skip*
Im having new year "what the hell am I doing with my life" th...
Tomb of the Necromancers
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By Pail MitchenerD101 GamesCrypts & Things/OSRLevels 6-8 The ruins of the
Unknown City stand at the edge of the Death Wind Steppe, surrounded by the
foothi...
Electric Broadcasts
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Bastion is full of broadcasts. The very air you breathe is filled with
transmissions waiting to be received. Radio, telly, machines silently
pinging thei...
FLGS: The Hobbit Hobby Shop (Fayetteville, NC)
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[image: FLGS: The Hobbit Hobby Shop (Fayetteville, NC)]
Recently I was on a business trip to good-old Fayettenam....er,
Fayetteville (NC), home of the 82n...
Rules & Rulings from Session 203
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Rules & Rulings from last session!
*Can you Wait until someone else's turn ends?* Essentially, can you hold
your turn until later in the sequence, usually ...
Authority at the Table
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The start of an RPG campaign is always an interesting anthropological
moment - particularly if, as is often the case with an online game, the
players do no...
Caves of Chaos: Sticky Sweet and Rotting Flesh
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Session 6 was played on 9/12
Io the thief
Gizzard Wannabe the Wizard
Theiss of Gond, cleric
Tiptoe the thief
Boots the ranger
Amnyuthist the halfling
The...
My Life in Roleplaying Games: 2024 and 2025
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As we head into 2025, here are some brief reflections on my role-playing
activities in the recent past and near future.
I've been really enjoying running ...
HeroQuest (and HeroQuest-Adjacent)
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Some years ago, when I was making some dungeon tiles, a guy gave me these.
They'd taken all the miniatures out, but apart from that they appear to be
c...
Musk and the Moral Homebrew...
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Our hobby is essentially homebrewed. But it's also an industry eager to
appropriate that which its players inevitably do themselves, whether
through deli...
Articulations
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Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign,
has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective
house rule...
Bat in the Attic Games and 2025
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Happy New Year Folks!
This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening
with me and my plans for the upcoming year.
Personal
I ...
Happy New Year from the Vault
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Welcome back to the Vault, and a Happy New Year to you all! 2024 was quiet
on the blog front, but busy painting and gaming wise culminating in a
Cawdor ...
A Fiftieth Anniversary Year
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The 50th anniversary year of *Dungeons & Dragons *is drawing to a close. A
number of projects I'd been planning for this year finally came out, and I
...
A Quick Look at The Wizard’s Scroll II
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October of this year saw the release of The Wizard’s Scroll II, the second
issue of a White Box Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game (FMAG) zine whose first ...
[BLOG] Towards Fomalhaut – and What It Is
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The City-State of Pentastadion
(as depicted in a 1932 university yearbook)
“OK, but what actually is Fomalhaut?” is not a question I get asked
specificall...
RayMen - VotE Remastered Development
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The RayMen, slight and fast, aged-but-ageless, backs inherently stooped,
with bright, intelligent eyes.
At the edge of the comprehensible world, where d...
Writing playlists for all occasions
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Hello again! Going off the idea of inspiration elaborated on by the prior
post, I also have music playing while I write my various games and fiction
pieces...
On Manifestos
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The paid media was instructed to not print this.
To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our
country. To save you a leng...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Blue Sky Temple, Revised
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Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky.
It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed
together.
This week, I ...
Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from
“off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic
item rese...
OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats
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Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using *Magical
Industrial Revolution*. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just
want t...
Welcome new Greyhawk Fans!
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With the publication of the new Dungeon Master’s Guide, there are doubtless
going to be a lot of new D&D players interested in my favorite setting, the
Wor...
Grimdark vs. Eucatastrophe
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Noisms has some interesting ideas in this post about his desire for some
depth to his grimdark, and turns to Gene Wolfe and Tolkien for relief.
Now, it ...
It's been a bit
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Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and
haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and
other st...
Session #12 & Adventure Sites Compilation
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Firstly, I wanted to let everybody know that Adventure Sites I by Coldlight
Press is now available as a free download on DriveThruRPG. It includes my
own...
The Economy Engine, v0.2
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I made a thing. For D&D 3rd edition, so it might not be that interesting to
a lot of people. But I made it and I think it’s cool. The 3rd edition
Dungeon M...
*'s in SpaaaaaAaaaace
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A lot of SF (including a certain 2D6 RPG grandaddy) deal with ancient
aliens taking humans from Earth and dropping them, fleas and all, on one or
more w...
Last move - to self-hosting!
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As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to
self-hosting.
I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)
Blog: ht...
Time Rolls On
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Today is December 31, 2023, in the mid-afternoon. In less than ten hours it
will be 2024. 2023 2023 was a good year. But all years are good years. Both
goo...
This is an Important Game Mechanic
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*"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good
regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does
some s$&...
Clean Your Room
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Looking back at my little blog here. That last post… wow, I was having fun
playing WOW Classic! That was August of 1999 and I was having a blast… it
was ...
Steve Jackson Interview
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James Maliszewski recently did an interview with Steve Jackson over on his
Grognardia blog. Steve chats about the beginnings of The Fantasy Trip and
upcomi...
ToAD Monster of the Week: Crocoman
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Now that I'm back doing the blog thing I thought I would use Tome of
Adventure Design to create monsters for The Black Hack.
Using the monster tables in th...
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...
New Map of the Elf Empire and Southern Isles
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I’ve been having fun developing a new map-drawing style that I think is
finally reaching a certain level of maturity. And yeah, it owes a lot to Matthew
Ad...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded
Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in
Warren...
Fiction in Airhde
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On a whim this weekend, I picked up some fiction off the TLG store. *A
Houseless God & Other Tales* and *The Mirrored Soul & Other Tales*, both by
the T...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
The Withered Crag available now
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I just enabled the sale of the PDF version of The Withered Crag at
DriveThruRPG a few minutes ago, and the custom print version will be
available startin...
Annihilation Rising Goes live
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The latest in Fail Squad Games’ Quick Kick projects has gone live and needs
your support!! This project is only running 11 days and ends on 5/28/2019!
...
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
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us tod...
Trap Tuesday: A step back
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I will get back to Tomb of Horrors soon. I found a topic that was
interesting enough to take a break. While interacting in a 5E group on
Facebook I talked ...
Let's Talk About Pacing!
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The idea, I think, is that the RPG is ultimately about the long game. Even
rolling back to the early days of Basic & Expert, the goal of the player
was...
Profane and Profound Prep Part 2
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This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release,
along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a
Saint 8000...
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...
New website!
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Slowly but surely, all the content here will make its way — in updated
form! — to my new website: timbannock.com. For fairly obvious reasons, that
site wil...
Please Update Your Link!
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If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is
out of date.
Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is
h...
Total Sales for WB:FMAG
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Hi Folks,
It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White
Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game.
*LULU*
Print: 396
PDF: 433
*OBS*...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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d12
1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute
of Annihilation*
2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
Mord Mar - Session 5
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We had another successful delve into the dungeon yesterday. The delvers:
Moira, the Magic-User
Radovan - Human Cleric (of Odin?)
Khazgar Stonehand - Dwarf ...
A Small, Quiet Plea
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There has been a great deal of discussing political agendas, social
grievances, and personal attacks within the little corner of gaming that is
my hobby....
Bundle of Fantasy Age
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Bundle of Holding: Dragon Age/Fantasy Age: Available until March 12. PA
Presents: Fantasy AGE Freeport live play Green Ronin in 2018 The Fantasy
Age RPG ma...
New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults
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A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by
Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex
Zisch, a...
Swords & Wizardry Light: Session # 6
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Two months after our last session (thanks to things like 8th grade finals,
a 4 year-old's birthday and party, Father's Day, etc.), we finally had our
next ...