Anyone actually believe he was dead? Even without seeing the floating dirt at the end of SvB?...which wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be, but still an awful, awful movie that hopefully gets forgotten and they course correct their cinematic universe to not be complete shit.
At least their TV and comics are fun. I just wish I had the budget for more comics since Image and Boom (mostly) put out so many books I like/love that I can't afford the DC books I want...
The only hope for DC movies is to fire their current creative staff and hire away Marvel's. They are still batting .000 and showing they have zero understanding of their own properties.
The Stats of a Dave Arneson Player Character.
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If you want to find the details for one of the characters that Gary Gygax
made and played as a PC, perhaps to use as an NPC in your own game, it
isn't t...
Trying some new VTT settings
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I put in some new settings for the VTT for tomorrow:
- auto-popout for the Combat Tracker
- larger font sizes to make it easier to read
- I think I manage...
The Lamp of Paths
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By Davidf IngleHard Marble GamesOSELevel 1 Hidden within a dangerous swamp
a disturbed priest makes his ruinous plans against his former community.
Will th...
More Paper Dollies
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I've started putting together a 28mm army of 10th-11th century Saxons,
using Peter Dennis's *Paperboys* download-print-and-snip paper flats.
I print them...
Character Creation Challenge: Eno Nosrep
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[image: Eno Nosrep]
I don't know who this character is ("One Person"), but I do know what he
is supposed to be. His class is Adept of the Spirit, which w...
RuneQuest Classics: Sun County
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Although Avalon Hill published *RuneQuest III* in 1984 and would work with
Chaosium, Inc. for another four, the publisher, best known for its wargames
rath...
Creating a Hex Crawl Series
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I've seen several people doing the 30 days/30 dungeons or variations. I
love the idea, but I know my ability to focus on one series for that long
is abse...
Round and Round the Spire We Go
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Had a four player game session for sat night crew
Arsh the dog-man 4 druid 1 from a barbarian abhuman tribe of the wastes
-With his pet dog that has been ...
PC2: Creature Crucible - Top Ballista (1989)
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From the back of the book:
Blue Fox, scramble ... Red Dragon at 5 o'clock!
The Realms of the Sky belongs to Serraine, the incredible Flying City of
the ...
Nothing Like Doing Good To Make You Feel Good!!
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The My Hero Academia spinoff, Vigilantes, debuts in April. Set five years
before the original, the story focuses on Koichi, a college freshman who
wants to...
Sci-fi Terrain: Chemical Processors
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The construction and painting of these 2 terrain pieces was amazingly
simple, once I got around to actually doing it. I built them at the end of
June in...
Mode, Not Genre or Type
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We tend I think to classify or categorise campaigns into genres (fantasy,
SF, horror) or sub-genres (high fantasy, sword and sandal); or into
particular ...
Brink of Calamity proofs ordered
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Hello, blog family. It’s been a minute. I’m happy to inform you all that
I’ve just ordered a proof copy of *Brink of Calamity* from DriveThruRPG.
When I ...
The Scrapheap Starter Set - Pegs in Space
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New challenge for 2025: Can you make an entire starter set style wargame
box by raiding your leftover materials and spending as little as possible?
That's ...
FGM Review: How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps
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[image: FGM Review: How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps]
I've had my eye on this one book for a while now and I was hesitant to pick
up *How to Draw Fantas...
Check out this fashionable fellow.
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I was looking at the *Tunnels & Trolls* stuff on the ebays and stumbled
across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it
was p...
Chaos Goblins - VotE Remastered Development
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Anarchists of the infinite dark. Chaotic where nothing so uncertain should
be able to survive. By chance alone they thrive, by chance they die
Russ Nichols...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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
bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined
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 ...
My only quibble is the fact that they flat out rob SvB of its one emotional scene. Supes is dead, here are trailers for our next movie where he isn't.
ReplyDeleteAnyone actually believe he was dead? Even without seeing the floating dirt at the end of SvB?...which wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be, but still an awful, awful movie that hopefully gets forgotten and they course correct their cinematic universe to not be complete shit.
ReplyDeleteAt least their TV and comics are fun. I just wish I had the budget for more comics since Image and Boom (mostly) put out so many books I like/love that I can't afford the DC books I want...
The only hope for DC movies is to fire their current creative staff and hire away Marvel's. They are still batting .000 and showing they have zero understanding of their own properties.
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