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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: B10 In den Fängen des Dämons (In the Claws of...
We have moved into 1985 with today’s offering. This adventure is bizarre. And I don’t mean bizarre as in subject matter (although some parts are), but mostly in how it approaches the structure of a...
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[Worldbuilding] Notes on Population and Character Levels
When playing or writing for old school rules like Labyrinth Lord, Iron Falcon, or my own as of yet unnamed rule set I assume, in line with old school sentiments that somehow got lost over time, that...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. IV
Stuff J.V.West’s fanzine Black Pudding can be found for free/pwyw on drivethrurpg, and worth checking out. Paul Siegel created a Book of War adjunct set of skirmish rules, Delta has put it on his blog...
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[Shadowrun] Session 1 Silver Angel pt. 1 Running Circles
Seattle Space Needle by Cacophony, published under CC-BY-SA, modified by me We finally managed to get a game going. It took a while. Again. This doubles as my private notes of what was happening....
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The Halls of Tizun Thane (1980)
Imagine a second rate Robert E. Howard story and some fantasy by Clark Ashton Smith, blend them together, put them into your shisha and inhale. You hear that bubbling, that beat? Like someone just put...
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Wiedergänger
The question what happens to us after death has been one that has been asked and answered many times ever since we started to think and noticed that sometimes when you bash someone hard enough they...
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[The Dark Eye] Unboxing the Das Schwarze Auge Kaiser-Retro-Box (2018)
Kaiser-Retro-Box still shrinkwrapped A while ago I decided to buy myself the reissue of the first Das Schwarze Auge rules that came out in 1984. The reissue was a kickstarter-backed luxury reissue...
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[Worldbuilding] Paean to Vance
The tomes which held Turjan’s sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected...
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10 TTRPG Podcasts (that are not Critical Role)
Oh Gods, am I going all Buzzfeed? I’m not sure myself. But I wanted to share some tabletop roleplaying podcasts I enjoy listening to, and ten makes such a nice round number. And there definitely would...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. V
Free Stuff Palace of the Silver Princess for Cairn (via itch.io) Papermau collects paper models from all over the world on the blog A collection of materials regarding Tony Bath and his seminal...
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Did You Hear That?!
did you hear that? Yeah, I haven’t posted many monsters lately, but when joking around with my son I was thinking about a monster that could make sense: a predator that uses imitated noises to lure...
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Dungeon and Dragons, the also-ran of TTRPGs in Germany
I have mentioned it in my previous article, Dungeon and Dragons did not manage to make a proper impression in the German roleplaying scene in when it finally was translated. Now, that’s not to say...
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(your name) AND THE HOLY GRAIL
So this exists: “(your name) AND THE HOLY GRAIL”. A Monty Python and the Holy Grail themed adventure scenario from Space Gamer #41 (1981). Because yes, we need even more Monty Python references in our...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. VI
Free Stuff Critical edition of Little Wars (Scholarly Editing) Download 222 Belle Epoque Posters (Open Culture) Thoughts What’s the function of a stronghold? (Spriggan’s Den) Thoughts on the Cleave...
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[Tools] Free Character Portraits Redux
A few years ago *cough*eleven*cough* I made a small post about free character portraits available on the net. As was pointed out to me all of the links on that post are dead by now. And to be fair, 11...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: La dernière nuit (The Last Night, 1986)
I was browsing stuff about Casus Belli and it’s Jarandell subsetting, when I came across some scenarios they published for L’Œil noir at the time it came out. I actually never really had thought much...
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[Shadowrun] Session 2 Silver Angel pt. 2 Bellevue Sewers
A shorter session this time, our kid’s birthday party cut into it. Previously the runners had found out the research center they were trying to rob had busted security sensors on the lower level,...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: Le suppôt de Satan (The Devil’s Henchman, 1986)
From what I have found there were exactly two scenarios for The Dark Eye in Casus Belli, and this is the second one. Le suppôt de Satan (The Devil’s Henchman) by Jacques Dalstein and Jérôme Bohbot...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. VII
You might have noticed that most of the links I put in those link posts are the ones I have come across during the week and posted on my dice.camp account. Here they are collected, and expanded with...
View Article[Shadowrun] Session 3 Silver Angel pt. 3 Perfect Run
This one was again a rather short session. It literally was just the rest of session 2, but a week later. It took all of 90 minutes and then we were finished. They already had planned stuff out...
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