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NPC classes
I never had such a great opinion on NPC classes as they were published in supplementary material for Dungeons and Dragons. Chiefly magazines, but in 3rd edition at least they also managed to get into...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective: B13 Der Streuner soll sterben
Let’s go through Das Schwarze Auge adventure B13 Der Streuner Soll Sterben (The Vagrant Shall Die) It has the secondary title Das Blutgericht von Thalusa (The Blood Court of Thalusa) which is one of...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. VIII
Thought Loose Ends from Written Modules (Seed of Worlds) Surprising Surprise rules (Cave of the Dice Chucker) Hobgoblin Monks the Erasers of Afterlife Identity (I cast light!) Be a Creator, Not a...
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Review: UD1 The Scorching Gantlet
It turns out “Gantlet” is an archaic form of “Gauntlet”, still technically in use, but I assume most people coming across this might not recognize this. Not even native speakers. I got this module for...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. IX
Eberhard Marx – Befindlichkeiten, 2010 RPG History 1983: Enterprise – Role Play Game in Star Trek (Reviews from R’Lyeh) Game Aids Recovered: Other Crews (Benign Brown Beast) Bandits! Bandits! – an...
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. X
I actually have not had much time this week for blogging, even reading my feeds was an issue. Which is sad because there was a rather juicy amount of stuff to be found in them. Here are the most...
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[HârnWorld] Tool: Campaign Tracker (for DnD B/X derivatives)
I am currently going through a lot of trainings, and specifically I am doing something to work on my SQL knowledge. I only have hovered around the edges of the topic before. Some of my previous jobs...
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XII
This time a few more links than last week. Maybe even too many this time. News Reprint of Shadowrun 1st edition in the works (enworld) Random Tables d100 – Weird and Whimsical Wants for Fickle Fey (d4...
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The Oldest TTRPG Forum on the Net
Did you know there is an online forum for tabletop role-playing games that has been around since the early 80s, and which still is active and operating? Admittedly in a much diminished state than at...
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Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XIII
A bit late with this one, holiday season was way too busy for my taste, and I got distracted by some retro-computing projects (like my irrational fondness for Usenet and setting up a TTRPG-focused...
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I just bought another copy of White Box…
Hunter S. Thompson had this great quote at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: “…once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.“ This...
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[The Dark Eye] Retrospective B9 Der Strom des Verderbens (The River of Doom,...
B9 was the first DSA module published in 1985. This is a year into the publishing history of the game. The Ausbau rules extension was around the corner, and so was the A-series of more advanced...
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[The Dark Eye] B1 Im Wirtshaus zum Schwarzen Keiler (Black Boar Inn, 1984)...
I already talked about Black Boar in in the first entry of this series. Since then I have gone through 10 or so adventures for DSA and it turns out my view on this module has evolved. Not evolved...
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#RPGaDay2023 Day 2: First RPG Gamemaster
OK, so I published the first day on August 2. For some reason it didn’t want to publish my article the day before and I had to do it over the mobile app. And the same thing happened yesterday. First...
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[Shadowrun] The Matrix of Yore
Have you ever looked at how the matrix worked in old Shadowrun? I mean really old, first edition Shadowrun? Because it’s fascinating in the most awkward 80s kind of pre-www way possible. Not that it...
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Download: PD Token Collection (170+ tokens for fantasy games)
The last few weeks I started getting interested in using VTTs for my next few games. I seem to have slept through the rise of those for the last few years, mostly because my kids were not at an age...
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[Worldbuilding] Just one of each
I have been worldbuilding the last few months instead of actually gaming. The Glimmermark still does not feel ready to actually play in, I am still trying to figure out how to fit the building blocks...
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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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