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In the City at night
It takes two days of canal travel from the Eastern and Western canal to reach the Docklands after one has passed through the shadowy enormity of the Capital's great walls and the mercenary militia and...
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The City at Night - They Stalk Darkened Streets - Blackhearts
Michael Whelan - DescentThis began as a random encounter list companion for the most recent post of random urban landmarks for the capital of the Fallen Empire, but became a long monster description...
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In the City at Night - Trade your Dreams for Tawdry Fashion
Pennington -Year OneThe Capital is eternal, possessing the hubris of something that is, and it's 2,800 year history of continuous metropolitan occupation gives it some claim to being the largest,...
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Strange Stars - OSR - A REVIEW
So a while back Trey Causey of Sorcerer's Skull Released "Strange Stars" a " setting for any game where modern transhuman science fiction meets classic 70s space opera." It was a pretty good all...
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Gongburg Solitudes
So there's this thing where people post hex maps up on Google Plus and then others come along and fill in various Hexes to create a complex hex map. Of late Save vs. Total Party Kill has put together...
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A fun little map
I drew this little map the other day during a session of Hill Cantons where during the sack of a minor city state by an army of aggrieved war bears the party ran down the city's recently deposed...
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Veins of the Earth - A Review
The Underdark I was reading and reviewing Wizard of the Coast’s Out of the Abyss, which is fundamentally a decent campaign book about the Underdark. It’s likely the best that Wizard’s has produced for...
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Mortzengerstrum the Mad Manticore of the Prismatic Peak - Review
MORTZENGERSTRUM THE MAD MANTICORE OF THE PRISMATIC PEAKA few days ago Trey of Sorcerer’s Skull and Hydra Collective released their first site based adventure for Causey’s gonzo fantasy setting “The...
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Review S1 - Tomb of Horrors - Gygax at his most Gygaxian
TOMB OF HORRORS - RECENT INTERESTTomb of Horrors is a high level (8th -14th) AD&D adventure written in 1975 (published in 1978) by Gary Gygax. In the past several years gotten a bit of press,...
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Gravesand Beach - One Page Dungeon
It's been a long time since I did one of these - a one page dungeon. Here it is a terrible place infested with the spirits of murdered few reavers, now transformed into gull-like avian horrors and the...
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Temple of the Frog - The First Module? A Review
THE MIRE OF HISTORYThe review previous to this one is an in depth review of the adventure module S1 - Tomb of Horrors. Tomb of Horrors was written in 1975 as a tournament adventure for the first...
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In the City at Night - The Night Holds Terrors
The roads are pure and timeless, and around them the detritus of a civilization that has failed from efforts tawdry efforts to emulate the roads' perfection. Bright avenues run to the horizons -...
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Monster Archaeology - Cockatrice, Basilisks, Medusae and Gorgons
THE STONE CREWNo 1 - Catoblepas? Gnu? It's shocking how many monsters in the 1970’s editions of Dungeons and Dragons turn their foes to stone, but maybe it shouldn't be as there's an entire saving...
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The Haunted West
You know you want this in your Boot Hill Game...A few days ago I got to play a game of Boot Hill using the 2nd, 1979, edition (which are very similar to the 1975 1st edition in its little brown book)...
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The Oldest of Old School (part III) - G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
GYGAX RISES AGAING1 - Steading of the Hill Giant ChiefOriginal Cover ArtRecently I reviewed both Tomb of Horrors (Gary Gygax - 1975/1978) and Temple of the Frog (Dave Arneson - 1975) and found them...
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A Swords and Sorcery Setting - Part 1
I haven't ever really bothered with applying about Swords & Sorcery elements as setting building blocks. Here's an attempt. At some point the This is the World PDF may be followed by This is...
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Steel Leviathan
Sometimes I still mull over ASE and things like will it ever get more levels, and will I ever write anything more for the setting.Sometimes this musing goes as far as drawing some stuff for the...
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HMS Apollyon Viking Character Generation Rules
Below are some rules I wrote up to run Viking seafarers in the HMS Apollyon setting to run some one shots of a few new areas. A friend ran a game at NTRPG Con using these rules and related WWII...
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