It's currently -5 degrees in Ohio with a Wind Chill Factor of -18 degrees as this post goes live at 6:00 a.m. EST. Brrrr. So there's no better time to hit the road for the first convention of the season: Gamicon Omega in warm and sunny Iowa! I'm looking forward to my first time at Iowa's longest-running gaming convention, and I'll be joining Dan Proctor in the Goblinoid Games / Pacesetter LTD booth as we run games, sell games, and play games over the weekend. (If you're nearby, bundle up and stop on out to see us!) And as always, I've packed up the computer
and camera so I'll be posting daily updates and pictures from the convention. Stay tuned to The Savage
AfterWorld for live coverage from that balmiest of towns, Iowa City!
And I thought this classic piece from comedian Heywood Banks would be most appropriate for the road trip I'm now enduring. Enjoy!
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#19 Winter's Tax
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The party is split. Not of their own doing, but split none the less. Last
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destinatio...
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From the front cover:
"Twenty-two wilderness hexes of Campaign Map One are detailed in these
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Kurz vor dem großen Knall und am vierten Advent möchte ich euch eine heftig
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beiden T...
Three Dimensions
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I mentioned in yesterday's post about my favorite science fiction
roleplaying game map that *Traveller*'s star maps are two-dimensional and
that that's l...
[New Monster] Azure Fyrehorn
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Azure Fyrehorn ‘There is no need to tap my ribs with your heels, I know
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I recently stopped in a local Hobby Shop (more a toy shop with a few
comics) and found these two gems in the used RPG bin for a great price. I
ma...
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An interesting side effect of having multiple iterations of D&D 5th edition
based on the 5e SRD is that some content allows publishers to produce
content t...
Single Axis Outer Planes
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There are a lot of very reasonable criticisms regarding the Gygaxian Great
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numb...
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And so, as others have mentioned, we come to the end of the first 50 years
of *Dungeons & Dragons*.
How to celebrate, you ask?
Play.
Play *Dungeons & ...
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Reynardines are foxes cursed to go about the world in the manner of men, or
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The...
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As a monster designer, I’m interested in seeing where the 2024 Monster
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What are the...
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High Trust
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Okay, read this first.
Now look this over:
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This reminds me of a systemless adventure published in issue 10 - 'The
Cowboy Issue' -...
Back to the Table
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The last gaming session I participated in was probably last year as a
player in the playtest of a *Mutant Crawl Classics RPG* adventure via Zoom.
Until a...
Editions of Dungeons & Dragons
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Most of you know that I run an old-school Dungeons & Dragons game for my
daughter and her friends. We started when they were between 10 and 11
years-old an...
Early TSR Modules: A Study in Style
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B1 In Search of the Unknown -- Classic dungeon crawl which was designed to
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D1 Descent i...
A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets
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I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural*
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para...
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Every once in a while, whilst watching something on TV, a piece of music
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Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura
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On the last day of 2022 I got married. In February 2023 I was invested as
Baron of Delftwood, an SCA thing. Over the course of 2023 I ran D&D (OSE)
fairly ...
RPG Blog Carnival: Endings
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Apologies for my lack of involvement over the last few months, real life
gets in the way sometimes. I do have a post still in draft for the
September Car...
Monster Stat Concept: Disposition
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Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help
understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they
mi...
The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come.
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To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff.
The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game
design.
In the past I...
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Witches are not something you choose to be in Ganth, it's a birth right,
something man has dealt with since the foundations of Wynter. Not born of
hate ...
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*The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely
excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has
been ...
High INT Bonus - "Floating" Spell Slots
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*Bonus Slots per Day*
*INT 13-15 +1*
*INT 16-17 +2*
*INT 18 +3 *
High INT Sorcerers gain “Floating” Spell Slot(s), each equivalent to One
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At...
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CAUTION LANGUAGE!
*After the 4E Apocalypse and the OSR*
Well my old group from back in 2006-2009, well some of the people started
to suck and make it n...
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*MANGANI* (ORIGIN)
The Mangani (aka Alma, Squatch) are a species of higher apes that can be
found around the world where they are traditionally associated ...
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Character is the heart of every RPG, they say. I wanted to use Metatoy
System but the vastness of species and jobs in a space opera setting just
won't ...
New Year's Day Tradition: Saving the Galaxy!
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In what's become a bit of a tradition now around New Year's Day, the
Geeklet and returned to Fantasy Flight Games in Roseville to play our homebrew
Star Wa...
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After working on the next iteration of the Great Blog Roll Call for the
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450 blo...
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Better late than never, right? Well...maybe. In the course of refreshing
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Glaucus' Re...
Mystara and Me
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[image: GAZ1 TSR9193 The Grand Duchy of Karameikos.jpg]
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The Hanging Cage
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This is a pair of short encounters for use with Basic Dungeons & Dragons
although it can be used with other editions and game systems without much
extra wo...
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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...
Human Infravision
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Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice,
scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength
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OKAY………….. WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!? AGOOD QUESTION FOR ANSWERING BUT I WILL
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Oh Zak...
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Picture of Zak S., aka Zak Smith, aka Zak Sabbeth, aka Zak Shitbag.
I just found out about this today.
Why am I not suppressed?
For those not in the kno...
Mudwarren Zine!
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A project I had a hand in was released yesterday.
Evyln Moreau has released the *Mudwarren Zine*, a final compilation of a
community project started on two...
[Allgemein] Kaum zu glauben, aber wahr...
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...ich lebe noch! 😯 Ja, ich bin immer noch wegen meiner (chronischen)
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nicht ausg...
Bonelord-A Villain for Light City
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This is a Light City version of a character I created for Icons 8 years
ago! Enjoy!
*Bonelord*
Real Name: Clinton Darnell
First Appearance: Mike’s Ama...
Resep Membuat Speculaas Peanuts Cookies Agni
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Resep Membuat Speculaas Peanuts Cookies Agni - Akhirnya kacang tanahnya ga
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One of the few RPG products that carries my name in the credits is the core *Adventurer
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Looking for a free OSR game with a Greek Mythos theme?
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companion, all free pdfs.
http:/...
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Hello all,
It's been a bit since I blogged on gaming in general. Life has taken over
and I am pretty sure that blogs have been relegated to a bit of a...
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Last year I shared a list of 10 Random Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios
based on my ad-hoc zombie survival/horror game (which is kinda like a DCC
Funnel b...
Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle
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https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE
“Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
Adventure Lookup
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This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com
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Should come in handy next tim...
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Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came
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he was go...
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When it'...
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What have I been up to lately? Well, let's see, "lately" encompasses the
608 days since my last post, so the answer is both "quite a lot" and "a
whole lot ...
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As DragonCon approached*, I was reminded that I had come across a copy of *De
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ye...
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UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's
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Be cautious at night traveler, for the darkness brings a life of its own.
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*Members of my "home" Labyrinth Lord group in fall 2010. *
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both my Labryinth Lord...
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TODAY IS Tramp Day: the birthday of David A. Trampier, who left us about 2
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Here's one of my fave drawings by him, which I love because t...
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It has been a long time.
My last post was in a long ago November and we're a few months off from the
4th anniversary of me starting this little blog. In th...
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HELLO GAMERS and HAPPY GM’S DAY! I have a special treat for you here, an
enormous shrine dedicated to Graz’zt! You can either use this as part of
Out of th...
WMLP! #7 Update
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…and on the seventh issue they rested.
...for, like, over a year. But, behold! The WMLP! crew is back in action
and issue #7 is in the works. Dr. Brainu...
The World Beyond hardcovers published!
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Yes, just before the new year, both *The World Beyond Basic Game* and *Samaris
Game Companion *are now available in full color print and pdf from
DriveThru...
MFL Mutant Football League
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The priesthood of the Beast operates The League, an outgrowth of the old
National Football League. Each sect of the priesthood controls a team,
recruiting...
The Truth About Lies (2015)
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Play Full The Truth About Lies in High Definition FormatNow you can download
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launc...
The Complete The Oracle
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We have a Kickstarter going for The Complete The Oracle, a reprint of a
nearly lost 1980s AD&D fanzine. Funded completely in the first 24 hours,
jump on b...
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If you were following a bit of my run up to Gencon posts, you might have
noticed that within the last year I've really gotten back into Warmachine
with m...
Go Vote!!
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Remember that poster I worked on a while back? Help us out, and help put my
knowledge of classic D&D to good use!
http://www.cinecoup.com/advancedwizardsan...
The Dragons of Poppy Smoke
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When a man signs a contract with Old Scratch, Mr. Scratch, Boruta (or any
local variant of the Devil), with the express p...
Mage the Awakening: No Mean City
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Way, way back in 2011 I spoke about starting a Werewolf: The Forsaken Game
chronicile in Glasgow. It kind of fell through, but I've about to start
DMing a...
Fin. With an update
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*Updated 2/24/15* - So when I wrote this over three years ago, I had a huge
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else. I ...
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*Savage Worlds* is the role-playing game that bills itself on being "Fast,
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adventurer...
Art! Valère Bernard
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Just found this guy. I can't find much about him, other than he died in
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hour sur...
LARRYCON Begins!!
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stroll. The harvest is upon us!!
Well it has been a wonderful spring and ear...
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I love Kickstarter, but recently I had a strange revelation. I got my
copy of Weird Wars Rome from Pinnacle Games and did not have the urge run
out an...
Random tables inspired by Amon Amarth
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Random tables taken verbatim from the lyrics of Amon Amarth.
TITLES
1. Guardian of Asgard
2. Son of Thunder
3. Walker on the Wind
4. Deceiver of the Gods
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real-worl...
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First of all, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a happy New Year's
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T...
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Sometimes the most fierce denizens of a dungeon are the smallest.
The Cat-taurs (a name the Ferrowar loathe) are a clannish breed of fae who
dwell in tun...
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campaign a bit. I have little time left to the session, so just take a look
at the...
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Just today I had the chance to play the Battlestar Galactica board game,
and to be quite frank, I was impressed. It full-heartedly embraces the
paranoia an...
Post-Apocalyptic / Noir / Fantasy Mash-up
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Instead of morphing Cyberpunk 2020 into my steampunk Fey Engine setting, I
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oth...
Pathfinder: the Comic Book #1
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If you enjoy Role-Playing Games and Comic Books (who doesn't) you should
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Paizo an...
Asteroid Dragon
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The Asteroid Dragon or "Rock Knucker" is a predator found on rocky moons
and rugged worlds along the fringes of known space. How these monsters have
manag...
Rental Equipment As a Business Strategy
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During stock tracking, you might normally want to sell off rarely used and
even underused equipment. Turn these obligations into resources instead.
Create ...
Touchdown
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in Canada. There's a zillion things we are catching up on and trying to do
so I c...
Strength In Numbers
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Here's a silly idea I came up with while browsing some 80's retro toy sites
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occasio...
Review: John Carter
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This weekend I undertook a trek to the cinema to catch John Carter. I
understand there was a lot of derision aimed at this film when it was
announced some...
Good News! The OSR at GenCon Again!
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I'm passing along a post by Bill Barsh of Pacesetter Games &
Simulations... :-)
I would like to announce that for the second straight year, there will be ...
Have a great 2012!
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While all activity on this blog ceased suddenly and unexpectedly the
reasons for it where sound in retrospective. I wish you all a happy and
great 2012 and...
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groups of p...
Actual Dungeon Design
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With Issue 2 being the first to feature an actual dungeon level (Level 1 is
in layouts/waiting for one more article to complete), I've decided to put
to pa...
BX Companion!
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I realize this blog is dead, but I had top post this somewhere.
I am the proud owner of the BX Companion. This is a project i have been
excited for for ...
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If you're driving through Kalamazoo today, be careful! There are lots of slide offs and jackknifed semis on I-94.
ReplyDeleteGood luck and take care! Wish I could join you, but work is crazy. Say hello to Dan for me :-)
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