Ex-RPGNet Review: Traps & Treachery
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Traps & Treachery has received more use in my D&D games than any book
outside of the core rules. Originally Published March 14th, 2002 If a
publisher walke...
Comicon in Bergamo
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Last weekend I was at Comicon in Bergamo as a guest of the festival
organizers and my Italian publisher, Edizioni Librarsi. Jamie Thomson and I
joined in...
Faceplant
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You know, I don't talk a lot about my personal life around here, but this
one was an adventure, so I'll share.
Last Saturday, the Lovely Bride and I went...
Yes I am still alive. And Happy Canada Day!
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The first half of 2026 was a bit overwhelming as I frequently had piles of
(soul crushingly boring) administrative work to do. (Sorry for mentioning
this a...
Totaly Skull: June, 2026
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Things that brought me delight in June, 2026.
*Johanna van Veen, Bone of My Bone*
I enjoyed Johanna van Veen's haunting novel *My Darling Dreadful Thi...
Northern Marches Livestream
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My friend Joe the Lawyer and I are having a live discussion about the
Northern Marches, along with other OSR and RPG topics, tomorrow, Sunday at
5 pm Eas...
Sanctum of the Heresiarch (a one-shot dungeon)
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So in the Lands of the Heresiarch, the Xenomorph-worshipping cult (think
Alien: Resurrection but in the middle-ages) has built its shrine around
the cra...
The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance
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Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are.
For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of
Marlinko, Kezmaro...
Revised RuneQuest
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*Revised RuneQuest* is *not* the same as *NuRQ*. The latter is *Jeffʼs*
ongoing effort to lure D&D and *Pathfinder* players to play *RuneQuest*,
whilst t...
What We’re Playing: Tabletop H through W
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The upper end of the alphabet leans into games played with friends who
prefer casual fare.
*Hot Streak*
Four hapless lower league baseball mascots race. ...
PATHS OF POWER: TWO EXPANSIONS FOR MÖRK BORG
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There are about a gazillion reasons I love MÖRK BORG.
For starters, I parted company with the big, bulky math-heavy RPGS back
around 2000. I'd played s...
Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI
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There isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for
PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Morale
Che...
Let’s Read: The Straight Way Lost by Vortex Verlag
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This review is made possible by the generosity of Vortex Verlag who
provided me with a review copy of this book. No other compensation was
given to me and ...
Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives
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With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at
the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over
1,000 ...
Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits?
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Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question
about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately
this hi...
Pierre Nevejans
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Agrégé d’histoire, Pierre Nevejans, est docteur de L’ École normale
supérieure de Lyon. Il est spécialiste des relations diplomatiques
franco-italiennes à ...
It's been a decade, now...
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This is a tough time of year for me. So, with your indulgence, here's this
link to a post I did a decade ago... EDIT: I have no idea why it didn't
take. S...
Abiørn's Satchel
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This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of
rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and
sh...
It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead
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So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993.
Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps
“dys...
QUAND LES RUNES MONTRENT LES DENTS
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Je n’ai presque jamais joué à Vampire: la Mascarade (une ou deux parties il
y a « quelques années », quand le président de la république française
s’appela...
Earth-Tec Beaten into Submission
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Apple goes for blood. I have been a victim of Earth-tec rampantly out of
control because of the greed of the lab Iscins of Apple tech, who have
decided t...
Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter
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*Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.*
Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other
chara...
The G+ Apocalypse
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This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com
The Tekumel ...
A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria
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This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a
response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the
fantas...
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea]
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Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came
with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) -
he was go...
Comme le temps passe !
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Bigre, 2017 est déjà bien entamée, ce blog est moribond depuis plusieurs
années !
En attendant que je le ranime éventuellement, sachez que j'ai bien avancé...
The Irinites
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The Lunar Empire, as any beef-faced Heortling oaf will tell you between
heroic swigs of mead, is chaotic. Yeah, yeah, there's the roads and the
water works...
The Historical D'Artagnan
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Over on the Osprey Publishing Forum I came across a post that mentioned
this nice video (translated from French into English) about Charles de
Batz-Cas...
Humble Heather
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*Early 19th century hand-coloured *
*engravings of heath flowers*
The vast majority of the 860+ species in the genus Erica (heaths/heather)
are endemic t...
Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso
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Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part
one.
1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion?
You’re probably a p...
DC Gameday XIV: Casino Karnstein
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DC Gameday XIV is coming up on the weekend of March 29th-March 30th and
player registration is already open. After a grueling couple of months of
real-worl...
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