Paper Elemental: Hero Dice Roller

From the Sorcerer's Skull

The Houses of the Dragons - The home provinces of the Draconic Empire are ruled by noble houses with a chromatic dragon progenitor. While not all nobles are sorcerers, few without mag...
16 hours ago
The Renaissance Troll

Oh, Hypocrisy… - A few weeks ago, I posted an article over on my Patreon (free to read) about why I gave my *Dungeons & Dragons* 5e books away. Long story short, I didn’t...
17 hours ago
The Angry GM

To Session Zero or Not to Session Zero - In this True Campaign Managery, I explore the idea of a Session Zero and whether it's worth hosting one? Spoiler alert: usually no.
1 day ago
Into the Odd

A World in a Magazine - Four years ago, I wrote about my history with miniature games and getting back into them during the lockdown. Summer 1995 saw me seduced by the world of ...
1 day ago
The Nothic's Eye

Lanthanide Horizon Vignettes - This is a draft trade - my mangled document of halfbaked gun rules for two vignettes set in Archon's wonderful megastructure setting. I wrote the third of ...
2 days ago
Dice in the North

Miscreant's Tools - *Crowdcaller*A painfully shrill brass whistle on a ball chain necklace. Summons a group of unrelated people to the area it's blown. Takes 2 minutes to g...
2 days ago
Archons March On

D6x6 Simpering Serpentmen - This post is dedicated to friend of the blog purplecthulhu, who came up with the idea. Click the button below to generate your serpentman: HISS Special...
4 days ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

The Law of Unintended Consequences: A Two Party Competitive Game - The Law of Unintended Consequences is a competitive game played between two parties, managed by a single GM. One team are The Heroes, and the other team ar...
6 days ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: Mirrors, Cubes, Rods, Staves, and the Deck of Motley Things - I've written another 10 pages of the Treasure Overhaul (title pending), a condensed magic item compendium for old-school games. Unlike the first two prev...
1 week ago
Spiceomancy

Six Layers Deep (GLOG Class: Psychopaladin) - liviu mihai The mind is a house party, so said Dr. Anne Helfurther. Hundreds of guests are in attendance, the legions of daemons which guide personality ...
1 week ago
Archon's Court

Through the Looking Glass (Class: Sharpshooter) - A draft trade with Locheil of the Nothic's Eye - a class (and Gonne Rules) for his interwar setting, Aclas. And the product of me realizing that I stoppe...
1 week ago
The Manse

8 Legendary Lockpicks (Magic Thieves Tools) - When it comes to fantasy roleplaying; the "cool" loot is not created equal. You have an absolute ton of magic weapons and armors for the fighters, barbar...
1 week ago
DIY & Dragons

Actual Play - Death by Dragon in The Incandescent Grottoes - My regular Friday night gaming group has been playing through Gavin Norman's *The Incandescent Grottoes*. It's a dungeon that's full of caverns of glowing ...
2 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Update and Marchebranche is getting in print! - Well my desire to post weekly vanished after only one post. I guess there is a big different between blog journaling just for fun while you play games and...
3 weeks ago
noise sans signal

Strange colours (made out of mostly puns) - List of colours made by tweaking the names of existing colours or colour-related materials. They are tangentially dungeon related. *Orphyry* – light of th...
3 weeks ago
Ravenous Ambience

Three Powers Behind The Gods - These are things within mortal ken worshipped oft as gods. Rather than the inscrutable mind-warping unrealities of the darkness-beyond-stars, these are T...
4 weeks ago
liches get stitches

T O W E R D U N G E O N - Click Here For Hack I read a manga. I'm not a manga head, but this one was linked in the OSR server and I took a peak. After reading, I briefly tried to f...
4 weeks ago
Posts on Mottokrosh

Compelling Arena Fights - A staple of stories and games, yet all too often: dry. Use the following tables and tools to create memorable arena fights and set pieces, with fun, dyna...
5 weeks ago
The Graverobber's Guide

ttfn - I’m making the difficult decision to close down the Graverobber’s Guide. Lack of time and energy, as well as bad luck financially in and outside of my game...
1 month ago
Library of Attnam

The Many Schools of Magic - The Manse has recently published a very nice rant on categorisation of magic where they discuss several approaches to the classification of spells and deri...
1 month ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

GλOG: Item Templates - Lambda templates are associated with items rather than a character class. *Gaining a λ template is simple: spend a downtime action* *training with the as...
2 months ago
Goodberry Monthly

Bribery - How much is a typical bribe? Depends how rich the recipient is, and what sort of exacerbating circumstances exist. *Somebody will only take a bribe if they...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

GLOG Class: Bioweapon - I got this idea from mad gods on bear blog. Crab Evo from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman A thousand soldiers were slain. Too many to be tragic--this is just a fact...
2 months ago
MadZab Gaming

Play report: Copper GLOG Session 1 - On a longish car ride (your definition of what constitutes a long car ride may greatly vary), my older son and I played a session of Copper GLOG, as inve...
2 months ago
Numbers Aren't Real

Random Encounters by Stephen Crane - Stephen Crane was an odd duck. A well-beloved writer, poet and Darwinist, you can read about him on Wikipedia as easily as I did; and his poems are al...
3 months ago
Liche's Libram

gaming goals 2024 - This is a year of cutting back - I anticipate further cuts to my time and there are other things I want to prioritize with the time left, so gaming gets ...
3 months ago
What Would Conan Do?

Spider Bankers of the Bureau of Universal Exchange - I'll put in a picture when I have one. We're working on these a bit at a time. The Spider Bankers have been in Troika since the beginning and I've alway...
4 months ago
Slight Adjustments

The Horrors of Halfway - *I've played a lot of Monsterhearts, and certainly enjoyed it, even though I certainly was doing it wrong.* *But I've got no patience for games that reward...
5 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Fearful Ends Now on Kickstarter - [image: Fearful Ends book & cards on Kickstarter] The long-time passion project of my Wandering DMs partner Paul Siegel is currently funding on Kickstarter!...
6 months ago
Sundered Shields and Silver Shillings

GLoGtober: the Pearlescent Road - Long ago, before the Quiet Conquest, before the Concord of Cor Ecclesiae, there was a shining road that spanned the length of the subcontinent. At one e...
6 months ago
Dungeons and Possums

RPGaDay 2023 - Well, since we’re doing catch-up posts, it’s time to get around to transferring my Bluesky responses to this annual prompt list over here to the blog! I ...
7 months ago
One Eye to the Anchor

THIRD EYE SHUT (GLoG Class: Somnambulist) - This here class was made on specific request by another player in an ongoing GLoG campaign i'm part of. It's basically a classic Sorcerer as per Skerple...
8 months ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Bad Weather after Judgment Day - The world has ended and the weather is fucking terrible. Oh it's not as bad as a decade ago, when the poison storm of a Gas Front would sweep through and tu...
9 months ago
rpg-toolbox

Rust - I'm going to learn Rust. I mean, I mostly already know it, but I want to have a clear goal to strive for, so here goes: - Gain an understand...
9 months ago
The Things We Do for XP

Exeunt - shuttering this blog (...for now?) - I just realized I haven't posted here in years and don't really have plans to start again. My writing itch is being scratched but good since I started ne...
10 months ago
The Renaissance Woodsman

Lineage Cube 4.1: Dominaria and Arcavios - Two more unlockable draft packs are being added to the Lineage Cube! First up is Dominaria, the commander pack. It turns your cube into a commander limited...
11 months ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Another take on demihumans as social constructs. - I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant orig...
11 months ago
Spouting Lore

Playing Stonetop (and Other PbtA Games) - Work continues on *Stonetop, *my "hearth-fantasy" adaptation of *Dungeon World* set in an iron age that never was, in which you portray the local heroes ...
1 year ago
Technical Grimoire

Overpowered: Pirate Borg - Here’s my detailed play report of Pirate Borg. I used the latest version of Overpowered, my weird solo OSR game.
1 year ago
Rogues' Repast

I have a new blog about weird old SFF novels - Well, as you can see I haven't updated this blog in quite some time. I still play D&D but I don't get creative ideas for it in the same way that I used ...
1 year ago
Box Full of Boxes

Dinsu, the Peaks of Supine Gods Vol I -- Thousand Thousand(er) Islands Part II - *Dinsu* *The Peaks of Supine Gods* ______ SevenDays,Crunching through snow ______ Gold, silver, jewelry, and spices are piled high on ra...
1 year ago
The Oblidisideryptch

10,000 Chambers of the Cnite King - Deep within the turgid reaches of the Samarkand Desert, a lone crag of withered sandstone presents a visage long scoured by time. Samuele Bandini The...
1 year ago
Signs in the Wilderness

The Island of Death and Rubies - Today I'm rolling up another random campaign. I'm choosing two of the three starting adventure opportunities to test out their roll-up tables, then lett...
1 year ago
Wampus Country

Legends of Law: Von Hoff - Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite as mu...
1 year ago
To Distant Lands

Moving the blog - I am moving this blog to a git-based version at todistantlands.github.io. For your convenience, here is a link to its RSS feed. I have migrated many of my...
1 year ago
Here Dragons Abound

Cleanup Time - With the map compass series done (at least for now) I'm going to take a break from dedicated development and spend some time on cleaning up the existing...
1 year ago
Sword of Mass Destruction

Table of a Thousand Cults - I'm preparing a location for my next foray into actually getting players together. Kogo Hnennis, City of a Thousand Cults, City of a Thousand Rains. It's...
2 years ago
Listing to Port

Eight ways to defeat the ageing process - listing-to-port: 1. Defeat stubborn wrinkles by tricking your enemies into holding an iron whilst you murder them, thus dooming them to haunt you for lif...
2 years ago
Unlawful Games

Unlawful Update - Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I continue ...
2 years ago
Tarsos Theorem

SRDCAT Sneak Peek: Collections - My first post on WTF.com is up! It's the first glimpse of SRDcat's Collections interface, which helps us organize the vast amount of game objects that...
2 years ago
The Insidious Bogleech

HALLOWEEN 2021 - TKMAXX 2021 Botanical Monsters! - TKMaxx outdoes its previous year of badass plant creature statues!
2 years ago
Iron & Ink

Mothership: Further Thoughts - In my previous post I gave a few thoughts on a rough Mothership setting. Have some more. Note: I am not a physicist so the below is probably very wrong. ...
2 years ago
Lithyscaphe

Inspiral - A game about (not) making stuff - I've been feeling bad about not making (well, releasing) stuff, so today I made a game about (not) making stuff. It's unbalanced and untested, but I'm re...
3 years ago
Dreams and Fevers

Dreams and Fevers Turns Two! - *Image is self explanatory* 2019 will probably be remembered as the most consistent year in the blog’s history. But even though this year has turned out ...
3 years ago
Things Which Bore People

Rational Fiction as Narrative Focus - Preamble (you can skip this)/r/plotholes is one of my least favorite subreddits, mostly because there simply aren't that many plotholes in popular films an...
3 years ago
Meandering Banter

Welcome! - Welcome to Meandering Banter! ALLERGY ADVICE: Contains GLOG classes, OSR rambling, bizarre heartbreakers, traces of discourse and has been manufactured in ...
4 years ago
The Dice Blade

Spell: Tally the Numbers - Because you like math and need more spells. *Tally the Numbers* Level 1 Duration: 24 hours Target: Self Choose 1 + 1 more for every other caster level ...
4 years ago
Two Goblins in a Trenchcoat

Secret Santicorn 2019: Words for Monster - The second annual Secret Santicorn event on the OSR Discord Server is just wrapping up! It's like Secret Santa, but instead of requesting regular gifts, pa...
4 years ago
tales of absolute doom

MoldHammer: Hazards, Fleeing on Foot & Starship Battles - Here are some more bonus rules for MoldHammer. They might fit in any game, though! *Hazards* In MoldHammer, damage is dealt by combatants rolling d20 under...
4 years ago
Swidden Pages

Spells + Rituals - In the spirit of October-For-People-In-Denial, I've been working on a few spooky things that probably should've been posted in Actual-October. One thing th...
4 years ago
Evil Tables

36 Shades of Evil - Purpose: for when you require a specific shade of evil, and for when generic undetermined evil is insufficient. Use to describe the varying evils of places...
4 years ago
Pammachon Sword: things I made up

What if magic items can't be identified? - By Mike Vivisector*The setup* Many OSR systems don't have perception rolls. "Figure it out yourself!" they say, after telling you to get of their lawn. "...
5 years ago
thepammachon.blogspot.com on reddit.com

The Bladeless Blade - the blade is *any spell you want* - [image: The Bladeless Blade - the blade is *any spell you want*] to r/osr [link] [comments]
5 years ago
Medieval Melodies

Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes PDF - Pictured: Me dealing with scheduling and personal organization So, this officially starts my hiatus. I'm only going to be posting occasionally, as my wor...
5 years ago

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