The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Back in my post about why players might map and why they should be allowed to choose not to map, I teased “there may be ways to maintain th...

We all know that Tolkien invented the idea of non-human races in fantasy fiction, which in turn influenced D&D and other RPGs by bringin...

A couple weeks ago, I finished watching Star Trek: Picard . I put off watching Seasons 2 and 3 for a couple years, but since I was planning ...

Recently, someone in a forum was curious how many GMs make (require) the players to map the dungeon, and I replied that I don’t require play...

The Problem In Reddit’s /r/osr subreddit, someone posted a thread about having too many tables when generating adventures on the fly. [...

The Problem In a thread on Reddit’s /r/osr subreddit, someone asked about ways to award XP for disarming or otherwise dealing with traps ....

Back before my hiatus, I did several media reviews, mostly superhero, fantasy, science fiction, and horror. This also included my attempt to...

So previously, I laid out the reasons for why I went silent for two years, and it can mostly be summarized as “overextending myself”. My pla...

I briefly mentioned in my previous post that my two-year absence from the old school RPG blogging scene wasn’t because I lost interest. In ...

I know, I know. I’ve been gone for a little over two years. I may explain that in a post later this week. But what brought me back now is J...

Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all soc...

 Haven't been blogging in a very long time, probably not coming back right away, but I've definitely been mulling over RPG stuff for...

A quick post about an old monster of mine. Remember drop wolves ? Well, here’s what they look like. Drop Wolves (Or, at least, what a text t...

I’ve been meaning to do another movie review for a while, so obviously it’s time to start a series of posts discussing dungeon treasure stoc...

I made my first trip to a movie theater after two years of staying home to watch the new Eternals movie, so I thought I’d give a quick revie...

I’m looking at the Last-Minute d6 Dungeons series (links below) and wanting to simplify it some more… but also, wanting to make it more rea...

The way I run magic in D&D, M-Us use common, easy-to-get “material components” as spell ingredients during their spell prep (not during ...

There’s a question about portable holes on the OD&D forums: do you treat it as a Bag of Holding, or just a temporary hole? The question ...

Readers may have noticed that the Wednesday installment of the Last-Minute d6 Dungeons (links at end of post) reduced everything down to one...

I did some testing for the Last-Minute d6 Dungeons series ( d6 Dungeons 1 , d6 Dungeons 2 , and d6 Dungeons 3 ,) and decided the ratio of ro...