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much ado about LotFP
As I type this there are about seven copies of my new short work, The Octo-Planetary Blade of Somnambulistic Beneficence, available through the Lamentations of the Flame Princess European storefront....
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Fun times in the Ethel System
So I've been having some Traveller thoughts again. Good ol' Trav comes with a clearly defined method of insterstellar transport, the jump drive, and some pretty good parameters for whether or not you'd...
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(I originally posted the following to the LotFP Facebook group, but I thought I'd save a copy here.)A Thimble of Online Research, Inc. proudly presents: *Biggest Cities in the West(ish) circa 1500*...
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Spell Research as Freeform Magic System
One of the reasons I like to go back and re-read the old rulebooks is that I inevitably find something that I didn't notice on previous readings. Or that I forgot over the years,Want to bend the...
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stupid d6 tricks
Some OD&D house rules make use of "roll 2d6, take the lower result" and "roll 2d6, take the higher result." Obviously that would skew the chances of each possible result away from the flat 16.66%...
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I've been looking for this for a long time.
Click to embiggen.That's the rules for the Waverider (i.e. surfer) class from Teddy C. Ryan III's Exotic Characters & Worlds (1983). Other classes represented include the Ninja, Ryan's version of...
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Farsiders unite against Xorkaelian tyranny!
So this is the map of the setting used in most Traveller products. Each white rectangle on that map is 24 parsecs wide by 32 parsecs tall (78.2775 light years by 104.37 light years, if you'd prefer)....
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The Greater and Lesser Blorrp
The Krimaxian fleet just priot to the Battle of Aremis IV.The traditions of the Krimaxians lack the medals, ribbands, commendations, and other post-battle honors employed by other space navies to...
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the mightiest of torches
Here's an old illo from Debis Loubet, one of the greats of game illustration in my opinion. You may recognize his style from the Ultima series of games. He also did work for Metagaming and was the...
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First Casualties in the Disputed Zone
So last weekend my daughter and I spent a few hours painting some crude spaceship miniatures I made out cereal and cracker boxes. It was a fun little craft time with my number one pal.Today we...
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Wisdom from the Past: Tony Bath
So I recently read Tony Bath's 1973 book Setting Up a Wargames Campaign. This guy isn't discussed a ton in old school gaming scenes (though I'm sure if I looked I'd find that Grognardia and/or Playing...
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Is marching order grognardy nonsense?
Wizard's Crown was a pretty decent computer RPG of the early eighties. The tactical combat system was robust for its day, using a top-down map with placement and movement mattering in fairly...
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return of CRPG migration studies
One of the weird thing about playing dungeony dragony computer games from the 80's is the existence of a whole network of games by disparate designers and publishers that allowed you to import...
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Rules for Converting Encounter Critical PCs to Tunnels & TrollsKey AttributesStrength, Dexterity, and Luck remain the same.Intellect becomes your Intelligence score.Leadership becomes your...
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It's the Joe Fighter Cinematic Universe
Remember this guy from the cover of OD&D Supplement I: Greyhawk? Well, I guess he survived this encounter with a beholder, as it looks like he later fights a dragon in the pages of the original...
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Three Solo Adventures
So yesterday was my first real day off since the Fall semester began and I decided to spend some of it playing some solo adventures.The first adventure was "Eye of the Dragon," the solo adventure...
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quick question
On a scale of one to ten, how big of a jerk is this sorcerer, in your opinion?
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The Secret Doors of Arduin
David Hargrave was one of the seminal original dungeon masters who took OD&D, made it into something his own, and shared his vision of fantasy roleplaying with the world. In this regard he should...
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Faking Campaign Depth Using Your Stupid Game Collection
If you're anything like me (which I can't necessarily recommend) you have a large enough array of print and PDF roleplaying products that you'll never use all of them. Here's a way you can get some...
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