tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47829281871388399782024-03-13T09:19:37.585-07:00Death 'n AxesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-75856975355483072532015-09-01T15:25:00.000-07:002015-09-02T11:31:09.240-07:00RPGNow's Offensive "Offensive Content Policy"
RPGNow's take on censorship
OneBookShelf/RPGNow/DriveThruRPG can take a flying leap into a pool full of razor blades.
Here's the email I sent to some poor support personnel of theirs in response to their new policy, that allows random users to flag titles on their sites as "offensive", and get that title suspended from sale.
"I received a troubling email today, informing me that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-87277185481177010812015-01-27T01:30:00.000-08:002015-01-27T18:36:22.261-08:006x9 B/X
First, I'm psyched that I got to meet Zak S, Mandy Morbid and Joey Lindsey this past weekend, while viewing some of the original artwork that Zak made for A Red & Pleasant Land. Zak complimented my girlfriend on her shoes, Mandy complimented me on my LotFP shirt, nobody lobbed any Unforgivable Curses at us, and a good time was had by all. If you're near the San Francisco Bay Area, you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-16455764403550013412015-01-19T00:00:00.000-08:002015-01-19T00:00:02.471-08:00Wrist-Mounted DM Screen
After all the shit-talking that jocks have done about roleplayers over the years, it turns out that those bastards were walking around with goddamned DM Screens on their sweaty-ass wrists the whole time!
But seriously though, I can totally use one of these:
Football 5 Pocket Arm-Play Holder
Of course, it's not remotely as hardcore as actually tattooing Armor Classes onto your forearm for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-41943694428992758802014-12-29T02:58:00.000-08:002014-12-29T03:12:02.594-08:00Shadow Transit
Sometimes, it's possible to travel very quickly across vast distances by moving through shadows.
If you're desperate enough.
The beings who make this possible are the Shadow Masters. They appear at odd intervals, in out-of-the-way places. Their agenda is unknown.
Won't you come away with me?
What is known is that they will dourly transport adventurers through the Plane of Shadows in theirAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-89363717354024633002014-11-01T23:27:00.000-07:002014-11-01T23:27:24.632-07:00Tricked Out
In honor of yesterday's Trick or Treating, I've Abulafia'd the TRICKS table (APPENDIX H) from the 1E Dungeon Master's Guide.
Like a lot of the appendices in the DMG, this one was always more about sparking ideas than generating a fully-formed Dungeon Trick on its own. I mucked about with the syntax a bit to try to create more-or-less coherent sentences, but YMMV.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-61319489316075392592014-10-21T02:30:00.000-07:002014-11-01T23:38:46.976-07:00EARS Marked
I threw together a sheet to track your players' retainers/hirelings using the Easy-Ass Retainer System. Oh, and it also has a spot for session notes, and some other stuff that I track when I DM. You didn't think I was making this strictly for you, did you? Heaven forfend.
Marvel at its glory!
If you print it front and back, then you can track the small, personal armies of up to 8 of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-82339262464263422752014-10-13T03:00:00.000-07:002014-10-13T15:29:10.828-07:00Easy-Ass Retainers
I like the idea of the PC's tromping around with a huge retinue of followers. Adventurers are explorers, after all, and explorers need a ton of workers to do all of the boring, but necessary parts of exploring. It's evocative of expeditionary forces, sherpas trekking up Mt. Everest, and, of course, a lot of guys doing this...
... to make it possible for Indy to do this.
The problem isAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-9022137987556998102014-06-13T03:00:00.000-07:002014-10-11T12:25:41.780-07:00Bar Fight Ingredients!
Sometimes, the players just want to break something. Anything, really.
That's when it's time to mix up a Bar Fight cocktail.
Oh, sure, they could enter some arena combat, or start a scrap with the local City Watch, but those are life-or-death fights with potentially disastrous physical and social consequences. I'm just talkin' about some good old-fashioned fisticuffs. No weapons (Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-72166783252353448392014-06-05T12:05:00.000-07:002014-06-05T12:05:07.389-07:00Random-Generator: d100 Crazy Things on the Beach
Let's say that you would like to use my Secret Santicore d100 chart of, admittedly, wack-a-doo stuff that could show up on the beaches of your game-world.
However, for whatever reason, you don't have the time, or inclination, to manually roll up those results on-the-fly during your games.
For DM's just such as you, I have deployed my patented ProcrastinationAndLaziness Encouragement EngineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-42438621540107494242014-05-27T03:45:00.000-07:002014-05-27T03:45:00.025-07:00TableToys: Tablet Edition
Tony T on the OSR Google+ community asked if anyone knew of RPG-related apps/games he might want to install on his new Nexus 7. Why, yes, Tony. Yes, I do. So many that I thought it might actually be dickish to hijack your thread with my gratuitous commenting, so I wrote this post instead. All of these apps are free, unless specifically stated to be otherwise.
1.) Old School Monsters Database: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-68800838833469644402014-05-26T01:34:00.001-07:002014-05-29T21:57:11.226-07:00An Infinite Sandbox
If it hasn't already been made readily apparent on this blog, I am what you might call a fan of Zak S.
Others were exposed to the best and most exciting aspects of our hobby by the now extremely defunct Grognardia, but I was a late-bloomer, and Zak's blog was my gateway drug. Though my blog-roll has grown over the years, Zak is always #1 on the must-read list.
One of the (many) cool Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-92078685820375411532014-05-22T20:55:00.000-07:002014-05-22T21:57:53.434-07:00393,792 Free Images for Your Campaign
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has released hundreds of thousands of searchable images
into the public domain for the best possible reason - because they felt like it. They're only available for
non-commercial use, but that's perfect for home-brewers like our OSR
community. I, for one, am delighted at this turn of events.
Here are a few samples that I pulled up without half Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-37323981206979593322014-05-15T04:00:00.000-07:002014-05-15T04:00:05.861-07:00Hireling Traits, and Shameless Theft
Telecanter, as usual, had a really great idea.
I, as usual, didn't learn about it until long after the fact. I'm a little slow sometimes.
Nevertheless, I was very drawn to Telecanter's handling of the situation. There are a ton of Hireling Generators out there on the web, and static tables printed up in books. None of them have ever really done it for me, though. Sooner or later, you're going Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-74034831473573143342014-02-27T21:10:00.000-08:002014-02-28T15:19:52.898-08:00d100 Crazy Things Washed Up On The Beach
Volume 2 of Secret Santicore 2013 has been released, and I'm ultra proud to be in it. It's friggin' huge, so I've got a lot more reading to do. I like what I've seen so far. Mad thanks to Joey Lindsay for herding all of the cats. Extra thanks to Logan Knight at Last Gasp Grimoire for personally ensuring that my particular cat made the deadline. And here it is:
The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-2651692662230430202014-02-24T19:24:00.000-08:002014-02-28T11:37:42.648-08:00This is Bat Country!
Here's a little actual play recap from the game I ran last weekend. Despite my light reskinning of the whole affair, some of you might recognize elements of the adventure from a certain published work.
Our heroes (?):
Jamcat Wildthorne Hawkblade, a Thief who crowbars everything because he doesn't know how to pick locks (played by Justin)
Marceline, a wizard of the "Eat this fucking fireball Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-76379507407499407562013-12-18T22:34:00.001-08:002013-12-18T23:22:35.898-08:00In Stock at the Fantasy Shop
First up, I have to thank Charles Akins over at Dyvers for diving into the vast sea of OSR blogs to give a short review/overview of what's out there. It really was an honor just to be nominated.
Now, on to the content. A while back I wrote a post about using DIY tokens to track item consumption in D&D games. Even though there's a serviceable Avery template for printing the tokens Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-77188932959764415142013-11-28T15:11:00.000-08:002013-11-28T15:11:50.513-08:00Your "Identical" Duplicate is Really...
"You're a goody-two-shoes!"
1.) Your mystical Nemesis, birthed from the cursed, Unseelie mirror-pools of Faerie. It is identical to you in every way, save for always being the equivalent of one experience level higher than you. It is intent upon your complete and total destruction. It will, inevitably, take its sweet time making your life miserable before deigning to end your worthless Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-20833054795120583332013-11-17T17:12:00.000-08:002013-11-17T17:13:55.621-08:00GM Screen of the Gods
Easel 3-Ring Binders
Great GM screen, or GREATEST GM Screen?
Seriously, just load up the side of the pockets that will face the GM with useful info, and fill the sides that will face the players with pictures of female fighters in unreasonable armor. I guess you could put in boring rules reminders and shit instead. I dunno. Whatevs.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-16462327531760716022013-11-05T20:46:00.000-08:002013-11-06T12:20:47.117-08:00Encumbrance vs. InventoryWho doesn't love the simple encumbrance system that James Raggi gave us in Lamentations of the Flame Princess?
Dickheads, that's who.
Seriously. Calculating encumbrance was an exercise in tedium even for the slide-rule carrying dungeoneers in the early 80's. Besides, what RPG enthusiast isn't already well-acquainted with the first cousin of Raggi's system, the video game Inventory.
We Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-30863746413712590142013-10-24T22:31:00.004-07:002015-01-28T20:38:44.008-08:00My RPG Person Profile
I'm currently running (in person):
D&D (a bastard child of OD&D, LotFP and Swords & Wizardry)
Tabletop RPGs I'm currently playing (in person) include:
Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Dungeon World
I would especially like to play/run:
Night's Black Agents
...but would also try:
Trail of Cthulhu, Numenera, Everything Ever
I live in:
The San Francisco Bay Area
2 or 3 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-29832019778802072652013-09-18T23:40:00.000-07:002013-09-18T23:47:03.831-07:00D6 Damage for All Weapons... Until You're a BadassI have been, at one time or another, on both sides of the "d6 damage for all weapons" debate. Over time, I've come down on the side of "it's a good idea because it shuts up the rules-lawyers and munchkins so we can put the lists of weapon stats away, and finally play the damn game." I don't know about you guys, but the majority of time that I see wasted during sessions is spent on all the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-80805305184921479852013-09-13T22:00:00.000-07:002013-10-24T22:42:12.618-07:00Progress on MovementI love old-school D&D. I effing loathe the retardulous movement rates, though. I know, I know; movement has been done to death. Prepare to watch me whip that dead horse to shit.
Here's the thing; it's not about how slowly the characters move. That's the typical gripe against D&D movement rates, but I'm totally down with the slowness. Those more versed in the ways of the Force than I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4782928187138839978.post-46308248475339907612013-08-06T23:14:00.000-07:002013-08-06T23:23:27.960-07:00I Made a Thing!Hark! I have heeded the decree of Wil Wheaton to "Get Excited and Make Things!" Okay, so he was talking about print-on-demand projects, but the man does love his D&D, so I'm sure he wouldn't object to my conversion of his trope here.
"Things" optional
My caffeine-fueled delirium and I put together an Abulafia generator for the "Creating Campaign Regions" section of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17219839293272758184noreply@blogger.com0