Fight in the Shade

I'm not that into gaming conventions, as that many people tend to be a nuisance (or health hazard), and I certainly don't like traveling far just to visit one.

Over at Methods & Madness, Eric Diaz is musing about how much you can cut down the average D&D character's statistic while still covering most of what you have to roll at the table.

While he was in college, Bill Underwood wrote his own fantasy role-playing game.

A spectre is haunting the blogosphere – the spectre of the personal Appendix N.

I finished another Jam!

It might not surprise you, dear reader familiar with RPG fandom, that I've got a lot of unfinished projects in my virtual drawer.

Recently I published a post about doing a simple, step-by-step approach to building a hex map that could last you for most of a campaign.

Fantasy map making used to be simple.

Fairy Army, by Sir J.

There's a joke that seems to be popular in Eastern Europe & the Balkans, which I first heard from a Romanian co-worker: Once upon a time, God was walking the earth, visiting the faithful in disguise.

On Saturday the 22nd of February 2025, I was at a roleplaying convention in Munich, held by the esteemed Nerds United club: the Bavariacon.

As a small side note, before I return to shoe-horning GURPS into the OSR, I want to talk about one of my favorite rules mechanics from the much-maligned German The Dark Eye RPG.

from oldboookillustrations.com In the last post I wrote about "GURPS 0E", the Man-to-Man combat-centered rules that were released before the complete first box came to market, with the final aim to construct some kind of "old school" rules out of this.

As my first entry, let's try to marry one of the stalwarts of "traditional" play with an old-school sensibility found in the OSR sphere.

On the front page of the blog I've got what amounts to the raison d’être of this blog, “talking about OSR and traditional games”.