Save vs. Total Party Kill

When I was running my Carcosa campaign, I would post session recaps on my blog in the form of hex descriptions written as if they came straight from the book.

I am usually in and out of London to see my brother.

Space Gits an odd duck of a game by the man himself Mike Hutchinson.

I mail a lot of books to my brother in the UK.

Elmcat has shared the map of the OSR blogosphere he has been working on for the last few weeks.

While we are on the topic of Chris, I really enjoyed his recent career retrospective.

When I first started this blog I had a periodic series of posts where I would highlight blogs I thought were cool.

Zedeck Siew has finished his RPG about the background characters you find in the world of Warhammer 40,000.

Friend of the #TorontOSR, Jonathan Benn, writes about his approach to creating dungeons.

I finally took my posse of Heretic Legion models and played a game of Trench Crusade with Raff at the Sword and Board.

I participated—and I use that term most loosely—in Sam’s epic online play-by-post “war-game” Over/Under is officially over.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated my Random Character Generator.

My friends were over to kitbash minis and play Warcry to celebrate our friend Richard’s birthday.

For Mothership Month—a crowdfunding campaign extravaganza—Sean decided to spend some of his marketing budget funding a crazy giant digital LARP.

I really enjoyed this sort of meta-review from Paul, The New Novely.

A recent episode of Between Two Cairns opened with a discussion on what to do when a reaction role doesn’t jive with the idea you have in your head for the situation.

My house rules for death and dying in D&D are buried in a post about my house rules for my Carcosa campaign.

My friend Warren messaged me a few days ago.

The Kickstarter for Wandering Blades is coming to a close.

I finally managed to play a game of Xenos Rampant—two games in fact, it proved to be quick and easy to play.

The Fantastic is Fact has a great post about getting started playing OD&D, my favourite version of Dungeons and Dragons!

Ben is interested in getting people blogging about Mothership.

Thomas M, who writes one of my favourite RPG newsletters, asked for suggestions about people producing games in “the NSR, post-OSR, and generally the experimental side of the OSR” for what I assume will become an article for Rascal or his newsletter.

Gus, Mr.

I met up with Emiel and Ava shortly after they arrived in Toronto for Breakout Con.

Nirvana on Fire: Expanded Edition is a 36 page module for Mothership written by David Kenny, featuring art by Jéromê Berthier and top-tier graphic design by Eric Hill.

I love this post from Yochai about running a sandbox style game using his game Cairn and the advice and tools from its Dungeon Masters guide.

I picked up Constant Downpour Remastered when I spotted it for sale over on Ratti Incantatti1.

The Bloggies have me thinking about blogging.

The 2024 Bloggies are just about wrapped up.

There is an expanded edition of Skorne, which came out some time ago, but I only noticed recently.

G+ died in slow motion.

One of my goals for 2024 was to buy fewer minis, and paint more of the minis I already owned.

Once again my friend Paul T. drops a blog post as comments in the discord server we use to organize our #TorontOSR meetups.

BlueSky feels like it’s having a moment.

This is an update to an earlier blog post I wrote on rules and OSR games, which was published in the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out.

Patrick’s launched his latest Kickstarter, Queen Mabs Palace.

Work was mind numbingly busy, and then I hopped on a plane to the East Coast.

Clayton takes a look at what elements make for a compelling cover, highlighting some of my own favourite books in the process.

I enjoyed this post from Ty over on Mindstorm, where he takes Jason Cordova’s Paint the Scene idea and tries to jam it into OSR gaming.

Alone in the Labyrinth talk about their solo campaging of Gangs of Titan City.

I’ve started running another Mothership campaign to hopefully play through all of Another Bug Hunt.

My copy of the Mothership Starter set arrived on the weekend.

Some friends were discussing how one might approach making RPGs play a bit more like skirmish war games.

I recently attended a Horus Heresy tournament organized by local gaming group Hogtown 40K.

I’m enjoying the latest iteration of Warhammer 40,000.

Since I last wrote about Mordheim I have played through two 10-game campaigns.

I am a man with too many hobbies and interests, but James’s lovely ode to OD&D has me thinking about the game once again.

Last year Prismatic Wasteland ran a cool little tournament of sorts called the Bloggies, where he picked an initial pool of really cool blog posts, and then had people vote to crown the best blog post of the year.

I love this: nicer warband and campaign sheets for The Doomed, aka Grimlite from traaa.sh.