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Burnt torch Bent nails Battered helmet Sundered shield Broken sword Rotted leather Snapped arrows Moldy bread Fragrant cheese Skull (human) Skull (beast) Patched sack Empty vial (50% cracked) Dagger (1:6 silver) Rope (d10x5’) Chain (d6x5’) Grappling hook…

Elves are classically pretty bishonen and self-serious, but the fact that in OSR games they fight as well as a Fighter while magic-using as well as a magic-user makes them the perfect OC-do-not-steal anime protagonist character option.

I wrote this yesterday in response to a player wanting to learn more about our campaign setting.

Chthonic squid monsters floating soundlessly through the Inverted Palace.

The same way equipment and gear help you get things done in the dungeon, friends and contacts help you get things done in the city.

“So tell me,” Gredarius said, “how is Fabiola?”

One for the Sex Bandwagon.

This is what I sent my players as a little backstory for the big dungeon at the center of our campaign: The Inverted Palace On clear days, at dawn or dusk, you can see it on the northern horizon.

I started writing little scenes about the locations keyed in my hex map and it's transformed my game for the better.

Six villains who hunt wanted PCs or whoever the PCs are hunting.

My marble visage wrinkles with an Ozymandian sneer when I read the countless posts advocating the disposal of this rule or that procedure because they are, and I'm trying my best to be charitable, "not fun."

Everyone has a fix for the Fighter.

About month ago I made a Bluesky thread (follow me) some people found useful, and I wanted to share it here.

Puttering around the dungeon on its little bowed legs, the TICHENORTIME appears!

The question “How do I make a fantasy setting feel real?”

Join me, dear reader, as I indulge in some self-reflection... 2025 Retrospective This past year was a quite a solid one for my home game.

A magic item inspired by Josh's version of Phlox's version of the Periapt of Wisdom.

Recently, my players have turned their attention away from the dungeon and began exploring a bit of the overworld.

I've written before about how Chaos are the bad guys.

"A Special is anything not exactly a trap, but placed for special reasons."

It's not a novel observation to point out that, in BX D&D, a system which articulates a clear distinction between dungeon and wilderness adventures (the former described in Basic while the latter in Expert), there is no class that oriented toward wilderne…

I'm not an "orc guy" by any means (hobgoblins are more my speed) but for better or worse they're intrinsic to D&D fantasy.

Elementals Certain ideas are on their face kind of lame or frustratingly executed, but have a kernel of something resonant that keeps bringing you back.

Every once in a while you see something and think “I don’t care how or when but this is going in my game.”

"My life... my job... my curse... is to vanquish evil."