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Pick #81: Really Ancient Dice...
Okay, so James already pointed at this one in his Grognardia, but it's worth saying it again. You thought the roleplaying dice looked funny? That they must have magickal origins? They might have. The...
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A new request... proofreader wanted
Dear fellow bloggers. I've just finished the illustrated and revised Dark Dungeon starter set for publication, and I'm looking for a native english speaking proofreader. And possibly playtester, if you...
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Some Sample Art: Work in Progress
While waiting for my proofreaders, I figured I'd better start work on the cover for the first sourcebook - a completely revamped, illustrated and expanded edition of the free Samaris booklet.So, I...
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Random RPG Thoughts #12: Could Players Build their own Contacts?
While revamping the Samaris booklet, I tried to think up a way to make a sourcebook more interesting to players. In general source books, like modules and adventure kits are game master eyes only....
View ArticleReal Flashing Blades Revisited
Looking for inspiration I flipped through some old posts about real fighting. And then I mean the flashing, fierce, furious kind, which we try to simulate in our role playing games.Then I noticed one...
View ArticlePick #82: The Hobbit on a darker note... through Dungeons Deep
Some time ago, I noted that the Hobbit teaser almost suggested a movie of horror - being much darker than the book. Now, some people who have spoken to people who spoke to the insiders suggest that I...
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Free Download: SSN-589 USS SCORPION DOWN
I'm at it again! Instead of doing normal work, I've just finished an entry to the 24-hour RPG competition "Little Spaces". I'll put it here so you can download and play (test) it straight away!SSN-589...
View ArticlePick #83: More Hobbit Ponderings
Never guessed that the set of the Hobbit would be blessed by Maori.But you all knew, didn't you? I just was slower to watch ;-)I wonder if my family who went to live in Wellington NZ noticed anything...
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Free Download: Ringworld Zombie
According to Rob Lang I now probably deserve a place in the special padded room for those who could not resist doing two 24-hour RPGs for the same competition. Yet, here is my second one:RINGWORLD Z O...
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Random RPG Thoughts #13: Away From Keyboard...
Just noticed that I haven't posted for a month! That's rather long, especially as past month my blog was "RPG BLOG OF THE MONTH" on Stuffer Shack!Now that's a strange thing to occur... All right I was...
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Some Sample Art: Catacombs
Experimenting for a cover for the Catacombs sourcebook... which will describe the undercity of Samaris, for both players and Game Masters.Now I wonder, where did that Vampyre go?
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Product Release: Dark Dungeon 2nd Ed Starter Set
Finally, it's there! We passed the proofreaders!The fully illustrated Dark Dungeon 2nd Edition Starter set.Available as pdf through DriveThru, and in print through LuLu.Soon, print will also be...
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Dark Dungeon Lulu Prints Look Good
Still waiting for the Lightningsource prints, but the LuLu prints look excellent to me!This is the A4 softcover, which you can order here. It's only $19.99 in this version (that's about 15 euros).Also...
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Pick #84: WTF?!, that's no WOW!
For those of you who play World of Warcraft, or know people who play WOW, or those of you who do not want to confess to either of these but know... well, what the truth is, there's this: WTF?!WTF?! is...
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Two Hardcover Sizes!
The Lulu hardcovers of the Dark Dungeon 2nd edition Starter Set also look excellent - in both incarnations! One is almost the same size as the original Player's Handbook once was - and the other one is...
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OSR Experiments #33: Savage Dead-Owl
Inspired by Tim Snider, who proofread my DD2 Starter Set (see last post), and published his own neat compendium last September, here's another monster conversion, styled into DD2:Decaying Dead-OwlOnce...
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Pick #85: Lone Wolf Relives!
Did you ever play Grey Star? Does the name Lone Wolf ring a bell? Missing it? In the eighties, there was a phenomenon called "game books". Books full of numbered paragraphs through which you could...
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Random RPG Thoughts #14: Planning Shining Moments
Do you remember that one time that something worked real well for your character in a session, when everything went like a flow, and you felt like everybody cheered? Remember when you finally defeated...
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Random RPG Thoughts #15: World War I RPG
It's November 11th. At the 11th hour, this day 94 years ago, WWI ended for many countries. For some it did not. For some historians it was no more than the start of a twenty-one year armistice in a...
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