Black Pudding Video and Matt Hildebrand April 20, 2019

Oh how much I loved this video that Matt Hildebrand put together for me when I released Black Pudding #1! Gotta dust it off every once in a while and give it a spin.Matt is awesome. Not only is he one of the more prolific layout folks working in indie RPGs, he's a terrific artist and a genuinely […]

James V. West

Zkoth Campaign: Bald Mountain Baddies April 20, 2019

Follow up on posts I made about running a public campaign at a local brewery...We are at least 4 sessions in and the rotating cast of PCs has managed to explore the bald mountain base of a weird alien race and has had multiple encounters with their owl bear soldiers. Next session will see them […]

James V. West

Happiness April 20, 2019

I like cool animation. I will start sharing stuff like this on the blog here-and-there, as the mood hits me.I ran across Steve Cutts' Happiness short and it was super cool. If you were thinking about buying that new car or going on a shopping spree maybe it's happiness you seek...

James V. West

Q is for Quasqueton April 20, 2019

[over the course of the month of April, I shall be posting a topic for each letter of the alphabet, sequentially, for every day of the week except Sunday. Our topic for this year's #AtoZchallenge? Revamping the Grand Duchy of Karameikos in a way that doesn't disregard its B/X roots]Q is for Quasqueton, the mysterious fortress featured in […]

DCCRPG FAQ and Links April 20, 2019

Embedded below is a google doc with tons of info on DCC. If you can't see it, follow this link.----Want to give feedback? Claytonian at the gmails.

Claytonian

Day 61 ~ Owlbears and Ooze! April 20, 2019

Note~I’ve adjusted all the henchmen’s hit points to reflect their new status as 1st level henchmen. Also, I was wondering about exceptional abilities. In reading the Complete Pits & Perils rulebook, I noted that 2-in-6 peasants have some exceptional ability. I rolled this for each of the henchmen and the results are… Goat Bently…is hardy…he […]

John Feldman

A Sad Toy Maker and the Misbegotten Kingdoms April 20, 2019

It started when he bought the table. Dirk Braunstein found the table in a curio shop. The shopkeep said it once belonged to a wizard. The table had its legs fashioned like talons with scaley legs leading up to a dragon breathing curling flames, acting as the edge of the table. It was made of […]

Michael Kennedy

Politics in the Wilderlands April 19, 2019

Click to EmbiggenDark Green - ViridistanPink - The City StateYellow - ThunderholdGrey - WarwickPurple - Orcs of the Purple ClawOrange - Kingdom of LightelfLight Blue - Kingdom of OssaryBrown - Kingdom of CroyUnlike Rob Conley's vision of the Wilderlands, I do not view the politics of the City State as fundamentally feudal. Instead I think the name […]

Evan

OF SWORDS & SOJOURNERS: BARBARIANS WITHIN THE GATES OF EMPIRE April 19, 2019

“The Phoenix on the Sword” - the first published story about Conan the Barbarian - opens at a time when the famous Cimmerian reaver has already trodden “the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet,” and he has become the king of Aquilonia, a civilized land. But Aquilonia’s courtiers, uneasy under a barbarian […]

Gundobad

Day 58 Gnolls and Cursed Swords April 19, 2019

Arden and Company leave the Keep and travel to the Caves of Chaos. They encounter no creatures and make camp at Overlook Hill. The night passes and nothing disturbs their slumber. Day 59~After a hot breakfast of eggs and sausages, the company makes their way toward the caves. They tie off the horses on the […]

John Feldman

More maps of lairs from the Adventurer, Conqueror, King System (ACKS) Lairs & Encounters book.

Giants, Stone & frost

Two lairs: the stone giants live in a cave that houses a holy geode that they worship; the other is an ancient hall with a tower where frost giants lair.