Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…| Playful Void
I'm really a fan of all the many pleasures of the OSR play style, but one of my absolute favorite things to do in any tabletop game is something clever t...| Widdershins Wanderings
In which the party meets a noxious deer, constructs a hot air balloon, and avoids being arrested by salamanders.| Mediums and Messages
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re st…| Playful Void
In which the party tries to learn how to teleport, talks with many trees, and gets ambushed by a giant spider.| Mediums and Messages
In which the party researches mushrooms, talks to roots, and opens a loot crate.| Mediums and Messages
In which the party flees from a wizard, convinces a fire spirit to build a bridge, and practices contract law.| Mediums and Messages
On today's episode of Between Two Cairns, we discussed a module called Gone Fishin'. We mentioned that it is kind of hard to find, and that the original sources were lost in a forest of dead links and old forum posts. Fortunately the original PDF includes the following text:| New School Revolution
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I'm very excited to announce that tomorrow, Friday Dec 1st, the Kickstarter for is finally launching! is an old school adventure module...| New School Revolution
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…| Playful Void
In which the party adopts a horse, finds an unexpected forest, and helps a troll clean house.| Mediums and Messages
A blog post about how Religion in D&D and other Fantasy RPGs approaches polytheism in the wrong way and how to fix that in order to have more mystery and adventure in your game sessions.| Widdershins Wanderings
I’ve kept tinkering at the ideas in this blogpost, boiled it down to 12 core archetypes, and bundled it all in a handy PDF/HTML reference document! It can be found on Itch.io now! Just Use Be…| Dice Goblin
A blog post about how to design a regional sandbox pointcrawl map that is player-facing.| Widdershins Wanderings
A blog post about how to handle death in OSR games, and some alternatives that are more dramatic than instantly killing a Player Character.| Widdershins Wanderings
Hello, Gentle Reader! It's time to take up quill and ink and return to the task of creating Player-Facing Pointcrawls. If you have no idea what I am talk...| Widdershins Wanderings
A play report and general musings after running two game sessions of *The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford* using Cairn 2e for some middle schoolers at my school.| Widdershins Wanderings
The topic of today is Pointcrawls! Mostly because I'm running for some middle school students soon and I'm not satisfied with any of the solutions I hav...| Widdershins Wanderings
I've been running Play By Post (PbP) games for many years now, and I thought it might be helpful to some folks to hear exactly how I do that, what I've le...| New School Revolution
It’s… done! A week later than planned – because I found an amazing editor, who meticulously went over my incoherent ramblings and returned a far better core text than I could ever…| Dice Goblin
WT May 1936 The strong swordswoman characters created by Robert E. Howard (like Bêlit, Valeria, Dark Agnes, and Red Sonya of Rogatino) g...| onanunderwood5.blogspot.com
This is a retelling of a game session of Lorn Song of the Bachelor run with Mangayaw. The Party Crashers Courtesy Calls and Treasure Trading Having returned to the Gleaming Fins village, the party decided it would be best to visit Vartu Si Vartu before all else, as a courtesy. The Warrior seemed to want […]| Goobernuts' Blog
UPDATE: this conversion is now on the Cairn website too! This is the conversion I’m using for my ongoing Mangayaw game. The Bachelor 6 HP, 3 Armor, 18 STR, 10 DEX, 15 WIL, teeth (d10) or claws (d6, enchanted), treat as detachment Vartu Si Vartu 8 HP, 12 STR, 10 DEX, 10 WIL, spear (d8, […]| Goobernuts' Blog
I made a bunch of macros to make Block, Dodge, Parry smoother to run in Foundry VTT v11. Note: I am not a very good programmer. I had ChatGPT write these for me, and tweaked them as needed. I am us…| Dice Goblin
Sandboxes tend to imply factions, but faction play is sometimes a boogeyman for open world games. Should it be subtle, just a thought? Shoul...| d66kobolds.blogspot.com
