Dhunprick Manor | The Foot of Blue Mountain
At the end of this blogpost is an adventure scenario (a hexcrawl and a 50+ room dungeon) in .pdf form. The majority of the characters who played through t...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
At the end of this blogpost is an adventure scenario (a hexcrawl and a 50+ room dungeon) in .pdf form. The majority of the characters who played through t...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
I talk a bit about Willy Wonka, compare him to Sages, and then show you a sage I made. A Sage, as laid out in AD&D, is a person with nearly encycloped...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
We're all doing worldbuilding here, at least some sort of minimal viable product to get our games off the ground. Some people (myself included) tend to worldbuild very little beyond what is immediately gameable in the scenario or adventure laid our. Other people devote years of their lives to their worldbuilding projects, working on generators, tables, almanacs, conlangs, the whole shebang.| The Foot of Blue Mountain
I've been playing in a Decree open table and writing session reports for the game. It's run by the author and has been a load of fun. Below you can find the first four session reports and at the very end my largely positive thoughts about Decree as a whole!| The Foot of Blue Mountain
A fleshy half-mask with green strings and a single jade axe embedded flat in the brow.| The Foot of Blue Mountain
Intro| The Foot of Blue Mountain
Some lore for the Antarctic Adventure Jam.| The Foot of Blue Mountain
There is a hex not far from here, a day or so, o'er yonder hill. A simple jaunt, straightforward bent, that takes us to the hex, and then. A lonely hill, in plains flat-stretched, with gaping mouth, it beckons "in". And in this hill, foul ruins lie. A ghoul dwells in the barrow, shy. His name, Phospho, a legend, nearby:| The Foot of Blue Mountain
Introduction| The Foot of Blue Mountain
I get frustrated sometimes when people talk about Gygaxian Naturalism and the Mythic Underworld as two opposite sides of the "dungeon design" spectrum. Oftentimes, they're portrayed as antithetical to each other. Aesthetically, I do think this is the case, but ultimately I think they're trying to do the same thing.| The Foot of Blue Mountain
I talk a lot about how Vancian casting is good, actually to anyone who will listen. Here's a manifesto about it, so I can point to this whenever it comes ...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
Howdy! I'm Mr. Mann, and I throw stuff up here related to OSR games. I'm interested in writing as a craft and worldbuilding as a hobby in itself. Currentl...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
In OSR play, the narrative or sequence of events from session to session is primarily decided upon by the goals and aspirations of the players, especially...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
Weird Writer from ) suggested a blogging challenge where participants explain how they prep and what their priorities are when sitting down to get ready f...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
I'm working on the first few big hexflowers for my next project and, in the interest of keeping an active blog, I figured I'd post the first draft one I w...| The Foot of Blue Mountain
