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OG Wargamers – Part One – Robert Louis Stevenson
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OG Wargamers – Part One – Robert Louis Stevenson

14 January 0202312 January 02023

This little book is a fantastic resource for putting together a plan for writing your own Imagi-Nation Campaign Diary. Written in the 1880s, and first

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Law vs Chaos – Thoughts on Alignment
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Law vs Chaos – Thoughts on Alignment

3 March 020214 March 02021

Alignment in D&D and similar FRPs is an oft-maligned subject. For the Swords & Sorcery-styled World of Weirth campaign I am looking for some over-arching

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Weirth on World Anvil – Legendary Artifacts

21 July 0202016 July 02020

The Chalice of the Soul The fastness was razed and its storerooms plundered. The inhabitants were either carried off by the God-Queen’s foul minions or

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AD&D Appendix N Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea Gaming Community

Links – Saturday Shares

18 July 0202016 July 02020

Here is some reading material for your weekend! From The Other Side Adventures in Hyperborea Hat tip to Jason Vey for sharing these with me. So if

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Appendix N: Robert E Howard and Conan the Barbarian

4 May 020208 May 02020

Back in my middle- and high-school days I read everything Conan I could get my hands on. Novels, comics, whatever. The large-format Savage Sword of

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Appendix N: Three Hearts and Three Lions

27 April 0202024 April 02020

From 1961, a novel by Poul Anderson. Weighing in at 220 pages, this old novel is a fraction of the size of the contemporary fantasy

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Appendix N, OD&D, and Me

24 April 02020

When I was a little boy, I was a voracious reader (still am!). One of my favorite places in the whole world was a little

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What Ho, Frog Demons! – A Review

11 February 02020

The Hill Cantons was one of the first #OSR blogs I discovered last year when I got back into the D&D scene. I was looking

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One-Hour Wargames, a Book Review

3 September 02015

One of the reasons I like the Pulp Alley game so much is that it is specifically designed to tell a story with the scenario.

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The Book of War

23 August 02013

Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading, here and there, The Book of War by John Keegan. This is an anthology of

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