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[Three Hexes] Desert Flowers
Campaign:Â The Great Desert is home to strange races, mysterious sects and lost treasures that call to the foolish and courageous alike with the promise of glory and adventure. The necro-mages who...
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Northern Illinois Fantasy Miniatures Association - April and May happenings!
I'm pleased to announce the formation of the Northern Illinois Fantasy Miniatures Association (NIFMA). We are a group of wargames players in the area (Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois) who gather...
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Found on reddit r/osr - How does One Page Dungeon Contest scoring work?
I'm a member of the subreddit r/osr. It's not a bad place at all, and has a pretty good signal to noise ratio. At least to me. As subreddits go, this one is pretty useful to bookmark and come back...
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[Three Hexes] Wasted Lands
Campaign:Â The planet of Fanascifi is a hodgepodge of futuristic locales, scraggly medieval countryside, blasted wastelands and empty oceans. The ruins in the wastelands beckon with rumors of powerful...
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[Three Hexes] Where Do I Go From Here?
Last week, I published my 52nd Three Hexes - FINALLY reaching my goal of a year's worth of campaign starters. It took me a lot longer than a calendar year - I had a huge creative dry spell hit.So now...
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What's on my miniatures painting workbench this week (4/25/19)
I've been slowly working my miniatures' mountain to a small hill and now it's a speed bump. I have 17 miniatures left to paint. [1]Those 8 unprimed minis are the last of the unprimed in my inventory....
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Noisms over at Monsters & Manuals writes about RPG books and the "ontological flicker."Â They talk about the pleasure of reading RPGs for their own sake.I have to agree with that flicker, in terms...
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AD&D Experiment - Generate a dungeon at the table in play
I had a problem. I had no dungeon and my game started in 3 hours.To be fair, April has been a shit month. We had to put our beloved dog Bear to sleep after 13 years, and that's had more of an effect on...
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Wraiths in my campaign
From a comment that I made on a post in the Old School Gamers Facebook group... decided to make a post out of it. My players have run into these enough that they've gotten the gist of how my undead...
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Terrain Build: Underground Modular Tiles
I just finished creating a set of 24 modular tiles that I can use to create battlefields that are underground or in the Underworld! I made them for wargames, Chaos Wars, specifically, but I could also...
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Infravision - part of the Mythic Underworld
A post by Talysman of "The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms" caught my eye this morning in my Feedly. "Infravision or Not" is his thoughts on the disconnect by some over infravision, and that in OD&D,...
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GaryCon Game Submissions!
It's coming! I can't wait! I've just submitted my games for consideration, and I really hope that I'll get a chance to run these.Friday Midday:Rescue of Hommlet - An OD&D/Chainmail GameA discrete...
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How I introduce new or returning characters
One thing that keeps a campaign going is new blood. Players move on, or life happens and they have to step away from the table, and you find replacements. Someone hears about your game and wants to...
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Hex Size Matters Not
Today's OSR Twitter debate is centered on hex sizes, and some statements as to how the size is truly important.It was interesting to see the comments related to those posts, where some folks have come...
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What's happening in my games?
It was a fun question on the subreddit r/osr - "What's happening in your game currently?"... and it reminded me that maybe I am a little crazy.I am ten years into my AD&D/1e campaign. The basic...
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Etinerra AMA - crowdsourcing answers!
I have been thinking about Etinerra, my homebrew AD&D campaign world that is currently hosting 3 concurrent games, for almost 11 years. AMA! Or make me sweat with some obscure bit of trivia that I...
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Results of Etinerra AMA - and more questions!
Last Friday, I posted an "Ask Me Anything" on various social media about my Etinerra homebrew campaign. I got some really great questions, including from existing/former players. There were a couple of...
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Results of Etinerra AMA, Part 2
Two Fridays ago, I posted an "Ask Me Anything" on various social media about my Etinerra homebrew campaign. I got some really great questions, including from existing/former players. There were a...
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What happens when we can't play anymore?
This post from reddit /r/adnd hit home...My situation - I have uncontrolled anxiety and what has been described as extreme Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. I have been an AD&D player and DM since...
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Three Hexes 'Zine #1
First, let me start off by blaming this fully on Paulo Greco. And by "blame", I mean I'm really frakkin' grateful that the dude wrote something that motivated me to start sharing again.Announcing the...
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