I have thought about this for some time, being a first time designer (and soon to be first time publisher), I thought it would be good to have a place to share not just my own thoughts but those of others who devote their time and resources to posting helpful and informative information online for the benefit of all.
So if you are creator or just curious check in and see what the man behind the curtain is doing :)
Enjoy!
Rusty Battle Axe
On Game Theory, Design,Mechanics And Other Practical Use Items.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 5 - The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. … Continue reading →14 hours ago
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[New Spell] Cloud of Weakness - Cloud of Weakness Uzeb waved at Jaundo to retreat as the giant growled and swatted at the fighter with his massive club. Finally the sorcerer gave up and c...14 hours ago
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OSRIC Player's Guide - There is a new *Player’s Handbook* -- er, *Player's Guide *-- for OSRIC (the “retro-clone” for first edition *Advanced Dungeons and Dragons*) available. ...2 days ago
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How to Run a Game (Part 14c) - Stringing Vignettes together - Let's say I have a plan for a story over a couple of sessions. Think of this like a story arc that goes over a couple of episodes in a TV series. Each s...2 days ago
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Advanced Gamemastery: Dungeon Clues - Are you dungeons boring? Are you ready to take the next step in your journey to become a true Game Master? USA Today Bestselling Author and ENnie Award-win...3 days ago
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Adding Psionics - Another "Friday Funday" post...which is to say, random musings that folks might check out later this weekend as Fridays are (notoriously) slack for reading...3 days ago
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Our Modern Day Scheduling Crisis - Recently, Wizard of Adventure Michael B brought up an excellent question regarding The Demonplague, our epic level 1-20 D&D 5E campaign. He asked: I’m in...4 days ago
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Night's Dark Terror 9: Following the Clues - *This is part of a series of posts with a scene-by-scene critique, appreciation, and improvement of the 1986 TSR module B10, Night's Dark Terror. * Aft...5 days ago
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Arneson’s version of Challenge Rating - One of the more fascinating bits of information to be gleaned from Tonisborg is a section which reveals Arneson’s methodology of stocking dungeons. For t...1 week ago
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New edition of Starmada! Huzzah! - So Daniel Kast's *Starmada* has a new, 30th anniversary edition out. You can get the pdf from WargameVault (the wargame store of the DriveThru people) or...1 week ago
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No new posts for a while - In a little less than ten hours from when I post this, I start moving house. Unfortunately, the new residence doesn’t have internet or telephone connecti...1 week ago
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Corkboards & Curiosities: a New Angle on DMing - Here's a new YouTube channel that's absolutely worth your time. There's some clever ideas in this video I will absolutely be implementing in my campaign...4 weeks ago
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Starting Hit Points? - So Yeah starting HP for 1st level PC's are garbage in old-school games. It's a perk... it's a feature...it's a darned annoyance even when the longest pa...4 weeks ago
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Dungeon Delver’s Guide is one of Polygon’s “best TTRPG books of 2023” - You love to hear when people like your work, so I was thrilled to see my Dungeon Delver’s Guide on Polygon’s best-of-the-year list for TTRPG books. I’m par...3 months ago
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Lantern Man (Romance of the Perilous Land) - A spirit related to the corpse candle, the lantern Man appears as a shadow figure carrying an ethereal lantern. He wanders the marshlands and swamps, en...4 months ago
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What to relate when the thief asks for lock description - Also provides me with inspiration of how/were to place some device traps. More tricksy boxses https://www.antiquebox.org/category/antique-locks-and-me...5 months ago
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A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...8 months ago
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Moving On... - So, my D&D 5e experiment has blown up the lab in a puff of green smoke leaving my face blackened like Wile E. Coyote after a failed roadrunner Acme trap...9 months ago
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Chronicles of the Adventures in the Dune Imperium! - Cover art for Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium core rulebook I have one of the few copies of the Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium core rulebook that were ...1 year ago
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Midjourney and Campaign Inspiration - I'm an improvisational GM. I love random tables. I believe in the oracular power of the dice. I believe in emergent storytelling and character backstori...1 year ago
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This is an Important Game Mechanic - *"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does some s$&...1 year ago
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Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...2 years ago
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Hey, what's going on in here? - It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...2 years ago
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NEW Appendix N Video Review Series - Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his inves...3 years ago
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Lots of Microlite20/74/5e Goodness - I have recently discovered Brian Mathers' blog, The Gnomish Embassy. Brain's blog has a large number of posts for Microlite20 in general although his Micr...4 years ago
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Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...5 years ago
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Long overdue closing down message - Friends. I guess if you see this in you notifications or feed reader you will be quite surprised. This blog have now been dormant for a long time, and much...5 years ago
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The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...6 years ago
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Director George Romero passed away. - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...716-story.html Hard to believe he's gone. I've seen all of his movies. He's the man who made everyone know what a zo...6 years ago
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look out below! - This month's RPG Blog Carnival about garbage and sewers (hosted by 6d6 RPG) drew me in. After all, if I can write about this, then anything else is easy...7 years ago
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Wanted: Citadel Uruk-Hai - I am looking to buy or trade for these Citadel Uruk-Hai orcs (not X-ed out). Can you help me out or know someone who can?8 years ago
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0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...9 years ago
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[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...10 years ago
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Bardic Songcasting - Building off of the outline of the Bard class, here is how they cast spells: Bardic Songcasting Bards perform their songs by singing, dancing, or playing...10 years ago
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Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...12 years ago
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