Todd Colstrom provided this entry into the Old School contest. Dazzling Duelist The Dazzling Duelist uses elaborate moves and showmanship to confuse and defeat his opponent. One must apprentice with a master to learn this art, and finding one can be difficult. They often work as fencing instructors in mundane …
I suspect this may have gotten lost in the shuffle :) I was one of the four blogs chosen to devise a way to give away a copy of Swords & Wizardry Complete in PDF. In my Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day post (Old Schools: Swords & Wizardry) I described how …
Swords & Wizardry is undoubtedly one of the Old School games, one of the many legs of the OSR. But I’m not going to talk about that, quite. Even though it’s Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day, I’m going to talk about something I think might be missing. I notice that …
Eric Quigley has some monster art he wasn’t doing anything with and decided to make free for use, with credit. Use-able Scary Monster Art! Hey guys, it’s getting close to Halloween and I would like to offer up some monster art if anyone were looking to do anything with it …
As I mentioned in my last roundup, I didn’t see nearly the traffic for this RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations that I did for Fantastic Locations. This surprises me a little, since I would think it would be one of the easier ones to post for — if nothing else, …
I haven’t seen nearly the traffic for this RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations that I did for Fantastic Locations, so I’ve decided to do a mid-month roundup rather than weekly. Round-Up As with the Fantastic Locations roundups, presented in order of blog title and (approximately) date. Exchange of Realities Simple …
I posted a few new magic items last week a couple weeks ago (I’ve been too busy to take part in the RPG Blog Carnival I’m hosting, how sad is that?), and got some favorable response to them. I thought people may be interested in how I devised them. The …
Sean Holland asked a couple questions about Beobachten. From a comment on that post, Very interesting. But how does it “consume” the treasure? And is it lost forever or is it in some extra-dimesional horde? I think these are good questions, but I can’t really meaningfully answer them, for a …
Another entry for the RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations. Kaiho-sha, the Liberator. I read a story a few years ago, where one of the supporting characters (a warrior and leader of men) had been enslaved. After being freed (rescued by an ally) he decided to take the chain that had …
This is another Fantastic Creation I have had in mind for a while now, though somewhat simpler than Beobachten, the Dragon Watching. I have always liked the idea of wands, but the implementation in D&D has been generally lacking in my mind. Most of them time they are simply canned …
