Weird lore and gonzo mechanics for your RPG pleasure!
The Cellar has been around in one form or another since the dawn of time. When whatever crafted the world from primordial stardust completed their job, they hollowed out a little space to ferment a job well done drink. The Cellar has, therefore, had many millennia to change and grow, to play host to myriad […]
André Meister So many a moon ago I decided that I wanted to fuse two of my favorite things, Cuisine and RPGs. When I started thinking on this, I discovered that a number of other folks had also been thinking about this. Dan from Throne of Salt enumerates a number of them quite well. And just […]
This post and all the art in it is inspired by or borrowed from Alexandre Diboine. Conviction is a mechanic in pure GLOG that I do not see a lot of people using. Arnold recently mentioned in the OSR chat that this is how convictions as he envisioned them working: “Convictions are basically the answer to […]
Howdy folks, just a quick little update on things in my life since G+ is going down and I’ve not quite gotten the handle of MeWe yet. I just put in my two weeks at my current job after being offered a position for nearly twice what I make now. On one hand I’m super […]
Assets in games are not something that I think about as often as I probably should. This comes from a life time of free form RPing over strict abeyance to any sort of ruleset governing multiple assets. Or, when I was active in 3.x, I was used to light being ignored, arrows merely being a […]
Oogie Boogie: Dear Goody Mooncup: I recently helped my brother clean out his friend’s basement. While down there, we found a small vial of orange liquid. His friend dared me to drink it, and at first I refused. After they made some jokes about my manhood, I gave in and drank it down. I immediately […]
Overgrown by qissus When Stuff comes in contact with a person’s thoughts, Reification occurs, that is the making of something Real. It manifests human thoughts and emotions from the Noosphere and into the physical plane, often with horrific results. As mentioned in the previous post, sometimes Stuff mingles with and fuses with a person. More often than not, […]
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway was published nearly eleven years ago back in good old 2008. I was working at a small independent bookstore when it was published and, being the guy for scifi and fantasy recommendations, was handed it by our manager. She said that the bigger scifi books tend not to sell […]
My first post commissioned via Ko-Fi, this one is for you Furtive goblin! Well hi there little buddy! On the Khokhantipa Mudflats there lives a native people who eek out a living on the whims of the tides, scavenging upon the broad stinking morass of low tide and riding the waves of the high tide. While […]
What a useless jerk! AAAAAAHHHHH BUER! FUCK OFF YOU LION GOAT WHEEL NO ONE LIKES YOU! Goddamn he’s even uglier in GeGeGe WILL YOU GO AWAY IF I MAKE A POST FOR YOU?! FINE HOLY SHIT! BUER IS THE GREAT PRESIDENT OF HELL AND HE HAS A BIG HARD ON FOR SAGITTARIUS. SUPPOSEDLY IF YOU […]