Miniature terrain: photo tutorial for three-hour forests, part II - This is the second in a series of posts on how to create copses of forest terrain for D&D or miniature wargames. The first post in this series can be found...

Traffic Diversion - Sometimes you read things that you agree with so completely you feel as if somebody has peeked inside your own mind and just written it down - and yet they...

Lord Kilgore Fiction - I’ve got a fiction project coming out shortly. It will be covered here under the new LK Fiction category on lordkilgore.com. Announcements to follow.

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The Vampire's Fate - I was saving this tale for a mind boggling, bare-chested, underwear clad-only bloodsucker theme for a potential month of posts, but then thought *THOIA* mi...

When The Concept Mattered More Then The Rendering - This isn't an exotically armored Dragonborn Controller Battlemind (???), nor is it some scantily chainmail bikini clad barbarian woman facing some bizarre...

The October Country: The Epistolarians - Everyone knows that the art of writing letters is a dying one. In a world dominated by email, Twitter, and texting, the elegant pastime of communicating on...

Wessex weapons in AD&D - The three stupidest, ugliest, pain-in-the-assiest charts in the 1st edition Players Handbook are found on pages 37 and 38. These are the *Weight and Damag...

Chatty’s Fort Wayne Adventures: Tales from the Elemental Chaos, Part 1 - In which Chatty starts spinning his first of many tales about the games he played over at the Dungeon and Dragons Experience 2 provinces and 5 states away ...

Things to do today: - Organize my new Lair.

My Newbs Are Growing Up - Last night the newbs grew up a little.  They impressed me.  A simple chain of events started the game.  First the recap of last adventure.  Some of the playe...

Open Friday: Who Are These Guys? - I'm going to be lazy and self-indulgent with today's Open Friday post (how is that different than usual, you may ask?). You see, just before the release o...

The Wages of Death - I haven't had raise dead as an option for characters that die in my campaign. But seeing players really attached to a particular character because of his ...

Bottoms Up - I seldom reuse campaign settings that I create. When I create a new setting, I usually go about things from a decidedly top-down approach. This weekend, I ...

Racial Disharmony - Over at WotC’s “DnD Next” page, Monte Cook has written a second article kinda circling around how to handle PC races. Basically, Mr. Cook is wrangling with...

Ron Paul: An example of the problem with action based alignment - So the other day on G+ I was treated to many, many, many viewings of Newt Gingrich running a D&D game, with Texas Rick, Herman, Ron and Frothy Rick. Firs...

FebRUary 2nd Update- - The PCs are back to the Marnharnnan 'Megadungeon', a subterranean emergency colony of the Ancients. In the past, an endless stream of Runners (fast zomb...

OSFest 5’s Program Participants (3) - It takes a lot of hard work on the part of a lot of folks to pull off a really great convention. The Omaha Science Fiction Education Society (the parent o...

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Unchained and out on the Mean Street(s) again. - In the wake of some recent (mediocre) tuneage from the yet-again reunited VH/DLR combo, I feel the need to post the following old school masterpiece for yo...

Starting at Suck: Ideas for 1st level adventures - For "Good" parties: - Ripped right from Diablo: A local humanoid warband has stolen the Innkeeper's sign and think it's some sort of magical totem. The pla...

First Session Winter 2011 - We got back to it yesterday...And here's a brief look at how it went: The girls started off in Sandpoint (where we left of before), and decided to spend t...

Fin. - This blog is no longer actively maintained. This blog was a personal journey and exploration of an old guy who loves playing OD&D (Original 1974 D&D), AD&D...

Apocalypse World: Mis’igan - I’m still tweaking the map and need to add some additional labels, a frame, etc. but here’s the nearly finished map of Mis’igan, the setting of our Apocaly...

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Descendants of Ancient Urthos: Prologue: You find yourself in a ship... - (Drellis) In the dimly lighted room of the ship's bridge a flurry of activity whirrs around you. Three mechanical sphere shaped creatures quickly shouts i...