Recent content by RealAlHazred

A somber day of reflection for me. Disclaimer: I'm a German-American. It's the anniversary of the execution of Sophie Scholl and the rest of the Society of the White Rose. They were ardent critics of the Nazis who distributed flyers explaining why the Nazis were bad. When they were caught, they...

I never got that far in my GoSM run, because Covid killed in-person gaming at the store. But I had transplanted the entire adventure to 16th century Caribbean, and I had Ideas! What a great opportunity to really up the Lovecraft references!

"The sky above the port was the colour of a Torment Nexus set on purée."

Really, if you really read the source material, the Torment Nexus is meant to be a symbol of progress and prosperity!

There is absolutely no text "between" the lines, and I can't take you seriously when you make this egregious an error with the basics of Internet communication! The lines are where the text is! There's nothing between them except black screen!

They've started using decanted people (like in that Black Mirror episode, where people about to die get uploaded) to do order parsing. They're slightly less accurate than AI, but much less costly in terms of computers and energy! This is the sort of job humans will have in the future: handling...

I remembered a few Dungeon adventures I used for an Eberron campaign: "The Styes," by Richard Pett from Dungeon #121 (Apr 2005), and "Murder in Oakbridge" by Uri Kurlianchik from Dungeon #129 (Dec 2005). The first one is just dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere, but required some work to bring...

I follow a few TTRPG VTT map makers on Patreon, and recommend checking there. If you find one you really like, you can always invest a couple of bucks to get the back-catalogue! Some of the ones I follow: https://www.patreon.com/miskasmaps https://www.patreon.com/cyberpunkmaps...

I just came here to post the link to Bryce's Dungeon reviews. I generally agree with his criticisms, though they are harsh -- I have to fight my nostalgia sometimes; it helps when I show an old adventure I liked to a younger gamer and use their perspective to anchor my own. My favorites from...

Huh, we're coming up on the anniversary of Sophie Scholl's (and several others') death, which put me in mind of The Line. This Sunday, it will have been 83 years since she died.

Just kidding, I agree with your post. I like reading old gaming posts, and checking out a decades-old post about an RPG can be a real challenge (or downright impossible) when all of the links are dead! I remember trying to read one old thread (ironically, in an archive of a Yahoo! Group I used...

Came here to mention Bundle of Holding. Not only do we have one site that sells large bundles of excellent game PDFs for a huge discount, we have two. Add in the occasional really good bundle deal on DTRPG and the regular excellent bundle deals on itch.io, and you can legally acquire all of the...

Well, Yog-Sothoth.com is gone. I'm still not over it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1441717158/female-dwarf-barbarian-dnd-miniatures