01 November 2025

Mystery surge of blog visits in August 2025

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Over the course of this blog’s sixteen years of life, it typically has received in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 page visits per month. A hand...
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24 October 2025

Crypts and Things for Zothique

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I’m somewhat embarrassed that, in my recent post about the current Zothique kickstarter , that I failed to mention the excellent “Old Schoo...
21 October 2025

Zothique kickstarter

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I’ve long been a great fan of Clark Ashton Smith’s fiction, especially his fantasy stories set in Hyperborea, Averoigne, and Zothique. Indee...
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19 October 2025

To Do List: Middle-earth and Greyhawk campaign notes; a new Lyonesse character

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I’ve sadly neglected this blog over the past two months. But I have not been (entirely) idle – indeed, I’ve been quite busy running my two c...
25 August 2025

Against the Starmaster: Playtest materials available

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I thought that I would mention that there is a space opera version of Against the Darkmaster coming out. It’s called (somewhat unsurprising...
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27 July 2025

Against the Court of Urdor – Part 5

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Misty Vale, Queen Blàithnaid’s Elfstone, and the Warden’s Pendant  [Map of the Cursed Lands] Our heroes – Einar Quicksilver , the Green El...
14 July 2025

Mythic Armorica for Mythras

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The Mythic Britain series for Mythras has a new instalment: Mythic Armorica . (I first mentioned this supplement – and included a preview ...
24 June 2025

Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms Kickstarter: 3 days left

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I don’t support many kickstarters these days but I’m making an exception for this one: Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, the Northern Marche...
17 June 2025

Reflections on Middle-earth Roleplaying, Rolemaster, Against the Darkmaster, and Art

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Back when I was a young lad and able to devote much of my time to role-playing games (late middle-school and high-school), I tried out a wid...
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07 May 2025

OSRIC the Third

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The wise sages at Mythmere Games are hard at work on the third version of OSRIC (“Old School Reference and Index Compilation”). You can sup...