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More POD reviews

 Today we have been reading more POD BECME era D&D (the one before so-called AD&D that outlasted it). Those box sets and Cyclopedia were as good as it got to me with simplicity and speed and...

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Gamelog: Shopping & Graverobbing

So the party after a good recent loot spree had option of being near their snake cult allies in ruins, home village or Coppertown. Many probs in getting game up for a while - birthday and covid and...

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d100 Things Falling From The Stars

Some crap fell from the sky and wow adventurers do a hero. The End.Players hanging in a pub too long or want to visit every shop keeper in town. Time to drop a star stone overhead and locals can all...

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The Golden Age: Pulp49

Have been reading and learning about public domain heroes of early comics and pulps and wanting to run some superhero games in the future. My RIver CIty setting won't need much work just more low tech....

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Game Log: A better class of Tomb to rob

So the party going on 6th Lv has quite a few fragile followers with them some recruited locally from the city of the Storm god on the barbarian frontier of the south. The barbarian hero wanted a...

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POD Reviews & Recalcitrance

I have been busy rearranging the house, emptying storage crates, building a to sell pile and rearanging 5 frog aquariums and other non writing stuff. I have made progress on some old projects and...

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More POD Stuff plus my rankings of the classics

A couple more Companion and Masters reviews. Possibly I might purge a few after this. Some have big cinematic ideas and can be used. Others are railroads or have sections on domains and wargame...

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Tomb robbing near TPK

Today's game we did 3 rooms and some shopping and spent thousands on healing at Ishtar temple. So did some de cursing from last adventure as one follower had 4 curses from tomb robbing. They were...

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More Otherworldly Pod Classics

Almost through my pile of POD modules and have ordered some more and found a few originals locally. Also getting some star frontiers modules. The best thing I have come across of late that I liked is...

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d100 More Goblin Peddlars

Saw an old post of goblins and thought I need more goblincore. Maybe a d1000 goblin market stalls is needed. Above is my frog goblin who was bony and scrawny when I got him a few months ago. He is...

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12 Habits of highly effective Murder Hobos

Some mood fluff im writing for book. One more session of work and will posting revised 100 page murder hobo manual on my Patreon shortly. This was a warm up I did to get me back into the mindset for...

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d100 Absolutely True About All Murder Hobos Forever

A nice depiction of Nergal from way after bronze age - region mix of roman, mesopotaimian and other culture. The dog is fascinating - is it three dogs or Cerebus?.If your character hears these in a...

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Gamelog: Finished tombs and against the snake folk

Our Heroes:7th Lv Fighter - Barbarian Archer Lord seeking glory and battle, talks to birds-Personal Priestess-Mastif war dog abhumanoid (Mostly guards the priestess)-Bard chariot driver &...

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Pod Reviews I9 & B9

So a couple of quick POD roundups of those mid 90s tru-tsr originals. Also having read through Nights Dark Terror again I think I like it even more than my original review. It has the UK 80s dnd vibe...

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Found Ancient Finds in the Desert

I just got a big box of Tru-TSR POD (avoid all imitations) books. So some more reviews. Some more stuff for desert hexcrawling  d10 Quick Types01 Remnants02 Land03 Nature04 Bodies 05 Ruins 06 Water07...

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Pod Review C3 & C5

I remember some more stocking stuffers of the 80s i had seen on the shelf and couldn't afford then. These are unlike most of the Pods I have read is for AD&D and are con scenarios and not so in any...

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Updates and The Sacred Temple of Erwadu Playthrough

Feeling up to date on projects sorta and starting on next phase.Green guys are 42 petty slimy stupid devilkin, big grey ones are 4 mummies2 mummies almost did a TPK a while agoTop left is party...

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Carousing in a Bronze Age City State

Realised since all my past blog lists were destroyed that I sometimes have gaps in my poorer sorted current versions. Tried to find all my own carousing posts and the search and even google struggles...

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Horsebread! & some pony economics for elf games

History of Horsebread!horsebreadBased on work of William Rubel, author of English Horse-bread, 1590-1800A good medieval pricelist hereHorse weigh calculator - don't forget to add your armour and...

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POD Shenanigans

I have got a few of these longer 80s TSR adventures. All over 60 pages.This month on Patreon have had #9 of my zine and #89 of my 3-fold adventures which almost finishes my Aegypt series so #90 will be...

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