Leicester's Ramble

It's crowdfunding season (not that it ever ends...), and I'm not sure how many rulebooks, supplements, and adventures I currently ha...

"Yeah, when the riding animals start fighting, we're in new territory" - Frederick More on that later.... Tonight was a small ...

Howdy, neighbors! A quick post to finally post up some original content that's not a play report....  I'm sadly negligent on creatin...

Two quick pictures. Shelfie with most of my game and game-adjacent books: And the proportion of those that were published under the OGL: Jus...

In retro-clone games (or equivalent early-edition D&D), PCs don't have a significant number of traits or what may be considered “fea...

Well, tonight's pick-up game cancelled due to The Plague in the house. Sigh. Oh, well, gave me a chance to formalize some notes and buil...

What's in my Discord inbox today? You've been paired with Rook#1407, who wants "Take a non-intelligent DND monster of your choo...

Been quiet but not unproductive (I hope). Besides reworking The Long Hall (see yesterday's post), I took a whack at itch.io's recent...

So a bit ago I entered the Prince of Nothing's No Artpunk Contest with a cobbled-together adventure using Jackson's "The Long ...

Well, figured I should give my minotaur the Advanced Version of ye olde game treatment, and give them a little class, or classes, as well. S...

Entry #2 for this month. Fortunately a deadline extended (August 31) so that I could wait for the muse-imps to finish their coffee or runnin...

December? Where'd the year go? Anyway...  Someone on Reddit OSR asked about crafting up a monster if you didn't have access to a b...

James Young has helped run the Secret Santicore community writing 'gift' project over the last secret years. With the demise of G+, ...

With the downfall of G+ and other distractions, I didn't track down last year's Secret Santicorn RPG "gift exchange." Fort...

OK, my take on the OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnaire.  Since all the cool kids are doing it.  Trying to come up with some personal ...

Late to the party.  On vacation, so why am I even here? Ok, so why S&W for me?  As I mentioned back in the beginnings of my blog, ...