Arduin, Wonderful Arduin!

After my first shipment was lost by the carrier on my end, the wonderful David and George at Emperor’s Choice shipped me a replacement, full of extra goodies. I cannot express my glee! During my period of inactivity… Read More

Exorcism

Most (but not all) of the Cleric NPCs in my Lamentations of the Flame Princess campaigns have been Christian clergy. Since my campaigns were mostly set in Early Modern Europe, that seemed to be an appropriate decision. Player… Read More

Review: Wight-Box

In recent years, while not posting here, I have been increasingly interested in OD&D and various retroclones. Many of these retroclones will be very well known to anybody likely to read this blog, and I do have a… Read More

Colony of Death

Colony of Death: Weird Fantasy Roleplaying in 17th Century Maryland is a third-party adventure module for Lamentations of the Flame Princess by Mark Hess. It is available in print via Lulu and via PDF from DriveThruRPG (affiliate link)…. Read More

Adventure Anthology: Blood

Adventure Anthology: Blood is the last of the planned three volumes of previously independently published LotFP features. The Adventure Anthology series has included Fire, Death, and Blood. Blood was recently released in print and PDF, and my print… Read More

Fermentum Nigrum Dei Sepulti

Fermentum Nigrum Dei Sepulti (henceforth Fermentum) is a new adventure from Lamentations of the Flame Princess available in print and PDF from the LotFP web stores (EU Store and US Store) and DriveThruRPG (affiliate link). This review is… Read More

Deep Carbon Observatory Remastered

I backed the Deep Carbon Observatory Remastered Kickstarter, and received the hard copy of my new book yesterday. I have never played Deep Carbon Observatory (either version) so this review is based on a reading only. I will… Read More

Eternal Five Fantasy Roleplaying

First Five Fantasy Roleplaying is my retroclone of the 1991 black box Dungeons & Dragons set. When I first got into the hobby, it was surprisingly hard to find the Rules Cyclopedia in my city in Australia, or… Read More

The Grand Campaign

Chivalry & Sorcery 1st edition opened with an introduction to the concept of the Grand Campaign. There was no succinct single sentence definition which I can reproduce here, but rather a description of the Grand Campaign as encompassing… Read More

Campaign Time

Most old school players would remember the (in)famous Dungeon Masters Guide quote: YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT Gary Gygax, AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide 1e, p37 There are some other… Read More