These Old Games

If I mean to catch up and create 31 characters for January, I need to start doing 3 or more characters at a time. Here we go.  Let's sta...

 I've always meant to do the #CharacterChalllenge. And I always miss it. For 2026, I am going to try to catch up with two posts a day.  ...

I've always meant to do the #CharacterChalllenge. And I always miss it. For 2026, I am going to try to catch up with two posts a day.  L...

I keep mentioning how I want to run X2 - Castle Amber as a solo adventure because the characters in my last solo adventure lost all of their...

I used the OSE rule set for my last solo campaign run. You can get a copy from DriveThruRPG. This is the super bundle; you can actually pic...

A couple of days ago, I cracked the joke that the hours of daylight in Western New York are less than the runtime of the three extended edit...

Title: The Basic Witch: The Pumpkin Spice Tradition Publisher: The Other Side Publishing Author: Timothy S. Brannan Year: 2019 Pages: 65 pag...

I don't know why I like the easy entry tests for games. Today I found the Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Begins game on my shelf. Yeah, ...

I have a lot of hobbying going on, so the blog will go off the rails for a while. I haven't felt like doing reviews or a post series lat...

I was told I would love Baldur's Gate. And from what I have heard and read, it is great. However, I need a new hard drive in my laptop b...

Back in 1980, Dragon magazine presented an Anti-Palidin. These guys were stereotypical black hat NPCs. The logic behind them was a Palidin p...

I am having a failure to campaign. I wanted to do a Star Wars campaign, but my potential players spotted the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing ...

I was going to call this post, "When the players change the rules" but it isn't that at the end of the day.  I used to play in...

I use a set of standard NPCs in all of my campaigns. These folks are bearers, guards, horsemen, and archers. They are the typical NPCs the p...

It's been a while since I wrote about games that went off the rails, but here is another entry. I had a basic scenario where a small tow...

It's Tuesday night and I am painting some Battlemechs. I like to listen to books or TV when painting. I have this funny trait that the t...