[Perilous Lands] Humans of the Northeastern Sea of Tears Region
There are three main civilized human cultural groups in the region spread out among several states: La’Cedi, Thalibans, and Donarans. There are four minor groups: Basati, Caldans, Climans, and Shazir....
View Article[Perilous Lands] Interview with playtester Winchell Chung
Delving deep into the origins of Powers & Perils and the Perilous Lands has one great difficulty – the designer, Richard Snider, passed away in 2009, leaving the “one true source” of information...
View ArticleOffline until 2016
I'm going to be essentially offline until the new year. Will be back with bells on come January 1st.Keep an eye on my new blog, the Grymdark Lands. That's where I'll mostly be posting going forward...
View ArticleGoodman Games releases The Monster Alphabet!
Goodman Games follow-up to the wonderful Dungeon Alphabet, Monster Alphabet, has finally been released in PDF for those who were not part of the Kickstarter. As I have found the Dungeon Alphabet to be...
View Article[New Spell] Finally got introduced to Samurai Jack, so here is a spell...
Portal into the FutureLevel: 5Duration: InstantRange: 10’ This spell enables the magic-user to get rid of a meddlesome foe by flinging the target into a one-way portal into...
View Article[Now Available] Realmscrawl Campaign Map 05: Tilverton
Realmscrawl Campaign Map 05: TilvertonRealmscrawl Campaign Map 05: Tilverton is the first in what is hoped to be a series of maps and gazetteers detailing the Eastern Heartlands of the Forgotten Realms...
View ArticleOn Extended Hiatus
I'm going on an extended hiatus from reading, writing, and publishing game stuff.I'm just not feeling it right now. I'm going to concentrate on actually gaming once again.Y'all have fun!
View ArticleQ&A with Game Designer Allen Hammack
Several days ago I received an e-mail from Paul Stormberg of The Collector's Trove, advertising the company's upcoming auction of the Allen Hammack Collection. Several items and images in that e-mail...
View ArticleJMG "Goodbye and Good Riddance 2016" Sale!
Somehow I got left out of the big sale going on at DTRPG/RPGNow... so instead of a Black Friday thru Cyber Monday sale, I'm having a "Goodbye and Good Riddance to 2016" sale! All James Mishler Games...
View Article[Review] Project Oasis by Joseph Bloch -- 5 out of 5 Stars
Project Oasis, written by Joseph Bloch (Adventures Dark and Deep, Castle of the Mad Archmage) and self-published through BRW Games, is a 36-page PDF campaign supplement for Mutant Future and Apes...
View Article[Found Treasures] Wilderlands of the Forgotten Realms
Stumbled across this old map while going through a pile of old writings. Not quite sure when I drew this, could be anywhere from mid-'90s to early '00s, would have been a time when I was fiddling...
View Article[Pokémon Campaign] Pokémon Campaign
I've been pretty quiet here lately, been concentrating on playing games rather than writing about them... well, of course, I have to do SOME writing about most of the games I run. I've been running two...
View Article[New Spell] Investiture of Eternal Guardianship
Investiture of Eternal Guardianship3rd-level transmutationCasting Time: 8 hoursRange: 10 feetComponents: V, S, M (gems worth at least 10,000 gp, which are consumed in the casting; plus, a single solid...
View Article[JMG] The Incompleat Realmscrawl
So last year I tried to jump into the 5E market on the Dungeon Masters Guild, with some hex-based mapping of the Forgotten Realms called Realmscrawl (also, alternate version of FR based on some old...
View Article[White Star] Alternate Star Knights Class and Star Force Meditation System
Here is the alternate Star Knight Class and Star Force Meditation system I've used for my White Star games. It is continually under development and adjustment. It is rather more complex than the system...
View ArticleSimple Vancian Magic
Of late there has been a bit of chatter about Vancian style magic in D&D, as in, how much magic in D&D actually resembles the magic portrayed by Jack Vance in his Dying Earth series. Short...
View ArticleRules for Black Lotus use...
Went looking for these rules for Black Lotus, realized I no longer had them on any of my computers, and thanked my lucky stars I had posted them on another blog long ago (and had not deleted the blog,...
View Article[Kickstarter] Goblinoid Games "Burial Plots" for Cryptworld!
Goblinoid Games has started a Kickstarter for a new supplement for Cryptworld: Burial Plots, a collection of five adventures written by Tim Snider of The Savage AfterWorld! Several levels to pledge...
View Article[Now Available] Dragonborn for Labyrinth Lord
DRAGONBORNBy James Mishler & Jodi Moran-MishlerThis work contains two forms of the dragonborn race:First, a racial class for use with Labyrinth Lord, complete with several new dragon-magic...
View ArticleBat in the Attic Games Releases New CSIO Map in Color!
Rob Conley, author of the Majestic Wilderlands and Wilderlands cartographer, has released his new color version of the map of the City State of the Invincible Overlord! This all-new map, based on the...
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