Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

Orbital diagrams, suits of armour, pulp sci-fi covers and wood type, from the pages of public-domain books. Free to use for anything.

Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal . Click to download the full-sized image Children wer...

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There's been lots of talk among the OSR of character sheets, monster stats, or even whole dungeon maps that can fit on a typical 3x5 index c...

Growing up a teenager in the early 80’s came with a lot of freedoms that would be described as “negligence” these days. Taking my father’s o...

Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.

Jake Casella Brookins Hello everyone, happy October! We’ve had a busy month behind the scenes at ARB—as often happens, the vagaries of publishing and reviewing schedules conspired to stack our queu…

Michael Whelan Michael Shea's Nifft the Lean (1982) and its sequels are too recent to be in Appendix N, of course, but rereading the novel ...

Hello folks, been quiet around here lately. I am still busy as ever on Vaults of Vaarn: Second Edition, which is shaping up to be a real monster of a project. 130,000 words and counting at this sta…

STARTING IN THE CLOG You don't start in a tavern. Taverns imply surplus. Surplus implies sunshine. You start where the falling stops. The architect...

I watched Princess Arete and it got my brain going . What's the right word for this genre? I hesitate to say "Ghibli-esque" because it's s...

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Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.

World Postcard Day (October 1st) - Celebrate the postcard day by sending a postcard to someone!

The creator of "PeePee PooPoo" brings her indie-publishing punk spirit to the syndicated daily.

For whatever reason, you’re considering using baseball cards as game pieces. Maybe you’re thinking about the Baseball Jam ’26, or maybe you’re just

Out of curiosity (or rather my own amusement), I tried my hand at fleshing out interactions between a PC running a dominion, rival nobles, a...

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland directed by Masami Hata and William Hurtz written by Chris Columbus, Richard Outten, and Moebius TM...

I've decided to journal a solo campaign using my setting generator, Roguelike Megadungeon . I'll be using Cairn 2E as the system. It'll be m...

I’m currently a couple sessions into solo play through a dungeon that I’m generating with the Appendix A tables in the AD&D 1e DMG and playing through wi...

You are not limited by your imagination. You are limited by crushing levels of debt.

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

H ere is a fun one! A fellow Referee is running an “Ocean Themed” OD&D Campaign and requested some assistance with generating interesting...

More shiny links from around the web. For even more, try last weeks set found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carn...

We talk with the Vermeren bothers about Gridshock and Terminal State 00.00.40: Introduction 00.03.30: World of Gaming: UK Games Expo bans AI products; Atrapos Kickstarting from Soul Muppet; Necromunda...

Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 96: Judge Dredd Complete Case Files Vol 01 There’s no debate that Judge Dredd, a character created by John...

The bigger lesson from a New York Times article evaluating 30 education interventions

How psycho-social patterns of expected behavior erode the fundamentals of RPG play.

Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong by Brian Buccellato art by Christian Duce and Tom Derenick DC Comics 2024     Increasingly, I think t...

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