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For anything other than "D&D style fantasy" (for which I use some flavor of old-school D&D) I've been pretty monogameous with Barbarians of Lemuria and its variants for the past 10 years, though I've had occasional flings with Traveller (CT/MgT1e) and Blades in the Dark. Currently running...

Rereading some of Vance's Gaean Reach books lately has got the wheels turning in my GM brain about running adventures in that setting -- either an investigative-type game, where PCs are IPCC-affiliate agents, or something more picaresque where players "must boldly plan and execute daring schemes...

Been on a bit of a psytrance kick lately...

There's usually some sort of ambient-ish music playing quietly in the background. I've tried getting more soundtrack-y, with special lists for combat, this NPC or that encounter, etc., but the return just hasn't been worth the effort. For Dolmenwood, I have an "in town" list (Sharron Kraus'...

Currently running Fading Suns using my own Barbarians of Lemuria-powered houserules. The PC group, a House Keddah noble and his allies, just returned to the planet Rampart after locating/visiting an AI-controlled, Second Republic research station located in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant...

A similar thought crossed my mind to combine the Lyonesse RPG with the Dolmenwood setting, as Vance's trilogy is one of my all-time favorite fantasy works, but the path of least resistance (I.e., lighter rules, zero conversion, and a healthy dose of pure laziness) prompted me to use BX/OSE instead.

My Dolmenwood campaign ran for over a year, it has been a ton of fun. We're taking a break right now and playing something else (Fading Suns), but eventually we'll get back to it. I plopped the Barrowmaze (the original version) into the setting a few hexes east of Prigwort and reskinned the...

I submit to you Honor + Intrigue, a swashbuckling variant of Barbarians of Lemuria, and its supplement Intriguing Options 2: Blasters + Intrigue.

Yes, absolutely can't forget Traveller!

I'd publish all the Fading Suns lore as fully system-neutral volumes, then have official rules guides for specific systems: BoL, Savage Worlds, BRP, Cypher, etc.

One of my favorite tracks to listen to at work is this generative ambient work for modular analog synth. The Blade Runner vibes are strong...

I think it would be more successful if it's pitched and developed as "fantasy horror" instead of high fantasy. Heck, if all those ridiculous Saw movies could be made... This not-D&D movie's sequels could focus on various deeper levels of the dungeon. Crypts, myconid fungal forest, shrine of...

The D&D movie I'd like to see but never will: A fantasy-horror anthology film (à la Tales from the Crypt, Heavy Metal, etc.) with each segment detailing a different group of adventurers exploring a shared, single location: a classic "megadungeon" in the style of Castle Greyhawk, Castle...

Getting back to running my OSE Dolmenwood/Barrowmaze home game, we've had two sessions after a holiday break. Playing in a friend's monthly AD&D1e campaign and a game of The One Ring (1e revised) over Zoom with another group. Doing a bit of simple fantasy skirmish gaming with my kids and...

Sacred Reich was a solid second-wave thrash band, but I'm sharing this Dynamo '89 rendition of "Death Squad" mostly for the insane crowd footage. No phones, just a bunch of sweaty longhairs moshing it up!

This, in a heartbeat! I haven't seen the Everywhen update (and have mixed feelings about EW in general), but I love the original. It's the game I wished existed when I was 10 in 1985, my friends and I would have flipped for this. Eight or nine years ago, I used DoW to run the old Top Secret...

"Go Dig My Grave," the first offering from Lankum's forthcoming new album. Dark, droney, doomy... Can't wait to hear the rest of False Lankum next month!

It's hard to say whether this incredible Stalingrad table inspires my terrain building or makes me want to just throw in the towel! The amount of time, research, and painstaking work that went into this is staggering to consider...

More pics and after-action report here. My inner 10-year-old is sooo jealous!

Yesterday my kids and I watched the old Dinotopia miniseries. It was a pleasant surprise -- the CG was a little cheesy and very much of its time (2002), but overall a delightful family adventure show. I was already itching for some pulpy "Lost World" gaming, even more so now!