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Bruce Heard

Bruce Heard (born in in Nice, France) is a game designer, and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR. At least, this is what Wikipedia says about me!

I grew up in France (mostly), England, Morocco, Washington DC, and Texas. I speak mostly French and English, with a little Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Returning to Nice for my education, I graduated from the lycée hotelier in 1977; I got passionately interested in wargames when I was attending the Lycée ... primarily in Avalon Hill games like Kriegspiel, Luftwaffe, Third Reich, and Panzer Leader — the classics. There were, of course, no French editions of these games at the time, so I had to learn the American versions. I loved to travel, so I studied hotel management and worked as a concierge in both France and California.

While living in San Francisco I discovered the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, and when I returned to Paris I joined my first regular Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) group. I started writing articles on D&D and AD&D for French gaming magazine Casus Belli, and there learned that TSR was looking for someone to translate the games into French. Well, I spoke and wrote both languages, and I knew the games, so a request reached Gary Gygax. By a coincidence, he was just about to come to Paris on business, and so we set up a meeting. I must have done OK, because he offered me the job. After a few months of doing translation work in Nice, TSR requested I move to the home office in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. For a sun-loving Mediterranean like me, Wisconsin in February was a bit of a shock.

After working for two years as a translator, I transferred to TSR's Games Division in July 1985 as an Acquisitions Coordinator, in charge of contracting freelance writers. I also did game design, including adventure modules CM7, Tree of Life; M1, Into the Maelstrom; and co-authorship of DL12, Dragons of Faith.

I worked on a number of products for the basic Dungeons & Dragons game, including writing the "Voyage of the Princess Ark" series for Dragon magazine, a monthly feature that lasted about three years, as well as other products for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. I was the Basic D&D line Product Manager for years, during which the beloved D&D Gazetteers and the Rules Cyclopedia were published. I also worked at TSR as the director of production planning and head of games acquisitions.

My son Noel came to this world when TSR went bankrupt. One of the outcomes of the happy event in my life was that I could not follow my colleagues to Renton, Wa, at WotC, which had salvaged most of TSR's creative team. My writing years went on hiatus while I explored other avenues. After some time at US Web near Milwaukee and United Airlines at O'Hare, I'm now back in Wisconsin to re-invent myself and do what I really want to do! This now includes the creation of the World of Calidar.

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My Blog List

Mystara on The Piazza

D&D 5th Edition • Re: 5E Sci-Fi versions? - I have both Hyperlanes and Ultrmodern 5. Ultramodern 5 covers things like auto fire and technology by adding new rules a fairly expected approach but one t...
58 minutes ago
Hall of the Mountain King

Lone Wolf AD&D Conversion - Monster - Kraan - Kraan The Kraan are one of the first monsters encountered in the Lone Wolf series. They are described as leather-winged flying creatures and in game term...
1 hour ago
Age of Ravens

Mystery Academy: My Masks: A New Generation Hack - *A SINISTER SEMESTER* A couple of times I’ve run a game frame I call “Mystery Academy.” Teen characters get sent to a new and strange school. They can tell...
3 hours ago
Elaine Cunningham

Winterhexe! - The German translation of Winter Witch will be released next week by publisher Feder & Schwert. They’ll have a…
4 hours ago
Appendix N

Usagi Yojimbo: Thieves and Spies - Usagi Yojimbo: Thieves and Spies Book 30 Written by Stan Sakai Published by Dark Horse Publishing 184 b & w pages $17.99 ($12.10 at Amazon) There are few ...
6 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Kickstarter - 28mm High Detail Pre-Painted Plastic Miniatures (what it says on the tin) - So, why am I highlighting the *28mm High Detail Pre-Painted Plastic Miniatures Kickstarter*? A few reason and they all come down as lessons for others. ...
6 hours ago
Gazette du wargamer

Enemy Coast Ahead – The Doolittle Raid est sorti - GMT vient d'annoncer qu'un second volet de cette série de wargames en solitaire vient tout juste de décoller des entrepôts en direction des tables de salon...
7 hours ago
Jeffs Gameblog

mini-review: Doomslakers! OSR Character sheets - I've been a fan of James V. West since encountering his indie generic system *The Pool* back in '01 or '02. Only later did I find out he was also a kicka...
7 hours ago
BookMarketingBuzzBlog

An Interview With An Animal Television Pioneer - Peter Gros, for over four decades, has entertained, educated, and enlightened millions of people with his major contributions to promoting wildlife cons...
9 hours ago
Stargazer's World

#RPGaDay2017 Day 22: Familiarity breeds ease of use! - 00We’re going into the final stretch of #RPGaDay2017. Only 9 days to go this year. The question for today is: August 22: Which RPGs are the easiest for yo...
12 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

RPGaDAY 2017 #21 - From the *#RPGaDAY2017* challenge (info here): *Which RPG does the most with the least words?* I am super-frigging tired today, and my wrists and hands fee...
17 hours ago
The RPGPundit

Coming Home - Well, what a long strange trip this has been. I've just spent the past three weeks on a mystical voyage through space and time, which has also been intere...
21 hours ago
The Other Side blog

D&D Beyond - I signed up for D&D Beyond this morning. I pretty much knew I was going to sign up anyway, but gaming over the weekend convinced me. Currently, I am run...
1 day ago
THE LAND OF NOD

The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...
1 day ago
Postmortem Studios

Inside #Gamergate Thunderclap Promotion - On September 5th the – very likely unfair and distorted – hatchet job book about Gamergate, ‘Crash Override’ is set to come out. Let’s use that as a launch...
1 day ago
rleebyers

Thank you, Gen Con 50! - I had a fantastic time at Gen Con. Thanks to everyone who worked on it and made it possible and to all the attendees. Everyone I met brought friendliness a...
1 day ago
The Kickstarter Blog

You Are Here: Projects of Earth - “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.” *—Carl Sagan* *in *Pale Blue Dot*, referencing a photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 s...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Eclipsed - Bruce Gordon was wanted to watch a solar eclipse in Africa, but the locale sorcerer Mophir tended like his intrusion and cut him with a mystic black diam...
1 day ago
Axes and Orcs

Beneath the Spire: Once more under the spire they go - Sister Belica, her ward Cedric the goblin, and Ruth the Really Good Dog engaged some minor sleuthing, investigating who has been "correcting" the various b...
1 day ago
19th Level

#RPGaDay 2017 Instrument of Surrender - I thought I'd be able to catch up on this year's RPGaDay upon my return from Manhattan but I've come down with a cold that I'm fairly certain is Captain ...
1 day ago
www.elisemartinson.com

Little Aussie Friends tableware released - Ashdene have just released the Little Aussie Friends series of tableware featuring my illustrations of baby Australian animals. The products in this coll...
1 day ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

Dunsany on taking down statues - So, the current fervor rising out of the events in Charlottesville remind me of a passage in one of Lord Dunsany's plays, IF (1922) -- a sort of MAN WHO WO...
2 days ago
About Bruce Heard & new stories

Climate in Caldwen - As I begin work on Calidar's next Gazetteer, this one for CAL2 (The Magiocracy of Caldwen), I needed to double check the area's climate zones, since these ...
2 days ago
Dungeon Fantastic

DFRPG and DF Felltower - So how will the DFRPG affect GURPS Felltower? *Adventurers* *Templates* are easy. I'll let players use either/or. Pick either a DF1 bard or a DFRPG bard...
2 days ago
Greyhawkery

GenCon Stuff I Missed - Heya Greyhawkers! I didn't go to GenCon and after seeing news on *ENWorld*, I'm really regretting seeing the *GenCon50 Museum*. I had no idea it was going...
2 days ago
Trollsmyth

Making History - My very first issue of DRAGON magazine was #74, an out-of-nowhere gift from my brother while we were on summer vacation. That issue is still magical to me...
2 days ago
paizo.com Recent Content in Paizo Blog

Starfinder Cheat Sheet! - Starfinder Cheat Sheet! Friday, August 18, 2017 Starfinder just launched! We know that a lot of you are excited to start playing. We also know that th...
4 days ago
Writing Off the Edge

Celebrate the Small Things-August 18, 2017 - It's Friday! Let's Celebrate the Small Things with Lexa Cain! Tonja Drecker and I are her co-hosts. Zoe has more teeth coming in! Only a couple of weeks...
4 days ago
Beyond the Black Gate

B/X: Ability score adjustments - This is kind of an interesting idiosyncrasy of B/X. Its also one of those odd rules that seemed to make it's way informally into a lot of the 1E campaig...
4 days ago
Unusual Historicals

Excerpt Thursday: WHITER PASTURES by Xina Marie Uhl - This week, we're pleased to welcome author with her latest release, *WHITER PASTURES* (Icebound series). Join us again on Sunday for an author interview, w...
5 days ago
Tyrean's Writing Spot

Best. Night. Ever. Blog Tour - (BTW - this cover is huge because I love it! Just saying) *Best. Night. Ever* *By Rachele Alpine, Ronni Arno, Alison Cherry, Stephanie Faris, Jen Malone,...
5 days ago
3d6, Traps and Thieves

Evolution and Development - I'm kind of afraid of the sea. The impossible depths. The sheer magnitude and fury. Drowning. Sharks. But, that's not really the point of this entry. Avrem...
5 days ago
Hidden in Shadows

BEYOND THIS POINT BE DRAGONS: Mystery Solved, Mystery Deepens - It was a nice story and a pretty slick bit of deductive reasoning, the series of posts I wrote introducing the existence of *Beyond This Point be Dragons* ...
6 days ago
Roll For Initiative

Volume 7 Issue 194 – We’re Back! - RFI is back and better than ever! Join the gang as they recap the WotC panels from Origins and preview some of the Restropective Panels at Gen Con. And the...
6 days ago
Dyvers

Let's Make Something Challenging Together - The more that I've thought about creating a 30 Day Challenge list the more that I've become serious about actually doing it; and after my little rant yeste...
6 days ago
Forbeck.com

Gen Con 50! - Gen Con starts tomorrow! This is my absolute favorite time of the year. I get to see old friends, make new ones, talk books, play games, and stay out all n...
1 week ago
The Raskal RPG

Modern Age - Green Ronin continue à communiquer sur son futur Modern Age, une déclinaison pour la période contemporaine de son système Adventure Game Engine (A.G.E.) d...
1 week ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Holy flurging shnit! - Pinch me... I must be dreaming...
1 week ago
2 Hour Blog

NUTS Final Version Step by Step How to - Final - Part Two *That ends the fight. Total time was about ten minutes. As you play it more and more the games will go faster as most of the tables are easil...
1 week ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

This Is The Gen Con DIY D&D Post - At the merch store*Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Booth 2904. Hall F.* *Ennie Awards at Union Station 8pm Friday August 18: This is mandatory. You hav...
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

D&D on Barsoom art by Chris Holmes - *Dungeons & Dragons on Barsoom, artwork by Chris Holmes, 1980* This fantastic artwork by Chris Holmes shows John Carter battling a Thark, perhaps Tars Thar...
1 week ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Flat Plastic Miniatures - and GenCon - I'm off to Gencon in a couple of days after taking a couple of years off. I don't have a rigidly structured agenda; a friend registered us for a bunch of...
1 week ago
d20 Pirates

Sky Islands of the Djinn on Freya - Because of the unusually dense atmosphere on the planet Freya, it's possible for lightweight structures to float in the air. For this reason, certain ent...
1 week ago
Anniceris

Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets - C'est la première fois que je vois un film de Luc Besson et je ne peux donc même pas le comparer au *Cinquième Elément* (qui me semblait plus proche de Jo...
1 week ago
Oakheart at LizDanforth.com

Gen Con 50, MetaArcade, and Flying Buffalo - I did not expect to make it to Gen Con 50 until David Reid of MetaArcade asked me to reconsider going. Now I will be there (Booth 509) with a new paintin...
1 week ago
Castelli & Chimere - Castles & Chimeras

Armor optional rule for D&D and OSR games - This simple rule gives more value to armor since it adds Damage Reduction when the character would go to less than 0 hp. RULE Armor works normally (give ...
1 week ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Setting the stage- - I just sent this out to the Facebook Group for my new West Marches style campaign. Setting the stage- Fort Augustus is the “safe town area”, it is the onl...
1 week ago
Dark Paths and Wandered Roads

Sundered Lands 37 - The Sundered Lands of Palladium*Session 37* *December 18, 2016* Hotfoot and JackpotSaturday October 28 Fortis considers the potential need to track Rowyn K...
1 week ago
GRUBB STREET

The Model of Major Middle Manager - *The Red Sphinx *by Alexandre Dumas, Translated by Lawrence Ellsworth, Pegasus Books, 2017 *Provenance* (Or how I came to read this book): I asked for this...
1 week ago
Save Versus
All Wands

What do Ability Scores Mean in Old School D&D? - With a strength of only 6 there was no real chance for him to become a fighter. Over at Treasure Hunters HQ, Scott Anderson has written an interesting and ...
2 weeks ago
Dorkland!

What COULD Happen If Disney Stopped Publishing Marvel Comics? - There is an interesting article on (of all places) a site focused on Disney and Disney-related theme parks that asks the question Will Disney Stop Publishi...
2 weeks ago
Gothridge Manor

Trickster in the Stone: Micro-Adventure - Just so you know, I had this post finished yesterday and it went away. Like vanished. Gone. I swore a little. But only a little. And now I'm here to try ...
2 weeks ago
Forgotten Runes

Hawk and Moor Vols 1 and 2 review - I picked up Kent David Kellys Castle Oldskull bundle a couple of months ago. Included in were Kelly's histories of Dungeons and Dragons "Hawk and Moor" (I ...
3 weeks ago
AuldDragon's AD&D Blog

Laogzed the Devourer - Perhaps one of the few deities who can rival the disgusting nature of Vaprak is the patron of troglodytes, Laogzed. While he grants spells to the troglodyt...
3 weeks ago
Some Dark Romantic

Balthy Does Gotham - When my son Balthazar* was 8 years old I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Because, you know, nothing like planning ahead. He answered, "A s...
3 weeks ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

If you were to follow that river.... - Latest map I put up on Patreon today. A big thanks to those folks supporting me over there. If you are interested, this map connects to the previous map ...
3 weeks ago
RPG MUSINGS

Epic in Scale and Hard to Beat! - This is the fourth adventure module I am reading in my quest to explore desert/Egyptian themed items as I plan my next 5th edition D&D game. My next foray ...
3 weeks ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

500 Likes! - My blog just got 500 Likes on Facebook. Thank you very much! :) Thank you everyone who keep coming back to check out my articles. Thank you for the comm...
3 weeks ago
The Dungeon Dozen

Who's the Law in this Town? - d12 1. Constabulary of the Lord: clerics of state religion use detection magic, blunt instruments to maintain adherence to byzantine regulations, raid es...
4 weeks ago
The Signe of the Frothing Mug

Second Edition AD&D Is Only 3/4ths Of a Game and Even Though I Love It, We All Have to Acknowledge That - On Friday, the Swords of Stock (formerly Fenrus' Very Best) were in the Tomb of Queen Serenavalla, last of the Golden Age Queens of Tailmisia, seeking her ...
4 weeks ago
OSR News and Reviews

Taking a short break - I believe I mentioned my father had been in and out of the hospital for the last month or so. Well, he passed away this last week somewhat unexpectedly (he...
4 weeks ago
Cinema Steve

The InspiroBot Zodiac... help me collect 12 great ones! - In case you haven't heard, InspiroBot is the greatest toy to ever appear on the web. It lets you generate images that resemble those inspirational posters ...
4 weeks ago
Thorn's Chronicle

Nuwmont 13, 998 AC: Kor Karrest, The Ringway - It was nearly, but not quite a run, for us. The twins hurried, and I noticed occasional glimmers from beneath the hood or drape of their borrowed cloaks: ...
4 weeks ago
BRW Games

Christmas in July Sale! - OneBookShelf is running its annual "Christmas in July" sale, and naturally BRW Games is participating. That means you can get everything in the BRW catalo...
4 weeks ago
Armchair Gamer

Star Trek Adventures -- The New Star Trek RPG - On the Radar: Star Trek Adventures Star Trek Adventures is the latest Star Trek RPG to come out, and it's full of promise. I've written some things on Star...
4 weeks ago
Unicorn Bell

What I Learned in School - *Today, M. J. Lovgren is back to give us another post. (If you recall, she wrote about accidental short stories back in March.) Take it away, M. J...* The...
4 weeks ago
Módulos RPG

O tapa na cara de James Ward - DragonStrike - Estava escutando um antigo podcast do Save or Die (meu novo vício), e em uma entrevista, perguntam a James Ward, criador de uma porrada de coisa na TSR, so...
5 weeks ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

Agents of D.O.F.I.E. - Now and then, I make notes for some game-thing-or-other, then forget about it. Then I'll find it again, and laugh at my own jokes, then forget about it aga...
5 weeks ago
Really Bad Eggs

"I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain." - This is fun: a martial arts blogger analyzes Wesley and Inigo's duel with respect to the sword-masters they reference during the iconic scene in *The Princ...
5 weeks ago
Aeons & Augauries

Where have I been? - Hello gentle reader I noticed I've gone some time now in failing to update this blog I have regretfully been busy getting involved with local and state pol...
5 weeks ago
In Places Deep

Nightwick News Catch Up - My Nightwick players have been so busy with things in the dungeon that I have neglected the news for several months (since January!). Here is a short summ...
5 weeks ago
Underworld Kingdom

Free items - Items listed below can be obtained by PCs for free at various locations (marketplaces etc.). Treat them as a garbage (items, not the PCs!). 1. Slightl...
1 month ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

The Wasteland of Gath: Part 3 - I was lucky enough to get in another session in Christian's Wasteland of Gath Campaign. I'm using the Labyrinth Lord rules for my foray and having a blast ...
1 month ago
Stormwolf.com

City of Terrors: A Solitaire Adventure - As I remember it… Way back in late December 1976, I started playing Tunnels & Trolls from Flying Buffalo, Inc.. I’d previously tried to play D&D, but I was...
1 month ago
Forgotten DM

Plane Shift: Amonkhet | MAGIC: THE GATHERING -
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Fantasy Maps by Anna B Meyer

Almost there…. - After a year of work its now time for me to show a little of what have kept me busy, Midgard, the central part this time. My first encounter with this camp...
1 month ago
Vintage Wargaming

Eugene's IV Corps in Minifigs S Range figures - As no stranger to grand statement projects myself, I was delighted to receive Alan M's photographs of his Eugene's IV Corps using S Range miniatures...
2 months ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
2 months ago
Hill Cantons

Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas - Teetering on the edge of a new, start-now, well-paying political job (i.e. demanding AF) I get one last reprieve of gainful unemployment this weekend: Nor...
2 months ago
Little Odo's Grand Days Out

Anderson : The Deep End - *Rebellion's Dredd movie comics* In 2012 the second Dredd movie was released. This was released despite the box office failure by the Stallone version in 1...
2 months ago
Luxor Times

Spanish archaeologists discovered 4000 years old red granite lintel and more constructions - The Spanish Archaeological Mission of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, has discovered a large block of red granite during the excavations wor...
2 months ago
Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

Weird Map: Moo Mesa - A map of Moo Mesa from the 90's animated series *The Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa. * All pun-based names aside, this makes a fun map for a small west...
3 months ago
geoffgander | Just another WordPress.com site

Updates, I have a few… - It’s been a while since I posted – part of that is because of the ups and downs of regular life, but the other reason is because I’ve been away creating! F...
3 months ago
Kaijuville

60 years of Hammer Horror - I missed an important anniversary yesterday -- it was on that date, May 2nd, 60 years ago, that *The Curse of Frankenstein* was released by Hammer Film ...
3 months ago
Atomic Dragon Battleship

Relay For Life - I devote a lot of this blog toward talking about fun things like games, science fiction, beer, and baseball. Today I’m changing it up a little bit to take ...
3 months ago
The Swordfish Islands

Livestream Later Today (4/29) - Three days remain in the Swordfish Islands Kickstarter. For International Tabletop Day (4/29) we'll be livestreaming a game on Hot Springs Island from ...
3 months ago
Hack & Slash

On Erecting a New Campaign - Do you smell that? It's the smell of a new campaign. New players, new dynamics, new adventures! Here's how this goes: Suggest a couple of games to play...
3 months ago
The Secret DM

2017 One Page Dungeon Entry - So with many thanks to +K Yani and +Luka Rejec, I present to you a mini adventure I wrote and posted to Google+ a few weeks ago, which Luka was kind enough...
3 months ago
No School Like The Old School

Photos: "Legion of the Petal Throne" Game At Gary Con - I had intended to get this out a lot sooner, but Real Life™ and ADD keeps getting in the way. Last month at Gary Con, Victor Raymond refereed a game of "Le...
4 months ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Dave Arneson's True Genius Published - *Hot off the press and already steamrolling ahead!* *What is Dave Arneson’s True Genius??* *Well... It kinda starts below...* ...*and then by leaps a...
4 months ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Realmscrawl] 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* ...
4 months ago
Rather Gamey

Harley Quinn -
4 months ago
A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

Ebooks Sales Slowing? Yes and No - *Joe sez:* This blog originally appeared in 2010. It's extremely prescient about the future of ebooks, but that isn't the reason I'm reposting it. I'm repo...
4 months ago
Stocking The Dungeon

- Issue: 10 (1983) Title: Under Construction - The Beloved Rose Garden of Nedragesor Author: Mary Kirchoff Setting: Dungeon Location Levels: Expert or Higher...
5 months ago
Howling Tower

Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press. We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat room-shaped. That’s a h...
5 months ago
The Grand Tapestry

Chaos Corrupted Dragons Across Three Games - Sunday 1: 'Old Characters': After having blown themselves up out of mortal existence while fighting the chaos corrupted dragons, the PCs have ascended to I...
6 months ago
Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old

Time for a New Edition! - I guess I should explain what I mean by that title. Today, I will be rebooting *Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old*. I feel like I have hit a road-block creative...
6 months ago
Battleaxes & Beasties

- I'm very pleased to announce that I've received the outline and readied the cover for the first Battleaxes & Beasties adventure that is not written by me. ...
6 months ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

What's In The Drawer or On The Desktop? - It has been some time since my last post but I was just overloaded with work commitments and other things. Things seem to have slowed down and I took an ex...
7 months ago
ROFL Initiative

How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
7 months ago
Dungeon's Master

Title here - content
7 months ago
Dragon Grumbles

The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C - My gut started bothering me a week or so before the last GenCon. I had a previously set appointment for Aug. 21st and told my Family Dr., who recommended a...
9 months ago
Gruntz 15mm SCI-FI

GZG Moongrunts 15mm SCI-FI - A chat with Jon of GZG in regard to some new Moongrunts releases presented at the SELWG wargames show 2016.
10 months ago
The Rusty Battle Axe

Maps: The Known Dungeon of Montporte After 60 Sessions - Elementalist Monastery Level 1 Elementalist Monastery Sub-Level 1 Elementalist Monastery Level 2 Elementalist Monastery Level 3 Elementalist Monastery Le...
10 months ago
Troll and Flame

Barrowmaze For 5th Edition - Barrowmaze Complete for D&D 5th Edition Kickstarter I've bought the original Barrowmaze, Barrowmaze II, Barrowmaze Complete and loved every single one. Th...
10 months ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - Going Dark - My blogs and Facebook will be (mostly) dark for the next couple of weeks. This includes creativemountaingames.com, grymvald.com, and mfwars.com, all of wh...
11 months ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

Thanks, Cedric Plante - I hear Cedric Plante is taking a break. That's OK; I hope he feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed his work, and I feel bad for not taking the oppo...
1 year ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News - July 12, 2016 - A Tekumel/Black Hack Edition - Brett Slocum has released something I needed. Ok, something I didn't know I wanted, at the very least.[image: The Petal Hack] *The Petal Hack *by Brett Slo...
1 year ago
The Evil GM

This Blog has moved, http://theevildm.com - This Blog has moved, http://theevildm.com
1 year ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Fat And Manky Orcus - Redux - Six years ago, I posted an image of a fat and manky Orcus illustrated by Todd Lockwood, of Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 fame. The image above was taken from...
1 year ago
Tracy Hickman

Life Reset Button & the Future - "Have you turned it off and on again?" -- Roy, 'The IT Crowd' I did not know that life had a reset button but now I can tell you that God is the one who ...
1 year ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Green Devil Face 3D Printed - This feature is LEGENDARY in the infamous S1 Tomb of Horrors by Gary Gygax. Now you can print (a version of) it for your own game. Derived from OpenForge...
1 year ago
Precious Monsters

Paranormal Romance Boxed Set - For The Love of the Vampire - I'm pleased to announce that I'm in a new boxed set. It's all about romance and vampires in the *For the Love of the Vampire* collection by 8 paranormal...
1 year ago
Tabletop On the Desktop

Interview - Shane Ward has a posted a lovely interview with me. Check it out when you can.
1 year ago
Elf Lair Games

Updates - Low-res concept for SHAMA issue 1 cover Just keeping everyone in the loop. Working on getting a video together for the Kickstarter while awaiting the paper...
1 year ago
The Cartography of Thorfinn Tait

This Blog Has Moved - Late last year I opened a new web site, with a new blog. Consequently, I will be archiving the material in this blog, and I won't be posting any new mater...
1 year ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
1 year ago
aldeboran

MOVED - I've moved everything to www.stefanpoag.com. Thank you, blogger.com, for the years of hosting; please visit my new site.
1 year ago
formergamer

What I have learned about Savage Worlds - This one was long overdue. When I decided to give a chance to recent game systems that I knew squat about, Fate and Savage Worlds were the obvious choices....
2 years ago
Notes From the Lizard Lair

4th of July Book Sale - Get World Building books and other good reads for 10% off through July 4th at my online bookstore!
2 years ago
CRUT ROOM

- "the Guardian" Artworks for caravan artbook 2014 [image: photo guardian series quotthe Shipperblog.jpg] [image: photo The Keeperblog.jpg] [image: photo guard...
2 years ago
The Blog of Fantasy Author & Editor Paul Genesse

Short Story Writing Presenation June 2015 - UTAH SPECULATIVE FICTION WRITERS MEETING I'll be presenting on writing short stories. Meeting Date: Thursday, June 4th 6:30-9:00 pm Meeting location: Riv...
2 years ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

I'm a Sucker for Battlemats, so I had to Share this Kickstarter - Figured I'd dust off the ol' blog to share this... I'm a sucker for a good battlemat... (just take a gander at these posts: link). I recently relocated an...
2 years ago
Inspired Mythos

Castle Keepers Guide - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Overview - A new printing of the Castle Keepers Guide for Castles & Crusades is soon to be released by Troll Lord Games.Once upon a time this book seemed like vapour...
2 years ago
Treasured Surviving Relics

Bruce Heard's Calidar in Stranger Skies - The history of the Dungeons & Dragons game as those of us who indulged our curiousity into the corporate shennanigans of TSR through its lifetime will kno...
2 years ago
Burning Monster: A Sketch-Blog

Goodbye 2014 - Goodbye 2014. A great many things have started to change in 2014 and will result in a very different world and life for me in 2015. Come this spring, I’...
2 years ago
Cyclopeatron

Menoth Avatar Conversion with Scourge of Heresy Sword - I've been working on improving the Avatar of Menoth to make it look a little more threatening, as it should. I want to get this thing on the table, though,...
3 years ago
John's Odd World

What's Wrong! I'm Your Son! - Burial Ground is perhaps one of my all time favorite zombie movies to come from over seas. After George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, something happened in z...
3 years ago
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