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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

Dark Sun • Re: Mike Mearls' twitter post about Dark Sun - zontoxira wrote: You can see it here. Here is what Mike said: Mike Mearls on Twitter wrote: Took a short vacation. Might have designed everything I nee...
7 minutes ago
The Other Side blog

October Horror Movie Challenge: The Vampire Lovers (1970) - For Carmilla Week I thought I go back to a the very deep well of the Vampire Lovers. It also is one of my video tapes (along with some other movies this ...
6 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Weekend Wonders - Kite Shield of the Damned Lords (SWCL/ OSR) - The Kite Shield of the Damned Lords is one of three surviving magic items associated with the Lords of The Crestfalls. Two brothers and a sister of the no...
8 hours ago
2 Hour Blog

The Clock's Ticking - 25% Off Sale Ending soon. - Use the coupon code *25off* and get 25% off of your total order. Sale ends October 31st... More info
12 hours ago
Forbeck.com

M+DEV and Menomonee Falls - I have a busy weekend coming up. On Friday, I’m going to be at M+DEV, the inaugural Madison Game Development Conference. If you’re anywhere nearby and are ...
14 hours ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

Philip Pullman is a Raven - So, over the weekend I saw an interview of sorts given by Philip Pullman in conjunction with the release of his new book, volume one of THE BOOK OF DUST (a...
16 hours ago
Gazette du wargamer

Commands and Colors – Ancients : nouveaux screenshots - GMT et HexWar ont diffusé la semaine dernière quelques nouvelles captures d'écrans de la future version informatique de Command & Colors - Ancients. Images...
16 hours ago
Age of Ravens

Gauntlet Roadshows: Gaming Thunder - *LIVE FROM CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY...* GauntletCon ran this weekend, with nary a hitch (*except a hilarious one I’ll mention below*). I ran four sessions of *Wo...
16 hours ago
The RPGPundit

High Tech Weapons, Now in Spanish! - Yes, I'm back, and now you can get my latest RPGPundit Presents #3: High Tech Weapons in Spanish! You can get it up there at DTRPG, or you can get it from ...
20 hours ago
The Kickstarter Blog

Rough Cut: Apply to Host a Work-in-Progress Screening at Kickstarter HQ - Making movies is tough, but thrilling. And there’s nothing more thrilling for filmmakers than to see the fruits of their labor in post-production and ev...
21 hours ago
Dungeon Fantastic

GURPS Print-on-Demand Update - Steve Jackson Games added some books to the GURPS Print on Demand title list. Another of the books with my materials is up, too - the *Dungeon Fantasy Com...
21 hours ago
GRUBB STREET

The Political Desk - Lighting up a Kent - You know what I really like? An election with candidates that both have strong points. For example, in Seattle itself, former US District Attorney Jenny Du...
21 hours ago
Gothridge Manor

Adventure Writing for a 12 Year-Old Kid in 1980 - I was feeling a bit nostalgic. That's what happens a lot when you get old. With the Stranger Things 2 coming out, nailing that 80s vibe and Thor embracing ...
23 hours ago
BookMarketingBuzzBlog

Housing A New Book Publicity Campaign - I was fortunate enough to sell my house of nearly 14 years in just a few days. It happened so quickly that I had to move out before I even found a new ho...
23 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Mortzengersturm: Back in Print - That manticore wizard is at it again on the Prismatic Peak. I have a few copies available of the adventure that Christopher Helton at Enworld declares "*...
1 day ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Horror: A Potential Introduction - *I wrote this for Demon City but I'm on the fence about whether to include it. I believe it all, but I think it might be a little heavy and not-to-the-poin...
1 day ago
OSR News and Reviews

800 1930s-1950s Fanzines online at the University of Iowa's digital library - Hopefully someday we will see this for RPG related 'zines. But until then, this is still pretty cool, this is how nerds argued before the internet ( BTW I'...
1 day ago
The Signe of the Frothing Mug

TRUST: Episode 1 - I promised you nightmares. Come and get your fill with episode one of TRUST, A Family Affair.
1 day ago
19th Level

Trying to Grok Champions - With the release of the new *Golden Age Champions*, at some point in my future there's a Golden Age superhero campaign (not this calendar year though - ...
1 day ago
d20 Pirates

The Ratfolk of the Grotto - Curiously, I'm posting this article a year to the day after first posting about the Grotto. (And, yes, I am shamelessly reusing maps again.) -Nate *The...
1 day ago
Jeffs Gameblog

So you want to run your own Vaults of Vyzor-type game, eh? - Over on the Google Plus, cool guy Karl Stjernberg wrote: Hey Jeff! I've been thoroughly enjoying reading each and every "Vaults of Vyzor"-post on your blog...
1 day ago
Elaine Cunningham

Yet another Halloween limerick -
2 days ago
About Bruce Heard & new stories

How Many Peasants? - I had the surprise of finding a good article that suggested averages for population densities in fantasy worlds. This isn't a new topic by any means, but o...
2 days ago
Stargazer's World

What about Starfinder? A review…. - 00In early 2010 one of my first posts on this blog was a review of Pathfinder. It is only fitting that seven years and a few months later I review Paizo’s ...
3 days ago
Rather Gamey

Inktober 2017 Day 20 -
3 days ago
Writing Off the Edge

Celebrate the Small Things-October 20, 2017 - It's Friday. Let's Celebrate the Small Things with Lexa Cain! Tonja Drecker and I are her co-hosts. My boys got their school pictures back. I may be bia...
4 days ago
Anniceris

Les couvertures de Roger Dean qui feraient de bons écrans de MJ - (Cliquer pour voir en entier) Les couvertures par Roger Dean (célèbres pour les *Yes*) des deux albums de 1973 du groupe Greenslade. Le premier notamment...
4 days ago
The Raskal RPG

Index Card RPG : "La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte à la surface" - Dans *Les Contemplations,* Victor Hugo exprime avec talent ce que je pense sur la manière de produire un jeu de rôle. C''est donc avec ravissement que j'a...
5 days ago
paizo.com Recent Content in Paizo Blog

That Cantina Feel - That Cantina Feel Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Ever since *Alien Archive* was announced, the organized play team has received a veritable flood of ques...
5 days ago
Forgotten DM

Menhir, Dolmans and Cromlech Part 1 - Menhir, Dolmans, and Cromlechs A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, lith or masseb...
5 days ago
Luxor Times

4000 years old wooden head discovered in Sakkara - A wooden head, probably of the sixth dynasty queen Ankhnespepy II, has been unearthed in the area located to the east of her Pyramid in Sakkara necropolis ...
6 days ago
Roll For Initiative

Volume 7 Issue 198 – Metagaming again! - This week RFI is back and cover the scourge of DM’s everywhere, Metagaming. We go over the types of metagaming, how to handle it as a DM and ow to avoid it...
6 days ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawk Comic Rewind: Boccob - Howdy Greyhawk gang! Today I'm looking back on a random Greyhawk comic strip from June 22nd, 2006. This one is very dated in fact because the idea stemmed ...
6 days ago
Trollsmyth

Getting the Most From Backstories: for the Players - So I recently got to play the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other game, only this time with two girls and one guy. The guy actually gave me a pretty...
1 week ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Our Last Best Hope - One thing I'd like to get back to one of these days is the dozen-or-so, half-finished drafts sitting in my blog's memory. I mean *some* of them are still p...
1 week ago
Postmortem Studios

A Video Update about ‘Stuff’. - Please watch, it has been a rough ol’ couple of months.
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Want to Play Blackmoor With An Original Player? - Now is your chance. A group who call themselves the United Geeks of Gaming are hosting an event in Minnesota: "A special event at the Source Comics and...
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Maze of Peril Chapter 1, Scene 1: "The Green Dragon Tavern Was Crowded, Dark, Noisy" - This post is part of the Tales of Peril Book Club, indexed here. Having gone through the front matter, we move onto the actual stories. As a reminder, if y...
1 week ago
The Grand Tapestry

Sunday October 15th 2017 - That adventure when the Lovecraftian underpinnings of my setting become horridly all too apparent. The most number of Cope rolls in a single session, and ...
1 week ago
rleebyers

I'll be at Necronomicon in Tampa Oct. 20-22 - I'll be at the Necronomicon SF convention in Tampa next weekend. Come join us if you can. http://www.stonehill.org/necro.htm
1 week ago
Tyrean's Writing Spot

Trying something new - Have you ever tried something new, something you never really thought you would? Many years ago, I watched a movie that involved a writer who "wrote" his ...
1 week ago
Hall of the Mountain King

NPC - Snakelegs - NPC - Snakelegs Snakelegs is one of the brood of Snakebiter Chieftain of the Snakebiter tribe. This large orc tribe numbers close to a thousand and are t...
1 week ago
Underworld Kingdom

Charon Prime - general mood - Think of it as a mix of Roadside Picnic and Dune. I think it's the best description. *Duh, once again I became silent. However, there are still some fres...
1 week ago
Appendix N

Murder in Lamut: Legends of the Riftwar Book II - Murder in Lamut Legends of the Riftwar Book II Written by Raymond E. Feist & Joel Rosenberg $3.99 Kindle Edition $6.34 Mass Market Paperback I picked up my...
1 week ago
Gruntz 15mm SCI-FI

Sigma Event from Clearhorizon Miniatures - I recently received the Kickstarter box set from Clearhorizon miniatures and did an unboxing and overview of the contents. Details on YouTube.
2 weeks ago
Módulos RPG

Jim Ward, Rob Kuntz e a "auto bola de fogo" - James Ward comentou em seu perfil no Facebook sobre uma história divertida. Jim começou a mestrar no fim dos anos 70, e tinha uma partida logo antes de Gyga...
2 weeks ago
JAMES MISHLER GAMES

[Now Available] Dragonborn for Labyrinth Lord - DRAGONBORN By James Mishler & Jodi Moran-Mishler This work contains two forms of the dragonborn race: First, a racial class for use with Labyrinth Lord...
2 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

My Kingdom for a Horse - another look at troop costs - When Arneson set up his economy for Blackmoor, he had plenty of experience to draw on from his Napoleonics campaign. He choose however to use gold as the ...
2 weeks ago
Stocking The Dungeon

The Known World Setting - Spellcasting in the Five Faceted Faith - I was thinking over some general ideas about how the different magic using classes approach their spellcraft, and how it fits into the Five Faceted Faith. ...
3 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Chuck Norris Scenario Generator - John Stater of the Land of Nod blog suggested the fun notion of -"When doing modern games, adapt scenarios from Chuck Norris movies. Just enough plot to m...
3 weeks ago
AuldDragon's AD&D Blog

Water Lion the Sharkslayer - Water Lion is an unusual and mysterious deity who wanders the planes for reasons unknown, although there are many theories about his purpose. He has only a...
3 weeks ago
Castelli & Chimere - Castles & Chimeras

Memorizzare, Caricare e Lanciare incantesimi - Sistema Magico Variante per AD&D 1a edizione (e simili) - *MEMORIZZARE* - Gli incantesimi vengono memorizzati dopo 1 notte di sonno e con 15 ...
3 weeks ago
Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

Mr. Steelfist, CPA for Light City - Here's a character for Light City, a fun superhero hack of the excellent Swords & Wizardry Light. Having fun playing around with the system a bit. *Mr. Ste...
3 weeks ago
Unicorn Bell

Black & White by Nick Wilford - *Today we welcome Nick Wilford to the blog to introduce his new book. And, of course, he's given us a "what if?" to ponder...* Say you existed in a perfect...
4 weeks ago
Forgotten Runes

*Flash* Bundle of holding LoFT 2 - Just had to give a shout out to Bundle of Holding. They are running a Lamentations of the Flame Princess(LotFP) bundle to support the Electronic Frontier F...
4 weeks ago
Fantasy Maps by Anna B Meyer

Download links fixed! - Dropbox changed how there download links worked a couple of weeks ago and that made several of the links on the Flanaess Map Download page. I have now upda...
4 weeks ago
RPG MUSINGS

5e Dungeon Master’s Screen Reincarnated – Comparative Review - I picked up the new 5e Dungeon Master’s Screen Reincarnated when I picked up Tomb of Annihilation earlier this week. I almost didn’t buy it because I hadn’...
4 weeks ago
www.elisemartinson.com

SAVE African Rhino Foundation Shirts - Happy World Rhino day! The 22nd of September marks the international awareness day for the curious horned beast known as the rhinoceros. Rhinos have been...
4 weeks ago
Really Bad Eggs

Cavaliers of Mars on Kickstarter - Looks purty.
4 weeks ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Illyria Game Two - Against the Cult of the Reptile God! - Illyria Game Two picked up back in the waterside city of Fraus, on the northwest of Lake Laconic. The players met Nicodemus, the thieves' guild master, a...
5 weeks ago
Vintage Wargaming

Grove and Benoy Highlanders - Something of a surprise - I recently spotted four lots of unidentified Highlanders on ebay. as sole bidder on all four lots I was glad when they arri...
5 weeks ago
Save Versus
All Wands

"Flight 93" - Filk Singer Leslie Fish's Moving Tribute to the Heroes of 9/11 - Leslie Fish This post is not really about Islam. It's certainly not about any sort of "tragedy." It's about heroism. Another word for that is love. Love ...
1 month ago
3d6, Traps and Thieves

The Avremier Metagame - The evolution of Avremier as a campaign setting came about partially due to attempts at making many of the rules-based game specifics a rational part of th...
1 month ago
In Places Deep

Unfocused Thoughts on the 5th Millennium - A Traveller thing I've been working on to fight the Blues. - It's a homebrew Traveller setting that keeps as many of the assumed setting elements ...
1 month ago
Axes and Orcs

Beneath the Spire: Part Who Is Even Counting - Sister Belica, her ward Cedric, and Claus von Germanwords (not really his name), spent a few days in Ft. Inevitable shopping. A courier in the employ of ...
1 month ago
Unusual Historicals

Author Interview: Xina Marie Uhl on WHITER PASTURES - This week, we're pleased to welcome author Xina Marie Uhl with her latest release, *WHITER PASTURES* (Icebound series). Here's the blurb about the novelett...
1 month ago
Thorn's Chronicle

Thornspace: Colonial Progeny, part 1 - The 15th issue of Threshold: The Mystara Magazine’s “Flight of the Nachtklaue” article introduced the soulbound-construct known as Darzayitr, the Sarim...
1 month ago
Dark Paths and Wandered Roads

Sundered Lands 38 - The Sundered Lands of Palladium*Session 38* *December 19, 2016 - January 15, 2017* The Spoils of WarSaturday October 28Bean Counting Everyone stands there,...
1 month ago
Dyvers

NEW D&D SURVEY UP AND IT'S ALL ABOUT SETTINGS! GO GREYHAWK GO! - The new D&D survey has gone live and it's mostly about new settings for the game to explore. GET YOUR GREYHAWK VOTES IN NOW KIDS! VOTE
1 month ago
Dragon Grumbles

- *Life below armpit level* I just spent 4 days using a mobility cart at GenCon 50. I never realized that my fellow gamers were so: (take your pick) obliviou...
2 months ago
Atomic Dragon Battleship

GenCon 50, Monuments - Hi, there! Thanks for stopping by. I haven’t posted in quite a while, so I thought I’d share a few quick updates about what I was up to. I just returned fr...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Holy flurging shnit! - Pinch me... I must be dreaming...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
3 months 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 ...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
8 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. ...
8 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...
9 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 ...
9 months ago
Dungeon's Master

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9 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
2 years 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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