fantasy
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OSR Elf-Games and the D&D Fantasy – April 2026 OSR Blog Carnival
For those of you unfamiliar, the RPG Blog Carnival is hosted by different blogs every month covering all sorts of topics. It’s put together by the wonderful Scot Newbury at Of Dice and Dragons who brings it all together. It’s great, and I recommend you go back in the annals of the carnival’s history looking…
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Bad Guy Bingo II
Hey you! Yeah, you! You play D&D right? Okay, maybe not D&D, but some other elf-game that’s you call D&D when you’re explaining it to others right? And I don’t just mean “played D&D” I mean have you played D&D? Here’s a test. If you got a BINGO on the board below, I’ll believe that you’ve played enough D&D…
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2025 in Review
2025 was a massive year for me, my family, my career as a soldier, and my career as a game developer. This timeline is all the major events I went through this year, including some things that were not connected to Ward Against Evil. I wanted to make this timeline to look back on everything…
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Behind the Screen – First Dungeon (SR02)
Where last we left our heroes, our heroes had just committed double homicide, got caught, escaped, and are hiding out at a local barmaid’s apartment. They have low enough HP that by resting the night all of them return to max HP.
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March 2025 Round Up
This month we launched the Crowns 2e Kickstarter. It failed. That’s okay! In the ashes, Crowns 2e will rise again! There’s going to be a full release on itch.io on March 1st with a 50% sale for anyone who owns Crowns 1e. Everyone else gets 10% off.
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What OSR GMs Can Learn From Open World Video Games
I’m specifically talking about three open world games and a different idea from each that can be taken and applied to an OSR open world/West Marches-style campain. They are: Vantage Outposts, in Mad Max (2015), Most Wanted, in Batman Arkham Knight (2015), Collect-a-thons, in Far Cry 5 (2018)
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February 2025 Round Up
This month we launched the Crowns 2e Kickstarter. It failed. That’s okay! In the ashes, Crowns 2e will rise again! There’s going to be a full release on itch.io on March 1st with a 50% sale for anyone who owns Crowns 1e. Everyone else gets 10% off.
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Why Traps Belong on Random Encounter Tables
“Trap” has two meanings in OSR culture: #1 A Big Dangerous Puzzle, #2 A Sudden Punch in the Face Both the complicated puzzle traps and random-gotcha traps are fun (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise), but they can’t be used in the same way without causing frustration.
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