or, Happy Birthday Mister Moldvay! I’d like to see the interwebs celebrate the life of Tom Moldvay for his birthday upcoming on Monday, 5 November 2018. Let’s raise up a host of heroic Giants in the Earth! Tom Moldvay’s (and Lawrence Schick’s) Giants in the Earth is one of my favourite article series… Read more »
More Schools of Magic for Lamentations
The second part. You can find the first part here. Magic Vaj, Eldritch Cock I decided to take the original idea (at the end of the Author’s Notes in Vaginas Are Magic) at its word, mostly. This is a coed school that only accepts female/male fraternal twins. The sisters and brothers are taught by Witches and… Read more »
Schools of Magic for Lamentations
A while ago I had the idea that there are now enough book-, blog-, pdf- and zine-published lists of spells for The Game that it’s easy to think of each as its own School of Magic separate and distinct. And now that Lamentations has published both Vaginas Are Magic and Eldritch Cock — with their… Read more »
When is a Paladin a Paladin?
I was recently at the National Gallery in London and saw these two paintings of Saint George and the Dragon. Unfortunately I didn’t record when or by whom they were done. But check it out, they can be arranged in sequence. ACT I, The Charge: ACT II, Lance In, Sword Out: In addition to depicting… Read more »
Honesty is the best policy
I recently realized something about the shenanigans of published RPG articles, modules and supplements that throws off my various 3d6-in-order, etc. converters for Mutants and Death Ray Guns and Song of Blades and Heroes. The characters in those RPG books were statted to be the class the writers wanted them to be for the story… Read more »
Sinister Pane
I wrote this monster for the Lamentations ref book. But, sad face, it was rejected. So here, it’s yours: Sinister Pane Armor 12, Move 0′, 9 Hit Dice, 27hp, see text for attack information, Morale 12. Brought into being by centuries of religious and political bigotry, scheming and murder, this window from Prague causes all… Read more »
Huckabear and Hodge
I present to you Huckabear the Paladin and Hodge, his faithful manservant. They’re statted for Lamentations below and for Song of Blades further down. Huckabear (as created and described on Blog of Holding) is a powerhouse and paragon. I made him a Paladin in my campaign by adapting the article at Knockspell 1, pg 18… Read more »
Bricca, Brakka, Fiah-Cracka …
SISS-BOOM-BAH! But I digress. Here are my beloved Tiefling triplets: All are Reaper Bones figs. You can find them here, here and here. The Sibs in Lamentations of the Flame Princess All have 60’ darkvision, can create Darkness 15’ Radius* once per day, suffer half damage from cold, and are +2 on saves versus fire,… Read more »