UP THE DUNGEON PUNKS: Folk Metal

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

First One is the Hardest

Naakhum - Anunnaki

scenes from Baraka

Mead Hall of Champions

From the Sorcerer's Skull

Greyhawk Rising - Last year, I was working on a blog series doing my own take on the world of Greyhawk. As it goes with these things, my interest petered out after a bi...
10 hours ago
The Other Side blog

#RPGaDAY2026: Day 14 Regard - Vera is a character I keep seeing differently with *regard* to the world she is in. Take Jackson, IL for instance. There you have Vera Rook as a rival; ...
16 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

Beautiful Sample Contents from The Great North - Once summer holidays are out of the way, I will be launching the Kickstarter for The Great North, described long ago as 'Yoon-Suin but in Northumberland'...
23 hours ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Braelin Map - I realized I hadn't posted this yet. This is the map I made of Braelin, the starting town of the current Krevborna campaign.
1 day ago
Dyson's Dodecahedron

The Mines of Ironhollow Delve - The bloomeries and ironworks in the City of Copper Bowls have been supplied by a hundred mines in the Corft … Continue reading →
2 days ago
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

You Got To Appreciate What An Explosive Element This Bonnie Situation Is - *On Quentin Tarantino, GMing And The Art of Anti-Mystery* 0. This will all have to do with games, trust me. 1. *Pulp Fiction* was in a small class of fi...
4 days ago
The Realm of Zhu

Zone Trooper: The Solo Future War Roleplaying Board Game - YOU are a veteran of a thousand psychic wars, YOU are a warrior of the cosmic wastelands, YOU are a lone clone one man war machine, YOU are... THE ZONE TR...
6 days ago
GROGNARDIA

Reconsiderations: Death and Resurrection - Needless to say, I've been very remiss in writing new posts for this blog, even within the context of the less rigorous schedule I proposed two months ag...
3 weeks ago
Underworld Kingdom

The end... of something - All my products on DTRPG and Lulu will be available until the end of August. Then, I'll nuke all my content on both stores. It may return one day but I d...
5 weeks ago
The Tao of D&D

The March 1636 Lantern is Published - Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have noticed that I mistakenly published it as free access for 56 minutes. I was just so ...
5 months ago
CRAWL!fanzine

Introducing Crawl! Mega-Edition, No.1 - Early backers can save 20%! So sign up! *https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/29a422e8-bf87-42f6-91b8-481931622751/landing* First let me re-introd...
5 months ago
Mesmerized by sirens

Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...
6 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...
8 months ago
CELEBRATED SUMMER

BLACK FRIDAY RSD 2025! - Friends! We will again be participating in BFRSD this Friday Nov 28th at 10 am with many of the exclusive titles! One per person per title and no holds!...
8 months ago
Back to the Dungeon!

1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...
8 months ago
LotFP: RPG

New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
10 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
11 months ago
Ostensible Cat

Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
11 months ago
Dungeon Synth

Aura - Rain (2013) - You proceed into the interior of the tower, looking upward to see that it stretches straight up into the clouds, which have somehow made their way into t...
1 year ago
Dispatches From Kickassistan

The Player Agenda in Hide & Seek - I think one of the hardest things to impart to a reader of any ttrpg is what playing the game should feel like, but yet nothing more useful you can say....
1 year ago
Between Are the Doors

Inspectres in Grifton - On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly pulled out and ...
1 year ago
Cyclopeatron

When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, w...
2 years ago
MONSTER BRAINS

Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) - [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970]Shonen Magazine Cover, 1970 [image: Osamu Tezuka - Shonen Magazine Cover Illustration 1970]Shonen Maga...
3 years ago
Chronicles of Ganth

Cloak of Feathers: Witches of Ganth - Witches are not something you choose to be in Ganth, it's a birth right, something man has dealt with since the foundations of Wynter. Not born of hate ...
4 years ago
Necropraxis

The Worm Ouroboros - The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E. R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological tradi...
4 years ago
Last Gasp

As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks - Remember STEAL THE EYES OF YASHOGGHUH? Still working on it. The post As Useful As A Pile Of Dicks first appeared on Last Gasp.
5 years ago
Ode to Black Dougal

Nightmoor Abbey Level 1 Saturday Night Specials - Using the Megadungeon - Random Area Name Generator, the area names from the Diablo games, and game reports from In Places Deep as inspiration below are the...
6 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
7 years ago
Black Metal and Brews

Dead Satellites- "Burst" & Live Nirvana Cover Premiere! - Brooklyn duo Dead Satellites have been offering up some of the most uniquely charged heavy music in the region since their formation last year. As two-t...
7 years ago
Lawful Indifferent

Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...
7 years ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...
7 years ago
Red & Anarchist Black Metal [and much more!]

Awenden - s/t (2018) - *AWENDEN "Awenden"* *Year:* 2019 *Genre: *Atmospheric Black Metal *Origin:* USA *Track List:* 1. Awake 2. The Wilderness 3. ... 4. A Scou...
7 years ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James's Celebration of Life - We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined us tod...
7 years ago
Beyond the Drowning Woods

10 RPGs that had an impact on me - 10 RPGs that had an impact on me with a short explanation why. I am going to do these all in one post, as I don't want to stretch this out unnecessarily. ...
7 years ago
The Dungeon Dozen

How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
7 years ago
Depraved and destricted

Felisja Piana AKA Fishball Suicide -
8 years ago
Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire

Bad Books Around the Web - Happy 2018, the year that marks the ten-year anniversary of this particular blog! I’m still alive and doing the weird lord’s work at various spots around...
8 years ago
M E T A L vs S K I N

The Prick of Transposition (Magic Item for D&Dish things) - This throwing dagger would appear mundane but for it's lack of wear and dark maroon stain. If it has tasted the blood of it's wielder and is thrown, whoeve...
8 years ago
Saurondor

Are we a step away from 3D augmented reality rpg tabletops? - Wow! That's quite a term there on the post title, LOL! If you're a player from the 80's like myself you certainly remember seeing or at least listening t...
8 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
9 years ago
The City of Iron

Dolmenwood: d30 Encounter Tables - I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago. I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic which...
9 years ago
Wolvserpent

- New Hoodies from Holy Mountain printing. Order from them here: http://bit.ly/2io8Q9k
9 years ago
Rachel Bonuses

Rumors about Froghemoths - Just thought I'd come up with some ideas for everyone's favorite giant three-eyed alien monsters. Roll a dice or whatever to find out which ones are true. ...
9 years ago
The Crown and the Ring

Setting Up RC Gasoline Cars - What is the authentic difference between Gas Powered RC Cars to Electric Powered Ones? Now this particular is a extremely interesting one! Often when you r...
10 years ago
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS

Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...
10 years ago
Codex Apocrypha

THIS IS YNGARR - Opening Crawl - In the earliest memories of the cosmos, there was Yngarr – a colossal planet that slowly orbited a green sun. Yngarr was ruled by powerful denizens cal...
10 years ago
The Aspiring Lich

Dynamic Grappling - Before I say another word, let me direct the reader to Douglas Cole and Peter V. Dell'Orto's article on grappling in *The Manor*, issue #8 ( http://www.rpgn...
10 years ago
A R T O F T Y

Slave Leia! -
11 years ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...
11 years ago
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
11 years ago
d20 Dark Ages

The Art of Wargaming - The new website, The Word of Stelios, is up. I've been posting there since I switched platforms in December. Here's what I consider the Top 5: 1. How to S...
11 years ago
Asshat Paladins

[Savage Worlds] Alternate Hindrances - I'm a big fan of Savage Worlds and am more than willing to mix it up with the rules a bit. I picked up a little indie game called The Shadow of Yesterda...
12 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
13 years ago
Geekery from the Shadows

International TableTop Day at 7th Dimension Games - [image: International Tabletop Day logo] I spent most of the day yesterday at 7th Dimension Games, in Jenkintown, PA celebrating International Tabletop Day...
13 years ago
DnDIY

PAX EAST - It is that time of year again. If you’re not familiar Pax East (http://east.paxsite.com/) is a three day video game/table top/music/comedy mardi gras that ...
13 years ago
Peace, Love, & Books

Daily life - After the relatives go home for the holidays, it is my grandmother's annual cleanup of *everything*. She routinely goes through every drawer in the house,...
13 years ago
Cosmic Hearse

LOAD Discography - The internet is a buzz with the sad news of Bob Johnston's death. Sucks it would take this horrible occasion to light a fire under my ass to get you the ...
13 years ago
Signals Fill The Void

Lost Tribe - LP - I've been doing a lot of intensely personal writing lately, mainly about abuse, spiritual growth, and existing both in subcultures, and on the planet as a ...
14 years ago