Sitemap - 2024 - The Black Notebook
The Owlbear: A Beast of Unmatched Ferocity
End of the Year Wrap up show, Emptying the email bag!
The Wight: Undead Menace or Tragic Echo of the Past?
Story Time, Who introduced you to the hobby?
AD&D - Cleric Command Spell Thoughts..
AD&D - Changing up how Clerics get spells?
So your group only wants to play D&D. How can we fix that?
AD&D - Wishes, Alter Reality Spells and Attributes..
AD&D - Advice on Making Taverns a little more interesting..
AD&D - Oriental Adventures Magical Items
AD&D - Let's talk the Honor Mechanic from OA!
AD&D - Cursed Items and Identifying them..
AD&D - Thoughts on the Rod of Smiting
AD&D - Designing For Unique Wilderness Encounters
AD&D - Magic Item - The LockStone
AD&D - Homebrew Vampire Hunter Blade
AD&D - Wand of Enemy Detection
(Open Question) The Healer Struggle: Why Does No One Want the Job?
AD&D - The Thorn Curse in your campaign..
AD&D - Gary Gygax did not play as written & Blindheim Creature
AD&D - 5th Level Cleric Spell, "Rainbow"
DC Heroes Role-Playing Game 40th Anniversary Kickstarter!
Tiny G.I. Joe - A Tiny d6 Game.
AD&D - Adding to the Thief Class
AD&D - Email Question: Do Tieflings belong in D&D Campaigns?
AD&D - Sunray Spell and its uses..
MasterBook - West End Games, 1994 - Combat Breakdown
AD&D - Demonic Possession Rules..
AD&D - Egg Laying, Chest Bursting Creature, the Xill!
AD&D - Tricks in your campaign!
Top 5 Dream Celebrity DMs, What's yours?
AD&D - Cantrips & Negative Levels..
AD&D - Appendix V: Agreements for Division of Treasure!
The Fire’s Flickering: 3 from Hell and the Missing Madness of the Firefly Clan
Character Creation: The Essential Step in Every RPG Campaign — Here’s Why
Divine Retribution: The Deadly Duel with an Aleax in AD&D
AD&D - Let's talk about Dark Elves aka Drow
Hooks of Evil #5 - "Lost on Xenos Prime"
Hostile RPG by Zozer Games - Overview and Thoughts...
AD&D - Elfin Chain Mail, did you want this item?
AD&D - Let's Discuss Visions and Movement for a moment..
AD&D - Holy Water Creation Process
AD&D - Reviving Life and Levels, The Restoration Spell!
AD&D Skills, Modifiers, and Probability in Play..
Are Simple RPGs Just a Fad, or Is Crunch Gone for Good? (with Video)
AD&D - The Deck of Many things... Campaign breaker?
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons A How to get started Guide! (with Video)
The Dragon Slayer: AD&D Weapons of Legend?
Red Sonja – The Black Tower: My Thoughts and Review
Exploring Space Pulp: A New Twist for Mazes & Perils
AD&D - Let's Discuss the term "Monster" for a moment.
AD&D - The Power of the Ring of Regeneration!
Why The Last House on the Left (1972) is a Classic..
AD&D Exploring Magic-User Spellbook Rules..
AD&D Magical Item: Necklace of Strangulation and Its Uses...
Cinema 8 - Solo Play - Sully Needs the documents...
AD&D - Cleric, your deity can say, "no"
Cinema 8 - A Minimalist d8 System.
AD&D Fumbling with Magic, The Power of the Fumble Spell!
AD&D - The Holy Avenger, A Paladin's Ultimate Weapon!
Introducing Perilous Pathways Magazine!
AD&D - The Algoid, a Swamp Guardian Creature!
AD&D - Gem of Seeing vs True Seeing Spell.
AD&D Spotlight: Crafting the Perfect Death Knight for Your Campaign
AD&D Lamia Unleashed: Deadly Desert Encounters
Hooks of Evil 4a: The Forgotten Kingdom: Expanded
AD&D - Intelligent Items With Guest DM Will
AD&D Greyhawk Adventures by James M. Ward: A Retro D&D Treasure?
AD&D Deadly Precision: Unleashing Arrows of Slaying in RPG Campaigns!
Beware the Jackalwere: AD&D’s Shape-Shifting Nightmare Unleashed
Traveller Is the Sci-Fi RPG You Didn’t about..
AD&D - Using the Spectre in your game!
AD&D - The Equalizer of Gran March
AD&D Comeliness: The Power of Attraction
AD&D Podcast - Shoes of Fharlanghn!
How Cinematic Unisystem Magic Works!
Solo Sorcery: Nightfall Chronicles Case #001 - 1
AD&D - How lucky is the LuckStone?
Mini Six: Nightfall Chronicles Case #000
What is Solo Quests and What to Expect!
The Future of Classic Traveller
AD&D: Vorpal & Sharpness Swords
The MasterBook System by West End Games
AD&D - Speak Magic or Die Trying: Command Words for Magical Items!
Solo RPGs, 7 Tips on why you should start along with an example!
AD&D Alignment Shifts: Do Harsh Penalties Make the Cut?
AD&D - Let's go over Leomund’s Tiny Hut spell
Solo Sorcery #1: My Chaotic Oracle Chart
Rolling into Relaxation: Rediscovering Rolemaster This Labor Day!
Discussion: How Storytelling Triumphs Over Rules As Written!
EDU Podcast: AD&D - Let's talk Barbarians, too powerful or too over-hyped?
EDU Podcast: AD&D Permanency Spell, it has lots of possibilities!
Unisystem Shadowrun - Darkness Rising - Episode 5
EDU Podcast: AD&D Boots of Speed, run like a horse!
Starfinder - Episode 3 - Recovering the artifact
Mini Six Write up: Pablo from Ash vs Evil Dead
EDU Podcast: AD&D Bag of Beans, a very Chaotic and Random Magic Item!
Mini Six: Exploring Static Combat Numbers
EDU Podcast: AD&D Unearthed Arcana "Item" Spell: A Hidden Gem!
AD&D Cave Fisher: The Creepy Creature That Uses LURES?
EDU Podcast: AD&D Creature Feature Theater: The Kech are Clever and Deadly!
AD&D Bracers of Brachiation: Game-Changer or Gag Item?
Attack of the Helping Hand Video, Evil Dead Roots?
EDU Podcast: AD&D Potion of Treasure Finding, How can you use it?
Unisystem Shadowrun - Darkness Rising - Episode 4
EDU Podcast: AD&D Sweet Water Potion, is it useful?
Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft: Master of Cosmic Horror
EDU Podcast: Illusionists for AD&D are great, I tell ya!
Mini Six Write Up: The Kandarian Dagger
Epic Micro RPGs: My Journey to Create One!
EDU Podcast: Braintoss: Notes You take as a GM
Mini Six Write up: Ashley J. Williams
EDU Podcast: HARP - High Adventure Role Playing, is it fun?
Unisystem Shadowrun - Darkness Rising - Episode 3
Mini Six Write up: Rupert Giles
EDU Podcast: Why You Should Embrace Failure in RPGs!
Starfinder - Episode 2 - There is a creature here!
Mini Six Write up: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
EDU Podcast: Why Comic Books Are PERFECT for Roleplaying Game Inspiration
EDU Podcast: Theater of the Mind: How Your Imagination Can Fool You
Cinematic Unisystem: The RPG That Does Combat Right
EDU Podcast: What is your 'go-to' game?
EDU Podcast: Ghosts, Your Campaign's Uninvited Guests?
Noir Mini Six Character - Private Eye Jack "Sully" Sullivan
Unisystem Shadowrun - Darkness Rising - Episode 2
Mini Six Green Lantern Ring Part 3
EDU Podcast: Campaign Magic: Creating One-of-a-Kind Custom Designs!
Starfinder - Episode 1 - Meet the crew
EDU Podcast: Learn the System and Be An Adult!
Mini Six Green Lantern Ring Part 2
Mini Six Green Lantern Ring Part 1
EDU Podcast: Pass that Note DM!
Mini Six Write up - Abraham Van Helsing
EDU Podcast: DC Heroes Batman Campaign, The Puppetmaster!
Random Rolls Chat last night was a blast, but a Smurf the RPG? Really?
EDU Podcast: Book of Random Dungeons tables, Can it help inspire a game?
Unisystem Shadowrun - Darkness Rising - Episode 1
EDU Podcast: Dragonlance comic books, fun read, interesting campaign?
EDU Podcast: AI Chat Bots, Good or Bad?
EDU Podcast: Email Bag! Answering your questions!
I really do love Mini Six, you should too!
Space: 1999 The Roleplaying Game? Interesting!
EDU Podcast: Let's talk about the Gumshoe System for a moment
EDU Podcast: Generic Gaming Systems? What about FUDGE?
EDU Podcast: Encouraging Good In Game Behavior by a GM
EDU Podcast: Vampire Hunter Games and Gumshoe system?
EDU Podcast: Alignment changes by a DM, How do you handle it?
Cinematic Unisystem - Army of Darkness - Combat Maneuvers & Drama Points
EDU Podcast: The Terminator Roleplaying Game by Nightfall Games
Random Rolls Chat Live: How to Fix the Terminator Movie Franchise
EDU Podcast: AD&D Dungeoneer's Survival Guide - Falling Damage!
EDU Podcast: Starship Troopers the RPG & Some Gaming Advice
EDU Podcast: Converting Your Favorite System into the Game you want!
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 82 - Series Finale?
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 81 - To the Springs!
EDU Podcast: A Planet Where Apes Evolved from Men? Terra Primate!
EDU Podcast: Gencon 2011, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Game.
EDU Podcast: Drinking Potions during combat?
EDU Podcast: Wandering Monster, Random Encounter. Why is it not liked?
EDU Podcast: The ARC Character Background Method, do you use it?
Celebrating 15 years for this blog!
EDU Podcast: GURPS, Its an interesting system.
Youtube Channel Update, July 2024
EDU Podcast: TSR's Gangbusters, worth a look?
EDU Podcast: Cinematic Unisystem Detective Noir Game
EDU Podcast: Ash vs Evil Dead Gaming
EDU Podcast: FASA Star Trek, Captain Reggie, Lt Nova & The Felonians
EDU Podcast: Call of Cthulhu, the game and its mindset with DM Will
EDU Podcast: Vampire: The Masquerade and Wolf Man Jack
EDU Podcast: DC Universe The Roleplaying Game by WEG
EDU Podcast: Mayfair's Underground RPG, Often called DC Heroes lite?
EDU Podcast: Fighting Fantasy Books are very cool!
YT Video - RPGA Newszine - Polyhedron issue 36
EDU Podcast: Hidden Gems in Used Books!
EDU Podcast: Technology in Gaming, Good or Bad? You Decide!
EDU Podcast: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons - The Sometimes Controversial Charm Monster Spell
EDU Podcast: Dungeons & Dragons - The Manual of Hexterity!
AD&D Creature Feature Theater! The Yellow Musk Creeper & Zombie!
EDU Podcast: Shadowrun - Giving characters the spotlight?
EDU Podcast: Dungeons and Dragons - Keeping players on track with modules?
RIFTS CO-OP Actual Play! No GM, Two Players Episode 1!
EDU Podcast: Shadowrun - Bottled Demon Module is Excellent!
EDU Podcast: Dungeons and Dragons - Solo Crawling, No GM Oracle needed!
EDU Podcast: Shadowrun - Designing Missions Advice
EDU Podcast: Limited Wish, How Limited is it really?
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 80 - Seran's On Trial!
CO-OP RIFTS Actual Play: Session 0 - Set up and Premise, meet the characters!
EDU Podcast: Solo RPGs - Games you can play in your head!
Idols & Efreeti is back! #58 we are looking at the CatLord!
EDU Podcast: Should a DM Give Players Advice & Warnings?
EDU Podcast: The Armor Spell, From 1st to 5th, How its Changed
EDU Podcast: The Goodberry spell, The Forgotten Gem of Druid Magic
EDU Podcast: Paladins & Protection from Evil!
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 79 - Seran's in trouble!
EDU Podcast: Spell Preparation and Creation
EDU Podcast: Let's Call this an RFI Mini as DM Will is here!
EDU Podcast: Designing Campaigns from the ground up
EDU Podcast: Making Giant Monster End Bosses More Interesting
EDU Podcast: DMs, How do you control rowdy players?
EDU Podcast: DM Advice on running Mystery & Investigation sessions
EDU Podcast: Talking Homebrew races, is it possible? Octopus-People?
EDU Podcast: Thoughts on The Men in Black Roleplaying Game
Players, let's make character backgrounds better!
Want to create Memorable NPCs? Check out the random chart!
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 78 - Tomb of Nameless Fire P2
EDU Podcast: DMs, we are only human, own up to mistakes..
EDU Podcast: DMs, Let's Talk Blue Dragons!
EDU Podcast: DMs, So your campaign is going on hiatus...Now what?
EDU Podcast: The Grievances about Firearms in Fantasy Gaming
EDU Podcast: Puzzles, GM Vs Player? hmm?
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 77 - Tomb of Nameless Fire P1
EDU Podcast: Starfinder, Its an interesting system.
EDU Podcast: DMs, Identifying Magical Items, did we do it right?
EDU Podcast: DMs, Should Players talk during combat?
EDU Podcast: Whoops, the characters took out the big bad, what now?
EDU Podcast: Interview with Buzz Dixon
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 76
EDU Podcast: Let's talk about Min-Maxing
EDU Podcast: Let's Talk RIFTS and Optional Backgrounds
EDU Podcast: X-Men Adventures in FASERIP
EDU Podcast: Cursed Item Talk: Crystal Hypnosis Ball
EDU Podcast: The Postal Pouch: Mailbag Questions!
EDU Podcast: Twilight 2000 Italian Campaign
EDU Podcast: Dream Demons in your Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns
Let me talk to ya, YEAH! - Finding my voice
EDU Podcast: Negotiation & Communication in D&D
EDU Podcast: Care What You Wish For...
EDU Podcast: Spycraft Session this weekend..
EDU Podcast: DC Heroes, The Vortex Campaign
EDU Podcast: Figurines of Wondrous Power
DC Heroes Actual Co-op/Solo Play - Nightfall Bay!
EDU Podcast: Let's Call this an RFI Mini #15 - Attack of Opportunity?
EDU Podcast: Historical RPGs, Gangbusters?
EDU Podcast: Email Designing Custom D&D Deities
EDU Podcast - Cortex Classic & Supernatural the Roleplaying Game
DC Heroes - Co-op - Nightfall Bay - Issue 2 - The IRS shows up? hmm
EDU Podcast - Hail to the King, Army of Darkness RPG
EDU Podcast - Let`s talk about an alignment system…
B/X D&D Co-Op/Solo - WOS - Episode 18
EDU Podcast - DC Heroes Infinity Rings, Circe Campaign.
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 75
EDU Podcast - Conspiracy X, Bigfoot?
Channel Update - Just Thinking, Things need to change.
EDU Podcast - Talking D6 World of Aden Fantasy Setting
TheEvilDM Podcast: Dungeon Design Tips
Podcast Update! I brought it back, for how long? Who knows!
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 74
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 73
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 72
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 71
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 70
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 69
Beyond Earths – Fantasy 1e – Episode 68 – New World, New Problems?
Blackstar Mini-Campaign – Episode 08