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The tale of losing most of my gaming collection to a water leak. You can read my blog article about finally re-building my AD&D collection here . Check the Water Damage Incident tag to read all about it. 

Musings on starting a new YouTube series How to AD&D 1e. Prompted by this tweet from Bill Allan : I started playing D&D in 1978 . My retweet and musings tweet . My Roll20 For the Absolute Beginner playlist. Companion article on my blog .

I mention the passing of an OSR blogger and discuss some ideas for combination monsters and applying curses and other negative effects to NPCs and monsters. James Smith's Blog: Dreams of Mythic Fantasy and Obituary . The Monster Brothers Podcast , see episode 005 - Treefolk .

After a couple of call ins on my last episode by John Payne and Jeremy "Frothsof" Smith, I discuss a bit about the time I through an unexpected NPC at the players. It's amazing how cool magic items used by NPCs bring out the envy and greed in players. John Payne's Podcast is Old Sword and his blog is Sycarion . Jeremy "Frothsof" Smith has a Podcast - Thought Eater and a Blog also Thought Eater , a...

Dream catchers are things that are supposed to catch bad dreams. A magical dream catcher captures the creatures of one's nightmares and brings them into the real world.

Musings on the use and application of Read Magic and Write Magic to make utility spells on par in importance to the combat spells.

Have you ever had an item given to your character by a game master, and forgotten to use it?

Have a groovy day and enjoy all the cool games!

Call ins congratulating me on 100 episodes, a mention of a final blog post about the end of G+, and more practical planning aspects for play testing my card game. Callers: Spikepit (Colin Greene), RFED (Darrin Greene), Frothsof (Jeremy Smith) - Thought Eater , Ray Otus - Plundergrounds . Blogpost:   G+ The End And Google’s Still Making Changes  

Surprise! This is actually my 100th Episode, since my first episode is Episode 0. Episode 0, Checking out Anchor, Lean Rules, and other Musings , was published on Jun 24, 2018, just over nine months ago. Flip the switch and check all my sites! You can find me online wherever you see my social media avatar , Griswald, the guy with the raised sword and wolf's head shield. Background ambiences from T...

A Science Fiction RPG, a Space Pirate game, and and Interplanetary War game were three home brewed games we made back in the day.  I wrote something about these games on my blog a few years ago . While I'm talking about past games, I discuss my 2017 entry in the 200 Word RPG Challenge , Cat Wrangling , and ideas for making a more rounded RPG out of it, and ideas for a potential card game, and...

Where I discuss my call for artists for card art and announce a target date of the Kickstarter in the first quarter of 2020 for my card game. I also mention the publication of my first adventure PDF available on DriveThruRPG . See the companion blog post here . The Twitter thread where I initiated my call for artists and announced the target date. Other links mentioned in this episode: My Teesprin...

A couple of call ins responded to my last episode about Mules In the Dungeon. I also had some comments on G+. In the waning days of G+ I still post and people respond, faithful to the end. Ramblings of a Gamer and Artist podcast and Northport Blog by Gwythaint, AKA Denis McCarthy. Denis is an artist for many products on DriveThruRPG and even has a lot of art you can use in your own publications. I...

I reminisce a bit about using mules in dungeon delves back in the Holmes Basic Days.

Spikepit has requested that I discuss my experiences running The Front . You can get The Front on DriveThruRPG for the PDF and on Lulu for print . I did a review of The Front on my blog back in March, 2016. The Front is based on The Black Hack 1st edition . (You can find the second edition here .) NOTE: I backed the Kickstarter for both editions of The Black Hack . If you want a more realistic WWI...

A few thoughts on Impostor syndrome and how often I am wrong to think that way. How many times do people have to tell you you did well before you believe it?

Instead of the normal Tuesday Tales, I present my wrap up of Gary Con XI. It includes some new stories of my exploits in RPGs so it's not too far off the normal Tuesday episode. I have a companion article on the blog . My Fellow Podcasters I recorded episodes with: Ray Otus of Plundergrounds and Cody M. of No Save For You . The 30 minute mark of this episode on Plundergrounds (Gary Con day 3) is w...

I caught up with Ray Otus and Cody M and we discuss Gary Con. Catch Ray's Plundergrounds podcast where we discuss mycard game.

Fighting to a stalemate to retake the dungeons under the castle from all the beasts and villains.

I plan to make an adventure module out of the various convention games I've created and ran.  I ramble on about how simpler is better in my experience and that is the goal of all my publications. I invite listeners to call in an share how their game prep for convention games compares to their regular game prep.

In the real world, the idea of spontaneous generation, where maggots and flies come from rotting meat was disproved and replaced by the actual method of like creatures spawning like creatures. That is called biogenesis. However, in a fantasy world, spontaneous generation can be real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation Here's the companion blog article. https://followmeanddie.com/...

A quick story about the recovery of a legendary suit of armor. No frogs here, so move along. My brother, whose character had this item, made this comment on the Follow Me, And Die! FB page: Hey Larry I need to tell you that you are only sort of right Yes the armor was pitch black but it was full plate. And it didn't age you but turned all of your hair completely white. It had 2 or 3 other abilitie...

Today I'm at Marmalade Dog and I interview artist Lindsay Poulos.  Twitter Personal  All other social media: @ladyrandombox Twitter   Deviant Art Art Station Instagram

I want to encourage everyone to go to the small local cons in their area. Offer to run games. https://marmaladedog.org/rpg.html I mention the three scenarios I'm running, one each Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'm bringing them to Gary Con as options for pick up games.

I discuss how players in my game wanted to display the trophies of their kills. Two call ins from Jeremy at the Thought Eater podcast . He also writes the Thought Eater blog. I nearly lost this whole episode. I mis-numbered it as 87, and while I was still in Audacity, tried re-naming the files and directories. Do NOT do that! I managed to recover this episode. It isn't cut well, but after multiple...