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Cover of "The Dream World of Dion McGregor" illustrated by Gorey
A dour looking Bearded Wizard, replete with Pointy Hat, gazes longingly into an orb that appears to display a shapely silhouette.
Moldvay section advocating for Referee curation/balance that is oft ignored in certain OSR circles.
Other Options for Failed Morale Checks 1d6 Table.
Horned Cyclops from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Reaction Table from Holmes Basic D&D. 12 is "Enthusiastic, volunteers help" whilst 9-11 is "accepts offer, friendly"
Nested Reaction Roll from Mentzer Basic, the standard Reaction Roll is "expended" to have subsequent "stages" to help adjudicate the less immediate responses, and these are weighted.
Magic Item: The Cervine Circlet using a photograph from a Museum.
Hermit Tarot Card from the Sheridan Douglas Deck
Entry from my "Random Rules and Rulings" table where Level Draining Monsters also tear corners from Character Sheets.
Cover of Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy
Wilderness Hex #76 (Swamps) featuring Giant Beavers!
OSE Stat Block for a Tornado.
Old Purple Crown Royal Bag on it's side above a hexagonal dice tray with green felt. The dice tray is full of various multicolored dice with differing shapes and sizes.
A Rusty Metal Fire Pit, with high flames.
Hazard Excuses Tables for Exhaustion/Fatigue and Torch exhaustion. Just in case they happen to roll it twice in a row.
A quarter of a Central Grocery Muffuletta Sandwich, looking absolutely delicious (it was) resting on the packaging that extolls the incredible work this purveyor of peerless sandwiches manages to accomplish.
Sample "False Tables" using Affinity Decoration Styles/Tab Stops.
Hackmaster 5e Yield Section for Halflings from the Hacklopedia of Beasts
White Seven Sided die
Ward Symbol Depictions from Palladium Fantasy
Potion Miscibility Table from AD&D 1e DMG
Castle Adventure Screen Shot
Entries from my Wilderness Fauna Table, highlighting the Lamp Geese that I forgot I already thought up!
A "Bulletted List" (Bullet List using an image of the D&D Bullette Monster for the Bullets)
Time Life Enchanted World Series
Confidence Check procedures for the BECMI Dominion Rules. No die rolls required.
Six Feet of Sandwich on a table with RADICAL 80s style Decorations and a sign labelled PARTY SUB
Quaker Oats Ad Remix, instead of Quaker Oats it's promoting Random Tables
Snippet from my "Tracking Encumbrance Bogging You Down?" Rules Reference/Play Example outlining some of the "Experimental" exercises we did to verify Container Capacity as Kids.
Tree Trunk, growing within a round rusty ring of metal but still persisting.
Binder Sleeves used for Coin Collections, each featuring small square "pockets" to hold the coins, but potentially usable with chits to handle tactile inventory/character sheets.
Flow Chart outlining the Dungeon Turn Sequence of Play.
Menu for Hot Dogs featuring characters from the Lord of the Rings movies
A young woman eating a slice of Pizza on a fork. The Pizza has been boiled into a soup. Her expression indicates that it is not very pleasant.
Graph Paper Dungeon with corridors/rooms that spell out the phrase "Ktrey Sucks." Snuck in my pad of dungeons, ages ago by someone I used to date.
Dungeon Level Two from Arduin's Caliban Dungeon. Early techniques for identifying rooms (this one includes spelling out the number!)
Plastic Coin Album Binder Sleeves. Cut them up to make secure pouches for Item Cards.
TWERPS rulebooks. Tiny zine style RPGs from the 90s: Pink Basic Rules, Green TWERPS Magic, and a Blue and White "How to do Everything Better"
Section from B/X advising the DM to curate and scale their Encounters to the Strength of the Party.
Young Marble Giants Testcard E.P. seven inch. Features a yellow Post-It note on the upper left hand of the sleeve with the words: Experimental Eclectic Local?
Folding Condition Slots, a post-it folded into quarters that "unfolds" with an escalating Condition from Drowsy, to Sleepy, to finally fully unfurled as Exhausted.
TWERPS Zines: Basic Rules, Magic, and How To Do Everything Better
Wilderness Daily Sequence of Play from B/X in a Flow Chart from my blog.
Plague Doctor Mask being worn, looking straight at the camera with lenses over the yes and the stitched pointed leather beak.
Gloamful Grotto, a Lair for Dolmenwood featuring a Petrifying Basilisk.
Sample Index Cards of some Magic Items from my Play Examples
Dungeon Map with means of Ingress/Egress for various locations being gated by the hue of the Light Source a Party is using to navigate it.
Speak with the Dead Bestiary: Interviews with Dead Adventurers about what led to their end.
Stat Block for a "Lesser Haunt" type Monster for a lower Level "Ghostly" Undead Foe.
Pages from the Glossary of The Victorian Underworld by Kellow Chesney. Detailing some slang/cant terms.
Snip from my Demiplanes & Pocket Realms d100 Table with the Entry for Galeanthropia: Everyone is Cats here, hope you're not Allergic highlighted
Chinese Crested dog. Tongue sticking out of mouth, tufts of wispy white hair on head. Two big black eyes.
Excerpt from "The Lone Tower" an early Adventure by Jennell Jaquays.
Excerpt from the Fairy Tale Weaknesses Table: Highlighted Entry is 53: Only dice of a certain color inflict damage
Description for a Magic Item known as The Gnashing Stone, based on the image from an article about a recent fossil discovery.
Overloaded Wilderness Dice: 2d6 Procedures that provide a little more Granularity to the Hazard-type Systems.
Two d12 Tables for Hazard Excuses. One for Sequential Fatigue results and one for Sequential Torch Exhaustion results with some ideas on how to narrate those situations where the same result repeats.
Image of a small person in a yellow and green robe with a matching conical hat and a tail peeking out from below the robe. The person has pointy ears and is rolling two six-sided dice using a dice cup.