Thought Eater Podcast: Five Minute Friday: Willy the Wizard and the Moathouse of Hommlet

Join my daughter and I for our latest short and silly podcast featuring characters from our campaign. Willy the hard-of-hearing wizard and brave Elizabeth descend into the depths of the moathouse outside Hommlet.

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How about that awesome map from Colin Green of Spikepit!

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Humpday Blog-O-Rama 4.24.19

Blogs are an integral, vital part of the RPG hobby. They serve as incubators for new games, sounding boards for fresh ideas, and platforms for up-and-coming talent. They keep "forgotten" games alive, foster discussions, and build communities. Not everyone can work for a big game company, command a large audience on Twitch, or make a living from their art or cartography, but every RPG enthusiast can easily create a blog and start sharing their passion with the world.

Every Wednesday on the Thought Eater podcast and blog, I take a look at what is going on in the vibrant RPG blog scene. Check out previous Humpday Blog-O-Rama posts HERE.

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MAPS

https://dysonlogos.blog/2019/04/23/2019-geomorphs-dice/

https://thevintagedm.blogspot.com/

http://kelvingreen.blogspot.com/2019/04/homage-to-barovia.html

https://bruce-heard.blogspot.com/2019/04/MapDesign.html



REVIEWS

https://theindierpgpipeline.blogspot.com/2019/04/mall-kids.html

http://punverse.blogspot.com/2019/04/movie-night-review.html

https://archons-court.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-some-glog-likes-why-not-rat-on.html

https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/review-the-punchline-lotfp-last-laugh/

https://rollingboxcars.com/2019/04/17/onward-to-rome-a-review-of-7th-edition-guide-to-cthulhu-invictus/



WORMY

https://originaleditionfantasy.blogspot.com/2019/04/read-wormy-from-first-to-last.html

https://sites.google.com/site/wormycollected/Home/dragon-issue-9



D&D IS SUPER-POPULAR

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/how-dungeons-and-dragons-somehow-became-more-popular-than-ever/2019/04/18/fc226f56-5f8f-11e9-9412-daf3d2e67c6d_story.html

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/9D7E0086-7547-4726-B258-E086D36914C3

https://crumblingkeep.com/2683/dungeons-and-dragons-in-your-office/

http://greyhawkery.blogspot.com/2019/04/old-d-commercials.html



RANDOM TABLES

https://signsinthewilderness.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-great-migration.html

https://engineoforacles.wordpress.com/2019/04/18/random-18th-century-villages-for-a-gothic-sandbox/

https://crateredland.blogspot.com/2019/04/movers-and-shakers.html

http://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2019/04/some-magic-weapons-d10-plucked-organs.html



HELPFUL LINKS

http://killitwithfirerpg.blogspot.com/2019/04/dccrpg-faq-and-links.html

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-holmes-basic-g-archive.html



MISCELLANY

https://originaldungeons-and-dragons.blogspot.com/2019/04/celebrating-blackmoor-campaign-day.html

https://3toadstools.blogspot.com/2019/04/update-on-tenmonstersetting.html

http://crookedstaff.blogspot.com/2019/04/make-your-own-chests-crates.html

https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/42965/roleplaying-games/left-hand-of-mythos-a-trail-of-cthulhu-scenario



THE SWEET SPOT

https://crossingtheverse.wpcomstaging.com/2019/04/16/on-the-not-superhero/


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Thought Eater Podcast: Top Three Tuesdays: Fave D&D Monsters and the Best of "Zeb" Cook

I am starting a new weekly show on the Thought Eater podcast: Top Three Tuesdays. Each week I will present my top three picks on a number of RPG-related topics. To kick it off this week, you get a "twofer": my fave D&D monsters, and my fave works of TSR's David "Zeb" Cook. If you have a topic suggestion for this show, feel free to send me a message via the contact form on the blog.

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David "Zeb" Cook

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Thought Eater Podcast: The Ray Otus Plundergrounds Challenge

Ray Otus of the excellent Plundergrounds podcast suggested a topic to a bunch of us podcasting on Anchor (aka the OSR Anchorites). The topic? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. I had fun with this, and I hope you enjoy listening!

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Free and Pay-What-You-Want 5e DMs Guild Highlights: Week Ending 4.20.19

Every week, talented creators upload products to the DMs Guild, pricing them as free or pay-what-you-want in order to reach customers. Dozens of new free and pwyw products are added each week alone. It is a lot to sort through. My hope is that highlighting a few of each week's best supplements will help the designers get the attention they deserve.

You can find previous posts in this series HERE.


Encounters in the Mournland from Gregory Hallenbeck

Ok, this is great. Here you have a bunch of random encounters for the Mournland of Eberron, fleshed out just enough for the DM to use them effectively on the fly. Also contains some really cool random weather elements and a generator for weird effects on creatures due to the Mourning.


Faerun Printable Calendar from Anthony Green

Full color and print-friendly calendars for your Forgotten Realms game. A simple but helpful tool.


Skeleton Monster Set from Hero Sleister

No-frills yet useful set of 7 skeleton variants. Why just use a bunch of plain ol' skeletons when you can throw some skeleton hellhounds and corrosive skeletons into the mix?


The Tome of Forgotten Heroes from Ocean Martinez

27 new archetypes for all core classes. Lots of cool and unusual class variants, like the Circle of the Metamorph, where the Druid only partially changes shape, and the Oath of Incandescence, which allows you to create a pyromancer Paladin. 


100 Items for Sale in a Fantasy Black Market from Casey Willis

Credited to the creative folks over at www.reddit.com/r/d100, this is a collection of items you likely won't be finding for sale at a corner store. Very inventive stuff here; these could be used to generate side quests, supplement treasure hordes, or you know, curse your players for kicks.


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Thought Eater Podcast: Willy the Wizard and the Village of Hommlet

The Willy the Wizard show was a big hit, so my daughter and I teamed up for another episode. Join Willy and Elizabeth for another thrilling adventure!

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Humpday Blog-O-Rama 4.17.19: This One's For James

Blogs are an integral, vital part of the RPG hobby. They serve as incubators for new games, sounding boards for fresh ideas, and platforms for up-and-coming talent. They keep "forgotten" games alive, foster discussions, and build communities. Not everyone can work for a big game company, command a large audience on Twitch, or make a living from their art or cartography, but every RPG enthusiast can easily create a blog and start sharing their passion with the world.

Every Wednesday on the Thought Eater podcast and blog, I take a look at what is going on in the vibrant RPG blog scene. Check out previous Humpday Blog-O-Rama posts HERE.


LISTEN TO THIS WEEK'S EPISODE HERE



LINKS FROM THIS WEEK'S EPISODE


JAMES SMITH

https://dreamsofmythicfantasy.blogspot.com/
https://dreamsofmythicfantasy.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20OSR%20News
http://underdarkgazette.blogspot.com/
http://underdarkgazette.blogspot.com/search/label/OSR%20News

https://www.paypal.me/jamessmithmemory



MAPS

https://mapoftheweek.blogspot.com/2019/04/la-jolla-map-museum-maps-of-historical.html

https://www.iconicmaps.com/blog/sundown-commission

http://elthosrpg.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-overly-ambitious-campaign-design.html



REVIEWS AND RETROSPECTIVES

https://heavyliestheaxe.blogspot.com/2019/04/dark-sun-part-one-our-d-is-different.html
https://heavyliestheaxe.blogspot.com/2019/04/dark-sun-part-two-bad-different.html

http://heartsinglorantha.d101games.com/2019/04/12/the-runequest-slipcase-has-arrived/

http://save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/silent-titans

http://vorpalmace.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-wee-warriors-reprints-part-ii.html

https://www.retroist.com/2019/04/12/dungeons-dragons-monster-cards-grippli/



WORLD BUILDING

http://www.worldbuildingwizard.com/2019/04/02/how-to-find-images-for-your-world/

https://crumblingkeep.com/2019/04/12/crumbling-upkeep-sounds-for-your-game/

https://therantingsavant.blogspot.com/2019/04/twenty-quick-questions-for-any-twilight.html
http://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/04/twenty-quick-questions-for-your.html



RANDOM TABLES

https://tarsostheorem.blogspot.com/2019/04/solar-system-die-drop-table.html

https://joeskythedungeonbrawler.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/w-hat-do-to-do-when-a-thief-fall-happened/

https://themansegaming.blogspot.com/2019/04/pantheon-generator.html
https://themansegaming.blogspot.com/2019/04/random-pantheon-generation-example-elf.html

https://reverancepavane.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-most-important-encounter-table.html



MISCELLANY

http://monstermanualsewnfrompants.blogspot.com/2019/04/exacts-in-theatre-of-mind.html

https://thac0rpg.blogspot.com/2019/04/problems-i-am-having-trying-to-end-my.html

https://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/2019/04/d-and-d-is-cool.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/dungeons-and-dragons.html

http://roseandkingfisher.blogspot.com/2019/04/dragon-heist-session-1-3-wake-up-sneeple.html
https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/tag/dragon-heist



JOIN THE FUN

http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2019/04/community-project-harry-clarke-bestiary.html

https://www.dungeoncontest.com/
https://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2019/04/found-on-reddit-rosr-how-does-one-page.html

https://itch.io/jam/pamphletjam



OUTRO

https://teylen.blog/2019/04/14/crowdfunding-collection-103/
https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Planet/Lists_of_blogs


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