Guess what? To those who have been following the Back to the Dungeon RPG, the BACK to the Dungeon RPG Deluxe Hardcover PDF is live for all to devour for free/PWYW. I need yawl to look at it and critique it for edits! THERE WILL BE A HARDCOVER SOON but the PDF and the rules will be forever free! ALSO make some adventures for it! These rules have MEAT for players and easy to run for the Game Master!
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Monday, July 3, 2023
STONEHELL on the Borderlands Play Report!
AAAARRRRGGGGGHH!
I just got done playin the STONEHELL on the Borderlands OSE Powered RPG!
The game was awesome!
Gotri The Dwarf Fighter
Jeri Rollins the Hippy Druid!
AND ME!
Stonus Blakdiamondous the Dwarven Fighter!
We partied at the Keep!
Could not find any damn good retainers.
Left and headed toward the STONEHELL dungeons.
Went to the gatehouse.
Went down the spiral staircase to the WESTERNMOST cave entrance.
Me and the other dwarf fell into a pit. Got hurt real bad!
Went further and talked to some fellow dwarves. They were exploring the ancient knowledge of some ancient dwarves. We became friend and allies but they would not adventure with us because the needed a month to study this room.
Headed south and with the druid talked to some rats.
From the rat room we met some orcs and it was not friendly.
Fought the orcs and the druid got reinforcements from the dwarves friends.
The orcs retreated and so did we.
We took two days and made it BACK to the keep!
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Back to the Dungeon RPG Hardcover Coming
Back to the Dungeon RPG Hardcover Coming
Saturday, December 31, 2022
The Dark and Horrible Night of the Gore Ogres!
The party is invited to a gathering of friends at a far out ancient woodland manor for a joyous wedding! The most handsome groom's deceased father is a famous Ogre Slayer from back in the day and has the fortune to prove it! The groom was once an adventurer with the party but decided that his family businesses needed attending too after the death of his wealthy and most admired father. The young lord has since met a beautiful half elven maiden and they are to be married and not a more perfect place to be married than in the ancient woodland manor that was once a ruin that was the home of foul, malignant and malicious ogres! Finally a time of relaxation and merriment! No blades, spell, arrows or traps here! Plenty of fair maidens and bachelors running around! Food, drink and music! What could possibly go wrong?
BUT
FIRST! WE MUST START WITH A TALE FROM LONG AGO!
A
TALE of an Ogre SLAYER!
OGRES!
Foul
Fell Fearsome
MALIGNANT
That
smell! Rotten! Spoiled Milk, Vomit, Sweat and SHIT!
Giant
clubs, hammers axes!
There
was tales told of one Ogre that was the worst!
Old Bucktooth Tommy Tommy Demon Oak Hammer a most vile ogre! HE who made deals with demons! KILLER AND EATER OF ENTIRE VILLAGES! FIGHTER SMASHER! BONE BREAKER!
DEMONS gave him the Demon Oak Hammer from a tree of Oak from a cursed forest! It was 25 years ago today when that Old Bucktooth Tommy Tommy Demon Oak Hammer was slain!
Slain
by Martino
Mondragone!
Martino
Mondragone the famous adventurer and ogre SLAYER! Swinger of the Ox
Blade a two handed sword front the Ancient Pits!
Martino Mondragone the stylish! With his fine clothing and armor! His steel shod boots! Adorned with full of magic jewelry hard fought and taken from dungeons deep! Fine long black as coal hair and excellent mustachio! A manly man! A ladies man and there was no more beautiful young lady of legend than Brigitte Brightview, the lady maiden of Castle Dandelion!
Her
eyes of emeralds and golden hair adorned with jewels, her dress woven
of the finest silks that flowed over her perfect skin. It is said
that angels were heard singing the night of her birth and it were
only the manliest of men that could take her as her cleverness and
wit had no equal and she was gifted with the sight and easily learns
the arcane magics of the ancients with ease!
Such
was the meeting of Martino Mondragone and Brigitte Brightview! Twas
love at first sight but not after a great romance tale of legend that
will be left to another time to tell.
They
had many children but their best of their loins was Miguel
Mondragone
Ogre Slayer's Son! BUT more on him later!
Many
decades later comes another Ogre, BOOTFACE
BOBBY!
The son of Old Bucktooth Tommy Tommy Demon Oak Hammer!
His
father slain years ago by Martino Mondragone and he, as a child ogre,
had his face STOMPED by Martino Mondragone, leaving a permanent boot
print in his already vile and ugly face. Before you judge ol Martino
to harshly, you must understand that ogre children are given their
victim's children to play with by the adult ogres which always ends
in their horrible deaths as they are just as cruel, vile and evil in
childhood as they are in adulthood. Martino felt mercy on the
gigantic horrible ogre toddler (not realizing that he had just
horribly murdered over half of a village's children while the other
ogre toddlers took care of the rest) as he cried and begged for his
miserable life and let that sick and evil bastard go and now, all
these decades later, this Ogre BOOTFACE
BOBBY
and his party of Ogres are the new plague in this realm! After
finding all of the village's children slain, Martino Mondragone felt
regret for the rest of his life for such mercy.
It
was three years ago his light of his life the Lady Brigitte died in
her sleep and a year later Martino Mondragone drank himself to death,
leaving his many children his many estates to split. His favorite son
Miguel Mondragone got the woodlands manor called Mondragone Manor,
the Jewel of Brigitte! A
sadness lurks about the place now and the faint sounds of Martino
weeping can be heard at times in the dark dusk of the
evening...
Miguel
Mondragone went adventuring with the party many years ago and showed
himself to be a brave and daring and now a second level fighter! A
truly trustworthy and stout friend in battle and in life. It was when
he met the half elf Sarah the Pure of Golden Hair, now a second level
cleric of the most lawfulness and goodness! It didn't hurt that she
also possessed a legendary beauty equal to the angel's! The kind of
beautiful woman that kings and fools of the ancient ages started wars
over! Despite all the other male members of the party trying their
best, she only had eyes for Miguel and it was obvious that their
adventuring time was over and they were going to be starting a life
together. Now
any of the other male players with a charisma of 16 or more may have
had a few romantic moments with Sarah or it was definitely some
sparks there that were put out when Miguel came along. This may be an
element of contention for some members of the party and for just good
story.
It
had just been around a year since you last seen Miguel and Sarah and
they have invited you by messenger to his woodland Manor for a
wedding (that all of you knew was obviously going to happen) on the
last day of the month! It will finally be a time where the party does
not have to worry about fell beast, dangerous and insidious traps,
and delving in dungeons deep! This wedding is going to be a party of
legend!
Each
party member describes how they get to the woodland Manor. Just for
flavor, here is the description of the surrounding area. Feel free to
make that an adventure of the party getting there if you don't want
to just start them off at the manor!
There
will be a rough map that has one old cobblestone highway, an ancient
road that was there from the last age. Reports of trolls in the woods
were heard a few months ago but none has been seen since. One can
also enter from the old creek by raft as the stream flows right past
the place but it's know for it's flagitious giant algae covered
freshwater crabs as large as a table and baneful and malignant bog
octopuses from the putrid swamp. Those of evil hearts, it is rumored
can make deals with these eight legged horrors! Crossing through the
dark and haunted Scaredark Woodes will surely get one lost with all
the dark things there. Especially the undead that lurk in the ruined
barrows and shadows...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/411782/The-Dark-and-Horrible-Night-of-the-Gore-Ogres
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
WHO WILL SAVE THE ORCHIDS?
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/401502/Who-Will-Save-the-Orchids
YOU ALL MEET IN A TAVERN!
The party meets a weird young messenger boy who tells the party a team of weird foreign diplomats are heading into the recently conquered Orc lands and are offering a whopping 1000 Gold EACH to help rescue some Orphaned Children.If you agree then a party! WHAT COULD GO WRONG???
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Terror in the Old Fell Forest
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/398450/Terror-in-the-Old-Fell-Forest
You all meet in a a loud and smokey tavern! It's a sad time for the quaint village of Valehaven. For the bawdy son of the portly mayor and his foppish and foolish friends have went missing. The foolish group of young adventurers went North into the Old Fell Forest some two weeks ago. They sadly and alarmingly have not returned. Dark and ominous tales are whispered about the foul Old Forest.
Adventurers have come forth to see if they can help, kill stuff, make some gold and get XP!
The party is hired by the portly mayor to find out the whereabouts of a foolish group of adventurers far to the north into the Old Forest. The mayor Miles Kaxzwell is a pale fat balding winy self righteous type of man who truly believes himself far superior to others as he is of noble blood!
His "son" and his adventuring party of his friends, left a few weeks ago and nothing has been heard from them since. The people of Valehaven don't seem to be sad at all.
Blurb
Just an old school gamer with a computer, scratch paper, pencils and pens who writes trashy little pulp old school zines so don't expect any high production values or high literature. I like to add in the old Folk Horror aspects form old movies as well. Especially the late 60s to early 70s Folk Horror movies where there were no heroes and everyone sucked!
Thursday, May 26, 2022
The Insane Death Pit of the Sadistic Trapmaster!
Finally an adventure that actually challenges an adventuring party! You don’t get wimpy a** hand holding, players need to always win type of modules from Eldrad Wolfsbane! You get NOTHING handed to you!
NOTHING!
Down Deep into The Insane Death Pit of the Sadistic Trapmaster! |
This Level 1-5 Zine Module will show the stinking maggot players that life isn't fair. If lower level adventurer trash, then hire a bunch of worthless expendable retainers! Hell, no matter what, hire some fodder! Remember morale rolls to see who is a stinking coward! Not that they can probably climb back out without dying! LOL! It also teaches one that you can't be a lazy scum and have anything without hard work and risk mixed with being a dumba**!
Every player that has their 3D6 rolled in order no cheating ass character survive this adventure on a live play video will get a genuine Certificate of Survival!
It's made by my inner 12 year old back in 1982!