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James Smith's weekly OSR News blog post mentions that the print edition of the One-Page Dungeon Compe... the ninethirty kingdomsone pagedungeoncompendium https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2012/01/questions-about-family-gamer.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Questions About the Family Gamer I want to write something about RPGs aimed at "family gamers", inspired by this post at Greyhawk Grognard . Specifically, I have some differ... the ninethirty kingdomsabout familyquestionsgamer https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2018/12/our-blank-neighbors-update.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Our BLANK Neighbors: Update Thanks all for the suggestions on titles for Our BLANK Neighbors . I also had another conversation about it on Discord and then took the bes... the ninethirty kingdomsblankneighborsupdate https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2013/02/ability-and-reputation.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Ability and Reputation the ninethirty kingdomsabilityreputation https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2019/09/non-silly-ammo-recovery.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Non-Silly Ammo Recovery On Dennis Laffey's blog, What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse... , there's a post about Silly Rules -- Recovering Ammunition . Full discla... the ninethirty kingdomsnonsillyammo https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2019/08/nearly-permanent-spells-using.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Nearly-Permanent Spells Using Conceptual Magic Last time I talked about changing the way spell stats are handled , I focused on spell duration. 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Because RPGNet has changed the link at least once, I've been wanting to p... the ninethirty kingdomsranthategame https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2010/11/multiple-magic-systems.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Multiple Magic Systems the ninethirty kingdomsmultiplemagicsystems https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2011/11/arduin-fireballs.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Arduin Fireballs Emperor's Choice Games currently has free PDFs of a "subset" of Compleat Arduin; The Rules . I flipped through the original Arduin books in... the ninethirty kingdomsfireballs https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2011/07/productivity-update.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Productivity Update I thought I was out of control for a moment... I was working on the border and corner pieces for the F-Series Geomorph set and thought I nee... the ninethirty kingdomsproductivityupdate https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2019/04/map-mondays-bonus-geomorph-mine-8.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Map Mondays Bonus Geomorph: Mine-8 As promised, here's an extra geomorph in the Mineshaft series to officially mark Map Mondays. This work is licensed under a Creativ... the ninethirty kingdoms https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2013/04/hex-sheet-specfile.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Hex Sheet Specfile People seemed to like the tilted coordinates for the hex sheet I posted earlier. Below is the specfile I used with mkhexgrid to get the s... the ninethirty kingdomshexsheet https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2013/02/snowflake-exclusion-rules.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Snowflake Exclusion Rules So, in an argument on RPGnet about what constituted a "special snowflake race/class", I posted some minimum criteria that any character conc... the ninethirty kingdomssnowflakeexclusionrules https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2010/12/evolving-dungeon-stories.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Evolving Dungeon Stories I posted a comment on the Lost Continent blog relating to inspiration and creativity from random sources, and thought I should elaborate on... the ninethirty kingdomsevolvingdungeonstories https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2012/12/force-abilities.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Force Abilities Settle down, this has nothing to do with Star Wars. While having a discussion about class building and monster PCs, I had some inspiration... the ninethirty kingdomsforceabilities https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2012/07/spell-study-series-hold-person-and.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Spell Study Series: Hold Person and Water Breathing These two spells are not really connected, but they won't require much discussion. Hold Person : A spell similar to a Charm Person but whi... the ninethirty kingdoms https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2013/01/buying-experience.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Buying Experience Although I personally have no problems with XP for GP , since I see XP as a measure of reputation gained from bragging about monsters slain ... the ninethirty kingdomsbuyingexperience https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2020/02/my-favorite-games-part-2-minecraft.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: My Favorite Games, Part 2: Minecraft In my first post on which video games were the most like old school RPGS, I said I had one answer that would probably surprise people. The ... the ninethirty kingdomsmy favorite https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2011/12/inspiration-challenge.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Inspiration Challenge Someone should go look at these pics on the OBI blog and use them as inspiration for an adventure module. I particularly like the enchanted... the ninethirty kingdomsinspirationchallenge https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2019/11/dice-rolls-are-they-secret-are-they-safe.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Dice Rolls: Are They Secret? Are They Safe? Dennis Laffey has a post on his blog ( What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse... ) about keeping dice rolls a secret (or not.) I'm sure regu... the ninethirty kingdomsdice rolls https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2012/04/fluff-vs-useless-fluff.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Fluff vs. Useless Fluff Earlier, Monte Cook wrote something about "crunch vs. fluff" being a false dichotomy . And other people weighed in, including Robin Laws . A... the ninethirty kingdomsfluffvsuseless https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2011/11/familiars.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Familiars the ninethirty kingdomsfamiliars https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2010/09/clone-project-spell-progression.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Clone Project: Spell Progression The next stage in the potential clone project should be how many spells of each spell level the Magic-User and Cleric get at any given clas... the ninethirty kingdomsclone projectspellprogression https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2019/03/2010-one-page-dungeon-compendium.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: 2010 One-Page Dungeon Compendium So, apparently, I'm in print again. James Smith's weekly OSR News blog post mentions that the print edition of the One-Page Dungeon Compe... the ninethirty kingdomsone pagedungeoncompendium https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2012/01/questions-about-family-gamer.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Questions About the Family Gamer I want to write something about RPGs aimed at "family gamers", inspired by this post at Greyhawk Grognard . Specifically, I have some differ... the ninethirty kingdomsabout familyquestionsgamer https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2018/12/our-blank-neighbors-update.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Our BLANK Neighbors: Update Thanks all for the suggestions on titles for Our BLANK Neighbors . 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By default, spells would be very short, onl... the ninethirty kingdoms https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2013/04/wandering-monster-frequency.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Wandering Monster Frequency There are a couple different methods out there for rolling wandering monsters: every turn, every three turns, every hour. I think I've even ... the ninethirty kingdomswanderingmonsterfrequency https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2013/08/rant-i-hate-game-balance.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Rant: I Hate Game Balance (This originally appeared as a rant on RPGNet , on 22 Jan 2009. Because RPGNet has changed the link at least once, I've been wanting to p... the ninethirty kingdomsranthategame https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2010/11/multiple-magic-systems.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Multiple Magic Systems the ninethirty kingdomsmultiplemagicsystems https://9and30kingdoms.blogspot.com/2011/11/arduin-fireballs.html The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Arduin Fireballs Emperor's Choice Games currently has free PDFs of a "subset" of Compleat Arduin; The Rules . I flipped through the original Arduin books in... the ninethirty kingdomsfireballs