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wiki.
Introduction
Philotomy's Musings (PDF)
Robert Fisher: Classic D&D
The Basics of Role-Playing Games
Matthew Finch's Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (free download from Lulu)
Scope of the Game
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: How To Play The Game
OSR Acronym Glossary
(Good for identifying D&D varieties and clones)
D&D ID
, an illustrated guide to how to identify the editions of D&D
Definitions of Standard D&D Terms
The Alexandrian on Hit Points
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully: What do hit points represent?
Use of the Word “Level”
Order of the Stick satire on the multiple uses of the word "level"
Old School RPG Blogger Advancement Level Titles
How to Use the Dice
The Order of the d30
Troll Dice Roller and Probability Calculator
Delta's D&D Hotspot: Testing a Balanced Die
Hill Cantons: Attribute Checks- The Simple Route
Cyclopeatron: Simple Multi-Ability Checks
How to “Win”
Cyclopeatron: Gary Gygax's White Box OD&D House Rules
Player Character
How to Create a Player Character
Save vs. Total Party Kill: Random Character Generator
Jeffs Gameblog: D&D chargen as a party game
Quick Character Generation
Hill Cantons:Alternative Character Generation System
Diceless Character Creation for Classic D&D
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Old School Players character sheet and generation
Troll & Flame: 3d6 in order
L'Orgasmo Cerebrale: Roll #d6, some of them in order (Rafu's matrix for rolling Ability scores)
Childhood Events -- Valley of Blue Snails
Adolescent Events -- Valley of Blue Snails
B/X Blackrazor: 100 reasons Characters Are Together
(
review
)
Characterization Made Easy by Scott Bennie (pdf download)
Bohemian's Good At System
B/X Blackrazor Headgear
Akratic Wizardry: Background Professions
Alex Schroeder: Determining Class
Hit Points and Hit Dice (and Death)
L'Orgasmo Cerebrale: Rafu's card-driven Grievous Wounds (the Pulp Fantasy Edition)
Hidden in Shadows: The Meaning of Hit Points
Akratic Wizardry: Hit Points and Constitution
Alexis' Mass Effects on Hit Points
Alexis' Good Negativity - For each point below zero, the player's stats are lowered by 10%.
Trollsmyth: Death and Dismemberment
– a table with consequences for anybody dropping to 0hp and below
B/X Blackrazor: 50 ways to die
Troll and Flame: Deadlier Death and Dismemberment (table for <0 HP)
Troll & Flame: So, You're Dead
Dyson Logos: Wounds & Pain
Bonuses and Penalties Due to Abilities
General
The Jovial Priest: Ability Scores Tag
Jovial Priest: An Ability Score of 3 is Unplayable
Stuart's Alternative to the Six Stat System
Strength
Jovial Priest: Grip Strength is the best real life comparator for the ability score Strength
Intelligence
The City of Iron: House Rule: Specialist Knowledge
Daniel R Collins (Delta): How does Intelligence Relate to IQ?
Wisdom
Akratic Wizardry: Sanity
Dexterity
Constitution
Charisma
Jovial Priest on Charisma: Hitler's henchmen, Batman's Robin and Arthur's seating plan
Character Classes
The City of Iron: Ix: Player Character Races
A Wizard's Kiss: FLAILSNAILS-compatible race & class compendium
A Wizard's Kiss: What I Talk About When I Talk About Prestige Classes
A Wizard's Kiss: More About Prestige Classes
Erin D. Smale's Building the Perfect Character Class
Dyson Logos: Glantri Crafts as Prestige Classes with 4 sample classes
Lord Kilgore: Wizards and Warriors 5-color character classes
Bargle: 0D&D Character Tables listing all combat systems (Thac0, man to man, mass combat, fantasy table, etc)
Tales of the Rambling Bumblers: Simple Combination Classes
Of Dice & Djinn: Customised Classes for B/X
Saturday Night Sandbox:Dweomon & Dweomon Master
Simple Hybrid Classes
9 and 30 Kingdoms: X Without Spells
using Turn Undead mechanic for variant class abilities
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Class Building
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Class Construction Table
Bards
of Pedantry: Bardic Songcasting (Spellcasting description)
of Pedantry: A New Take on the Bard (Class description)
Strange Magic: The Bard for Basic D&D
Lands of Ara: 2d6 Bard
(Non-magical bard, skills based on 2d6 roll)
Djeryv's Advanced Edition Companion Bard (pdf)
Alexis' Bard
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Bards Without Spells
The Celebutante
The Dandy
Clerics and their kin
games with others: Shinto-Doctor-Mushi-Shi Clerics for OD&D and B/X
Rotten Pulp: Summoner
Strange Magic: Monks and Assassins for Basic D&D
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical B/X cleric to-do list
OD&D Clerics and Zoroastrianism
Dyson Logos: Healers
Strange Magic: Bene Gesserit as Cleric (and a great example of class design)
The Ship's Doctor
Druid
Grognardia: Druids of Dwimmermount
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Druids
Blood Druid/Blood Witch
Witches and Witch Hunters
Trollsmyth: Witch
The Other Side Blog: Witch Familiars
B/X Blackrazor: Witch Hunter
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Alchemist and Witch
The Witch for B/X
Turn Undead
There's Dungeons Down Under: Turn Undead Made More Simple
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Clerics Without Spells
uses Turn Undead to handle healing and other abilities
Fighters and their kin
Random Diversions: Labyrinth Lord - The Beastmaster
The Wisdom Frog Croaks: Queens of Battle, Monarchs of Murder
Luchador, V3!
Labyrinth Critical! Class: Doxy, take 2!
Strange Magic: Paladins and Anti-Paladins for Basic D&D
THE LAND OF NOD: Barbarians and Bards
THE LAND OF NOD: The Beastmaster
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Beast Master
using X Without Spells approach
The City of Iron: More classes! (?) -- Brute & Archer
The City of Iron: More classes! -- Leader and Blade
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical BX to-do list: Fighter
R&R Character Class: Kensei (duelist)
R&R Character Class: Headhunter
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Beastmaster
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Bounty Hunter
B/X Blackrazor: Back When We Were Myrmidons Together (Fighter Level Titles)
The Normal Man / Woman
Joesky's Barbarian
Troll & Flame: Devil in the Details - Berserkers
Daddy Grognard The Rose Blades
Paladins
Initiates of Mithras
Paladins
Atlantean
Barbarians
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Barbarian
Ode to Black Dougal: B/X Barbarian Class
Zak's Random Barbarian
Zak's Alternate Fighter
Zak's New Random Ranger
Random Paladin
The Stranger
(John Carter Archetype)
The Machine-Bonded
Barbarian for Kitsune and Kensei
The Warlord
Wizard's Kiss: Warlord
Magic-Users and their kin
The Tombs of Akrasia: Easy Wizard Sub-Classes
Dyson's Dodecahedron: Fleshcrafters
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical to-do lists for Basic/Expert magic-users
Bargle: Vancian Spell Points System from CHAINMAIL
City of Iron: Elementalist Class
City of Iron: Necromancer Class
Dyson Logos: Enchanter Class
Dyson Logos: Merchant Prince Class
Hill Cantons: White Wizard
Magic-User Level titles
Houri Class
There's Dungeons Down Under: Pain-free, no-fuss Magic-User variants for the busy DM
Zak's Random Wizard
The Muscle Wizard
Magic-Users Without Spells
Necromancers
Illusionists
Conjurers
Weather-Workers
Sages
The Gadgeteer
The Spellblade
Hack & Slash: The Blue Mage
Magic-User Familiars
9 And 30 Kingdoms: Familiars
Familiars are terrible and difficult to fix
Monk
Dungeons and Digressions: Yogi
Grognard's Grimoire: S&W Monk
Monk class
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Assassin and Monk
based on Delving Deeper Thieves (see also
this monk modification
)
Natural Philosopher
Psionic Warrior
Thieves and their kin
PLANET ALGOL: Shadowdancer Prestige Class for Thieves
THE LAND OF NOD: The Shadowdancer
The City of Iron: More classes! -- Assassin redux
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical BX to-do lists: Thieves
R&R Character Class: Ninja
Beyond the Black Gate: Swords and Wizardry Thief class
Jovial Priest: Old School Thief using the best of the OSR rules
Zak's Thieves and Liars
9 and 30 Kingdoms: Tourists
based on Thief class
9 and 30 Kingdoms
Miners
and
Smiths
as Thief variants (mainly for dwarves, but open to all)
Grease Monkey
Magitek Engineer
The Alice/Alistair/Fool
The Bastard Class
Thief Skills
B/X BLACKRAZOR: No More Skill Rolls, Dammit!
Dyson Logos: d6 and 2d6 Thiefin for Basic Dungeons & Dragons
Robert Fisher: On thief skills in classic D&D
The City of Iron: Expanded Thief Class
Rather Gamey: Dead Simple Lock & Trap Mini-game
The City of Iron: Pick Pockets Results Charts
Untimately: Thief Draft including summary of OSR thieves
Mountebank
Hill Cantons: Mountebank
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Mountebank
Dyson Logos: Rat Cultists
Race as Class
Dwarves (as class)
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical BX to-do list: dwarf
Hill Cantons: Feral Dwarf
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Dwarven Troll Slayer
Jovial Priest: Dwarven Level Titles
Elves (as class)
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical BX to-do list: elves
City of Iron: Fey Class for Labyrinth Lord
Dyson Logos: Elven Warder Class
Jovial Priest: Elven Level Titles
Christmas Elves
Halflings (as class)
Hill Cantons: Black Hobbits
Strange Magic: Hobbits for B/X D&D
Jeffs Gameblog: canonical BX to-do list: Halflings
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Juggernaut
Dr. Samsara's Recasting B/X Demi-Humans as Human Classes
Desperate Courage
Jovial Priest: Halfling Level Titles
Gnomes (as class)
A Dungeon Master's Tale: Gnome Racial Class
Gnome Class (variant)
Trollsmyth: Charisma-based Gnome Class
Other, Non-Monstrous Races-as-Classes
Sky Men
Monsters (as class)
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Hengeyokai, or the Those With Two Skins
Ghoul
Godzilla-Man
Orangutan
Frogling
Stuffed Crocodile: Uruk Hai
Frightful Hobgoblin: The Orc
Stuffed Crocodile: Duckfolk
Strange Magic: How to Make a Monster PC
Underworld Cleaning Service: Mind Flayers
Underworld Cleaning Service: Lizard Men
Underworld Cleaning Service: Succubus
Underworld Cleaning Service: Centaurs
Underworld Cleaning Service: Blue Dragons
Grognardia: Goblins as a PC Race
Goblin Character Classes by John Wilson
Lovecraftian Races
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope: Mule Racial Class
Trollsmyth: Nixie Racial Class
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope: Octopus Racial Class
Lands of Ara: Ogres as PCs
Hill Cantons: Half-Ogre Racial Class
Trollsmyth: Half-ogre Racial Class
Underworld Cleaning Service: Half-Orcs
Underworld Cleaning Service: Ogres
Trollsmyth: Pixie Racial Class
Saturday Night Sandbox: Equestrian Ponies!
R&R Character Class: Hengeyokai (shape changer)
Dyson Logos: Toad Racial Class
Moribund (undead)
Shallow Ones
Orcs, Half-Orcs, Ogres, Minotaurs, Trolls etc as Player Characters
Vampire Class
Green Martian Warrior
3- and 4-Handed Weapons
Shardik
(Bear people)
Octorok
War Dog
Warpstar Knights
(Kirby)
Exiled Siren
The Beast, for all your sentient animal needs
Character Races
Untimately: Were Creatures
– playable write-up for a Were-man race that includes stats, rules on how and under what circumstances a player shifts to and from were-form
Dwarves (as race)
Elves (as race)
The Problem of Elves
Gypsy Elves
Gnomes (as race)
Halflings (as race)
Desperate Courage
Half-Orcs (as race)
Humans (as race)
Cultural Archetypes
Character Alignment
The Priest of Chaos Said
The Priest of Law Said
Roles, Rules & Rolls: "Ten Commandments" PC alignment system
Jeff Rient's Threefold Apocalyptic Alignment System
Daddy Grognard Good, Evil and the Line Between Them
Zeal's Expanded Alignment System
Check For Traps - All About Alignment
Check For Traps - All About Alignment Part II
Jovial Priest: Unaligned - a new alignment choice
Dyson Logos - Alternative Alignment System
Languages
Stuart Marshall on Alignment and Alignment Languages
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse: Sprechen sie Neutral?
Weapons and Equipment
Dungeon of Signs: Dogs aboard the HMS Apollyon
Strange Magic: Heavy Arms and Armour in B/X D&D
Magician's Manse: Making Weapons More Interesting
Equipment Costs
Untimately: OD&D Equipment
Troll & Flame: Starting Equipment
Random Starting Equipment Chart
Kenneth Hodges' Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Prices
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter,Dollar (Improvising Equipment Costs)
Jovial Priest: Acquirement and a Silver Based Economy
Delta's DnD Hotspot: On Money
Armor
Historical Sources
Gary's Source Book on Armor: free link to Charles Ffoulkes' 1909 book, Armour & Weapons
Armor Class
Jovial Priest: Armor for Thieves and Magic-Users
Aeons & Augauries: The Naked Warrior or Diapers in the Dungeon
Paladin in Citadel: Dexterity As Armor Class
Weapons versus Armor Class
Dragonsfoot: Weapon Types versus Armor Class
Delta's D&D Hotspot Weapons vs. AC
Shields
Trollsmyth: Shields Shall be Splintered!
See JD's comment regarding rearranging AC to give shields more emphasis
Helmets and Headgear
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Headgear
Mecha
Building Mecha
Poisons
Daddy Grognard: Poisoned!
B/X Blackrazor: Poison Tag
Jovial Priest: Poison, made simple
Weapons
Firearms
Dungeon of Signs: Firearms Fumbles
B/X Blackrazor's Adding Firearms to B/X D&D
Non-Combat Equipment
Dungeon Equipment
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements: The Oily Rag
Transport
Land Transport
Society of Torch, Pole and Rope: Get your horses here
Sea Transport
Hill Cantons: Ships for Classic D&D
Spells
The City of Iron: Theorems & Thaumaturgy
Clerical Spells
Lord Kilgore: Random Table for Determining NPC Cleric's Memorized Spells
Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Clerics without spells
Magic-User and Elf Spells
Ode to Black Dougal: B/X Magic-User Spellbooks
Elf & Magic-User Sumerian Spell Names & Command Words
Cantrips
Interpretation of Known Spells
The City of Iron: Wild Magic: Light!
The City of Iron: Wild Magic and the Humble Hold Portal
Cyclopeatron: Sleep Spell
New Spells
More Spells and Ideas for the Vivimancer | Skirmisher Publishing LLC
Spells for the Vivimancer | Skirmisher Publishing LLC
A (Spells)
Alabaster Homonculus
Auric Devourer
B (Spells)
Brimstone Monolith
Brood of Sin
C (Spells)
Chalice of Asmodeus
D (Spells)
Demand
Dreadcube
E (Spells)
Etheric Screen
F (Spells)
Face of Terror
G (Spells)
H (Spells)
I (Spells)
Inscribe Curse
J (Spells)
K (Spells)
L (Spells)
The City of Iron: Wild Magic: Light!
M (Spells)
N (Spells)
O (Spells)
P (Spells)
Pact of Brass
Perform Function
Q (Spells)
R (Spells)
S (Spells)
Sharkwave
Silver Negation
Summon Aerial Trilobite
Sussuration
T (Spells)
U (Spells)
V (Spells)
W (Spells)
X (Spells)
Y (Spells)
Z (Spells)
Collections of Spells
Mostin's Metempsychotic Reversal & 10 other Vancian Spells
Four Horrid Spells
Two d30 Spells
The City of Iron: Spells of Thread & Rope
Kellri's AD&D Spell Reference
Dyson Logos: Elven Warder Spells
The City of Iron: An Arcane Alphabet
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Some New Spells and A Question About Them
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: One Thousand Hogs, Etc.
Enchanter Spells
Dyson Logos: 8 Enchanter Spells
RetroRPG: Hypnotic Music
Illusionist Spells
The City of Iron: Codex Prisms
The City of Iron: Illusory Abode
Fighter Spells
Weapon Tracking
Spellbooks
The Hydras Grotto's house rules for research and Spellbooks
Jeff and ChicagoWiz's Discussion on Copying Spells into Spellbooks
Uk-Ketabb Spellbook
Other
Daddy Grognard: Curses!
Dyson Logos: 48 Random Curses
Troll & Flame: Variations on Vance
Spell Memorization Effects ("Side Effect Magic") by James Maliszewski
Secondary Powers and Residual Effects from Spell Memorization by Trollsmyth
Troll & Flame: Personalized Magic
Casting Unmemorized Spells
Rambling Bumblers: Ad Vance: To a More Vancian Magic
Jovial Priest: Staves and Wands
Carapace King: Ley Lines
Using magical locations as a replacement for divine casting.
Blood Druid Spells
[
1
]
Dungeon Crawl Classics Magic for the Rest of Us
Magical Research and Production
The City of Iron: d30 Table of Magical Research Results
Untimately: Magical Research Assistance
The Adventure
Beginning the Adventure
Adventure Hooks
Daddy Grognard Holy Hooks
Daddy Grognard Hooks Apocalypse
Daddy Grognard Hooks You Can Bank On
Daddy Grognard A Right Royal Bunch of Hooks
Party Size and Composition
Shams Grog n Blog: Entourage Approach
Organizing a Party
Motivation
Hack & Slash: Megadungeon Adventuring Hooks
Time
OD&D Discussion: Keeping track of turns during crawls/wilderness
Movement
Hidden in Shadows: A Matter of Inches...
OD&D Discusion: Sneaking and Hiding without Thieves
Blood of Prokopius: Holmes & Cook - Movement
Encumbrance
games with others: Inventory Management & Encumbrance in Older D&D (Part 2)
Rotten Pulp: Matt Rundle's Anti-Hammerspace Item Tracker
Delta's D&D Hot Spot: Encumbrance
Delta's D&D Hot Spot: On Bags of Holding
Aerial Adventurers
Dungeon Adventures
Hack & Slash: On Gameplay in the Megadungeon
One Page Dungeon Contest
(1PDC) has tons of single page adventures
Dungeon Maps by Tim Hartin
– thread with fifty pages of mapping goodness (there’s an archive at his website
Paratime Design Cartography
)
Dyson's Maps A Week
; he also posts maps in the
maps category of his website
Monsters
Dungeon Design: On Wandering Monsters
Light
Dungeon Design: Light, Distances & Decisions
Infravision
Old School D&D Mechanics - Infravision
Doors
Playing D&D with Porn Stars: Key mechanic
Ode to Black Dougal: Marked For Death
– getting thrown into prison and escaping
Environment
Gorgonmilk: d30 Table of Dungeon Diseases
Telecanter: The Original Tumbling Dungeon
and
its ongoing use in play
Horror Adventures
Dreams in the Lich House: Horror in Dungeons & Dragons
Planar Adventures
Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Doing Without Planes
Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: Ethereal and Astral
Daddy Grognard Men with Sticks and Ropes
Urban Adventures
Playing D&D with Porn Stars: Urban Rules for Slacker DMs
Society Torch Pole Rope: What's going on in the town
Daddy Grognard Hooks and the City Part 1
Daddy Grognard Hooks and the City Part 2
Daddy Grognard Hooks and the City Part 3
Daddy Grognard Hooks and the City Part 4
Underland (spelunking) Adventures
Waterborne Adventures
DM Muse Weather Generator
Sea of O'sr ships, islands and saltbox encounters
Wilderness Adventures
Hidden in Shadows: % in Lair
Old School Psionics: Food-chain competition in game play
Roles, Rules, and Rolls: One-Page Wilderness System
Aeons & Augaries: Who Rules Here?
Troll & Flame: The Mythic Wilderness
Nine And Thirty Kingdoms: How's the Weather?
Daddy Grognard If you go down to the woods today...
RPG Blog II: Making Your Wilderness Wild
of Pedantry: Roughing It - Wilderness Travel System
Tao of D&D: Noodling with Travel, further development of a Wilderness Travel System
Nine and Thirty Kingdoms (with Link to Spawn of Endra post):
Hunting Rules
and
Foraging Rules
Jovial Priest: Rules for Mounts
Carapace King: River Fording
Miscellaneous Adventures
The Underdark Gazette: Conan and the Cheap DM A Guide to Free Resources for Running a Hyborian Age Campaign
The Underdark Gazette: Conan and the Cheap DM Revisited A Few More Free Resources for Running Hyboria
Sword+1: Space Fantasy OD&D Style
Adventures Wiki
is a collection of links to old school adventures in the blogosphere
Traps (finding)
A New Way to Handle Exploratory Skills
Jovial Priest: find traps or FIND TRAPS
Traps (designing)
DND With Porn Stars: Some Trap Theory (a taxonomy of traps and reasons for their existence)
Telecanter's Receding Rules: Traps! (quick trap generating)
Experience Points
Dungeon of Signs: Drunk in Denethix - ASE Carousing Table
Dungeon of Signs: The Price of Knowledge - Carousing for ASE Scientists
Jeffs Gameblog: Party like its 999
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Carousing, Inc.
Troll & Flame: Negative XP
The Tao of D&D: Experience Solved
Jeff's Gameblog: eXPloration
The Encounter
Order of Events in One Game Turn
Surprise
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Surprise rules & guidelines
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully: Consolidated Surprise Roll
Old-School Psionics: Understanding 1e surprise rules
Monster Reactions
The Alexandrian: Hostile Forces
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Encounter Reaction/Morale table
A Dungeon Master's Tale: Outdoor Encounters
Combat
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: How To Keep Keep Simple Combat Interesting
Roles, Rules, and Rolls: Combat Escalation
Combat Sequence
Eldritch Wizardry Initiative for use in Ad&d
Troll & Flame: Combat Sequence of Play
Grumpy Old Troll: OD&D Chainmail Combat
Old School Psionics: Initiative, Weapon Speed, & Charging
Defensive Movement
How to Attack
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Called Shots
Protecting Party Members In Combat
Troll & Flame: Choice via Simplicity
The Tao of D&D: Weapon Breakage
B/X Blackrazor: Auto-Hits
Tales of the Rambling Bumblers: Super-Simple Combat Maneuvers
Target 20 System
(simplified attack and saving throw system by Daniel R. Collins)
Advanced Gaming & Theory: Random Combat Events
Carapace King: Fighting Giant Monsters
Damage
1, 2, 3 Hit Mooks
: Don’t worry about tracking every last hit point.
Jeff's Gameblog: Consolation Prize-based Weapon Mechanics
Trollsmyth: Shields will be splintered
Akratic Wizardry: Anyone can Backstab...
Troll & Flame: Deadlier Death and Dismemberment
Missile Fire
Delta's D&D Hotspot: Indoor Missile Ballistics
Delta's D&D Hotspot: Basic D&D on Archery
Melee
B/X Blackrazor: Two Weapon Combat
B/X Blackrazor: Class Based Variable Weapon Damage
B/X Blackrazor: Explaining D6 Damage
Class Based Limits on Damage
Rule of the Assayers I - Weapons, Armor, Combat
Super-Simple Combat Maneuvers
...and the sky full of dust: Simple Knock-Out Rules
Unarmed Combat
The Tao of D&D Unarmed Combat
Troll & Flame: Grappling
Weekend Wizardry: Unarmed Combat
The Sky Full of Dust: Goblin Kiss and other demihuman unarmed combat moves
Group Maneuvers
Vaults of Nagoh: Shield Wall rules
Cavalry and Mounted Combat
Delta's D&D Hotspot: Basic D&D on Cavalry
Morale
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Encounter Reaction/Morale table
Walk Through of CHAINMAIL morale
Rule of the Dice: How I put crazy in my game (Sanity levels for D6 Horror)
Mass Land Combat
How to Run CHAINMAIL: An Example using Tokien's Battle of the Five Armies.
Massive Combat System by Joesky the Dungeon Brawler
Microlite20: Mass Combat Made Easy
Old School Psionics: Mass Combat Rules - the easy way!
Jovial Priest: 'On the fly' mass combat rules
Saving Throws
Delta's D&D Hotspot: Saves as Severity
Monsters
Individual Monsters
A
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Aboleth
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Aerial Servant
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Agathion
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Anhkheg
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Ant, Giant
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Ape and Carnivorous Ape
Old School Psionics: Perils of astral travel - Astral Searchers
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Axe Beak
B
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Baboon
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Badgers
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Baku
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Baluchitherium
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Barracuda!
Daddy Grognard An Adventure for Every Monster - Bears
From the Sorcerer's Skull: Hateful Glare - The Beholder Examined
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Basilisk
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Beaver, Giant
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Beetle
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Beholder
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Black Pudding
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Blink Dogs
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Boar, Wild
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Brownie
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Buffalo
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Bugbear
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Bulette
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Bull
C
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Camel, Wild
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Carrion Crawler
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Catoblepas
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Centaur
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Centipede, Giant
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Chimera
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Cockatrice
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Couatl
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Crayfish, Giant
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Crocodile
Carcass Fiddler (Lunching on Lamias
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Couatl
Crypt Crawler
D
...and the sky full of dust: Daskdraudigs
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Devas
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon (Manes)
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon (Succubus)
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon, Type I
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon, Type II
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon, Type III
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon, Type IV
Daddy Grognard: An Adventure for Every Monster - Demon, Type V
Doppelganger
Daeling
Hill Cantons: Deodand
Dragons
Old Guard's d6 Unique Dragon Generator
Untimately: Dragon Draft
Unworthy Cudgel's Dragons and dragon-creation rules
Blood of Prokopius: Druids as Monsters and want to be Elementals
Druthers
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Duergar
E
Elementals
Dyson Logos: Elemental Subtypes - Air Elementals
Dyson Logos: Elemental Subtypes - Earth Elementals
Dyson Logos: Elemental Subtypes - Fire Elementals
Dyson Logos: Elemental Subtypes - Water Elementals
Dyson Logos: Elemental Subtypes - Wood Elementals
The City of Iron: Sub-Elementals (Mud, Frost, Lava, Ash, Steam)
The City of Iron: Elementines
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Elemental Princes
Elves, Gypsy
Ettin -- Rolang's Creeping Doom
Dyson Logos: Eye, Obscene
F
Facethief & 3 Other Mosnters By Vaults of Nagoh
Formless Spawn of Azoth
G
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Githyanki
Goblins
The Tao of D&D: Kicking Goblins Back Down Stairs
Golym Zul-Dukh
H
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Hollyphant
I
...and the sky full of dust: Inklings
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Intellect Devourer
Zenopus Archives: EGG's Iron Skeletons of Grusyin
J
K
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Ki-rin
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Kraken, greater
Kuo-Toa: see “Ponaturi” below
L
Carapace King: Leaf Leapers
Lycanthropes
Daddy Grognard Werewolverine
M
Medusa -- Rolang's Creeping Doom
Old School Psionics: Sith Lords of D&D - Mind Flayers
Carapace King: Moth, Doomsday
Mechanical
Brass Jackal
N
O
Oni (Weekend Wizardry)
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Opinicus
P
Hill Cantons: Pelgrane
B/X Blackrazor: Ponaturi (Kuo-Toa)
Plant
Tantalus Vine (A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons/Lunching on Lamias
Q
R
The Land of Nod: Reindeer, Flying
S
Monster Manual Sewn From Pants: Slaad
Shutai -- Hamsterish Hoard
From the Sorcerer's Skull: Any Color You Like, They're All Slaad
Dyson Logos: Stag Centaurs
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Su-monster
T
Jeffs Gameblog: Trumpeter of Doom
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Thought Eater
U
Daddy Grognard: Undead Stirges (and Stirge Zombies)
Dyson Logos: Undead Guardians of Veroth
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Ustilagor
V
Vomiter -- Playing D&D With Porn Stars
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Vagabond
W
Worms
Corpse Worms (Lunching on Lamias)
Carapace King: Wingworms
X
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - XagYa & XegYi
Y
Old School Psionics: Psionic Monster profile - Yuan Ti
Z
Zombies
Daddy Grognard Flame Zombies
Maggot Farmers (Swords & Dorkery)
Bestiaries
Monsters Wiki: Old School Stat Blocks for Monsters (OGL and other free licenses)
Sham's Grog 'n Blog: Random Monster Determination
(
bestiary
)
Monsters by A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Varlets & Vermin low level monsters
Metal Earth: Science Fantasy Critters
Undead Variants -- Valley of Blue Snails
Daddy Grognard: Something Nasty in the Water
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: All Zak's monsters
Kellri's PDF Reference for AD&D Monsters
The Book of Beings by David C. Lovelace
Unworthy Cudgel's Bestiary
Monster Generators
Lost Papers of Tsojcanth: On Deconstructing Monsters
tengoldpiecegems: SUPER-SIMPLE RANDOM BEASTIES
Monster Design
Playing D&D With Porn Stars:Imaginable Monsters, Sci-Fi Monsters, etc.
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Review of Every Monster In Alphabetical Order (post series, link begins w/entry "Z")
Strange Magic: Cutting Monster Entries Down to Size
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Bad Monsters
(post series, start at bottom)
Jeff's Mutation Chart Compilation
Metal Earth: Keeping things fresh over the long haul
Nine and Thirty Kingdoms: DMing genius monsters
Dyson Logos: Reskinning Dragons
Dyson Logos: Uniquely Undead
Jovial Priest: XP drain not Level Drain
Wandering Monsters
Hidden in Shadows: Number Appearing
Wandering Monster Tables
K&K analysis of monster & treasure assortment by level
Sham's Grog 'n Blog: Random Monster Determination
(
random monsters
)
Sword & Board: Caravan Encounters
1d8: What are those wandering monsters up to?
Non Player Characters
Arabic Names
Jeffs Gameblog: random medieval Welsh names
Jeffs Gameblog: random medieval Welsh names
Jeffs Gameblog: medieval Flemish names
Jeffs Gameblog: random Cornish names
Planet Algol: 160 Random NPC Traits
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Dramatic Personae NPC traits
and
Dungeon Rivals
Daddy Grognard: Mentors, Meatshields and Mary Sues
Beyond the Black Gate: Monsterless Manual NPC statblocks
...and the sky full of dust: NPC Motivations
Reaction Check and the Reasons Behind It
Retainers / Henchmen
Meatshields!: The Classic Fantasy Hireling and Henchman Generator
A Paladin in Citadel: Henchmen Followers and Hirelings
Hill Cantons: One Hireling List to Rule Them All
Cyclopeatron: Henchman Card Fillable PDFs
Sham's Entourage Approach
Grognardia: Retainers in Moldvay/Cook/Marsh
Telecanter: Hireling Traits table
Hack & Slash: On the Strong and Weak Henchmen Forces
B/X Blackrazor: 3 posts on Charisma and Henchmen
Specialists and Mercenaries
Old School Psionics: Population distribution of Psionic NPCs
Old School Psionics: Seeding the City with wild Psionics
Old School Psionics: Creation Psionic NPCs the easy way
Treasure
Treasure Types
Coins
Advanced Swords & Sorcery: Ancient and Medieval Coins (PDF)
Land of Nod: Ten Uncommon Coins
Gems
The Tao of D&D: Ornamental Gems
Jovial Priest: G Is For Gemstones
(quick tables to determine gemstone based on value.)
Jeff's Gameblog: Semiprecious Stones, base 50 gp value
Jeff's Gameblog: Fancy Stones, base 100 gp value
Jeff's Gameblog: Precious Stones, base 500 gp value
Jeff's Gameblog: Gem Stones, base 1,000 gp value
Jewelry
Hoards
Daddy Grognard - A Hoard for Every Treasure Type - A
Daddy Grognard - A Hoard for Every Treasure Type - B
Daddy Grognard - A Hoard for Every Treasure Type - C
Miscellaneous
Hack & Slash: Guide to Creating Interesting Treasure
Ars Ludi:Treasure Tells a Story
Daddy Grognard: Coming Soon...(A Hoard for Every Treasure Type)
Magic Items
Magic Items by A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons
Troll & Flame: Magic Items should be Magical
Weapon
Beyond the Black Gate: An alternate way to generate magic weapons
Swords
B/X Blackrazor: B/X Blackrazor
Dyson Logos: Blackrazor's Kin, the Six Kale Swords
Trollsmyth: Bloodthirsty Sword
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less: Wayedge
Jovial Priest: Cursed Swords
Dia Marfoir, the God-Slayer Sword
Other Weapons
The Flail of Biting Insults
Armor
Dented Helm of St Cassius
Musings from the Dungeon: Skod's Shield
Potion
Dyson Logos: 6 Magic Potions
Dyson Logos: 6 More Magic Potions
Book and Scroll
Labyrinth Lord Spell Book / Known Spells Generator
Jovial Priest: Cursed Scrolls Retrospective
Tomb of Many Tongues
Ring
Wand/Staff/Rod
I Don't Feel Like Tracking Charges
(using dice rolls to determine when an item is drained)
Miscellaneous
Dungeons and Digressions: Grasping Gauntlets
Hamsterish Hoard: Dipteron's Panacea
Hamsterish Hoard: Some Hedge Magic Items
Monsters & Manuals: Kojo Cigarettes
From the Sorcerer's Skull: Tintype of Dark Wonder
Dyson Logos: Mitral Spheres
Cyclopeatron: Culinary Guide to Wizard Entrails
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: all Zak's items
Rare Books in D&D
Teleli: Fetters of Friendship
Trollsmyth: Wayedge
Trollsmyth: Brian's Satyrical Poetry
Land of Nod: Mystic minerals
Weekend Wizardry: Wineskin of Satyr Summoning
Weekend Wizardry: Double Bottle of Analysis
Weekend Wizardry: Urn of Phantom Trapping
Weekend Wizardry: Bottle of Instant Sedimentation
Weekend Wizardry: Vase of Opulent Growth
Weekend Wizardry: Hip Flask of Concealment and Beaker of Temperature Extremes
Tim Brannan: Magical Hats
Poor Man's Jug
The Wizard's Brain
Ash of the Bitter Fields
The Necklace of Saint Barry
Cursed Items
Weekend Wizardry: Coin of Confusion
The Cutting Stone
Artifacts
Dyson Logos: The Throne of Bone
Unworthy Cudgel's Artifacts
Preparing and Running the Game
General Advice
Hack & Slash: On a Guide for New Dungeon Masters
Hack & Slash: Techniques to increase player agency
Dreams in the Lich House: Say Yes; Skill Checks in a Rules-Lite-System
The Architect DM: How real life locations can be applied to a D&D game
Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Making your campaign METAL!
Beyond the Black Gate: High Fantasy Campaigns
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Songs Useful In D&D Games Renamed To Reflect The Situations Wherein I Have Used Or Plan To Use Said Music
Jeff's Gameblog: how to Awesome-Up Your Players
Kellri's Old School Encounter Reference
Grand Experiments: West Marches
Gorgonmilk: Boiling Down Your Campaign To Its Essential Salts
Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Guide to Adventure Writing
Grognardia: Locale and Plot
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: How Much Do You Want To Be A Wizard?
Sham's Grog 'n' Blog: OD&D Cover to Cover
Sham's Grog 'n' Blog: The Empty Room Principle
A Dungeon Master's Tale: Discuss, Decide, Describe and Resolve Pt. I: The DM
A Dungeon Master's Tale: Discuss, Decide, Describe and Resolve Pt. II: The Players
A Dungeon Master's Tale: Discuss, Decide, Describe and Resolve Pt. III: The Dice
Cyclopeatron: Simple Multi-Ability Checks in Classic D&D
Check For Traps - Foundations of Gamemastering
Check For Traps - Judging the Game
Check For Traps - It's Not Your Story
Check For Traps - The Gamemaster As Satan
Check For Traps - Adversaries Are Made of People
Check For Traps - Managing Problems and Players
Check For Traps - How to Host an RPG Session
Check For Traps - Violence and Viscera
Tales of the Rambling Bumblers: Sandbox Play
Tales of the Rambling Bumblers: Welcome to the Jungle!
Jeff's Gameblog: 20 Quick questions for your Campaign Setting
Jeffs Gameblog: Triple Secret Random Dungeon Fate Chart of Very Probable Doom
B/X Blackrazor A to Z Series: Making your Campaign Kick Ass
"The Oat-Bran Rule": Inter-player social skills
Choose a Scenario
The SAME UNIVERSE WIKI - A campaign world and house rule wiki
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: The One True Table, First Draft + Reader Participation
Jeff's Gameblog: Epic Sandboxery
Map Making
Trollsmyth: Hex Mapping Part (series)
The Warlock's 4 Part Map Making Tutorial
Beyond the Black Gate: Mapping Resource Links
Hexographer
, mapping software that runs in your browser
Alex Schroeder: Old School Hex Map Tutorial
using Inkscape
Hill Cantons: How to Awesome Up Fantasy Maps
The Hydra's Grotto: In Praise of the 6 Mile Hex
Dungeon Creation
Alex Schroeder: Quality Dungeons
Alex Schroeder: How To Build A Dungeon
Advice on building a megadungeon, and a campaign around it by Benoist
The Dungeon as a Mythic Underworld
Dave's Mapper
using dungeon geomorphs from all over the place
Hack & Slash Dungeon Entrances
Beyond the Black Gate: Megadungeon Resources
Hack & Slash Tricks, Empty Rooms & Basic Trap Design
Melan: Dungeon Mapping
Ars Ludi: Curing the Bad Trap Blues
Tavis Allison: Friction Points and Wandering Monsters
Kellri's Dungeon Geomorphs
Fighting Fantasist's Dungeon Dressing Tables
Wilderness Creation
What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse: Civilization, Borderlands and Wilderness
Urban Creation
The Welsh Piper: automated tool for creating fantasy populations
S. John Ross: Medieval Demographics Made Easy
Logistical Demographics of the Ancient Wilderness, and other snooze inducers...part VI
Feast! Tables for food, drink, reveling companions and events both ordinary and odd
Hill Cantons: Founding a Town
Magician's Manse: Random Village Situations
Organic Campaigns
Jeffs Gameblog: Running Some Numbers: Sea Voyages
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Watercrawl (adventures on ships)
The Savage Sword of Scadgrad: Random Lairs for the Wilderness Sandbox
The Welsh Piper: Hex-based Campaign Design
,
Part 2
Bat in the Attic: How to make a Fantasy Sandbox
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Conan Knew More About Cimmeria than Howard Did
Grognardia: Picaro and the 'Story' of D&D
Vaults of Nagoh: Memestorms and Ideocults
Check For Traps - Tops and Bottoms in Worldbuilding
Check For Traps - Building a Campaign Gazette
Check For Traps - Putting Your World in Motion
Check For Traps - The Challenge of Campaigning
Character-Based Sandbox Campaigns
- Loose Ends, Bonus XP For Letting Bad Guys Escape
Religion and Metaphysics Creation
Dungeons and Digressions: The Mysteries of a Religious Order
Old School Psionics: God embedded in the natural world
Traps
Hack & Slash: Spellbook Traps
Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Some Trap Theory
Tricks
Roles, Rules & Rolls: Endless Bag of Tricks
Jeff's Mutation Table Compilation
Hack & Slash Dungeon Tricks & Traps
Upkeep, Dominions and Rulership
Hill Cantons: Construction Rules for Classic D&D
Hill Cantons: Foraging and Farming Rules for Classic D&D
The Penultimate Harn Page: The Medieval Farming Year
Dungeons and Digressions: Table of Taxes, Fines, Tariffs and Fees
Retrorpg: Debtors Prison
Roles, Rules and Rolls: Level Titles as Money Sink
Psionics
Old School Psionics: Psionics made enjoyable - three simple rules mods
Hack & Slash: Old School Psionics
House Rule Collections
The City of Iron: Labyrinths of Madness
– Lovecraftian games of horror and investigation
The Age of Conan and Warriors of Mars
Hill Cantons Compendium
Delta's Dnd Hotspot: Primary House Rules
Inspirational Sources
Reviews of old and new material
E. Gary Gygax
TSR Products
Jeff's Gameblog: Eldritch Wizardry
Grognardia: A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity
Grognardia: B1 In Search of the Unknown
Grognardia: B4 The Lost City
Grognardia: C1 The Hidden Shrine Tamoachan
Grognardia: D3 Vault of the Drow
Grognardia: Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits
Grognardia: I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City
Grognardia: Isle of the Ape
Grognardia: Warhammer Fantasy Role Play
Grognardia: Traveller--76 Patrons
OSR Products
The Underdark Gazette: A Guide to Free OSR Resources
Grognardia: Michael Curtis's Stonehell Dungeon
The Underdark Gazette: Tim Shorts's Knowledge Illuminates
Troll Lord Games Products
Appendix N
Jack Vance
Jeff's Gameblog This Is Vancian Magic (excerpt from Vance)
Grognardia on The Dying Earth
Rambling Bumblers: Ad Vance: To a More Vancian Magic
Fritz Leiber
…
H.P. Lovecraft
…
J.R.R. Tolkien
Monsters & Manuals on Tolkien Vs. D&D
The Hydra's Grotto; The Hobbit 1937
Films
Daddy Grognard: The Mummy - best D&D film ever?