The Retired Adventurer

It's been a while since I've updated this blog, so here's a brief apology and explanation of what I've been up to instead: I...

Someone on the OSR Discord server asked me to write this up in a blog post, so I thought I would talk a little bit about terrain for hex map...

The island of Ursino (not-Corsica) on Verra has a bunch of gnolls. The gnolls are cursed mercenaries who were brought in as exiles from the ...

 There is now a system reference document (SRD) available for Openquest 3rd edition. The SRD is free to download from this link , and will e...

Here's a simple and fast system for placing locations of interest in a single hex on a grid. I am assuming a four hour watch as the basi...

Blogs on Tape recorded my Six Cultures of Play article  for anyone who finds reading giant walls of text difficult. I've been featured...

I picked up my first roleplaying game book in 1991, when I was eight years old. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, w...