These Old Games

Right now, I am in the planning stages of a new Star Frontiers campaign. I do this to myself every year. I want to play a game exactly at ...

Welcome back. Tick-tick-tick! The counter is down to 90 days. What do I got?  A lot more and less than what I need. First, let me do a shout...

I don't see why AI art is all the rage, but boy do like it for blog posts.   Revenants of the Lost Temple will be heavily themed, simila...

As you have probably noticed, there have been changes to the front page of These Old Games. Gone are some of the ads and they have been repl...

I use various metals in my campaigns. I have written at length about silver for weapons, here , here , and here . The gist of all of these p...

For some strange reason, in all of my years of playing D&D, not one of my players has expressed a wish for the reincarnation or resurrec...

I am continuing to work on this town, I think I have a name: Manteva. I am looking at some old maps of Italy and this one jumped out at me. ...

The above quote is from Gregory Benford. And it's a truism for RPGs. While I build beautiful worlds in my notes, very little of that mak...

I only have a few more reviews to hit my goal of 52 for 2021. A few weeks ago a reader gave me a whole set of e5 books. So, e5 it is. One of...

This morning, I busted out some pens and graph paper to come up with the next scenario for my Star Wars campaign. This post is somewhat appl...

My Neimoidian bounty hunter, La'ow Houd needs a ship. I started working on a rough image for it. I'm trying to get some sense of pro...

I've picked a name for my Neimoidian bounty hunter, La'ow Houd. I have also modified some rules to allow him to be a bounty hunter. ...

I'm running a Star Wars campaign on the very distant planet of Tankeren. I need to know some stuff about Tankeren to create this setting...

 I inserted my new longboat like houses and roughed out the walls. The tower evolved a bit but I like it.  Not bad for a quick map in Worldo...

A few months ago, I picked up a whole suite of software for mapping and world building. I have to tell you, the Worldographer software is e...

No, the Romans didn't have 8 hour days, but their time measurement was chaotic.  As mentioned in the last post , I will be talkin...

Sunset is a natural break in activity. Dinner is done, the fire is lit and it's time to settle down around the campfire. Unless yo...