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"01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac476dbf2cd", "title": "Yes, you ARE telling a story.", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2024/02/yes-you-are-telling-story.html", "published_at": "2024-02-01T18:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac477d11767", "title": "Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2024/01/fifty-years-of-dungeons-dragons.html", "published_at": "2024-01-11T00:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47821403d", "title": "Those Who Cross the Boundaries May Be Attacked: Gamers Hating Other Gamers", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2024/01/those-who-cross-boundaries-may-be.html", "published_at": "2024-01-05T16:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac478b4cf8d", "title": "A Reality Check for Language Rules in Your Fantasy Game (and rationalizing alignment languages)", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-reality-check-for-language-rules-in.html", "published_at": 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"01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47ba4bdee", "title": "The First Rumor Tables, Part 2: Caverns of Thracia or Caverns of Quasqueton?", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-first-rumor-tables-part-2-caverns.html", "published_at": "2023-09-20T13:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47c5d8f81", "title": "The First Rumor Tables", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-first-rumor-tables.html", "published_at": "2023-09-20T01:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47c8e742b", "title": "Hexmaps and Random Encounters before D&D", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2023/09/hexmaps-and-random-encounters-before-d.html", "published_at": "2023-09-02T20:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47ce6effb", "title": "A new look at the early history of \"railroading\" and non-anglophone RPG design", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-new-look-at-early-history-of.html", "published_at": "2023-02-05T19:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47d80cd2e", "title": "Why D&D has Hit Points per Level for the Acquisition of Gold", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2022/12/why-d-has-hit-points-per-level-for.html", "published_at": "2022-12-14T21:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47e631906", "title": "Starting Equipment Packages in Older Games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2022/08/starting-equipment-packages-in-older.html", "published_at": "2022-08-15T17:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47e8b4fbb", "title": "The Commodification of Fantasy Adventure Games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-commodification-of-fantasy.html", "published_at": "2022-08-02T02:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879a-9f31-728b-9546-fac47f18aba3", "title": "On RPG Play-sytles, Part 3: Classic Playstyle versus Trad Playstyle versus OSR?", "url": 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"https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/04/d-original-twenty-character-stats.html", "published_at": "2021-04-26T14:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e51d36535", "title": "Alternative Spell Rules for Knave", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/04/alternative-spell-rules-for-knave.html", "published_at": "2021-04-25T19:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e5269fbe8", "title": "From consecutive dice to 2x1d6 grid to d66", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/04/from-consecutive-dice-to-2x1d6-grid-to.html", "published_at": "2021-04-02T14:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e5276f712", "title": "The first D66 and an early \"rules-light\" RPG", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-first-d66-and-early-rules-light-rpg.html", "published_at": "2021-04-01T17:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e52c74b3b", "title": "The Roots of Slot-Based Encumbrance", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-roots-of-slot-based-encumbrance.html", "published_at": "2021-03-10T15:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e52d8b4fe", "title": "One Year of Writing about Role-Playing Games, 2020-2021", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/02/one-year-of-writing-about-role-playing.html", "published_at": "2021-02-02T13:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e530e8c35", "title": "How You Started", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-you-started.html", "published_at": "2021-01-22T19:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e53b8a8c1", "title": "Knowing Your Players and Their Kicks", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/01/knowing-your-players-and-their-kicks.html", "published_at": "2021-01-11T23:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e53e1dbf8", "title": "Repeated Attempts by Different Characters", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/01/repeated-attempts-by-different.html", "published_at": "2021-01-05T16:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e54113c50", "title": "When the Grognards Were Munchkins", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2021/01/when-grognards-were-munchkins.html", "published_at": "2021-01-03T18:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e543026d7", "title": "REVIEW: Jon Peterson, The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (2020)", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-jon-peterson-elusive-shift-how.html", "published_at": "2020-12-26T15:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb57-d6eb-701e-bfce-e41e54a5e923", "title": "The Fiend Factory of the Fans", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-fiend-factory-of-fans.html", "published_at": "2020-12-07T20:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0344-7279-90a4-16c9f6c137b7", "title": "Why I don't use monster reaction rolls", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/09/why-i-dont-use-monster-reaction-rolls.html", "published_at": "2020-09-15T17:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a55659cf92c6", "title": "Combat as a Contest in Table-Top Role-Playing Games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/09/combat-as-contest-in-table-top-role.html", "published_at": "2020-09-13T02:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565a72986b", "title": "Wandering Monsters for the First Time", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/08/wandering-monsters-for-first-time.html", "published_at": "2020-08-09T21:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565aee6d73", "title": "The Many Deaths of the OSR", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-many-deaths-of-osr.html", "published_at": "2020-08-04T21:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565bbf12ec", "title": "The Original D&D Skill Rules", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-original-d-skill-rules.html", "published_at": "2020-07-24T19:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565ca4b1ee", "title": "Fortune Favors the Bold, An alternative to XP for GP", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/07/fortune-favors-bold-alternative-to-xp.html", "published_at": "2020-07-21T03:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565caeb3f5", "title": "Luck Stats in Early Role-Playing Games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/07/luck-stats-in-early-role-playing-games.html", "published_at": "2020-07-18T04:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565d10e222", "title": "D&D Alignment System and System Misalignment: Early Roots of D&D Morality", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/07/d-alignment-system-and-system.html", "published_at": "2020-07-08T20:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565d602755", "title": "Myths of the Early OSR 2: The Only Old-School Game Was D&D", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/07/myths-of-early-osr-2-only-old-school.html", "published_at": "2020-07-03T21:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565e17328e", "title": "Myths of the Early OSR 1: origins and anti-storytelling sentiment", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/07/myths-of-early-osr-1-origins-and-anti.html", "published_at": "2020-07-02T04:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-0345-73b3-b6bb-a5565ec29cc9", "title": "Gygax was “too creative” to play AD&D by his own rules (circa 1982/1983)", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/06/gygax-was-too-creative-to-play-ad-by.html", "published_at": "2020-06-24T00:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03c894183", "title": "Revisiting callers and leaders in role-playing games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/05/revisiting-callers-and-leaders-in-role.html", "published_at": "2020-05-13T16:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03d52c58c", "title": "Foreign language mistakes featuring prominently in role-playing games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/05/foreign-language-mistakes-featuring.html", "published_at": "2020-05-10T05:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03dccadea", "title": "a memory about Cthulhu Dark Ages", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-memory-about-cthulhu-dark-ages.html", "published_at": "2020-05-08T16:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03de6bd3f", "title": "Tékumel versus Buffalo Castle", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/05/tekumel-versus-buffalo-castle.html", "published_at": "2020-05-08T01:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03ea69833", "title": "Dungeons & Hit Dice: A New Ultra-Retro Old-School Role-Playing Game", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/05/dungeons-hit-dice-new-ultra-retro-old.html", "published_at": "2020-05-05T18:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03f169da3", "title": "The Unwritten History of Role-Playing Games", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-unwritten-history-of-role-playing.html", "published_at": "2020-05-04T15:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03f21c54c", "title": "A Thought about \"Gonzo\" Gaming", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-thought-about-gonzo-gaming.html", "published_at": "2020-04-30T14:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03f35db82", "title": "Awaken the Tarrasque! An Apocalyptic D&D Campaign", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/awaken-tarrasque-apocalyptic-d-campaign.html", "published_at": "2020-04-27T15:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac03f9b8c67", "title": "Anti-D&D propaganda from 1980: \"direct fom the pit of hell!!!\"", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/anti-d-propaganda-from-1980-direct-fom.html", "published_at": "2020-04-24T18:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac0400778db", "title": "Player Skill versus Skillfully Playing Your Character", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/player-skill-versus-skillfully-playing.html", "published_at": "2020-04-16T17:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac040affb8e", "title": "The Spurious Novelty of the Story Game", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-spurious-novelty-of-story-game.html", "published_at": "2020-04-14T22:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac040cefe1f", "title": "Ditch Experience Points Forever!", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/ditch-experience-points-forever.html", "published_at": "2020-04-13T22:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac0412894dd", "title": "“Old-School” D&D rules that nobody likes or uses (or do they?)", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/old-school-d-rules-that-nobody-likes-or.html", "published_at": "2020-04-12T20:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac041809ead", "title": "Can you salvage the D&D rules? The problem with hit points per level", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/can-you-salvage-d-rules-problem-with.html", "published_at": "2020-04-10T17:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac042790199", "title": "Fix your OSR and Old D&D language rules.", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/osr-and-old-d-language-rules-make-no.html", "published_at": "2020-04-09T15:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac042798359", "title": "I hate elves.", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/i-hate-elves.html", "published_at": "2020-04-05T15:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac042915476", "title": "OSR as Invented Tradition and Commodified Authentic", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/04/osr-as-invented-tradition-and.html", "published_at": "2020-04-04T20:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac04364acbf", "title": "That time I met Gary Gygax", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/02/that-time-i-met-gary-gygax.html", "published_at": "2020-02-27T17:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac044262260", "title": "Send in the clones, the D&D clones...", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/02/send-in-clones-d-clones.html", "published_at": "2020-02-20T22:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac045250dc1", "title": "Inclusive game worlds make for inclusive gaming", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/02/inclusive-game-worlds-make-for.html", "published_at": "2020-02-12T21:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac04546ee9e", "title": "Role-playing games with family", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/02/role-playing-games-with-family.html", "published_at": "2020-02-06T17:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac045a63ca6", "title": "Lich Van Winkle's Origin Story", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/02/lich-van-winkles-origin-story.html", "published_at": "2020-02-03T21:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb65-ab0f-730b-86cf-dac045da07f2", "title": "Back to table-top roleplaying games after a quarter century: four things that are different", "url": "https://lichvanwinkle.blogspot.com/2020/02/back-to-table-top-roleplaying-games.html", "published_at": "2020-02-02T17:48:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Maze Rats conversion for Skerples' Monster Overhauloriginal ↗
29 May 2026

2025

Dee-Five-Six (d5/6) and the odds it givesoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
Gaming with Other Parentsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2025

2024

The Historical Argument about Racial Diversity in D&Doriginal ↗
1 Dec 2024
Yes, you ARE telling a story.original ↗
1 Feb 2024
Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragonsoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2024
Those Who Cross the Boundaries May Be Attacked: Gamers Hating Other Gamersoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2024

2023

A Reality Check for Language Rules in Your Fantasy Game (and rationalizing alignment languages)original ↗
29 Dec 2023
Hey, D&D and Indie Game YouTubers: cite your sourcesoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2023
Trust the Dice for Your Fictionoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2023
Character Motivation is the Player's Responsibilityoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2023
Name Your Sessions Afterwardsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2023
The First Rumor Tables, Part 2: Caverns of Thracia or Caverns of Quasqueton?original ↗
20 Sept 2023
The First Rumor Tablesoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2023
Hexmaps and Random Encounters before D&Doriginal ↗
2 Sept 2023
A new look at the early history of "railroading" and non-anglophone RPG designoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2023

2022

Why D&D has Hit Points per Level for the Acquisition of Goldoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2022
Starting Equipment Packages in Older Gamesoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2022
The Commodification of Fantasy Adventure Gamesoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
On RPG Play-sytles, Part 3: Classic Playstyle versus Trad Playstyle versus OSR?original ↗
1 Jun 2022
Hand-Crafted Adventuresoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2022
On RPG Play-styles, Part 2: Amateur Thespianismoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2022

2021

On RPG play-styles, Part 1: Should you kill off the tourists?original ↗
15 Dec 2021
Coins in D&D and Found Advancementoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2021
"Arnesonian" playoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2021
REVIEW: Jon Peterson, Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (2021)original ↗
22 Oct 2021
The Genealogy of Advantage and Disadvantage in RPG Mechanicsoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2021
D&D's Original Twenty+ Character Stats (versus GURPS)original ↗
26 Apr 2021
Alternative Spell Rules for Knaveoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2021
From consecutive dice to 2x1d6 grid to d66original ↗
2 Apr 2021
The first D66 and an early "rules-light" RPGoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
The Roots of Slot-Based Encumbranceoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2021
One Year of Writing about Role-Playing Games, 2020-2021original ↗
2 Feb 2021
How You Startedoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
Knowing Your Players and Their Kicksoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2021
Repeated Attempts by Different Charactersoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2021
When the Grognards Were Munchkinsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2021

2020

REVIEW: Jon Peterson, The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (2020)original ↗
26 Dec 2020
The Fiend Factory of the Fansoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2020
Why I don't use monster reaction rollsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2020
Combat as a Contest in Table-Top Role-Playing Gamesoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2020
Wandering Monsters for the First Timeoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2020
The Many Deaths of the OSRoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2020
The Original D&D Skill Rulesoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2020
Fortune Favors the Bold, An alternative to XP for GPoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2020
Luck Stats in Early Role-Playing Gamesoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2020
D&D Alignment System and System Misalignment: Early Roots of D&D Moralityoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2020
Myths of the Early OSR 2: The Only Old-School Game Was D&Doriginal ↗
3 Jul 2020
Myths of the Early OSR 1: origins and anti-storytelling sentimentoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2020
Gygax was “too creative” to play AD&D by his own rules (circa 1982/1983)original ↗
24 Jun 2020
Revisiting callers and leaders in role-playing gamesoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
Foreign language mistakes featuring prominently in role-playing gamesoriginal ↗
10 May 2020
a memory about Cthulhu Dark Agesoriginal ↗
8 May 2020
Tékumel versus Buffalo Castleoriginal ↗
8 May 2020
Dungeons & Hit Dice: A New Ultra-Retro Old-School Role-Playing Gameoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
The Unwritten History of Role-Playing Gamesoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
A Thought about "Gonzo" Gamingoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2020
Awaken the Tarrasque! An Apocalyptic D&D Campaignoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
Anti-D&D propaganda from 1980: "direct fom the pit of hell!!!"original ↗
24 Apr 2020
Player Skill versus Skillfully Playing Your Characteroriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020
The Spurious Novelty of the Story Gameoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2020
Ditch Experience Points Forever!original ↗
13 Apr 2020
“Old-School” D&D rules that nobody likes or uses (or do they?)original ↗
12 Apr 2020
Can you salvage the D&D rules? The problem with hit points per leveloriginal ↗
10 Apr 2020
Fix your OSR and Old D&D language rules.original ↗
9 Apr 2020
I hate elves.original ↗
5 Apr 2020
OSR as Invented Tradition and Commodified Authenticoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2020
That time I met Gary Gygaxoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2020
Send in the clones, the D&D clones...original ↗
20 Feb 2020
Inclusive game worlds make for inclusive gamingoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2020
Role-playing games with familyoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2020
Lich Van Winkle's Origin Storyoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2020
Back to table-top roleplaying games after a quarter century: four things that are differentoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2020