Names of the Dead has been updated today!

Names of the Dead has been updated today!

http://mockorangecairn.blogspot.com/2015/06/names-of-dead.html

Rules and Resources for Year of the Goat Campaign One

Rules and Resources for Year of the Goat Campaign One

Books, Hardcover, Lots of Utility, so far
    -Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing, Rules and Magic- This is the ruleset I am using for this campaign.

    -Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing, Referee- I have the Grindhouse Edition (as of this blog post the newer edition isn't published, yet.)  Page 76 gets a lot of use, it contains an Armor Class Conversion Chart for 6 old school inspired games (including LotFP.)  Great advice is given on adventure creation and campaign management.  I enjoy the author's voice (that statement sounds pretentious, but it's true.)  Year of the Goat Campaign One kicked off with the Adventure "A Stranger Storm."


    -Vornheim: The Complete City Kit- Sometimes a literate, magic-using murder-hobo comes along and wants treasure in the form of books.  This happened in Year of the Goat Campaign One.  Pages 48-49 contain a d100 table of book subjects.  All you need to do is have some made up titles to add to the mix and presto!  Books to Beguile!  Other highlights are NPC Connection Chart, Front and Back Cover are Die-Drop Tables of Infinite Permutations (quickly generate characters and creatures, locations, and create attacks!), and I love the art, maps, and creativity bursting out at me.

    -A Red and Pleasant Land- OMG. Mind. Blown.  Nephilidian Pawns have appeared "on screen" in the game and a Nephilidian Knight of the name Lord Vortulak has been working "off screen" for now...  Also great tables, maps, and absolutely bursting with awesomeness.  I.E. Where Have You Been? D20 Table. 

    -Red Tide: Adventure in a Crimson World-  This is a setting and a sandbox campaign toolkit all in one handy book.  Not really making use of many of the setting elements for YotGCO, but the helpful tables and tools for the creation of sites has streamlined my sandbox prep so much, I don't know how I managed before, seriously!

PDFs, Fucking Bang Per Buck Ratio is Usually Quite Appealing

    -All Hardcovers above I own in PDF format as well. 

    -Labyrinth Lord Revised Edition (No Art-Rules Only)-  This is my bestiary of what I liken as the "Fantasy Classics."  It is a ruleset on it's own, but I only make use of the monsters and sometimes the treasure tables.  I am grateful for the free no-art version, I want to look at other stuff from these guys to purchase.

    -Green Devil Face #4-  Random Inn Generator, have used.  The Chamber and the Glass Box, want to use.

Modules, So Far

    -A Stranger Storm, LotFP Referee Book Module- I mentioned above this is the adventure I ran to start YotGCO.  I did little to alter this adventure before I ran it.  16 sessions in and some of the mimics are still on the loose!

    -The Forest Oracle, AD&D N2-  I did A LOT to alter this one for my game, but I feel like it has provided some great encounters.  It had a setting element that dove-tailed well with a condition of my setting, inspiring me to whittle it into something I could work into my campaign.  Another delightful feature is that it played deadlier than I expected!  One PC death so far (still playing this one as of this post) with 7 retainers meeting their end as well. 

In case you also have just crawled out from under a rock, Blogs of Distinction

    Playing DnD with Pornstars and while you are at it look for the web show called I Hit It with My Axe.

    Jeffs Gameblog

    False Machine

    Last Gasp

These are links...

Lamentations of the Flame Princess Rules and Magic

Lamentations of the Flame Princess Referee ( Old Grindhouse Edition)

 Vornheim: The Complete City Kit

A Red & Pleasant Land

Red Tide: Campaign Sourcebook and Sandbox Toolkit

Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition (no-art version)

Green Devil Face #4

The Forest Oracle

Playing D&D With Pornstars

Jeffs Gameblog

False Machine

Last Gasp




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Names of the Dead

This is a list of dead PCs and NPCs (NPCs of consequence like named villains and retainers) in my current LotFP game.  I will update as the bodies pile up.

PCs
Vlasic (1st level Magic User)

NPCs
Raya Razzi (1st level Elf)
Eydis Eide (1st level Specialist) 
John Mercy (0 level Halfling)  
Sigmar Frey (1st level Fighter)  7-16-15
Adalric Eberhardt (1st level Fighter) 7-16-15
Kazimir Eide (1st level Specialist) 7-16-15
Iona Lindoch (1st level Fighter) 7-16-15 


 

How I got into D&D

I don't remember how I first found out about D&D.  I was born in 1978, and had an older cousin who played, but I think I had heard of it before I found out he played.  I asked him if I could play with him and his friends and he said no.  I was 10 or 11, he was 17, and all of his group were at least in their early 20s, if not older.  He wasn't mean about it, but he was pretty clear that these guys didn't want a little girl around.  That didn't kill my interest.  When he joined the army after high school, I asked if I could have his D&D books.  He had already given them to one of the guys in his group, but he did give me some cassette tapes (Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Iron Maiden) and a few horror novels. 
Around this time, my grandparents had moved in with us (me and my mother.)  The reason given was my mother was working nights and they would be around to care for me.  It wasn't the real reason.  They didn't trust her to be a good mother.  This was a blow to her already poor mental health, and she stopped living at our house full time. 
I was 13 when I asked a few of my friends if they wanted to try D&D.  The three that said yes had no experience with the game, either.  So my next step was to acquire the books.  I thought that would be easy, because up to this point my grandmother had bought me whatever book I wanted when she took me to the bookstore.  She was an avid reader herself, and she didn't seem to mind that I was reading a lot of "adult" horror novels.  When I asked for the PHB during a trip to B. Dalton, she refused.  I had the temerity to ask for a reason why while we were still in the store.  She got angry at me.  She would only say that the game was probably satanic, when I pushed her about it more on the ride home.  That seemed like such a silly argument coming from an atheist. 
I still wanted to try this game out, so I asked my mom if she would get the PHB for me.  She seemed happy to, if only to help me disobey my grandmother.  So I finally had this book and I wrapped it in a brown paper bag like a textbook from school, writing "Math" on the new cover!  Next I started a "study group" at the library and we were off and running trying to figure this game out.  I think we all thought it was acted out like LARPing, at first, and I know the girl that I had asked to play seemed to lose interest when we figured out it wasn't like that.
We learned we needed another book, the DMG, and some dice.  Another mission for my mom!  The DMG got a similar re-covering and was labeled "Science."  I had to hide the dice when I wasn't taking them to "study group."
In getting into the game and talking with friends, we found out other people we knew were already playing.  My first session was during lunch break at school, a solo dungeon delve with my Half-Elf Bard.  Some underwater tunnels were navigated and I didn't drown.  I was hooked.

Projected Posting Frequency

As I live somewhere with slow, inconvenient, and expensive internet options, I do not have home internet access.  Posting will probably occur on a weekly basis, until I get better internet options in my rural area.

My RPG Person Profile.

I'm currently running (at home): Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Roleplaying, prior to that I was running a Changeling the Lost game that has been on hiatus since 2013.

I would especially like to run: Call of Cthulhu, Night's Black Agents, Carcosa, Red Tide

I would especially like to play in: Numenera, Carcosa, Night's Black Agents, TMNT

...But would also try Gamma World/Mutant Future/Metamorphosis Alpha or Cat by John Wick.

I live in Goble, Oregon.

2 or 3 well-known rpg products other people made that I like: Vornheim (my first "OSR" purchase!), Better Than Any Man (I picked this up at 2013 Free RPG Day and my home games have never been the same since, in a good way,) Red Tide (not using the setting, but am making extensive use of The Houses of the Lost chapter for creating my sandbox.)

7 Novels I like:
Warlock by Oakley Hall
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
The Master and Margarita by Nikolai Bulgakov
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson

6 Movies I like:
As Above, So below
Raid: The Redemption
Intacto
For A Few Dollars More
Titus
The Element of Crime

I think dead orc babies are: funny.

What a disorganized attempt at starting a blog!

Video games.  I play them and at some point, may talk about them.

How could I forget...

I will also be touching on make-up and feminism.  Again, in no particular order.

This blog will contain the following subjects (in no order of importance.)

Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Horror, Sci-fi, Fantasy Media
Mycology
Bicycles
Tango
Cats
Snails
Plants