Wallpaper - Lady of Pain

Wallpaper + Planescape

Four different wallpapers, all based on Sigil's Lady of Pain.

If you haven't played D&D, you haven't lived. If you haven't played Planescape, you haven't died and gone to the great wheel 🤔 Yet 😁

Countdown to 2026 - #6 - Dungeons & Dragons - December 26 (June 12)

Countdown

June 2025... and I decided it can't be all about doom and gloom. Let's talk about something fun! How about Dungeons & Dragons? Or... how I managed to spend more on D&D than ever before 🤔

D&D - Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master - The Lazy Anthology (xe 2018, English)

RPG Book Review + Books

As Dungeon Master / Game Master, you're the heart of any role playing game. As DM / GM you run the world, play all the NPCs, and you decide which rules apply when.

That's a lot of work... sometimes a bit too much. This book tries to address that potential problem, by helping you to only prepare what is necessary.

D&D - Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master - The Lazy Anthology (xe 2018, Dutch)

RPG Book Review + Books + Dutch

Na al het uitzoeken en voorbereiden is het tijd om het resultaat te laten zien: The Lazy Anthology. Oftewel... drie de boeken tesamen in een enkele, full color hardcover.

Nuttig? Nee. Praktisch? Nee. Voordelig? Nee. Maar man, wat blijft het een goed gevoel om een hardcover vast te houden 😁 Maar ja, behalve de looks gaat het ook nog om de inhoud: waar gaat Return eigenlijk over?

POD, different bindings, and regular printing

RPG + Books

So, I completed my own 'download edit print' sequence using a POD Provider (Pumbo).

But... how do the different kind of POD products actually look?

Druk je eigen RPG handboek af - 4 - Pumbo instellingen (Dutch)

RPG + Books + Dutch

Pumbo adviseert professionele software. Helaas heb ik geen (professionele) Adobe producten, maar alleen maar PhotoImpact, Word, PFD Xchange, en IrfanView.

Maar daarmee wil het ook :-)

Druk je eigen RPG handboek af - 3 - Leveranciers (Dutch)

RPG + Books + Dutch

Okay. Ik weet wat ik wil laten afdrukken. Nou hoef ik alleen nog maar te bepalen bij wie...

215 paginas, full color, hardcover. Hmmm... wie zijn de kandidaten? 

Druk je eigen RPG handboek af - 2 - De PDF aanpassen (Dutch)

RPG + Books + Dutch

Mijn test case is The Return of the Lazy Dungeonmaster. Het basis boek is 96 paginas, en de beide aanvullingen zijn 64 en 48 bladzijden. Kant en klaar afgedrukt en verstuurd komen de drie boeken (totaal 208 bladzijden) uit op ca. 75 euro.

Mijn plan is er een enkele, dikke hardcover van te maken.

Druk je eigen RPG handboek af - 1 - Wat en Hoe en Waarom (Dutch)

RPG + Books + Dutch

Vaak is een PDF precies wat je nodig hebt. Een digitaal boek wat je gemakkelijk mee kunt nemen waar en wanneer je maar wilt. Maar soms wil je gewoon door een papieren kopie bladeren. Een echt boek in je handen houden. En da's wat lastig als er niets anders dan een digitale versie beschikbaar is.

D&D - 5e Basic Rules (2018, somewhat prettyfied)

RPG Book Review

5e is the closest thing to AD&D 2E that we've seen thus far. 5e is even easier to use, and just as much fun. And... you can start playing D&D 5e without spending a penny. My personal copy of the 5e Basic Rules has a few minor modifications, just to make it more practical.

(I have some mixed feelings on 5e5 AKA 5e24, the 2024 incarnation of the ruleset. Note that these Basic Rules are based on the 2014 set of rules.)

D&D - Raise the Dead (d20 2003)

RPG Book Review

There's life after death... as long as you are a D&D character.

This book is all about raising the dead. Which might be a friend. Or it might be an enemy, to be raised to interrogated... or to be killed off again, who knows. This softcover book four adventures, all focused on raising that one dead friend.

Wallpaper - Sigil University

Wallpaper

I've been running a few D&D sessions as a DM where the players were students at Sigil university (in the Planescape setting). And every university needs a logo and a slogan...

(Click on image to enlarge) 

D&D - Forgotten Realms Adventures (2e 1990)

RPG Book Review + Forgotten Realms

Welcome to the Forgotten Realms. Back in 1990 TSR released Forgotten Realms Adventures, a hardcover book to help players and DMs update from (A)D&D to AD&D 2nd edition.

Content wise it's a little thin, but it was the very first TSR / D&D / RPG product I ever bought. For me, it's the book that started it all.

The Forgotten Realms - Map of Maps

RPG + Forgotten Realms

It's pretty hard to find a map that shows all the maps ever made of Faerun. So, I made my own, based on the products I own and other stuff I could find on the Internet.

D&D - Cloak & Dagger (2e 2000)

RPG Book Review + Forgotten Realms

Let's add another D&D product review.

This isn't the Marvel based TV show, but the TSR Dungeons & Dragons book from 2000, and it details some (hidden) factions in the Forgotten Realms setting.

D&D - How Not to get Eaten by Owlbears (xe 2024)

RPG Book Review

TSR, WOTC, and now HASBRO all seem to struggle a bit when it comes to marketing, and sometimes they release books that simply make no sense.

Take, for example, How Not to get Eaten by Owlbears.

RPG Book Scores Explained

RPG Book Review

This is part of my 'recovery effort' of the materials on the old NightLive website.

Years ago I did review a number of TSR / WOTC products, so I've dusted off the old review scheme. You'll run into some TSR / WOTC / Hasbro reviews from now on...

Here's my default review / scoring scheme.

2024

Wrapping up 2024, and Welcome to 2025!

The image to the left takes you to the index (home) page which lists all major topics.

To search this blog you have to use the desktop version of this blog.

This link will show all 2024 posts.

And in spite of accomplishing nothing, somehow it doesn't feel like a bad year. That's weird...

Cheating Scribd

Datatalk + Wallpaper

Okay, first of all: don't support piracy! If you like something, then simply buy it!

Now, I can understand you want to preview something before actually buying it, and in that case I'll close one eye and consider a download for preview to be acceptable. Obviously, I expect you to actually buy the product if you like it, and otherwise delete what you downloaded.

Secomber Rescan

RPG

My old Secomber maps were scanned 20 years ago, using a handscanner. It was about time I rescanned them, especially after finding other Secomber maps.

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