Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Fan zie

Old School Fantasy (0e, 1e, 2e, Classic & Retro-clones)

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Back to the Dungeon
Brave the Labyrinth @ RPGNow.com (free first issue, rest $$$)
Burgs & Bailiffs
The Candlekeep Compendium
Canonfire! Chronicles
~~Digital Ogre (scans of a 2e-era fanzine)~~
The Dragon Horde
Dyson's Dodecahedron
Encounter
Fight On! ($$$; has announced end of run with issue #15)
Footprints
Green Devil Face ($$$)
The Guildsman (early 1990s fanzine)
~~I Want to Live in Los Angeles Not the One in Los Angeles (BRP)~~
Iridia (PDF compendium of all issues) (my personal archive)
Knights & Knaves Alehouse Magazine (in progress)
Knockspell ($$$)
Lapsus Calumni
Lincoln Middle School D&D Club (my personal archive)
NOD ($$$)
Odd Duk (NEW - announced; no issues yet)
Oddities (archive @breeyark.org) (mirror @Alderon's Tower)
The Oerth Journal (new hosting site)
Old School Gazette @Paizo.com ($$$)
Oubilette Magazine ($$$)
Pelinore Adventure Fanzine (announced; no issues yet)
Psychedelic Fantasies ($$$)
Scribe of Orcus ($$$)
~~Shudde M'ell Confidential (CoC)~~
Switching to Guns (alt link on Scribd)
Threshold: The Mystara Magazine
~~TrollCrusher 1977-1985 UK fanzine~~ (currently offline)

Troll! (my personal archive)
Underworld Lore
Unofficial OSR (announced; no issues yet)
Zor Draxtau @RPGNow.com

System-Specific Old School Zines

Bare Bones Fantasy
Decahedron Magazine@RPGNow.com

Castles & Crusades
The Crusader Journal ($$$)
~~The Domesday Book (Castles & Crusades)~~
The Domesday Book @Dragonsfoot.org (alt link for above)

Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
Black Powder, Black Magic ($$$)
CRAWL! ($$$)
Crawling Under a Broken Moon ($$$)
Crawljammer ($$$)
D.A.M.N! - DCC RPG Adventure Magazine and News@ RPGNow.com ($$$)
The Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad (PWYW @ RPGNow.com)

Empire of the Petal Throne
The Book of Visitations of Glory

Forgotten Realms
Forgotten Realms Alternate Dimensions (NEW!)

4C System
Ashcan Edition (alt link to personal archive)
Threat Record ($$$)

Gamebooks
Fighting Fantazine
Kai Grand Sentinel (for Lone Wolf)
Lone Wolf Club Newsletters

Glorantha setting
Rule One

Hârn
Thonahexus

Heroes & Other Worlds
Cauldron ($$$)

Hideouts & Hoodlums
The Trophy Case @RPGNow.com
(H&H is a mod of the Swords & Wizardry rules)

Lejendary Adventures
The Portal

Mazes & Minotaurs
Minotaur Quarterly

Middle Earth setting
Other Hands (site is slooooooow)
Other Minds (another slow site; a continuation of Other Hands)

Miniatures & Wargaming
The Ancible
CH Online Magazine (buried in link list)
~~Fictional Reality~~(links to zines disappeared)
Irregular Magazine
No Turkeys (bilingual - Italian/English)
Portal (dedicated to painting)
Wargames Journal (Issues 1-6 only)
Warning Order (historical military)

Mini-Six
The Aether Magazine

Non-English
Anduin (German)
DM Magazine (Italian)
Den Sorte Dværg (Danish; a continuation of Psuedo-Dragen, below)
Eastenwest (French) (direct link to pdf directory)
Éditions La Saltarelle (French)
Mjolnir (Swedish)
Petit Dragon (French; 4e)
Pseudo-Dragen (Danish)
Rebel Times (Polish)
Reduto do Bucaneiro (Brazilian/Portuguese)
RolePunkers @RPGnow.com (Brazilian/Portuguese)
Rollespilsmagasinet ÆRA (Danish)
SpielxPress (German)
Spotkania Losowe (Polish)
Weltenbote (German)
WunderWerk Online (German)
Zunftblatt (German)

Open D6 System
d6 Magazine@ RPGNow.com

Rogue Space
Rogue Transmission

RuneQuest
Hearts in Glorantha ($$$)
Rack & Rune
The Log That Flies

SkyRealms of Jorune
Borkelby's Folly
Danstead Traveller
Journal of the Tan Soor Historical Society
Segment Jorune
Sholari
(all of the above Jorune zines require an account to download)

Star Frontiers
Star Frontiersman
Frontier Explorer @RPGnow.com

Post-Apocalyptic
Apocalyptic Post <-- this link acts weird sometimes (personal archive)
Project: Stone Jambalaya (Gamma World 1e/2e) (alt link)
Wisdom from the Wastelands @RPGNow.com ($$$)

Science Fantasy
Phasic (Encounter Critical; my personal archive)

Stars Without Number
Infinite Stars (switched to blog format; my personal archive of PDF issues)

Talislanta
Tamar (via archive.org)
The Crucible
Shan-Ya – The Madness Known as Talislanta (announced; no issues yet)

Traveller
AAB Proceedings
Coreward
Freelance Traveller
Frontier Report
Imperium Staple
Into the Deep
Kfan Uzangou
Signal-GK (alt link)
Stellar Reaches
Third Imperium
Tidewater Traveller TIMES / Terra Traveller TIMES
Tiffany Star

Tunnels & Trolls
Elder Tunnels ($$$)
Pocket Troll: A T&T Microzine ($$$)
The Snollygoster @RPGNow.com
TrollZine @RPGNow.com (if anyone knows of a mirror site, let me know)

New Schoolish, But Worth Mining for Ideas

5e D&D
The Spire ($$$)

13th Age
Icon

2300AD
Colonial Times @ RPGNow.com ($$$)(alt link)

Alternity
Action Check
Action Check + Supplements
Last Resort

Ars Magica
Hermes' Portal (link to my personal archive)

Basic Action Super Heroes
BAM! Basic Action Magazine @RPGNow (alt link)

Basic RolePlaying
BaZAR (French)
Uncounted Worlds

Battlefleet Gothic
Warp Rift

Battletech
Argent Fire (my personal archive)
Commando Quarterly

Campaign Cartographer's Guild
Campaign Builder's Guide (my personal archive)

Chronopia
~~Visions~~

Call of Cthulhu
The Arkham Gazette
The Unbound Book
The Unspeakable Oath ($$$)

d20 (3e/3.5e) & GSL (4e)
Almanac (my personal archive)
Asgard Magazine (my personal archive)
Combat Advantage @RPGNow (**highly recommended**)
d20Zine! @RPGNow.com
Explosive Runes
Free Hack (site is slow, requires registration)
4e Forever!
Game Geek @RPGNow.com ($$$ - used to be free . . .)
Journal of American Paranormal Research
Kobold Quarterly (new school, but damn!) ($$$)
Knowledge Arcana (**highly recommended**)
Knowledge (Current Events) (my personal archive)
Open Game Bazaar
Phoenix Lore
Poor Gamer's Almanac @RPGNow.com
Portable Hole Full of Beer
Shadows of the Tower @RPGNow.com
Silven Trumpeter (link coming soon)

Dark Conspiracy
Demonground (requires registration)

Dragonlance Campaign Setting
Tobril

Dr. Who
Diary of DWRPG

Dungeon World
Grim Portents

Earthdawn
Book of Tomorrow
Tableau Infractus

Eclipse Phase
The Eye

Exalted
Ink Monkeys

FATE
The FATE Codex ($$$)

General Interest (mix-n-match of systems)
Randomocity (first issue PWYW, others $$$)

Generic (reviews, talk, theory, etc.)
Call to Assembly @RPGNow.com
Daedalus (my personal archive)
Flagship Magazine
G.A.M.E.R.S. Newspaper @RPGNow
The Gazebo (@issuu.com -- Flash required)
Imazine (pdfs via Google)
International Journal of Role-Playing (academic/scholarly research)
ODDS
Roleplaying Tips (**highly recommended**)
RPGReview
thru-the-portal
The Way, The Truth, and the Dice (zine for Christian gamers)

Generic Sci-Fi
Infinite Horizons @RPGNow.com

Gumshoe
The Rap Sheet (my personal archive)

Heavy Gear
Gear Up! Magazine

HeroClix
Clix Addict
Critical Hit (my personal archive)

HeroScape
~~HS Codex~~ (alternate link coming soon!)

Hero System
EZ Hero free samples

Hollow Earth Expedition (Ubiquity engine)
Danger Magnet!

Horror
Protodimension Magazine

Ironclaw/Jadeclaw
Bite Mark

Kult
Steel Heart

Layonara (Neverwinter Nights fan setting)
Dragon's Whisper @RPGNow.com

Legend of the Five Rings
Musha Shugyo

Lord of the Rings
~~Hall of Fire~~

Lord of the Rings: Strategy Battle Game
Grey Havens

Midnight (d20 fantasy campaign)
The Tome of Sorrows

Modern d20
Modernized

Monsterpocalypse
Following Fire

Mutants & Masterminds
Sinners & Saints (my personal archive)
Super Samurai (my personal archive)

Mutant Epoch
Excavator Monthly ($$$)

Pandemonium
Crux

Pathfinder
Adventure Quarterly ($$$)
Pathways @RPGNow.com (**highly recommended**)
The Rite Review @RPGNow.com (became Pathways)
Tattlebox @Paizo.com
Wayfinder @Paizo.com (**highly recommended**)

Pendragon
Dragons of Britain @ RPGNow.com

Planescape
Bone-Box Rattler (my personal archive)
Eye of Xaos
The Lady's Sharper Eye
Planewalker's Codex
S.I.G.I.S.

Publisher Newsletters
Addiktion Monthly - GameAddikts - @RPGNow.com
The Circular - Contested Ground Studios
Duty & Honor Almanac - @RPGNow.com - Omnihedron Games
Epitaph - @RPGNow.com - White Wolf
Mire End Tribune - Contested Ground Studios
RPGNow Downloader Monthly @RPGNow.com
Signs & Portents - Mongoose Publishing
Silver Gryphyon Monthly @RPGNow.com
Skirmisher Update @ RPGNow.com - Skirmisher Publishing
Skulls and Crosses - Scaldcrow Games
Troll's Tusk - Troll Lord Games
White Wolf Quarterly / Sword & Sorcery Insider (via archive.org)

Ravenloft setting
Quoth the Raven
Stygian (my personal archive)
Undead Sea Scrolls

Rifts
The Gifter (link to my personal archive)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Revisiting the Three Kingdoms (my personal archive)

Savage Worlds
Savage Insider
Shark Bytes (**highly recommended**)

Shadowrun
Dumpshock Datahaven
Neo-Anarchists Guide to Everything Else (NAGEE) issues 1-6
NAGEE issues 1-6, collected & edited
NAGEE issues 1-9 (my personal archive)
Shadowrun Supplemental (my personal archive)

Silhouette
Aurora

SLA Industries
SLAIndustries.net Monthly Collection
The Big Picture (TBP)

Star Trek (CODA engine)
Beyond the Final Frontier

Swords Without Master
Words Without Master ($$$)

TWERPS
Outre Realms (my personal archive)

USR
Go Wherever! @RPGNow.com ($$$)

W40K & WFRP
Astro Mag
The Bellower
The Chapter Standard (my personal archive)
The Citizen Levy (list is on lower left side)
Dark Magenta
The Doom Seeker (must register to download)
Firebase (Issue 1-6) (via archive.org - filter by pdf)
Firebase (Issues 7 & 8) (via archive.org - filter by pdf)
(I'll have a personal archive link for the Firebase issues soon)
Incoming!
The Invocation
Irresistible Force
Legion
Liber Fanatica
The Portent Oracle (my personal archive)
Skavenblight Gazette
Strike to Stun (bottom of page)
The Invocation
The Watchman (via archive.org - filter by pdf; my archive link coming soon)
The Word of Hashut

WarEngine
The Remnants (my personal archive)

World of Darkness
Apocryphus Woods
Inner Voice

2015

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Friday, 16 October 2015

Monday, 12 October 2015

Dorgha Torgu

Gary Gygax wrote to the World of Greyhawk Fan Club:

“I have discovered a heretofore unmentioned deity of the World of Greyhawk, one Dorgha Torgu, an old Suloise god. I will do a brief write-up of same for the Greyhawk Grimoire.”
For our members, I thought this info should be disseminated now, as well as in the next Grimoire. Here is the write-up as it will appear:
“This is material I recently found in my old Greyhawk files. I was preparing for play in the west, and was working on this deity for the obvious reasons you will note as you read the descriptive material. This material is in draft form, and was never tested in play–an obvious need, for interaction with a party of adventures while Drought Torii was in mortal guise was intended, of course.
As an aside, if through the interaction the party managed to assist him in regaining his place, they would be much favored by him if of any but Evil alignment. Bad guys helping would be in trouble with not with him, for Drought Torii would simply ignore them, but with the other deities (and devils, demons, et.al.) for placing an opponent on high again.”
– Gary Gygax
Greater (fallen) God
(Now a Quasi-Deity)
Culture: Bakluni
Spheres of Influence: Material Dimensions, Material Elements
Alignment: N(G)
Gender: Masculine (typically)
Planes of Influence: Elemental Planes of Existence
One of the first elemental powers to ascend to the Oerthly Pantheon, Dorgha Torgu fostered study in the schools of effect. Elemental specialists, both wizards and priests, learned their powers and formulae from his teachings. He favored the Bakluni however and only they ever truly mastered elemental sorcery. Other races mimicked the Bakluni affinity with the elemental schools but never achieved their level of enlightenment.
It is rumored that Dorgha Torgu was the god who set forth the method by which faithful elementalists could transcend to Elemental Gen. He had no interest in working with or subjugating the crude and powerful elemental beings that inhabited the elemental planes of existence. The powerful elemental lords granted him the secrets of elemental creation and agreed to accept his ascended followers as their own without strife.
Unfortunately, the Elder Elemental God began to seduce powerful followers of Dorgha Torgu with his primal elemental powers. The first most powerful follower of this dark deity came to be known as a Geomancer for his mastery of the Elemental Province of Earth. This sorcerer-priest conquered entire realms in the name of his master and wreaked havoc across many prime material planes with the help of his evil master and the host of power seekers who began to worship in his wake. Evolution of other wizardly-priesthoods was a natural result, thus the Hydromancers, Pyromancers and Aeromancers were founded. The priesthoods often established themselves as God Kings in many realms. The sects served the Elder Elemental God in their own way. They also kept each other busy with constant struggles for dominance. The Elder Elemental God was amused for a time.
With their evil master manipulating them every step of the way, these priesthoods enraged Dorgha Torgu and he sought a way to thwart them. Taking the secrets given to him by the Elemental Lords he bade his faithful to imbibe essences of the elements to take on the powers of the elements themselves. In doing this, wizards and priests began to evolve differently than their peers. Eventually, these powerful beings were forced to seek solace in the elemental province they had chosen to emulate. Surrounded by raw elemental power, they leapt ahead in evolution becoming the four societies of genie. Dao, Djinni, Effreeti and Marid opposed the works of the elemental priesthoods with their patron power, Dorgha Torgu at their lead.
Nearing extinction and unable to raise enough power to defeat the very elements they relied upon to hold power over their slaves, the elemental priesthoods were scattered across the cosmos, never again to hold power over entire worlds. The Elder Elemental God, now nearly powerless without his followers, sought retribution but Dorgha Torgu and his minions, the genie, were too powerful to face directly.
Seeking aid the, Elder Elemental God encountered a dark presence that promised him the power to realize his revenge, the Faceless God of the Yikaria. With his vast, dark knowledge of decay, darkness and magic the faceless one fulfilled this promise by providing the Elder Elemental God a glimpse into the deeper darkness of the multiverse, Tharizdun. Fundamentally changed and seeking vengeance the Elder Elemental God, now calling itself Vilp-akf’cho Rentaq, began influencing noble genie-kind.
Through subtle influences and blatant corruption of select genie social circles, separation among the ranks was achieved. Earth resented Air’s erratic behavior, Flame resented Water’s power over it. Finally war broke out across the Elemental Planes. Dorgha Torgu’s children fell to the lies and deceit of the dark god’s influence.
At the same time, war between the Bakluni and Suel was reaching a climax. The Suel, tapping the powers of the Dark Lord of Entropy, struck their enemy with devastation unrivaled to this day. Thousands upon thousands of Bakluni died and still others had to suffer through the pain of a wasting death. The Bakluni cried for retribution.
Dorgha Torgu sought a means to intervene on behalf of his followers. The Elder Elemental God, conveniently close by, provided him with the method of retribution. Using borrowed energies from the Elder Elemental God Dorgha Torgu wripped dimensional barriers apart and showered the Suel Empire with colorless flame that burned even stone to ash.
While the Invoked Devastation of the Suel was wrought through the vilest of the Evil powers, the counter response by a god of neutrality was unjust despite provocation.
This single act violated his neutrality and his charge. The Oerthly Pantheon cast him out. The Elder Elemental God finally received his revenge for the loss of his powerful followers.
Shunned by deities not of malign bent, Dorgha Torgu wanders the multiverse in remorse. Torn between anger at his treatment and regret for his misdeed, this deity seeks some means of rebuking his peers while at the same time proving himself worthy of his previous station.
Despite the overtures of sinister deities, Dorgha Torgu has not turned to them. Clearly he regrets listening to the Elder Elemental God long ago, and is wise enough to understand that, to follow Evil now would simply confirm the judgment of those who have made him a pariah. Thus, those malevolent gods and goddesses also reject Dorgha Torgu. He is indeed a true outcast.
Acknowledged and venerated by Baklunish “purists”, for reasons now distasteful in the extreme to him, and a handful of other savants who are aware of his circumstances, Dorgha Torgu is no longer able to wield vast powers. He is now a mere quasi-god with powers akin to those of an Elementalist Priest– Elementalist Wizard–Paladin of 18th level each with the ability to move across the inner planes of existence and the surrounding planes, compound elements to form things thus, and, of course, to assume mortal form at will.
Brought low thus, through his own error and the judgment of his peers, Dorgha Torgu roams about, often in material form, vainly looking for that which will redeem him in the eyes of the Oerthly Pantheon. As with all things, there is a means by which the outcast can restore his lost reputation, but he must manage the matter without assistance from any planar sort. In mortal guise, this deity can assume any form–male or female, young or old, handsome or ugly, human or demi-human, etc.
When in human guise, however, Dorgha Torgu has abilities of diminished sort, even from his relatively lowly quasi-deity status. It is believed he has the secret backing of the other elemental powers, who would see their fellow restored to his place if he can earn such. It is speculated that the opportunity to make amends for his offense will come only when he is in such a weakened state. Thus, Dorgha Torgu has but mortal powers, albeit considerable ones, and can not, of course, be truly slain but merely destroyed in material form and returned to his own plane for a time for recuperation.
Dorgha Torgu as a mortal has the combined abilities of an Elemental Priest and a Cavalier. One is at 12th level ability while the other operates at 8th level, he must choose which will be dominant when he manifests. In either case he can also use each of the following spells twice per day: Elemental Aura, Passwall, Water Breathing, Fire Flow and Metamorphose Liquids.
In roaming through the prime material plane, Dorgha Torgu helps those who seek to reverse evil things, aids those who have been wronged, and to otherwise help those suffering injustices. This he does from remorse, not because he believes such a course will restore him to his lost status. Of course, it is surely some such humble act that will set him on the course of attaining that which he seeks; redemption.

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Friday, 16 October 2015

Monday, 12 October 2015

Monday, 5 October 2015

Sunday, 4 October 2015

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