Skullsword's Tower

From the smoking ruins of The Silent Sorcerer's tower, Skullsword sends forth nonsensical artwork and useless gaming tools. He also likes to discuss RPGs, boardgames, miniatures painting, writing, movies, books, and whatever else strikes his fancy. Mostly though, his goal is to provide fun and goofy things to inspire others in their games. Enjoy!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Gary Sent us. No, seriously, he did.

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It's hard to believe that Gary Gygax has been gone for a year. Sure, Gary Gygax has been gone for a year now, but the games that he cre...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Rules vs. the Game

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I've spent a lot of time lately looking over rule books trying to pick a game system to run, and it's finally stuck me that I've...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Games for Old-school Dungeon Crawling

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I've put together a quick summary of three retro style games that I think work best for old fashioned dungeon crawling.  This is just de...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

What makes a "good" dungeon?

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I've been thinking about the question of what makes a good dungeon for a while now, so I think it's time to write down a brief summa...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Some more thoughts on hirelings and henchmen

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I'm quite sure that of those who even remember the prevalence of hirelings and henchman in the early days of RPGs, quite a number of the...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dungeon Entrances

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One of the biggest problems that I have when designing a dungeon is coming up with the main entrance. I've been doing quite a lot of th...
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Monday, January 5, 2009

A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming

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How we gamed in Ye Olde Tymes. And Best of all, it's free. http://www.lulu.com/content/3019374

Resurrecting "Old School"

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The Traditional Adventure Roleplaying Association announces International Traditional Adventure Roleplaying Week, January 10th through 17th,...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

In which we creep closer to my finally choosing a system

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I'm in the mood to run an old school dungeon crawl. The type centered around a village on the edge of a dark forest, with a nasty beast...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Gaming resolutions for the new year

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Of course I never keep these sorts of things, but what the heck. I resolve to play more tabletop games and less computer games.  I have no ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Retro Redux (Dragon Warriors)

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Dragon Warriors is quite possibly what D&D would have been had D&D been created in England.  Thanks to Magnum opus and Mongoose Publ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Going native...er...retro

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I have reached the threshold of middle-age and still consider myself a gamer. If you would have asked my at 14 if I thought that I would st...
Monday, December 8, 2008

The Tao of RPGs

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"Have little and be fulfilled. Have much and be confused." I've always been fond of these words from the Tao Te Ching. Th...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Roaring 20's

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I am proposing a new campaign set in to 1920's (1925 to be exact). The characters will be based in the fictional Pennsylvania town of K...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

A place to post my gaming stuff perhaps?

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