One of my best fantasy campaigns started as me using the map from AH's Battle of Italy and improvising everything from there.
I love repurposing old wargame maps. You get a pretty realistic terrain picture, and if you concentrate on operational-level games, your players probably won't recognize what you're swiping from.
Many old wargame maps are available for viewing on boardgamegeek, some (especially recent games for which digital art is available) quite high in resolution.
"Ark Against Time" Submitted for DunDraCon #48
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[image: A colorful thing seems to be made of several elongated pods]
(Ark of Time)
*GM: Matt MorrisonType: RPGSystem: D&D/Arduin GrimoireEdition: 5...
Enabling Curse of Strahd as a Sandbox
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One of the most important things I needed to do for myself to simplify
Curse of Strahd (COS) is related to the book's presentation. It's
presented as a ...
Forgotten Homework
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Ugh a boring bookkeeping post: I haven’t forgotten about my Stock-a-Dungeon
jam… it’s just taken more time than anticipated! I thought it would be a
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This is Fascinating and I Love It
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So this is an interview with Rick "I wrote Warhammer 40K because nobody in
the company thought it'd make any money" Priestley about all the unfinished
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A Return to the Stars
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After a veeeeerrrryyyy long, and mostly unplanned, hiatus, Stuart and I got
together to play more Stargrave in recent days. It was good! It was also a
bit ...
Imperium Maledictum Session 0
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Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum is the new Warhammer 40,000
roleplaying game from Cubicle7. Unlike Cubicle7’s other Warhammer 40,000
RPG, Wrath & Glo...
OBSCURE RPG – Free A4 character sheet
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I recently made an A4 character sheet for the OBSCURE roleplaying game by
Tommy Sunzenauer. If you feel like using it – download it here for free.
What i...
«The Butchery of Agnes Gooder» and Evil Books
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Throughout the history of mankind, there have been many evil books that can
damn a person’s soul just by reading or even looking at them. James Raggi,
the ...
The Time Bandits
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Six boisterous dwarves, who, until recently, were employed by the *Supreme
Being* to fix holes in the space-time continuum. Then they had a
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cryptid in july poetry day 09, the enfield horror
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a poem about the enfield horror
I’m an armpit leaping
around the woods on three
legs waiting
for police to arrest me
I’m the living
embodiment of cough...
Übersiedelt
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Dieser Blog ist Anfang des Jahres 2022 übersiedelt. Am Blog von
gazerpress.at schreibe ich weiterhin über Historisches und Aktuelles rund
ums Rollenspiel.
In Defense of Race As Class
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Race As Class! Baffling to some, overly simplistic to others, gold to me.
Race As Class does what even AD&D didn't have the balls to do: it not only
says "...
A Fresh Start
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Morning Folks
I came across someone's blog the other day and I liked it's focus, focus is
something I could use so I'm going to steal it along with anyt...
Vengeful Cuckold and Cuckquean Generator
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I submitted a table I made to Jeff Rients for his awesome Flame Princess
Cult Zine. I have already used it in several ways during games and have
enjoye...
REVIEW – Fish Fuckers
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Fish Fuckers is a Lamentations of the Flame Princess Adventure with Text
and Art by Kelvin Green, Graphic Design by Alex Mayo, and Editing by
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eXPerience
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The following are some alternative ways I want to try out in my home LotFP
game. I already use Session Attendance & Carousing but I want to try the
othe...
A World of Our Imagination
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*The essay below was written as the final paper of a composition class at
SFSU.*
*From Genesis to Revelation*
*A very brief history of Dungeons & Dragons*...
La torre del Necromante (Sessione 5 - ToEE)
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*La quinta sessione, dove i nostri si avventurano a Nord alla ricerca di un
luogo pericoloso...*
*T1-4 Il tempio del male elementale*
*Personaggi* *g...
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J'ai commencé à écrire l'article suivant en décembre 2018. On va essayer
d'accélérer un peu le rythme...
Splendidement isolée au milieu de la steppe et ...
Knights and their Towers
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Knight's towers were fortified self-standing buildings, several-stories
high, most often erected on a plan similar to a square. They contained both
livi...
Two Thieves
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Jeff Easley's BECMI Thief I’ve recently decided to run an OD&D game. This,
of course, brings with it the age-old question of which version of OD&D
(3LBBs...
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Late last year I kicked in on a slightly less-disastrous KS than the usual
(where’s my damned Ref book, Raggi?). I’ve always been a big fan of
manuscript a...
Folk Horror Wyrdness in Traditional Low Fantasy
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My Dreadful Ghoulies,
I think it started when I read an old blog post from Dreams in the Lich
House where John was combining Oerth with darker influence...
One page dungeon contest!
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The one page dungeon contest's deadline is coming up on May 1st and I am
currently finishing up my rough draft and sketches on mine. It's my first
time giv...
New adventure
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Finally got around to uploading a new adventure. You can find it under
the adventures tab or just jump right to it from the link below. The
adventure is...
How's the View at Scenic Dunnsmouth?
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*[First, there are major spoilers here, so I wouldn't recommend reading
this if you're a player. That said, this is one of the few adventures that
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The wife and I have been hard at work preparing Dark Sun for Lamentations
of the Flame Princess. Whilst we didn't manage to complete this one over
the we...
Conformity is Easy but Often Unwise.
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*"Trying to conform to frantic society is like trying to dance in rhythm
with an erupting volcano. The awakened see society's problems as
originating fro...
One of my best fantasy campaigns started as me using the map from AH's Battle of Italy and improvising everything from there.
ReplyDeleteI love repurposing old wargame maps. You get a pretty realistic terrain picture, and if you concentrate on operational-level games, your players probably won't recognize what you're swiping from.
Sorry for multiple posts, but also wanted to add:
ReplyDeleteMany old wargame maps are available for viewing on boardgamegeek, some (especially recent games for which digital art is available) quite high in resolution.