Grindstonë Games

This blog will no longer be updated. I have moved over to Ruprecht's RPG Blog . I've copied over most of the content and will probab...

When I first named this blog I did a search or two and didn't see any results with Grindstone in them. I liked the alliteration with the...

 I stumbled across an old post by Skerpsies over at Coins and Scrolls. The post is called OSR: Caves and Props . Basically it is an alternat...

I've read a bunch of posts on resource management lately. Most have decided that 5E does a poor job of resource management, and they did...

I've read the Lord of the Rings more than once. I've never been a big fan of Tom Bombadil, in fact on more than one occasion I'v...

Guyeatsfood at Burn After Running has a post titled  Interfering Factions – A Technique to Improve Your One-Shot . The idea is really good f...

One of the difficult parts of running an urban campaign is describing the streets. It's easy to describe wilderness and most dungeon roo...