Venger's old school gaming blog

  You've probably heard about the leftist game designers who're putting their names on a website to support Kamala Harris this election.  Cucks and soy-boys and Commies oh my! There's an u...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/10/osr-based-endorsement-president-trump.html

  Volume one of SHADOW-CHA'ALT is now live (and the preview is actually working).  Here's the DriveThru link. What is it?  An introductory adventure that lowers the temperature on gon...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/10/shadow-chaalt.html

  Badge sales for July 2025's VENGER CON IV are now available here . The specific dates are Friday, July 18th - Sunday, July 20th.  There is a block of discounted rooms - right over he...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/09/venger-con-iv-post-modern-apocalypse.html

  10 months of gaming every other weekend, 20 sessions of CHA'ALT.  This is the campaign finale. As I mentioned last time, I'm pretty sure this was my longest campaign - especially if yo...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-dark-gods-must-be-horny-session-20.html

  I just gave my wife the bad news... I'm not gonna quit. After the massive outpouring of support and enthusiasm and encouragement I've received over the last few days, I realized I could...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/08/do-you-believe-in-unlikelihoods.html

  I started this wild journey of self-publishing back in 2012 when I, like so many others, discovered there was something lost between the 3rd and 4th editions of D&D.   Gazing into our...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/08/end-of-aeon.html

  I can feel it, coming at the end of night... the 2nd Cha'alt campaign is almost over.   This was the penultimate session, and it positioned the adventures right where they needed to b...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/08/ferocious-love-chaalt-campaign-session.html

  Before I go into the "state of the union" regarding my affairs, here  is my Kickstarter for PRIMORDIAL CHAOS: GONZO LIKE A FUCKING BOSS.  It's going to be a wild ride, so come join!  ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-gonzo-book-you-never-knew-you-needed.html

  Surprise, motherfucker!  We're back in the saddle with another session report... I was excited about this one because it had been a month since we'd played.  Our regular scheduled gam...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/08/no-ones-innocent-chaalt-campaign.html

  Let's start at the end... The last session of the con (that I participated in) was an investigative horror scenario that I wrote last October as a between Cha'alt campaigns break.   ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/07/venger-con-iii-post-convention-write-up.html

  Playing things by ear, spontaneous, improvised, whatever the moment calls for... this is the Venger way, both the convention and myself. I make plans, just like everybody else, but as w...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/07/venger-con-iii-heccaeity-of-rpg.html

  I know there are dozens of OSR folks who couldn't make it to VENGER CON III this weekend.  But we appreciate your support and solidarity from afar! Even though we can't game at the sam...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/07/purple-zoth-random-table.html

  I've been spending an inordinate amount of time and energy on this weekend's VENGER CON III convention.  But I also don't want to neglect my Kickstarter for a second Cha'alt webcomic.  ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/07/lavender-moons-of-chaalt-kickstarter.html

  This current Cha'alt campaign has now achieved the length of the last - 17 sessions.  Besides wanting a fresh start with new PCs, I suppose there wasn't really a reason for ending the la...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-tentacles-of-tsathagg-kha-are.html

  Only 3 players this session.  It's summer, and stuff happens, but I'm happy we got to play.  Anything less than 3 players, and my current mindset is to cancel the game.  However, maybe...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/06/carcosa-mission-creep-chaalt-campaign.html

  All the trolling and discussion and whatnot on social media about ability scores got me thinking about them again. While none of the CRIMSON DRAGON SLAYER iterations use ability scores...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/06/crimson-ability-scores-hack.html

  Another session, another chance to caress the true reality of tentacles, blood, and slimy openings beneath this matrix veneer of what we wrongfully assume must be legit... This entire s...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/06/do-crayons-have-angry-souls-chaalt.html

  Back down to the essential 3 as our usual 4th player had a work thing out-of-town... Drogon, Jua'an Tufrifo, and Nix.  In this simulated reality of Blue Sky on Cha'alt hyper-immersive ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/05/crouching-sandworm-hidden-glory-hole.html

  I was thinking about poetry on the way to drop my kids off at school this morning, and for whatever reason, haiku popped in my head.   Why not a new form of haiku that conformed to sa...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/05/chaalt-haaiku-contest.html

  We just finished the 13th session.  Normally, I write these session reports the day after, but tomorrow is Mother's Day, so I'm trying to get a jump on it now... and finishing Monday. ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/05/mysterious-qadaath-2nd-chaalt-campaign.html

  This is a layout challenge! For my friend and awesome artist's (who worked on the CHA'ALT webcomic Under Fuchsia Ska'ai and illustrated a couple pieces for THE CHA'ALT EXPERIENCE) Ita...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/05/ultra-minimalist-crimson-dragon-slayer.html

  Great Purple Worm of Cha’alt   Kra’adumek, Kra’adumek There’s no defeating you Kra’adumek, Kra’adumek Great Purple Worm of Cha’alt   Basking ‘neath twice the su...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-chaalt-song.html

  This week, we had only 3 players.  Drogon the human sorcerer, Gorra the grog (sand construct) priest, and Juan Tufrifo the crystalline warrior.   They leveled-up, and I asked them to...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_21.html

  Every once in awhile, there's a session that shakes things up.  The sleeper must awaken, and all that. The adventurers experience a setback that almost sort of actually resulted in a T...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_15.html

  Almost 7 years ago, I blogged  about this quote from Gary Gygax (image by Andrew McCormack)... a GM primarily rolls dice for the sound they make.  It struck a chord in me back then, ev...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/living-world-living-story-best-of-both.html