I built a slide-in truck camper in the Spring and traveled out West this Summer.

The views and hikes gave me many game ideas and the long drives and time along gave me time to think about them

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Today I discuss the rumors about the forthcoming One D&D and its SRD and supposedly not using OGL.

1. Enworld Article that clarifies the OGL, SRD, Copyright, and Trademark.
2. Comments about the rumors from Alex Kammer on Twitter.

New Page on my blog to share my Podcast.

New Page on my blog to share my YouTube videos.

I'm your host Larry Hamilton, and today I answer the question of what is going on? What is going on with me and with my AD&D campaign on Roll20?

Call Ins: Jason Connerly of Nerds RPG Variety Cast 

2020 Year In Review on the blog.

Musings on starting a new YouTube series How to AD&D 1e.

Prompted by this tweet from Bill Allan: I started playing D&D in 1978.

My retweet and musings tweet.

My Roll20 For the Absolute Beginner playlist.

Companion article on my blog.

I mention the passing of an OSR blogger and discuss some ideas for combination monsters and applying curses and other negative effects to NPCs and monsters.

James Smith's Blog: Dreams of Mythic Fantasy and Obituary.

The Monster Brothers Podcast, see episode 005 - Treefolk.

After a couple of call ins on my last episode by John Payne and Jeremy "Frothsof" Smith, I discuss a bit about the time I through an unexpected NPC at the players. It's amazing how cool magic items used by NPCs bring out the envy and greed in players.

John Payne's Podcast is Old Sword and his blog is Sycarion.

Jeremy "Frothsof" Smith has a Podcast - Thought Eater and a Blog also Thought Eater, and a new Patreon and his Psionic Platypus zine [Affiliate Link].

You can read the companion blog article here, and see a picture of the mountaintop temple.

Dream catchers are things that are supposed to catch bad dreams. A magical dream catcher captures the creatures of one's nightmares and brings them into the real world.

Musings on the use and application of Read Magic and Write Magic to make utility spells on par in importance to the combat spells.

Have you ever had an item given to your character by a game master, and forgotten to use it?

Have a groovy day and enjoy all the cool games!

Call ins congratulating me on 100 episodes, a mention of a final blog post about the end of G+, and more practical planning aspects for play testing my card game.

Callers:

Spikepit (Colin Greene), RFED (Darrin Greene), Frothsof (Jeremy Smith) - Thought Eater, Ray Otus - Plundergrounds.

Blogpost:

 G+ The End And Google’s Still Making Changes 

Surprise! This is actually my 100th Episode, since my first episode is Episode 0.

Episode 0, Checking out Anchor, Lean Rules, and other Musings, was published on Jun 24, 2018, just over nine months ago.

Flip the switch and check all my sites!

You can find me online wherever you see my social media avatar, Griswald, the guy with the raised sword and wolf's head shield.

Background ambiences from Tabletop Audio that I support on Patreon. Soundtracks include portions of Skirmish, Medieval Town, and Medieval Battle.

A Science Fiction RPG, a Space Pirate game, and and Interplanetary War game were three home brewed games we made back in the day. 

I wrote something about these games on my blog a few years ago.

While I'm talking about past games, I discuss my 2017 entry in the 200 Word RPG Challenge, Cat Wrangling, and ideas for making a more rounded RPG out of it, and ideas for a potential card game, and board game.

You can find the 200 Word RPG Challenge here.

My blog post about my 2017 entry is here.

I catch up on the story of the party for the seven sessions that have occured since the last episode.

Where I discuss my call for artists for card art and announce a target date of the Kickstarter in the first quarter of 2020 for my card game.

I also mention the publication of my first adventure PDF available on DriveThruRPG.

See the companion blog post here.

The Twitter thread where I initiated my call for artists and announced the target date.

Other links mentioned in this episode:

My Teespring store

Kevin Crawford on DriveThruRPG [Affiliate Link], Stars Without Number [Affiliate Link], and his Kickstarter profile.

Artist interviewed on Episode 86, Lindsay Poulos: Twitter, Instagram, Art Station, Deviant Art.

My first adventure PDF on DriveThruRPG: No, Really, It's Me. Doppelgangers replace a party of adventurers and have to convince others not to return to the dungeon.

A couple of call ins responded to my last episode about Mules In the Dungeon.

I also had some comments on G+. In the waning days of G+ I still post and people respond, faithful to the end.

Ramblings of a Gamer and Artist podcast and Northport Blog by Gwythaint, AKA Denis McCarthy. Denis is an artist for many products on DriveThruRPG and even has a lot of art you can use in your own publications. I've used his art in several of my PDFs.

Plundergrounds podcast, Jellysaw games, and Patreon of Ray Otus.

I reminisce a bit about using mules in dungeon delves back in the Holmes Basic Days.

Spikepit has requested that I discuss my experiences running The Front.

You can get The Front on DriveThruRPG for the PDF and on Lulu for print.

I did a review of The Front on my blog back in March, 2016.

The Front is based on The Black Hack 1st edition. (You can find the second edition here.) NOTE: I backed the Kickstarter for both editions of The Black Hack.

If you want a more realistic WWII RPG, check out Operation Whitebox by Pete Spahn, which is based on Swords & Wizardry Whitebox PDF or on Lulu here.

NOTE: All links to DriveThruRPG are Affiliate Links.

A few thoughts on Impostor syndrome and how often I am wrong to think that way.

How many times do people have to tell you you did well before you believe it?

Instead of the normal Tuesday Tales, I present my wrap up of Gary Con XI. It includes some new stories of my exploits in RPGs so it's not too far off the normal Tuesday episode.

I have a companion article on the blog.

My Fellow Podcasters I recorded episodes with: Ray Otus of Plundergrounds and Cody M. of No Save For You.

The 30 minute mark of this episode on Plundergrounds (Gary Con day 3) is where we discuss my card game.

Zenopus Archives blog.

Kickstarters Mentioned:

Eye of The Beholder - It will be on streaming services soon!

The Dreams in Gary's Basement

The story of the beginning of my cheer leading for Pat Kilbane's movie back in Gary Con 8.

The mailing list to be notified when the Kickstarter for my card game finally happens.

RPGs mentioned in the podcast, all but the one for Lulu are affiliate links:

The Front           

The Front paper back at Lulu

The Black Hack

The Black Hack 2e

Gamma World 1e

I caught up with Ray Otus and Cody M and we discuss Gary Con. Catch Ray's Plundergrounds podcast where we discuss mycard game.

Fighting to a stalemate to retake the dungeons under the castle from all the beasts and villains.

I plan to make an adventure module out of the various convention games I've created and ran.  I ramble on about how simpler is better in my experience and that is the goal of all my publications. I invite listeners to call in an share how their game prep for convention games compares to their regular game prep.

In the real world, the idea of spontaneous generation, where maggots and flies come from rotting meat was disproved and replaced by the actual method of like creatures spawning like creatures. That is called biogenesis.

However, in a fantasy world, spontaneous generation can be real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation

Here's the companion blog article.

https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/28/spontaneous-generation/

Session before last was a near TPK, this session was revenge!

Call in from Joe Richter of the Hindsightless podcast.

A quick story about the recovery of a legendary suit of armor.

No frogs here, so move along.

My brother, whose character had this item, made this comment on the Follow Me, And Die! FB page:

Hey Larry I need to tell you that you are only sort of right Yes the armor was pitch black but it was full plate. And it didn't age you but turned all of your hair completely white. It had 2 or 3 other abilities but I can't remember them and can't get to my notebook at the moment. 

Today I'm at Marmalade Dog and I interview artist Lindsay Poulos. 

Twitter Personal  All other social media: @ladyrandombox

Twitter 

Deviant Art

Art Station

Instagram

I want to encourage everyone to go to the small local cons in their area. Offer to run games.

https://marmaladedog.org/rpg.html

I mention the three scenarios I'm running, one each Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'm bringing them to Gary Con as options for pick up games.

I discuss how players in my game wanted to display the trophies of their kills.

Two call ins from Jeremy at the Thought Eater podcast. He also writes the Thought Eater blog.

I nearly lost this whole episode. I mis-numbered it as 87, and while I was still in Audacity, tried re-naming the files and directories. Do NOT do that! I managed to recover this episode. It isn't cut well, but after multiple trains interrupting my flow and nearly losing the whole thing from my own stupidity, I'm calling it good enough.

Today, I'd like to talk about railroads.

Back in May and June of 2015, I wrote a couple of blog articles about railroad style of play.

The first, RAILROAD VS. SANDBOX – THE TIMELINE. 

The second, WHAT IF YOUR RPG INVOLVES A RAILROAD? 

My thoughts on building a framework or checklist to help me build more interesting adventures that might also be useful to novice GMs.

Today I discuss the time back in the day when Griswald faced the consequences of an alignment deviation.

SHIP'S KLAXON HORN
by U.S. Department of Defense
SOURCE: https://archive.org/details/ShipsKlaxonHorn

Today I discuss organization.

But first some of the usual side quests before the main topic.

It finally clarified in my mind what to call all of my blog readers, social media followers, Patrons, YouTube viewers, and podcast listeners. You'll have to listen in for the reveal.

I've got some T-shirt ideas and will have a poll about them.

A bit of mention about Kickstarter ideas and planning. (Nothing definite yet, so don't get excited.)

You can sign up for the announcement email whenever I finally launch my Kickstarter here: https://followmeanddie.com/sign-up-for-kickstarter-updates/

Here's episode 79, actually number 80 since I started with episode 0.

Today, I'd like to talk about Language and Writing. I've been working on a blog post, but it's slow going.

Some news in addition to Caravans & Trade, I have a second Copper seller on DriveThruRPG, Library Generation Tables.

Call ins from Colin "Spikepit" Green and Pete Jones of the Dragons Are Real podcast.

After some review of the past couple of podcasts and blog posts, and some stats on the podcast and one of my PDFs on DriveThruRPG, I finally get to the topic of today's episode.

Today I talk about last Sunday's game when a nightmare riding anti-paladin nearly took out the party.

Cool Fact: My prior episode, #190 - Why Follow Me, And Die? has become my most listened to episode with over 210 listens as I post this episode.

After much reflection on my workflow, and the expense of some of my tools, combined with the looming demise of G+, I am convinced, that for me, I need to get serious about moving my workflow to Linux.

Plus, dual booting a computer is like having two and is twice as much work to keep updated.

You can read my companion article here on my blog. 

https://followmeanddie.com/2019/02/02/simpler-tools-just-as-cool/

I go into more detail and link to more information on all the things I mention. 

Both the podcast and blog article are quick overviews, and I may have left out some things. Please reply on Anchor or comment on the blog article to keep the conversation going.

I have an Android phone which is based on linux. 

So I've already recorded episodes straight to my phone.

Linux is based on unix

Mac OS is based on unix.

iPhone is also based on unix.

G+ Finally made it clear that all the personal G+ information will be deleted.

hear my thoughts here on the podcast, or read them on the blog.

https://followmeanddie.com/2019/01/31/the-end-of-an-era/

Today on episode 75 another Tuesday Tales. Last week I discussed insanity and promised I'd tell the story of how Griswald almost died of disease, and again, another cleric had to heal him.

Thanks for the call in from Shane Ward of Gilligan's Isle of ADD.

I also have a new podcast follower, the Role Per Second Podcast based in Guadalara, Mexico. Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos!

Today's episode of Saturday Scrawl marks the completion of a complete week of the regular Tues, Thurs., Sat. cycle. I also had a couple of extra episodes.

As so many are talking about conventions they're attending and both running and playing games, I want to talk about running convention games.

I also share a snippet of a story from my foggy mind as I awoke this morning. I'm not sure what I was dreaming, but I've got a great start to a short story.

What do you do when life gets in the way of your hobbies? 

Tonight's episode is a short one as I'm just taking a quick break from an emergency project at work. I said I was back to my normal podcast schedule this week, and I'm sticking to it.

We have calls ins from Tim Shorts of Gothridge Manor and Ray Otus of Plundergrounds.

So far, I've had 7 call ins from three people on my episode Saturday about Dwarven Beards.

I wrote a follow up blog article with more details and some tables.

This morning I realized I left out some things I meant to touch on, so I've written a second blog article with some more tables. Both articles are linked below..

Rather than let this information simmer, I'm ready to respond to these call ins. You'll want to listen to episode 69 before you listen to this one.

Matt Jackson is a first time caller.

Ray Otus of the Plundergrounds podcast and Cody M. of the No Save For You Podcast.

Check out the two blog articles I've written on the topic:

Musings on Dwarven Beards

and

More Musings on Dwarven Beards.

My granddaughter is fascinated with magic as portrayed in cartoons, like Disney's Frozen. Lately, she is hooked on magic wands. Her grandmother got her a tablet and her parents got her a dozen styluses, just in case. Today, one such stylus is her wand.

I think this is a great example of role play, she is all in when it comes to being who she says she is. She likes rolling dice, but she's not quite ready for sitting still to play an RPG. She just turned four last Sunday.

After having a long beard for over a year, the end of April, early May will mark two years since I stopped trimming it and let it grow. I've been thinking about beards and how to portray them more realistically where dwarves are concerned.

But first, a call in from Colin, Spikepit himself.

After a hiatus due to craziness of the annual busy time at work and some family issues I made a quick episode to update everyone on what I'm up to in the new year.

I'll try to do a weekly Saturday scrawl the rest of January until work slows down, then I'll return to my 3 episode a week schedule.

After some call ins I ramble about the Kickstarters I've backed, mention an upcoming year in review blog post, and announce a break from the podcast until work slows down in mid to late January.

I discuss where Follow Me, And Die! came from and why I chose it for the name of my blog and other social media.

Companion Blog Post.

Companion YouTube Video.

Past Blog Posts:

Why “Follow Me And Die!”?

The Story Behind “Follow Me, And Die!”

I have call ins from John Large of Red Dice Diaries, Ivy The Happy Whisk, and Cody M. of No Save For You. Today's story is about the party interrupting the wizard.

First call ins about two prior episodes and what's going on that I skipped the last Tuesday and Thursday podcasts

Comments on the last episode about Cities as Dungeons. Today I discuss playing the games you buy and download instead of just gathering them.