Author: Logar The Barbarian

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The Book of Forbidden Knowledge

The following are not original works, but quotes and sections from The Book of Forbidden Knowledge: Black Magic, Superstition, Charms and Divination published by Johnson Smith & Company in Detroit Michigan (1910?ish). There are modern printings out you can find, and I suggest picking one up for flavor with your game. They have a ton of fun quirky stuff in them. Here are presented a few folk remedies from the book. You can access The Book of Forbidden Knowledge at Archive.org. This is just a bit that I had pulled out for something I was writing, and figured I would share here if anyone found them interesting, and might be fun to add flavor to your game as superstitions and cures.
WHEN A PERSON DESIRES TO REMOVE CORNS
When they bury an old man, and the funeral bells are ringing, the following should be spoken: They are sounding the funeral bell and what I now grasp may soon be well and what ill I grasp do take away, like the dead one in the grave does lay. ***
While reciting the sentence, always hold the troubled part in the hand, and regarding the corns, move over them with your fingers after cutting out the corns, and as long as they are tolling the bells repeat the above. As soon as the dead body begins to bleach the corns will disappear. Probate in the case of a male, wait for the funeral of one of that sex; In the case of a female wait until a female is to be buried.
FOR VIOLENT TOOTHACHES

Take a new nail, pick with this tooth till it bleeds, then take this nail and insert it in a place where neither sun or moon ever shines into, perhaps, in the rafters of the bin in a cellar, toward the rising of the sun; at the first stroke upon the nail call the name of him who you design to help, and speak: Toothache cease, pain allay!

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The birth of gods

The following is written for my home game that I am preparing right now.

Humans have created gods for a god to have power the god must be manifested and reified by the social body. The act of worship gives power to the god. Organized religion is essential for a God to exist. This is because for a God to exist there has to be enough worshipers and followers to manifest the deity. Rural areas often have petty gods because the local small scale worship of deities has less power to manifest a deity. Petty gods have become major gods over time when a rural deity has been brought into an urban population and spread with the birth of new religion reaching further parts of the world. Major gods have been known to begin as petty gods in rural areas.

 

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Dungeon Week!

It is Dungeon Week on Wobblies & Wizards. All of our episodes this week focus on Dungeons. We launch the week off with a visit from Amanda P. to discuss Beyond the Burning Teeth. Click here to check out the first episode of Dungeon Week on Anchor.FM. Our Blog review this week will focus on blog posts about running and making dungeons. We will be reviewing In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe by Jason Fleming on Zine Thursday, and Chriss Bissette will be joining us for Saturday’s episode to talk Dungeons. Light and Logar wrap up the week by rolling up a random Dungeon.

I also launched a Patreon page www.patreon.com/wobbliesandwizards. We are releasing the episodes early there so if you don’t want to wait, quite a few of the upcoming episodes are already available for our Patreon supporters. Which is exactly none as it’s brand new this morning, so we would love it if you helped to change that.

We accidentally recorded too many episodes for Dungeon week, so the extra episode will be on Patreon for subscribers. Then there is the forbidden episode. Light and I were just not on our “A game” and recorded a half hour episode that should never be heard. I am looking at just uploading it to the Patreon, consider it a blooper reel or just an example of how not to record a podcast.

We might be changing a lot and adjusting the Patreon as we go. For now it was set up using what Patreon suggested.

We have a lot more planned to come, and I am really looking forward to 2022 here on Wobblies & Wizards.

The blog posts covered here in this week blog review are:

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RPG Blog Reviews

I’ve been slacking, have not been getting many posts up here lately, but I’m making plans to change that. I write a lot, but most of what I write sits on hard drives never to be touched. I also have put out more Wobblies & Wizards content here on the podcast than I ever did on the blog. If you have not been listening to the podcast, check it out. I have found that the podcast has gotten way more folks listening than this blog ever has. I’ve been happy seeing the steady growth there and we have had some great opportunities to talk to a lot of really cool game creators.

I am starting to reconsider what this blog is used for and what I want to do with the site here now that our central focus has shifted to doing a regular podcast. I have a few ideas of things I want to explore here on the blog. We have just started doing a weekly blog review episode on the podcast so we have been looking a lot at blogs from around the gaming community more. There is a ton of really cool stuff people are putting out.

With all the regular content coming out on the podcast getting more and more attention I have asked what we will be using the old blog here for.

I don’t want to make big promises and fail to deliver, so I’m not going to give a post of things to come, but I am planning on a few different things and we will see how those go. One of the first things I’m going to do is give a post dump here at the bottom of this post. Just some links to blogs we have reviewed so far on the Wobblies & Wizards podcast.

So, go on over to the podcast and check out the episodes and go visit the blogs we discussed. And as a disclaimer, a few we put on the lists did not make it on the show just because of time. I tried to catch them all, but some may have made it onto this list:

Click here to listen to the W&W RPG Blog Review 12/19/2021on Anchor.FM

Blighters

https://www.bastionland.com/2021/12/blighters-rough-version.html

Pantheon Worksheet

https://savevsdragon.blogspot.com/2021/12/pantheon-worksheet.html

Quality reusable traps

https://lapidaryossuary.blogspot.com/2021/12/quality-reusable-traps-d6.html

The Ruffian Class

https://ashzealot.wordpress.com/2021/12/12/the-ruffian-class-bx-ose/

December tables

https://tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com/2021/12/dicember-days-1-8-d6-tables.html

Into the unknown

https://methodsetmadness.blogspot.com/2021/12/table-tools-booklets-and-into-unknown.html

Lots of cool posts on Prismatic Wasteland

https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/apolitical-rpgs-do-not-exist

Psionics revision

https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2021/12/psionics-revision-lv-six-seven.html

Fairy Cities

https://axianspice.blogspot.com/2021/12/fairy-cities-for-osr-games.html?m=0

The Wonderist Character Class

https://peakrill.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-wonderist-character-class.html

Faction Play with tables & goblin bazaar

https://www.paperspencils.com/supporting-faction-play-with-treasure-tables-ned-13-food/

Apolitical RPGs do not exist

https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/apolitical-rpgs-do-not-exist

Vancian magic

https://brinehouse.blogspot.com/

 

Click Here to listen to the W&W RPG Blog Review 12/26/21 on Anchor.Fm

OSR: Unsolved Magic Problems

https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2021/12/osr-unsolved-magic-problems.html

Bad Apples in Classes – Cleric(s)

https://vdonnutvalley.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/bad-apples-in-classes-clerics/

My” D&D – Classic 1981 B/X

https://dysonlogos.blog/2020/04/29/my-dd-classic-1981-b-x/

A Dungeon for B/X made on gridmapper

https://ashzealot.wordpress.com/2021/12/19/lair-of-the-putrid-warrior-gridmapper-dungeon/

Quarrel & Fable Comparative OSR

https://leyline.press/blogs/leyline-press-blog/a-comparative-exploration-of-osr-rpg-systems-quarrel-fable

OSR: 1d20 Ludicrous Taxes

https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2021/12/osr-1d20-ludicrous-taxes.html

Magic item origins

https://www.greyhawkgrognard.com/2021/12/21/magic-item-origins/

OSR News Roundup for 12.20.21

https://www.thirdkingdomgames.com/post/osr-news-roundup-for-12-20-21

Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design

 

Click Here to listen to the W&W RPG Blog Review 01/04/22 on Anchor.FM

Three types of conflict

https://tabletopcuriositycabinet.blogspot.com/2021/12/three-types-of-conflict.html

Equipment Load and Wealth

https://vdonnutvalley.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/equipment-load-and-wealth/

Happy Needfest! The Digital Darlene Greyhawk Map

https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2021/12/happy-needfest-digital-darlene-greyhawk.html

Skrulls for Hyperborea

http://www.crossplanes.com/2021/12/marvel-monday-skrulls-for-hyperborea.html

Top D&D illustrations of golden age

http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/12/my-top-10-d-illustrations-of-golden-age.html

d10 Relics for Cairn

https://ialath.com/blog/d10-relics-for-cairn

D10 bulky treasures

https://themanwithahammer.blogspot.com/2021/03/d10-bulky-treasures.html

Santa & Friday the 13th

https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2021/12/santa-claus-and-friday-13th-christmas.html

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