Tamás Illés
@vorpalmace.bsky.social
OSR, BRP, Oldhammer fan. Sometimes I blog too: https://vorpalmace.blogspot.com/
Want to know what to expect from BRP: Creatures? Exactly what it promises, nothing less, maybe a tiny bit more. Which is why I like it. vorpalmace.github.io/brp-creatres... @chaosium.bsky.social #chaosium #rpg #brp
Basic Roleplaying: Creatures Review
I expected Chaosium to forget about Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine after releasing it under the ORC-license, leaving its future entirely in the community’s hands. Fortunately, I was wrong. W...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Want to know what to expect from BRP: Creatures? Exactly what it promises, nothing less, maybe a tiny bit more. Which is why I like it. vorpalmace.github.io/brp-creatres... @chaosium.bsky.social #chaosium #rpg #brp
BRP Creatures has arrived. I'm still in the middle of reading it cover to cover, but so far it's a pleasant surprise. @chaosium.bsky.social #chaosium #brp #rpg
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
BRP Creatures has arrived. I'm still in the middle of reading it cover to cover, but so far it's a pleasant surprise. @chaosium.bsky.social #chaosium #brp #rpg
Better late than never, here is my Cauldron Con 2025 report: vorpalmace.github.io/cauldron-con... #rpg #rpgcon #cauldroncon
Cauldron Con 2025
This year’s Cauldron Con was hit by the winds of change. Not only did the event move from the beautiful but cold Schloss Hohenroda to the cozy and rustic Hofraithe Park in Rosenthal, but it was also o...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Better late than never, here is my Cauldron Con 2025 report: vorpalmace.github.io/cauldron-con... #rpg #rpgcon #cauldroncon
Bored of bland and uninspiring modern fantasy book covers? Buy some fucking sword & sorcery. #swordandsorcery #books
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bored of bland and uninspiring modern fantasy book covers? Buy some fucking sword & sorcery. #swordandsorcery #books
Yesterday I started reading Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief. It's been a while since I found a book I couldn't put down. It's lean, mean, hilarious. Reminds me the first time I've read William King's Trollslayer.
July 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Yesterday I started reading Christopher Buehlman's The Blacktongue Thief. It's been a while since I found a book I couldn't put down. It's lean, mean, hilarious. Reminds me the first time I've read William King's Trollslayer.
Trent Smith's Brink of Calamity is Deal of the Day on DriveThruRPG. If you have been waiting for a good oppurtinity to buy it like me, now is the time! His Heroic Legendarium is one of the most epic AD&D supplements out there, so my expectations are high.
Brink of Calamity - Storm Fetish Productions | DriveThruRPG.com
The town of Warnell, straddling a trade route that crosses two great forests, seems at first like any other backwater on
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June 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Trent Smith's Brink of Calamity is Deal of the Day on DriveThruRPG. If you have been waiting for a good oppurtinity to buy it like me, now is the time! His Heroic Legendarium is one of the most epic AD&D supplements out there, so my expectations are high.
The first review on my new blog is now online - and it's about HackMaster, the best tabletop rpg ever. vorpalmace.github.io/hackmater-re...
HackMaster Review
HackMaster 5e is the greatest game ever developed by humankind. It says so in the introduction of the Player’s Handbook, and they are goddamn right. Ironically, the game started out as a joke: it was ...
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June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The first review on my new blog is now online - and it's about HackMaster, the best tabletop rpg ever. vorpalmace.github.io/hackmater-re...
This month's investments.
The Majestic and the Magical
June starts strong with Kickstarter campaigns. Right on the coattails of OSRIC comes another big and important OSR project. Robert Conley has proven with his past works that he knows a thing or two ab...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This month's investments.
I finished reading Abraham Merritt's Ship of Ishtar on my way to work this morning. What a bittersweet way to start the day.
June 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I finished reading Abraham Merritt's Ship of Ishtar on my way to work this morning. What a bittersweet way to start the day.
Runequest: Roleplaying in Mythic Iceland would have been a more appropriate title.
May 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Runequest: Roleplaying in Mythic Iceland would have been a more appropriate title.
As I mentioned not so long ago, friend and I received Drakborgen for Dragonbane a week or two ago and decided to give it a shot. Here is the session report. vorpalmace.github.io/a-night-in-d...
A Night in Drakborgen
It’s refreshing to finally play a game I’m invested in instead of running it. Yesterday, one of my friends ran a session of Dragonbane in Drakborgen. Dragonbane is the latest edition of Sweden’s natio...
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May 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
As I mentioned not so long ago, friend and I received Drakborgen for Dragonbane a week or two ago and decided to give it a shot. Here is the session report. vorpalmace.github.io/a-night-in-d...
It's refreshing to finally play a game I'm invested in instead of running it. Yesterday one of my friends ran a session of Dragonbane in Drakborgen. I'll post tomorrow about our jolly little excursion.
May 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
It's refreshing to finally play a game I'm invested in instead of running it. Yesterday one of my friends ran a session of Dragonbane in Drakborgen. I'll post tomorrow about our jolly little excursion.
Proud to be the 556th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for OSRIC 3! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
OSRIC 3
The 2006 retro-clone of first edition AD&D, rewritten and reorganized for 2025! OSRIC 3 is easier to learn, with more examples of play. This is the beginning of a new product line for Mythmere Games, ...
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May 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Proud to be the 556th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for OSRIC 3! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Got fed up with blogger and decided to move on to GitHub Pages. Expect the first proper post soon at vorpalmace.github.io.
Vorpal Mace II
Gateway to another world
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April 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Got fed up with blogger and decided to move on to GitHub Pages. Expect the first proper post soon at vorpalmace.github.io.
Christmas has officially begun. I have already given up on putting the new HarnMaster Kethira rulebook under the tree, but it seems couriers are capable of miracles too. Or maybe I had a point of Grace left... #rpg #harnmaster
December 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Christmas has officially begun. I have already given up on putting the new HarnMaster Kethira rulebook under the tree, but it seems couriers are capable of miracles too. Or maybe I had a point of Grace left... #rpg #harnmaster
Dark Tower has finally arrived, causing immense joy, sorrow, and backpain too. I wish I could drop Jennell a message to gush about this remaster.
April 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Dark Tower has finally arrived, causing immense joy, sorrow, and backpain too. I wish I could drop Jennell a message to gush about this remaster.
Session four of our WFRP homebrew: Tomb Guards on a Plane (To Say Nothing of the Bloodletter). vorpalmace.blogspot.com/2024/04/sess...
[Session] Fauxhammer S03E04: Dead Zeppelin
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April 30, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Session four of our WFRP homebrew: Tomb Guards on a Plane (To Say Nothing of the Bloodletter). vorpalmace.blogspot.com/2024/04/sess...
First mini in months: renegade ogre pit fighter by Knightmare Miniatures, with one of the best sculpted buttcracks I've ever seen.
March 21, 2024 at 8:24 PM
First mini in months: renegade ogre pit fighter by Knightmare Miniatures, with one of the best sculpted buttcracks I've ever seen.
My beloved Bori unleashed our second scion Diana upon this world on the 28th of January, at 21:00. She is pretty buff for a girl with her 4060 grams and 53 centimeters. Fingers crossed she will sleep better than her big brother.
January 29, 2024 at 1:02 PM
My beloved Bori unleashed our second scion Diana upon this world on the 28th of January, at 21:00. She is pretty buff for a girl with her 4060 grams and 53 centimeters. Fingers crossed she will sleep better than her big brother.
Four levels in I'm already fed up with the Quake II remaster's new episode. Dull linear level design, no verticality, overcrowded tight rooms, gimmicky encounters... It isn't hard, just annoying, tedious, uninteresting, and it doesn't fit the tone of the original.
January 15, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Four levels in I'm already fed up with the Quake II remaster's new episode. Dull linear level design, no verticality, overcrowded tight rooms, gimmicky encounters... It isn't hard, just annoying, tedious, uninteresting, and it doesn't fit the tone of the original.
A belated but welcome Christmas gift.
January 6, 2024 at 12:05 PM
A belated but welcome Christmas gift.
To celebrate Christmas I finally finished the extremely belated third session report of our Death's Dark Shadow + WFRP homebrew adventures. vorpalmace.blogspot.com/2023/12/sess...
December 27, 2023 at 2:38 PM
To celebrate Christmas I finally finished the extremely belated third session report of our Death's Dark Shadow + WFRP homebrew adventures. vorpalmace.blogspot.com/2023/12/sess...
Nothing puts me more in the Holiday mood like having time to finish Quake on Nightmare difficulty.
December 25, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Nothing puts me more in the Holiday mood like having time to finish Quake on Nightmare difficulty.
Lost one point of wisdom today. Pulling the teeth out finally was a smart decision though, so I guess I also gained one point of intelligence.
December 4, 2023 at 4:29 PM
Lost one point of wisdom today. Pulling the teeth out finally was a smart decision though, so I guess I also gained one point of intelligence.