Thastygliax's Vault

The Many Worlds of Tim Emrick

This site presents characters, monsters, campaign settings, and other material for a variety of role-playing games. This material is grouped into the following categories. 

My Blog

• Studded Plate: My blog about RPGs, LEGO, and other geeky subjects (at Blogspot)

  • (My blog post "Finding Me Online" summarizes where to find me and my RPG material online as of Sept. 2017, and includes some of the links below.)

My Campaigns

• • My GURPS Cthulhu Campaigns (1995-2000): Notes on my brief Cthulhu Mythos campaigns using GURPS Third Edition.

• Adventures in Arcadayn (1998-2002): My GURPS Third Edition fantasy campaign (at its own Google Site).

• The Ooth-Nargai Campaign (2000-2002): My first Freeport campaign, using D&D v.3.0 (at my Winds of Freeport site).

• The Fenoriad (2002): A BESM Second Edition mini-campaign.

• Ursk (2003): An "adventurer's guild" format campaign, using D&D v.3.0/3.5.

• The Secrets of Freeport Campaign (2004-2005): My second Freeport campaign, using D&D v.3.5 (at my Winds of Freeport site).

• The Kynthiad (2007-present): A BESM Third Edition solo campaign set in the Heroic Age of Greece (at its own Google Site).

• Corasgrove (2009-2010): A high-level D&D v.3.5 campaign.

• Winds of Freeport (2011-2016): A Pathfinder RPG campaign set in Green Ronin's Freeport: The City of Adventure (at its own Google Site).

• Lost Mine of Phandelver (2016-2017): The 5th Edition D&D Starter Set adventure.

• Time of the Tarrasque (2017-present): My current homebrew Pathfinder campaign setting (at its own Google Site).

• Tales from the Yawning Portal (2017-present): A D&D 5E adventure anthology campaign (chronicled on my "Studded Plate" blog).

My Characters 

• • The Rogues Gallery: My characters in other GMs' games.

My Errata

• Tim's Errata Archive: Unofficial errata and commentary on the Freeport: The City of Adventure setting and other RPG products (at its own Google Site). My RPG resume can also be found there.

My Libraries

• • Game Library: My family's library of role-playing games, card games, board games, and other games.

    • Game Variants: Our house rules for altering board and card games.

  • Video Library: My family's video collection. 

My One-Shots

(Including adventures that take a few sessions to play through, but do not become campaigns.)

• Winter Holiday (2000): An AD&D 2nd Edition adventure from Polyhedron Newszine.

  • Dungeonland (2000): AD&D modules EX1, Dungeonland, and EX2, The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror, run using 2nd Edition.

Other Projects

• Raven's Reviews (1999-2001): Some SF and historical fiction book reviews, archived from a friend's former site.

• GURPS Sluggy Freelance (2000-2001): An adaptation of the webcomic for GURPS Third Edition.

  • A Beginner's Guide to LARP (2001): An introduction to live-action role-playing games.

  • BESM 3E (circa 2011-2016): A compendium of new material for Big Eyes Small Mouth Third Edition, including a partial conversion of Freeport to BESM. 

Special Thanks

• To the players of my past and present campaigns, without whom this site would not exist.

• To the many marvelous GMs whose games I have played in over the years. 

• To the publishers and fans who encouraged my obsession with errata (which directly led to my first print RPG credits).

• To the fine folks who maintain the Internet Archive WayBack Machine. This wonderful resource saved me a great deal of effort in recreating content from my previous, now defunct, websites. It also allowed me to provide links to some of that old material until I could create new homes for it, both here and at my other wikis.