@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ title: Tabletop Role-Playing Game Resources
sub_title: LinkLists
description: A list of free rules, tables, and other role-playing game resources.
date_pub: 2022-09-17T00:07:00-04:00
date_upd: 2022-12-23T19:15:00-05:00
content_type: feature
section: web
subsection: linklists
---
_Compiled 2022-09-16_
_Compiled 2022-09-16 / Updated 2022-12-23_
I've been an <abbrtitle="Role-Playing Game">RPG</abbr> enthusiast for 30+ years, and after a long hiatus, I've been lucky enough to spend the past few years playing (and running) regular games. Thanks to the explosion of content from the <abbrtitle="Old-School Renaissance">OSR</abbr> (a ["play style movement"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_Renaissance) inspired by the early days of RPGs), there are a number of great, _free_ resources for starting and running campaigns.
@ -24,3 +25,4 @@ Below are links to some of the sites I've been using for my own games, compiled
- [Kosmic Dungeon](https://kosmicdungeon.com/) - An excellent collection of free maps.
- [Old-School Essentials System Reference Document](https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/) - Like classic D&D, but easier to read, and available for free.
- [tenfootpole.org](https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/) - Lots and lots of module reviews.
- [Traverse Fantasy's Keystones](https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/p/keystone-readings.html) - A linked timeline of the original blog and forum posts that inspired of the OSR movement(s).
@ -7,17 +7,30 @@ tldr: I've received even more emails telling me that I've been hacked. Since I s
tags: hackers, hacking, email, internet, spam
---
Since my last few posts about script-kiddies and the [fake extortions](/journal/2018/12-03-hacked) [they try to commit](/journal/2019/11-27-hacked-again), I've received upwards of 50 such emails, each with a different bitcoin address, and many with slight differences in text, style, or form, but all basically the same: an email from myself (*gasp*) claiming that I have been hacked, that some non-descript OS or "device" I own has some magical virus installed on it, and that, if I don't pay the hacker a ransom in bitcoin, my life will be *ruined*.
Since my last few posts about script-kiddies and the [fake extortions](/journal/2018/12-03-hacked) [they try to commit](/journal/2019/11-27-hacked-again), I've received upwards of 50 such emails, each with a different bitcoin address, and many with slight differences in text, style, or form, but all basically the same: an email from myself (_gasp_) claiming that I have been hacked, that some non-descript OS or "device" I own has some magical virus installed on it, and that, if I don't pay the hacker a ransom in bitcoin, my life will be _ruined_.
However, I know from past experience that these messages are little more than spam, sent out en masse in hopes that they can rope in some poor sucker who falls for this. I know most of these are bogus from the beginning because the email I use for my phone is completely unrelated to the ones that keep receiving these messages. Other times, the email will make vague references to programs I don't even have installed, again betraying their carboon-copied nature. In truth, I have never paid ransom, even though I've personally received dozens of these messages, and my life has yet to be ruined by these *lamers*.
However, I know from past experience that these messages are little more than spam, sent out en masse in hopes that they can rope in some poor sucker who falls for this. I know most of these are bogus from the beginning because the email I use for my phone is completely unrelated to the ones that keep receiving these messages. Other times, the email will make vague references to programs I don't even have installed, again betraying their carboon-copied nature. In truth, I have never paid ransom, even though I've personally received dozens of these messages, and my life has yet to be ruined by these _lamers_.
So, as a public service, I have included the bitcoin addresses for these fakers, in hopes that some other would-be victim finds this page (possibly through a web search), and they learn that they can ignore this BS as well:
Again, if you received an ominous email about your device being hacked and it uses one of these bitcoin addresses, just know that I received one of those messages, too, and I never paid. Since I'm still here, posting this, obviously none of their doomsday prophecies came to pass - no mass email to my contacts, no embarassing footage, no ruined life... and no hacked device.
