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Top Of The Pile: The Immortal Hulk #1 - Fresh off the success of The Amazing Spider-Man #1, and my on-going ambivalence to the new direction Superman is heading, is this early signs of a new resu...8 hours ago
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Novel Lessons 4.5: Between the Novels, Part 2 - One of the reasons I wrote last week of learning from other genres is because of one of the problems plaguing me in the as-yet uncompleted The Maiden’s...15 hours ago
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King's Quest VI - Isle of Punder - Written by TBD When we last left Alexander, I had just found a ring I hadn't noticed earlier. In the comments of that post, I was informed that the ring ...16 hours ago
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d100 Feral kids for Murder Highway - These are stray children to find in the wasteland of my roadwar game. Aparently i did too many urchins for my dnd game...17 hours ago
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Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Detective Novel Magazine, Spring 1949 - This issue of DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE features an eye-catching cover by Rudolph Belarski. And that's the purpose of a pulp cover, isn't it? The featured s...19 hours ago
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Wild West Campaign: Retribution - In this session, Kid Taylor has gone off for Christmas in Dodge city with his family. The rest of the PCs were in Tombstone, where an old friend of Virgil ...21 hours ago
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Freeze Drying - It's not just for instant coffee and camping foods anymore! The process by which virtually all the water can be removed from something while keeping its ...21 hours ago
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the 5e monster creation guidelines are wrong - While messing around with monster creation, I started comparing 5e Monster Manual creatures with the 5e guidelines for creating monsters (DMG page 274). Ba...1 day ago
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Etinerra and Chaos Wars - Army Rosters - Several of my wargames within Etinerra have used the (free) Ral Partha Chaos Wars rule set. In the past, I've done this primarily at conventions and even...1 day ago
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Steven Pressfield - [0:00:00.2] TG: Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer. I’m your host, Tim Grahl, and ...2 days ago
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The Art of Convention Game Descriptions - [image: A Paizo game master describes a scene emphatically.] At its core, the art of writing convention game descriptions for the preregistration website ...2 days ago
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#2 & #3: Stop Doing Everything - I don’t know when or how I learned about Temple Grandin and her work. She’s lived in my mind for so long that I can’t remember not thinking about her. Ther...2 days ago
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Survive This! Dark Places and Demogorgons - Supernatural / Buffy Crossover - Came home last night to a nice treat. My hardcover version of *Dark Places and Demogorgons* came in. This one I ordered from Bloat Game's own website. ...3 days ago
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Ennies publisher guide - It can be difficult to keep all the game studios straight, especially with the proliferation of personal brands. Since it is Ennies season, and the voting ...3 days ago
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PULP AND SEXISM - With another round of my online Pulp Fiction Workshop starting up this week, I’ve been looking at a lot of old pulp magazine covers again, and continuing t...5 days ago
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25% off of Malevolent & Benign II and Advanced Adventures Compendium 4! - I've put up a 25% off sale at Lulu for our two latest products, Malevolent & Benign II and Advanced Adventures Compendium 4! Both are the hardback versions...5 days ago
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Avoiding the Awkward D&D Moment When a Priest, a Wizard, and a Dwarf Enter a Bar and Nothing Happens - A few recurring types of adventure scenes make me want to fast forward the game. For instance, I dislike when an scenario starts a party in a tavern, masqu...5 days ago
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Lovecraft E-Zine Interviews Joe Salvador - Last year I had the opportunity to help playtest Joe Salvador's *Eldritch Tales*, an upcoming *White Box* take on Lovecraftian horror role-playing publishe...6 days ago
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2088: Cultural Assumptions - *Vinay Pai appears in his game to offer some tips.* The plot of *The Cryllan Mission* has resolved into a somewhat interesting mystery full of poi...1 week ago
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Putting the "Party" in Adventuring Party (How to Mix and Mingle) - Your player characters have to attend a party or other large social function full of many (dozens? hundreds?) of NPCs. They are there to learn things, meet...2 weeks ago
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Selling out - Not sure when it happened but I just found out my book has officially sold out on the Melsonian Arts Council site. I do know for a fact that some hard copi...3 weeks ago
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Free RPG Day, Running OD&D Games At Guild of Blades in Clawson, Michigan - This Saturday is Free RPG Day! In previous years I've talked about running games for the day, but haven't gotten around to it. This year I'm participating ...4 weeks ago
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Saintly Saturday: St. Cyril of Alexandria Revisited - Today is the feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria. I have been writing this blog long enough that I am having to go back and check if I have already written st...5 weeks ago
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Print on Demand Playing Cards Cost Comparison - IntroductionOver three years ago, we compared the print costs for cards among the leading printers of print on demand (POD) or short run cards for the tabl...5 weeks ago
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UNFATHOMABLE NOW IN BOOK FORM (PLUS COMICS) - JUST LOOK AT THIS STUFF Pretty Sexy GO HERE: Operation Unfathomable on RPGNow AND HERE: OU Players Guide AND HERE: OU Print Pack AND THIS JUST IN A bunc...1 month ago
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Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR ...1 month ago
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Photobucket Finds Head, Removes From Ass - So I was pleasantly - and profoundly - surprised to discover all my broken photo links were restored both here on RBE and on my Obsidian Portal campaign wi...1 month ago
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Podcasting.... - Well, I have been conned into trying out podcasting, so here you go, a quick little podcast (I like mine under 30 minutes, this clocks in at just over 10) ...1 month ago
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RACIAL CURSES - Hello, Pixies and Sprites! Its been some time since I’ve readily posted anything (I have been doing a lot of work on stuff on Dungeon Master’s Guild), but ...1 month ago
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Dungeons and Dragons the most important gaming franchise in the world - Forbes has written an article about the upcoming book *Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History* an illustrated guide to the history and evoluti...2 months ago
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Persons of Power: The Shadara - I am digging through old notes and files, and came across this little tidbit. Seriously, The Shadara is OLD. Not just in-game old, but her creation came ea...2 months ago
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Review: For Coin and Blood - I remember hearing vaguely about *For Coin & Blood* some time ago, but it seemed to pass me by before I got a chance to investigate. Then Diogo Nogueira, a...3 months ago
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Bifrost: individual abilities & other stuff - I am beginning to post the content of Bifrost, volume 1, in sequence. Bif1 - Cover, Acks, Intro, Setting Up Game Bif2 - Game Content, Seq Actions, Choice...3 months ago
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Energizzare incantesimi una variante del sistema vanciano - Sistema Magico Variante per AD&D 1a edizione (e simili) Questo articolo è una rielaborazione con alcune modifiche dell'articolo "Memorizzare, Caricare, L...3 months ago
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BX Combined Rule Book Printed and Bound - Just put this together this morning. I had printed the pages long ago, but had never bothered to bind them. Talking with +Gothridge Manor and +Rob Conley...3 months ago
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Olde Timey Hommlet Map - Renowned cartographer R.R. Calbick--whose work has been featured on such highly acclaimed sites as The Restenford Project--has proven that he and I have mo...3 months ago
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Mars Monster Gallery and drivel. - I'm not dead, I just went dark a couple of months ago in order to focus all my efforts in one direction. BX Mars. I will attempt to keep you updated a lit...6 months ago
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The Warlock's Tower - *F*or over eighty years, the Warlock lurked in his tower of stone, crafting all manner of trinket and bauble for the many curious novice and veteran travel...8 months ago
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Exploring the Temple of Elemental Evil's Dungeon Level 2 (pt. 3) - *This is another play report for my ongoing Roll20-based B/X D&D campaign, and spoilers for dungeon module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil follow. Anyone...11 months ago
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Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he was...11 months ago
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An Experiment In Thuggery - At GaryCon IX this past March, I had the pleasure of meeting +Paolo Greco. Paolo and I hadn't really interacted before this, other than a passing admission...1 year ago
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A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign - This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is about Occult Mysteries and Magic. To celebrate that theme, here is a quick and adversarial secret society idea for your...1 year ago
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How To Map A Large Canyon - Vast canyons are awe inspiring. They thwart quests, halt armies, and tell the tale of vast cataclysms from times past. In this quick tutorial I’ll outlin...1 year ago
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Deviant Art - I've had a DeviantArt account since 2009, but haven't done much with it until recently. I didn't really take DA that seriously, thinking of it as mostly fo...1 year ago
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Time for a New Edition! - I guess I should explain what I mean by that title. Today, I will be rebooting *Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old*. I feel like I have hit a road-block creative...1 year ago
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Winds of Change are Blowing - The more things change, the more things stay the same. Hmmm…. That’s an annoying cliche. How about, when one door closes, another one opens. I don’t real...2 years ago
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Dynamic Grappling - Before I say another word, let me direct the reader to Douglas Cole and Peter V. Dell'Orto's article on grappling in *The Manor*, issue #8 ( http://www.rpgn...2 years ago
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NecronomiCon 2015 begins… - The NecronomiCon 2015 should be beginning to buzz about now, as people arrive on the Thursday evening. Photograph: A Providence … Continue reading →2 years ago
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Cruel Attack at a Inari Shrine—Four Statues Broken at Kego Shrine in Tenjin, Fukuoka - Translated from: http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/photo/show/102187 April 25, 2015 (Updated April 26, 2015) At about 1 AM on the morning of the 25th, in 2C...3 years ago
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This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...3 years ago
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0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...3 years ago
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