Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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Vampire Orc Prep
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Other night a lady asked me what are you dreaming of?
This was a bit awkward but here it is:
In my campaign in Chagrinspire players ann...
1 hour ago
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Navigating the Cosmere – Designing in Someone Else’s Sandbox
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Lydia Suen and Meric Moir have worked on properties as varied and diverse
as Arkham Horror, Achtung! Cthulhu, Star Trek, The Expanse, and most
recently Bro...
3 hours ago
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Animation and Bonus Art from Dark Filly
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Dark Filly has been hard at work creating additional artwork for the new
collection, including a few that will be included in the interior as a
frontispiec...
8 hours ago
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New Books and ARCs, 2/21/25
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It’s deepest February, with cold in the air and snow on the ground, but
here is a stack of new books and ARCs to keep you warm. What here is
catching your ...
10 hours ago
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Legend of the Red Dragon II: Won! (with Summary and Rating)
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*The "good" ending to the game.*
*Legend of the Red Dragon II: New World*
United States
Robinson Technologies (developer and original publisher); Metr...
12 hours ago
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1319: Deep Seated Feelings
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1319.html
13 hours ago
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A Rough Edges Rerun Review: The Bottom of Every Bottle - Robert J. Randisi
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Jake Gilmartin is a veteran New York City cop who finds himself in trouble
when evidence of corruption surfaces against him. He’s suspended from the
for...
17 hours ago
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Tellers of Weird Tales in The New Yorker
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The first issue of *The New Yorker* was dated February 21, 1925, one
hundred years ago today. Unlike *Weird Tales*, *The New Yorker* has been
published c...
18 hours ago
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Matheson and Mayhar
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Today is February 20, and it’s the birthday of two writers, Richard
Matheson (1926-2013) and Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012). It’s been a full day,
and it’s late...
1 day ago
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Where To Start With The Books Of Chuck Wendig, 2025 Edition
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Everything is perfectly normal and fine, and in that world of normal fine
normalcy, one might want to read books. And once in a while, I get someone
asking...
1 day ago
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This Old Dragon: Issue #176
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[image: Dragon Issue #176]
Time once again to dip into the box of old Dragon Magazines under my desk.
Today's magazine takes us back to December 1991. AD...
1 day ago
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Story Non-Negotiable: The Key to Writing Stories That Resonate
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Have you ever read a book that stayed with you long after you turned the
last page? A story that didn’t just entertain but fundamentally changed the
way ...
1 day ago
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20% for New Business
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When I first went to work as a neophyte copywriter in advertising, back in
the Mad Men era, the thing that surprised me most was how much time was
alloca...
2 days ago
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D&D Balance is a Dirty Word
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Whether as a DM or a game designer, you get told by "experts" that "game
balance" is important. That's wrong; balance will almost always make for a
wors...
3 days ago
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CRAZY 8 PRESS PRESENTS: THRILLING ADVENTURE YARNS 2025! NOW ON SALE!
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Are you ready for adventure? Crazy 8 Press' Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2025
is now on sale in hardcover, paperback, and ebook! Get yours today!
To honor ...
3 days ago
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THE MOTHER OF ALL INFO DUMPS
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We talk about show, don’t tell and info dumps over and over and over again,
and there are examples of what to do and what not to do out there all over
the ...
3 days ago
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Consulting Detective Vol. III - The Banker's Final Debt
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Written by Morpheus Kitami
*Haha, the person we pay rent to is a terrible cook, take that for giving
us a good deal!**Inspector Gregson* is having tea wit...
3 days ago
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Double for Death by Rex Stout, 1939
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dustjackets.com
*Series: *Tecumseh Fox #1
*About the author:* Rex Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American writer noted
for his detective fiction. His bes...
5 days ago
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Disposable Future!
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Now live on Kickstarter!Disposable Future is a dystopian cyberpunk RPG
using mechanics from Into the Odd. In this role-playing adventure game, you
and the ...
5 days ago
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Death
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Death… Continue reading Death
5 days ago
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The Theory of the Labyrinth
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A good part of the magic of D&D is from a specific aesthetic effect it
shares with several other types of fiction that I'm going to call The
Theory of th...
1 week ago
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2024 Monster Manual on a Business Card
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The 2024 Monster Manual is out, so we can finally answer all the questions
we have: are 2024 Monster Manual monsters tougher than 2014 monsters? How
much? ...
1 week ago
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My statement on design 'copying'
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I am a firm believer in that we, as humans that have been on this planet
for 200k years, are inherently creative but almost nothing we make is
'original'. ...
1 week ago
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Writing Unforgettable Characters by James Scott Bell
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It’s hard to talk about character creation in isolation. Without a plot, a
character can’t grow. Or, as Bell puts it, “A novel is the record of how a
chara...
2 weeks ago
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NTRPG Gaming Weekend
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[image: NTRPG Gaming Weekend]
This weekend was a "game day" for North Texas RPG Con, held at the same
hotel the con is held at. I haven't slung dice since...
3 weeks ago
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Prependix N
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A mere 10 months ago (hot of the presses by what James refers to as our
shambolic standards), “The Problem with Appendix N” over at Grognardia
lamented: Ye...
4 weeks ago
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Is D&D Best When Corporate Isn’t Paying Attention? The Suits Are Paying
Attention Now
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D&D is best when its corporate owner isn’t paying attention. When I asked
who deserved credit for that observation, it proved too widespread and too
old to...
4 weeks ago
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How do fairies fly? + Do fairies have wings?
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Perhaps some of the most common questions on the internet involve fairy
flight, such as do fairies have wings? can fairies fly? how do fairies fly?
et...
5 weeks ago
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The Player Agenda in Hide & Seek
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I think one of the hardest things to impart to a reader of any ttrpg is
what playing the game should feel like, but yet nothing more useful you can
say....
5 weeks ago
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Almost Vancian
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One of the typical elements of old school games, especially clones or
evolutions of the original D&D, are magic rules where wizards memorize
spells and w...
1 month ago
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And Now For Something Completely Different
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I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day
Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller*
character each ...
1 month ago
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Of ghouls and ghuls
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I haven’t been blogging much for some time. Mainly it’s being busy with
work and family, but it’s also just that I’m devoting a lot of free time to
Advance...
1 month ago
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Articulations
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Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign,
has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective
house rule...
1 month ago
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On Unearthed Arcana and other 80s Atrocities
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One fateful night in the summer of 1985 I made a momentous trip to the mall
with a pocketful of cash from my first paycheck. Sure, I'd mowed lawns,
washe...
1 month ago
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Christ is Born!
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He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the
Father’s bosom and His Mother’s embrace. How can this be, but as He knows
and w...
1 month ago
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WOYW Fantasy
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I am a big fan of what I have taken to calling “The World Outside Your
Window” Speculative Fiction. What I mean by that is that if the reader of
the story ...
2 months ago
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Zombie Survival Escape USA
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Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city
overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding
game,...
2 months ago
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Rich’s Take on: Web’s Edge (Eve of Ruin)
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This is my take on Web’s Edge from Vecna: Eve of Ruin Rich’s Take on: Web’s
Edge (Eve of Ruin)
4 months ago
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Con Schedules 2024
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There may be tumbleweeds blowing through my web site, but I’ve been very
busy. Book 3 of the Hanuvar series has long since been turned over, and the
final ...
9 months ago
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Last move - to self-hosting!
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As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to
self-hosting.
I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)
Blog: ht...
1 year ago
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Gwenevere (2023)
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Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura
Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is
to live out...
1 year ago
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Stand by for SAGA OF THE SWORDBREAKER: INVINCIBLE UNDER HEAVEN!
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Li Ming was once a small-town boy with big dreams. Propelled by dreams of
immortality, he entered the jianghu as a biaohang, intent on delivering
justice...
1 year ago
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The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come.
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To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff.
The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game
design.
In the past I...
1 year ago
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Magazine Of Horror #05
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New to Archive.org, the pre-Halloween Magazine Of Horror #05 (September
1964), with Whitehead’s “Cassius” and also Prout’s “The House of …
Continue reading →
3 years ago
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It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead
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So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993.
Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps
“dys...
3 years ago
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Map of a Pirate’s Lair
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I’ve been a little light on inspiration recently – so I asked a friend for
a challenge. He proposed a map on a theme of a Pirate Treasure Map, with
the f...
4 years ago
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Farnsworth Wright’s Favorite Weird Tales by Bobby Derie
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Julius Schwartz
In 1932, teenage fan Julius Schwartz became involved with the *Science
Fiction Digest*, a high-end fanzine (which in 1934 would become *Fa...
5 years ago
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More Arden Vul Art
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Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the
PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
5 years ago
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
5 years ago
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PARCHMENTS FROM THE CATACOMB!
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My new project is hosted at the following *LINK*
5 years ago
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Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded
Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in
Warren...
5 years ago
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Dungeoneering Blog
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This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
5 years ago
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Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
5 years ago
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ITotD on Summer Break
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[image: Sunflowers]PixabayMy attempts at building a time machine having
failed thus far, I find myself with too few hours in the day. So ITotD will
be on a...
5 years ago
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Feeding fans starving 4 Action around da World!
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Despite what I said a few weeks ago, I never really retired, just
semi-retired. I regularly check this site and love that it still gets
traffic. So keep it...
5 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS.
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158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
6 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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d12
1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute
of Annihilation*
2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
6 years ago
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Goodbye and Good Luck
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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...
6 years ago
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon!
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Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign...
*Current Player Characters:*
*Thenus* (Ranger)
*Wang Du* (Monk)
*Wolfheir* (Viking)
*Arg* (Half-orc)
...
7 years ago
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Exploring the Temple of Elemental Evil's Dungeon Level 2 (pt. 3)
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*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...
7 years ago
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Happy Gygax Day!
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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
wa...
7 years ago
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ROUNDUP: What Writers Want to Know Right Now…
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Multi-published author and head moderator Cat Gerlach asked a bunch of
writers on the forums what their toughest writings were. Here are their
questions an...
7 years ago
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A Secret Society Of Character-Hunters For Your Campaign
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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...
7 years ago
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Looking forward
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For reasons apparent to anyone that follows this blog, or checks my posting
schedule, I'm very wary of making any future commitments, statements, or
pretty...
7 years ago
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Deviant Art
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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...
7 years ago
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Four Frightening Games to Play on Halloween
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Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls! It's that terror-rific time of the year
when the air gets colder, the leaves start to change colors, and people
embrace t...
8 years ago
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History of Ghost Taxis of Japan
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Translated and Sourced from Shigeru Mizuki’s Mujara, Japanese Ghost
Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena, and Other Sources To
learn more ...
9 years ago
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Winds of Change are Blowing
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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...
9 years ago
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Dynamic Grappling
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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...
9 years ago
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Moved
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The Random Wizard Blog has moved to
https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
9 years ago
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Community Created Content for Tabletop Games
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Over a year ago, I posted about the coming revolution in card games (and
board games) based upon the ability to print any content on any single
card. I lai...
9 years ago
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(SW) Fearsome Critters: Cake Walk
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*Savage Worlds* is the role-playing game that bills itself on being "Fast,
Furious, and Fun." Over the years I've played elvish warriors, pulp
adventurer...
10 years ago
The Sympanomancer
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