Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Western Fiction Magazine, August 1938
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I don't know who did the cover artwork on this issue of WESTERN FICTION
MAGAZINE. There's a signature on the painting, but I can't make it out. As
alway...
8 hours ago
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Green Mansions, Classics Illustrated, and Rima
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I recently found a beat-up old copy of Classics Illustrated #90, Green
Mansions, at a flea market and decided to give it go to see how it handled
the sourc...
23 hours ago
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I’m Off Officiating a Wedding and Athena is Away Visiting Friends So Here
is a Picture of Charlie to Keep You Busy For the Weekend
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Doesn’t she look happy? Of course she does. Her life is pretty sweet, after
all, lots of love and walks and rolls in the grass. It’s good to be a pup.
Also...
1 day ago
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Your PCs Are Superman: What Big Blue Can Teach Us About Level 20 Characters
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When your PCs reach the upper echelons of power, there is a fundamental
shift in the kind of story you’re telling. So yes, if you want to send your
PCs int...
1 day ago
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Susan Andrews Rice (1865-1938)
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*Author, Poet, Teacher of Music & Voice*
Born September 1865, New York State, possibly in Croghan
Died October 5, 1938, at home, Washington, D.C.
*Susan And...
1 day ago
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The Ormus Saga II: As Far as I Could Take It
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*Confronting the "big bad."*
I've told you before about the encyclopedia that I wrote in college. As I
learned back then, there are two major app...
1 day ago
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Secret Gnome Agent Teeth, Troops & Air Resources
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These are for gnomes and their agents.
You just knock out a tooth and insert the magic one. Make sure you get the
right tooth.
Den...
2 days ago
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The Crypt of Atan-Thu
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I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising!
Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link:
htt...
2 days ago
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Witchcraft Wednesday: Fane-born (Occult D&D)
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[image: Photo by Vanessa Pozos:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/mystical-halloween-portrait-of-a-witch-28759465/]
Got some game time in my oldest last night...
3 days ago
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The Code of the Entrepreneur
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I’m borrowing (again) from my entrepreneurship guru, Dan Sullivan. Dan has
crystalized the statement that every entrepreneur makes to him or herself,
whe...
3 days ago
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Nebulith and the New Red & Pleasant Land Are Now Available
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Last week I was talking to James (in a conversation that will soon be
available) and I said "Well you can have the conservative argument against
free spee...
4 days ago
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AGAINST AI: AN OPEN LETTER FROM WRITERS TO PUBLISHERS
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I feel I have been remiss in not sharing this sooner. Click this link to
add your support to this essential statement in support of human
creativity. …and…...
4 days ago
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Gabriel Knight - Won!
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Written by Michael
Gabriel thinks he knows what to do
Hey, we’re in the home stretch. Day 10 will be the last day of the game.
Last time around, Gabrie...
4 days ago
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THE PATREON SERIALIZED NOVELLA 'CAPTAIN SCIENCE IN OZ' BEGINS!
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Get ready for an all-new serialized action/thriller as *CAPTAIN SCIENCE IN
OZ* begins at www.patreon.com/bobbynash.
Captain Science (Gordon Dane) and ...
5 days ago
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Free GM Resource: Previous Edition Downloads (Courtesy of the Wayback
Machine)
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[image: Free GM Resource: Previous Edition Downloads (Courtesy of the
Wayback Machine)]
This one surprised me a bit, but it shouldn't. The internet has a...
6 days ago
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The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1930
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dustjackets.com
*About the author:* Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 – 1958) was an American
writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although he...
6 days ago
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Yes, I’m Still Here
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Just a quck note to say I’m still here and this blog hasn’t gone dormant.
Well, not completely. I’ve been teaching summer school. right now I’m
teaching an...
1 week ago
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1330: Weak in the Knees
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1330.html
1 week ago
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The Map that broke the blog, behold the city of Mesiquitar
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I’ve been wanting to start posting again for a long time, but for years, I
felt that I had to have a big project that I could post as a series of
entrie...
2 weeks ago
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Musing on Superman
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The new Superman movie is coming out, and given some of the hullbaloo
surrounding it, I thought I’d give my two cents about one of my favorite
comic book...
2 weeks ago
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The Author’s Checklist by Elizabeth K. Kracht
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I was excited to read this book. You know I love a good checklist in book
form (wink, wink). The subtitle promised a guide to developing and editing
your m...
3 weeks ago
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Quick E-Book Sale Bits
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Psst. Hey, did you want to check out Wanderers or The Book of Accidents?
You did? WELL THEN HOT SACK OF HOLY SHIT, they are both on sale for your
chosen el...
4 weeks ago
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How Creative Writing Constraints Unlock Better Stories
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Ever stared at a blank page, unsure where to start your story? You’re not
alone. The possibilities feel endless—and that can be the problem. Here’s a
sur...
5 weeks ago
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Critical Role Hires Two Worst D&D Designers of All Time
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The Critical Role / Daggerheart people have hired the two men most
responsible for the least successful edition of D&D. What a lot of people
have missed...
5 weeks ago
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ZOMBICIDE DCEASED CUSTOMS
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Three homebrew custom characters for the DCeased Zombicide game.… Continue
reading ZOMBICIDE DCEASED CUSTOMS
1 month ago
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Getting Back in the (Worm’s) Saddle
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Wow! So, it’s been… (checks notes) …12 years since I last posted here?
That’s as many as four threes. And that’s terrible. During that time I was
heavily i...
1 month ago
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Beggars
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One piece of feedback I got on Burgs & Bailiffs Trinity was that I gave
clerics reasons to go on pilgrimages but not so much for other classes. The
upcomin...
2 months ago
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Werewolf By Night
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Custom: Werewolf By Night
2 months ago
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D&D 2024 Ignored One of Fifth Edition’s Original Goals, Losing Something We
All Still Want in D&D
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Before creating the 2014 version of Dungeon & Dragons, lead designer Mike
Mearls set goals for the new, fifth edition. He wanted the update to play
fast. “...
2 months ago
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Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual
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As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this
distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more
than oth...
4 months ago
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Happy St. Cuthbert's Day!
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Today is the saint's day of the original cuddy, St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel!
Although the real world Cuthbert seems not to have used a cudgel at all; in
t...
4 months ago
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Wizard Tricks (OSE)
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"Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A
trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What
can m...
5 months 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...
6 months 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....
6 months 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...
6 months 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 ...
6 months 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...
6 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,...
7 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 ...
1 year 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...
2 years 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...
5 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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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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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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Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e]
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I'm experimenting with dual-stat blocks for monsters. This is a first
draft, so expect changes and feedback is strongly desired.
*Update: Revised stat block...
10 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...
10 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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