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An AppyHour Double Feature!
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I never got around to posting March’s box from AppyHour, or April’s, for
that matter, so I’m going to do both in this one post. Woohoo! If you
happened to ...
Realms of Darkness: #$@* the Lemons and Bail
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*The game's fourth questline opens.*
This session began with the party in a new land with a quest to defeat
someone named "Gorth." I entered one of...
Gnomecast 212 – Problem Players
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https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/GC_212_Problemplayers_final.mp3
Join Ang and Jared, along with special guest Carl Lehmann as they talk
abo...
The 3 Brains of an Artist
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You and I as artists and writers have to have three brains. The first is
our artist’s brain. That’s the part that writes or sings or dances. The
part tha...
Donald Keyhoe in National Geographic-Part One
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*Donald E. Keyhoe* (1897-1988) had four stories in *Weird Tales* from April
1925 to May 1927. Two months after his last story for "The Unique Magazine"
w...
Random Place for a Random Thing
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One thing I find myself needing a lot as players sandbox their way around
the map is "ordinary" places.
You might roll a random encounter as they craw...
BOOKS FOR FANTASY AUTHORS XLVIII: MYTHOLOGY
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From time to time I’ll recommend—not review, mind you, but recommend, and
yes, there is a difference—books that I think authors should have on their
shelve...
Witchcraft Wednesday: The Ecneics Wand
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I am sure if you have spent any time on the internet, you have seen a meme
that has had you scratching your head in utter confusion. This is one of
thos...
Gabriel Knight - Dancing with Man's Best Friend
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Written by Michael
Can we talk about this game for a while?
It’s time for me to go back down to New Orleans again, and continue where I
left off on Day...
Death on the Last Train by George Bellairs, 1949
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*Series: *Inspector Littlejohn #12
About the author:
Major characters:
Locale: England
Synopsis:
Review:
May 5 2025: reading now, please come back...
RIP, George Barr, (1937-2025)
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Locus magazine is reporting that art Geroge Barr passed away on April 19.
He hadn’t been active as an artist for a number of years. Barr’s work
graced a nu...
Arneson Gaming
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For whatever reason, this little game I wrote has suddenly become of
interest around the world. Creators has translated the game into
Portuguese, Czech, I...
Logline Shortcuts by Naomi Beaty
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LOGLINE SHORTCUTS answers three basic questions: what is a logline, why do
you need one, and how do you write one? Beaty helps writers identify the
essenti...
Out Now: The Staircase In The Woods
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Before we do anything else, let’s just do a little awkward whirligig dance,
praising the dark gods beyond the steps and saying huzzah and hooray, The
Stair...
Christ is Risen!
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[Hades] received a body and encountered God. It took earth and came face to
face with heaven. It took what it saw and fell by what it could not see.
...
Dracoheim Confidential Kickstarter Update
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The Kickstarter for Dracoheim Confidential: Tales From The City Of The
Dragon started very strong, as most of my Kickstarters do. It has
subsequently stall...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 →
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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