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Barking Alien's RPG CAMPAIGN TOUR CHALLENGE! Day 8
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*Day 8 - Local Peoples & Cultures*
*Day 8-Tell us about the local peoples and their cultures.Describe the
people and their Species, Nationalities, and o...
9 hours ago
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Barking Alien Challenge day8: Local People & Culture
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This is tricky as mostly its generic faux pan European mostly. It was kind
of the point to tack in moduleas and content i liked.
B...
9 hours ago
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Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Dare-Devil Aces, July 1937
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Man, Frederick Blakeslee could really pack a lot into an air-war pulp
cover! Nine planes (assuming I didn't miss any), plus a bunch of ack-ack
bursts in...
12 hours ago
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Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master
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*Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent
of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back
i...
15 hours ago
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Ode to Future Histories
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I haven’t read much science fiction over the last few years. I haven’t even
read that much fantasy. I’ve been reading a lot fo mysteries and thrillers.
Mos...
21 hours ago
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Trying Out A New Recipe: Nadia’s Healthy Kitchen “Healthy Brownie Batter
Bark”
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Though I’ve followed Nadia’s Healthy Kitchen on Instagram for years, I’m
not entirely certain I’ve ever actually made anything from her before. I am
not ve...
1 day ago
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Newsletter: NASH NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 2026 NOW AVAILABLE!
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The February edition of Nash News is winging toward subscribers' inboxes
today! Have you subscribed to my FREE monthly newsletter? Try it free
without...
2 days ago
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Universe - Final Rating
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Written by MenhirMike
*To quote Frodo Baggins: It’s done.*
The *Universe* Wikipedia article has this to say about the development:
Responding to some ...
2 days ago
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Star Trail: Because It's There
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*This world really doesn't like elves.*
Commenters on my last entry suggested that I should know where to go next
from in-game hints. But that didn'...
3 days ago
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Cirsova Interview On Mighty Sons of Hercules
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Recently completed an interview with poet, author, and aesthete Matthew
Pungitore, talking some about the new Mighty Sons of Hercules collection.
Check it ...
4 days ago
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Apple Review #41: Wild Twist
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BEHOLD: A WILD (twist) APPLE APPEARS. But first: a brief digression about
agricultural-industrial apple storage! Did you know that the reason we get
apples...
4 days ago
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Clyde Irvine (1899-1948)
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*John Clyde Irvine*
*Aka Lindsay Nisbet*
*Author, Playwright, Newspaper Drama Critic/Reviewer and Feature Editor*
Born April 15, 1899, Glasgow, Scotland
Di...
4 days ago
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Our Friend, Resistance
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Who will teach us? Who will be our guide and mentor on this monumental
passage from the Old World of working for someone else to the New World of
being t...
4 days ago
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HOW LONG WILL OUR WRITING SURVIVE?
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This morning I chose a book at random from a stack of books in my library.
What I came up with was Selected Poems by Po Chü-i. As with many of the
2400 or ...
5 days ago
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The Murder of a Quack by George Bellairs, 1943
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cover image only - no review.
*Series:* This is Inspector Thomas Littlejohn #5
*About the author:* George Bellairs is the pseudonym of Harold Blundel...
6 days ago
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Fannishness, Incompleteness, Imperfection, Fascination
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We all like lots of things. We only gab all day about certain things. This
is about why that is.
*Stimulating The Gene*
If someone old me they were g...
6 days ago
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Giants Deserve Better
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In many TTRPGs, giants have become a simple, escalating challenge: bigger
and bigger versions of essentially the same thing, to encounter in tactical
fight...
6 days ago
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Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang
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If you’re a writer, you don’t need anyone to explain rejection to you. It’s
part of the job description. Query letters vanish into silence. Editors
pass. R...
1 week ago
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Session Two Briefing
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The Mayor's Briefing for Session Two of Greyhawk Genesis
1 week ago
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1339: Weak Interaction
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1339.html
1 week ago
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Classic Railroad Adventuring: How to Roll Dice on a Train
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After many days in the wilderness, hounded relentlessly by the vociferous
demons of Blogger OCD, I came across a railroad track and managed to hop on
a p...
1 week ago
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Addendum to the official policy of the Mule
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[image: Hanging around with Benito.]
2 weeks ago
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2026 Character Creation Challenge – Lalibo the Red Mage
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So I have gone back and forth on posting this character for the longest
time. This is the infamous Lalibo from my home game built as a Red Mage
custom clas...
2 weeks ago
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Governmental Hierarchy of Nellix
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A list of the authorities in Nellix
3 weeks ago
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Njörun’s Altar: Map26.01
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Njörun's Altar is a small temple facility hidden in the foothills. This
unique temple is dedicated to the goddess of dreams, multiple rooms are
said to be ...
4 weeks ago
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Free GM (and Player) Resource: Groupfinder
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[image: Free GM (and Player) Resource: Groupfinder]
I got a Blogger message notification a couple days ago from the folks over
at Groupfinder, asking if I...
4 weeks ago
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RPG Design: How a Roleplaying Game like D&D Could Make Rounds Play Better
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Since D&D dropped the declaration phase in favor of cyclic initiative, it
has let one round blur into the next without any phases that trigger
between roun...
1 month ago
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide
As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am
fascinated with 19th century Lon...
1 month ago
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Where I promote a polarizing publisher when I should be talking about my
own books that will be coming out later in 2026
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess, if you haven’t heard, is at a bit of a
critical junction. I was pretty sure the owner had taken leave of social
media ...
1 month ago
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Mutants and Wizards
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Heya folks, long time no see.
I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's
going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...
2 months ago
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Fr. Peter Heers and the Satanic Panic
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A reader of my blog recently reached out to me. He shared a video of Fr.
Peter Heers, an influential Orthodox Christian YouTuber, answering the
question ...
3 months ago
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where are psionics from?
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A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I
haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation
for psio...
5 months 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...
7 months 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...
7 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...
11 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...
1 year 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....
1 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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,...
1 year 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 →
4 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...
4 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
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Dungeoneering Blog
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This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
6 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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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS.
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158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
7 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...
7 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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Poetry For Fiction Writers, Part III: Anatomy Of The Sonnet
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In the first part of this series I defined limits. In the second part I
discussed meter. Now I am going to be examining the sonnet, because it is
the workh...
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)
...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
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Moved
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The Random Wizard Blog has moved to
https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
10 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...
11 years ago
The Sympanomancer
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