Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty-Seven: Alita: Battle Angel
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Alita: Battle Angel is a $170 million dollar production from 2019 that
feels and plays like modern CGI effects were superimposed on a cheap,
somewhat janky...
13 hours ago
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Brodgar Tumulae Map25.06
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Not far from the village of Bramblgulf a large tumulae has been discovered,
hidden under the forest floor. How was it discovered you ask? A local
ranger on...
23 hours ago
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The Annual December 27th Post
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49 years ago today, I opened the mailbox at my parents’ house and took out
a check in the amount of $167.50 from the Ideal Publishing Company, my
first...
23 hours ago
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Quick Thoughts on Draw Steel
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Had a game today at club next to my regular supermarket in Edwardstown. The
table price becomes credit in the shop, whi...
1 day ago
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How to Play AD&D Part XVII: Hirelings--Sages
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Something weird was going on in Gary's campaign that compelled him to write
20 paragraphs of rules for running sages in AD&D.
First off we have tables f...
1 day ago
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CRITTERS ANNUAL READERS POLL NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS!
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Critters / Critique.org is hosting the Annual Readers Poll. The Readers'
Poll honors print & electronic publications published during 2025. You can
no...
1 day ago
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Fantasy Friday Boxing Day: Dragonbane
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[image: Dragonbane]
A special combined Fantasy Friday with Boxing Day. Today I am diving into
the Dragonbane boxed set. I picked this up my local RPG auct...
2 days ago
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12DoCGS Day 5: “Thw Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance” by M. R.
James
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Merry Christmas! It’s almost over as I write this, but I hope the day has
been and continues to be a merry one for all of you. And that you’re
enjoying som...
2 days ago
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Merry Christmas Gift to Y'all : Creature Catalogue Vol. 1
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I wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and decided that I should take
one of the few Frugal GM titles that has a cost and make it free....well,
tec...
2 days ago
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RICH’S TAKE ON: CHASES
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This is a homebrew chase system hybrid madhing together D&D and Modiphius
Fallout systems.
3 days ago
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The Dead Shall Be Raised by George Bellairs, 1942
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*Series:* This is Inspector Thomas Littlejohn #4, also published as *Murder
Will Speak*
*About the author:* George Bellairs is the pseudonym of Ha...
3 days ago
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Merry Christmas!
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*Galaxy Science Fiction*, January 1956, with cover art by *Emsh*. We might
think that January 1956 was too late for a Christmas cover, but I believe
this ...
3 days ago
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Missed Classic 138: Winter Wonderland (1986)
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Written by Michael
The holiday season is all about traditions. I’m sure many of our readers
have rituals involving putting up a tree, or a multi-generat...
4 days ago
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The Civilized Cave Man and Woman
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Did our circumstances improve with the rise of civilization? Flash back to
the nascent days of cultivation of the land, domestication of animals. Now
ou...
4 days ago
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TEMPERING OUR OPINIONS
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Here in this penultimate week of 2025, thoughts turn to the next year, and
dare I say New Years Resolutions? I’ve worked past that idea myself, but
then th...
4 days ago
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1337: Limited Time Offer
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1337.html
4 days 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...
5 days ago
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THE KINGDOM OF NYROND
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The Kingdom of Nyrond 👑
5 days ago
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The Fates of Twinion: Up and Down and Over and Out
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*Is he related to a sloth? If so, the "ice" part really makes a difference.*
When I blog about games, I sometimes deliberately adopt a "summary" ...
5 days ago
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Why this game?
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For the most part, I pick the games I am going to run by, as the kids today
say, vibes. It has always been instinctual. I hear about a game, the right
ones...
1 week ago
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Two-Player Head-to-Head D&D
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Unfortunately for my wizard, Game 1
ended exactly the way this looks
*1. Both players generate a 1st-level magic-user in any system.*
-You each get a sin...
1 week ago
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Tragedy! At The Apple Disco, AKA Apple Review #39: D’Arcy Spice
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A fun thing that sometimes happens is this: you eat a food, any kind of
food, and then after eating that food, some manner of stomach bug — a
bonafide gut ...
1 week ago
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Cirsova Winter 2025 Issue Is Out Now!
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Our Winter Issue is Out Now! New Merch here. This issue features… Flight
From Reckoning(Part 4)By MICHAEL TIERNEYWhile Fastrick may have humiliated
the lea...
1 week 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 week 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 week ago
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How to Thrive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia by Russell Nohelty
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The title HOW TO THRIVE AS A WRITER IN A CAPITALIST DYSTOPIA promises a
lot. It speaks of urgency, survival, maybe even a little rebellion.
Unfortunately, ...
3 weeks 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...
1 month ago
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Glantri Reunion III: Timeskip Tables After-Action Report
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We had our first Glantri reunion session, and it was largely successful!
After 10 years of war and political shenanigans, the Company of Crossed
Swords (ou...
1 month ago
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BECMI Psychic Infiltrator
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So Fred did it to me again. Last week he hosted another stream where he
worked on building a Shadowdark version of the 5e classes and sub-classes.
This tim...
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 ...
2 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...
4 months 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...
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...
6 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...
6 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...
10 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...
11 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....
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 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,...
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...
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 →
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
10 years ago
The Sympanomancer
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