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View From a Hotel Window, 9/25: New York City
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It’s a classic view for sure. Why am I here? Tomorrow afternoon I will be
talking science fiction at the Villa Albertine, as part of the Villa
Albertine’s ...
Did We Just Finish The Campaign?
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A few weeks ago, I sensed that my group was nearing the end of our Blades
in the Dark campaign. Wanting to finish the campaign on a high note, I
spoke with...
Citadel: Memoirs of an Invisible Man
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*Mocked for an especially stupid death.*
*Guest post by Quirkz:*
[*Ed. We pick up after Quirkz's disastrous previous session in which he
made...
Spirit Miracles
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These are for my final version of Spirit Miracle powers for my Seer and
Mystic classes. The seer has more uses of the power and gains less new
powers dra...
You Suffer--But Why?
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*My Weird, Dark, Twisted Habit*
Seventeen years ago. (Seventeen years ago?) When I started this blog, that
is, when I decided to take on another thing ...
THE PLACE OF ACTION IN FICTION
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With heartfelt thanks to ThePulp.net I ran across the 1922 essay “The Place
of Action in Fiction” by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman over the weekend and I’m
begg...
Mutants & Wizards, Gray Wizard Class
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Here's one of the 5 wizard classes. The first glance at the spirit system
that's built upon the undead turning table. No turning undead in M&W, so
watch...
Innocent Until Caught - Lost?
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Written by Morpheus Kitami
*Not a popular destination, then.*
We return to where we left off on *Innocent Until Caught*, freshly arrived
on planet Tayte...
Halfway Through Wild Stars Kickstarter!
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We’re halfway through our Kickstarter period for Michael Tierney’s Wild
Stars: Flight From Reckoning and War of the Gods! We’re only a little over
2/3 of t...
So What Had Happened Was...
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Well into my middle-age, I finally got a real grownup job.While I am aware
of my privilege in this dying world, and I should really be more thankful
that I...
Can I Use NIGHT SHIFT for an SCP Tabletop RPG?
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Crossposted to the *Elf Lair Games* blog.
My kids got me into SCP.
Or, more accurately, they told me all about it, pointed me toward the Wiki,
and then ...
Machines for Living, Haunts of the Dead-Part Three
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Like I said last time, I don't know when what I have called the Gothic
revival began, but in the 1960s there were Hammer films from England and
horror fi...
Sean Monaghan’s “Strange Orbit”
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This is going to be a different kind of review. It’s of a short story that
isn’t available to the public yet, at least as far as I know. But the
first nov...
487 Minus One = Zero
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My first agent was a gentleman named Barthold Fles. He was seventy-six; I
was twenty-nine. One day over coffee Bart asked me, “How much is 427 minus
one?...
The Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr, 1934
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*Series: *This is Dr. Gideon Fell #3
*About the author:* John Dickson Carr (1906 – 1977) was an American author,
who also published using the pse...
Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card
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Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on
a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do
a Dr...
Christ is Risen!
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*Hades took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and
encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen.
O Death, where...
Is Fairy Food Safe?
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You are wondering far from home when you encounter a fairy which offers
you a simple meal of bread and butter. Should you accept it?
Many would say ...
Wheel…of…fortunes!
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Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book (published by Dick &
Fitzgerald, in 1862 and 1866) claims to reproduce a list of 100 fortunes
associ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 →
The Worm Ouroboros
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The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E.
R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological
tradi...
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...
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...
11 years ago
Friday, May 14, 2010
Regional Map for My Latest Sandbox Campaign
Here is a regional map I am working on for my latest sandbox.
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