Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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DON’T SHOW AND TELL
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You know I’m a huge proponent of the technique of show, don’t tell, and
never miss an opportunity to proselytize on that subject. This week, let’s
dive int...
4 hours ago
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Game 580: Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse (1994)
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*I'm going to go with the usual way of representing the game, but the
opening screens separate the series title and game title, and the manual
refers to i...
6 hours ago
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Sampling Onue Bakery Cookies
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Looking for Korean inspired cookies baked from scratch with quality
ingredients that can be delivered to your doorstep? Well, I wasn’t when I
got an ad on ...
23 hours ago
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Free GM Resource: Fantasy Name Generator
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[image: Free GM Resource: Fantasy Name Generator]
I'm comfortable enough to admit I like my random tables, but it's been a
while since I've made a big (*n...
1 day ago
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Mirror Mondays: The Witches of 1986, The Final Girl and the Adventuring
Party
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[image: Candy and Denise, in trouble again]
Candy and Denise, in trouble again.Jackson, IL is a place where 1980s
horror rules apply.
I just finished wat...
1 day ago
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Freddi Fish 1 - Won!
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Written by Michael
In our last meeting, we came across Mrs. Halibut, who is concerned because
her daughter Gabby is stuck inside this cave. But before...
1 day ago
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Review: The Case of the Lazy Lover - Erle Stanley Gardner
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Erle Stanley Gardner is one of the authors I’ve been reading on a
semi-regular basis for the longest time. It’s been more than sixty years
since I check...
1 day ago
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From Punk to Cyberpunk
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*Billy Idol* was born on November 30, 1955. If he were an American, that
would make him a Baby Boomer. Maybe that makes him a Boomer in his native
countr...
2 days ago
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Aickman, Hogan, and Rosenblum
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Today is June 27, and it is the birthday of three writers: Robert Aickman
(1914-1981), James P. Hogoan (1941-2010), and Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018).
Let’s t...
2 days ago
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Stop Self-Limiting Your Ideas
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I was GMing my Blades in the Dark game, and my players were setting up for
a score, one that was a bit outside of their comfort zone. As they were
brainsto...
4 days ago
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Win The Arcadian, Part Three
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We’re finally doing it! This week, ten lucky winners will get the
“two-pack” promo package containing A Man at Arms and The Arcadian, plus a
fold-out scr...
6 days ago
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d100 Auldwood Adventure Seeds for Settlers
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I've had some readers comment on errors with my tables and numbering or
missing entries, which is great. Some of these posts I'v...
6 days ago
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Sanctum of the Heresiarch (a one-shot dungeon)
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So in the Lands of the Heresiarch, the Xenomorph-worshipping cult (think
Alien: Resurrection but in the middle-ages) has built its shrine around
the cra...
1 week ago
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Jeffro Johnson’s Winning Secrets Out Now!
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Jeffro Johnson’s Winning Secrets is out now! You can get it on Amazon in
eBook or softcover. If you don’t mind getting copies that are a little
dinged up, ...
1 week ago
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Adrian M. Gibson: Five Things I Learned Writing A Murder Most Fungal
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Return to the mushroom metropolis of Neo Kinoko, immerse yourself in a
sinister world of gangsters, blackmail, and fungal cuisine, and prepare for
a Michel...
2 weeks ago
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DEMONIC LORE: VERMIS
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DEMONIC LORE: VERMIS THE PLAGUE DEMON
2 weeks ago
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1345: Aim High
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1345.html
2 weeks ago
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New Release: THE ZEERA IMPERATIVE (FREE FULL-CAST AUDIO THRILLER) PART 3!
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Part 3 of my 3-part full-cast audio thriller, The Zeera Imperative is now
available from Evcol Entertainment. Listen to it free RIGHT HERE (or below)
...
3 weeks ago
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On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
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ON WRITING AND FAILURE is a tiny book, more of a pamphlet really, published
by a small press. And honestly, it’s just the right length for what it is.
Marc...
4 weeks ago
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The Lost Tomb (Part 2)
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Session #5 of Greyhawk: Genesis
4 weeks ago
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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...
5 weeks ago
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White Box Dungeon Adventures is out!
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Out now! Go grab your
copy!https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/560236/white-box-dungeon-adventures
2 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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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 ...
3 months ago
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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...
3 months 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...
4 months 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...
5 months ago
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Addendum to the official policy of the Mule
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[image: Hanging around with Benito.]
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
7 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
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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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 ...
2 years 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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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...
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...
6 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...
7 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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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