Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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A Rough Edges Rerun Review: The Midnight Room - Ed Gorman
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I’ll admit, I’m not a big fan of serial killer novels. You can trust Ed
Gorman to give you something different, though, even when he’s writing
about a s...
20 hours ago
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Here's the Ruin Runner character class from the forthcoming Mutants &
Wizards. Things are coming along nicely. I'm about 60% done with the
Player's Boo...
21 hours ago
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View From a Hotel Window, 9/3/26: Tampa, FL
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Nothing like a big ol’ vent to inspire one to lofty heights of imagination.
In any event: Hello! I’m in Tampa. It’s warm. I figure I’ll find out more
about...
1 day ago
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Remembering James A. Moore
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Today, September 3, is the birthday of fantasy and horror author James A.
Moore (1965-2024). I never met Moore, but I’ve read and reviewed a few of
his boo...
1 day ago
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New Frugal GM "Product" over at DTRPG
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[image: New Frugal GM "Product" over at DTRPG]
Ok, I'll admit it's been a hot minute since I've made anything new....well
anything I can post about anyway...
1 day ago
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Pagan: Rite of Passage
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*I don't like the look of this.*
The Avatar has been dumped by the evil Guardian on the alien world of
Pagan. He has managed to outfit himself, b...
1 day ago
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OAKHURST
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The Halfling village of Oakhurst
2 days ago
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A Review of Those Magnetic Dungeon-Block Things (& some other tabletop toys)
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So you may have noticed, on Facebook and wherever else, ads for
Click-Blocks those little magnetic dungeon blocks...
Somebody got them for me for my birth...
2 days ago
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Witchcraft Wednesday: The Three Laws of Witchcraft
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[image: Photo by Ferdinand Studio:
https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-a-costume-reading-a-book-3922111/]
*"Let it be remembered that witches shall kee...
2 days ago
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You Are What You Eat: A Non-TTRPG Reading List
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You cannot create without consuming. In particular, if you’re gonna make a
good story, you need to experience good stories in return.
2 days ago
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Malcolm’s Revenge - She's Got a Pad on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
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In the olden days, just like now, too much trash filling our landfills.
Written by Michael
This post will be a little shorter; I only did some prelimina...
2 days ago
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Machines for Living, Haunts of the Dead-Part One
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A long time ago I watched the movie *The Fountainhead* (1949), starring *Gary
Cooper* and *Patricia Neal*. The screenplay by *Ayn Rand* was based on her
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2 days ago
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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?...
2 days ago
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READING MAKES YOU LIVE LONGER
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In honor of next Monday being my sixty-second birthday, get this… A recent
Yale study indicates that individuals who read books may experience a 20
percent...
3 days ago
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Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors by David Griffin Brown and Michelle
Barker
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The title of FAKE QUERY LETTERS BY DEAD AUTHORS says it all. Imagine that
long-dead authors are trying to query their books today, to modern
publishers for...
4 days ago
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Pacing a campagn
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Winding up a few campaigns and starting some new ones right now.
My Ravenloft/Hawksmire game ended and now I'm startin...
5 days ago
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BOBY NASH'S LIFE IN THE FASTER LANE AUTHOR TOUR ROLLS INTO FALL!
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My Life In The Faster lane tour picks up speed this fall! Beginning this
weekend, august 29th, I have an event or two every week from now into
November. ...
1 week ago
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Michael Tierney’s Wild Stars 9 & 10 Live On Kickstarter!
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The Wild Stars saga enters its final arc! Cirsova Publishing is offering a
two-fer this summer, collecting Wild Stars 9: Flight From Reckoning and
releasin...
1 week ago
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If I Am To Be Regarded In Corporeal Form (The Calamities, Week Two!)
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I know! I know. I’m being very annoying with all this “book promo” stuff,
but hey, I got a book out, and if I don’t promo it, they pull a lever and I
fall ...
1 week ago
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Wizards of the Coast Announces More D&D for Everyone, but Not All of It’s
for You
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At Gen Con, Dungeons & Dragons franchise head Dan Ayoub joined various D&D
team members and stars connected with D&D to reveal future plans for the
game an...
3 weeks ago
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1348: Fading Odds
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1348.html
3 weeks ago
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Bandits of Fort Emridy: Turning classic modules into outlaw PC settings
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Having lived several months on the outside of civil society, my perspective
on running adventuring parties has changed somewhat. As two or three of you
m...
3 weeks ago
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Young Washington and 1753
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I saw Young Washington last weekend and absolutely loved it. If you know
me, you know the Revolutionary War era is my favorite time period. I have
always f...
1 month ago
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THE CHAOS ENGINE
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Chaos Corruption Engine
2 months 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
6 months ago
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Addendum to the official policy of the Mule
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[image: Hanging around with Benito.]
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
3 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...
5 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
7 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...
7 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...
9 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...
9 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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