Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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Happy Birthday, Krissy
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She’s fabulous and I just think she’s neat. And it’s also her birthday! If
you are so inclined, wish her a happy one. — JS
6 hours ago
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New Printable Scenery Campaign: Ramshackle & Ruin
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[image: New Printable Scenery Campaign: Ramshackle & Ruin]
I don't know how many of my peeps here are into 3d printing, but I'm always
collecting the STL ...
8 hours ago
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NEW TORIL
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"V" wanted to investigate the planet of New Toril a little further. This is
the information available about the planet through observation from afar.… Conti...
16 hours ago
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Dungeon Hack: Blitzkrieg
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*A minotaur prepares to swing his axe, which looks like it ought to be
impossible with the height of the ceiling.*
I started over after the first...
16 hours ago
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Wayne's World - Welcome to Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse
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by Michael
*This logo reminds me of another adventure game publisher...*
So, last post, I said the game wasn’t as bad as I expected. And that’s
still t...
18 hours ago
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#AtoZChallenge2024: P is for Pathfinder (and Paizo)
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A bit of a divergence today for, well, a bit of divergence. Let me set
the stage a bit. It is 2007, and Wizards of the Coast has decided to end
the pub...
18 hours ago
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New monster for dungeons and debauchery
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Ive never heard of a minotaur with a medusa headed nob - terrifying.
At least you can always see him coming.
So I made s...
1 day ago
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Wretched New Flesh 2e
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The new Wretched New Flesh is massive with many great additions. Also,
it's clearly the Red Room's favorite creation. #dnd #ttpg #osr
1 day ago
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Biggle and Williamson
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April 17, today, marks the birthday of Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1922-2002), and
J. N. Williamson (1932-2005). Lloyd Biggle, Jr. wrote science fiction
beginning i...
1 day ago
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That B&N Preorder Sale
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Listen, it’s the time of the year when B&N offers a pretty nice deal on
preordered books, and so of course every author in the world is like AHHHH
PLEASE P...
1 day ago
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Adventure Design: Mood, Tone, and Theme
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When starting to design an adventure for your home group, the first things
I always consider are the mood, tone, and theme of the adventure. This will
dict...
1 day ago
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Mansion of Evil - Joseph Millard and George Evans
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Having read and enjoyed IT RHYMES WITH LUST, I decided to try this other
early graphic novel with a crime plot, MANSION OF EVIL, published by Gold
Medal...
1 day ago
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Finishing
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Yesterday I finished a book I’ve been working on for two and a half years—a
sequel to A Man at Arms (2021). I sent the manuscript off to my agent and
to ...
2 days ago
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UNCOVERS NEW LOST ADVENTURES AT FINAL BOSS!
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The Lost Adventures of Captain Hawklin Vol. 2 will be on sale May 7th!
However, those of you at Final Boss Con in Rio Grande, OH on May 4th can
grab a...
2 days ago
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THIS IS NOT MY WRITING MANIFESTO
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Honestly, I don’t write manifestos. I’m not sure I’ve actually ever even
read a manifesto. In fact, I can’t help feeling that when someone sits down
and wr...
2 days ago
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Interview With A Dork Who Is Mad About Female Space Marines
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There are gates? They fell? wtf?
If you follow Warhammer 40k stuff (which I do a little because I'm running
this), then you know that their crazed hate...
3 days ago
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Cirsova Spring Sale Continues!
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We have a new slate of books that are only 99 cents this week! Misha
Burnett’s An Atlas of Bad Roads Weird tales from off the beaten path! Misha
Burnett’s ...
3 days ago
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The Perfect Crime by Ellery Queen, 1942
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Major characters:
Ellery Queen, detective
Nikki Porter, his secretary
Walter Mathews, young millionaire
John Mathews, his uncle, a stock swindler
Carlo...
6 days ago
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The Evolution of Gaming, or Why My Thoughts on Gaming have Changed
Drastically Over Time
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I have been thinking about this for quite a long time and though I am not
an eloquent man, I thought I should put these random and chaotic thoughts
down in...
6 days ago
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1301: Bite Size
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1301.html
1 week ago
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The Popcorn Principles by John Gaspard
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The premise of THE POPCORN PRINCIPLES is that everything a novelist needs
to know, she can learn from watching movies. Gaspard isn’t the first to say
that ...
2 weeks ago
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Daggerheart vs. the MCDM RPG vs. D&D: A Playtest Comparison
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If games to suit every play style and new games bringing fresh ideas makes
a golden age, then the best time for gamers is now. In the past weeks, I’ve
play...
2 weeks ago
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✅ Your Appointment is Booked!
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Check your email for all of the details on the event.
The post ✅ Your Appointment is Booked! appeared first on Story Grid.
3 weeks ago
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Weird Tales & George Washington's Axe
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*Weird Tales* was in trouble one hundred years ago this month. Although by
March 1924, "The Unique Magazine" had been in print for a full year, and
altho...
3 weeks ago
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Arneson’s version of Challenge Rating
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One of the more fascinating bits of information to be gleaned from Tonisborg
is a section which reveals Arneson’s methodology of stocking dungeons. For
t...
5 weeks ago
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Get ready for the shittification
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If you haven’t heard, WordPress and Tumblr users are probably going to have
their work sold to train “AI” — it’s all over the nerdy reportage (here,
here, ...
1 month ago
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I Signori del Caos ritornano
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In questi giorni giunge a conclusione la campagna di Kickstarter per la
nuova edizione de "I Signori del Caos" uno dei primi giochi di ruolo
italiano se n...
1 month ago
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So do I only post on this blog to promote Kickstarters anymore? It seems
like that may be the case. Anyway… Fantastical Classes: Blobs vs. BladesNow
on Ki...
2 months ago
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Convert 5e monsters to OSR standards
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I can't remember what group I was in, but someone asked about converting 5e
monsters to OSR/BFRPG. This is how -I- would do it. I usually work with S&W
s...
2 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
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Happy New Year from the Dice Mines!
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"Do you think they have Holmes-made pumpkin pie?"
A lot of you wrote in to inquire about yesterday's post* [Does anyone
believe me when I imply that I'v...
3 months ago
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Dungeon Delver’s Guide is one of Polygon’s “best TTRPG books of 2023”
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You love to hear when people like your work, so I was thrilled to see my
Dungeon Delver’s Guide on Polygon’s best-of-the-year list for TTRPG books.
I’m par...
4 months ago
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The Tiamat Initiative - A New Source of Mutation for TMNTOS
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*Even before I learned about Palladium Books' TMNTOS reissue (on
Kickstarter now), 2023 was shaping up to be another one of those years
where my interest...
4 months ago
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Free Magazine!
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5 months ago
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Free Fairy Encyclopedia and Other eBooks
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I've posted a number of ebooks online for Free and am going to post more
as time goes on.
"Fairy Encyclopedia"
Many of the fairies and spirits mentio...
5 months ago
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Heya folks, the 21st Salt Mine book, Import Export, has hit the digital
shelves! In the 21st book we follow Aaron Haddock-codename Stigma-as he
tries to ...
6 months ago
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Hanuvar at GenCon
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The Hanuvar series will officially debut at GenCon in Indianapolis,
Indiana, in just a few days, and I couldn’t be happier. If you happen to be
attending G...
8 months ago
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Thri-Kreen: Dune, Insect Edition
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Lore: Sand Drifters Wandering alone in the deserts and savannas of the
world, thri-kreen are true survivors. In many ways, they are as any other
humanoid r...
10 months ago
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Moving On...
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So, my D&D 5e experiment has blown up the lab in a puff of green smoke
leaving my face blackened like Wile E. Coyote after a failed roadrunner
Acme trap...
10 months ago
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The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come.
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To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff.
The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game
design.
In the past I...
11 months ago
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Pulp legend J. Manfred Weichsel Interviewed by Blasters and Blades
Podcast!!!
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Breaking news! J. Manfred Weichsel just sat down with the Blasters and
Blades podcast for his second interview with them, talking about Warrior
Soul &...
11 months ago
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ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE DCC AT LAST
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NOW AVAILABLE in PDF and Print on Demand:ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY
UNFATHOMABLE (DCC)CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW!
SO YOU SURVIVED OPERATION UNFATHOMABLE?
Od...
1 year ago
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The Blade Itself
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I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Blade Itself, volume one
in Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy. This was my first exposure to
his wo...
1 year ago
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Master Treasure Seeker: A Dungeon23 MegaDungeon - Introduction
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Sean McCoy, author of Mothership, posted an article on his substack titled
Dungeon23 and it's taken the indie RPG scene by storm. So, I'm throwing my
hat...
1 year ago
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The Brave Art of Running Away
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In last night's game, on two separate occasions the player characters
decided that discretion is often the better part of valor, and decided not
to fight...
2 years ago
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Alexander’s Solo Dungeon
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So it’s been a while, and boy do I hate the way this editor works. If I did
it right, either image should give you a link to a PDF I created that
describes...
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 →
2 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...
2 years ago
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Fantasy paths (1981)
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Three rarities from 1981.
2 years ago
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The Washington Post Mentions Renegades and Rogues
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Michael Dirda, acclaimed book reviewer and critic for the Washington Post
recently wrote an article about Robert E. Howard. The title of Dirda's
article...
2 years ago
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Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release
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A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012
Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at
Dr...
3 years ago
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Guhin – The Dog Guest
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If you are walking through the forest and hear mysterious laughter or the
sound of crashing trees, take caution. You may have stumbled into the
territory o...
3 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...
4 years ago
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Nyepi
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On the day designated as the beginning of the new year in Bali, residents
celebrate with silence, pretty much the opposite of the way it's done in
North ...
4 years ago
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OneBlogShelf Moving
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We are moving to *Medium*!
You can follow us here: https://medium.com/oneblogshelf
All blogs previous to this post will remain on our Blogger for archive
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4 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...
4 years ago
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Dungeoneering Blog
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This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
4 years ago
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D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets
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In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one
for small/medium targets (i.e. man-sized) and one for large targets (giants
and...
4 years ago
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Zorro Kickstarter - Just Three Days Left
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The Kickstarter for *Zorro: The Roleplaying Game* closes in three days;
it's met its target of $15,000.00 but it needs a few more backers to reach
a cool $...
5 years ago
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SHORT BREAK.
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I'm going to take a break for a week or so and will start up again in the
New Year. Thanks for reading and we'll start with Level 6 when I get back.
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 years ago
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Time for a New Edition!
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I guess I should explain what I mean by that title.
Today, I will be rebooting *Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old*. I feel like I
have hit a road-block creative...
7 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
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Moved
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The Random Wizard Blog has moved to
https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
8 years ago
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This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest
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Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′
bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power
halberd, a comb...
8 years ago
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0-Level ACKS Alices
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Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level
play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and
introd...
9 years ago
The Sympanomancer
Download the PDF here.
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