Hobby and more D&D Blogs
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Written by Bec Evans and Chris Smith
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WRITTEN is a book about how to get to the writing desk and stay there, day
after day. I’d argue that this skill is more important to develop than the
writi...
1 hour ago
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And Now, a Fairly Noisy Cover of “First of May”
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“First of May” being of course Jonathan Coulton’s immortal celebration of
spring, love, and outdoor recreation, possibly the most gentle song ever to
drop ...
3 hours ago
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Arena: Won!
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*It sounds like Bethesda originally intended for the PC to be ported into
later games.*
I was somewhat bored with *Arena* by the end of the last en...
3 hours ago
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Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords Legacy Live on Kickstarter!
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Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords Legacy is live now on Kickstarter! A century has
passed since Galad Sarian brought down the Dream Lords and the decadent
Zurjahn ...
16 hours ago
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This Old Dragon: Issue #93
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[image: This Old Dragon: Issue #93]
I am opting to take this one first for a few reasons. One, I really wanted
to go through all the Dragons from 1985-86...
17 hours ago
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Reactions and Reactionaries-Part One
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From December 2017, updated for 2026.
I have written these past few weeks about the so-called "New Weird," which
may or may not have been new (in 2008) an...
21 hours ago
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Loa (2012 – 2026)
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Loa was not just a good dog, but rather, the best dog. And I know that all
dogs are good dogs, and all dogs are the best dogs; that’s just how dogs
are. Bu...
1 day ago
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BOBBY NASH INTERVIEW ON WRITE MY BEST BOOK!
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In case you missed it yesterday, the replay of Bobby Nash's live discussion
with Nicole Whisler is available on her Finish My Fantasy Novel: Write My
...
1 day ago
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Allies, Followers, Contacts & Patrons 2
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Gaming more has been pretty good. I will do a review post soon. As ran 3x
5th ed games this week so ive been rereading ...
1 day ago
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GM/Player Interactions, Part 1
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The tabletop role playing experience is a collaborative one. That’s a
well-established fact. To properly collaborate, everyone at the table needs
to be awa...
1 day ago
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Promoting “The Arcadian”
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Brothers and sisters, with your permission I’m gonna take the next few
weeks in this space to promote THE ARCADIAN. But first, I have a question
for you....
1 day ago
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BOOKS ARE JUST AS BAD AND AS GOOD AS THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN
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Let’s spend this week blasting apart another unsupported notion flying in
and around the book or book-adjacent corners of social media. This time
it’s the ...
2 days ago
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Movies I've Missed Until Now: Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
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Quirky little indie films often leave me cold, but sometimes they work and
I enjoy them. ELVIS AND ANABELLE is definitely quirky. Max Minghella plays
El...
2 days ago
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Van Vogt Plus Gold
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Todayis April 26, the birthday of A. E. Van Vogt (1912-200) and Horace L.
Gold (1914-1996). Alfred Elton Van Vogt was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada. H...
4 days ago
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Trademark of a Traitor by Kathleeen Moore Knight, 1943
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dustjackets.com
Nick Duane and Martha Cleves are Americans in Panama. They have been
talking about getting married, but Martha feels that their opin...
5 days ago
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King’s Quest VII - Why Don't You Come with Me, Little Girl, On a Magic
Carpet Ride
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Written by Michael
Now, onto the most tedious part of the game so far. More tedious than a
lazy George Harrison song (although it DID inspire a great pa...
6 days ago
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You come upon a ruined hamlet, villagers all fled or slaughtered
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It's the bowl. Someone might find it in any old shop, it is earthenware
mixed from the bones of the last shaman of Nilotte.
Whosoever eats from the bo...
1 week ago
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Legends of the Lost Tomb
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Legends of the Lost Tomb of the Overking
1 week ago
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Free GM Resource: Some 3d Printing Files from MojiBake
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[image: Free GM Resource: Some 3d Printing Files from MojiBake]
I was look at/thinking of some 3d printed coins for a future project and
ended up on a Kic...
1 week 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
1 week 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...
1 week ago
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1342: Told Point Blank
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1342.html
2 weeks 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 weeks ago
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Fairy Food
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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 weeks 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...
1 month ago
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Eve of Ruin: Stranger Things Remix
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Eve of Ruin Remix 2026
1 month 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...
2 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...
3 months ago
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Addendum to the official policy of the Mule
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[image: Hanging around with Benito.]
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
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...
10 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...
10 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...
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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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...
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 ...
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...
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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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...
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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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...
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...
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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