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Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can always just say "Dwiz is a...
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Artist credit: Jeffrey HummelGamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mired in bizarre value...Linked by the ring
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Because I know that nobody reading this right now has ever read the D&D 5.0 Dungeon Master's Guide, that also means you almost certainly don't know about one of its best...
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About a year ago I played through Fire Emblem 7 for the first time. I got through the tutorial a couple times as a kid, but for some reason I never moved on to the main...Linked by the ring
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Dungeons & Dragons began as a game about exploring mazes, trying not to get lost as you navigate spaces with complicated layouts. At some point, these conventions fell to the...Linked by the ring
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A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCredit: John BauerAlready covered previously: Nightmare and Nymph. Probably should have...
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A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZCredit: Joe Sparrow, from Dungeons & DrawingsStrap in, because there are a lot of M monsters....
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I had been playing RPGs for many years before I ever even considered getting into homebrew. Of course, I wasn't against homebrew. I routinely took homemade gameable content...
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I started this blog 6 years ago. Here was the last retrospective. It contains the origin story and some badly-aged advice.In the time since then, A Knight at the Opera has...Linked by the ring
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[NOTE: I originally wrote this review back in 2023 as a guest post for Bones of Contention, a critic collective comprised of many of the best RPG bloggers out there. This...