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The following are recommendations for those interested in building up their bodies with a barbell. It is the best all around tool for building strength and muscle, allowing the...
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Spice up your D&D game: BJ BILL is great at blowjobs. Those who get a happy-happy time from him have +1 Morale on the next day. He will gladly give 20 a night—double the pay...Linked by the ring
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I've been preparing a bestiary for use in my next campaign. I built out 50 monsters, and then wanted to slim it down to 30. It was in this process I noticed how strong of an...
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For all of my life I’ve operated as if immersed in sludge; like my body and mouth and pen are incapable of expressing what is in my heart, and so I suffer a perpetual...
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Novels are not films Films should not be poetry A film should progress at a stroll’s pace A novel is a trick A film is an illusion Stones are individuals I do not wish to be...
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Here are the magic items and mounts present in the Arthurian novel I've been working on: Iron Wafers: three iron-hard wafers, each three layers of dryness corrugated like...Linked by the ring
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What comes? What rumbles the earth?—loose! stone turns to rubble, rubble to clod—all under foot is mire, each step impossible for Hell's infernal rumble. Steady, steady,...
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Today I worked out an outline for draft number four of an Arthurian novel I've been working on since last September. In the process of writing, one of the major struggles has...
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Red paint all chipped all over coloured the barn and soaked up the summer sun to a burning atop the hill. Even from a distance it appeared like a half skinned man, kept alive...
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Rick is my only real friend. Ever since we graduated and went off to different high schools, I’ve been a complete loser. Everyone at school hates me, and I hate them. That’s...
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I recently finished Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. The story, set in the late 1960s, has a particular sense of time and place. Characters say 'Peace' and 'Far Out' to one...
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Hey there, my name is Reptomancer. You may know me from the video game “Slay the Spire.” Well, that’s kind of like my day job. I love love love dancing, more than anything I...
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Thou shalt hate thy fellow man, hate, pity Paltry works of villeins, that like sown husks Are less than the sum of their parts: no grace To be found in those others, whose...
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There’s this guy I know named blark. Well, that’s not their real name: that’s Mark Conway. If you Google ‘Mark Conway’ at this very moment you’ll find some very strange...
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There lives a young boy, spritely yet untrained in the ways of the world, who attempted—I will grant him that it was an attempt—to rebut my most recent and, therefore, most...
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You're a fan of RPGs eh? You want to write adventures, and dungeons, and run them for your friends? BIG MISTAKE BUB Instead, you should read, write poetry, or try prose if it...Linked by the ring
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I am very eager to share the Fantasy Violence monsters I've been working on. Unfortunately, the supernatural monsters can not be shared without spoiling things for my...
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A man is the strength of his back—that’s what Bobby Backlat used to say. We called him that because his berth-wide back blocked out the sun, when he deadlifted it registered on...
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Recently I play-tested Fantasy Violence with a group of pals, old and new, and found it succeeded in my main design goals. The rules themselves are based on Luke Gearing's...Linked by the ring
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Below is a set of rules for small scale fantasy medieval combat based on Luke Gearing's Violence at the Street Level. Some key rules are changed: it's a bit less swingy and a...
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For use in your Campaign 26. Wickley: He wears all white and carries many candles. Wickley loves candles, and can cast Candle Come Alive once per day. When hired, he produces a...
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Gentleman’s WayTo hit the target yet not to pierce it. Layer I: Aim your bow, then fire only at the right time. Add 4 to hit but deal 1d3 damage, a sportsman shot. Layer II:...
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Line Of DeathSwordplay is a game of strength; walk the line of death and should you look down you will be taken by the hands of those you slew and dragged to Hell. Fanatical...
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Eight Gates FistA Balaamite general threw his body against stones and trees to better protect his master. In the end he was killed by javelins and arrows and his lord’s head...Linked by the ring
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For use in OD&D and similar games. Whipping PalmA set of techniques developed by a tax collector in Solonn who found he could make his arms into ropes and twist his body like a...
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There are men who have transcended humanity and become minerals. This one is a many-colored man made of salt. He is beautiful and you can see the ridge of his brow, the curl of...
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Today I ran a Super Adventure! What's a Super Adventure? Invite your friends, invite as many as you can stand, to a bangin' all out adventure. The adventure is designed for a...Linked by the ring
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Boots of Flight are among my favourite magic items, next to such esteemed peers as the +1 Sword and the Ring of Protection. I've had multiple campaigns where Boots of Flight,...Linked by the ring
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Mr. Comus wrote up enchantment rules, and it got me thinking about how I would handle it. When you wish to forge an enchanted item you need a wizard's tower and a forge...Linked by the ring
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My name is Batts Jenga, comin' at you from Hell. There are lots of others with me; we just turn this huge wheel, over and over. It's rough but at least I'm not alone. My life?...Linked by the ring