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You have seen his works before if you ever looked at anything regarding space colonization. Rick Guidice was an American illustrator who did some stellar work illustrating some...
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So as I mentioned I am preparing to run a Pirates of Drinax campaign and as I talked about in the article one should not see the UWPs of certain worlds as holy writ. Which is...
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In 2003 The Lord Weird Slough Feg (they later shortened the name to just Slough Feg) released a concept album based on Traveller of all things. This was way after the star of...
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As we all know Shields Shall be Splintered! Shields For our Glimmermark game we agreed that shields are a necessity for the aspiring adventurer, as they allow you to soak one...
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Ho humm… these link collections are getting a bit long sometimes, especially if I don’t actually post them for a while. Free Stuff Goblinoid Games offers a draft of the...
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Adventurer was a rather short running UK RPG magazine. In the last issue, Adventurer 11, June/July 1987, there was an interesting interview with Terry Pratchett, where he...
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So Cauldron gave me the opportunity to actually play a lot of ODnD for once, and with that came the notion of using a single damage die to roll the damage on targets. For...
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Goblin (Character Class)Req.: DEX 9 and CON 9Prime Reqs: STR and DEXHD: 1d8 (as monster HD)Max Level: 6Fighting: As equivalent monster HDSaves: As Fighter Goblin Level...
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I was just thinking how people completely miss out on one of the most interesting aspects of this comic series. Marvel Star Wars ran for 108 issues, concluding in 1986. But at...
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It wasn’t all doom and gloom and Satanic panicking in the 80s about rolepaying games. Dynamite Magazine actually had a few features about this new sort of game, and they all...
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I am preparing for a Traveller game, and so here are a few conceits that bear repeating for understanding the setting and the rules properly. In a lot of cases those are...
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Learning Magic in the GlimmermarkWhen I started to plan for the Glimmermark one of my main ideas was to make it even more Vancian, instead of getting rid of the Vancianess like...
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Reaction Rolls and Morale for MGT 2e I am prepping for a Pirates of Drinax campaign right now, and as the current version of that is for Mongoose Traveller we are going to use...
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This is one of those things I did for campaigns before: a small newsletter/zine with infos, hints, and used rules about the campaign. It isn’t strictly necessary, but I always...
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Cauldron 2024: Manor on the Borderlands …of Hessia and Thuringia that is. But that means in living memory the Iron Wall ran merely a few hundred meters away from the location....
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Free Stuff Pendragon Quick-Start with “The Adventure of the Sword Tournament” (chaosium.com) “The Quest of the Red Blade” by Greg Stafford (itch.io) “The Adventure of the Great...
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I wanted to point out that there are multiple federated social networks focused on roleplaying enthusiasts, the biggest of which might be the microblogging service dice.camp....
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I remember watching Land of the Lost, both the original ’74 show and the ’92 version on German television. I was not impressed back then, and to be fair, the special effects in...
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So during my holidays last month I managed to go to an actual physical, brick-and-mortar and everything, game store again. And I decided I’d spoil myself and buy myself a shiny...
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Recently got around to take part in a discussion on the Internet Office Hours podcast about Maps and Mapping with @Whidou (Chez Whidou), @phf, and @kensanata (Alex Schroeder’s...
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Pwork Wargames is an Italian company whose products seem to be readily available in the EU (by dint of being the only MDF rpg terrain tiles easily available on Amazon). They...
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I wonder if I really need to do a session report all the time. Maybe I am going to make this a short regular thing where I am going to go through all the sessions each month...
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Nobody knows where the name Glimmermark comes from. One might assume it was the Glimmerstone Wars, that have ravaged part of the region for centuries, but the name itself seems...
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Lately I have been gearing myself up to run the venerable Keep on the Borderlands for my son, as I still think it’s pretty good as a starter adventure. And while prepping it...
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Play your PCs like they’re stolen cars. Die horribly. Roll up a new one. — Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys Blog Good Stuff TTRPGs for Trans Rights – West Virginia (itch.io) – 529...
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Issue 3 of Wanderer Bill’s Grenzland fanzine just landed in my mailbox yesterday, with, among other things, an NPC class written by me (“The Anointed of Abyssal Slaughter”). It...
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The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming by Mike Monaco, is a free pdf download published at CMU Press under a CC BY-NC-ND license, and dealing with the history...
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I am not a fan of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. In fact I am not a fan of the 4th edition either, or the 3.5th edition, or Pathfinder (the 3.75th edition) for that matter....
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I have been futzing around with my old Raspberry Pi lately, and a lot of my energy went into that. That and talking on the usenet. My main project actually started out as...
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XVII I haven’t done a link post for a while, so this one is a bit bigger than usual. Maybe I should imply in the title that it’s some monthly...