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I wrote a guest post on the Flashback Universe Blog! I recently started watching the show Space: 1999, and my friend Trey, who operates both Flashback Universe and From the...
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Prismatic Wasteland has announced a new Blog Bandwagon. This time, it's adding hexes to a hexcrawl based on the Christmas movies of Rankin & Bass. For my entry, I thought about...
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To generate your own trendy book title, roll d20 twice and combine: 1 The Seven Abbots of Evelyn Costello 2 The Seven Ampersands of Evelyn Amsterdam 3 The Seven...
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Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adventures, and...
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This is my fourth year doing a round-up of my favorite media. This year, I decided to pick one winner in each category, but acknowledge a top five, which made it easier to give...
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The 2024 Bloggie awards are here, and DIY & dragons is a finalist in two categories! official BLOGGIES 2024 art ‘Blugtarp Blogeye and Weyman the Well-Read’ by Hodag Warren...
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For Secret Santicorn 2024, Vile Cult of Shapes asked for "effects of prolonged exposure of Primal Darkness on various surface dwelling species." I decided to write two sets of...
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Everything people make builds on what came before. The original edition of Dungeons & Dragons built on miniature wargaming rules as well as other recent attempts to repurpose...
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This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous pubcrawl location. Among other things,...
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The Summer Lego RPG Setting Jam has officially ended. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated! Nineteen people submitted entries between May 8th and July...
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Hi everyone! I have two announcements about the ongoing Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam, still open until July 8th. First, several people have reached out to me with links that...
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I want to officially announce the start of the Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam! The goal of this game jam is to design a small roleplaying game setting based on the Lego sets we...
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My regular Friday night gaming group has been playing through Gavin Norman's The Incandescent Grottoes. It's a dungeon that's full of caverns of glowing crystals, which is what...
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This is my third annual Year in Review post, so I think I can officially consider it a tradition! Here are my favorite things from 2023. The Best Things I Read Fiction -...
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Since I wrote my previous post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a place of...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Since I wrote this post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a...
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The last time I talked about the book Future Evolution, I mentioned that author Peter Ward and illustrator Alexis Rockman mostly did not engage in the kind of biological...
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COLUMBO: So, Miss Anna, you own many books! And many gimmick books, I think? ANNA: Just so, Columbo. C: And who do you 'stan' most, do you think? A: Obviously G-- (I stop.) But...
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Over at From the Sorcerer's Skull, Trey has an idea for a spooky season campaign setting that really intrigues me. Trey wrote: "the world that the players' would know and...
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By now you've probably heard the good news, but just in case you haven't... Barkeep on the Borderland won the Gold Ennie for Best Supplement in 2023! Video of the awards...
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The last time I wrote about Barkeep on the Borderlands, it was but a young Kickstarter with dreams of fully funding, and my own involvement was merely the future promise of an...
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Over the past year and a half, I've been writing reviews of all the books I finish and posting them to a private social media feed. As part of my ongoing attempt to get myself...
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Last year I started what I hope will be an annual tradition, and posted reviews of my favorite things I read and watched in 2021. It's time again, so here are my favorites from...
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For the second meeting of the Roadside Picnic Basket Book Club, Trey from From the Sorcerer's Skull played host, and invited me to discuss the dungeoneering aspects of Peter...
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The fifth season of Nick LS Whelan's excellent Blogs on Tape project is well underway, and I've been fortunate enough to be included again this year!Big thanks to Nick for his...