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I wanted to share a couple of players' portraits of their characters. First, we have Jimbo Chirrup, the Grasshopperfolk Garden Wizard, drawn by Josh Burnett. Jimbo has...
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Wizard Grad School 2nd Year Dungeon Exams My GLOG campaign set in Goodberry Monthly's Wizard City campaign setting continues! (I've also joined Oblidisideryptch's online GLOG...
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My 5e campaign, I think, is going to have a primarily mission-based structure. There's no real sandbox here for the players to make a lot of choices about what they're going to...
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The Devices and Daring Mediums that Spoke for the Dead Lisa Hix Collector's Weekly "In the earliest days, you would sit down with a medium at a table, and you would start...
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Life under quarantine continues, and I'm continuing to use D&D as a form of escapism to deal with the stress and isolation of staying home all day, every day, both for my own...
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In D&D it can sometimes seem like your only two options for enemy royalty are the chess king model - where the king is realistically weak and helpless compared to the knights...
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There's a springtime prompt-trading blogathon going on right now called Secret Jackalope, and I'm participating this year! I'll be posting my submission here soon. But in the...
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Your mentor is Anshall, a spirit medium who channels the voices of the dead to provide comfort to the grieving, and taught you to channel a god. Your class is warlock. Anshall...
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Boltinka Nakogard is a city in the heart of the Northern Devastation Zone, far from the Capital, beyond the frontier of the Borderlands, a city of perpetual winter huddling...
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Below are a couple collections of links to the monster randomizers written by two prolific designers. The links in the first collection are by Lum from Built By Gods Forgotten,...
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My partner and I spent the week at home - working remotely, self isolating, and social distancing. To cheer ourselves up a little in the face of the grim realities of life in...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms Art Institute of Chicago "The 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms enable one to glimpse elements of European interiors from the late 13th century to the 1930s and...
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The Wizard Grad School 1st Year Dungeon Exams So I've finally gotten around to playing a GLOG campaign. The players are Josh and Peter from my regular online group. I'm GMing,...
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One of my goals for my blog this year is to do a bit more sharing of other people's work that I find interesting or enjoyable. You may have gathered from my post collecting...Linked by the ring
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For awhile now, I've had this daydream that a lot of Pathfinder material could be converted to slightly simpler rules-systems where I would feel more able to use it at my...
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Over the last couple academic calendar breaks, I've spent quite a bit of time with a couple friends from work playing Marrying Mr Darcy, watching various film versions of Pride...
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One of the first fantasy worlds to really make an imprint on my imagination was Magic: the Gathering's Ice Age setting. I love the frozen landscape, the taiga and tundra and...
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When I wrote about Secret Santicorn 2018, I was basically just working from my own sidebar, and noticing when people used that phrase as part of the title of a post, and I...
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Last year, Bombasticus from Future Sound of Lisbon lobbied me to start writing comic book reviews. He's going to have to keep waiting for those, but I thought I might like to...
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I've noticed a trend recently in literary fiction. I'm not sure that it can be used for gaming, but I don't want to let it pass unremarked. It's easy to suspect that the...
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The Secret Anti-Languages You're not Supposed to Know David Robson BBC "Since at least Tudor times, secret argots have been used in the underworld of prisoners, escaped slaves...
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M is also for MAPSRoll 1d12! Random Maps of the Underworld 1 Architectural schematic of local 9th level NPC's stronghold, signed by original builder. Shows network of secret...Linked by the ring
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A friend of mine read my previous post using Le Chaudrom Chromatique's random island generator, and she decided to doodle a couple of the monsters. Below are Lindsey M's quick...
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Evlyn at Le Chaudron Chromatique has created a minigame for referees to create island ecologies. She recommends starting with an encounter list, removing half the inhabitants...
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In the past year, the Old School Renaissance, or New School Revolution, or whatever you want to call the sprawling, vaguely defined, slightly overlapping set of family...
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The classic dungeon exploration scenario involves searching amid scarcity. The classic dungeon was once rich, but was also abandoned long ago. Since then, most of what was...
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How to Crochet a Coral Reef - and Why Sarah Derouin Scientific American "The crocheted corals display hyperbolic geometry, a type of geometry that is neither planar nor...
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John Harris of the @Play blog and @Play column writes about "rougelike" videogames. Since I am somewhat interested in procedural generation in tabletop gaming, there are a few...
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A Brief History of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Jake Rossen Mental Floss "A lawyer named Edward Packard had hit upon an idea. He often told his kids bedtime stories, and...
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A is also also for ADMIXTURE Roll 1d12! Probably each hex on the map contains one unique MATERIAL COMPONENT that can be found only there. When any two such components are mixed...