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My first article for the 2018 Gongfarmer's Almanac is an alternate genotype and occupation table for Mutant Crawl Classics. I wrote it as a follow-up to my own earlier post...
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The 2018 Gongfarmer's Almanac has been released! This is a free zine that various DCC players put together. Marc Bruner and Shyloh Wideman took the lead as organizers this...
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More art from Warwick Gobel. This time images from Lal Behari Day's Folk-Tales of Bengal. She rushed out of the palace and came to the upper world. The Suo queen went...
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Vlet is a fictional boardgame. It doesn't really exist. It first appeared in Joanna Russ' short story "A Game of Vlet," and then appeared again in Samuel Delaney's novel...
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Michael Raston from The Lizard Man Diaries has a new book out, meant to generate guilds and guild-jobs for his Infinigrad setting. After my previous post generating a couple of...
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Jack Shear from Tales of the Grotesque & Dungeonesque is writing a book for his Umberwell campaign setting, which will likely be similar to his Krevborna book. I've played in...
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The Lizard Man Diaries has posted a generator for creating fantasy city neighborhoods. Le Chaudron Chromatique has a new fantasy building generator. Let's combine that with...
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In some ways, the Forgotten Realms setting of contemporary D&D is a very vanilla fantasy realm (and the Golarion of Pathfinder is pretty much the same, except maybe more high...
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People are programming neural-networks to do all kinds of things these days.* Joel Simon used one to design a new elementary school. Rather than feed his AI thousands of...
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I'm not the only one with resource mobilization on her mind. In his book Art Worlds, Howard Becker proposes that individual genius isn't what creates art, art is created by...
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Future Evolution, written by Peter Ward, illustrated by Alexis Rockman, is not another After Man or another The Future is Wild. Instead it's almost the antithesis. Ward...
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In my first post about resource management, I argued that the original rules for resource management in D&D are too difficult, that they're rarely used, that they nevertheless...Linked by the ring
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The Library of Congress has a collection of Ansel Adams' photos of the Manzanar War Relocation Detention Center in California. In the photos below, you can see the sign at...
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I previously wrote about devising some experimental procedures for generating a dwarven undercity. As I explained, I have a friend who plans to write an undercity generator,...Linked by the ring
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Recently I've found myself thinking (and commenting on G+) about resource management in D&D. The series of posts I'm starting here is mostly an attempt to gather my thoughts in...
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The Grey Lady recently had an article about Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez receiving his first exhibition in America (three years after he died, unfortunately) at the...
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I have a friend who's brainstorming a dwarven undercity campaign, using procedural generation to fill in a minihexmap as the characters explore a multi-level ruined-city...
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Characters Archibald (innkeeper, 1st level Thief) played by American John Louis Black (politician, 1st level Warrior) played by Petra Nell (innkeeper, 1st level Warrior) played...
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The Dungeon of Signs blog has officially stopped updating. Which makes this a good time to revisit some of the author's, Gus L's, best ideas, or at least the ideas I liked...
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I was able to play one final session in Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque's online Scarabae campaign last year. After this game, I picked up a new shift at work, which...
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My character has a new hit single! From the album's liner notes: Jeremiad Street Asylum, by Traviata Maru. A tragic opera aria about a woman who visits her lover in a madhouse...
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V by Thomas Pynchon, 1963 Z by Vassilis Vassilikos, 1966 G by John Berger, 1972 C by Anthony Cave Brown, 1988 S by John Updike, 1988 H by Elizabeth Shepard, 1995 Q by Paul...
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Characters Louis Black (politician, 1st level Warrior) played by Petra Archibald (innkeeper) Luther (factory hand) Daniel (plumber) Meriwether (infantryman) played by American...
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Since the last time I posted about it, the GLOG-o-sphere's collective dive into the deep past has continued. Journey Into The Weird took a journey into the past, actually...
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Below are my spellburn results for Mycetes-Thrax. I was inspired by the description of glowburn in Mutant Crawl Classics, where shamans ingest radioactive substances to...
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... or, what are you supposed to do with all that prehistory? It started with Goblin Punch asking why fantasy games have a fantastical contemporary ecology, but not a fantastic...
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Characters Bill the livery-stabler Edward the storekeeper Henry the huckster Harry the butcher played by Canadian John Blaze Riviera the servant Sweet Nell the innkeeper Rusty...
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This post is a continuation of an earlier look at how to explore inside wilderness hexes. You can read the first two posts in the series here and here, and you can read Tales...Linked by the ring
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Since writing my post about pointcrawling, I've come across a few extra examples that I didn't include in the original. The first is something I stumbled upon by happenstance,...
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Beloch Shrike, who operates the Papers & Pencils blog, has another project called Blogs on Tape. The purpose of Blogs on Tape is to act as a kind of podcast or audiobook for...