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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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Over the summer, I got really depressed. I've had major depressive disorder for more or less my entire life, and I mostly have it well-managed, but sometimes it grows out of my...
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BATPHONE - Ring ring!BATMAN - Hello?JOKER - Ha ha! Greetings, Batman! It's me, your old pal, the Joker!BATMAN - This is an unlisted number.JOKER - Just calling to let you know...
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My first introduction to the world of Dune happened years before I read the book, when I saw Wayne Barlowe's illustration of a navigator who was mutated by consuming Spice in...Linked by the ring
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Actually, Criticism is LiteratureWriting about the art of writing is an art unto itself.Jonathan Russell ClarkLiterary Hub"Every once in a while, a critic will feel it...
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I recently read Jennifer Lena's Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music, and although Lena is writing solely about music, it's not hard to think that...Linked by the ring
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An adventure I wrote, Lighthouse at Shipbreaker Shoals, has just recently been published! The pdf is available now at DriveThruRPG, and a print edition will be available soon...
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In my first post in this series, I introduced an adventure that I tried and failed to write a few years ago - "The Night Garden at the Vanishing Oasis" - and I talked about...
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My vision for the world of CRAWL-thulhu, is that it resembles our world in the 1920s and 30s, though obviously with some more menacing elements.I imagine a world that never had...Linked by the ring
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My friend and Bones of Contention coauthor WFS is kickstarting a pointcrawl adventure called Barkeep on the Borderlands. I got added as a coauthor thanks to a successful...
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I've decided to "borrow" another idea from Jack Shear and write about my favorite things I read, watched, and listened to in 2021. Every month, Jack writes a Total Skull post...
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Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a series of conversations between me and Trey Causey from From the Sorcerer's Skull about dungeon crawling science fiction. Our...Linked by the ring
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I'm going to try something new this time and compare two similar game books. Both are descendants of the Advanced Fighting Fantasy game rules, or what, these days, we might...
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At the start of the year, or maybe it was the end of the last one, maxcan7 of Weird & Wonderful Worlds messaged me to ask if I'd like to participate in his ongoing interview...
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About six months ago, I announced that I was joining the Bones of Contention blog. Although this has been one of my least productive blogging years, I did manage to get a few...