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Day eight of the Blogging A to Z challenge is upon us, and H is for Hoard! Did your party of player characters come up with a last-minute plan of such brilliant genius that it...
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Just a doodle of a little guy for this one today. I like goblins. They’re the right blend of nasty, goofy, and expendable, the perfect mook for any evil army or dungeon. The...
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Looks like it’s time to play a part in another RPG Blog Carnival, this time hosted by Hipsters & Dragons. This month, the prompt theme is Locations. There’s plenty of options...
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Falchions are cool as heck. Though we know from their extensive depiction in art and reference in literature that they were extremely popular weapons in their time, very few...
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Well, another year has come and gone, I guess. Let’s take a look back on it and then let’s peek at what’s ahead, shall we? 2025 As for 2025, I can say I made the most of five...
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Enemy is an easy pick for the letter E, and decidedly more on-topic than dedicating an article to the most noteworthy E of all time. While browsing around one day thinking...
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Of course it is. This is Dungeons & Possums, after all. It’s in the name! The Dungeon as a concept has been written about so much that I occasionally worry that one day our...Linked by the ring
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A thief’s hand is a dangerous object created by foul necromancies for illicit purposes, a grim mockery of the laws of life and death. It is a well-guarded secret, nearly never...
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Castles do make up a sizeable portion of the shared worlds of fantasy role-playing games. We start adventures there, we end adventures there, we adventure there (and under...
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Merry End of the World, folks! It’s time for the second installment of the RPG Blog Carnival posting I began yesterday. I promised you something so something you shall have....Linked by the ring
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It’s time for the December RPG Blog Carnival! This month is hosted by the blog Advantage on Arcana and it is, as you may have guessed, on the topic of the apocalypse: The End...Linked by the ring
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Could you have expected anything else from me after all these years? I am an avowed fan of the Bronze Age, and I have written here many times that I try to infuse my fantasy...
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Bottom line up-front: Go download the zine right here, click it, go and download the free zine right now. Brendan McLeod and a host of other contributors have made a...
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It’s another Monday, and despite all our flailing and thrashing the weekend is over. This is deeply unfortunate. Luckily, we have a new Miniature Monday to try to drag us out...
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Manilla Road rules. This post has been an unfinished draft in a pile of random ideas since the very first days of this blog. It’s just sat here, waiting to be finished and...
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Welcome to the very first real installment of Blogging A-to-Z on Dungeons & Possums! I am incredibly excited to write, draw, and tabulate this series of articles, and I am sure...
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Everybody knows the way to strike it rich is to tag along on an expedition to a terrifying, vampire-infested castle or subterranean ruin filled with brass skeletons. They do...
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It looks like Daniel Proctor, along with Pauli Kidd, has been busy, because without much broader announcement (that I’ve seen, anyway), a new Revised & Expanded version of...Linked by the ring
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In 2022 I saw a Twitter post by sheer random chance, where some stranger was tweeting about having completed an April blogosphere event called “Blogging A-to-Z”. I was...Linked by the ring
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It’s that time again my friends! This week, allow me to introduce a handy hireling, Nort. Nort. Just Nort. Nort is a porter of stout build and even sturdier heart. He was...
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Lately I’ve been on a bit of a mission to do more stuff outside of my immediate comfort zone (curling up in my fortified possum hovel). My wife and I had such a great time at...
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The new Heavy Metal Kickstarter has just gone live this morning. I was pretty sure I’d be the first backer given how hard I was pressing F5 but I wound up being the tenth –...
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I have a lot of books. Most of them are fine on shelves. Some of them – like softcover modules, comics, magazines, and the common Mixam or DTRPG zines and digests – are not,...
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This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by the wonderful Of Dice And Dragons and the theme is feasts and festivals. I’m a fan of festivals and holidays in RPGs; I love...
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Welcome to another new week, a little deeper into the autumn chill for most of my audience – and a little warmer for you southern hemisphere friends. Time to get on with our...
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I probably should have included this in the previous post about October’s art but I didn’t think about it at all at the time and the idea only occurred to me now, so here we...
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Welcome to another new week, friends. Let’s meet our new friend: Slavitza, Herald of the Ancient Hunger The Hour of Hunger draws near. Through the preparations of generations...
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October was full of events! There were two – Monster Drawing Club hosted by Dungeon Degenerates/Goblinko, and Loc-tober hosted by Heavy Metal Magazine – which I went into the...
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I guess it’s Monday again, right? Let’s have a nice start to the week with a new NPC based on a classic old school miniature found on the desiccated remains of the World Wide...
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A few weeks back I stumbled upon a treasure at Lone Star Zine Fest: Corey from Grumpus Publishing had a carefully-wrapped parcel of the very last copies of a sold-out pulp...