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If you’re around my age you probably had enough time at grocery store checkout counters or the Bookmobile to see and be enthralled by these books as a kid, and probably started...
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It’s that time again, my friends! Sasha of Lake’s End Sasha comes from a fierce line of warrior women and huntresses in a densely forested valley scored by dozens of streams...
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Larry Hamilton is one of the nicest dudes in games. I mean that. Larry is 50% of why I have this blog; he encouraged me in 2018 to start a blog to contain my thoughts and...
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This weekend, 11-12 October 2025, Austin’s lovely Blue Genie Art Bazaar hosted the Lone Star Zine Fest and it was a blast that beat my expectations by a mile. Lone Star Zine...
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Holy shit look at these knives: These are from the website of a master of knapping craftsmanship, Mike Cook of Art of Ishi. I highly recommend looking around over there, it’s...
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Back again with another free NPC inspired by a vintage D&D miniature I found on the internet: Mardagos Half-Brother, Thug Mardagos is the bastard son of a chieftain of a...
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And so we bring this event to a close! I had a good time drawing these. It’s been nice to try to claw back the ability to doodle things remotely passingly this month; it’s...
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You recently told Disney to thaw the cryogenically-frozen cranium of Walt hisself so you could look him in his dead eyes and tell him to fuck off face to face. Congratulations!...Linked by the ring
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Goblinko/Dungeon Degenerates hosts an annual art prompt event each year in the spookiest month of all, October. The featured image (above) is their art; it was the cover image...
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Here’s your weekly-ish free NPC for your games, complete with dungeon tie-in and tavern: Olena the Maven Olena is the proprietor of a local pub, The Drunken Nightengale, which...
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Week three is down and we’re into the final stretch after this! Hopefully everyone else has enjoyed Swordtember as much as I have; I’ve really had a great time with these...
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Today, after a decade of living in the States, I got my first American library card. I wanted to add one more person to the statistics of the library’s services because we live...
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So, I’ve been wrestling with parts of the site that don’t work and parts I’d like to work better. It hasn’t been a complete disaster, because the site is still standing –...
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“Do not try to escape. You are in my control. Look at me: I am the sum of all evils. Look carefully. My power infests all times, all galaxies, all dimensions. But many still...
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Back for another week roundup of swords and sword-like objects! Day Eight: CANINE Wolfgore, a sword forged by terrified villagers trying desperately to stage a final stand...
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Please ignore. The post Test Post first appeared on Dungeons & Possums.
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Anyone who has lurked this blog a while may know that I am a longtime apologist for the Vin Diesel urban fantasy flick The Last Witch Hunter. I liked it on release, I have...
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So there’s a Blog Carnival that runs each month of the year, in which a TTRPG blogger out there in the wilderness of the internet picks a topic and encourages their peers to...Linked by the ring
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Hark! Gaze ye upon this poster tacked upon the wall of the tavern now: “Wanted,” it says, and the most beautiful word in all of creation, “Reward!” Stolgo Hradvicbandit,...
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Swordtember is afoot! I love Swordtember because doodling swords has been a pastime of mine since childhood. There’s just so many kinds to draw, and so many of them are quick...
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Let us return to the Shrouded Market and its present master, Nalathraxx the Exiled Prince. So greedy was he, raised in the bowels of hell, counting souls and riches most...
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Connections are important. Which is why today I would like to talk about them, through the introduction of the official Dungeons & Possums “I’ve Got A Guy” rules. Y’know how in...
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A lot of the time we spend at the table playing D&D can be pretty suspenseful. The other large body of time we spend at the table in old school D&D is spent laughing at Greg,...
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There have been a number of posts and even books over the years that do a terrific job of discussing the intricacies of running monsters in combat. I don’t think I could ever...
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There’s nothing like a rival to ruffle the feathers and drive people to stupid excess. If you’re near my age you probably hated that bastard Gary Oak every time he was on the...
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There’s a bridge, and it’s guarded by something. The mountain pass cannot be used because of something. The road has been blockaded by, you guessed it, something. Here’s some...
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I don’t have a ton of words to complete this post. Or rather, I could spend a century writing words that fail to adequately cover the genuine heartfelt emotions of this post,...
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Did you know that in our shared technological dystopia you can get custom puzzles printed on demand with any image you want? I didn’t, until I got the bright idea for this blog...
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While the players were making friends in the dungeon, visiting the Dark Between Stars, or stalking through a haunted forest, life went on in the village serving as their hub....
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I know, I forgot to push post on yesterday’s RPGaDay 2025 post and I haven’t posted today’s yet either, but that’s because there’s more important things afoot! James V West,...