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Well! I guess I finally got around to working on this project in earnest a week or two ago and I suppose it’s time to share the first part of the draft. For those unaware, the...
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I’d say this post is comprised of two elements. The first being some things that caught my eye and those which I backed; the second being Kickstarter’s continued handling of...Linked by the ring
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Sometime at the start of the month, I posted my first-ever file to itch.io. I made Sword&Sorcery PocketMod available for the One-Page RPG Jam, because why not, and that’s how...
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I made you a game. Well, really, I made us a game. I made everyone a game. It’s called Sword&Sorcery PocketMod. It’s a small game you can print on a single piece of paper and...
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On Christmas Day, 2021, I tested positive for COVID-19. My symptoms were mild-to-nonexistent, but I kept testing positive forever. So, being a responsible person, I stayed home...
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I decided to take a shot at Gygax ’75! I wrote about monthly and ongoing challenges a couple weeks back and I felt like I could take a shot at this one because it’s broken up...Linked by the ring
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Credits Writer: William CordArt: Appears to be public domain sources; uncreditedDesign: Ariana van ScherrenbergPublisher: Stronghold Press GamesLength: Approx. 24ppSKU:...
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This blog post probably won’t be useful to you. It’s literally just what it says on the tin: a couple things that I think are cool. It’s a combination of preaching the good...
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I work a lot. Like, six days a week, ten hours a day. I get home fairly late in the day and I have scant few hours to be creative. Lately, the way I’ve unwound after work is to...
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Over the course of January I’ve been trying to sort through thoughts to turn into posts, and between a hundred competing ideas some days and zero ideas at all somehow on other...
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I’m absolutely behind the curve on this one, but it is my inadvertent opinion that solo role-playing games and toolkits are probably the biggest growth area for our hobby going...
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Gotta love Throne of Salt. Another prolific creator whose slush piles are full of better ideas than I have and actually turn into posts! One of my favorite blogs, for sure....
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Credits Writer: Emmy AllenArt: Various public domain sources to include works by Awanda 747, Jules Férat, Arthur Rackham, Léon Bennet, Henri Meyer, Georges Tiret Bognet,...
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It’s that time again, where I give you some treasures. This post could stand on its own as just two images but that wouldn’t be very helpful to screen readers so I will restate...Linked by the ring
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Here’s a selection of excellent blog posts that I’ve had the pleasure of reading or rereading recently. My criteria for these selections is amorphous and unclear even to me,...
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Molarians emerge from the graveyards of titans and colossal beasts, seeming to sprout from the earth itself in the places where giants lay. They pick through the grave...
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As is the case every year, DriveThruRPG has a great big sale for the first couple of weeks of the new year. It’s lucky that it happens to be a long-ish duration, too, because I...
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This is sort of a partner post to my wrap-up of Dicember, since Dicember is basically all you’ve gotten out of me this year. I had a good time with Dicember; I’d rate 2021 as a...
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It’s the final installment! This post is both the final days of the month and also my retrospective of sorts on the event itself. This is a long one, I’d say, largely because...
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Another day with many options. Considered a B/X class first; wrote it on my Dicember scratch sheet of ideas. Started thinking about a bunch of gimmicks and it ended up being...
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I went through a couple ideas for this post before I settled on one. I considered easier routes first (random table of toxic materials, random table of venomous creatures, etc)...
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Legally I have to play this song before we proceed: Okay. Anyway. Gold is what drives our murder-hobos and assorted wizardly miscreants down into the terrifying halls of...
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I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas and is enjoying Boxing Day so far! Like many of you, I am midway through the holiday weekend. I wanted to make everyone a little...
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It’s very nearly Christmas! Dicember has really breezed by. I haven’t had to fight uphill on too many of the prompts so far, though some have obviously been more laborious to...
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Grand tome in his left palm, gilt pages fluttering frantically in the unnatural wind, the wizard squeezed his eyes shut against the brilliant, crackling green light of the...
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First things first, let’s clear the way for the new material by collecting one – only one, this time! – social media post. I posted yesterday’s Dicember entry to Instagram and...
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I’ve gone and done it: Kickstarter has made me use the fuck word. At Christmastime, no less. It likely won’t surprise anyone out there that I am a Kickstarter “Superbacker” and...
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One death knight thread per week is clearly not enough. This time around though, I promise to keep it brief. For this one, I’m after an element inspired by World of Warcraft’s...
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This Dicember post is a double-whammy for me, in that I get to tie it to my prior post on the Compendium Maleficarum. For those not up to date on their witchcraft terminology,...
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Each night, you spike shut the doors to the most defensible room you can find and, setting nervous watch schedules, slumber fitful and interrupted sleep for the scant few hours...