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Writer: Camilla Greer, Mabel Harper, Comrade Pollux, Dai Shugars Art: Lauren Bryce, maps by Shay and Odysseus Jones Design: Dai Shugars Editor: Fiona Maeve Geist Publisher:...
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SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE Care of Amanda Lee Franck’s Twitter I WROTE A TINY THING FOR A BOOK FOR ZINEQUEST AGAIN! A couple weeks ago, while I was in the...
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My good lord, yall, this Zine Quest is absolutely amazing. I just want to reiterate here that the list I post is an absolutely tiny sliver of the amazing, creative, hard work...
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Cappella angelo custode sul monte trefontane, fondachelli fantina, sicilia via Wikimedia Commons (with some liberties taken) How often are your players traveling along a road...
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As I write this, I am in the midst of a sort of eye-of-the-storm moment. Lately I’ve been in and out of doctor’s offices and emergency rooms with my wife, who has had a bit of...
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It’s that time again already! As I write this update, we are within striking distance for the ends of many campaigns – the first wave that debuted at launch on 2 February 2020...
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Getting further back to normal, a few days ago I burdened Twitter with a doodle containing ten magical (or mundane, but where’s the fun in that?) items and attempted to...
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I accidentally deleted this whole article once on the eve of posting it early, so let’s just try to get right back into it. Sigh. Anyway. It’s the most wonderful,...
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Writer: Jacob Butcher Art: Jacob Butcher Design: Jacob Butcher Editor: Skerples Publisher: Oberlin Comix Collective & Abrasax Press Length: Approx. 24pp First Edition, First...
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It looks like right now DriveThruRPG has some underpublicized sales going on (DTRPG almost always has broad sales of one kind or another, often individual publishers or genres,...
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It’s been a little while for this! Honestly, I feel extremely rusty and despite having an unlimited amount of inspirational material in birds, I kinda overthought and rethought...
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I went to PAX South! Again! This year, I attended PAX South 2020, making it two years running for me. I took my whole family this time around; last year I went solo on a gifted...
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Long time, no see! The possum is fueled, primarily, by Spike energy drink at the moment. It has enough caffeine and methylcobalamin that it should count as a prescription drug,...
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I don’t work for Luka Rejec, Exalted Funeral, or anyone else involved in fantasy RPG publishing. In fact, the opposite is true: rather than them paying me, I am one of the 52...
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B/X Pickpocketing In the glorious Basic/Expert rules of Moldvay and Cook, pickpocketing relies on rolling under a target score on percentile dice. Thieves begin with a 20%...
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Credits Writer: Seann McAnally Layout: Seann McAnally Art: Public Domain (various sources) Maps: Public Domain Editing: Uncredited Publisher: Nerd Glows On Length: Approx....
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We play game predicated entirely upon communication. Depending on the task at hand when we sit down to roll dice at the table, we may be called upon to deliver clear, concise...
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Credits Writer: Juan Restrepo Layout: Jamie Chestnut Art: Journeyman Maps: N/A Editing: Jacky Leung Publisher: Journeyman Studios Length: Approx. 64pp First Edition, First...
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I have no real idea what exactly to write here so this will probably be stream-of-consciousness nonsense, possibly so nonsensical it barely passes as English even after I...
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Much like his colleague Rich Longmore, I interviewed Geoff McKinney quite awhile ago with the plan to post this at the end of February; and, much like that other interview,...
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It’s time for the first of the Carcosa interviews. This actually took place (after some hard work researching the man) in January, with every intention of publishing it in...
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It’s been a little bit since I did one of these. I have a few brief blog-related details which are not remotely worth their own posts separately, but which I should post about...
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Shortly after this post was written, Jeff – who, as mentioned below, routinely defended the “little guy” and refused to punch down throughout the length of his blog’s run –...
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Writer: Geoffrey McKinney Art: Rich Longmore Design: Eero Tuovinen Editor: James E Raggi IV Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Length: Approx. 283pp SKU: LFP0009PDF...
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or, You Thought You Could Escape Broodmother Skyfortress?! So you thought I was done writing about Broodmother Skyfortress. You fool. You perfect, beautiful rube! Broodmother...
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Colonial Gothic rules. No, not the game itself, which I’ve never played. I mean the genre. Let’s talk about how much it rules. So, this post is timely because Zweihander has...
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Credits Writer: Jeff Rients Layout: Alex Mayo Art: Yannick Bouchard (cover) and Journeyman (interior) Maps: Glynn Seal Editing: Jarrett Crader Publisher: Lamentations of the...
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Saker Tarsos, master of random generators, made a Twitter bot. It’s now the most useful Twitter account on the entire site, and threatens to put all fluff fiction blog posts...
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As I do from time to time, last week I got the urge to post another keyed image collection to Twitter and crowdsource the descriptions from all of the clever people over there....
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I wrote this article once, and accidentally deleted it at midnight right before bed. It was definitely better the first time. I’m sorry for that. I need a better workflow, or...