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What follows is merely my dumb opinion about blogs. It’s gonna be about blogs that I think deserve infinitely more traffic than they get. It’s not like I have any sway in the...
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And here we are with another installment of Mothership-related interviews! I am very pleased to get to question Donn Stroud at the purpose-built Possum Interrogation Center for...
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This is a treat. For me, anyway. Fiona is one of the authors I most admire in the OSR/indie/DIY/whatever you wanna call it space. She is a gifted writer and has a genuine voice...
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by the lovely Luka Rejec, who retains the copyright to the artwork (you savage heathens) and whose cruel name echoes in the mouths of a thousand grinning corpses in the endless...
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Recently I had the great pleasure of finally getting around to reviewing Mothership and Dead Planet, two books either by Sean McCoy or including Sean McCoy’s work. I read those...
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Credits Writer: Donn Stroud; with Sean McCoy and Fiona Maeve Geist Layout: Sean McCoy Art: Sean McCoy and Stephen Wilson Maps: Sean McCoy Editing: Jarrett Crader Publisher:...
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Well, it’s time for the very last Zine Quest update I’ll be doing. The month of February is over, and this caps the final week where eligible zines were released. It’s been an...
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Credits Writer: Sean McCoy; additional development by Donn Stroud, Nick Reed, Tyler Kimball, Fiona Maeve Geist Layout: Sean McCoy Art: Sean McCoy Maps: Sean McCoy Editing:...
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Time to celebrate GMs everywhere! The ones who create magical worlds of killer robots and space aliens and horrifying ghoulish nightmares deep in tombs buried in the darkest...
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Supposedly from a game called Bitefight, but I can’t verify that. If you know the artist of this image, please tell me so I can credit them! Fearful whispers from the cracked...
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So, I had this post ready to press go and I deleted the entire thing instead. I am livid. Anyway, let’s try again, as fast as I can because I have real life stuff to do today!...
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I’m no cartographer, that’s for damn sure! Awhile back on Luka Rejec’s Patreon Discord (the Stratometaship!), a lovely fellow by the name of DanF posted a Reddit link in chat,...
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So you want to play D&D like you did when you were young. Or maybe you want to play D&D like the greybeards do, after you heard them laughing uproariously in your friendly...
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Are you guys kidding me now? I literally JUST had to do this. You’re doing back to back OSR sales? Are you trying to make “sort through ~880 items” my second day job? Come on....
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Aah, the Mushlug. The primordial fungus bugs of the lowly forest floors, developing in the dim, damp gloom found beneath towering, eternal trees. The Mushlug is neither quite...
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Well, I guess I’m back again to bring a summary of the past week of activity on Kickstarter’s ZINEQUEST event. If you’re just catching up, that’s fine too – the first half of...
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Well, well, well. Look who decided to drag himself back to this hive of scum and villainy: it’s Luka Rejec! Luka is a very busy man and by the time this goes to publication...
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Writer: Chris Kutalik with contributions from Luka Rejec Art: Luka Rejec, additional cartography by Karl Stjernberg Design: Layout by Luka Rejec, with cover design by Trey...
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It’s time, friends. It’s time to devote an entire blog post to something happening right this very moment that you can get in on. After this blog post I’m going to get a suit,...
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The third interview from my series with Hydra Cooperative members who worked on the Hill Cantons books is Humza Kazmi, the writer behind the Legacy of the Bieth blog and one of...
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Writer: Chris Kutalik with contributions from Robert Parker Art: Luka Rejec, additional cartography by Cecil Howe Design: Jeff Russell, Lester B Portly Editor: Trey Causey,...
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For those of you not aware, having escaped the deluge of zines launching this past week with your wallets intact, there’s actually a pretty big spectacle occurring over on...
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As part of the ongoing back-to-back Hill Cantons reviews, I have managed to convince another wonderful member of Hydra Cooperative to spend their time answer nerdy questions...
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Writer: Chris Kutalik with contributions from Robert Parker Art: Jeremy Duncan, Jason Sholtis Design: Mike Davison Editor: Trey Causey, Robert Parker, Humza Kazmi, Anthony...
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When it rains, it pours, I guess; last time I had to post a sale alert for OSR stuff, it was also crammed into a busier than normal posting schedule. This time is no different....
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I’ve been away from interviews for too long! It wasn’t planned – I had that unexpected hiatus in the fall, and then the holidays happened. But here we are now and it’s gonna be...
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Writer: Chris Kutalik with contributions from Anne Hunter, Humza Kazmi, and Doyle Tavener Art: David Lewis Johnson Design: Mike Davison Editor: Anthony Picaro, Robert Parker...Linked by the ring
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by Dave Trampier Liches are one of the fundamental big bad boogeymen of fantasy. We can find them all over the place. Voldemort in Harry Potter, Kel’thuzad in Warcraft,...
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Every so often I like to scribble some random items on my cellphone and post them to Twitter or G+ for all the genius posters there to detail. I did exactly that this past week...
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A few days ago I was catching up on podcasts. Jason Hobbs (who hosts Hobbs ‘n’ Friends of the OSR, Hextalk, and Random Screed) was discussing his latest games. In this...