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Handed a crumpled paper by a nervous boy with eyes the color of reeds, you find yourself reading an invitation to visit a marketplace – Malveria’s Bazaar of the Rare and...
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Talislanta, by Stephen Michael Sechi, is a fascinating thing. Not just its contents, which are interesting as heck more often than not, but also its existence. It has had a...Linked by the ring
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So I wrote previously about various odds and ends that interest or inspire me because I enjoyed thinking about pleasant things in a world where sometimes we don’t get to...
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Continuing my various catch-up posts of things I was thinking about in October and November when I wasn’t around, here’s a monster-of-the-week suitable for use on your...
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I went to PAX South 2019! I’m not an avid con-goer, but I’ve seen a few. This year, thanks to the generosity of a friend who couldn’t make it, I got to attend PAX South and I...
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You’ve spent two sessions of wilderness hexcrawling to get your players to the entrance of the megadungeon. They’re one hex away, but they don’t exactly know that yet....
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When I read some posts and tweets over the last few weeks where tabletop players listed the games they were influenced by, I was taken aback by how sure the posts were. It’s a...
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It’s time again to look at one of the first and most noteworthy of the modern OSR zines, Fight On! Last time we examined this book was for issues 1-4, so it follows of course...
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Everybody knows dwarves are tribal creatures whose lineages are traced back in great detail and reverence. Dwarves don’t necessarily see it the same way, but that’s the common...
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Apropos of nothing, I wanted to write about some Stuff I Like. Ideas, visions, scenes, archetypes, cliches, gimmicks – whatever it is that strikes my fancy and makes me want to...
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Usually I wouldn’t post quite so frequently, but I noticed that DriveThruRPG is having a New Year, New Game sale for the next week or so and I wanted to put it out there for...
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Here we continue where we left off in our exploration of castle construction rules throughout old school D&D. In our last installment we left off in approximately 1981, with...
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A lot has been written about domain play in Dungeons & Dragons supplements. It was a distinct and critically important goal for characters dating back to what we now call OD&D,...
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One of the elements common to D&D is the concept of a Common tongue shared by mankind and many of the humanoid races as a sort of lingua franca to make running the game easier....
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It’s the end of the year, for real this time, and I figured it might be good to write down what I liked best this year (and what I am looking forward to for next year) as a...
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Everybody knows the wizard is the smartest, most educated person around. Shrewd when it comes to complex, enigmatic puzzles. Overflowing with the sagacious genius of a thousand...
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Credits Writer: Luka Rejec Art: Luka Rejec Design: Luka Rejec Editor: Fiona Maeve Geist, Jarrett Crader Publisher: Hydra Cooperative Length: Approx. 66pp SKU: Unknown First...
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There’s some retrospective posts out there for 2018 and I thought it might be good to do one too. After all, it’s my first year-end in the realm of blogging about Dungeons &...
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Credits Writer: Matt Colville Art: Justin Cherry, Nick De Spain, Jason Hasenauer, Zachary Madere, Stephen Oakley, Anthony Sixto, Conceptopolis, VOLTA. Design: Thomas Deeny,...Linked by the ring
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*for use with Unnecessarily Weird Dice Every so often you get the urge to make a big ol’ table. Even if you don’t have a specific use case for it right this very moment. Even...
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When I started this blog with a brown background this past spring, I had every intention of talking about my love of Traveller, too, from time to time. I haven’t managed to get...
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Credits Writer: Daniel Proctor Art: Steve Zieser (interior art and limited edition cover B, below), Sean Aaberg, J. V. West, Brian “GLAD” Thomas, Joshua Stewart (cover B,...
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So, Google+ is going away. Now what? Just before my unplanned absence from posting regular servings of nonsense, it was announced by Google that they would, at long last, be...
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Well, hey out there, everyone! It’s been a minute. I figured I’d throw up this largely useless post really quickly to bring everything up to date and offer a window into the...
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Art by Jason Sholtis, published in his book, Operation Unfathomable Zak S, who wrote Vornheim, Red & Pleasant Land, Frostbitten and Mutilated, the majority of the forthcoming...
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Credits Writer: Jason Sholtis Art: Jason Sholtis, John Larrey, Stefan Poag, Karl Stjernberg, Jez Gordon Design: Jez Gordon Editor: Michael Haskell, Humza Kazmi, Chris Kutalik,...
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A note before I continue here: If you share fire-related trauma or a fear of burning, this is probably not the post for you. It contains graphic descriptions and depictions of...
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I first got my hands on Fight On! Magazine in a free PDF giveaway about six or seven years ago. It was linked to me somewhere along the line and I was fascinated by it. To be...
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A Brief (Ha!) Look At What Has Come Before Appendix N is, at this point, pretty much synonymous with D&D for those who have taken more than a passing interest in the game....
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Dungeons & Dragons is, hands down, the most successful role-playing game of all time. It’s synonymous with the genre to the uninitiated, like kleenex is to tissue or q-tips are...