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Recently, in a post by FM Geist on G+, I was educated about a shamanic practice from the old ways of northeastern Europe, in which medicine men of the Saami and other tribes...
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Sometimes you just feel like rolling dice. The best way to do that, I’ve found, is to grab hold of a bunch of random tables from a book or blog and generate something new and...
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It finally happened! I have collected interviews from all of the Broodmother Skyfortress contributors like Pokemon (okay, I actually need James Raggi and Craig Judd, to be...
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I’m gonna open this with a ridiculous admission, every word of which is absolutely true: I’ve seen the sitcom 30 Rock, front to back, more than 20 times. I don’t mean I’ve seen...
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So you want to play a game of the old dice-roll beer-drink loot-grab, but you open your mouth to describe the first room and one of the players pulls a gun on you and shouts,...
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Credits Writer: Joseph Goodman Additional Design/Writing: Tavis Allison, Michael Curtis, Andy Frielink, Todd Kath, Doug Kovacs, Harley Stroh, Steven Tivierge, Dieter Zimmerman...
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sket Early D&D was deeply reliant upon other products. The original D&D largely expected you to have Chainmail or a familiarity with it. Gygax advocated strongly that referees...
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On 22 June 2018, after having established a placeholder blog earlier at the suggestion of Follow Me, And Die!‘s Larry Hamilton, I posted to Dungeons & Possums for the first...
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The success of Frostbitten & Mutilated – the frozen, black metal supplement of witchcraft, cruelty, and amazons for Lamentations of the Flame Princess – is pretty clear now...
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Awhile back I realized a few things: I’ve never subscribed to a Patreon, the RPG community is full of a bonkers number of Patreons, and I had no idea which ones might be worth...
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It’s April 2011. Osama bin Laden is still alive. The world has fewer than 7,000,000,000 occupants. Kim Jong Un isn’t yet officially the big boy in charge of the DPRK. Ukraine...
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Rolling stats is a divisive topic in D&D circles. It’s gone through a ton of permutations over the years and each version of the stat rolling rules seems to have adherents....
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I am pleased to report that Gavin Norman, proprietor of Necrotic Gnome and author/editor/designer of the B/X Essentials line of books, has graciously agreed to be interrogated...
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Credits Writer: Gavin Norman Art: Michael Clarke, Mike Hill, Tom Kilian, Kyle Latino, Alex Mayo, Thomas Novosel, Sean Poppe, Matthew Ray, Luka Rejec, Andrew Walter Design:...
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I was recently incredibly fortunate, and got to sit down and chat a bit with Jez Gordon. He’s the cartographer for Broodmother Skyfortress and has a big stack of other projects...
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Old school role-playing often makes use of hirelings, mercenaries, sellswords, and assorted other paid redshirts sent to certain doom in caverns dark and temples profane. The...
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Folks, I have something on my mind that was brought to my attention inadvertently while reading some Lamentations of the Flame Princess material. I’d like to talk about it, a...
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The possum guards his hoard of lucre jealously. Truly a fearsome foe. Let’s talk about some changes! CHANGE THE FIRST So, as is readily available to pretty much anyone who has...
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The finale is here at last! I’m excited to have made it all the way through the month with no missed days or late days. Really surprising to me because I presumed I’d...
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Well, here we are! The penultimate post of the SummerKnightsDraw art event. I’m going to do this last batch according to the format I’ve established thus far, and then turn...
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Here we are again, and so soon! The truth is, after writing the Broodmother Skyfortress review and realizing I had questions for the creative crew, I got this crazy idea to...
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We’re already just about on the end of the month already, so this might be my most behind-the-times recap post yet! This time around we’re gonna cover days 21 through 25 of the...
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Well, I gotta say, I didn’t think I’d get to do this kind of thing, or at least not so early in this blog project. But, thanks to the kindness of Jeff Rients, here we are! He...
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We’re back at it with another one of these recap posts, looking at the latest batch of my contributions to the SummerKnightsDraw art prompt from r/summerknightsdraw A lot of...
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Credits Writer: Zak Smith Art: Zak Smith Design: Luka Rejec Editor: Joshua Blackketter Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Length: Approx. 144pp SKU: LFP0047 First...
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Credits Writer: Jeff Rients Layout: Alex Mayo Art: Ian Maclean Maps: Jez Gordon Editing: Craig Judd Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess Length: Approx. 160pp SKU:...
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It’s time to recap some more of my submissions to the SummerKnightsDraw prompt event, since we’ve wrapped up another five days of this month-long series. Doodling these has...
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It’s time to dig through one of the tiny notebooks I have filled with random half-formed thoughts and roll tables and doodles, and pick out a new project to share with...
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It’s been a few days, so it’s time to catch up on the last couple of my submissions to the SummerKnightsDraw prompt event. I’ve been sort of increasing the complexity, or at...
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I like sentient magical swords. This hearkens back to the earliest years of D&D, where it was expected as a given. The fathers of our hobby were influenced by many works, like...