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What To Do When You Referee - Session Zero - *XxDnDLvRxX, amiright* I didn't even read Session Minus-1 before I wrote this, so I hope it's not in a totally different format. But it probably is. Oh we...
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OSR Star Wars Revision: Starship Rules Part Two: Combat - *COMBAT* Combat is carried out normally per old school D&D rules: initiative, moves, attacks, etc. It's all the same. Find the numbers, add or subtract bonu...
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Yoon-Suin is Not an Analogy for Anything or Anywhere - I have been quite lucky that Yoon-Suin seems to have escaped online culture wars relatively unscathed; before it was released I worried some people might m...15 hours ago
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[Three Hexes] The Exodus - *Campaign: **The Night of Horrors saw the city walls fall and the Necromancer's unliving pour within, killing and destroying all that they could find. The ...
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UbiquiCity Book 2: Undercurrents (now in stores!) - *A cyberpunk/science fiction story I wrote got published as part of an anthology. If you dig what I'm doing here, you might want to check that out, too! He...
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Three Reasons the Ecology of Monsters Can Make Creatures Worse - During the early years of Dungeons & Dragons, speculative fiction enjoyed something of a fashion for combining science and fantasy, so the popular Pern nov...3 days ago
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Soft Reboot of the blog announcement post - Greetings, it’s been quite awhile since I last posted on this blog, frankly I just didn’t have much to say. I had considered posting about the politicaliza...4 days ago
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Gygax News - On the 45th Anniversary during International Original Dungeons & Dragons Month - In celebrating International Original Dungeons & Dragons Month - 45th Anniversary I have not been able to write as much so far this month as I intended, bu...4 days ago
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Ready For Adventure - In Two Weeks! - Looking seaward Looking along the coastIt's nice and quiet now, but in two weeks our heroine - Murr dir Oboe, late of Nylssa and points south - and her co...
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Sidekick Rules - The D&D team released sidekick rules that let you make NPC companions for your party using rules that are only a little simpler than regular player charact...6 days ago
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Gli sproloqui del Grognardo: perché alla 5a Edizione bisogna fare i personaggi con i punti! - Salve belli! Spesso quando ci si trova davanti ad un foglio bianco si vorrebbe scrivere qualcosa di illuminante, se non illuminante perlomeno intelligente,...
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How to Describe Your Setting - So yeah, I'm on a bit of a Conan kick. The game made it worse, it didn't start it. I've been re-reading the Howard stuff and Conan really feels like REH at...1 week ago
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Sweet Like A Mug! – Radio Show / Podcast Ep. 171 - Podcast version of the Shane Plays Geek Talk radio show from 1/5/2019: Sweet Like A Mug! Highlights: Looking back and looking forward! Cool shows on the ...1 week ago
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Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons - I and others are celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the publication of Dungeons & Dragons (the Original) in January of 1974. Who's not celebrating? WotC f...2 weeks ago
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Character Motivation in OD&D – More Than Murder-Hobos - A fundamental assumption in OD&D is that all player characters want treasure (after all, it's the source of the vast majority of XP awarded). But this does...2 weeks ago
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Tonisborg: The Lost Level of the Lost Dungeon - In our first discussion of Tonisborg Here, I mentioned that we had the key for Levels 1-9 written on the side margin of the maps, but for level 10 the key ...3 weeks ago
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And the News from the Hill Cantons - What Ho, Frog Demons is finally out (print is still behind due to some more snafus with the printing of the maps and other quality issues, give us another ...
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check this out - I am right now in a workshop on gamification in faculty development. I just took this interesting quiz on gamer type: https://gamified.uk/UserTypeTest2016...
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: No Small Insight - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: No Small Insight: “I love my fellow actors but sometimes I think that their opinions are wrong,” he explained. “True art...2 months ago
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Announcing the Contest Winner! (Plus Some Interesting US Coin Facts) - The third semi-annual Save Versus All Wands contest - What is the Value of this Coin Hoard - is over. $1,000 was the winning guess, only a bit below the ...
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OSR Questionnaire - When I first became aware of the OSR, I was excited about it and learned as much as I could. After discovering Dungeons & Dragons (original) and the comm...
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Old Shames or New Shames Which is it Really? - RPGNET where they have this habit of getting things completely wrong all the time, recently flubbed up again. The thread title is "The Old Shames of D&D", ...3 months ago
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Complete Dave Arneson/Blackmoor List 2018 - Reposted with Permission from The Ruins of Murkhill Forum Copied from Xizallian's Place as is*.* Compiled Complete List (of everything we can locate) Pre-...3 months ago
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NIGHTMARES AND SUBURBS: CHARACTER SOCIAL CLASS TABLE - * CHARACTER SOCIAL CLASS * *BACKGROUND TABLE* *I am a big fan of the “Social Origin Roll” for all my player characters in all my g...7 months ago
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Character Concepts: Planescape pt 1 - The following character concepts may be of limited use outside of Planescape (or, at least, a campaign in the outer planes), but some could be adapted easi...7 months ago
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RPGs, Avatar vs Chess Piece Playing - I've gone from DMing AD&D 1E games for friends to my kids to paying clients as a team building tool. I've seen the approaches of playing a character as an...1 year ago
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2 comments:
Oh no. I SO rule!!! I got 100%. 'Course I may have an advantage, I read the medical dictionaries at work.
Bow down before me and worship me as QUEEN!!
*worships tala*
I only got 81%. Though I have to say, being ignorant of skin diseases isn't something I'm too upset about. ;)
- Brian
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