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GenCon Wrapup - Picture Heavy! - GenCon 50 is over and it was, in a nutshell, crazy awesome and freakin' overwhelming. The area was ginormous. The gaming hall was huge as in, it took seri...
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mini-review: Doomslakers! OSR Character sheets - I've been a fan of James V. West since encountering his indie generic system *The Pool* back in '01 or '02. Only later did I find out he was also a kicka...
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How Psionics Accommodated D&D’s Critics - In 1966, Gary Gygax fielded a personal ad in the General seeking gaming opponents. He included the line, “Will cooperate on game design.” In the years to f...7 hours ago
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You Are the Modern Inklings - I have been quite down about the internet lately. So much sound and fury signifying nothing. But seeing all the G+ posts from people at Gen Con got me thin...2 days ago
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Making History - My very first issue of DRAGON magazine was #74, an out-of-nowhere gift from my brother while we were on summer vacation. That issue is still magical to me...
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BEYOND THIS POINT BE DRAGONS: Mystery Solved, Mystery Deepens - It was a nice story and a pretty slick bit of deductive reasoning, the series of posts I wrote introducing the existence of *Beyond This Point be Dragons* ...6 days ago
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[400] State of the game, state of the blog (400th post!) - *I wondered what I should do for my 400th post and I decided to muse a bit about what makes this blog tick right now and where it is headed. The short of i...
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Exciting News from Frank Mentzer! - Press Release: Historic Dungeons & Dragons® Campaign Returns Loxley, Madison WI, August 11 2017 Legendary game designer Frank Mentzer, famed for his worl...
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Hit Points in the Fiction - This isn't a new idea, but it's one that I've been trying to integrate into my descriptions at the table. Basically, getting stabbed is deadly. Getting sho...
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What do Ability Scores Mean in Old School D&D? - With a strength of only 6 there was no real chance for him to become a fighter. Over at Treasure Hunters HQ, Scott Anderson has written an interesting and ...
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Rogue Trader RPG Session 1 - We had our first Rogue Trader RPG session this week. Here are the characters so far: Lord Captain Regis Krell of House Xerxes (Rogue Trader) Cort Gillam ...
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If you were to follow that river.... - Latest map I put up on Patreon today. A big thanks to those folks supporting me over there. If you are interested, this map connects to the previous map ...
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False Premises: "The DM should maximize player fun." - What. The. Actual. Fuck.Someone just said that today. In a public forum. That the only job of the DM is to maximize player fun. This discussion was related...4 weeks ago
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Chris Yoder aka Clangador Moonthorpe long time Dragonsfoot member has passed away - * Christopher Yoder's memorial fund* The following was posted recently over at the Dragonsfoot Forums and I am taking the liberty of posting/quoting it h...5 weeks ago
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Shopping and Haggling - Buying off the rack goods is an artifact of the industrial and post-industrial era. In medieval and renaissance society, even when a shop kept a stock of ...1 month ago
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Who vs Who - I see posts all the time by people who are DM's talking about the things they incorporate into the game to essentially counter or respond to the pc's in th...1 month ago
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Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas - Teetering on the edge of a new, start-now, well-paying political job (i.e. demanding AF) I get one last reprieve of gainful unemployment this weekend: Nor...
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Le Sorprese del Grognardo: Ma1 (B4 prequel) - La mappa del vecchio Ylari - La Rete, nel senso di Web, è un po’ come un’autostrada che si percorre e svincola in tante piccole, a volte microscopiche, località dove ritrovarsi. Una me...
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Dave Arneson's True Genius Published - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Dave Arneson's True Genius Published: Hot off the press and already steamrolling ahead! What is Dave Arneson’s True Geni...4 months ago
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A Dungeon a Day Challenge - I found these great composition notebooks. They have graph paper on the top half of each page and lines on the bottom half. These beg to be used for dung...4 months ago
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Hyboria: A few NPC's - *Amzi Sayid*, 23 Turanian Warrior-3/Raider-1 Str- 13, Con-13, Int-13 Hp: 28 Ac: 5/14 (mail) Attack: F4 Save: F4 Special Abilities: ⦁ Warrior: +1 to melee att...
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THE WINE OF THE DROW ELVES - While on topic of Elven food, I came up with something nifty, wine that Drow Elves pay a lot of money to drink. Made by Drow Elves of the Underdark from su...8 months ago
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6 Urban Adventure Seeds - A collection of encounters, adventures seeds, and/or random thoughts. *1.* A renegade Tooth Fairy is harassing the town. Every night it visits a dozen c...
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have a great 2017!
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