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The Sundered Empire - Many moons ago, WotC published a remake of Chainmail, the venerable antecedent of D&D, as a modern miniatures wargame with several factions fighting for co...
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High Court Bailiffs Story Game - I am not a great one for TV or reality shows in particular but I have a real soft spot for *Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!* For the uninitiated, it's a pro...1 day ago
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Time Pressure, Wandering Monsters, and D&D’s Social Contract - In 1980, Dungeons & Dragons players at my high school traded stories that confirmed Tomb of Horrors as the HARDEST DUNGEON EVER. Then someone told me how t...2 days ago
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The Best Box of Monsters - So here's something cool I dug up a while back and meant to share with all y'all. Back in 1982 or so tabletop fantasy gaming was so big that Grenadier Min...
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[398] The DM as Oracle vs. The DM as Author - *There is a bit of talk in the blog-o-sphere about the stories we want to tell in our games. Should there be a literary quality to it? A message? Just ente...
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Grim Dark Modular Board Sections - We've been testing out some ideas for scenery and terrain to use in an upcoming *Rogue Trader* rpg campaign. As with our Pathfinder and The One Ri...
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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...1 week ago
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Blackmoor as a CHAINMAIL Campaign - Rob Kuntz: "No one knew what to call it so we have a "place-holder" for it. However, people today are quite literal-minded. So the sentence could or would ...
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Side Trek: Monty Haul Campaign - Took a trip to New Orleans (by way of Mobile) and scored quite a lot of nice stuff. What should I read first? If you're ever in the area, I recommend Game...
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Death is Still Boring - This is insightful: *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory* is like a Saw movie for kids: it matches grisly fates to the sins of the children who enter the...1 week 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...1 week ago
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My new favorite brushes - Kalish Finest - Miniatures depend on 4 things - quality of the figure, skills of the painter, the paints they use and the brushes. The first three are worthy of other post...
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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 ...2 weeks ago
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Book of Fiends Preview: Additional Gods - *Skadi Hunting in the Mountains* by Mary H. Foster (1901) ONCE UPON A TIME there was a catalog of monsters that some people hated and some people loved. ...
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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...4 weeks 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...3 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...3 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...7 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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