Sandboxes & Dragons

By: Unknown on 14:49

Here's something that I found interesting as I've been working on the Blitzkrieg Peninsula of my World of Cinder: placing dragons. According...

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Bill Shatner with unidentified filker

By: Unknown on 22:01

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fabulous prizes

By: Unknown on 08:27

So I mailed out the prizes for the Easy Peasy EC PC contest this morning. Phil Eckert, for 2nd place, is getting a hardcopy of my Asteroid...

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a bit of a confession

By: Unknown on 08:13

So this post started out as the report on last night's Mutant Future session, but it went off the rails along the way.Last night I was all...

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Billy & Mandy in Beasts & Barbarians

By: Unknown on 14:31

I love the arrival to the dungeon dimension at 1:55 or so and entering the giant castle of evil (reminiscent of the badguy's lair in Time Bandits)...

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What's up with those crazy nobles, anyway?

By: Unknown on 04:15

I've decided that for my next non-mutated D&D outing I want more Excalibur/You Know Who & The Holy Grail/Princess Bride style knights,...

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Easy Peasy EC PC Contest Results

By: Unknown on 15:20

Wow! Major kudos to everyone who entered my Encounter Critical chargen contest. I had thirty two entries to sift through and I loved so many...

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just a little stalling

By: Unknown on 17:38

I'll have results of the Easy Peasy EC PC Contest tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy this awesome pictur...

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my new favorite online toy

By: Unknown on 16:58

I'm having a lot of fun the past couple of days with the Coat of Arms Design Studio from Inkwell Ideas.You can make many much more complicated...

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The Mutation Compilation

By: Unknown on 10:01

I mentioned a week or two back that I use an expanded mutation chart pillaged built from mutation charts found here and there. Some folks...

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sometimes a Shatnerday is just a Shatnerday

By: Unknown on 22:01

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the purple worm looks perplexed for a moment

By: Unknown on 09:49

Dave Hargrave's Arduin Grimoire remains one of my top three favorite sourcebooks from back in the day. Usually I pillage it for crazy-ass...

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the fine art of backstabbery

By: Unknown on 07:37

I'm pretty sure the Sneak Attack rules in D&D 3.x were invented for one simple reason: the players of thieves wanted to be able to Backstab...

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actual conversation, moments ago

By: Unknown on 05:44

Me: Is Elizabeth [our daughter] dressed?My wife: Yes, but I'm getting her a different pair of pants.Me: What's wrong with the pants I got her?My...

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they came from Chainmail

By: Unknown on 17:27

Today I got to wondering about what monsters were in D&D from the beginning. So I got out my copy of Chainmail to put together an alphabetical...

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The Blitzkrieg Peninsula

By: Unknown on 05:27

So I've been doing some initial work on turning my old Blitzkrieg board into a sandbox wilderness. It's been slow so far because I'm trying...

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Mixel Pixel - Monster Manual Music Video

By: Unknown on 03:32

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Shatnerday, now with extra Star Trek

By: Unknown on 22:01

Over at SomethingAwful this week's Photoshop Phriday had a Trek theme. The un-manipulated pic is a photo from the Twilight Zone episode where...

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encumbrance and magic items

By: Unknown on 08:44

Today I want to start out by unilaterally declaring that all known encumbrance rules are a pain in the ass. When running a game I positively...

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Mutant Future session #12

By: Unknown on 09:46

Last night's Mutant Future session was pretty chaotic. Bob the Human returned to the team after the player missed the previous two sessions...

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some news items

By: Unknown on 11:04

TARGA, the Traditional Adventure Roleplaying Games Association, has scheduled another International Traditional Gaming Week, this time for...

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interesting EPT mechanics

By: Unknown on 14:30

Here are the mechanical gimcracks from Empire of the Petal Throne that I found intriguing.marching order rules - I mentioned these in my session...

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Red Skull

By: Unknown on 13:46

The second most hated Nazi in comics sure has a way with words. Panel from "Captain America and the Riddle of the Red Skull", reprinted in...

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more Shatnerday poetry

By: Unknown on 22:01

Big thanks to my buddy Stuart for sending me this clip. You snowed in today, Stuar...

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Jeff's Big Dumb Tekumel Adventure

By: Unknown on 09:41

So on Sunday I finally got a chance to run Empire of the Petal Throne, the first published RPG system for M.A.R. Barker's legendarily byzantine...

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no need to be redundant

By: Unknown on 08:53

Next week I had planned on writing a review of Goblinoid Games' new Advanced Edition Companion, but Jamie Mal already said everything I wanted...

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Blind Sniper

By: Unknown on 16:52

Sniper! was a little wargame of man-to-man fighting on the Eastern front in WWII, publihsed by SPI in 1973 and written by wargames guru Jim...

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two items

By: Unknown on 05:24

Big thanks to everyone who entered the Easy Peasy EC PC contest! I hope to announce a winner and release a compilation of freshly minted starting...

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Winter War recap, part 2

By: Unknown on 22:28

For Saturday at Winter War I focused on two main things: playing boardgames and finishing my Empire of the Petal Throne dungeon. Yes, I really...

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Winter War recap, part 1

By: Unknown on 08:28

So last weekend was my local awesome con, the thirty-seventh annual Winter War shindig. I've been going every year since 1992 and running games...

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contest reminder

By: Unknown on 08:01

The Easy Peasy EC PC Contest ends tomorrow, so it's not too late to hop on board!Next post: convention rundow...

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