It's Halloween

By: Unknown on 05:52

a poem by Jack PrelutskyIt's Halloween! It's Halloween!The moon is full and brightAnd we shall see what can't be seenOn any other night:Skeletons...

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read Jurgen

By: Unknown on 09:00

Compared to many RPG fans I know I don't read a lot of fiction normally pidgeonholed as sci-fi or fantasy.  But this week I...

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May the force be with you, fool.

By: Unknown on 10:01

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Mad Science on Tatooine, part 2

By: Unknown on 08:44

Our heroes show up at a mostly abandoned Darklighter Ranch, one of the more prosperous moisture farms in the Tosche Station area.  Most...

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two very brief items.

By: Unknown on 12:35

Post of the Week goes to JB over at B/X Blackrazor for his detailed analysis of Basic/Expert hit points and nonvariable weapon damage. ...

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Adventures in the Bootoo Galaxy

By: Unknown on 10:58

So here's an interesting place to set a sci-fi campaign.  Boötes II is a galaxy located pretty close to the Milky Way at only 137,000...

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Episode I: Mad Science on Tatooine, part 1

By: Unknown on 08:35

Last night I had five players take me up on running an Encounter Critical-fueled Star Wars type game.  There was a little fumbling over...

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non-resolution mechanics

By: Unknown on 09:14

I'm a big fan of the Call of Cthulhu/Basic Role-Playing resistance roll chart, whereby you compare two 3-18 type stats and get a percentage...

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Mr. T'sday

By: Unknown on 22:01

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Irrefutable proof!

By: Unknown on 13:42

The Empire is arming droids to achieve it evil ends!Here's a page from an early Star Wars coloring book showing some Death Star droid...

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quick artifact book update

By: Unknown on 09:17

Hey, haven't talked about this project in a few weeks.  Check out this sweet cover: The cover art is by Jennifer Weigel while the...

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throvage

By: Unknown on 18:09

A week or so ago I posted the prelude to Star Wars: From The Adventures of Luke Skywalker.  This novelization written by Alan Dean Foster...

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Ready Ref Sheets poison rules

By: Unknown on 09:58

I like this chart a lot, except for the fact that belladonna hardly seems worth the 10gp to m...

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MULTINAUTS!

By: Unknown on 05:34

Cyclopeatron pointed this out a couple days ago, but I wanted to make sure everyone knew to check out the first two episodes of Multinauts,...

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my lil' sweetpea and I watched this tonight

By: Unknown on 17:53

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sometimes players need help

By: Unknown on 03:33

Another galaxy, another time....PC name helpHuman throw 3d6, consult charts belowMale first name1 Biggs2 Colton3 Rand4 Serji5 Tiberius6 WedgeFemale...

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Sand People - WTF?

By: Unknown on 08:23

 Obviously I don't care about any official answer here.  I'm fishing for ideas.  Simple economy of storytelling would dictate...

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new Deitrick art

By: Unknown on 04:23

Here are a couple of new David Deitrick pieces his son Conrad posted a week or two ago. Click for bigger version...

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EC campaign draft handout

By: Unknown on 10:54

Slightly incomplete, but I think you can get the gist:Another galaxy, another time....draft player’s guidelines for an Encounter Critical/Star...

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Mr. T Explains

By: Unknown on 22:01

Savage Chickens is a pretty good comic and it features Mr. T fairly regularl...

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a couple news items

By: Unknown on 09:19

Three parts of Mr. Lizard's review of Booty and the Beasts (featuring Erol Otus) are now up.  Check it out: part 1, part 2, part 3.Fight...

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so I guess this is what I have in mind for a sci-fi game

By: Unknown on 05:42

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Another galaxy, another time.

By: Unknown on 10:56

Here's a follow-up to yesterday's discussion of Star Wars.  If you haven't read the comments to that post do yourself a favor and check...

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2 brief WotC items

By: Unknown on 08:52

Click here for Dave Chalker's review of WotC's new Gamma World.  Sounds pretty decent, much better than the 3.x era version.  I still...

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Episode IV: What we know, what we don't know

By: Unknown on 08:28

Let's do a little thought experiment.  Set the Wayback Machine for late 1979.  A New Hope is the only Star Wars film.  That's...

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DYI sci-fi?

By: Unknown on 09:09

So I've been kicking around pitching a sci-fi game to my Wednesday night group. Back in April Goblinoid Games announced it had acquired rights...

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Vancian links

By: Unknown on 11:57

Two recent posts on Vancian magic that I highly recommend:Some Observations on Magic-Use on Reading Vance's Mazirian the Magician Gedankenexperiment:...

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Winter War!

By: Unknown on 07:06

So I was paying attention as last month event submission opened for Winter War, my groovy little local game convention.  All y'all should...

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Let's get this one out of the way

By: Unknown on 22:01

For those of you not on the internets in 1996, Mr. T Ate My Balls was basically that era's LOLcats...

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Arduin Grimoire, part 7

By: Unknown on 14:12

I've got just enough time for a quick write-up for NEW MAGIKAL TREASURES.  Each item has a value in Gold Sovereigns, amount of charges...

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FYI: Han Solo is a liar

By: Unknown on 04:01

Star Wars ChannelTags: Atom.com,Atom Originals,Atom Blog,Upload Vide...

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Discovery of the Willenium

By: Unknown on 07:00

Ladies and gentlemen: exoplanet in inhabitable zone, only 20.5 light-years away, 'mysterious pulse of light'!!!http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316538/Gliese-581g-mystery-Scientist-spotted-mysterious-pulse-light-direction-newEarth-planet-year.html?ITO=1490http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_g...

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Honorificabilitudinitatibus!

By: Unknown on 06:00

The title of this post is the longest word in the works of Shakespeare.  He uses it once, in Love's Labour's Lost.  It's a totally...

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