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Reading, Planning, Writing and Fun Side Note: Cold Spring Friday
Reading: I picked up two books at the bookstore, basically on the strength of their covers and back cover blurbs and put them down after a few dozen pages, never intending to pick them back up. I’m...
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Some thoughts on Save or Die
I have been noticing tweets here and there about Save or Die in the upcoming new edition of D&D. I don’t mind Save or Die if I can make a character fast and painlessly or take over an NPC as a new...
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Good Night, Forge Part 1: the Forge in 3 sentences.
System matters, so play games that will best support you and your friends’ play. Publish your game without risking more than you are willing to lose and when possible, if it is important to you, keep...
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Tired and Sore (but Good) Friday
Reading: I’m on the last pages of The Risen Empire and have The Killing of Worlds, the second half of the book, ready to roll. I’m enjoying it, a fun space opera. Planning: This weekend will have ice,...
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A Quiet Friday
Reading: Poking at The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfield, hoping that I get hip deep into it before a fun fantasy novel arrives on my desk. Planning: Getting prepped for something important and...
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Game of Fangs
J.C. mentioned that he was reading a Vampire sourcebook while watching Game of Thrones. Game-deprived as I am, I replied with the following: Or you could just rip-off the plot, whole hog. Your buddy is...
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Excerpt from Lyonesse: Suldrun’s Garden
This act and its consequences came about as an oblique result of discord among the arch-magicians of the land. At this time they numbered eight: Murgen, Sartzanek, Desmei, Myolander, Baibalides,...
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Blog Stats: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 23,000 views in 2012....
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Reading, Planning, Writing: The Friday I waited
Reading: I read a few chapters of The Death of Bees but the truth is I was so distracted that I was not productive. My lunch-time and before-bed reading routine was kaput this week. Planning: I cannot...
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Coming soon on Githyanki Diaspora…
The interview are going to be bi-weekly, every other Monday until I settle in to the new city/apartment/job in the next month. But there are some exciting interviews coming up: Emily Care-Boss talks to...
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Superior Marvel Heroic Role-Playing Milestones
How pompous does that title sound? No, I’m talking about the new Spider-man title in which Doctor Octopus is stuck in Peter Parker’s body. The idea doesn’t thrill me in isolation. However, once you...
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Reading, Planning, Writing: Post-Heatwave Friday
It has been over a week of a brutal heatwave. Today the air doesn’t feel harsh for the first time in a while. Reading: I’m going back and forth between 20th Century Boys, Captain Alatriste (time to...
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Vast & Starlit, different setting tweaks
Convicts have escaped from the Merciful-Class Stellar Prison V-917x. Bring them home. Earn your pay, bounty hunter-scum. Crew Everyone plays a Bounty Hunter. Take turns asking each other questions...
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Batfleck
Fuck you. You owe it to me. Tomorrow I’m gonna wake up and I’ll be fifty and I’ll still be doin’ this. And that’s all right ’cause I’m gonna make a run at it. But you, you’re sittin’ on a winning...
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The Troll’s Dungeon and the Stubborn Young Dungeon Master
I was IMing with Jim, talking about gaming and we both had a situation like this. I was in a young teenager and the players were caught and put in the dungeon under the castle. I don’t remember much...
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Punitive Dungeon Delving
“For the crime of poaching, your sentence is to bring back a map of sub-level 3, just below the giant griffon skull. If the map is of insufficient quality or is proven false by future delvers, you will...
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Our First Friday Night Session of Into the Odd
During my lunch break today, I rolled a bunch of results from my Into the Odd tables and the second of five really grabbed me. I knew what it was, what it looked like and what the challenges would be....
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In which nice things are said about Githyanki Diaspora
The Dyvers blog had a Great Blog Roll Call and he wrote nice things about this blog and I’m not ashamed to say it made me feel pretty damned nice: An enjoyable blog written by one of the most inventive...
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Populating the Tomb Hills with feuding clans…
I like those forum threads where we get together and make shit up, here’s one: Lets populate the Tomb Hills with feuding clans who flout, imperial tradition. Please go through the following steps and...
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Returning to a Friday Tradition – Reading, Planning, Writing
Reading: I just finished a brutally unsatisfying read and moved on to Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone, which is a real hoot with a fun fantasy world and a neat premise. Wizards-for-hire come to a...
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