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A beautiful Summer Friday for Reading, Planning, Writing
Reading: After looking over this Reddit list of under-appreciated fantasy novels, I’m on to Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer. I’m only just getting into it but so far, it is making the commute...
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Thinking about Owl Hoot Trail, feuding rail companies and Dyson Logos-made maps
Chalk Hill, map by Dyson Logos Chalk Hill is a barely fortified rail company town, founded originally by the M.L.& R. but claimed by the Olde Valyrian Rail Co. when the elves deserted the town for...
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Orcus vs. Doresain: wonderful art and more random encounter charts
I love it when big inter-planar powers tussle, be it the Raven Queen vs. Vecna, the Githyanki Empire vs. the Illithid Hiveminds or Orcus vs. Doresain. I was reminded of this war when I ran across these...
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July RPG Blog Carnival: Githyanki Invasion 6d6
The Lich-Queen’s forces are coming to your world. Roll 6d6 and get the session started. Inspired by the July RPG Blog Carnival Why are they invading? Illithid Infestation Githzerai Haven Red Dragon...
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Reading, Planning, Creating: Holy shit, Summer’s practically half over and it...
Reading: I’m reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo and at 3/4′s of the way through it is interesting. It is a second world, just-turned-modern Quasi-Russia with folks who do magic that is called the...
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Choosing Pathfinder Iconics to Save Worlds
The worlds are ending, shriveling up and dying like leaves in autumn, succumbing to some unknowable Doom. Perhaps this is just the natural way of things. You have been chosen by a seed, a...
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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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Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Scene 1
Peter “Starlord” Quill and Gamora are at a gala event with a dance floor that looks like a beautiful nebula. A slow waltz is playing and they are waltzing. QUILL: You picked up on this fast! GAMORA: It...
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Playing with Canva using the art of Storn A. Cook
This Canva thing is fun. All of the art is by Storn A. Cook and is used with his permission.
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12 Nearby Cities
You’ve got that fantasy city you made up on the map – here are some neighbors beyond the map’s edges: 1 Asmodeen: former capital of the Tiefling empire, back when there was an empire. Made to honor the...
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Reading, Planning and Writing: Another Beautiful Friday (Gen Con Jealousy)
Reading: I’ve got The Lone Range and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie on my phone’s Kindle app. I’m really loving the poetry and humor in Alexie’s writing. This might turn out to be one of...
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Daydreaming about a Hexcrawl
Thinking about Quinn’s posts about Drow and thinking about West Marches, I’m daydreaming about a hexcrawl. Your maps are a thousand years out of date as you make your way to the surface… It is one...
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Ode to Zaheer
Zaheer is the best villain the Legend of Korra has ever put together. He looks cool. He goes too far but he also has a point. He leads a team of total bad-asses. You can feel their shared history...
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A Web of Cities
You’ve got 12 Nearby Cities and now you want to start forming a web of political intrigue, creating a sense of history and motion. Roll dice until you are satisfied. Don’t make it too complicated. Roll...
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D&D begins
Riffing off of this post, a few local gamers got together and made their characters for some surface crawling. The party (so far): Zuul, the Quaggoth/Folk Hero/Ranger CG Saav, the Drow/Acolyte/Monk CG...
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Githyanki as player characters
by Russ Nicholson Warriors from the Astral Plane Githyanki are descended from a humanoid species enslaved by the Illithid thousands of years ago, used as both labor and as a source of food. Led by the...
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My wheels are burning and my dungeons are dragon’ed.
After a few months of no regular gaming, the lean times are over. I had a G+ hangouts Burning Wheel game Sunday night, another BW game Monday afternoon and got to play in Matt’s Advanced Wizards &...
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Reading, Planning and Writing – Autumn is here.
Reading: I’m re-reading the Wheel of Time series, thinking that I’ll actually finish them this time. These are the books that I’ve got on my phone for the commute. I’m on The Great Hunt. I’m not...
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10 Underground Cities
These cities are listed from the closest to the surface to the deepest beneath the earth. Cities 1-3 are in the Overdark, a cold and dank area where the surface dwellers often feel the most...
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Reading, Planning, Writing: Cool Autumn Air edition
Reading: I’m on the third book of the Wheel of Time, re-reading up to where I stopped a decade or so ago and hoping to push on and finish. The books bring out different emotions and reactions from me....
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