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Ode to a Balduvian War Pig
16 years ago on a summer’s day in upstate New York, we were playing a crazy high-fantasy hack of Ars Magica. We called it Ars AD&Dica. Jason was talking in-character about steeds with another...
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D&D: Githzarai Monks, Orcish Wrestlemania, Research in the Library
Session Summary The group is headed towards Big Shire, hoping to sell the location of Deadshire, an ancient and deserted hobbit shire, to well-to-do halflings in their most metropolitan settlement. On...
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The Friday on the Road to Halloween
Reading: The Wheel of Time grind continues. I’m on Book 4. I’ll likely take a break next week when Richard K. Morgan’s new one comes out next week. Also, check out this blog post by Emily. Planning: No...
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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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Reading, Planning and Writing on a lovely autumnal Friday
Reading: I put down The Shadow Rising and picked up The Dark Defiles. Morgan’s book just came out and I’m enjoying it. Wheel of Time was driving me crazy with its meaningless trolloc fights, like...
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Using G+ Polls to play games: Demi-Goddess of the Were Displacer-Beasts:
I’m having a stupid amount of fun writing this up, always trying to write up choices that are all interesting. My goal is to have the votes be as close as possible, even better if folks are invested...
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Dwarven Adventurer
I left the holdfast when I was a young man, grog still stuck in my beard and my grandmother’s axe on my back. I reckoned I’d come back and take over the family business once I’d had a taste of the...
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Reading, Planning, Writing: The Friday on the other side of Winter
Reading: I just finished Wool and The Martian. After reading a few essays and articles, I’m picking up Anathem again for another go. Planning: A 3 day weekend of getting my life and apartment in order....
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Reading/Planning/Writing: Snow-covered Friday but with a hint of Spring in...
Reading: I finished Anathem and liked it quite a bit but didn’t love it as much as I thought I was going to. Now I’m going back and forth between Audrey (cow): An Oral Account of A Most Daring Escape,...
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Dungeon Crawl Classics: Thinking about the Funnel
I’m reading Dungeon Crawl Classics, preparing to take on the role of Judge this Sunday. I really like the modules, love how compact they are. 20 or so pages feels like the most I’d want an adventure...
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The Friday the Sun Returned: Reading, Planning, Writing
Reading: I’m caught between a bunch of books. A book about a rat, a book about a cow and a game about Night Witches. On the train I’m re-reading the second book of Fafrd and the Grey Mouser. I’m...
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Spelljamming Memories
Keith posts these fun retrospectives about Dragon magazine on G+ and the latest one got me thinking about Spelljammer. First Time: In Media Res The players made up characters and picked a ship. One of...
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Frozen in Time: Bore Bugs and a Robot in a Haunted Glacier
Wrote this up as a post on the DCCRPG G+ Community but wanted it on the blog too. Tonight we played Frozen in Time as a 0 level funnel. If you don’t know what a funnel is, it breaks down like so....
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0-level funnel idea: Cage in Hell
I have an idea for a Total Party Kill 0-level funnel. Please respond to the below question and help me develop it a bit. Thank you! Your group was prepared and had a solid plan but a few bad rolls and...
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Dead Wizards
Wizards fill their skull to capacity with alien concepts so they can open short, somewhat-controlled gates to other worlds in order to make effects occur in their own worlds. This has consequences....
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Nice moments at the table lately.
Circle of Hands Bret set up a really solid Venture with no easy solutions. We killed the wizard who thought he was defending the town but we didn’t know he wouldn’t die, that he’d just turn into a...
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Dungeon Crawl Classics: The Tavern Between Dreams, a pocket dimensional...
The act of leaving everything you know behind in order to face chaos, death and blood carves a space out of the world, A seed that sprouts slowly and subtly but grows more concrete as adventures are...
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Hay Fever Friday – Read, Plan, Write
Reading: I’m listening to The Scar on the commute. Every re-read I like it more; it might be my favorite book. I’m reading Clark Ashton Smith’s The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies while also perusing...
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Inspired by a Dyson Logos map: The Siege of Alderbridge
Another Beautiful Dyson Logos map The Duke of Alderbridge turned his back on the River Gods his family has worshipped for generations and was purified by the priests of a new faith, a god of humans,...
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A Friday after a solid week: Reading, Planning, Writing
Reading: I’m reading Grace of Kings and it is fine at what it is doing but I think my heart just isn’t in an epic fantasy series. I might move on to something non-fiction, cleanse my palate. Just as I...
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