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Friday, August 17, 2012

Goth of the Week

Renaming this feature to "Goth of the Week", because I may include goth men as well as women.

Posted by faoladh at 11:00 PM

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AnonymousSaturday, August 18, 2012 7:20:00 AM
Goth guys?

So you are going for the laughs, then?
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The Moldy Vale

Keindahan Gunung Prau (Foto dan Catatan Perjalanan) - Keindahan Gunung Prau Keindahan Gunung Prau (Foto dan Catatan Perjalanan) - Gunung Prau atau Prahu memang pendek, kadang hanya dilirik sebelah mata oleh...
9 years ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

Mage the Awakening: No Mean City - Way, way back in 2011 I spoke about starting a Werewolf: The Forsaken Game chronicile in Glasgow. It kind of fell through, but I've about to start DMing a...
9 years ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...
9 years ago
TOYBOX

Planetcrawl with an easier way to make 3D Traveller style world maps - Some times ago, I did show a way to turn the kind of planetary maps familiar to Traveller gamers into 3D views for the enjoyment of your players. Whilst ...
9 years ago
The Mule Abides

0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...
9 years ago
Gaming All Over The Place

Assumptions of a 5e World: Races, Part III: Halflings - Oh, Halflings... A lot of people have some pretty strong ideas and criticisms about Halflings--and most of it valid. The evolution of the D&D Halfling has...
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Victorian Adventure Enthusiast

post - Originally posted by *sepiachord* at post sepiachord sepiachord.comSource: Best Steampunk Bands on Ranker http://www.sepiachord.com/index/best-steampunk-ba...
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Grognardling

Consolidating - Readers of this blog will know that I'm into heavily homebrewing my campaign. If I were running games right now, I'd be running a weird cross between S&W a...
10 years ago
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10 years ago
Everlasting Kangaroo

What the OSR means to me - Wow, it's been a while. I posted a comment over at Tenkar's Tavern, which I thought I'd repeat here. Over the past year or two (i.e., while I've been awa...
10 years ago
Risus Monkey

DC Gameday XIV: Casino Karnstein - DC Gameday XIV is coming up on the weekend of March 29th-March 30th and player registration is already open. After a grueling couple of months of real-worl...
10 years ago
The RPG Corner

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PoeticLicense

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Year of the Dungeon

Other than the vanished empires, ancient manuscripts, and armed rebellion, this post has nothing to do with gaming - Last month, this article showed up in The New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda . It describes how a team of librarians, archivist...
11 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
11 years ago
Messages from the Fallen Empire

The Cosmology of Urd/Leviathan - Hey everyone, It has been awhile since I posted so I wanted to give another spoiler to hold you over. The Book is still in edit… we have brought on Tim Sn...
11 years ago
Vaults of Nagoh

Lets Read Mythus pt 25 - *Mythus* spell lists: my face when. Last section of the *Advanced Mythus* spell lists sample castings, which so far have been boring enough to make a Ch...
11 years ago
Skull Crushing For Great Justice

I don't need to post anymore - Because you can just read this sort of crap. Or, instead of wasting ten minutes of your life, you could play a game. Fuck, I don't want to harp on this sh...
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A Wizard in a bottle

Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.
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Greyhawk Adventures 576CY

Character Spotlight - Jurgen Frangst - *Campaign*: LEGACY the Path of Heroes *Class*: Barbarian *Level*: 5 *Race*: Human (Suel) *Alignment*: Neutral *ABILITY SCORES* STR 19 DEX 16 CON 18 I...
12 years ago
Diary of a Grognerd

The Rage of Ognark: Part Three - Alright, this here is the usual disclaimer that these story bits are hilarious (to me, anyway) bizarro-type barbarian fantasy. Not for everyone. In fact, i...
12 years ago
The Siege Perilous

The lands of my Ultima - I'm finally writing content for the first setting book for my Ultima RPG. My Ultima game focuses on the Age of Darkness, but there's a problem with that - ...
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Dungeons and D20s

Review: John Carter - This weekend I undertook a trek to the cinema to catch John Carter. I understand there was a lot of derision aimed at this film when it was announced some...
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Underworld Cleaning Service

Hirelings - Early Edition D&D (Part 1) - Gygax wants you to use Hirelings & Followers! Period. I made a post yesterday about the fact that my players aren't raving fans of using hired muscle in t...
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The Underdark Gazette

Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...
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Sickly Purple Death Ray

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Game Design Concepts

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