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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Pop Culture and D&D

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Tim KnightWednesday, October 05, 2011 7:52:00 AM
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New Year...End of a game, beginning anew... - Well, I haven't written anything in almost a year. I am not really surprised, life pulled me away from the blogshpere for awhile. Happens. Well, I did st...
8 years ago
Swords of Minaria

Review: Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish - Since the untimely demise this year of the Warhammer Fantasy setting, and thus the three decades of games that it spawned, one might have expected the edi...
8 years ago
The Moldy Vale

Panduan Berwisata dengan Bandros City Tour di Bandung - Bandros City Tour atau Bandung Tour On Bus CityTour adalah alat transportasi darat yang difungsikan untuk mengantarkan wisatawan berkeliling menikmati wisa...
8 years ago
Star Clans

Actual Play - 15th Game - 11 Aug 15 - Arianwyn/Deep Space/Hallu (0519 -) Date: 545-021 When last we played (with a minor hand wave to swap crew) Zaccheus, Gildas, D’Arcy, Capt Neo, Tiernan, G...
9 years ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

I ran Torchbearer - I ran Torchbearer this weekend. I had fun, and I want to run it again. Damn does this game have a learning curve, though. We were fumbling around with the...
9 years ago
ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog

Vanity, thy name is "A New Blog" - *"Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years..."* - apologies to LLCoolJ for the use of his lyrics. I've started a new blog. It's not the "OSR" blo...
9 years ago
GM Games

The Manor, Issue #8 - Where is it going? USA $5.00 USD Canada $5.50 USD Rest of the World $6.00 USD Issue #8 is also available in PDF at RPGNow and Lulu. This issue is fil...
9 years ago
Places to Go, People to Be

This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...
9 years ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
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
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...
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

[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
11 years ago
PoeticLicense

Origins 2013 - [image: IMG_0001][image: IMG_0002][image: IMG_0006][image: IMG_0003][image: IMG_0075][image: IMG_0074] [image: IMG_0073][image: IMG_0072][image: IMG_0071][i...
11 years ago
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...
11 years ago
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.
12 years ago
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 - ...
12 years ago
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...
12 years ago
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 ...
12 years ago
Sickly Purple Death Ray

Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil - Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps. This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many levels w...
13 years ago
Game Design Concepts

“I just found this blog, what do I do?” - This course was originally offered in real-time from June 29 – September 6, 2009. If you are just finding this now, does that mean you missed out on everyt...
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