I like RPGs...
…and I like much of what is distinctly RPGish in them.I like that RPGs attract introverts but punish the boring ones.I like that RPGs create kinds of stories you don't really find in older things like...
View ArticleA Video Where I Talk All About the Marvel Superheroes Game...
I'm talking about Marvel Super Heroes/FASERIP--Jeff Grubb's masterpiece--And also talk about a buncha other superhero games probably--and why they're worse.I make very large claims for this game--it is...
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L to R: boxing technocrat, angry technocrat, shrewd technocratThere's going to be a new Sherlock Holmes movie--this time with Ian McKellen.Why Holmes again? Why now? Aside from the obvious (Guy Ritchie...
View ArticlePorn Girls Talking Porn
There's an article with some porn girls talking about why they got into the business--here. I can vouch for Stoya, she's an elf druid......and Satine, she's an elf wizard.The one in the middle with the...
View ArticleConversation As Advertisement
Person A--let's call them Piggwinkle--says a thing, starting a conversation.Person B--let's call them Grobbles--goes "Oh let's talk about that thing"(So far, so good.)Then Pigglywinkle suddenly...
View ArticleI Stole This
These are from Huge Ruined Scott's blog...THE PHALKWOOD: Werepigs and Wererats who flee the Dwarvish realm often find their way here in search of the legendary Court of their kind, over which an...
View ArticleI think we should remove at least one more body part so that the children...
Two D&Dables today, first…I have an article up over at The Toast:On March 5th, the Associated Press asked: “What are seemingly jet-propelled cats and birds doing in a 16th century German artillery...
View ArticlePlaying D&D At The Mexican Restaurant
Clockwise from bottom left: Wizard, Cleric, Thief, Thief, GM, WizardPros:There's a little button there that calls a waitressNachosWe could tell people in the neighborhood to just stop by and say...
View ArticleThe Horrible Truth About Sea Elves
Assembled here, with much help from the braintrust."They don't know what to do with the surface world-if there's anything to gain from it or not- and so every interaction is an experiment for...
View ArticleA 3d One-Page Dungeon...
Complete with monsters, treasure and traps, courtesy of Mike McVey:Click to Enlarge and RunThis one picture should have everything you need to run it--I flipped it so it "reads" left to right and added...
View ArticleBoredom Is Its Own Balance
Consider this piece of equipment/rule:Musical Instrument (small): This could be any old musical instrument you can carry: a violin, bagpipes, a triangle, whatever. Playing a musical instrument requires...
View ArticleWeddings In Voivodja
A Red and Pleasant Land, also known as Eat Me*, also know as The Alice in Wonderland setting I'm doing for Lamentations Of The Flame Princess is being laid out.Uncertainty sucks, of course. It's...
View ArticleOh No Devils And Elves
The girls were doing a D&D-themed photo shoot today. Laney did the special effects make-up--you may remember (Troy McClure voice) her as The Goth One Named Laney from such reality shows about...
View ArticleNuptials, Jurisprudence, Deception, Diving, Dungeon, Green Swine, Friendly Fire
The WeddingThe party stumbled on a weaponized wedding between a great procession of Nephilidian Vampires and some vampire knights of the House of Hearts.The PCs were in the company of the Nephildians...
View Article"...weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it...
New D&D basic was released free on PDF today...Thanks, dork!---
View ArticleA Miscellany With A Moral
Exhibit AExhibit B"Minor Cultural Eccentricities1. Every profession and I mean every profession has a distinctive outfit , not always related to the practicalities related. This outfit is the only...
View ArticlePay What You Wish For Vornheim
Lamentations of the Flame Princess originally shared:VORNHEIM 48 HOUR PAY WHAT YOU WANT SALEDid you hear that Zak S was a consultant on the new edition of D&D? Did you hear that a free D&D...
View ArticleWhy Pigfuckers Fuck Pigs And People Just Watch
First, let's have an example of a pig-fucker.Squee squee! Who will fuck me??Mark Carroll: A Fucker of PigsSo we were talking...Zak: The DIY D&D crowd has (unlike many other game design cliques)...
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