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If You Can't Remember The Rules Just Get Them Tattooed On Your Arm
5th edition armor classes don't line up with AD&D/Labyrinth Lord armor classes, plus I can't remember any of them anyway, so I just had Connie tattoo them both on my forearm.It's a good solution...
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…actually there are good Call of Cthulhu miniatures
So I was looking up amazing granny/cop/dollhousemaker Frances Glessner Lee (who is fucking amazing and there's a book about her)."They were each dressed accurately down to the underwear.""People take...
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Art History For D&D People, Course Overview
I don't really do that many sweeping survey posts about art even though art's my job because whenever I say something like "Oh yeah, Franz Hals fuck him" someone in the comments always leaves some long...
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Ancient Art Is Basically Monsters
Many basic prejudices in the way art history is taught date back to when Giorgio Vasari invented the discipline, and one of the most consistent and least discussed is a prejudice against monsters.The...
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Medieval Art: 1000 Years Of Bad Ideas
The highlights of art history, as usually taught, go:1. Egypt2. Greece and Rome3. the Renaissance4. the mainline of Western painting (Caravaggio, Rembrandt, etc)5. Modernism…this offers a pretty...
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The Other Renaissance, or There Is No Ninja Turtle Named Claus Sluter
(Fourth in a series about D&Dish art)"With a few exceptions, however, Vasari's aesthetic judgement was acute and unbiased.[citation needed]"-WikipediaSt Anthony from Grunewald's Isenheim...
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Secrets of an Eminently D&Dable Subcontinent
Fifth in a series about D&Dables in Art History The best of Indian art generally falls into three broad categories, each with their own fairly distinct aura:First, there's folk art--These are...
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The World That Fit In Scheherezade's Head
Part six in a series on D&Dables in art history___"I find herein a wonderful beauty," he told Pandelume. "This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving...
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"...from this moment forth you will bleed prose"
Some quick notes:*My Alice + Transylvania-themed RPG book Red & Pleasant Land should (should) (should) be back from the printer and ready to go in a week or two.* Last Gasp Logan has put together...
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When A Giant Egg Stops Drops And Rolls It Looks Weird
So Mandy had been separated from the rest of the group by a magic ring she had burned into her flesh that teleported her from danger when she went below 0 hp.Unnnnnnfortun8ly it teleported her right...
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The Art of Europe in the Piratey Era
Part seven in a series on D&Dable artJacques Callot, from "Les Gobbi", 16somethingEverybody wore lace and a fancy sword, it was a strange time on a strange continent…Once anatomy and perspective...
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Eight Persimmons Beneath A Severed Arm
This is 8th in a series on D&Dables in art history The Ghost of Wicked Genta Yoshihira Attacking Namba Jiro at Nunobiki Waterfallby Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, whose drunken snapback ink line was...
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The Known Unknowns
The 9th entry in a series on D&Dable art historyInitiation mask, Papua New Guinea"...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns;...
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Dragons + CthulhuCon Tomorrow
Two things:* First, Dragons by Peter Hogarth with Val Clery is now available free on Open Library (though last I checked there's a waiting list) and it's awesome...It's written in a breezy, readable...
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D100 Reasons Your PC's Family Likes Your PC's Big Sister Way More Than Your PCGenerated here with contributions from the folks at the bottom of this page. Lightly edited by me.1, She is currently on...
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D30 Ways To Be The Worst Critic In The History Of The World
10th and maybe last in a series on D&Dable art history.Hans Bellmer, hand-tinted-photo 1934Modernism can be hard to describe. Isn't anything made around the same time as the person...
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Redoing The Monster Manual: Aarakocra
Listen 5th Edition, now that I'm moving in, there are gonna have to be some changes around here.Let's start with A...Click to enlargeSo as-is Aaracokra are hawk people who good and hang out in the...
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The Metapsychotic System of the Aboleth
Still redoing my Monster Manual...Click to enlargeI never really liked the old aboleth, they seemed like ham-fisted attempts at Lovecraftiana, but I like the new illustration, especially when I added...
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…and Gygax Saw The Angel
"...and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face."-Numbers 22:Redoing the Monster Manual some more…click...
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Animated Objects Re-Done
1ST:My D&D book--Red & Pleasant Land is going to arrive back from the printer Thursday or Friday, at which point it will be available to buy from here. It's something like 200 pages Some...
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