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Something Is Deeply, Deeply Wrong At RPGnet Today...
Just screencapped the active topics on RPGnet's D&D board:So, not only is dominated by 5e, Path and old-school stuff, but the Red & Pleasant Land thread has 6,000 some views and been up for two...
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My Advice To WOTC Now That 5e Has Been Rolled Out
First thing to acknowledge:People talk a lot as if Hasbro cares a lot if 5e does well: They kinda don't.It's the same as how Disney doesn't really care that much if Marvel sells a lot of comics and...
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Goats, Bilbo's XP, Contest Winners, Toys, Frog Interview, Red & Pleasant...
1. A Movie ReviewSo ok, everything you've heard about Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies is wrong.First, you'll hear people being like "This movie sucks". They're dumb and wrong, as this short post-movie...
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14 Things That Happened To Games In 2014
Oh 2014, how will we remember you?That'll probably help, if you don't have a tattoo gun handy, though here's a list of what happened in RPGs this year:1. Last Gasp got an awesome free instant random...
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First Good Idea of 2015 (Jub Jub Cockatrice Basilisk)
So thanks to Rachel Ghoul for giving me my first monster idea of 2015--over here she says:The basilisk is the female of the species. The cockatrice is male. To stumble upon them as they mate is not a...
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Best Tolkien Blasphemies
Winter. 1953. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien knocks on your door, frantic again, hair awry, stressed and staring. You make coffee. He has this massive manuscript--three books worth, he can't make head or...
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Mandy on the Anatomy of A Harassment Campaign
So Mandy wrote a thing about recent events--if you do tumblr and retumbl things, the original post is here. There's a handy diagram at the end if it's TooLong;Didn'tRead for you.If you're all Oh Screw...
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Smart Campaign with Intrigue And Relationships And Also Lava Babies
When last we left our heroines, they had just defeated a massive Decimator in front of the Pale King.Impressed, the Pale King offered the group a round and kingly sum if they could hold off a force of...
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MadLibMount--You Now Own A Megadungeon
"By an agreement negotiated between James and Autarch, we are proud to release the entirety of Dwimmermount as open game content under the terms of the OGL, a great contribution to the OSR effort that...
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The Demon Prison of MadLibMount
So on Monday I wrote about how--since Dwimmermount is released on an Open Game License--you can make your own dungeon by MadLibbing it using content from your own campaign.I used level 1 as a...
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Want More Women In Gaming? Make Better Shit.
"No school due to ice today. My six year old daughter spotted Red and Pleasant Land on the table and was drawn in by the blonde girl in a pretty dress and also the possibility that that might be blood...
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Stacy Dellorfano--Building The Best Online Con in RPGs
At D&D With Porn Stars women in gaming is a subject that comes up a lot and playing RPGs on-line over Google Plus also comes up a lot, too.Since it just so happens that the best, most...
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Time Golem
It hits you once and you are Slowed, it hits you twice and you go unconscious. Once unconscious it will steal away your time--in the form of levels, one level per round.Its head is full of...
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Viking Amazons of the Metal North
"A witch dwells to the east of Midgard, in the forest called Ironwood: in that wood dwell the troll-women, who are known as Ironwood-Women. The old witch bears many giants for sons, and all in the...
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Skin DIamond, Death, Resurrection, Time-Eating Spiders, Another Decimator
Skin Diamond--2012 Urban X Award Female Performer of the Year, 2014 AVN Best Oral and dragonborn (blue) druid) lives around the corner So she came over to play her first game--she got Godzilla because,...
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We're Not Playing D&D With The Escapist Ever Again
Hi everybody,As many of you know, we've been working on making new episodes of our D&D documentary series "I Hit It With My Axe" for the Escapist website.The first time around they gave us a...
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"Cool Cool" and Other Wisdom From The Escapist
So yesterday we announced we weren't going to do our D&D show, I Hit It With My Axe, with The Escapist website anymore because they hired a transphobic dickhead.So that's that. People in general...
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Thirteen Ways Of Looking At The Terrible Thing You Just Made
When you say a thing is bad, you are usually using it as a shorthand for one of these things.There are 13 of them.So, instead of just saying "bad"…maybe say which one you mean next time?They wanted it...
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Amazons of the Devoured Land
The Devoured LandThe Devoured Land is distant, unfathomed. They say the cleft peaks are the uneaten half left torn when the first Cannibal God bit the world. Things there are as things were in the day...
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My Favorite RPG Covers
Pretty sure this was originally commissioned for something else(Carcosa)This was originally the cover of a sci fi novel, I believe, so also cheating
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