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Talking To Russians About Very Specific Things
"I love Latin American literature and Russian literature. It never occurred to me that Dostoyevsky was supposed to explain something to me. [Audience chuckles] He’s talking to other Russians about very...
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Some Leopards
"4.""5! I go first…""Bring it.""So the wolves charge from both sides toward the middle of the column and attack Hellhammer.""Wait, all of them?""Yes, all of them. That's…5 hits for…22 point of...
View ArticleAnna Kreider Is Actually Terrible
If you can read this Anna Kreider / Wundergeek / Go Make Me A Sandwich blog is harassing me, the women in my group, or both. Again. Here is Mandy describing how and why this happens and what you can do...
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We're DIY D&D. We Do Good Work.
Yoon-Suin is out. This may mean nothing to you. To you it means (in the author's own words):Tibet, yak ghosts, ogre magi, mangroves, Nepal, Arabian Nights, Sorcery!, Bengal, invertebrates, topaz, squid...
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The Arch
note to self: write spooky intro text hereOk, so this is a simple one, you can use it in any dungeon.There's a library or a room full of fireflies--and an arch.On the far side of the arch there's...
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Some Native American D&Dables
Cannibal BirdIf a Cannibal Bird is fated to appear and quick motivation is needed, a d20 may be thrown to determine what exactly the creature thinks it's up to:Hunting humans to eat. It will likely...
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They Are Like A Shadow In The Afternoon
So I was going through the Monster Manual redoing all of the monsters…then I got to blights.I hate blights. So boring. I mean: I'll use a creeper vine if I got nothing else, or this grabbing tentacle...
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Controversial Figure In American Playful Landscape
So the eminent gameologist Jerome Larre asked me to participate in his game design series "5 Things I Learned Working On..." for the French gaming site Tartofrez--previous participants include Emily...
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It Was 2015. They Hated Things.
I just googled "I hate (name of game here)" and put the first result that came up.I told him that I hated 13th Age, but he claimed that it has gotten much better with the second iteration of the...
View ArticleTwenty Quick 10th-Level Weirdoes
Crowdsourced here by like me and 15 other people.1. Einethan SloadThiefHP 28AC as leather +1Lt Crossbow: d6, Dagger: d4, 3 doses Red lotus paste poison: Save or hallucinate that are a large lightweight...
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Remove Kraken Insert Locus-less Existential Colonial Terror
It's likely that Lovecraft got the idea for Cthulhu from Tennyson'sKraken:Below the thunders of the upper deep;Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleepThe Kraken...
View ArticleThe Nazi Games
I don't have answers to all these questions, but it seems to me far too many conversations go too far with out ever asking questions like these. People get stuck on boring, kindergarten-level questions...
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Werewolves as Worldbuilding
Ok, so a thing about the second edition of the game Chill which is also about other games, too:-Start out with addressing what Chill 2e was not:-Chill 2e was not Chill 1e, that is: not a light-hearted...
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7 D&Dables From Doctor Strange
Click to enlarge.365-level wizard wants you to live in this crappy castle forever instead of himClock pendulum trapJust show them thatThe damsel you saved wasn't meant to be savedYou are divided into...
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More Dr Strange and An Opportunity for the Ladies
First up:May 16th and 17th, the best online game con -- Contessa -- is inviting women to think up and run some games. (Anybody can play, if you didn't know.) Got your own game? You can run that too....
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The Puzzling And All His Friends
"You ever make your own comic books, Washington?""Yessir, I had one called 'The Puzzling And All His Friends;. No one but me could understand it""That's what always happens"Some issue of Doom Patrol...
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Vornheim Costs 170 Bucks Now
So, yeah, the first and only printing of Vornheim (a three year old book) went for 170$.That's more than ten times the cover price for a 64-page black-and-white book. So if you're still on the fence...
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The D&Dability of Daredevil
One of the great questions that faces many RPG bloggers is: When do I get to talk about comic books?Well with everyone talking about Daredevil on Netflix, I'm going to say rightnow.So here's my window...
View ArticleThey Refuse To Just Die
It was a game I was running online and I was pretty sure everyone was going to die.When the last session ended the players had just failed an assassination attempt on the Deep Janeen. They were trapped...
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Zak's Dungeon Roller
There are a lot of systems for randomly generating the map and rooms in a dungeon, but not many that really generate ideas to tie them together into a real dungeon.I think this is mostly because it's...
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