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Thought Eater 1st Round Winners & Rules for The 2nd Round
So all the essays for the first round of the Thought Eater Tournament are in and the votes are counted.We can now go on to the second round, where there's a pretty good chance all the writing will be...
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Goblin Market Works Like This
...not the poem about alegorically eating snatch by Christina Rosetti, the actual grand bazaar in the goblin city, Gaxen Kane.-Only goblins and otherlike Boschean horrors shop in the goblin market. If...
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"The Fetid Shit Stink Of Right Wing Power Fantasy"
Why One Man Hates Star Wars Despite Never Having Seen It--And Why That Makes Perfect SenseDavid Vs GoliathI haven't seen The Trailer--there's not much point in rushing to watch a trailer for something...
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Vrokk, Isle of the War Wizards
I was talking to Anders about the Goblin Market and how after a while it doesn't take too long to make up content for a place once you get its "voice"--how most GMs invent little pocket-worlds they...
View ArticleIf I Have To Say "Mome Rath" One More Time My Face Will Fall Off
THURSDAYWe were somewhere around West Adams on the edge of the freeway, when the Wayz began to suck balls.I remember saying something like "We can't stop here, this isn't, like, where the place is."But...
View ArticleD100 One-Use Items And The Culture That Created Them
Not all by me--crowdsourced by the Google+ braintrust in the thread here. If you can't follow that link and want to, write and ask to be added to my Google+ game circles along with a link to your...
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The Goblin Cubes
Stairs down through mist-filled abyss for like 100feet. No ceiling, no floor, no walls, nothing but mist and stairs.Then the stairs terminate at a door in the base of a 50' x 50'x 50' cube.The surfaces...
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Somebody Check Laney Chantal's Dice
Session before last was a long time coming:9 millenia ago it was prophesied that unto Demogorgon would be betrothed a Champion of Tiamat, and this union would bring the Age of Eradications.To determine...
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James Went Into His Attic And You Won't Believe What Happened Next...
...he found 50 copies of Red & Pleasant Land that aren't out in stores. So if you're no up for hunting around, you can order these straight from the publisher.Only 32 left now, so hurry.
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Because Bad Wizards Are Annoying
These things are true in D&D:-Evil wizards come up a lot.-Writing out which spells of which level they have is a pain in the ass, especially because they might die in a round.-Always giving all of...
View ArticleHe Chose Poorly and Rolled Worse. He Will Be Missed.
In the words of that guy from The Usual Suspects--We did more jobs, and I saw more money, than you can ever count.--My most vivid memory of the late Malice is very mundane:Years ago, he and my own...
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Speedy Tree Maze
That was me in the beakSo this 11-year old wrote a dungeon that almost killed me.Basically Hill Cantons Chris' dug up a dungeon he'd done when he was a wee lad, re-keyed it and set us loose in it. I...
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The 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...
View ArticleThe D&D Characters The X-Men Would Play
Cyclops plays a human cleric and never admits that he wanted to play a paladin but never managed to roll the stats needed back when Beast used to run AD&D and now he's just sort of settled into the...
View ArticleMy Useful 2015 Stuff
Hey, it's coming up on the end of the year. Bye, year.The most popular and plussed posts of any year are usually the ones like this one about leaving the Escapist that people visit because they matter...
View ArticleHow To Write 10,000 Pages of Gibberish
For someone running an ongoing campaign, free game stuff should feel like free candy. Oh I have to run an adventure next week--oh look, what's this in the mail? I'll just take this vanilla and add some...
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An Art Lesson From the Late Goblin King
2000something. Miami Beach. Late and everyone's drinking.The girls are talking about their first crushes, they're all inhuman and inexplicable--cartoon characters, Boba Fett, bears, tigers, aliens.When...
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smh sunday
Cam Banks needs to read more Cam Banks.---Anyway, on to better things:These maps are neat (though I put Voivodja in a totally different place)Alex Schroeder on innovation in the OSR--with a ton of...
View ArticleTo Tim Kask And TotalCon,
Dear Tim,I'm Zak. I've read a lot of your Dragonsfoot threads over the years about the early hobby and, like everybody else, read a lot of Dragon back in the day.Since one of the biggest genuine...
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Children's Pythons
Among the clans of the Black Ocean, the zoological affinities of the Northernkind are reversed, such that the mammal is considered a threat and the reptile an ally.At birth, each child is assigned a...
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