Mental Illness In The RPG Community
Any discussion of this topic period will immediately bring on accusations of "gaslighting!!!!!" if pointed at specific people, so let's stick with statements we can all agree withStatement we can all...
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Still Play D&D and Still Worship Satan
So y'know we're in LA, but we need shirts anyway and this place on our street makes custom shirts. And the first thing you think when you send them the design is "What even are they gonna make of this...
View ArticleThe (Incredibly Weak) Case Against James Raggi
As will surprise nobody, Mark Diaz Truman continues to receive abuse for calling out some broken stairs and harassment in the Indie game community. The project of pressuring Mark to abandon his...
View ArticleMandy's Ringo Walk (New I Hit It With My Axe)
Still haven't heard back from Paizo about their employee harassing us last week, hope that gets sorted before Gen Con.Also, there's a Maze of the Blue Medusa actual play from Ropecon.---
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Schedule for GenCon Stalkers!
Starting Thursday August 4thStarting now Vornheim, Red & Pleasant Land, Death Frost Doom revised by me and Maze of the Blue Medusa will be available at Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Booth...
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Dear Mandy We Won Some Ennies
Stokely and Stoya say hi11:10 AM Fri Aug 6Dear Mandy,Before I say anything else, I promised James I have to say this:Maze of the Blue Medusa Just Won 3 Ennies & Is At Booth 3002. They'll be gone...
View ArticleAll About The Halfling (new I Hit It With My Axe)
New episode up!This one's all about Connie.---
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Take the Rubies from the Demon's Eyes
Gen Con is, of course, massive--a brief Disneyland of gaming and of gamers.However, if you ignore miniatures, boardgames, scenery shops, card game tournaments,"My other shirt is chainmail" merchshops...
View ArticleGnolls, Nuns, Sneaking, Bobbi Starr, Unicorns (new I Hit It With My Axe)
New I Hit It With My Axe!"I want to shoot a child with my bow and arrow"---
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Monte Cook and You
What Monte Did This TimeIt turns out Chris Pramas of Green Ronin jerked around and misled folks running his GenCon Blue Rose games to the tune of hundreds of dollars. 1It turns out Loren Coleman of...
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New I Hit It With My Axe + Some Pics
Episode 43:L to R: Stacy Dellorfano of Contessa, Me w/Ennies, TrollsmythDrinking Kickstarter's beer after the EnniesL to R: Ken Baumann (Satyr Press), Kenneth Hite, MeSatyr Press intern Theo on the...
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Emergent Cannibalism and the Art of Milo De Fretwell
So last game just the blondes showed up--and it was a total party kill."Wait you all died?""Yes, we all died"This time folks were more cautious, but it still got weird real fast...It all started with...
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Teach Children To Read By Watching Things Die
So I'm doing Satine's annual ChariD20 event on Sunday coming up.I'll be at Keith Baker's table.The character I play and voice I use on the livestream will be determined by vote by you people, here are...
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Great Adventure Hooks In Art History 1: The Arnolfini Wedding
The Arnolfini (Arnoult Fin) Wedding(First in a series about Art History is Actually Adventure Hooks)Ok so this is the Arnolfini Wedding by Jan Van Eyck--a classic of the Northern Renaissance (the...
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Great Adventure Hooks in Art History 2: Matejko's Stańczyk (+new Axe)
First: new I Hit It With My Axe episodeNow...Stańczyk (The Ioculator)(Second in a series about how Art History is Actually Adventure Hooks)Click to enlarge, it's magnificentSo the official story is...
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Great Adventure Hooks in Art History 3: The Fish of Vettersfelde
The Fish of VettersfeldeSo this fish. Found as part of a gold hoard in Poland, the fish is typical of the Scythian zoomorphic style. The fish has other fish on it, plus panthers and deers and stuff....
View ArticleThe Eminent Man of Role-Playing Games
The eminent man of role-playing games was as eminent, perhaps, as any man living in role-playing games, and more drunk than me. He wore--like all men of role-playing games of a certain age and...
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Current Stack of Boxes
You can accumulate tons of cute DM stuff but it's useless if it's too much of a pain to get to,which is why I have a collection of kits, cases and jewelry boxes.This one on the top is a pretty typical...
View ArticleWe're Totes Taking A Stand Against Harassment
We here at _______ are taking a stand against harassment!Oh cool. Are you going to donate to legal efforts against harassers?Well, no, sorry.Ok, that's maybe a little much to ask. So you're just going...
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