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And the Award For Worst Voice In Gaming Goes To...
We already have enough stupid conservatives in games.Do whatever you can to make sure we don't make one president. ---
View ArticleHow To Detox Your Community
If you've paid any attention to recent indie-RPG Kickstarters, you'll notice a lot of acrimony and accusations surrounding them. You'll also notice none of them are associated with the DIY D&D...
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DIY D&D Black Friday Shopping Guide
Hohoho! Holiday game shopping got you down, gamers? Just sit on jolly Santicore's lap and tell him who you're having trouble finding a present for...Your DM who has all the stuff alreadyI bet they...
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Relevant To Your Interests
We got in a game this weekend after a quiet stretch and it was awesome--I tried to upload a video of the players threatening to drag a bunch of cowering NPCs to hell and then having a lotta girltalk...
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Players Are Funny And Horrible
Last session was pretty funny an iphone video is worth 1000 half-remembered lines of transcribed dialogue, so here we go.Set-up:We’re playing Maze of the Blue Medusa and the players have found an exit...
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Non-magic Ranger for 5e
Who decided rangers would be magical? Probably it's Gary's fault somehow but whatever...This is for my hacked version of 5e--like the paladin I made (Knight of Tittivila) it's a non spell-casting...
View ArticleThe One Thing Everybody Playing Should Do
Broad "Listen Up Everybody!" advice on GMing often boils down to a list of things that'd be great if you had infinite time or a list of things that would be really dead-on if you were a totally...
View Articled100 Brutalizer
These 2 tables are attached to no specific critical hit mechanic--many of the crit charts that already exist are very good and I presume if you want to play a game where combat takes a roll or two...
View ArticleIt's Possible To Suck At D&D
Perhaps because it involves so many nerds, the RPG community has a much tougher time than the sports community accepting really that sometimes people just suck and redesigning the game won't fix that....
View ArticleStay In Your Lane
I assume readers know evolution is not a conspiracy. You start out with a small tree shrew and—through nothing other than the pressure to survive in various environments—you end up with a giraffe whose...
View Article"Deep"
1IssuesRaise your hand if you considered these things as a teenager--and raise both if you came to some conclusion about them that you still hold:-What are the differences between a terrorist and a...
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This Is Some Kind Of Milestone of Something
The mainstreaming of D&D continues: 5th edition is still selling like hotcakes, comedians-playing-D&D shows proliferate, properties like Skyrim and Game of Thrones and the Hobbit movies grab...
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My Name Is God (I Hate You)
The real world has no genre. Stuff happens in whatever order for pinball reasons. Not so D&D.I'm imagining a cleric or philosopher inside the game world who accurately discovers the broad...
View Article5th Edition Skills vs Old School Skills
5th edition D&D's skill list has always struck me as a pretty good list of the kinds of things characters try to do outside of combat, but a lot of old schoolers glaze over at any kind of...
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Blindheim > Bullywug + Cambion, Heavy
Still redoing the monster manual...BULLYWUG BLINDHEIMPage 35 of the 5th ed Monster Manual brings us to the bullywug, a boring petting-zoo-people reskinned goblin which should not exist. They should be...
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The End of Thought Eater
These two essays are not by me--they are the final two essays in the Thought Eater DIY RPG Essay Contest. The winner of this round reigns supreme for all time!Here's the first one--if you like it best...
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Things You Can Do With Ram's Dungeon Mad-Libber
So Ram over at Total Party Kill has, in response to me just being like "Somebody should..." just went ahead and made the most useful random adventure widget since the Last Gasp Generators.What Ram's...
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Zak vs Adrian Smith, Round Two
click to enlargeA few months ago, I posted about doing an homage to an Adrian Smith illustration from one of the old Realms of Chaos books--and about how I fucked it up. This is my second attempt--I...
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The Secretest Pearl (a campaign for levels 1-12)
There is a secret ocean, hidden to contain Tiamat and the Malachite Gods.The ocean contains a secret continent, where the xenophobic people fear contact with the cursed ocean.The continent contains a...
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