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New Year New Gigacrawler
Longtime readers and clever postscavenging souls will remember Gigacrawler--the claustrophobic multigenre sci-fi dungeoncrawl based on an idea by me with crowdsourced content from the entire...
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This Fucking Town
I live in downtown Los Angeles and this is all true.Downtown LA is literal Raymond Chandler territory. A sign over a urinal near here says "Charles Bukowski pissed here". Mickey Cohen, too. Blade...
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Fa-ther: What. Am. I???
For Demon City.art by me. click to enlargeARTIFICIAL LIFEFORMThese creatures are unique results of technological innovation and are never fully understood, even by their creators. Though many appear...
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How To End A Campaign
So we're playing Rogue Trader...The first session the Seneschal (played by Dorea) decides the best solution is to assassinate someone inconvenient on a star base--I missed that session. The star base...
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Contessa Event Submission for GenCon is Open
Contessa, if you don't know, is an excellent organization dedicated to spreading diversity in tabletop RPGs.For a while they've been running a "con-within-a-con" at GenCon.Their event submission for...
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Whoa Yeah Game Art
Been workin' on some RPG art...This is for the MYSTERY PROJECT but for MYSTERY REASONS it might also bein Demon City tooAll this black & white stuff is for Frostbitten and Mutilated, aka "Amazons...
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Thanks to Maxine Hong Kingston
New painting, new monster, with Demon City stats...CHOKING GHOSTA choking ghost coalesces around the dead soul of a victim whose belly has been sliced open. They kill by strangling victims with their...
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Matt Finch (Frog God Games, Swords & Wizardry, Tome of Adventure Design, Spire of Iron and Crystal, cats and dogs living together) and I had a loooooooooong conversation about pretty much every RPG...
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Those Who Crawl To A Godless Place
New demon, suitable for any game, with Demon City stats..DEMONS OF THE SECOND ORDERThe Chagidel are Insect Demons—their goal is to obscure, becloud and misinform and to thereby inculcate misrule....
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Zoomorph
with Demon City statsThese are hybrid creatures that, through necromancy or unknown science, have the characteristics of both a humans and an animal—hunched maggot-people, children with the heads of...
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Cultist
new demon city thing...There are belief systems which demand devotion to principles not rationally discoverable, to unelected leaders who claim to speak on behalf of an otherworld which lies elsewhere...
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Psychodrama and Sociodrama and RPGs
At the Indiecade before last I was looking at a game by a well-known Indie RPG darling/gadfly:It was a freeform LARP--presenting, as an avant-garde game, the following scenario: two players play a...
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Frostbitten & Mutilated preview+More Matt Finch Conversation
Oh, check it--here's the 3rd part of me talking to Matt (Frog God Games, Tome of Adventure Design, Swords & Wzardry, etc) Finch. We start by brainstorming a Northern Islamic setting.Now:Ladies and...
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The Dream-Space of Abstract Threat
"Something real and tangible, yet fraught with infinite suggestions of nighted mystery, now confronted me."Reading Lovecraft's Shadow Out Of Time again--it's great.The usual sort of nervous academic...
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The Biggest Scandal In The History of RPGs
Let's talk about exploitationSome Basic MathI write a column for an art magazine.It's like 700 words. Functionally speaking (including talking to my editor and looking stuff up and rewriting) it takes...
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Demon City Preview With Sexy Sexy Layouts
Click a layout to enlarge itClick this tag to find out moreGo here to help outHaven't copy-edited the text yet so there's clear spelling and punc fuck-ups, but you get an idea what it'll look like.And...
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She's a Witch
version of the witch for Demon Cityp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Avenir} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Avenir; min-height: 16.0px} WITCHES (also...
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Those Crowned In Bone
from Demon CityThose Crowned In BoneDemons of the Eighth OrderArt by me, acrylic on paper. Click to enlargeThe Angels of Death, The Samael, The Wailing Ones, The Divine Poison, Handmaids of the Eighth...
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Horror Vacui (guest-starring Scrap Princess)
Scrap Princess wrote this monster and these tables for Demon City.painting by mep.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Avenir} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Avenir;...
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Those Who Bring Piercing Weapons
First: Some bad news--Stacy from Contessa has cancer.Better news--for 6 more day, you can help. Here.Now here's a monster from Demon City...click to enlargeDEMONS OF THE SEVENTH ORDER—Those Who Bring...
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