Names
A name, in the Halo, is everything. You are no one without a name. She had tried Fortunata, Ceres, Mad Cyril and Berenice. She'd been Queenie Key, Ms Smith, The Business, Vice, Mildew, Miranda, Calder...
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The Right Tools For the Job
It's nice when things that make sense are also things that are fun.Here's one:All those weapons on the D&D equipment list? Y'know the one where a spear does more damage than a shortsword and both...
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Where Do You Get 25,000 xp?
After watching a legless goblin kill a dragon, watching a toad kill a 12th level wizard and a year and a half of implementing miscellaneous death-avoidance and object-acquisitions strategies, my...
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Pictures and Also I Am On A Podcast Again
1. Here is me talking about my D&D book on a podcast. It has guitars. We go into a lot of detail about the book if you still don't know whether to buy one. Really: just do it. As soon as everyone...
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Akayle Ozph
Cultural appropriation is awesomeThose who have seen the faces of Akayle Ozph say that one is a black elf, one is a white goblin and each face has one blind eye. He is twenty feet tall, holds a spear...
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This Week In Improbable Murder
Thursday:Area PCs Drop Mule Corpse Onto Band Of Ascending Gnolls, LevelNarrow Shaft, Simulated Physics Suspected In Sextuple TeraticideFriday:Paraplegic Goblin, Level 1, Swallowed By Dragon, Survives...
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Antimeme
Here's a blog post about blogging. So you can go ahead and skip it if you just want the game stuff.But anyway--Tip: Avoid antimemes.An Antimeme is an idea so self-evidently dumb that it's mostly spread...
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Clock In
1. Next time you plan to read and prep a module (or just part of one) you're going to use in a game, look at the clock when you start.If it's something huge and long, just count the time you spent...
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Dense & Difficult
Once upon a time I saw this in a comic book store and I saw the friendly and familiar DC Comics logo on it and I did not buy it... ...since it was a Morrison/Case Doom Patrol comic, those of you in the...
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What's a 15th level Cleric Look Like In Your Game?
Sister Superior, Vornheim, Year of the Incinerator_____In other news, Jez, a player in my on-line game, wrote this largely accurate love letter to the Cobalt Reach's newest warlord.______Cleric from...
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Who Dies Trying To Free You From Heads & Hamstrings Your Gnolls?
Stacy--a fine GM, and proprietor of Frivology--wrote this.When I say Stacy is smart I mean it, but, although she says what she has to say unusually well, the ideas she's articulating here aren't...
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Monsters, maps, ancient lifeforms, more Stacy, Mexican vampires etc
A lazy linky Sunday:-I always liked David Larkins' Rifts: 2112 stuff--here he is back on the wagon with some alternate mexican vampire setting ideas.-Some real 16th century monsters courtesy of...
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Last Chance To Get Vornheim 1st ed & More Alice Art
A message from the publisher of that RPG book I did about running cities...If you want a physical copy of Vornheim and you see it on a store shelf or in stock at your favorite webstore, GET IT. My...
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Of Fancies and Their Pants
PCs With RankNot all PCs begin or end life as rootless murder junkies.Inherited rankPCs born to rank and privilege are not unknown, but explaining why rich people would be roaming the wide world...
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Useless Piles of Scrap Rusting Away In The Martian Sun--The Early Years
An unfortunate cousin of Noisms Theorem of Character Gen Length and Player Cautiousness seems to be that the more time spent drawing a PC the less time you get to use it.Which law made me somewhat wary...
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Search And Replace Dungeon
Step 1Cut the entire text below the map and paste it into a word processor--without reading it first!Step 2Use the Find-Replace function to replace each of the descriptive terms below in italics with...
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Expedition To Expedition To The Ruins of Greyhawk Part 1
I periodically stare at the pile of RPG books under the bed, rueful and puzzled that there seems to be absolutely not one single useful new idea in the whole stack.Then I go "Oh that can't be true!"...
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Journey To The Creamy Vanilla Center of the Oerth, Part 2
Welcome back to my surely misguided and possibly doomed attempt to actually read a published module all the way through.Ok, so this is section 2, the one where they try to describe the City of Greyhawk...
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Expedition To Ruin Greyhawk, Part 3
Christ, I just read this over and it's unbelievably dire. This module is slowly killing me. Here, have a picture of some hot chicks playing D&D... Stoya, Mandy, MilkOk, now, on with the slow death...
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This Module Was Not Properly Loved, Part 4
Hi, I'm Zak and I try to write a blog. A few days ago I started reading a module called Expedition To the Ruins of Greyhawk.I am reading it all the way through it and when I find a good idea, I write...
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