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Roleplaying Games As Degenerate Art
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Supporting NPCs In A Superhero Game
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Finally, A Use For Astrology
Working hard and playing hard on Demon City, I Am The Weapon,Violence in the Nympharium and The Super Secret LotFP Project.Shawn Cheng's turning in Demon City pages, so I thought I'd share. I love what...
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Fall Book Update
Ok, it's looking more like I can do it in 144 pages, which should make it a little cheaper for y'all.Anyway still Fall 2019, and still stay tuned.
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This is the mini she ordered
Of course the goth wants to play a vampire in D&D--now she's miniature shopping.(this one)(Quick vampire class: A first level vampire can do two "Vampire things" per day. Plus can only die in...
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More Demon City preview spreads...
Some (not all) of the downtime options for Demon City and some more monsters, laid out. Click to enlarge...
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Vanessa Veselka on Selling Flowers & Dying In Grain Elevators
Some of Vanessa's contributions to Demon City--all laid out by Shawn Cheng with art by me. Click to read...
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In the '80s and '90s, D&D had a decent share of the public imagination but so did Shadowrun and Vampire and RIFTS. Now we're mostly back to just having D&D.In five years--outside the niche that...
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Online, in the RPG community, there's a conversation. In general, I mean--people talk about one thing, then another, then another.People learn about new games and game ideas from this conversation, get...
View ArticleA Short History of Actual Change
...in the Tabletop RPG Industry1970s: Dungeons and Dragons is released, leading to...-The hobby as a commercial business beginning and eclipsing wargaming-Zillions of fanzine-level imitators1980s:...
View ArticleSpeak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
Stats tell me the same number of people read these entries as have for years, so I know this'll reach the people it needs to.Recent bullshit aside, a lot of people in gamer land say I am unnecessarily...
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Christmas Present
Christmas present:Before Ragnarok happened, James' idea for the April Fools' release (or was it the Free RPG Day release?) was a book on Bards, made by meI agreed to do it on one condition (well two...
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Diverse Lutes
Random itinerant entertainer class from the cancelled project I wrote about in the last entryThe Troubadourit has this goofy subtitle because rememberwe made the whole book look like an old issue of...
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So, given:-The online RPG community (including probably you) is made up of game masters-The online RPG community is quite capable of cancelling people-Luke Crane (of Burning Wheel) is head of...
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Music Puzzles For Games
In my last entry I promised one content post for each engaged answer to my question I got. There were a few so I owe y'all some game stuff.This is from the previously-mentioned LotFP project that got...
View ArticleI Pull A Random Book Off The Shelf... (random books, with clues)
(also from the unpublished LotFP "Bards" book )Roll d20. Since I don't want the clues spoiled for the girls before we roll, you have to highlight the area after where it says Hidden Clue to read the...
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Spikes and Edges
So much depends upon your attitude toward the sky.In LA--in Sicily and Morocco and all the places Europeans and North Americans call "The South"--half the time you don't even want a roof. The sun is up...
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