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A New Zak Print Project AND Red and Pleasant Land Is Being Reprinted
I won in court and I'm innocent, publishers have decided to start making Zak books again:Fierce Ponies is a publishing company run by transmasc gamer Molly Scanlon and Ponies is putting out a new print...
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A Gift To Jojiro
So, since I won, more apologies are trickling in. Which is good: every public apology is one less person I might have to sue.But a lot of people are doing weird in-between things, here's a telling...
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From the upcoming book
These are all 2-page spreads, so click to enlargeSpread one--the LegendThe Nebulith nowAwa Nikko Hexmap, contents belowHEX MAP(areas marked with a * have their own section elsewhere in the book)1. The...
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Write Snout To Tail
MaterialWhen interviewers ask me about how I approach writing RPG stuff I usually say something like "It's a lot like writing a novel or other story, you just do it like that."I realize that might not...
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Ask Them Why.
I sued again. It worked. Again.-In 2019, by taking advantage of my estranged and mentally-ill ex, basically the entire tabletop RPG industry decided to start harassing me.It worked. They destroyed my...
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Universal Ultimate Theory of OSR Play
GO! PLAy! GO! NOW! HURRY!After two decades of RPG theory, I have boiled down the principles of Old School Renaissance RPG theory down to a single principle.--(Oh wait before that, important...
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The Most OSR Session
Before I go on to this actual play report, a legal update:Details here. And here.----Anyway, let's get back to games. This is Slorm:Slorm is a goblin and a cleric who appears weekly in OSR founder*...
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Idiots With Benefits
Before I go into real news, legal update/rumor control: In 2021 a judge tried to dismiss my defamation case against Gen Con—this was much celebrated by right wing douchenozzles on twitter. I appealed...
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This Is All Jeff's Fault
An Interview/Conversation with the first(?) OSR blogger:Jeff Rients, of Jeff's Gameblog Q: So, you might be the very first OSR blogger, so one of the founders of the OSR? Am I wrong?I might be the...
View ArticleCollectivity, Cooperation and Challenge
Failures of Collective SpiritEveryone on the internet, and many people who aren't, have had an experience like this:-"Hey guys don't we all love this boat we're on!"-"Yes we do! Or, at least--it is...
View ArticleCampaigns Are Inconvenient--And Always On Your Mind
Here's a thing you notice if you hang out in fan spaces--I'll use comics as an example because with games it'd be confusing.A comics critic/pundit/gadfly starts talking: "Batman Batman Batman...
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Why Everybody's "Deeply Magical" But Humans
Elves have magic--they're so magic that there's boots just called "Boots of Elvenkind" and they're magic just because they're elvenkind. Halflings can't be seen half the time, even when they're right...
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I'm Going To Break Some News About The New Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
As far as I know--nobody knows what I'm about to write but me and the chain of people who got it to me, so it's breaking news.There's a new Marvel superhero RPG. Though playtest kits have been out for...
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You're Welcome, Universe
So, ok.I play Slorm.Cleric of the only true god and horrible goblin. Also, oddly, voice of reason in the party because everyone else in the game is a lunatic.Principally: James Edward Raggi IV,...
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Some Raw Kael
When you're in the game blog game, what you're doing is writing nonfiction where you are describing fictions.That's also what movie reviewers do--including Pauline Kael, the New Yorker's old...
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Going To See The Sage Should Be Awesome
The sage knows the thing that the party wants to know about. They're gonna want to visit the sage.But here's the other thing: if you don't know about the thing the party wants to know about yet,...
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The d100 Drugs Table
People often ask for drugs. So here are the drugs.Every drug matches the “Standard Drug” except where otherwise noted.Standard Drug:Notes: A common amusement among criminals, the unlucky, and the...
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Keith Giffen Is Dead And He Was Better Than Anybody
Keith Giffen died.He has been sick for many years, so it's not a surprise but, still, I'm sad.If you look him up, you'll notice in all the comic book news site eulogies, he's weirdly hard to summarize....
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The Rotting Queen
So-named because pieces keep falling off her miniatureThere she is, the Rotting Queen. Half-shadow elf, half-spider, ruling forgotten halls beneath Broceliande.The majority of the ancient and terrified...
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Picture Dungeon
"Niveau" just means level. "Grotte visible a maree basse" means the cave is visible from the water EDIT: ...at low tide.Blue S is a secret door.I think the guy with the purple cape in 24 and 25 is the...
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