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Phantastic!
So I was poking around Moby Games, looking at old Commodore 64 games, as I am wont to do from time to time. Today I was checking out Phantasie II. I never played this one back in the day. The only SSI...
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Spent the today & yesterday learning the Reacting To The Past curriculum, basically What If College Was Roleplaying Games. Good stuff. But at the final Q&A I saw a lot of the newbies asking the...
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Random Vanthian Adventurers Tattoos (d100)1A 5th dimensional leprechaun holding a tankard of ale in one hand and flipping the bird with the other.2A Beautiful Gjenie Emerging from a Bottle3A Broken...
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I keep forgetting to mention this.
Many moons ago Settembrini, Germany's foremost old schooler, ask me for some material that could be translated into German for the gaming periodical Abenteuer. I sent him a level of my old Wessex...
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circumnavigating Miskatonia
So for the past couple of days I've been playing Minima, a tiny homage to the early installments in the Ultima series built for the PICO 8 environment. You can play this game in your browser, which is...
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a major network in BX
Elf and dwarf PCs in BX D&D begin play speaking three monster languages each, as shown on the chart above using arrows with solid black lines. That means you are taking away a class ability if...
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The Orcs of Asgard
I've talked about Asgard Miniatures a few times in the past. They used to run great full page ads in Dragon back in the day. I'm fond of several of their 25mm adventurers, particularly the Looter,...
View ArticleTURN by Traverse Fantasy
Many moons ago Brendan over at Necropraxis wrote a very smart blogpost called Overloading the Encounter Die. Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy took the concept, expands it a bit, and remediates it into a...
View Articlethe OSR as a subject of scholarly inquiry
The other day I was wondering how Nicholas Mizer was doing. He played the elf Celumir the Bald (I hope I'm getting that PC name right) in my first FLAILSNAILS campaign, the one set in Wessex. If I am...
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Wizardry still has some magic
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is an old computer dungeon crawler. It's not the oldest, but it's the first I know of that let's you generate and manage a whole party of adventurers. I...
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cheap Cha'alt
RPG naughty fellow Venger Satanis, peddler of "Neo-Quasi-O5R and Vintage Demon Laser Sleaze", is running a sale on his three Cha'alt hardcovers. Details here.Not this guy.
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Wednesday was the office holiday party. We had a nice lunch with some sliced ham and smashed potatoes. Then we did a white elephant gift exchange where my colleague Cliff ended up receiving the glass...
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The Bunny
There's a variety of board games where, at any given time, there's one special player. This is common in games with multiple rounds where the order of who goes first each round changes, but there are...
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Have you seen this monster?
What has 4 arms, 3 eyes 3 bat-like ears, and a purple tongue?I don't know. What?I don't know either, but it's eating your henchman!This is an old (pre-1980, I think) figure from Archive minis. I've...
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Game of Theseus?
FULL DISCLOSURE: I was comped a copy of this game and I played in one of the playtest sessions.I think that says Encounter Critical.Q: If you take a game, replace the mechanics AND swap out the...
View Articleone more quick one on the OGL
I am going to quote myself from an unrelated kerfuffle in 2005, with one edit:Also, the fact that one or more decision makers at White Wolf WotC actually thought the first policy was okey-dokey and...
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