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a videro grame review
Fateful Lore is the first outing from Fantaseel Interactive. It's a tiny Japanese-style retro RPG for your phone (iOS or Android). You play a lone hero trying to save the kingdom. You level up by...
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Had a weird but almost coherent sci-fi dream last night. Here are some ideas that might be worth stealing for someone.A long distance space war starts as the result of a first contact gone wrong....
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Forge beats Machine
HeroForge.com is ostensibly a website where you can design and purchase custom minis for your D&D game. My daughter and I use it the same way we previously used HeroMachine.com: we sit around with...
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good ideas from Mausritter
Mausritter is a fantasy role-playing game in the neighborhood of Bunnies & Burrows and the Redwall novels. Neither of those are my normal bag but I can see the appeal of playing a cute little...
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Take Me Back to Dillhonker City
In this venue I haven't talked about the Zoom game I have been running for a while. The game started as a little pick-up dungeoneering affair with Zak S. and James Raggi. The first batch of sessions...
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Dig this 3-D goon!
I was poking around archive.org as I am wont to do from time to time, when I stumbled over a file called "Brood Giant." It turned out to be a .stl file, which is what one uses for 3D prints. A cat who...
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Ettins weigh just under a ton.
I was re-reading the Referee book from the old Lamentations of the Flame Princess boxed set. It's really good stuff and the PDF version is available for free. James includes a chart in this book for...
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AI and Dragons
AI tools like ChatGPT has the whole educational system in a kerfuffle right now, so this post technically counts as work for me.And here's GPT-4 getting all sorts of things wrong about Broodmother...
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How tall is my brood giant?
In a comment to last Sunday's post, Zak asked about how the beasties from Broodmother Skyfortress matched up to the math I was doing there. He did not like my answer, saying "The Broodmother giants are...
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something less than complete success
My first attempt at 3-D printing came out a little rough. It's supposed to be a 1/7000 spaceship on an integral hexagonal flight stand. My buddy Pat got good results on his rig, so I know the design...
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pledge allegiance
Booty and the Beasts is a 1979 monster and treasure book from Fantasy Art Enterptises. Art by Erol Otus, text by Otus, Mathias Genser, and Paul Reiche III, A pdf of this book has been floating around...
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the hobgoblin's map
The X is where the party encountered the hobgoblins, killing 5, routing 3, and capturing the hobgobbo sergeant. The arrow indicates stairs up to level 1. The corridor labeled "monsters" indicates...
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you are the grimoire
I found this meme on the tumblrs. If you find yourself the DM in this situation, I strongly recommend not taking the time to look up the spell description. Instead, just make some shit up. Change the...
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a step closer to my grand vision
I am a bad drawer. Or, at least, I haven't devoted any time to the prospect of getting better at it. One idea I have had knocking around my head for a long time is "What if a dungeon was laid out like...
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Jordan rules
So my Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure Broodmother Skyfortress has this dead god in it called the Sky King. It is possible to bring this entity back to life. The consequences of doing this...
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There's an Ian Fleming quote
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."Well, this is at least the fourth win for Zak. I wonder what Ian Fleming would say about that?
View Articlea typical spellbook from the Dillhonker City campaign
Title(s): Grimoire of Par Kaar, The Blue Book of Waaz Language(s): Demonic, with some marginalia in SmadjPeriod: The chaotic days of the Wizards of Old.Author: The obscure wizard Par Kaar, with some...
View Articlethis actual play is nuts
I don't really watch actual play videos all that much, as I don't consider D&D to be a spectator sport. (Though I quite like Dungeon Majesty, if anyone remembers that silliness.) But this was one...
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