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OMG: Babylonian, Sumerian and Akkadian, Part 2
I am going to spend some more time today with the Babylonian myths and focus on a couple of the personalities in particular.Again, I am not doing this to poke holes in the scholarship of the original...
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This Old Dragon: Issue #71
Grabbing an early one from my stack today and I see this is another one from Eric Harshbarger. How can I tell? The cover is intact and it doesn't smell like mildew. Which is great because this is also...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Runewild
This one just came to me today and it looks so cool I have to share.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matthewjhanson/the-runewild-a-fey-themed-5e-sandbox-campaign?ref=theothersideA dark, fey themed...
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Weekend Gaming: Back into the Nentir Vale!
Gaming life at the Brannan house has been dominated by my oldest son running three separate and independent D&D 5 games. My youngest is playing in one of them. So a lot of games are happening in...
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OMG: Babylonian, Sumerian and Akkadian, Part 3
I want to wrap up this edition of OMG with some of the missing gods and demons from the Babylonian, Sumerian and Akkadian myths in the Deities & Demigods.Let's mention an OBVIOUS miss here.Where is...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Harvesters
Troll Lords does great Kickstarters. This one is no exception.Harvesters the Role Playing Gamehttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/676918054/harvesters-the-role-playing-gameFrom the Kickstarter:WHAT IS...
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Father's Day Weekend Gaming
Had a fairly packed weekend game wise.Friday was our local Public Library sale. Sometimes we can find some gems, but this time all we found was this book on potions.Saturday was Free RPG Day. We all...
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Plays Well With Others: Making 5e Bloodied
Yesterday I talked about how my Nentir Vale/Demon Slayers 5e game is a reboot of my 4e game and I will be adding more 4e elements to it.Today I spent some time with D&D 4e Essentials to see what I...
View ArticleWednesday Night Videos: Happy Summer Solstice!
Right now, as of this posting, the sun is rising over Stonehenge to celebrate the longest day of the year. The Summer Solstice.For some reason, I always want to play this song.I would be lying if I...
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Survive This! Dark Places & Demogorgons Week
I am going to spend some quality time this week with Bloat Games' Dark Places & Demogorgons.The game is set in the 1980s and uses the same basic rules as 1970's era D&D. The game owes more than...
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Review: Survive This! Dark Places & Demogorgons
I'll start off my week-long look at Survive This! Dark Places & Demogorgons with the core rulebook. A little bit of background thought first. I love the 80s in the way a true child of the 80s...
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Monstrous Mondays: Scarecrow for Dark Places & Demogorgons
"Rain on the Scarecrow. Blood on the plow.Blood on the scarecrow. Blood on the plow" - John Mellencamp, ScarecrowIs there anything more ubiquitous to the midwest than the cornfield? How about that...
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Review: Survive This! Dark Places & Demogorgons Companions
Today I spend even more quality time with Dark Places & Demogorgons. There are a number of great supplements now out for PD&D and more on the horizon. Right now I am going to focus on these...
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Plays Wells With Others: Dark Places & Demogorgons and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Reading over Dark Places & Demogorgons I could not help but make comparisons to another game of strange things going on with high school kids fighting monsters. Of course, I am talking about the...
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Willow & Tara: Survive This! Dark Places & Demogorgons
Yesterday I took the entire Buffyverse and dropped them into 1984 Ohio and found it works rather well. Today I want to continue that thought but also do a deep dive into the three witch classes that...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Lots of Updates
Lot's of cool looking Kickstarters in various stages of funding. Let's check them out!First up is the Blackwind Project: A new plot-driven tabletop...
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Reuniting Families Charity Bundle
I am pleased to announce that that three Other Side Publication books have been added to the Reuniting Families Charity bundle to raise money for RAICES to help to get families reunited that were...
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OMG: Celtic Mythos, Part 1
Brigid. Imbolc by TerraIncantataWelcome back to another edition of "One Man's God". Today I want to cover something very near and dear to my heart; the Celtic Myths.The Celtic Mythos from the Deities...
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Inactivity Update
Things have been kinda quiet over here at the Other Side.Sorry about that.My day job has hit a busy period and I have been given a promotion. This time the promotion came with the increased pay AND...
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