Everyone loves Sparlock
I just discovered JaclynGlenn on YouTube and she discovered Sparlock.She rips the video too. Watch her channel, it's great.
View ArticleDamn. There goes *that* idea!
So I am reading Christopher Hitchen's Arguably and I had the great idea for new RPG.It was going to to be a game where all the characters are investigative reporters of various types. The idea then...
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White Dwarf Wednesday #77
White Dwarf #77 does nothing whatsoever to change my impression that White Dwarf shares a lot with Heavy Metal Magazine. The cover is the famous Heavy Metal magazine cover of September 1981 and movie...
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Return to the Caves of Chaos
How many gamers cut their teeth on The Caves of Chaos / Keep on the Borderlands?I have been taking my own kids through this well trod adventure for our current 1st Ed AD&D game. For this time...
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30 Day D&D Challenge
Anthony Emmel over at Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things is going to do the 30-Day D&D Challenge.I have seen this floating around and thought it was a cool idea. He makes the very good point...
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Part 2
Looks like I am going to be in good company with this.http://isungr.blogspot.com/2013/08/30-day-d-challenge-upcoming.html (who had the idea...
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The Quests of the Ancients / Forgotten Realms connection
I just discovered something neat.A character from this:Makes an appearance in this:Raven TenTolliver, the woman on the QoA cover in the dark cloak, is also known as Rhiannon and Whisper. According to a...
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Zatannurday: The Fishnets Brigade
It looks like the oft-rumored Zatanna-Black Canary team-up is going to happen.The news comes from Paul Dini himself.Here is the...
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 1: How You Got Started
Day 1: How You Got StartedI got started in 1979. I was in "silent reading" and a buddy had a copy of the new AD&D Monster Manual. WOW. IT blew my mind. I loved mythology and had already read...
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 2: Favorite Playable Race
Day 2: Favorite Playable RaceThis one is easy, if predictable. I prefer to play humans. I just always felt that despite all the perk the other races got, humans still got the best deal. Plus in the...
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 3: Favorite Playable Class
Day 3: Favorite Playable ClassWell this one is no surprise. The Witch.I started out playing clerics and paladins which was fun. I did indeed play the cleric like Van Helsing (all those Hammer films)....
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 4: Favorite Game World
Day 4: Favorite Game WorldMine is a tie. My first and nearest to my heart was "The Known World" later called Mystara. But I quickly adopted Greyhawk. So when I ran games it was Mystara, but playing...
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White Dwarf Wednesday #78
Big changes are in store for White Dwarf in issue #78. But first a point of reference. When I started these so long ago they were meant as a retrospective. That is going to get harder here on out...
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 5: Favorite Set of dice/individual die
Day 5: Favorite Set of dice/individual dieUnlike many players it seems I am not superstitious about dice. My current favorite is the ones that I have at the table, 'cause anytime I am rolling dice is...
View ArticleOld School Systems Questions
One of the things the OSR was supposed to do (at least in my mind) was free us from the necessity of rules fundamentalism. Making products for OSRIC for example was allow publishers to make "1st...
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And this is happening...
New cover for Eldritch Witchery. Due out next month!Eldritch Witchery is due out for Spellcraft & Swordplay.
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 6: Favorite Deity
Day 6: Favorite DeityTough one really. As a kid I loved Hecate for obvious reasons. Her picture in the Deities & Demigods did nothing to dissuade me from my opinion either.But it was Dragon #88...
View ArticleWikipedia is irritating me
Well. Not Wikipedia, but some of the deletionists.Now they want to delete the article on Tharizdun, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TharizdunSo. Anyone know of some good 3rd party (not TSR or WotC)...
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30 Day D&D Challenge, Day 7: Favorite Edition
Day 7: Favorite EditionHow does one choose this?I really have enjoyed all editions of D&D. Basic was my first, Advanced my most played, 3rd the most flexible in terms of how to play...I guess in...
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Zatannurday: Super-Team Family
I have featured Zatanna covers from the great Super Team Family blog in the past. But recently they hit their 1000th post and it featured two of my favorites. Zatanna and Harry Potter.Love the...
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