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Character Creation Challenge: Fantasy Wargaming
We have all had this one on our shelves at one point or saw it in the book stores and thought to ourselves, "wow I should REALLY do something with that one day."Today is that day. I am going to make a...
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Character Creation Challenge: Dark Ages Mage
Ah! World of Darkness. We have had some great times together. And some not so great. But I never grow tired of picking up a WoD book (new, old, Chronicle, whatever) and seeing what is going on. As...
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Character Creation Challenge: Chill 3rd Edition
Jumping WAY ahead to the future today; at least in terms of the Dark Ages, to the magic time of the 1970s! All my campaigns share a link in one way or another. Adventures like "All Souls Night" may...
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Character Creation Challenge: C. J. Carella's WitchCraft RPG
We are in the last week of this Character Creation Challenge. I wanted to spend this last week on modern games. That is games that take place in modern times. Yesterday was Chill, today I am going to...
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Character Creation Challenge: WITCH Fated Souls
We are getting near the end of this challenge and I find I am sad to see it go. I am going to revisit these characters all at a later date I am sure. Maybe reunite them under one system. Today...
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Character Creation Challenge: The Great American Witch
Last year I supported the Kickstarter for Christopher Grey's The Great American Witch. It is based on a variant of the Apocalypse World Engine but has a lot of neat features of its own. I thought it...
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Character Creation Challenge: Mage 20th Anniversary Edition
I want to end this week the same way I started it; with Mage. Only this time I am focusing on the massive tome that is the Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition.The Game: Mage: The Ascension...
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Character Creation Challenge: Mutants & Masterminds
Mutants & Masterminds from Green Ronin might feel like a stretch from all the other systems I have done, but really it is quite appropriate given the playstyle I like. And if I am doing a...
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Character Creation Challenge: DragonRaid
Here we are. The end of the New Character Creation Challenge. First, a tip of the hat to Tardis Captain for getting this going. This has been a lot of fun and I have considered doing it on the first...
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Character Creation Challenge: Looking Back and Forward
And that is done!I managed to get through the 31 Day New Year, New Character creation challenge. It was quite a bit of fun. In fact, I might continue this on the 1st of each month. I still have...
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One Man's God: Syncretism and the Gods
Hermes TrismegistusIn the pages of the Deities & Demigods (or Gods, Demigods, and Heroes) the Gods and their Pantheons are fairly clean-cut affairs. Greek over here, Egypt over there, Mesopotamia...
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Morelia the Wood Witch for Basic Era D&D (BX/OSE)
I make no excuses for it, I like Ginny Di. She is great and is having more fun with D&D than a roomful of dudes my age. She often has content I enjoy but this week she has given her viewers three...
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Star Trek: Mercy and BlackStar Characters
One thing I wanted to accomplish with the recent Character Creation Challenge was to create characters that I could use in my War of the Witch Queens campaign AND get ideas for a multiverse of...
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#FollowFriday and Kickstart Your Weekend: Zine Quest 3
One of the things I loved about small cons in the 80s (and really, those were the only ones I went too then) was the little indie Zines. Small, cheap (a bonus for a broke high school student) and...
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It's D&D, Not Pie
It's D&D, not pie. You can have as much as you want and there is still more.
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Monstrous Mondays: Yaoguai
Well, January was used up and Monday, February 1st was also taken, so that makes today the first free Monday in 2021 for Monstrous Mondays! Let's get to it.First I want to talk a little bit about my...
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Warlocks & Warriors (1977)
The weekend before last I was at my FLGS and in their "glass case" there was a game that I have been wanting since I opened my first "Gateway to Adventure." That game is Warlocks & Warriors.While...
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Class Struggles: The Bard, Part 2 The Basic Bard
My first Bard for B/X, LarsIt has been a while since I had done one of these so I thought today might be a good time to bring it back. One of my favorite classes has always been the bard. Back in the...
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One Man's God: Chinese Mythos
I stated in my post about the Yaoguai that I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert on Chinese mythology. But even I know there is no way for the Deities & Demigods to cover all the...
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Monstrous Mondays: Buer, The Great President of Hell
Today is President's Day. Since we just got rid of the President from Hell, let's talk about a President of Hell. One of the things that I always found interesting reading demonology texts was the term...
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