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Review: T4 Marc Miller's Traveller (1996)
We are now up to 1996. Games Designer's Workshop, unfortunately, had folded at the end of February 1996. At this time the rights to Traveller reverted back to Mark Miller. So Mark started Imperium...
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Review: Traveller20 (2002-2007)
We are now in another new decade. In fact a new century and a new millennium in fact. And of course another new edition of Traveller. Interestingly enough we are now 25 years out from the Little Black...
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Review: Traveller Main Rulebook (2008)
We are getting to the end of our journey into the various editions and versions of Traveller. Today I am bringing us to the modern era and will spend some time with the various Open Gaming editions of...
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Review: T5 Traveller5 Core Rules 3-Book Set (2015)
We are entering a strange time now. There are now two editions of Traveller on the market, the Mongoose version and now, in 2015, a new version from Far Future Enterprises, the inheritor of Game...
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Review: Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition (2016, 2022)
We are coming to the end of my journey with the Traveller rule system. Not 100% at the end, but getting there. Today I want to talk about the newest, 2nd Edition of Mongoose Traveller. This edition...
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Review: Traveller and Cepheus SRDs
Ok. I will be honest this is much less of a review than it is an overview/analysis of the various Traveller and Traveller like SRDs and OGLs. Mongoose SRDMongoose, back in 2008 released the first...
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Monstrous Mondays: Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium for 5e
Getting back to my Monstrous Mondays with a review of a Monstrous Compendium, but this is a new Monstrous Compendium for 5th Edition D&D. This might very well be the new format for monsters for...
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Sci-Fi / Traveller Month Wrap-up
I can't believe we are at the end of May now. My plans had been to do a Sci-Fi month featuring Traveller but also doing some other games as well. The month got away from me and as I started my deep...
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It's June!
The last couple of months has been really busy here at the ole' Other Side. I went from the "April A to Z" right into SciFi month. I think June is a great time to get back to the bread and butter of...
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It's STILL June!
I know. Redundant. A few things.1. I was spending some time going through old posts and I have a bunch of dead links, more or less dead pages, and the like. So I was thinking a site redesign might...
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Monstrous Mondays: Faerie Lord, Scáthaithe, The Umbral Lord
I have been in a bit of a creative slump here lately. By "lately" I mean the last few months. I do want to get my various monster books done though. So here is a guy been rattling around in my brain...
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D&D Edition Wars: Why CAN'T I Play a B/X Paladin?
It's June and I have mentioned that it is D&D month around here. The natural question then is, "Which D&D?" All of them! "Even that one?" Yes. Even that one.I was going through a bunch of...
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Review: Xanathar's Guide to Everything (D&D 5e)
Less of a full review but more along the lines of reveiw/my thoughts on what was essentially the Unearthed Arcana of D&D 5th Edition.Why this particular book now? There are a few of the classes...
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This Old Dragon: Issue #63
Normally with my This Old Dragon retrospectives, I talk a little bit about the time when the magazine was published. This issue was out in July 1982. But that is not the time I associate this issue...
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New D&D Minis and Figures
So the universe has decided I need to spend more money on little plastic people. Up first, and very near and dear to my heart are new NECA, LJN-style D&D action figures. They look great, but I am...
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Monstrous Mondays: Angels
One of the things holding up my completion of Basic Bestiary I is honestly what am I going to do about Angels? By that, I mean Good Aligned Outsiders that populate the upper planes and are the...
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Happy Birthday to Me!
Yesterday was my Birthday! My oldest spent his day off smoking ribs and brisket for me.My youngest made me a strawberry pie with strawberries picked from my wife's garden.I also picked up some...
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Review: DragonQuest, First Edition (1980)
I have a history with DragonQuest. Not a complicated one or even an interesting one, but history all the same. Back in 83 or 84 or so I would head to Belobrajdic's Bookstore in my hometown every...
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One Man's God: Legends & Lore, 2nd Edition
For this post, I am moving further outside of my original purpose of One Man's God but certainly still within the spirit of why I was doing it. In truth one of the seeds of what would lead me to do...
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Friday Updates; Retro-Builds, DemonQuest and July is coming up.
Finding it hard to post on a Friday when it is so nice out!So some updates.We had some really hot days this week so I took advantage of it and went out to get my TRS-80 Model III case and give it a new...
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