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Ouroboros University: Chapel of Saint Alberic

Posted on February 22, 2012 | No Comments
Chapel of Saint Alberic (1), the adjacent rectory and the campus tunnels running under these buildings house the Ouroboros University’ seminary, one of its major colleges. Here paladins, clerics and...
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Points on a Map: The Oasis of Del Foor – Possible Plots

Posted on February 21, 2012 | No Comments
Welcome back to Points on a Map! In previous installments we learned a bit about the history and people of the Oasis of Del Foor and the settlement of Ashid....
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A 4e N00b’s Take On D&D Next

Posted on February 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
Hundreds of dollars spent, countless hours of research and writing, getting up to speed on a whole new system of rules – only to be told a few months...
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Sex at the RPG Table: A Dicey Proposition

Posted on February 14, 2012 | 8 Comments
Dating work colleagues, asking a woman her weight, talking politics and/or religion at Thanksgiving dinner and, most importantly to us, sex in your RPG. All of these topics are usually...
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Episodic Adventures: A New Take on RPG Adventure Design?

Posted on February 13, 2012 | 11 Comments
No, but life can get busy. Sometimes so busy that you leave the gaming table for 15-years before you realize how much you love playing RPGs. Even then, once you...
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Ouroboros University: A Musical Education

Posted on February 8, 2012 | No Comments
“Bards suck” -Zack Sabbath “I take that as a challenge.” -Grumpy Celt Ouroboros University provides the finest musical teaching for leagues around, providing many with instructions in singing, dance,...
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Points on a Map: The Oasis of Del Foor – Personalities

Posted on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
Welcome back to Points on a Map! Last time we started to describe Ashid, a settlement built around the Oasis of Del Foor. Beneath the trees and near the oasis’...
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Are Alien Big Cats stalking your players?

Posted on February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments
Looking for some spice for your roleplaying game? Perhaps a new monster? But of course, without flavour, any new creature is just a bunch of statistics. So let’s turn to...
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Things to Love, Things to Hate: February RPG Blog Carnival

Posted on February 1, 2012 | 22 Comments
February belongs to Cupid – it’s a month of love and lust, want and wonder. On the flip side, it’s also a month of scorn, disappointment, and frustration for some...
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Hunting the Beast: The Real Reason I Left D&D (Only To Return)

Posted on January 31, 2012 | 3 Comments
When a person leaves anything that he or she loves doing, deep-seeded reasons have to be involved. What follows is an attempt, after a 15-year hiatus from TTRPG, to delve...
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A Fork in the Road: Starting the Adventure

Posted on January 29, 2012 | 3 Comments
Drop this encounter into your existing 4E D&D campaign to add a bit of Old School D&D fun to your game.
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Exodus, by Eric Staggs

Posted on January 27, 2012 | No Comments
1. They stood on the ancient ramparts together, watching the refugees stream into the city. The sunset behind them, the long shadows of the delicate spires of the...
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The Great Beyond – Surf’s Up!

Posted on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Once again – Happy New Year to all you readers out there! This month’s RPG Blog Carnival post is taking us to Fantastic Places. After role-playing for so many...
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Back From The (Un)Dead: How a 15-Year D&D Hiatus Ended

Posted on January 24, 2012 | 8 Comments
In April of 2011, I came home to Dungeons & Dragons after a 15 year absence. It was a decision made outside the vacuum of the TTRPG community, hence totally...
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Slumbering Heroes – A Super-Powered Campaign Setting

Posted on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
Every gamer faces the same dilemma at some point: What game should I run next? Well, this article proposes that you take two genres and slam them together to...
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Ouroboros University: The Amphitheater [D&D]

Posted on January 18, 2012 | No Comments
The Amphitheater at Ouroboros University features a horseshoe shaped seating area open to the weather, though the stage and the seating closest to the stage are have a roof but no...
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Interview with Angel Leigh McCoy, Stories in the Ether Author & Guild Wars 2 Designer

Posted on January 12, 2012 | 33 Comments
Angel Leigh McCoy loves writing. Her fiction has appeared in numerous print and digital media, and in 2011 alone she published stories in the anthologies Beast Within 2, Fear of the Dark, Growing...
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Fantastic Locations: Agharta & The Hollow Earth

Posted on January 10, 2012 | 6 Comments
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by K.J. Davies blog and the topic is “Fantastic Locations”. There have already been a good number of solid contributions from all...
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2011 – Fans, Visitors, and Sales

Posted on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Like a few other small press publishers (see links below), I like to make public our annual subscriber numbers, sales figures and site traffic so that our fans and other...
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The Gorgon’s Love, by Martin Shelby

Posted on January 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
She sat curled and despondent, looking into the still waters of the reflecting pool. It was not much company, but over her long years of solitude she had grown...
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Allow your Players to be Awesome

Posted on January 3, 2012 | 7 Comments
The game master brings the plot and the settings, and the players bring the action heroes. The goal of everyone, both players and the GM, is to create something Awesome.
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Looking Ahead Into 2012

Posted on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment
On Friday I wrote about the ups and downs of Nevermet Press in 2011 – now it’s time to look ahead into the new year that is upon us. What...
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2011 Year in Review

Posted on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
Well, 2012 is just around the corner folks. Today, I’d like to take the opportunity to review where we’ve been and what we’ve learned in 2011. It’s been an interesting...
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“Charlie Darwin, or the Trine of 1809″ Now on Kindle

Posted on December 29, 2011 | No Comments
Come—your fairy princess awaits you...
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Steampunk: I Want To Be Convinced…

Posted on December 29, 2011 | 14 Comments
I am not all that much of a fan of steampunk—but, I wanted to get educated on the topic. I thought, “Maybe the reason I do not like steampunk all that...
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Ouroboros University: An Introduction

Posted on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
The fey city Ydalir is home to the oldest known university and the madrasah of the City of Brass educates creatures from across the planes who can survive voyage to...
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The Krampus Christmas Carnival Round-Up

Posted on December 25, 2011 | 6 Comments
First off — MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Krampus Christmas Carnival is finally over – so let’s have another look at Steven Austin’s kick ass artwork, shall we? It’s been a crazy...
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Top 5 Krampus Sites on the Internet

Posted on December 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
In November I reached out to the RPG blogging community (here and here), as well as a some excellent publishers and steampunk bloggers, about contributing to this week’s Krampus Christmas...
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We Dinna Practice Christmas Here, by Dave D’Alessio

Posted on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
Colonel Sassenach looked like quite the dandy in his brown uniform. “We dinna practice Christmas here,” I told him, “It hae been banned by law since the days of...
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The Hope Day Massacre [4E D&D]

Posted on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
Often times in RPGs an opportunity is missed to spice up the game with celebrations and holidays for the PCs that coincide in time with real-world holidays. I am guilty...
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