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- The Trivium Proportion, Part 10 (A Cyberpunk Tale), by David Phillips
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- The Trivium Proportion, Part 10 (A Cyberpunk Tale), by David Phillips
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The Dead Queens of Morvena Summary PDF
Posted on September 3, 2008 | No CommentsI no doubt had fun writing up The Dead Queens of Morvena and, since I received some encouraging feedback from a few readers, I decided to package up the miniseries... -
RPG BLOG CARNIVAL LOGO CONTEST : Win $20 @ Amazon
Posted on September 2, 2008 | 6 CommentsWohoo! The RPG BLOG CARNIVAL that I started last month seems to be taking off! The second round of the carnival has already started, and is being hosted by Donny... -
SAVE THE RUST MONSTER PETITION (FIXED)!
Posted on September 1, 2008 | No CommentsI [cough] stumbled… [cough] … on this while searching through the blogosphere… (/wink) Some people are really pissed that Wizards of the Coast cut the Rust Monster from the new... -
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Module Cover Art
Posted on September 1, 2008 | 2 CommentsSometimes I just miss the simple straight forward approach of the ‘modules’ from days long gone (read: ‘adventures’ to all you younglings). Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was the heyday of... -
RPG BLOG CARNIVAL #1 DONE!
Posted on August 29, 2008 | 9 CommentsToday is the closing day for the RPG BLOG CARNIVAL #1, “Character Death, Resurrection, and The Undead”. I announced this new carnival earlier this month as an open event for... -
That’ll Learn em! WotC puts the smack down on McCainculus
Posted on August 28, 2008 | 3 Commentshttp://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4news/20080828 The president of Wizards of the Coast tell’s the McCain camp to STFU. Nice! (shortest post ever? sry.. I’m at work) -
Ars Magica Players & Info about Troupe Style Playing
Posted on August 27, 2008 | 11 CommentsYesterday I posted about an alternate style of running your Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition role playing game (ok.. take THAT search engines!). Or any RPG for that matter. Unfortunately…... -
Entourage Gaming?
Posted on August 27, 2008 | No CommentsA few weeks ago, Sham’s Grog’n Blog posted about the “Entourage Approach“. Ever since reading his post I can’t get the idea out of my head. It just… won’t… go…... -
“Tinglefoot, Tinglefoot, Tinglefoot Cube” Rediscovered…
Posted on August 26, 2008 | 4 CommentsMany moons ago I submitted an adventure to DUNGEON magazine. I think it was sometime in 2001. It was the only (gaming related) thing I have ever written that I... -
SLASHDOT RULZ Teh InternetZ DooD: WotC Declares Gleemax Site a Critical Failure
Posted on August 25, 2008 | No CommentsI know.. for us in the RPG blogosphere this is “old news” (what.. last week?). Anywho.. I just thought I would share the link to the /. (Slashdot) article even... -
Even More Fun with Fonts…
Posted on August 25, 2008 | No CommentsI posted twice last week (here and here) about some cool fonts for gaming. Well, thanks to a tip sent in to Roleplaying Tips 2.0 I also picked up some... -
Square, Hex, Anything Generator
Posted on August 23, 2008 | 2 CommentsNothing much to say today – only that I stumbled across this page today that generates hex paper (or whatever else you want) on the fly as printable PDFs. The... -
RPG Blog Carnival: One Week Left
Posted on August 22, 2008 | No CommentsOn August 7th I announced the RPG Blog Carnival. So far, it is shaping up to be (in my opinion) a solid success for being so New. We have had... -
The Dead Queens of Morvena (Part 3)
Posted on August 22, 2008 | 2 CommentsThis is the third part in a series on The Dead Queens of Morvena. After the series is completed, I will repost a combined (and likely reedited) version that will... -
McCainculus – A new D&D Humonculus
Posted on August 20, 2008 | 5 CommentsWatching John McCain and Barrac Obama have a discussion about religion and leadership – zero dollars. The price to fill my “economy car’s” tank up after eight years of tyranny... -
Hats Off to MadBrewLabs – and ..|.. Off to McCain’s Blogger
Posted on August 20, 2008 | 3 CommentsI just had to share this – check out this post over at MadBrewLabs about McCain’s asshat blogger. Then read the actual stupid shit the blogger actually said about us.... -
Your Game World is (NOT) teh SuXXorz
Posted on August 19, 2008 | 5 CommentsGot your attention? I just finished reading an essay on world building from The KOBOLD Guide to Game Design, Vol 1 (which is worth the money, btw). Then I pop... -
Jabberwocky & The Origin of Vorpal
Posted on August 18, 2008 | 3 CommentsThe poem “Jabberwocky” is read by Alice early in the Lewis Carroll book “Through The Looking Glass“, the sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland“. What I find interesting here is... -
The Dead Queens of Morvena (Part 2)
Posted on August 16, 2008 | 2 CommentsThis is the second part in a series on The Dead Queens of Morvena. After the series is completed, I will repost a combined (and likely reedited) version that will... -
More Fun with Fonts
Posted on August 15, 2008 | 2 CommentsOK, yesterday I posted something about Cirth and Old English runes and Tegwar script; all of which have been used in various stages of Tolkein’s trilogy. Doing some more digging... -
Cirth, Tegwar, and Old English Rune Generator
Posted on August 14, 2008 | 4 CommentsFor those of you who like to use the occasional prop at your role playing game table, I’ve found a nice little online generator that produces .png image files for... -
Welcome to Carnivalia (+ a few tiny blogger tips)
Posted on August 13, 2008 | No CommentsThe RPG Blog Carnival for this month is going well! So far we have six submissions and a few promised more on the way (listed in the comments of the... -
The Dead Queens of Morvena (Part 1)
Posted on August 12, 2008 | 4 CommentsThis is the first part in a series on The Dead Queens of Morvena. After the series is completed, I will repost a combined (and likely reedited) version that will... -
GSL, SRD, Stealth, New Rituals, and DRAGON Editorials – oh my!
Posted on August 11, 2008 | 2 CommentsA big batch of updates hit the Dungeons & Dragons website over at Wizards of the Coast today. So, while everyone else is talking about the upcoming changes to the... -
Elf-ears…
Posted on August 10, 2008 | No CommentsI’m working on a contribution for the RPG Blog Carnival – so, in the meantime I thought I would share a link a friend of mine sent to me… http://www.instructables.com/id/Body-Mod-Elf-Ears/... -
The RPG Carnival #1, Resurrection
Posted on August 7, 2008 | 26 CommentsThe RPG blogging community is no doubt a fantastic source for gamers across the globe. This community has brought together gaming minds from all over the globe – and is... -
More D&D Magazine Goodness: Kobold Quarterly. Any Others?
Posted on August 7, 2008 | 3 CommentsI’m always amazed at how market forces work, and how products appear wherever there is a demand for it. Yesterday I posted about the magazine Fight On!, and commented on... -
Miss DRAGON? Grab a copy of Fight On!
Posted on August 6, 2008 | 1 CommentA few days ago I offered up an idea about forming a new magazine dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons or PnP RPGs in general; especially now that DRAGON and DUNGEON... -
Mithrendain, Citadel of the Feywild
Posted on August 5, 2008 | No CommentsWizards of the Coast released a juicy bit for DRAGON that supports the upcoming release of the 4E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. The article, “Mithrendain, Citadel of the Feywild” (aka... -
“My Character Should Know That…”
Posted on August 5, 2008 | 8 CommentsHave you ever heard another player at the table utter the above words? Well, I’ve heard it far too many times. This post is dedicated to those players who think...



