You Got Democracy in My Medieval Fantasy!
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Too many fantasy settings feature the political systems of the real world
middle ages, but there isn’t a good reason for this prevalence. I make the
case f...
Theatre: In Rep We Trust
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* Primary Trust *by Eboni Booth Directed by Kaytlin McIntyre, Seattle REP,
through November 24th
OK, after *By the Skin Of Our Teeth*, I was looking at r...
Ask the Alexandrian #15: Speedrunning Dragon Heist
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S. & B. ask: In the Dragon Heist Remix, what should I do if the PCs head to
the Brandath Crypts and find the secret door leading to the vault doors
early? ...
Calling the Ancestors & Faring Forward Bravely
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Laura Galli's painting above, from 13th Age 2E, illustrates the icon
connection example when a half-orc with a connection to a High Druid averts
bloodshe...
The Ghosts of Gallhart
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We're back to our Savage Krevborna campaign with a Halloween-themed session!
*Characters*
Aria, a paladin struggling with her true nature
Heck, an affa...
Halloween treat, no trick
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Forty years ago I wrote my first gamebook. I was a roleplayer and board
gamer. I’d played the Fantasy Trip solo adventures, and even wrote a short
solo d...
Cthulhubane
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So this started as a joke on *Bluesky* with *Old Scouse Roleplayer*: if
*Dragonbane* = streamlined *RuneQuest* then we ought to have ‘Cthulhubane’
= stre...
Trail of Cthulhu 2e and Broken Empires
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I try not to back funding projects (on Kickstarter and the like) that often
these days. This is because I backed a few in recent years that I now kind
of r...
Apocrypha Now: A look at Dark Side of the Moon
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IN THE DVD EXTRAS FOR PETER JACKSON'S *The Fellowship of the Ring, *Ian
McKellen (Gandalf) talks about working with Ian Holm (Bilbo). Holm would
intentio...
Awful Green Things In The Dungeon
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After many months of being like Oh man I gotta do that, my friend recently
dug up the copy of *Awful Green Things From Outer Space *that he first
played...
Star Frontiers: Volturnus Racial Abilities
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[image: Ul-Mor in desert]
As you'll know if you followed the spring season of Dan's Olde Time Minis
Show, I've been playing the classic Star Frontiers ga...
Concerning the Future of Traveller
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I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various
books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as
from Ma...
The Great Carriage
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This is the second of three Mammoth Masher vehicles. For continuity, see
the previous two War Machine articles: the *Command Chariot* and the *Vanguard
W...
Pierre Nevejans
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Agrégé d’histoire, Pierre Nevejans, est docteur de L’ École normale
supérieure de Lyon. Il est spécialiste des relations diplomatiques
franco-italiennes à ...
Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland
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Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim
Ward, who passed away just days before the convention. Ward was very
helpful to m...
MYTHES CONCERNANT PAMALT
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Je propose ici quelques notes de lectures du chapitre consacré au culte de
Pamalt dans The Earth Goddesses. C’est une sorte d’aide-mémoire pour
imaginer ou...
Now at ageofravensgames.com
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We've moved locations-- you can now find my blog content, hacks, scenarios,
reviews, TTRPG histories, AP videos and more at ageofravensgames.com.
I'm...
Vaghba's Little Mountain
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The Tower of the Red Dome may be the largest and most ecumenical of the
hostels for Nakome but it isn't the only one in Jakalla's foreign quarter.
If you...
It's been a decade, now...
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This is a tough time of year for me. So, with your indulgence, here's this
link to a post I did a decade ago... EDIT: I have no idea why it didn't
take. S...
Abiørn's Satchel
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This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of
rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and
sh...
It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead
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So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993.
Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps
“dys...
The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections
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Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game,
Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue
and The Tom...
[inspiration] Star Trek : Vanguard
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Une série de 7 romans et un recueil de nouvelles forment une nouvelle
série dans l'univers de Star Trek. Pour se faire une première idée de
l'ambiance, im...
Remember the Golden Age
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PerspectiveI'm sure when the history of Earth is condensed for transport in
the Colonial Authority archives to be taken to Jorune, they will talk bout
the...
Bestiary of the Fabled Occident
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A long time ago I started to put together a bestiary. I've pursued various
other projects in the time since but I still have a fair bit of material
I'd lik...
The Migration Has Begun
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It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have
to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move
to ...
Comme le temps passe !
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Bigre, 2017 est déjà bien entamée, ce blog est moribond depuis plusieurs
années !
En attendant que je le ranime éventuellement, sachez que j'ai bien avancé...
Viridarium Novum
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*A Little Book of Nature*
*'New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also
fruits and little animals, which are very useful to pai...
I ran Torchbearer
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I ran Torchbearer this weekend. I had fun, and I want to run it again.
Damn does this game have a learning curve, though. We were fumbling around
with the...
DC Gameday XIV: Casino Karnstein
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DC Gameday XIV is coming up on the weekend of March 29th-March 30th and
player registration is already open. After a grueling couple of months of
real-worl...
Panorama suggestif. Merci. Mais il n'y a pas à dire: plus c'est récent, plus cela s'apparente à des cauchemars. S'agit-il simplement du caractère de plus en plus réaliste et photographique du graphisme qu'autorise la 3D etc.? ou plus fondamentalement de choix esthétique de plus en plus effrayants? Bien sûr, on ne peut rien déduire d'une sélection. Toz Grecus
Oh, je ne vois pas vraiment : Piranesi au XVIIIe ou Monsu Desiderio au XVIIe sont déjà très cauchemardesques, non ?
Mais depuis le siècle des Lumières on peut associer des architectures néo-classiques à des formes carcérales et "utopiques" (par exemple Ledoux).
Vitanov avec son 3D me fait plus penser à un style oriental comme Angkor Vat qu'à des cauchemars totalitaires/dystopiques (même si les fractals sont un peu trop symétriques).
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Panorama suggestif. Merci. Mais il n'y a pas à dire: plus c'est récent, plus cela s'apparente à des cauchemars. S'agit-il simplement du caractère de plus en plus réaliste et photographique du graphisme qu'autorise la 3D etc.? ou plus fondamentalement de choix esthétique de plus en plus effrayants? Bien sûr, on ne peut rien déduire d'une sélection.
Toz Grecus
Oh, je ne vois pas vraiment : Piranesi au XVIIIe ou Monsu Desiderio au XVIIe sont déjà très cauchemardesques, non ?
Mais depuis le siècle des Lumières on peut associer des architectures néo-classiques à des formes carcérales et "utopiques" (par exemple Ledoux).
Vitanov avec son 3D me fait plus penser à un style oriental comme Angkor Vat qu'à des cauchemars totalitaires/dystopiques (même si les fractals sont un peu trop symétriques).
(c'est surtout le peintre Hoenerloh qui me paraît sinistre avec ses façades interminables de prisons grisâtres)
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