Fin de semaine rôludique
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Dernières parutions *.pdf (dont j’attendrai bien sagement la version
papier), pour Warhammer et pour Rikki-Tikki-Traveller. En parlant de
Traveller : James...
Beware the Beast, Man
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Dr. Zaius: Read to him the Twenty-Ninth Scroll, Sixth Verse [of Ape Law].
Cornelius: [reading] “Beware the beast, Man, for he is the Devil’s pawn.
Alone am...
Thronzeker
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One common complaint about fantasy games is that they don't feature enough
dragons, even if the game has "dragon" in its name. Well, here's one from
Krev...
Queen Nyx isn't vanquished overnight
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There haven't been a lot of reviews of Vulcanverse -- probably because it's
6115 sections long, and to get to the climactic battle at the end most
review...
D&D 2024: Hiding & Invisibility
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The rules for hiding and invisibility in D&D 5th Edition have always been a
mess. There’s lots of reasons for this — ranging from the designers of the
game...
‘Level Up’ exhibit at the Chicago Writers Museum
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While Toronto is my ‘home base’ these days, as my wife and I own a condo
there (and her job is based there), I also currently live part of the time
in Chic...
Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits?
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Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question
about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately
this hi...
13th Age 2E Pages: Little Demons
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For the next few weeks, I’m going to share two-page spreads from *13th Age
2E*. The images are showing up first as Kickstarter updates. Here in my
blog, I’...
Mike Mearls About the New Rules
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*Mike Mearls* has been interviewed by *Luke Gygax* on his Twitch TV channel.
Obviously, he addresses Nu RuneQuest; the ‘meaty’ part starts at 00:33:30
and ...
The Theory of the Labyrinth
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A good part of the magic of D&D is from a specific aesthetic effect it
shares with several other types of fiction that I'm going to call The
Theory of th...
Bumps in the Road
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My old D&D BECMI group has finally gone private. This was due to a
technical issue with Facebook's settings intended to screen new membership
requests. For...
Theatre: Anniversary Plays
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*Covenant* by York Walker, Directed by Nicholas Japaul Bernard, Arts West
Through 2 March.
*Blues For an Alabama Sky* by Peral Cleage, directed by Valeri...
The Moon & Serpent Bumper Book of Magic: A Look
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*Looking down on empty streets, all she can seeAre the dreams all made
solid, are the dreams made realAll of the buildings, all of the carsWere
once j...
Posting into the void once more
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With the current enshittification of various online platforms due to the
actions of the wealthy, I’m forced to consider what my future looks like as
a revi...
Check out this fashionable fellow.
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I was looking at the *Tunnels & Trolls* stuff on the ebays and stumbled
across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it
was p...
Bat in the Attic Games and 2025
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Happy New Year Folks!
This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening
with me and my plans for the upcoming year.
Personal
I ...
A Fiftieth Anniversary Year
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The 50th anniversary year of *Dungeons & Dragons *is drawing to a close. A
number of projects I'd been planning for this year finally came out, and I
...
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 ...
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...
QUAND LES RUNES MONTRENT LES DENTS
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Je n’ai presque jamais joué à Vampire: la Mascarade (une ou deux parties il
y a « quelques années », quand le président de la république française
s’appela...
Earth-Tec Beaten into Submission
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Apple goes for blood. I have been a victim of Earth-tec rampantly out of
control because of the greed of the lab Iscins of Apple tech, who have
decided t...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter
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*Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.*
Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other
chara...
The G+ Apocalypse
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This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com
The Tekumel ...
A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria
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This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a
response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the
fantas...
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea]
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Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came
with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) -
he was go...
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...
The Irinites
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The Lunar Empire, as any beef-faced Heortling oaf will tell you between
heroic swigs of mead, is chaotic. Yeah, yeah, there's the roads and the
water works...
The Historical D'Artagnan
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Over on the Osprey Publishing Forum I came across a post that mentioned
this nice video (translated from French into English) about Charles de
Batz-Cas...
Humble Heather
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*Early 19th century hand-coloured *
*engravings of heath flowers*
The vast majority of the 860+ species in the genus Erica (heaths/heather)
are endemic t...
Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso
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Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part
one.
1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion?
You’re probably a p...
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...
Merci, très bonne année aussi. Je dois rendre la pareille comme je me contente de surfer sur mes intérêts de geeks et je suis toujours impressionné par l'ampleur de votre curiosité et de l'approfondissement des auteurs de maximes et aphorismes. Mon brainrot et mon déficit d'attention me privent désormais de toute lecture sérieuse et continue !
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Bonne année à vous.
Je suis admiratif de votre capacité à continuer à alimenter votre blog.
Merci, très bonne année aussi. Je dois rendre la pareille comme je me contente de surfer sur mes intérêts de geeks et je suis toujours impressionné par l'ampleur de votre curiosité et de l'approfondissement des auteurs de maximes et aphorismes. Mon brainrot et mon déficit d'attention me privent désormais de toute lecture sérieuse et continue !
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