Ornamental Women Podcast Episode
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*Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 94: Ornamental Women*
We’re celebrating the release of cohost Jack Guignol’s debut novel *Ornamental
Women* with a con...
Chaos Lorebook: Oath of the Divided Eye
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The Blood that I shed do I devote to serve within the eternal Train of
Souls. The Eyes of Flesh do I sacrifice for the gift of that immortal Eye
which shal...
The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance
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Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are.
For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of
Marlinko, Kezmaro...
Theatre: Life in Wartime
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* Wish You Were Here* by Sanaz Toossi, Directed by Nagmeh Samini, a
co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Company, Arts West, through 5 July.
There's a...
Revised RuneQuest
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*Revised RuneQuest* is *not* the same as *NuRQ*. The latter is *Jeffʼs*
ongoing effort to lure D&D and *Pathfinder* players to play *RuneQuest*,
whilst t...
Portal fantasy
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In the first six seasons of *Doctor Who* (that's the First and Second
Doctor episodes, if like me you had no notion at the time about TV seasons)
the TAR...
What We’re Playing: Tabletop H through W
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The upper end of the alphabet leans into games played with friends who
prefer casual fare.
*Hot Streak*
Four hapless lower league baseball mascots race. ...
PATHS OF POWER: TWO EXPANSIONS FOR MÖRK BORG
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There are about a gazillion reasons I love MÖRK BORG.
For starters, I parted company with the big, bulky math-heavy RPGS back
around 2000. I'd played s...
We Won The 3 Castles Award (Again)
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Like Red & Pleasant Land before it, Nebulith, our Japanese-themed LOTFP
book, just won the prestigious (and very heavy) Three Castles Award.
This award ...
Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI
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There isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for
PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Morale
Che...
Let’s Read: The Straight Way Lost by Vortex Verlag
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This review is made possible by the generosity of Vortex Verlag who
provided me with a review copy of this book. No other compensation was
given to me and ...
Off to North Texas Con
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So everyone knows I will be at North Texas Con this week. My books and maps
will be for sale at the Black Blade Publishing Booth. I am running three
sand...
Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives
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With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at
the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over
1,000 ...
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...
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...
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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