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Appendix N: The Zombie Survival Guide
Cover of ‘The Zombie Survival Guide,’ by Max Brooks Depictions of the macabre have always held a special place in my heart. Even in my early childhood, all of my doodles were of horrible monsters and...
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Reading “The Steading Of The Hill Giant Chief” as a Modern Gamer
Original 1978 module cover. As I mentioned yesterday, I recently took advantage of Wizards of the Coast making a lot of old TSR content available for purchase as PDFs. I bought all seven of the GDQ...
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X-Wing Miniatures Game
The other day, a friend I don’t get to see very often brought me a Christmas gift: the X-Wing Miniatures game published last year by Fantasy Flight. It’s a pretty perfect gift, because I’ve been eying...
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Book Review: “At the Queen’s Command,” by Michael A. Stackpole
Book cover of “At the Queen’s Command” by Michael A. Stackpole. Full disclosure: Mike Stackpole is a personal hero of mine. As a writer, as an independent thinker, and as a righteous dude. I’ve read...
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A Look at “On the Non-Player Character – Solving the Social Trap” by Courtney...
I’m a little late mentioning it, but fellow Blogger Courtney of Hack & Slash recently released a book titled “On the Non-Player Character – Solving the Social Trap,” available both in print and pdf...
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess
So with Pathfinder and I no longer an ‘item,’ I’m on the market again. I don’t think I’ll ever make the same kind of commitment to another system. But then, nobody ever anticipates the day that special...
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Adventure Module Review: “Fuck For Satan” by James Raggi
Cover art by the remarkable Olli Hihnala “Better Than Any Man” is better than the best adventure module I’ve ever read. It transcends that paltry distinction, because when I was done reading it I had...
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A look at Wonder & Wickedness by Brendan S.
Yesterday, Brendan of Necropraxis published “Wonder and Wickedness.” And I did something which I’ve never done before: I read an entire RPG book front to back on the same day it was released. This puts...
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The Grizzled
I want to write about board and card games more frequently than I have in the past. So I’m going to. “Grizzled” is a game I’d never heard of before I opened it up on Christmas morning. It’s an...
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Looking Back at “The Standing Stone” by John D. Rateliff
The early 2000s were not a great time for D&D adventure modules. Not many were even published compared to the volume of splatty rule supplements WotC was pumping out every month. Only a few left...
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