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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XLI  – The Boy Scouts of Siderea from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Adenic Thaumaturgy was working well, Charles promptly initiated his thaumaturgical students down in Atlanta. They could use the extra power and protections just as much (or more, given their lack of alternatives) as any god-blood, spirit, or exalt! Ixiah liked it too, and there were LOTS of his manse-guardians to initiate, even if most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13213&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XL – Small Gods and Sandwiches from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-session-xl-small-gods-and-sandwiches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the back of his head Charles was STILL continuing to consider Small Gods and Sandwiches&#8230; It WAS a bad neighborhood, but they had to be pretty hungry to climb the mountain! They’d been fairly mundane sandwiches too&#8230; If small gods needed sandwiches, then something must be done! A Soup Kitchen perhaps! At the base [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13205&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verdan Incognita I from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/verdan-incognita-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Verdan, the “Civilized World” mostly consists of Eurasia &#8211; and not all of that. Much of the southern reaches of Africa, and the North and Eastern reaches of Asia, remain partially unknown. Much of the vast, frigid reaches of Siberia’s subarctic forests and tundras remain the domain of an assortment of dangerous creatures and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13192&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verdan Arcanis – Technology and Magic II. The Biological Sciences from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/verdan-arcanis-technology-and-magic-ii-the-biological-sciences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To continue with the state of the sciences on Verdan&#8230; On the biological side, the structure of the body is reasonably well understood, as are the nature of physically-based diseases (a few seem to be lux-based in nature). Even relatively modest spells can notably improve resistance to particular mundane diseases &#8211; making most of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13188&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verdan Arcanis – Technology and Magic I from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/verdan-arcanis-technology-and-magic-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presence of magic has had two effects on the development of science and technology. It makes it MUCH easier to test things and to sort out what’s going on on an immediate, local, level. You want to look at something very small? A simple charm will do it. Rough spots in a prototype, minor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13157&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Switched at Birth – An Origin Story from Dungeon's Master</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good background should help define who the character is, especially early in the adventurer when he’s relatively inexperienced. Your PC’s backgrounds should do more than just provide him with skill bonus or a free minor power. I encourage players to be creative when coming up with a back-story. I’ve learned that the more detailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verdan Arcanis – Historical Development from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/verdan-arcanis-historical-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mankind&#8217;s early Eurasian history on Verdan resembles events on Earth relatively closely up until around the Age of Discovery. Yes, Verdan has some magic, and even relatively minor magic has an impact &#8211; but where fewer children died of minor illnesses, contraceptive charms meant fewer were born. Where genuinely functioning curses were hurled at rulers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13138&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verdan Arcanis – Basic Magic from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/verdan-arcanis-basic-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Star Wars game winding down thanks to some exceptionally clever maneuvering by the players, it’s time to start setting up the next one &#8211; and, thanks to a series of player votes, it’s going to be the Baba Yaga system with a quasi-victorian setting with some magic where much of the world is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13103&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XXXIX – Gates of the Third Circle from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-session-xxxix-gates-of-the-third-circle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hala’s little reverie hadn’t taken up much time &#8211; although she would like to know what caste her bondmate was&#8230; After twenty thousand years there was no easy way to find out much about who’d had your exaltation in the first age &#8211; or who your bondmate was. Lytek was about the only reliable source, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13086&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XXXVIII – Out of the Umbra from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-session-xxxviii-out-of-the-umbra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, despite Mr Montagues calling them in, the Nocturnals hadn’t been able to help out with the analysis much; there was just no way of knowing what WAS “normal” for a young primordial! Nobody even knew how they came into being outside of “they appeared in the Wyld”. Still, Jose had been quite relieved when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13081&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Your Characters from Dragonlance D&amp;D Game Blog</title>
		<link>http://dlgame.blogspot.com/2012/01/listen-to-your-characters.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow up to my previous post, &#34;Let Your Campaign Talk to You&#34;, I've been thinking about new ways to approach developing character backgrounds, and looking at various techniques from literature and television.

Rather than what I suspect is the standard approach, that of drafting the background and incidental details all at once, and typically before even the first game session has taken]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXVII – Investigating Charles Mansen from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-xxxvii-investigating-charles-mansen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next several weeks there was much frantic Sidereal scrambling to fit surveillance on Charles in between their usual duties &#8211; and immense amounts of frustration with the results of that surveillance. It was embarrassing enough that the blasted schoolmaster seemed to have some charms that let him know when ANYONE was up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13033&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXVI – Titanic Misperceptions from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-xxxvi-titanic-misperceptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks after Mr. Clearwater and Cipher Child had visited Charles &#8211; and about the same amount of time before the Bureau of Heaven would be announcing the results (someone HAD to be expediting that) there was a knocking at Charles’s door&#8230; (Charles) “Hello! Could you let yourself in and come upstairs? I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13029&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIV – Fiduciary Divine from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-xxxiv-fiduciary-divine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Charles was busily building more manses to impersonate (or perhaps become) his “third-circle souls”, working on the Stargate project, mapping the earth’s dragon lines, running rescue missions, and otherwise keeping busy, several investigations were gathering steam &#8211; with some of the investigators coming up with scenarios that even he hadn’t thought of yet. Similarly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=13006&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exalted – Let’s Take This Elsewhere! from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/exalted-lets-take-this-elsewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least in our Exalted game the question of “How secure is Elsewhere” is coming up. To answer that, the first place to look is in the basic book, where “Elsewhere” is introduced. Charm Concept: Elsewhere Elsewhere is a place where things exist but do not interact or decay. Things that characters store Elsewhere are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12987&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice – Higher Souls from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-higher-souls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a helpful suggestion from Vaalintine (and the resulting in-character moment of inspiration), Charles has found a reasonable way to fake having some third-circle souls for Aden; he’s building some high-powered manses to take that role. That ties in with his geomantic focus, his associations with building things, his love of manses &#8211; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12963&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 201c – From the Mouths of Babes from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/federation-apocalypse-session-201c-from-the-mouths-of-babes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felan, meanwhile, was busily angling for becoming a junior coalition member in charge of creches&#8230; After all, the others had placed a &#8211; quite astounding &#8211; level of trust in him. Having a group of hatchlings come to their dominant parent to say &#8220;We want to get rid of this kid! Give the dominant kid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12958&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 201b – Draconic Circumstances from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/federation-apocalypse-session-201b-draconic-circumstances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Markov was momentarily bemused when his coalition-allies asked about how he’d gotten his hatchlings so organized and useful. That was mostly Felan and his statues of course &#8211; and the fact that they had some extra powers that were useful in themselves &#8211; but that would call for rather more explanations than he wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12950&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eclipsing Wealth, Part II from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>https://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/eclipsing-wealth-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For today, we have an Eclipse question&#8230;. The rules let me have the internal equivalent of pretty much any magic item, whether through Innate Enchantment, Inherent Spell, or Spirit Weapon&#8230; but the only mechanism I can find for specifying external enchantments is really clunky. Equipage, with the Signature ability, lets you specify a an expensive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12947&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legend of the Five Rings – Kasumi Neko, Cat Clan Samurai from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cat Clan plays a very minor role in Rokugan; it’s tiny, obscure, has no major school of its own, and mostly operates under cover. Their general role is to appear as the mysterious shadowy figure who passes on some important information to the more active and combative types &#8211; such as most PC’s. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12930&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIV – Annotations of Anonymity from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles didn’t know it &#8211; but his anonymous time was very rapidly drawing to an end&#8230; Like it or not, he’d simply meddled in too many things too quickly to remain in the background. The various groups on Yu-Shan and Earth might not know WHAT he was &#8211; but they were becoming quite sure that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12901&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 201a – It Dropeth From Heaven Like Gentle Rain from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marty was taking advantage of Markov’s constant mental peeking at the hatchlings to peer a little deeper&#8230; The hatchlings were so ruthless, so driven to defeat each other, so vicious in victory. They were so YOUNG. Were they REALLY that&#8230; inherently cruel? Then why had Tethen become so&#8230; benign once enthralled? He’d written that sort [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12889&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viva Le Revolution! Realms of the Banefire from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/viva-le-revolution-realms-of-the-banefire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life&#8230; isn&#8217;t fair. A sizeable chunk of the population winds up holding the short end of the stick in early childhood, continue to hold it all their lives, and ultimately die with it jammed in some very uncomfortable place indeed. The promise to make it fair lies at the base of many faiths. &#8220;It will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12869&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIII – City and Soul from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-xxxiii-city-and-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the tests, the Proctor very much wanted to talk to Charles&#8230; The minor antics of mortal and god-blooded thaumaturgic assistants could usually be safely ignored &#8211; but in this case, the child evidently had access to some quite exceptional artifacts &#8211; and his thaumaturgy (or at least his mastery of wards) was strong enough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12854&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 200b – Markov versus Marty from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/federation-apocalypse-session-200b-markov-versus-marty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, Markov had been trying to track down that fat mage who’d snatched Tokif &#8211; and apparently a few more of his enslaved offspring &#8211; right out of coalition territory! He’d called him fat! He needed to be tracked down and eaten! He burst in on the young slaves he’d gotten from that “Kadia” place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12850&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 200a – Flowers and Unicorns and Rainbows from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/federation-apocalypse-session-200a-flowers-and-unicorns-and-rainbows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, Valira &#8211; the formerly-possessed mouse-lady &#8211; and her two children had fled into the wilds of Kadia &#8211; although Kevin had sent a few Thralls after them to help them out. (A Thrall, in the form of a talking songbird) &#8220;Ms Valira Turner? Please don&#8217;t hide! You can get very lost in Kadia without [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12821&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 199 – Gold versus Red from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the creche under control, Markov elected to concentrate on building his coalition &#8211; with a focus on what his remaining local opposition (Ishvialsen, that gold who’d moved into the area) was up to at the moment&#8230; As it turned out, he’d enslaved the four reds near his territories, and they’d recruited one and enslaved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12795&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXII – The City of Crystal Dreams from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-xxxii-the-city-of-crystal-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few couple of weeks &#8211; and a dozen or so more rescues (which, with practice, were starting to go more smoothly &#8211; for the moment), Charles got a message from &#8220;a drunken shedu&#8221; up in Yu Shan. Terapishim (and “that other guy” &#8211; Gri Fel from the description) wanted to see him&#8230; Well&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12779&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXI – The Bicyclist of the Unpocalypse from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Aden was more or less fully landscaped, it seemed a pity that there was hardly anyone there to enjoy it&#8230; Well&#8230; There were Yu-Shan gates all over the globe &#8211; including in a lot of troubled areas and places with natural disasters&#8230; Right then! He did have some contacts with the pattern spiders; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12776&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 198c – Organizing the Creche from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/federation-apocalypse-session-198c-organizing-the-creche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marty frowned&#8230; It looked like Markov was likely to remain &#8220;untamed&#8221; for quite some time&#8230; How was that possible? Markov was just an Identity! A role he took while he was in the Dragon Empire! Was he using his own powers against himself? That would explain it &#8211; but only if Markov really did express [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12767&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 198b – The Voices of the Dawn from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/federation-apocalypse-session-198b-the-voices-of-the-dawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Kevin quietly inveigling their latest evil necromancer, Mr Cartwright was quietly asking for an explanation of what was going on from Marty. (Marty) &#8220;Kevin just transported everybody to his personal dimension. I think he was going to try to build new bodies for the woman and the two kids bound to her.&#8221; (Cartwright) “And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12759&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 198a – Yep! It’s Another Evil Necromancer! from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/federation-apocalypse-session-198a-yep-its-another-evil-necromancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, back with the Colony Council &#8211; in far slower time at the moment than the Dragon Empire (which was not helping the group maintain control of their identities there at all), the discussion on Kevin &#8211; and his contract &#8211; was still underway. The Unified Church, Escrimera (and presumably the Divine Heavens), and Marty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12751&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 06 Episode 18 from Happy Jacks RPG Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Season 06 Episode 18

Your hosts: Stu, Stork, Tappy, Kimi
PC secrets. How to keep them. Why to keep them.
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 197 – Philsantias Versus Sanity from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/federation-apocalypse-session-197-philsantias-versus-sanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, still in fast-time in the Dragon Empire, Raphael as Philsantias (who currently had firmly suppressed most of the instincts, drives, and memories that went with the dragon identity) was relaxing a bit while his investigations ran, his defenses were set up and reinforced, and he considered how best to get the most reward for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12742&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 196 – The Slave Rebellion from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felan was quite right. Markov’s errant daughters turned out not to have gone very far at all&#8230; They’d mostly attached themselves to some of his allies sons; the more dominant boys who had already passed their exams. How dare they steal from him! As hatchlings, the girls were no longer his property the moment they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12733&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 194b – Future Concerns from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secondary characters got rather far into the future in this segment &#8211; hence posting it has been delayed a bit so that it’s closer to it’s proper point in the game timeline. In the Dragon Empire, Markov had turned his attention to expanding his coalition&#8230; It was easy enough at first! He was far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12728&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 195b – The Dragon Sculptor from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Dragon Empire, young Felan was &#8211; rather busily! &#8211; looking for a way he could be allowed to keep more slaves&#8230; (Felan, to Markov) &#8220;Uhm&#8230; Father? If I can find something useful to contribute to the coalition could I count as a junior member?&#8221; Huh! That was fairly large indulgence! The kid must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12713&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eclipse d20: The God-Blooded Template from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few myths and tales revolve around the sons and daughters of gods &#8211; but, oddly enough, such individuals are often little more than mortal. They often show some exceptional attributes or skills &#8211; but Gilgamesh, and Perseus, and Cuchulain, and Arjuna, and Oedipus (a fine example of why being a demigod often sucked), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12684&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 195a – Of Mice and Men and Councils from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/federation-apocalypse-session-195a-of-mice-and-men-and-councils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over in Cyarkian, some exceptionally nervous guards were making an approach to the Inn &#8211; with a summons for the group to meet with the colony council. Hopefully none of their absurdly powerful and erratic guests would take offense&#8230; The group refrained from making the guards too much more nervous. The guards escorted them deep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12672&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXX – And No, That Doesn’t Mean What You’re Thinking Out There! from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hm&#8230; He was being watched by at least one observer and possibly more after he left to Occluded Observatory &#8211; and the effect traced back to it&#8230; Well, that was no surprise at all really. After all, he had just let Gustav set a tracer-spell on Deva Cutter to augment his own tracer, retrieval, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12662&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXIX – Deva Cutter and the Bronze from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/the-chronicles-of-heavenly-artifice-part-xxix-deva-cutter-and-the-bronze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was several weeks before Charles finally had an opening on his schedule &#8211; and the Deva Cutter affair seemed to be the priority to fill it&#8230; Sadly, just getting in to see the right people was going to be awkward &#8211; and it would very likely involve some considerable risks to his various covers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12647&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spellfire of the Vanities from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/spellfire-of-the-vanities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, in the ancient days, there was a setting called The Forgotten Realms &#8211; an exciting land, where heroes and their guiding spirits spent many pleasant hours consulting books of rules, rolling strangely-shaped dice, and scribbling down numbers on pieces of paper. And then came Spellfire. OK, actually a lot of other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12645&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 194a – La Belle Draco sans Merci from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/federation-apocalypse-session-194a-la-belle-draco-sans-merci/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the children now past testing &#8211; even if Markov’s reality-manipulation had resulted in an unreasonably large number of them passing &#8211; they had time to ramp up to some serious rivalries with each other! Markov was keeping an eye on that! The first batch of children would be good practice for learning to deal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12638&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 193b – The Lesser Dragonwars from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marty, of course, had his own activities to review&#8230; In Kadia &#8211; where he was quite helpless in the face of infant cuteness &#8211; the Thrall-concubines were continuing to deliver happy, gurgling, infants regularly. There would only be a few more days of that &#8211; but it was still pandemonium everywhere but in his private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12635&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federation-Apocalypse Session 193a – Rats Up Doc? from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back with the Rats and Mice of NIMH, the rumors and gossip were running through the streets like the great flood, tumbling under truths like grains of sand and drowning common sense in a sea of speculation. A little magic in the streets &#8211; even if it was fairly high-powered military magic &#8211; was one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12632&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Game-Mastering Ritual Magic from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ritual magic &#8211; whether in the form of magical circles, inscribed runes, or dancers hired to tread out a mystical pattern beneath a spinning disco ball &#8211; is wonderful stuff. According to tradition it can accomplish pretty much anything within the limits of magic &#8211; whatever those may be in a setting. In fact, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12629&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star Wars – Twilight Seekers Campaign Index from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/star-wars-twilight-seekers-campaign-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spellweaver 81 &#8211; Kira Keldav&#8217;s player &#8211; has been compiling an index of the material for the Twilight Seekers Star Wars Game. Given that time problems have left my indexing well behind, he&#8217;s kindly allowed me to repost that index here&#8230; Campaign Background: Scale of the Galaxy: Or why anyone can find anything despite it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12626&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Light That Kills! Positive Energy, Part II from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
		<link>http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/the-light-that-kills-positive-energy-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To continue with the request for some nasty &#8211; or at least weird &#8211; positive-energy based abilities for Eclipse&#8230; Malignant Healing: Healing is a vital component of life; without healing, the wear and tear of daily activities would wear away skin and flesh to make daily life an excruciatingly drawn-out version of the death of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12612&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come Into The Light – The Light That Kills! from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many d20 games, “Positive Energy” equates to healing, goodness, and rainbows filled with kittens. It’s a power that good-guy clerics get to use to keep the rest of the party alive and to blast those nasty undead. What could be better? But positive energy also drives the hemorrhagic fever that splatters the room in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12602&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Coinage III – Ervoli Feather Bands and Tenebrous Obals from Emergence Campaign Weblog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ervoli Feather Bands The Ervoli Nomads carry little; they have a hard enough time wresting survival from their desert lands without burdening themselves with extra weight. Their mostly-ceremonial “coinage” consists of Feather Bands &#8211; intricate pieces of feather-and-bead art which record legends, great events, and accounts of the lives of wise men, heroes, and exceptional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ruscumag.wordpress.com&#38;blog=1942408&#38;post=12585&#38;subd=ruscumag&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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