A canticle for leibowitz

And what makes you think the Memorabilia is completely free of pap? Even the gifted and Venerable Boedullus once remarked scornfully that about half of it should be called the Inscrutabilia. Treasured fragments of a dead[...]
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Weekly Mutant Future "Wisdom From The Wastelands" Launches

Skirmisher Publishing LLC has announced the release of Wisdom from the Wastelands, a weekly publication dedicated to providing useful information, game content, and ideas for modern, science fiction, and post-apocalyptic[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst designed to add colour and flavo[...]
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Raging Swan released So What’s The Human Called, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Human Called, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst. If you are as crap at naming NPCs a[...]
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News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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Review – Threat Report: King Babylon

King Babylon, possessed of nearly godlike powers and a notable lack of self-control is the kind of villain you do not want to have to tangle with but he is just too dangerous to ignore.  A useful character to use as a r[...]
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DDXP 2012 Recap: Running the New D&D and Playing Games

This year's DDXP was a very interesting one, as I suspected. We were actually able to get there, unlike last year, though Fort Wayne's weather seems persistant in its attempts to keep us out. In order to help finance the[...]
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Publisher Interview: Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games

The “Old School” gaming movement continues to impress me with the enthusiasm of the gamers and game companies supporting it. One of the games many gamers are excited about in 2012 is the Spring release of the[...]
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Caves of Chaos Reimagined by Weem

So, this was another project spurred by something said on Twitter. Two nights ago Jerry LeNeave (@DreadGazeebo) asked the following via Twitter… Anyone know where I can find a nice high-res copy / fan-recreated map[...]
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Things to Love, Things to Hate: February RPG Blog Carnival

February belongs to Cupid – it’s a month of love and lust, want and wonder. On the flip side, it’s also a month of scorn, disappointment, and frustration for some...Visit the original post, Things to Lo[...]
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From January to February

As the first month of the new year draws to a close and we hope it has gone well for you.   Now we are almost into February, which gets its name from Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification r[...]
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Answering Ten Questions from the Barking Alien

A variety of GM playstyle questions. 1) What is the most common type of environment or terrain encountered thus far in your current or most recent campaign? Not really been a consistent theme, but they keep returning to [...]
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A Gamey Proposal!

One of our fans, Alan reached out to us, wanting us to design a personalized Ascension card that he can use as a "A Gamey Proposal" to his girlfriend, Crystol while they were playing the newest expansion. [...]
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Jean Wells 1955-2012

Jean Wells, one of the early pioneers of gaming and long time TSR developer has passed.Here are some of the links that can better explain her contributions than I can.http://poleandrope.blogspot.com/2012/01/jean-wells-19[...]
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RIP Jean Wells

The original Sage has passed.[...]
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DDXP 2012: “Charting the Course: An Edition for All Editions” and “New Products” Seminars

This past weekend was DDXP, and since this the new edition of D&D was announced recently, this was both the first chance the public would both find out directly from the mouths of the people making the game what it [...]
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Inspiration Viewing – A Bad Day at Black Rock

A Bad Day at Black Rock is fascinating movie set in 1946 in the small, isolated California town of Black Rock.  The train stops and a man gets off, a stranger to the town.  This is notable as this is the first time the[...]
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Questions For Game Designers

Over twitter, Quinn Murphy posted a pool of questions he plans to send to some game designers he admires for small interviews, to inform his own views on game design. His questions are pretty interesting, so I thought I [...]
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D&D News Reactions

Since the announcement of D&D Next earlier this month, there has been a flurry of news about D&D. I’ve held off on writing about the new edition because I wanted to avoid speculation, but as more details[...]
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Review – True Halflings

True Halflings is a resource for an alternate type of halflings, one perhaps more true to their original literary roots.  If more humble and homebody sort of halflings are welcome in your campaign, this is the supplemen[...]
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The Royalty

The Royalty, our newest supplement is now available for sale. The Royalty is a combination of our Baker's Dozen and our 100s. There's A Baker's Dozen Royal Persons, 100 Noblemen, and 100 Castle Staff. That's 213 NPCs [...]
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Pattern Seekers – Episode 7: Gold, Gold, Gold (Part 2)

Our heroes are on their way out of the mines when Pho stops and bristles at somethingahead.  Thea calls on people to stop and Dr Martin see a trio of black circular stones on the ground ahead and rushes forward to bottl[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases Cultists of Havra Zhoul

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of Cultists of Havra Zhoul a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Pierre van Rooden that presents a semi-secret cult seemingly dedicated [...]
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News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12

Hope everyone has had a good week! Mine has been interesting… We’ve been dealing with getting some water damage assessed and fixed in our house after a small overflow in an upstairs bathroom resulted in a fam[...]
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Rite Publishing releases 10 Luckbringer Feats

A Lucky Snack! Sometimes you want to sit down to a full meal of archetypes, base classes,  feats, magic items, npcs, prestige classes,  traits, classes, spells,  and sometime you just want a cheap quick an[...]
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Interview: Wynter Rouse, CoastCon 35 – The Dark Crab Rises in Biloxi, Mississippi – March 16-18, 2012

As CoastCon gets ready for its 35th annual science fiction and gaming convention in Biloxi, Mississippi on March 16-18, 2012, Wynter Rouse has her hands full. She’s the Charity Liason this year and she’s been[...]
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Postmortem studios releases Urban Faerie Pocket Edition

Tidied up, tinkered with, added to (a little) and wrapped up in a somewhat shinier package. This is the Urban Faerie Pocket Edition. If you liked Invaderz, odds are you’ll like this… Faeries living like rats in the w[...]
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The Sinking: Tunnels of Despair

This installment of "The Sinking" from 0one Gamesis 17 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 2 pages of advertisements, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, leaving 10 pages of content, so let's chec[...]
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Review – Justice City Superpowered

Justice City is a setting for a superheroic world with recent emergent superheroes.  It provides a useful, if general, backdrop for a campaign or just for a place to visit. Justice City Superpowered: A Superhero Setting[...]
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Review – Threat Report: Doctor Shock

Doctor Shock, once a brilliant medical doctor, now an even more brilliant supervillain.  A steel age sort of character, willing to kill for his goals, which is to study how superpower work and as such he has a reputatio[...]
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Pattern Seekers – Episode 6: Gold, Gold, Gold (Part 1)

Having achieved another part of their goal, the Orb of Air, our heroes are dispatched on a different task, the seeking of allies but hopefully negotiating a peaceful compromise over the control of a gold mine between the[...]
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So What’s The NPC Like, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The NPC Like, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible PLAYER’S RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst. Your PCs have final emerged from th[...]
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News from Around the Net: 20-JAN-12

Welcome to the gaming news roundup for the week of 20-JAN-2012! This week was “one of those” weeks with work, so I’m gleeful that it’s Friday! Yay! The debate continued this week about “D�[...]
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Agents of SWING: Gosh, Spies! Released!

Gosh, Spies! is 120 pages of information for your Agents of SWING games, expanding the scope of the game into the realms of Saturday Morning Adventure cartoons with a particular emphasis on girl’s adventures.The book h[...]
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From 5th back to 1st

WotC has been busy as of late.  First they announce fifth edition and now they are going old school and announcing that they are reprinting the 1st edition core rulebooks. From the announcement: In 1974, the world[...]
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changes for clerics in 5e

Now that we're sure about 5e, the dark mutterings from Mearls and Cook's Design and Development columns seem more fraught with meaning. Here are some interesting passages from Mike Mearls's The Problem of Clerics: The pa[...]
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AD&D survives it’s System Shock Roll!

 In 1974, the world changed forever when Gary Gygax introduced the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The legacy of his innovative ideas and the extensive reach of his powerful influence can be seen in virtua[...]
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WotC to reprint 1st Edition AD&D books – woo hoo!

Check out the solicitation to retailers: http://www.wizards.com/ContentResources/Wizards/Sales/Solicitations/2012_04_17_dd_1stED_Solicitation_en_US.pdf This is excellent! I’m pretty much just a 4th Edition player,[...]
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Print on Demand with CreateSpace

I just got a email from CreateSpace notifying me that they did away with the Pro Plan. Looking over their site it looks like they decided to operate more like Lulu then the weird byzantine setup they had before. They hav[...]
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Please take advantage of me!

By Paco Garcia Jaen I have been doing my website and the podcast for a year and a half now. In this time, nearly hundreds of articles, pieces of news, reviews, adventures and podcasts have been published. All and all, &#[...]
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Green Ronin: Dragon Age & AGE System in 2012

Chris Pramas has posted his Green Ronin in 2012 overview and right off the bat we’re getting awesome news on the Dragon Age/AGE System front! I mean, check this out: That’s the cover to the Dragon Age RPG Set[...]
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End Piracy, Not Liberty. Stop SOPA

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Onlin[...]
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Review – Threat Report: Cerebrus Rex

Cerebrus Rex, saurian mastermind from an alternate dimension ruled by the descendants of dinosaurs, seeks to conquer our world as a new home for his people.  If a dinosaurian mastermind with robotic minions seeking to o[...]
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Take a Look at The Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design

Got Questions About RPG Design? Wolfgang Baur, Monte Cook, Ed Greenwood, Mike Stackpole, and other industry veterans have the answers you asked for…and the advice you need! The Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design[...]
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the dwarf class in 5e

document.location="http://wordpress.org/"; My guess: D&D Next will reintroduce "dwarf", "elf" and "halfling" as classes, along with wizard, rogue, fighter, and cleric, so we'll have the same stable of 7 classes that[...]
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RPGNow Discounts – Through February

Those fine folks at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG have the latest set of discounts up, you can get any of the following items at 20% off (until 12 Feb) with the secret code at the bottom of this entry: Leverage Roleplaying Game [M[...]
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Seattle Scream (#32) prop and Shadowrun demos report

I have still been running my monthly Shadowrun demo/continuing campaign, the latest Seattle Scream #32 has been used by me for the last three games as it was just so full of great plot seeds.  Two of the runs were tange[...]
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Raging Swan Releases Aasimar: Heirs of Glory

Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of Aasimar: Heirs of Glory a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible PLAYER’S RESOURCE by Landon Bellavia. Born as scions of celestial spirits, aasimar stand as proof t[...]
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Introducing Our New Staff Artist!

Greetings, All! When Tracy & I began to discuss our plans for This Is My Game, we decided early on that we should really have an artist on staff that... Read more »[...]
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Cool dungeons in books

The Frost Dungeon They descended for a long while. The stair spiraled down with no terminus in sight. The light seemed to lead them. The walls grew damp, cold, colder, coming to be covered with a fine patina of frost fig[...]
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