Friday, 21 November 2008

Inspirational Pictures (III)

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I was never a big fan of the goody-goody AD&D Lammasu. This picture is something fierce, noble and terrifying; why does 'Good' s...
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Thursday, 20 November 2008

Armour, Combat Descriptions and the One Minute Round

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I've just finished reading Azincourt , the latest from Bernard Cornwell . It's an account of Henry V's Agincourt campaign from ...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Irrational Hatred and Edition Wars

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Due to another of Zach's recent entries , I came across this old rpgsite thread , which was the result of a Best/Worst RPG ever survey c...
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Monday, 17 November 2008

Govgim Dahl, The Reluctant Demigod

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[For the Blog Carnival on religion .] On a heap of boulders at the base of a cliff in the forest lives Govgim Dahl, a silent, mournful, soli...
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Friday, 14 November 2008

300 Text Files and Other Strangeness

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It's all Zach's fault . Putting up a link to 300 RPG related text files culled from BBSs during the 80s and 90s. Almost all of thes...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Unforgettable, that's what you are...

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For no real reason other than a desire to wallow in self-regard: My Top Five Characters Ever . Of all the characters I've played, they a...
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Monday, 10 November 2008

Languages; or, why we shouldn't be able to speak Dwarven

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[I was going to begin a series about demigods, but after reading posts at Jeff's gameblog and Sword & Shield , I felt inspired to s...
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Saturday, 8 November 2008

Demigods

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One of my favourite D&D tropes is the idea that if an individual being gains a group of worshipers, it can attain divinity. This makes r...
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

A Shadow From The Past

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Something horrible has happened to me. Something strange and terrifying. A powerful, atavistic urge that I can feel throbbing through the ma...
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Monday, 3 November 2008

Jet Lag

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So that break was longer than it was supposed to be. As my friend recently put it, after a long haul flight you get really bad 'bone ach...
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