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The Delightful Oddity of Al-Qadim

Not so long ago, I wrote about one of my favorite 2nd editions settings, Planescape. Besides the wacky hijinks of ...
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Adventure Creation Lessons from Technoir

One of the best tabletop games I have ever played is Technoir, by Jeremy Keller. Technoir is a small tabletop ...
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Dr. Primeval Awareness or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying ...

“Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your action and expend one ranger spell slot to focus your awareness on ...
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The Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Setting of Rygar

I absolutely adore metroidvania style games. I love the exploration, adventure, and the feeling of familiar content giving way to ...
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The Strange Case of the Half-Orc Champion

It turns out that having a bone surgically re-broken, getting some bone graft shoved inside you, and then having a ...
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The Legend of Zelda Franchise and the D&D Roadmap

In the spirit of journalistic, or at least hack-authorial, integrity, this article was written with a large amount of medically-prescribed ...
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Brothers Majere: The Dragonlance Book with Lich Sex

When I wrote about Lord Toede ages ago, I shared what I considered one of the more obscure and outlandish ...
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Planescape, Gonzo Gaming, and Being Totally Rad

Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel      Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour; The heavy white limbs, and ...
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Guilt, Dark Souls, and the Buried Giant

“That’s true, good lady, but then we boatmen have seen so many over the years it doesn’t take long to ...
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The Almighty Johnsons, The Power of Self, and the Reverse ...

I had a conversation the other day regarding clerics, warlocks, and the nature of other-directed character advancement. It hadn’t ever ...