Uncracked Monday: how to become part of the Intellectual Elite of rpgnet in...
Today, if you've ever looked over at the self-absorbed self-styled (pseudo-)intellectual elite fashionistas of rpgnet and asked yourself how they managed to write such endless streams of meaningless...
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“Real Magick” In RPGs, part 666
So, I know that I said when I started this series that it was NOT going to be an instructional series on western Magick; but rather an attempt to help GMs to “fake it” credibly, to be able to imitate...
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RPGPundit Reviews: Whisper & Venom Compendium
This is a review of the campaign setting/adventure collection called "Whisper and Venom", published by Lesser Gnome games, written by Zach Glazar and John Hammerle. It is a hardcover book, with a 106...
View ArticleA Working Definition of the OSR
Because others have asked, and I've already expressed this idea before. If you want a positive definition of the OSR, and what it's all about, here it is:I would classify the OSR as a design...
View ArticleYes, Please Refuse to Define the OSR!
So back when I posted "If We Don't Define the OSR, Ron Edwards Will", I had a string of people, mostly hostile ultra-orthodox OSR types either distrusting my motives (seriously? when the alternative is...
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RPGPundit Interviews: Joseph Bloch
Q: Who the fuck are you?? And what have you done?!A: My name is Joseph Bloch, aka the Greyhawk Grognard. I've maintained the Greyhawk Grognard blog for longer than 4th Edition was around, commenting...
View ArticleAlbion: Eulogy for a Bastard
Sean the Cymri Bastard died as he expected; murdered by one of his own party mates. And what a magnificent bastard he was; betrayer of kings and kingmakers, scoundrel, insufferable, devious. He had...
View ArticleCracked Monday: Free Consultant Advice (Recommended by Trevor!)
Today, a bit of free advice to all of you from a highly-successful RPG Consultant: if you want to do a kickstarter for your game or game-related product, look at these guys, and then avoid doing...
View ArticleArrows of Indra October Sale!
Today, while we all still ponder over the mystery and wonder of that maximum authority of all RPG thought known as "Trevor", I wanted to point out to everyone that Arrows of Indra, the awesome...
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Golden Age Campaign Update
In the last adventure, the war ended in Japan as well, but not before the PCs desperately tried to intervene to get the Japanese mystery man Kung to try to convince the Japanese Emperor to give up the...
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And Now: Lords of Olympus October Sale, Too! (New Art-focused Preview)
So, if it wasn't enough to get Arrows of Indra for a low, low price (on PDF), now it turns out you can also get Lords of Olympus at a big sale price, from Amazon.And note that this is not just any...
View ArticleBuenos Aires is Lovely in the Spring
And,thanks to the terrible economic policies of the Argentine government, ridiculously cheap for foreigners.I will be back on Monday.
View ArticleUncracked Monday: Back in Town Edition
So Buenos Aires was a remarkable trip. I love it every time I go there, but right now, if you're a tourist with US dollars it's freaking paradise. I've come home with shitloads of new clothes (right...
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RPGPundit Reviews: The God-Seed Awakens
This is a review of the DCC adventure module "The God-Seed Awakens", which is described as a "pulp adventure for the DCC RPG". It's written by Paul Wolfe, and published by Mystic Bull Games. It is...
View ArticleDCC Campaign Update: Bad Choices Edition
In this past adventure, the PCs unexpectedly encountered:-a highly successful Phylactery Spell, only to have the elf who cast it left wondering where to safely put his new-made soul-crystal.-the first...
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A Hard-Hitting Interview
Today we suspend the normal programming so that we may instead direct you to the Dyvers RPG Blog, where you will find the author of said blog interviewing no less a figure than myself!And let me tell...
View ArticleArrows of Indra: Understanding Clan
We’ve talked here before about Caste, and people make a big deal about it, but in a way, in the game, I think that Clan may be at least as important, and maybe more difficult to get one’s head around....
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Would M.A.R. Barker Have Loved Arrows of Indra, Even as the Fanboys Who...
According to someone who actually played with him, yes.In a blog entry from a couple of days ago, in the comments section, one of the good Professor's players had a few choice words to say about Arrows...
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Golden Age Campaign Update
WWII is over. The boys are coming home. But the world still isn't exactly normal; Europe has been completely devastated, and most of it is still occupied, either by American troops (which will...
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