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Jonathan Linneman: I love a lot of things. Animals and my wife are way up there.

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Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues!

Hawkgirl and Red Sonja - I see this issue as 22 pages of nonstop action. Both of these heroes are warriors that any army would be glad to have on their side. The question is,...
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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

Action Film Face-Off: The Flying Guillotine vs. The Killer - Marchal Arts Madness is back and the Alberich Boys over at Action-Film Face-Off invited me once again to suggest Asian action films from the years the ran...
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Overcompensating, Yes? - It's #DrawDeathsHeadDay 2025! The most freelance peacekeeping day of the year! And, coincidentally, Simon Furman's birthday too! A skinny, angry-looking DH...
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HeroPress

BEHIND THE SCREEN: Session Two! - The hat is Rachel's (for reasons), not mine; the paunch is all mine though!The second "issue" of my Knight City superhero campaign dropped this week, with ...
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Fantasy Toy Soldiers

Lakeshore Royal Kingdom Adventure Castle - This castle playset comes with three inch figures that are like a poor man's Papo/Schielch. Photo from an ebay auction.
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Forgotten Figures

1986 Dialtone - Random Photos of the Day - Dialtone remains a personal favorite of mine. Ever since my younger brother found him sitting on a random shelf at Target and got our first 1986 figure,...
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The Splintered Realm

Stalwart Adventures #1 - So... it's been an eventful few days. The bad news is that my white blood cell count crashed because of chemotherapy and I ended up in the hospital for a ...
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Cross Planes

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Dyson's Dodecahedron

The Labyrinth of Avarice - This small extradimensional space was crafted by Zitharion the Thaumaturge – obsessed with capturing the very essence of greed. He … Continue reading →
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The Other Side blog

Kickstart Your Weekend: Castles, ShadowDark, Witches and More Witches - Still at Gary Con, having a great time. A few more Kickstarters from some good souls. They honestly don't need my help, but here they are all the same. ...
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GROGNARDIA

Rules, Rules, and More Rules - I'm currently refereeing three different campaigns at the moment: House of Worms, using *Empire of the Petal Throne*; Barrett's Raiders, using the Free L...
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BARKING ALIEN

Something Borrowed, Something Blue - I am so smurfed I can barely smurf myself! I got to smurf the Smurf RPG as a Smurf! What? Why are you confused? It's simple... I am part of a private Di...
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The Vigilantes Of Knight City

THE STRANGERS #2: Anubis Would Happen - Ancient Artifacts, Modern Mayhem! - The Sentinel ran an article on the centrepiece of new exhibit at the Knight City MuseumMay 3, 2022: The Strangers awake in Le Chef's basement to discover t...
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Purple People Eater - One of the Reaper Challenge League challenges for this month was "one eyed one horned flying purple people eater" with the caveat that to meet the challe...
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Gothridge Manor

Indexing Adventures - June 11th, 2014 I started my Patreon. 1While I haven't been active during the past half year or so I've accumulated 110 micro-adventures, 37 micro-locati...
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TMNT Entity

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Realms of Chirak

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Tone and Wave

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AUTOCRATIK

Form and Format - I’ve been thinking a lot about book formats recently. For many, many years, I’ve been wanting to scale down, and do something smaller. I even made a vid...
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Refereeing and Reflection

Leafing Through the Depthcrawls: A Conversation With Emmy Allen - The Gardens of Ynn and The Stygian Library are a pair of scenarios for old-school D&D and its close relatives, designed by Emmy Allen, who I previously int...
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Doomslakers!

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Rebel Scale

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Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design

This Post is for Underwater Sea Creatures Only - As part of some other work I'm messing about with, I wanted to put together an underwater bestiary. I don't like underwater critters in the midst of my ...
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Dragons Gonna Drag

Table This Discussion - Roll a d6 to see which table to roll on: Table 1 (roll d8): Why does this dragon hoard treasure? 1. In debt to a loan shark - possibly a literal shark,...
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The OSR Library

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The Realm of Zhu

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A Book of Creatures

- Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year from ABC! What better than to mention a seasonal being? Below are a depiction of the Callicantzari by Ja...
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SURVEILLANCE PORT

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The Savage AfterWorld

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For the Love of Pun

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Midnight's Citadel

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Mike's Amazing RPG Fun Pad

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The City of Iron

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The Gelatinous Dome!

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Discernland

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Warlords of the Galaxy

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Some Stuff I Posted That People Actually Read

Wasteland Wednesday: The Flavors of the Post-Apocalypse

One of the central points of tension...okay, maybe not tension, but disagreement ...that I see occasionally in the RPG hobby is the mix...
Wasteland Wednesday: Some post-apocalyptic school spirit

I haven't watched The Walking Dead in a while...I think it was once the Governor rose in prominence, and the show became more about p...
Marvel's College Football Kickoff Covers

Depending on who you ask, these are either awesome or the stuff nightmares are made of. The connection of Marvel Comics and ESPN under the ...
E is for Earths

...of the parallel variety, that is. I'd love for Light City to be accessible for all sorts of supers gaming. I also just love a...
Monstrous Mini-Review: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (Off-Broadway Show)

Before I forget...and while I'm thinking about positivity ...here's a little writeup I've been meaning to do for a while. Why ...
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December is here. It's Christmas time again! I think I'll share some of my favorite holiday ska tunes this month. Here's one I...
Monster Monday: Ghosthackers

Double the value* in this post! First of all, here's the highly anticipated** and critically acclaimed*** RPG Ghosthackers , released i...
Ezra Brady, the Ranger (because sometimes it's just fun to look at characters)

I would imagine that many of us love RPGs, at least in part, because of the strangely pleasing feeling of having a character summarized on a...
My Mince Pie Odyssey

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Geeky SKAturdays begin for 2025, and I'm shaking things up a bit!

So, I don't want to rock your reality too hard with a headline like that, especially during a week when we're already experiencing s...

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