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

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Cross Planes

31 Nights of Halloween: Marvel's Devil Dinosaur for Dragonbane - *DEVIL DINOSAUR for Dragonbane* *Ferocity:* 2 *Size: *Large *Movement:* 24 *Armor: *3 *HP: *30 *Monster Attacks* *D6 Attack* *1 Razor Sharp...
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Realms of Chirak

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Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues!

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The Other Side blog

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Tenkar's Tavern

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Forgotten Figures

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Tone and Wave

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Adventures in Gaming v2

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AUTOCRATIK

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Roles, Rules, and Rolls

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Lloyd of Gamebooks

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Brothers Of Fire

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Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

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Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design

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The Realm of Zhu

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BattleGrip

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Notes From Under the Kyak

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TMNT Entity

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HeroPress

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Dragons Gonna Drag

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A Book of Creatures

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An Abominable Fancy

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HeroPress

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JB Publishing

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Scolin's Sports Venues Visited

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Little Weirdos: Mini figures and other monster toys

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Sphere of Annihilation

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EPIC FAIL!

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ONE FOR FIVE

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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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Kord Industries: A Blue Beetle Blog

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VINTAGE STAR WARS COLLECTORS

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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

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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...
Ezra Brady, the Ranger (because sometimes it's just fun to look at characters)

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Monster Monday: Ghosthackers

Double the value* in this post! First of all, here's the highly anticipated** and critically acclaimed*** RPG Ghosthackers , released i...
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 ...
My Mince Pie Odyssey

Undoubtedly, many of you reading this have also seen the comprehensive mincemeat pie reviews written by Kelvin Green over at his Brainsplurg...
Meta Monday: Doki Doki Panic and the greatest(?) NES game of them all

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Monstrous Mini-Review: The Twenty-Sided Tavern (Off-Broadway Show)

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The BIG 4 of RPG attributes

It is possible that I would be a little embarrassed if most people knew how much time I spend thinking about character stats in roleplaying ...

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