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    Setting Project: The world of Ballad

    January 8, 2020 / 0 Comments

    So, I have had a stressful life of late. I distracted myself by coming up with a new campaign world. Some people drink, I apparently come up with fictional worlds.  Ballad is a high fantasy setting. It is leaning into a lot of mysterious magic rather than the notion of magic like technology that you find in Eberron or Ravnica for instance. I also started with the premise that humans were rare. The assumption in most settings is that humans are the “us” stand-in and not innately magical. They are the neutral default and all other races are alterations on the human base. This is problematic and should be discussed,…

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    The Way of the Grasping Hand: a Midgard “monastic” Tradition

    June 23, 2018

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    January 1, 2017
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    The social problem of MMO’s

    January 4, 2013
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    Talking about high level play and reasons why it isn’t happening.

    December 30, 2019 / 2 Comments

    I have thoughts on the discussion about why people are not playing high level characters in D&D.

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    June 18, 2020

    An idea for a scifi game using 5th edition part 1

    November 25, 2016
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    The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

    December 17, 2012
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    Removing Monks 2 The Paladin option

    October 24, 2019 / 0 Comments

    So, I am trying this again. Another part of my series of blog posts explaining how you might remove the Monk from D&D and keep some of the playstyle intact. The last post caused a good deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth from those who objected to even the suggestion that there might be a problem with Monks, on a cultural level. I will leave that aside for the moment. I can recognize there are issues with Monks and still love them. I have played them and I have written subclasses for them. I will do so again. I will instead focus on the purpose of these blog posts.…

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    June 25, 2020

    Monsterous Ecologist: The History of the Tarrasque.

    January 24, 2020
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    The Way of the Grasping Hand: a Midgard “monastic” Tradition

    June 23, 2018
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    Removing Monks

    October 8, 2019 / 1 Comment

    I have written previously about the problems embedded with Monks in D&D. I say that as a guy who has always loved the class. Despite my love, there are some deeply problematic cultural stereotyping embedded in the class. The fact is, they default fiction of the class is a western misunderstanding of East Asian cultures and deeply lacking knowledge of the rich tapestry of martial arts that are found in the world. I don’t think those original designs, or designers, were coming from a place of hate, maliciousness, or even knowing it was a problem. I think they even meant well. Awareness over the years has improved and now we…

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    August 15, 2020
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    Defining worlds for the game

    December 19, 2012
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    Setting Project: The People of Ballad

    February 17, 2020
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    Warlock Patron: Animal Spirits

    September 21, 2019 / 0 Comments

    Here we offer a very different sort of Warlock Patron: The Animal Spirits.

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    Bringing Tal Dorei races into Fantasy Age

    September 14, 2017

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    June 18, 2020

    New Spells for new Spell Books

    April 12, 2017
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    The Basics of the Game: Reviewing the Shadowrun Sixth World Beginners Box Set

    August 18, 2019 / 0 Comments

    My streamed review of the Shadowrun Sixth World Beginners Box.

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    Review: Sword Chronicle

    September 21, 2020
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    Why I love Eberron

    February 24, 2013
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    The Basics of the Game: Reviewing Star Trek Adventures RPG

    October 12, 2020
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    The Basics of the Game: Review of new Modern AGE setting of Threefold

    August 11, 2019 / 0 Comments

    I review the new Modern AGE setting of Threefold and talk about Gencon. This is from the stream I did on Twitch.

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    Why I love Eberron

    February 24, 2013
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    Review of the John Carter of Mars RPG.

    July 7, 2019 / 0 Comments

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    August 11, 2019
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    Review: Sword Chronicle

    September 21, 2020
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    Twitch stream review of Modern Age Companion and discussion of RPG Workshop

    July 7, 2019 / 0 Comments

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    Why I love Eberron

    February 24, 2013
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    The Basics of the Game: Reviewing Star Trek Adventures RPG

    October 12, 2020
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    Other Than Gods

    May 11, 2019 / 0 Comments

    This post was inspired by a question I asked on Twitter. How do you explain clerics in D&D in a world with no gods? There were some excellent responses. I decided it was worth expounding on.

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    August 27, 2020

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 4: Micro-settings

    January 26, 2019
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