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  • Blogroll,  Games,  Review

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 1

    November 28, 2018 / 4 Comments

    This idea started as a twitter thread. I started listing the various settings of D&D. That was both useful and a reminder of the limits of Twitter.  What I ran into was the limited character count of twitter. This made me abbreviate  the list in places where I shouldn’t have. I also failed to list a couple of major items. This post is part of my attempt to be more thorough.

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    January 1, 2019

    Rules For Spell Books (Or how I learned to relax and hang out in libraries)

    January 20, 2017
  • Vlog

    The Basics of the Game Why I Love Superheroes

    October 27, 2018 / Comments Off on The Basics of the Game Why I Love Superheroes

      Another quick vlog talking about something I love, superheroes. My Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/basicsofthegame My Patreon https://www.patreon.com/jeremiahmccoy My Blog https://jeremiahmccoy.com

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    Basics of the Game: Reviewing Pathfinder 2e

    September 28, 2020
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    September 21, 2020
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    The Basics of the Game: Reviewing Star Trek Adventures RPG

    October 12, 2020
  • Blogroll,  Games

    5 Things Superhero RPG’s Should Have, in my own biased opinion

    September 18, 2018 / Comments Off on 5 Things Superhero RPG’s Should Have, in my own biased opinion

    I have been thinking alot about Superhero RPG’s lately. I am a fan of them and I have been since the TSR Marvel Super Heroes Role Playing Game came out in the 80’s. I went on to run multiple games in multiple systems, but Champions certainly got most of my time.    I love comics…let me restate that…I LOVE COMICS!   I read a whole bunch of comics. I have been reading them pretty much since I learned how to read. Most of them were superhero stories, so enjoying superhero RPG;s ties into that. I fell off playing the superhero RPG’s about a decade ago. Over time as the design…

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

    January 26, 2019

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    January 8, 2018

    Stealing the Guild

    March 3, 2017
  • Vlog

    The Basics of the Game Why I love Midgard

    September 12, 2018 / Comments Off on The Basics of the Game Why I love Midgard

      First in a new series where I talk about things I love. Starting out with the Midgard Setting by Kobold Press. https://koboldpress.com/ https://www.patreon.com/jeremiahmccoy

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    Basics of the Game: Reviewing Pathfinder 2e

    September 28, 2020
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    The Basics of the Game: Review of new Modern AGE setting of Threefold

    August 11, 2019
  • Games,  Vlog

    The Basics of the Game on running a game for newbies

    August 27, 2018 / Comments Off on The Basics of the Game on running a game for newbies

    I recently ran a game for newbie D&D players. Here are my thoughts on the experience.  I recommend it to people because not only does it bring in more players, but it is remarkably satisfying. I also talk about a game I played later that evening with Francois Letarte and company.

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    June 25, 2020

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    December 30, 2019
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    Beware the Blight Elves

    October 7, 2017
  • Blogroll,  Game Material,  Pop Culture

    The Machine for Modern Age

    August 13, 2018 / Comments Off on The Machine for Modern Age

        Let me tell you about my love for Persons of Interest.  The show was on the air between 2011 and 2016 and dealt with a range of complex notions in the framework of the shows premise, which is described in the opening narration.   You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like you. Crimes the government considered irrelevant. They wouldn’t act, so I decided I would. But I needed…

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    December 19, 2012

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    September 21, 2019
  • Review,  Vlog

    The Basics of the Game Rambles About Star Frontiers

    May 13, 2018 / Comments Off on The Basics of the Game Rambles About Star Frontiers

      Here is my take on the POD version of Star Frontiers you can get from DriveThruRPG. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226710/Star-Frontiers-Alpha-Dawn My Blog https://jeremiahmccoy.com My Patreon https://www.patreon.com/jeremiahmccoy

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    September 21, 2020
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    Why I love Eberron

    February 24, 2013
  • Blogroll,  Game Material,  Games

    When Immortals Adventure

    April 17, 2018 / Comments Off on When Immortals Adventure

    I proposed a question a while back. Are immortal PC’s a problem or are they workable? The consensus appears to be that they are workable. I decided to take a pass at setting up a framework for using it in D&D. Death is ultimately just a small challenge after all. Immortality offers a range of cool stories that make the PC’s feel special in the world, which is sort of the point.

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    August 27, 2020
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    Burning Orcs

    March 26, 2018 / Comments Off on Burning Orcs

    When I began writing a post apocalyptic fantasy setting, I knew a radiation or toxic corruption would be a recurring theme.  It is part and parcel in the genre. The Blight Elves were part of that, and so is today’s offering. There will be others.  Thing is, I am not personally afraid of all things nuclear.  I grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is where the material for the first atomic weapons came from. My grandfather was scientist at the labs, and I grew up understanding that nuclear was not necessarily a bad thing. Nuclear medicine was saving lives daily and nuclear power, while not yet perfected, was easier…

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    September 21, 2019

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    May 22, 2018

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  • Blogroll,  Game Material,  Games

    The Myths of Monsters

    February 4, 2018 / Comments Off on The Myths of Monsters

    Monsters are often born of myths and legends. Oh sure, there are some born of fiction. There even some created specifically for games, like the Beholder. Many of the iconic monsters pull from real world legends, though. The Dragon is one of the oldest of man’s monsters. There are legends of dragons all over the world and they seem to even predate written language. Could be someone saw a dinosaur fossil and wondered about the monsters.

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