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    Setting Project: The world of Ballad

    January 8, 2020 / Comments Off on Setting Project: The world of Ballad

    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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    February 2, 2021

    On a Wing

    February 4, 2021
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    The School of Vitomancy

    August 15, 2020
  • Blogroll,  Games

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 5: the Licensed and not so Licensed

    March 9, 2019 / Comments Off on The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 5: the Licensed and not so Licensed

    My last post about the various licensed & slightly unlicensed settings that appeared in D&D over the years.

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    February 4, 2018

    Researching New Spells

    April 19, 2017

    Cyberpunk: The genre and the games.

    May 26, 2021
  • Blogroll,  Games

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

    January 26, 2019 / Comments Off on The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 4: Micro-settings

    In my 4th article exploring the many settings of D&D, I deal with the Micro-Settings.

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    Different Rules for Death.

    September 23, 2017
    A collection of DC Super Villains

    More Thieves Guilds To Further Your Criminal Endeavors

    August 9, 2017
    Picture of the Blue Ridge Mountains

    Setting Project: Redefining Humanity for Ballad.

    January 16, 2020
  • Warforged Warrior and Sorcerer
    Blogroll,  Games

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 2

    December 9, 2018 / 2 Comments

    This is the second part of my exploration of the official D&D settings. IN this one I go from the 90's to today.

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    May 26, 2021

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    February 3, 2021

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    April 9, 2016
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    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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    August 27, 2020
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    May 26, 2017
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    The Climb

    February 5, 2021
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    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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    March 9, 2019
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    Something in the future wants you dead

    May 18, 2021
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    The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

    December 17, 2012
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    Fiction: When the Gods Came Pt 1

    February 20, 2018 / Comments Off on Fiction: When the Gods Came Pt 1

    This is the first part in a novel I have been working on. I am sure it will go through rewrites and revisions but I am posting some of it here. This is the story of how my post apocalyptic setting came to be.  I am trying to be more comfortable about sharing my fiction. That is easier said than done. The story is told in an epistolary version.  It just seemed to be the right way to go.  I am comfortable writing that way. That may have to do with writing a bunch of game text.  I will post the second part next month.

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    February 10, 2021

    Fiction: Vasilisa the Beautiful and Baba Yaga’s Light

    January 15, 2018

    Heart Murmurs

    February 3, 2021
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    Rules For Spell Books (Or how I learned to relax and hang out in libraries)

    January 20, 2017 / 2 Comments

    I think I have established I love spell books.  The spell book is an integral part of the wizardry motif.  The book, the object, is a needed part of what wizards do in D&D. The current rules do require you to record your spells, but I do think it could be even more emphasized.

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    May 26, 2021
    Medieval Drawing of skeletons

    Different Rules for Death.

    September 23, 2017

    Talking about high level play and reasons why it isn’t happening.

    December 30, 2019
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    Why I love Eberron

    February 24, 2013 / Comments Off on Why I love Eberron

    I love Eberron. I have been reading some Eberron novels of late, and it has reminded me of this fact. With the exception of Spelljammer, Eberron has been my favorite D&D setting. Before you get to the question, I love a lot of D&D settings, but I will put a pin in Eberron, and say it is my favorite for a number of reasons.

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    May 22, 2018

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    April 9, 2016
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