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Oil shortage hits Keep on Borderlands
How could anyone hate Gelatinous Cubes?Preparing to run a game can be a chore. Writing your own scenario takes time but in return the session will be easy to run with little need to look things up....
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Dyson’s Delve in play.
The party was joined by a giant ferret. I think it lived.Dyson Logos is a giver. His blog is full of maps that beg to be used. Dyson does this for free which is why he's a champ. I figured I would show...
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Citadel of the Severed Hand - One Page Dungeon
The One Page Dungeon competition has been going for a few years now. Each time it rolls around my head is in a different place inspiration wise. In 2011 I had finished a marathon reading of the Lord of...
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Citadel of the Severed Hand in play
Dwarf Crawl - hacking their way home.It's been a while since I ran anything. Getting a regular group together feels like a lot of work, particularly prepping adventures, and there are plenty of others...
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Icewind Dale - 20 QuestionsA wise blogger once wrote 'Campaign worlds, whether published or just notes scrawled in some DM's binder, contain a lot of material that most players honestly just don't give...
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Icewind Dale and the sandbox
Icewind Dale has plenty of inspirational art.There are many guides to creating a sandbox style game out there. Most of them go into too much detail for me. In setting up the Icewind Dale game I looked...
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Cthulhu post mortem
I’ll be the first to admit that I'm not the best at running a serious game. My style is laid back and I tend to joke around. But this Cthulhu game was a special request for a mate who’s headed...
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Rogue Trader - Space Marine and Imperial Guard free for all!
A few weeks ago Optimus Prime and I went back to where it all began. It seemed fitting given that the Autobot supreme leader was headed overseas. Our miniature obsession started with Rogue Trader....
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Simple Mass Combat for D&D
In the Icewind Dale game the group will be embroiled in a small war. The militia of Lonely wood will attempt to hold off an alliance of the local Bear and Wolf tribes.I need an abstract way to resolve...
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The Tale of Klinderstone - Icewind Dale Story Hour
Battling barbarians happens later in the mini campaign.There is something to be said for game write-ups that take story form. I enjoyed reading some of the play throughs of adventure paths on ENWORLD...
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The Enemy Within - Mistaken Identity
Why The Enemy Within? I played a fair portion of The Enemy Within campaign in high school. Back then Pete, Optimus Prime and I were still trying to work rpgs out. It was a great deal of fun but I...
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The Tale of Lonelywood - Icewind Dale campaign
I have been remiss in posting the final player write-up of our Wednesday night adventures in Icewind Dale. This chapter covers about two sessions of play and wrap up what was a very enjoyable mini...
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Oldhammer miniatures for November 2013
I am a miniature addict. I have been since grade 6.The Australian $ does OK against the pound which feeds my addiction. Fortunately postage from the UK hasn't gone mental like packets from the US. This...
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Oldhammer - Dark Elves
I painted this lot earlier in the year. I think the motivation was putting together some foes to go toe to toe with a D&D group. They might have made for a fun foe in a chaos warbands game as well....
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Oldhammer - latest additions
Some models, like Chaos Dwarves, are expensive. They look neat though so I sprung for the model below. It was a little boring to paint sadly. All armour and no face. I painted a gem on the end of the...
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Negotiating in bad faith
‘I don’t know who killed the troll child but I killed your Jarl.’ – Ugh practises diplomacy.The temple guards bowed respectfully and opened the door of the shrine. Jana strode into the hall and up to...
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Call of Cthulhu is a nifty game
I didn’t play Cthulhu till I was out of high school. I’d been playing a number of ‘thespy’ White Wolf style games for a few years and got a kick out of the low power, ‘your doomed’ vibe the game gave...
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Continuity and the Cthulhu Campaign
Hint: African magic is never beneficialHow is a second batch of investigators meant to pick up the pieces from a failed investigation? The various conceits such as prior investigators leaving detailed...
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The Enemy Within - Shadows over Bogenhafen
We met early November to continue The Enemy Within campaign. I blogged about part 1 Mistaken Identity - here. Shane, famous for his inspired session summaries, joined in the fun and was brought up to...
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The Enemy Within - Shadows over Boganhafen - part 2
Our hero's - Solomon, Walter, Esmerelda, Joten and Herdan.I recorded the session I ran in November on my phone and edited it using Audacity. To keep the file size small some quality was lost and yet in...
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