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[Shadowrun] Session 1 Silver Angel pt. 1 Running Circles
Seattle Space Needle by Cacophony, published under CC-BY-SA, modified by me We finally managed to get a game going. It took a while. Again. This doubles as my private notes of what was happening....
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The Halls of Tizun Thane (1980)
Imagine a second rate Robert E. Howard story and some fantasy by Clark Ashton Smith, blend them together, put them into your shisha and inhale. You hear that bubbling, that beat? Like someone just put...
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Wiedergänger
The question what happens to us after death has been one that has been asked and answered many times ever since we started to think and noticed that sometimes when you bash someone hard enough they...
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[The Dark Eye] Unboxing the Das Schwarze Auge Kaiser-Retro-Box (2018)
Kaiser-Retro-Box still shrinkwrapped A while ago I decided to buy myself the reissue of the first Das Schwarze Auge rules that came out in 1984. The reissue was a kickstarter-backed luxury reissue...
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[Worldbuilding] Paean to Vance
The tomes which held Turjan’s sorcery lay on the long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected...
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10 TTRPG Podcasts (that are not Critical Role)
Oh Gods, am I going all Buzzfeed? I’m not sure myself. But I wanted to share some tabletop roleplaying podcasts I enjoy listening to, and ten makes such a nice round number. And there definitely would...
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A Miscellany of Links pt. V
Free Stuff Palace of the Silver Princess for Cairn (via itch.io) Papermau collects paper models from all over the world on the blog A collection of materials regarding Tony Bath and his seminal...
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XVI
A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XVI 100 Village Notable Features (OSRVault) d10 Graveyard Dressing (Azukail Games) d12 Mysterious Vapours & Miasmas (Elfmaids & Octopi) DnD turns 50 and...
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RPG Magazine Recon pt. 1 – Dragon Magazine 63, 74, 104, 114
Bob Walters 1982, published without context in Dragon 63 Dungeons and Dragons was published 50 years ago, and almost immediately afterwards ‘zines and magazines appeared to give players and DMs more...
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Thinking Warlocks
John Faed, Warlocks and Witches in a dance (1855) I am not a fan of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. In fact I am not a fan of the 4th edition either, or the 3.5th edition, or Pathfinder (the 3.75th...
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[Review] Mike’s World: The Forsaken Wilderness Beyond
Lately I have been gearing myself up to run the venerable Keep on the Borderlands for my son, as I still think it’s pretty good as a starter adventure. And while prepping it again (or rather, moving...
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Nobody knows where the name Glimmermark comes from. One might assume it was the Glimmerstone Wars, that have ravaged part of the region for centuries, but the name itself seems to have been much...
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Art and Inspiration: Land of the Lost (1974)
I remember watching Land of the Lost, both the original ’74 show and the ’92 version on German television. I was not impressed back then, and to be fair, the special effects in both are special only...
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Cauldron 2024: Manor on the Borderlands
Cauldron 2024: Manor on the Borderlands …of Hessia and Thuringia that is. But that means in living memory the Iron Wall ran merely a few hundred meters away from the location. And I swear I wanted to...
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[Traveller] Reworking the Classic Traveller Rumor Matrix
During my excursions into reaction rolls for Traveller lately I realized that the Traveller book has a template for how to create rumor tables (or just come up with rumors on the fly). Unlike other...
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My Hobby Year 2024
It’s the first time I actually feel the amount of times I played in a year worth mentioning. I had a rather successful 2024 in terms of ttrpg gaming. If my reckoning is correct (and I think I might...
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