| Books I Read (or Started to Read) in 2019 |
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| Influences on my Blog's Design |
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| Farewell to Google Analytics |
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| 5th Edition House Rules: Ray of Wounding |
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| Precognitive Prep - A Divination Spell for 5th Edition |
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| 5th Edition House Rules: Modified Injury and Recovery - Take 2 |
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| 5th Edition House Rules: Modified Injury and Recovery |
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| “Five Torches Deep” by Sigil Stone Publishing |
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| It Finally Happened: A Doppelgänger Infiltrated the Party |
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| A Morning Walk Through Gray Skies and Steady Rain |
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| End of Summer and Campfires |
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| Playstorming a Burning Wheel Fight using Twilight in the Duchy Verdorben stat blocks |
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| Why Hugo when I'm A Rubyist |
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| Burning Dragonmarks - Design Thoughts on Dragonmarks |
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| Burning Warforged - A New Stock and Lifepaths for Burning Wheel |
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| Once More Into the “Tomb of Annihilation” |
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| Exposing More Metadata for Take on Rules |
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| Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat - Take 2 |
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| Playstorming a “Stars without Number” Space Combat |
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| A New Fighter Class Starship for “Stars without Number” |
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| Ruby Script to Extract Post for RPGGeek |
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| Session 2 exploring the Thel-Sector of “Stars without Number” |
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| Session 1 of a “Stars without Number” Campaign |
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| Preparing a Short-Term “Stars without Number” Campaign |
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| Adding a “Stars without Number” Dataset for gm-notepad |
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| Introducing GM Notepad: A Command Line Tool for GM-ing |
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| Just Arrived: “Dungeon Crawl Classics: Lankhmar” |
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| Keith Baker announces “Project Raptor” |
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| Guess Who's Coming to Graywall |
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| Situation Mining: It Begins in Graywall |
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| Revisiting Eberron: Why I am Excited to Explore the Campaign Setting |
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| Random Eberron Regional Origins |
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| The How and the Why of Indices of Game Crunch |
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| Index of Allowed Classes, Races, Cultures, and Backgrounds |
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| Rite of Admixture - A Ritual for the Dark Six of Eberron |
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| Eberron Resources |
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| Books in Progress and Recently Finished |
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| “Ode to a Nightengale” by John Keats |
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| A Hearty “No Thank You” to Interstitial Cut Scenes in Novels |
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| “The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time” by David L. Ulin |
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| “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk |
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| Reading Challenges |
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| The Trees Lean In |
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| Grinding through the Tomb of Annihilation |
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| Thank You for the Donations (and We Still Need More) |
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| Prelude to Fables: Part 1 |
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| I'm Helping to Open Fables Bookshop in Downtown Goshen Indiana |
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| “Faust: A Tragedy” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Daniel Collin's “Book of War” |
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| Better World Books Closing Goshen Store |
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| Finding Cartographic Inspiration |
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| Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” - Seeds of Stranger Fruit |
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| Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” - Black Stars Uncounted |
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| Let's Read “Codex of the Black Sun” |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Game Master Resources |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Factions |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Xenobestiary |
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| Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Adventure Creation |
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| Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Sector Creation |
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| Tables of “Take on Rules” |
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| Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - The History of Space |
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| “The Riddles of the Hobbit” by Adam Roberts |
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| Own Your Game System |
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| Dreams of Adventure: Classes |
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| Helmets and Halberd Podcast |
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| Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - Starships |
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| Diving Further into Embarkation |
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| Playstorming Embarkation Tweaks in Adventures in Middle-earth |
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| Building Scripts for my Website |
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| Adventures in Middle-earth is in the Bundle of Holding |
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| Reflecting on Migrating from Wordpress |
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| Three Book RPG |
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| Using Adventures in Middle Earth procedures for Tomb of Annihilation |
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| Ten Influential RPGs (for me) |
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| Marching through the Sandbox |
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| Procedures for the Liberation of Sir Uravulon Calcidius |
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| Looking to the Horizon |
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| Own Your Tools |
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| Everything I Ever Wanted in an RPG |
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| Medieval Demographics Made Easy |
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| Following-up on Character Attachment |
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| Premature Character Attachment Disorder |
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| Reviewing Top Content from My Old Wordpress Site |
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| Welcome to My New Take on Rules |
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| My Blogging Engine |
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| Kibitzing Burning Beards, Or Thinking Up Consequences for Failure |
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| In Response to “I'm Bowing Out” - Hack & Slash |
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| Witchburner in Burning Wheel |
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| Witchburner by Luka Rejec |
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| King of Feathers Brings the Chomp |
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| Keeping the RSS Fires Burning |
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| That One Session of Dwimmermount |
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| Discovered an Unknown to Me Sibling of the Old School Primer |
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| My Response to an OSR Guide For The Perplexed Questionnaire |
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| Burning Wheel Lifepaths Inspired by Warhammer Fantasy |
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| Rethinking the Failed Climb Check |
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| The Stage is Set for an Epic Battle in Omu |
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| Steelhart |
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| Plan for Complications - Tomb of Annihilation |
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| Behind the Screen |
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| Doom of the Savage Kings - Review |
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| Polymorph, Wild Shape and the Barbarian Rage |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Equipment and Vehicles |
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| Do you prefer your RPG Combat as War or Sport? |
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| Let’s Read “Stars without Number” - “Systems - Hacking, Advancement, and Hazards” |
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| Tomb of Annihilation - a quick update |
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| Let’s Read “Stars without Number” – Scenes, Saves, and Skill Checks |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Combat and Healing |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Psionics |
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| Let's Read “Stars Without Number” - Character Creation |
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| Let's Read “Stars without Number” - Into the Waiting Light |
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| Let's read “Stars without Number” |
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| Random Encounter Table for Bitterweed Barrow Region |
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| Barrow Wife - A DCC Monster |
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| Chip - Plague Ensorcelled Corpse - A DCC Monster |
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| Randomizing My Way Through Tomb of Annihilation |
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| Celebrating 17 Years of the Open Gaming License |
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| The Known World Thusfar |
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| Blades in the Dark by John Harper |
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| Blades in the Dark Probabilities |
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| Ruins of the Dwarven Delve [Session #9] |
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| Facilitating better RPG combats |
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| Raiding the Ziggurat of Dis Pater |
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| Going Local |
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| A Slow Path to Dungeon Crawl Classics |
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| Making Their Way to Steelhart |
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| The Campaign Timeline Thusfar |
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| The Portal Under the Stars at International Tabletop Game Day |
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| Heeding Gygax's Admonition |
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| Closing out the Tower of the Stargazer [Session 6] |
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| Expanding on My Procedures for Open Table Gaming |
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| My Procedure for Facilitating Open Table Gaming |
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| They're Coming to the Barrow |
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| Trauma and Forced Retirement in DCC |
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| Guess Who’s Coming to Bitterweed Barrow? |
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| Preparation for Session 2 of DCC Better World Gaming |
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| Dungeon Crawl Classics - Tower of the Stargazer [Session 5] |
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| Random Tables to Help Preparation for the Unexpected |
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| Concluding the Doom of the Savage Kings [Session #4] |
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| Exploring Ruins of Ramat for Game Day |
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| Dungeon Crawl Classics - A Deal is Made [Session #3] |
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| Dungeon Crawl Classics - Going Beyond the Funnel |
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| Dungeon Crawl Classics Agenda and Advice |
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| Play Through of Nebin Pendlebrook's Perilous Pantry |
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| Running DCC at my Friendly Local Book and Game Store |
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| Campaign, Rulings, Descriptions, and Questing |
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| The Rise (and Fall) of Session 0 |
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| Randomness, I Forgot that I Needed You |
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| Have Fun Storming the Castle |
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| FLGS Quick Start |
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| Skeleton of Referee Section for Basic Fantasy RPG |
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| Skeleton of Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game |
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| Some Questions and Answers with James Spahn of Barrel Rider Games |
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| White Box Gothic by Barrel Rider Games |
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| Burning Sanctuary - Session 1 |
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| Further Work on Beliefs for Burning Sanctuary |
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| Working Through Beliefs for Burning Sanctuary |
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| Dungeon Crawl Classic: Portal Under the Stars |
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| Game Night with my Son |
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| Burning Sanctuary - Session 0 |
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| Life During a Wartime Random Table Redux |
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| Situation Mining: To Save a Would Be King |
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| Situation Mining: The Bargain of Burgundy |
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| Situation Mining: Dwimmermount |
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| Gearing up for a Dungeon Crawl Classic |
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| Situation Mining: the Black Plague |
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| Burning Sanctuary |
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| What Makes a Good Role-Playing Session (for me)? |
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| Additional Burning Wheel Procedures |
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| The Disservice of Modern Dungeons & Dragons Initiative Systems |
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| Playing at the Game Store |
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| World of Steve - Session 2 |
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| Exhuming My Dungeons & Dragons |
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| Adding More Mortar to the Three Pillars |
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| Features of Burning Wheel That I Enjoy(ed?) |
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| Campaign Random Encounter: Library of Ancients and Surrounding Village |
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| Early Experience running Out of the Abyss |
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| Out of the Abyss - Session #1 |
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| Wrath of the Autarch by Phil Lewis |
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| Running a Fifth Edition Character Funnel |
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| Musing about Upcoming Campaign (and System) |
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| Fate Point Economy: All the Glories of Accounting and Fiduciary Obligations |
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| My take on a terrible law |
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| Circle of Hands Clash System Shout Out |
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| Tables in the DMG and their Page Number |
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| House Rules for upcoming D&D 5E campaign |
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| Building a Set of D&D House Rules |
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| An Upcoming Campaign Map with Tech Tomfoolery |
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| Back on the Gaming Treadmill (maybe) |
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| An Incomplete Catalog of Random Tables for Future Reference |
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| A Random Book Name Generator |
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| End of Year Organizing |
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| Working and Creating within Constraints |
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| Divorce - A Personal Experience |
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| Porting Apocalypse World style moves into D&D 5E |
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| Apocalypse World: Dark Ages Session Report |
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| Apocalypse World: Dark Ages Playtest and Observations |
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| Wondering About Adventure Presentation Format |
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| Dragonknights - Session #1 |
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| Thulian Echoes by Zzarchov Kowolski |
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| Why I am a Tabletop RPG Cheerleader |
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| Dangerous Space Jail by Phil Vecchione |
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| Seeking a 2015 Ennies Nomination |
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| The Gnomes of Levnec by Zzarchov Kowolski |
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| Scenic Dunnsmouth by Zzarchov Kowolski |
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| Fond Memories of the Kenku |
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| Fascination with the Flame Princess |
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| Getting the Band Back Together |
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| Backing Project: Dark by Will Hindmarch |
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| Translating Old School Items to Dungeon World |
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| Saving Throws or Defying Danger |
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| Random Relationship Graph Builder |
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| Torchbearer with the kids |
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| Random Clergy Generator |
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| Observations of Dungeon World at Michiana Board Gamers |
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| Dungeon World at Michiana Board Gamers |
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| A Collection of Short Session Recaps |
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| Burning Wheel or Dungeon World |
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| Fade into Fey – Session 2 |
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| Torchbearer: An Inaugural Run |
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| Why the Fantasy Genre |
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| Fade into Fey - Session 1 |
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| Evil Wizards in a Cave by Johnstone Metzger |
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| Dashing Hero by Jacob Randolph |
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| GenCon's Apocalypse World KristaCon Event |
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| How to Hack Apocalypse World with the AW Hacker All-Stars hosted by Pete Figtree |
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| A Spark in Fate Core by Jason Pitre |
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| To Everything there is a Season |
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| Take on the Lower Depths |
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| Forgotten Years - Dungeon World Campaign Session 1 |
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| Dungeon World Campaign Playbook |
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| Dungeon World Playbooks |
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| Inverse World - A Dungeon World Sourcebook |
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| Bracers of the Bound - A Dungeon World Item |
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| A Preview of Things to Come |
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| Dungeon World Update and Some Resources |
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| An Ongoing Thought Experiment for an Adventure Conversion |
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| A Night of Android: Netrunner |
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| Take on Game Day (Part 2 of N) |
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| Goshen Game Day - Follow-up Survey |
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| Take on Game Day (Part 1 of N) |
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| The Role-Playing Games of the Goshen Game Day |
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| Remember the Reaction Roll |
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| The When and Where of Goshen Game Day |
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| A Father and Son Night of Marvel Heroic RPG |
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| Just Arrived - A Thousand and One Nights |
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| Random Bonds Generator for Dungeon World |
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| Ice Mummer - A Dungeon World Monster |
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| Dungeon World Zine for January 2013 |
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| Moleskin Maps II by Matt Jackson |
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| Dungeon World PDF is Available! |
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| Take On Establishments |
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| Gaming Violence and Children |
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| Dungeon World is Jeopardy the RPG |
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| And the Winner Is… |
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| Celebrating My 202nd Post |
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| Transitions in Table Top RPGs |
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| An Odd Duck that Dungeon World |
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| Take on Magic Items – A Dungeon World Magic Item Compendium |
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| Thornburg by J.B. Mannon and Jeremiah Shepersky |
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| Helping Other Gamers With Consideration for the Visually Impaired |
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| Examining the RPG Sessions That I Ran and Think Were Awesome |
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| World of Steve - Session 1 |
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| Dungeon World - Google Hangouts Session 3 |
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| Moleskin Maps: Volume 1 by Chubby Monster Games |
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| Dungeon World, Google Hangouts, and Tabletop Forge |
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| First Steps for the Game Day |
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| School Daze by Tracy Barnett |
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| Coordinating a Game Day |
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| So GM Burnout has Happened |
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| Cthulhu Dark – GenCon 2012 Edition |
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| Dungeon World – GenCon 2012 Edition |
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| May Not Haved Played A Lot of Games at GenCon… |
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| Wampus County Honorable Mention |
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| Follow-Up to First Play - Marvel Heroic Role-Playing Game |
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| First Play - Marvel Heroic Role-Playing Game |
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| An Arrival Entirely Unexpected - Wampus County Edition |
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| Cataloging Performance Art and other Ephemera |
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| A Bizarre Ritual of Mine |
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| Just Arrived - Monster of the Week by Michael Sands |
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| Crippled by Knowledge |
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| Sitting Down to Run a New Game |
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| Diaspora Character Creation – Alexandros Teleman |
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| Nostalgically Wishing I Would've Been Part of the Old School |
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| Who Knew the Apocalypse Would Spawn So Many Games |
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| Just Arrived – Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space |
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| Microscope Session – New Force Changes Society |
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| Dungeon World Denizens of the Moathouse |
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| Adventures in Adventure Conversion |
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| Success and Failure in Role-Playing Games |
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| Just Arrived – Skyward Steel and Darkness Visible |
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| World of Dungeons by John Harper |
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| Kick In the Door…Dungeon World Kickstarter is Live |
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| After a Few Dungeon World One-Shots |
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| Stomping Through “A Few Acres of Snow” on a Hot as Hell Day |
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| Garage Sale Hack |
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| At the Intersection of Work, Play, and Learning |
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| Preparing for Diaspora |
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| Dungeon World Custom Moves for Ziggurat of the Sun Princess |
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| Floundering Around the Burning Wheel |
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| Dining with the Baron |
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| What Should the Game Master Fight For? |
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| Make a Decision Already |
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| Dual Duel of Wits and Dangerous Stakes |
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| Liberating the Village only to Stumble into the Dungeon |
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| …And Finally, Bloodstone |
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| Survey of Methods of Advancement |
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| Just Arrived - A Few Acres of Snow |
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| Just Arrived - A Brief History of the World |
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| Advancing the Timeline in an RPG Campaign |
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| GM Questionnaire |
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| Just Arrived - A Boatload of Louie |
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| The Wheel is Burning My Mind's Eye |
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| Border Crossing and Culinary Explorations |
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| Interview with Robert Bohl |
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| Misspent Youth by Robert Bohl |
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| Just Arrived - Loviatar |
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| A Circles Epiphany - Burning Wheel |
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| Deluge by VSCA |
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| What Makes a Game So Hackable? |
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| The Now 400 Pound Gorilla Has Awoken |
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| Rules Lite Games and the Open Game License |
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| Keeping Aspects Interesting |
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| Acceptable Weight of Conflict Resolution |
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| Apocalypse World moves in the Fellowship of the Ring |
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| Necromancers' Maze |
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| My Present Gaming Group |
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| Survey of Conflict Structure in RPGs |
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| A New Year's Eve Tradition - The One Shot |
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| RPG Bucket List Or Gaming Resolution for 2012 |
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| 2011 In Review |
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| Carcosa by Geoffrey McKinney - PDF Edition |
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| Bloodstone Observations |
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| Bloodstone Session #4 |
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| Assassin Lifepaths for Burning Wheel |
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| Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley |
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| Part-Time Gods by Third Eye Games |
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| Never Split the Party - Worst Duel of Wits Compromise Ever |
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| Inn Witch They Pig Out |
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| Contributions to the Rolemaster Standard System |
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| The Enjoyable Chaos of Scripted Actions |
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| Irv the Mole |
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| Bloodstone Session #3 Recap - It's Always More Interesting When a Cuddling Instinct Comes Into Play |
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| Burning Wheel Gold - Connecting BITs and Artha |
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| In Which They Find Their Tub |
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| A Wedding and a Wyrding |
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| Playing Burning Wheel Gold With The Kids |
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| Hacking Together a Burning Wheel Conflict Resolution on the Fly |
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| FoRK-ed off |
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| A Missed Opportunity for Burning Wheel - Duel of Wits |
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| Life During a Wartime - Random Village Generator |
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| The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker |
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| Family Role-Playing and Unexpected Events |
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| Gamemastering by Brian Jamison - A Behind the Screen Look |
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| Bloodstone Character Beliefs, Instincts, and Traits |
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| Bloodstone Character Questionnaire |
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| Bloodstone Party Composition |
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| Interesting, Albeit Pointless Stats for My Blog |
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| Weird Fantasy - Lamentations of the Flame Princess |
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| Cribbing Ideas from Apocalypse World and Dungeon World for Bloodstone |
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| Contemplating Scene Economy with Seven Players |
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| Running and Playing Bloodstone in Burning Wheel |
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| Burning Wheel and Bloodstone |
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| Bloodstone Campaign Introduction |
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| Bloodstone - It Is Time |
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| GenCon Games on Demand - Bulldogs! |
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| Burning Wheel Gold - Initial Impressions |
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| GenCon Games on Demand - Dungeon World |
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| GenCon Games on Demand - Lady Blackbird |
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| Random Notes from my Burning Wheel Campaign Journal |
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| Translating Empire Strikes Back into Dungeon World Moves |
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| Character Creation Session for Family Bulldogs Adventure |
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| GenCon After Hours - Savage Worlds |
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| GenCon Games on Demand - Hollowpoint |
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| Mustering into the GenCon Volunteer Corp |
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| Ran my First Game of Dungeon World |
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| Hollowpoint - Player vs. Game Hack - Take 1 |
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| Hollowpoint Review |
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| Hewards Handy Haversack - GenCon Edition |
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| Hollowpoint Session Observations |
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| How to Protect Your Geeky Treasures - A Step By Step Guide |
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| Using Hollowpoint to flesh out our Diaspora campaign |
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| Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5 |
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| Customer Service - Evil Hat Style - It is Fabulous |
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| Change of Plans - GenCon Edition |
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| A Night of Race for the Galaxy |
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| FrieCon I - The Slackening |
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| FrieCon I - Before the bomb |
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| Converting Star Frontier's Vrusk into Bulldogs! |
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| Bulldogs! Pre-Release Review |
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| What a Difference a Year Makes |
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| Welcome to the Hive |
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| Master of Bandwidth |
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| The Phoenix of Tichu |
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| Good News Everyone…Bulldogs! RPG is Here! |
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| It's Only a Model |
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| Diaspora RPG Cluster Creation |
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| Loading Chekhov's Gun |
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| Role Playing Games I Want to Play at GenCon |
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| GenCon is a Go! |
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| Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5 |
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| The Dragon of Tichu |
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| What is the favorite character that I have played |
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| Breaking the Stonewall with Vincent's Admonition |
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| Finally, Dogs in the Vineyard |
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| The Dog of Tichu |
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| Apocalyptic Casting of the Pods |
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| Index for 2011 A to Z Challenge |
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| Recapturing that Old Gaming Magic |
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| Diaspora Spacecraft Rules Addendum #1 |
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| Z is for Zebullon's Guide to Frontier Space |
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| Y is for YINSH |
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| X is for Xizors |
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| W is for Wyatt Earp |
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| Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4 |
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| V is for Versions |
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| U is for Underdark |
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| T is for Too Many Games |
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| S is for Scales of War |
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| R is for Red Hand of Doom |
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| Q is for Queen of Spiders |
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| P is for Puerto Rico |
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| O is for Obanar |
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| Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4 |
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| N is for Night Below |
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| M is for Magic the Gathering |
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| L is for Light Speed |
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| K is for Kickstart |
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| Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #3 |
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| J is for Jaiman the Land of Twilight...kind of |
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| I is for Ingenious |
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| G is for Guillotine |
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| H is for H-series The Bloodstone Pass Saga |
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| F is for Family Gaming |
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| E is for Eberron |
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| D is for ... |
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| C is for Candyland |
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| B is for Burning Empires |
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| A is for Alpha Dawn |
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| Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2 |
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| Diaspora military campaign |
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| Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2 |
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| T1 System Ships of the Exxon Theocracy |
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| Pondering a Social Conflict in Diaspora |
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| A Couple of T2 Intended to Traverse Hostile Regions |
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| Two T1 Diaspora Spaceships |
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| A Handful of T2 Diaspora Spaceships |
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| Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #1 |
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| Discussing Layers of a Role-Playing Game |
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| The Mah Jong of Tichu |
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| Open Game License |
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| Cluster Creation Diaspora |
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| A special thank you |
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| Incentivized Role Selection - Part 2 |
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| Fate Points for Burning Wheel |
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| Incentivized Role Selection |
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| A First Take |
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