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Save Versus All Wands Makes the Top Ten!
Save Versus All Wands is honored to have been chosen as one of the Top Ten Gaming Blogs of 2014 by Jeffro Johnson of Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog and Castalia House. Jeffro revealed his choices on Friday...
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The Pros and Cons of Lulu
The original Lulu in To Sir, With Love (great movie, by the way)Actually, the real original Lulu for me was my grandmother on my mother's side, Lucienne Foubert Chamberlin. Born in France in 1897, we...
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Review: Gamergate the Card Game
In the interests of unbiased blogger journalism, I thought I would do areview of this game, authored by the prolific James Desborough of Postmortem Studios. As many of you know, it was the only game...
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OSR Art Friday: The Lace & Steel Illustrations of Donna Barr
From the original box coverI bought the first edition of Lace & Steel--the game of faux-17th century swashbuckling and fancy court balls--in 1989, after seeing it on the shelf and flipping though...
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Gold Pieces Are Now Falling From Heaven
The Introit of the Tridentine Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent begins with this extraordinary verse from Isaiah 45, 8:Rorate caeli, sesuper, et nubes pluant justum: aperiatur terra, et germinet...
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Alignment in OD&D and Zylarthen, Part I
From The Dragon No. 39. Guess what alignment he is.In these posts, I won’t be tracing or debating the changes, variances or related minutia of alignment through the editions—such as the three-point vs....
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Free Zylarthen Is About To Go Away
This isn't a sales pitch. Actually, sort of the opposite.I launched the public version of Seven Voyages of Zylarthen on Christmas Day, 2013. So, it's been almost a year. The game itself isn't vanishing...
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Alignment in OD&D and Zylarthen, Part II
One of the greatest of the Appendix N novelsSo the first comment on the last post by Reverance Pavane (aka Ian Borchardt) asked some great questions that deserve more detailed answers than I initially...
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The God in the Cave: Guest Post by G.K. Chesterton
Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van HonthorstThis is Chapter 1 of Part 2 (On the Man Called Christ) of Chesterton's brilliant The Everlasting Man, published in 1925. It is without a doubt one of...
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Apologies and Some Maps
This blog will be going to sleep for a week or so, as I need to focus all of my writing efforts on finishing up some additional material for Seven Voyages of Zylarthen. Among other things, I'm putting...
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Kingdom of the Ants
I'm still in the midst of hacking around, randomly creating maps for inclusion in the Wilderness Creation Tutorial for the new version of Seven Voyages of Zylarthen. But I really like this one. Again,...
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Isle of Pleasure
One more set of randomly created Zylarthen maps.The two above, created with Hexographer, are somewhat similar to the color and black and white schemes used to map the "Gazetteer" world of the X and GAZ...
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City State of the Invincible Empress Jool-ee
At the risk of testing anyone's patience, this is the FINAL test map before knuckling down and writing the tutorial. The above is an "artistic" player's map without any hex grids, but only using the...
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Murdered Cartoonist Illustrated French Dungeons & Dragons Game
The French RPG site Le Grog reported that murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Tignous (Bernard Verlhac) was a veteran games illustrator. Among other credits including Laelith for Casus Belli magazine and...
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After Being "Unfriended" On Facebook, Man Vows Former "Friend" Will be...
Alternate longer title: Man Content to Read Post After Post on Facebook Containing "Hate Speech", But When Man Is Quietly "Unfriended" by the "Hate Speech" Person, He Vows to Ruin Him in the RPG...
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After Being "Unfriended" On Facebook, Man Accuses Former "Friend" of Being a...
Hell hath know fury like a man spurnedIt's now been a week or so since Andy-Action Markham was "unfriended" on Facebook, and three days since he discovered the humiliating slight. He's used that time...
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"My Heart is Broken, Oakes" - A Love Story
I'm not a big Facebook person. I have 108 friends. They're all either old school chums that have friended me out of nostalgia, a few current actual friends and coworkers, friends and family of my wife...
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Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner, Part 1
So, after taking a hiatus from game blogging for the past seven weeks, I am working my way back. Writing takes a fair amount out of me (in time, among other things), and it's difficult for me to focus...
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OSR Art Friday: Editing Batten (a long post with too many pictures at the end)
This post will be annoying to some of you in that you were probably expecting a pretty color picture. Instead you will be getting many black and white pictures.And the featured artist of the day is not...
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Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner, Part 2, McGoohan "Had Extreme Catholic...
Patrick McGoohan in Danger ManAlso see Part 1 here.The quote is from director David Cronenberg who directed McGoohan on the set of his classic horror film Scanners in 1981. More from Cronenberg at the...
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