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Retro Post: My First TSR Catalog
With all of the new stuff on the way from Gen Con I thought I would share something old that I came across recently. This is the TSR catalog from my first Basic Set back about 1979-1980.I was a little...
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Overreaction Wednesday - 5E Positivity!
Here's a link to an interview with Mike Mearls. The first section is what really interested me, where he is asked about making the rules available for free:By sharing the rules, we’re making it easier...
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A Deliberate Embrace of Savage Worlds
An obvious choiceOne of the major issues with RPGs is that it can take a lot of time to play one. Most of my campaigns have run on a weekly to biweekly schedule with roughly six hour sessions as the...
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Motivational Monday
Our little vacation did go better than this but it's important to cover the basics ...
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RPGaDAY - Days 1-3
Blogger RPG Meme for August?OK, I'll play. Expect short posts, but I'll play.It's an easy thing to catch up because the answer to the first 3 are all the same:It's my first played, first DM'd, and...
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RPGaDay - Day 4 - Most Recent Purchase
My most recent RPG is a set of stuff for Savage Worlds during DriveThruRPG's recent sale. They are:This is a military-oriented sci-fi game by a Polish company named "GRAmel" that looks a lot like a...
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Deadlands - Return of the Clampett Gang!
Our Deadlands campaign "continues" from where it started (almost 3 years ago! - that went by quick!). Having boarded a west-bound train in Missouri, the next leg of the trip will take them across the...
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RPGaDay - Day 5 - Most Old-School RPG Owned
Really?See Days 1-3 for more.Here's a post from last week that covers some of this ground as well.Hers's another post on "back when" as well.
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Gaming Gadgets - The Savage Worlds GM Screen
I use screens less now than I used to. Actually there have been peaks and valleys over the years. I used to think of them as a cool extra thing, then I got to considering them essential, then I backed...
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RPGaDAY - Day 6 - Favorite RPG that you never get to play
A few weeks ago I might have said "Savage Worlds" but I'm fixing that particular problem so I'll say it's this:The OriginalI've owned this game since 1982, picked up every version except the latest,...
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Gaming Gadgets - Cast of Cards for Savage Worlds
I ran across these on DTRPG last week and didn't think they made much sense as a PDF, then I realized they could be ordered as physical cards and got more interested.There are 17 cards to a deck. They...
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RPGaDAY - Day 7 - Most Intellectual RPG Owned?
I'm not even sure what that means. System-wise or setting-wise? Concept-wise? Time spent thinking about it -wise? I don't own any of the more popular games that I suspect are meant to be identified...
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40K, er, "Science Fiction Game" Friday - Attack Wing at the Lake
So while on our last short vacation of the summer we did get in a little game time. Normally I try to travel light and focused but between what the kids asked for and what I thought we might play I...
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I'm going to bend the rules here - I have multiples on this one, and fortunately I've already written about most of them. I'll limit it to three:The AD&D ranger I ran up to high level is discussed...
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RPGaDAY - Day 9 - Favorite Dice
OK, this one is on the easier end of the scale. I have a few ...This is my most recent big pile of dice:That's ten sets of Chessex opaque dice, one of each color available last year or year before when...
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RPGaDAY - Day 10 - Favorite Game Fiction
This one is a little tougher - I've read quite a bit of it and a lot of it is not that great.I'm going to pick an author who wrote two different series of books that now have RPG's: William King. He...
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RPGaDAY - Day 11 - Weirdest RPG: Lords of Creation
What is Lords of Creation? It's an early take on the multi-dimensional RPG published by Avalon Hill in 1984 and written by Tom Moldvay. It's cool to me, but it is pretty strange. The assumption is a...
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Iron Gods Begins
Well look at what arrived on my doorstep last night ...I've been looking forward to this since they announced it.I have no idea if it will be great, but Paizo knows their stuff pretty well at this...
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RPGaDay - Day 12 - Old RPG I stil play/read
How old is "old"? See yesterday's post for the oldest game I reread most recently. I suppose it would have to be Moldvay Basic as I have run it several times over the last 5-6 years for friends and...
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