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2025-02-14 Realistic Banking in a Fantasy World
2025-02-12 The Adventurers’ Guild Revisited
2025-02-09 Fantasy Banking
2025-02-04 ‘Barbaric!’ Character Generation
2025-02-03 Clash of Steel Character Generation
2025-02-01 Random Alien Tables 3: Dragon and Beyond
2024-11-20 Blasts From the Past?
2024-11-17 Teufel Again
2024-11-11 OpenQuest: Notes on Taluism
2024-11-10 OpenQuest: Faith and Invocations
2024-10-25 Implied Settings In D&D and Other RPGs
2024-10-13 OpenQuest: Domains
2024-10-10 Toward a Ritual Magic System, Part 3.6: Other Designs
2024-09-26 Toward a Ritual Magic System, Part 3.5: Refinements
2024-09-02 The Gygax 75 Challenge Part 2.7: Religions of Eordh
2024-08-19 The Gygax 75 Challenge Part 2.6: Systems
2024-08-19 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Review
2024-08-19 The Gygax 75 Challenge Part 2.5: History of Eordh
2024-08-08 I Have More Opinions About Comics
2024-08-07 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Probabilities 2
2024-08-02 Star Trek: More Gorn Headcanon
2024-08-02 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Robot Generation
2024-07-31 Random Alien Tables 2: The ‘Nomad’ Solutions
2024-07-29 Random Alien Tables: A Test
2024-07-23 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Space Combat Example
2024-07-23 A ‘Nomad’ Sensor/Weapons Lock Hack?
2024-07-23 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Space Combat Made Simple
2024-07-16 Why ‘NOMAD Confederation Space’?
2024-07-13 More Human Than Human
2024-07-05 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Ship Generation, Part 2: Fleets
2024-06-25 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Ship Generation, Part 1: Communication
2024-06-21 More Thoughts on ‘Coriolis: The Great Dark’
2024-05-20 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Probabilities
2024-05-20 ‘Faster Than Light: Nomad’ Character Generation
2024-04-03 Thoughts on Coriolis: The Great Dark
2024-02-28 Toward a Ritual Magic System, Part 3: Lore Redux and Ritual Procedure
2024-02-17 Toward a Ritual Magic System, Part 2: Essence and Lore
2024-02-12 D&D Mundane Class Character Generation
2024-02-08 Unwritten Games
2023-12-19 Character Generation in Nimble 5e
2023-12-08 D&D YouTube Roundup 5: Alignment, West Marches, and Online
2023-12-08 The War of Sun and Light
2023-12-08 The Artificer’s Tale
2023-11-13 The Gygax 75 Challenge Part 2: Region
2023-11-02 D&D YouTube Roundup 4: Magic Numbers, Rules Light, Nimble
2023-10-29 D&D YouTube Roundup 3: 5e Hardcore Mode, Folk vs. Official, Math
2023-10-27 The Grimdark Age
2023-10-27 D&D YouTube Roundup 2: Deathbringer RPG, Grimdark, Clerics
2023-10-24 D&D YouTube Roundup: DCC Review, Faster Combat, and More
2023-10-19 On Classic D&D
2023-10-17 The Adventurers’ Guild
2023-09-30 The Gygax 75 Challenge Part 1: Concept
2023-09-07 Into the Unknown Character Generation
2023-09-04 The Frankenverse in D&D 5: Chess Pieces in the Cosmic Struggle
2023-09-02 The Frankenverse in D&D 5: The Planes
2023-09-01 The Frankenverse in D&D 5: Old School Alignments
2023-08-29 Alignment Hard Mode
2023-08-25 D&D 5 Character Generation
2023-08-23 DCC RPG Character Generation
2023-07-21 The Frankenverse
2023-07-21 The Elf Game Again, And What Comes Next
2023-07-21 Shadow Vale: The Setting
2023-07-01 A Non-Review of the Vaesen RPG
2023-07-01 A Non-Review of the Mutant Year Zero RPG
2023-06-28 D100 Opposed Rolls
2023-06-26 OpenQuest: Keep It Simple …
2023-06-26 OpenQuest: Toward A Ritual Magic System
2023-06-13 OpenQuest: Metered Thaums (a.k.a. Limited Mana)
2023-06-13 OpenQuest: Other Magic
2023-06-12 A Non-Review of Tunnels & Trolls
2023-06-08 In Praise of Tunnels & Trolls
2023-06-06 OpenQuest: The Midlands
2023-06-02 OpenQuest: The Polar Continent
2023-05-29 OpenQuest: Rekindling the Flame
2023-05-23 A World of Qi: Notes
2023-05-13 A World of Qi
2023-03-23 In Which I Rant About Intellectualism
2023-03-14 Music Videos 6
2023-03-07 Relearning Python #2: duplicate-files.py
2023-03-03 Relearning Python #1: Python At Last
2023-02-23 Star Trek: The Gorn Ship
2023-02-09 Relearning Python #1/2: Ch-ch-ch-changes
2023-02-09 Music Videos 5
2023-01-29 Star Trek Head Canon Roundup
2023-01-22 Adventures in Java, or, a ‘Three Hour’ Tour
2023-01-20 Original D&D Elf Revised
2023-01-17 Music Videos 4
2023-01-16 Music Videos 3 (C)
2023-01-16 Music Videos 3 (B)
2023-01-16 Music Videos 3 (A)
2023-01-15 Star Trek: The Qegh Dynasty
2023-01-13 Star Trek: The Other Klingon Classes
2022-12-26 Star Trek: The Gorn Continuity
2022-12-15 Star Trek: The Speeches
2022-12-04 Music Videos 2
2022-12-01 Trek and Canon
2022-11-30 Music Videos
2022-11-26 Relearning Python #0: Introduction
2022-11-25 My Christmas List
2022-11-21 Trek-Nature
2022-11-18 What’s a Non-Review?
2022-11-12 Twilight 2000 Dice
2022-11-11 Update (2022-11-11)
2022-09-20 Still Alive
2022-09-20 Dice Pools Explored
2022-09-18 I Have Opinions About Comics, Part 1
2022-09-17 Dice Pools Revisited
2022-07-05 Shadow Vale: Alternate Rules
2022-06-17 Shadow Vale: The System
2022-06-08 Writing RPGs is Hard, Part 4: I’m Borrowing Not Stealing
2021-07-07 Update (2021-07-07)
2021-07-05 The Not So Good Republic
2021-07-02 Update (2021-07-02)
2021-07-02 A Note on Dates
2021-07-01 The Fantasy Trip
2021-06-29 The Less Evil Empire
2021-06-22 A Space Opera Setting
2021-06-15 Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e
2021-06-14 Orclands Revisited
2021-06-13 Cepheus Atom
2021-06-07 Character Generation in Year Zero Engine RPGs
2021-06-04 More Coriolis Ships
2021-06-03 Vaesen Character Generation
2021-05-17 Old RPG-related Essays Incoming
2021-05-17 Alignment Redux
2021-05-17 Update (2021-05-17)
2020-10-11 Languages in RPGs: Why?
2020-09-24 A Non-Review of the Coriolis RPG
2020-09-16 Coriolis Ship Generation
2020-09-14 Coriolis Character Generation
2020-09-14 Yet More Year Zero, Again
2020-03-28 Why an SRD, Again?
2020-03-24 Goblins and Kobolds and Trolls, Oh My
2020-03-24 Lost Cities
2020-03-17 An Elf Not Off The Shelf
2020-03-16 On Converting the Year Zero Engine SRD into HTML
2020-03-12 Blog Facelift Complete
2020-03-05 Blog Facelift: Real Soon Now
2020-03-02 Blog Facelift Progress
2020-02-12 Why an SRD?
2020-02-11 Yet More Year Zero
2020-02-02 One RPG, Many Genres?
2020-01-08 Vaesen Alpha Comments
2019-12-31 Alien RPG Dice Table
2019-12-21 Knives Out
2019-12-21 Blog Facelift Underway
2019-12-19 Year Zero Probabilities Redux
2019-12-12 Year Zero Probabilities
2019-12-12 A Non-Review of Fria Ligan’s Alien RPG
2019-12-12 Vaesen Rules Preview
2019-10-25 Big Companies Suck
2019-10-10 She-Ra Season 4
2019-10-05 Writing RPGs is Hard, Part 3: Dice Pools
2019-09-18 FICTION: Bunker Bomb
2019-09-16 To Hugo or Not to Hugo
2019-09-16 About Paranormality
2019-09-15 About Astral
2019-09-13 Writing RPGs is Hard, Part 2: Combat Rounds and the M x N Problem
2019-09-11 Writing RPGs is Hard, Part 1
2019-09-11 Is the Best Magic System None At All?
2019-09-11 Notes on a Magic System for d100 Games
2019-09-09 Why Are Drow Dark?
2019-09-08 Game Fanatic’s Log, Addendum 2019-09-08
2019-09-02 Quick(?) Update 2019-09-02
2019-06-03 Progress Report 2
2019-05-17 Random Youtube Vids
2019-05-10 Giant Steps
2019-04-28 All Dwarves Reconsidered
2019-04-17 Captain Marvel Second Viewing
2019-04-13 Unwanted Software Thoughts Syndrome
2019-04-09 DC Super Hero Girls Rebooted
2019-03-28 What, me update?
2019-03-26 Progress on ELTN
2019-03-22 G+ Roundup 2: We Have To Talk About Brexit
2019-03-22 G+ Roundup 1: Links about Software and Such
2019-02-08 Agents of A.X.E.
2019-02-07 In Defense of Cosmic Horror
2019-01-30 Barbarians of Lemuria Playtest
2019-01-23 About Barbarians of Lemuria
2019-01-07 Troika Playtest
2018-12-18 RPG Design Diary 1
2018-12-18 Space Ship Habitat
2018-12-11 ‘The Only RPG Book I Need’
2018-10-16 Too Many Thoughts
2018-10-16 So Much G+ …
2018-10-14 Livejournal Live
2018-10-10 Negative Waves
2018-10-09 Here We Are
2018-04-03 Black Panther Redux
2018-03-12 A Non-Review of Black Panther
2017-12-28 The Apparatus of Talamira, A History
2017-07-05 Magic Items: The Trinkets of Talamira
2016-09-01 Magic Item: The Apparatus of Talamira
2015-01-27 Minimalist d20
2014-11-24 A Questionable Review of The Strange Bestiary
2014-11-14 A Space Opera Recursion for The Strange
2014-05-26 Setting Idea: Sixgun and Planet
2014-01-09 Rules as Interfaces Redux
2014-01-08 Rules as Interfaces
2013-12-28 Numenera Stream-of-Consciousness Quasi-Review
2012-05-17 Alignment: Heresy and a Reformation
2012-04-19 A Traveler and an Emperor
2012-04-19 The Chromatic Kingdoms
2012-01-19 My House, My Rules
2011-12-28 New time-waster
2011-09-28 The Uncounted Worlds
2011-05-31 Time Travel and Keyboard Cat
2011-05-14 A Tale of Two Games
2011-04-11 In Memoriam - Elisabeth Sladen, 1948-2011
2010-02-02 The Time Lord Problem
2009-04-10 Orclands Session 2: Mar 1
2009-03-20 Orclands Session 1: Feb 15
2009-02-25 The Orc Lands: An Introduction
2006-10-04 A Story for Amy’s Dad