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Paizo’s Planet Stories and NPR
Fantastic! This story at NPR discusses pulp stories and specifically mentions a few of the Planet Stories books from Paizo. This is a great series — I had a subscription for the first year or so — and if you’re looking for enjoyable stories see the list at Paizo’s site. And even Robert E. Howard gets into the article, with a mention of the Grim Lands collection. And I’m a Howard fan so I love seeing … Read entire article »
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Classic Ad: Thieves’ Guild from Gamelords
One of the things I loved most about gaming magazines back in the eighties was how the ads showed me games and supplements that never found their way to my game store. And since the release of the Dragon Magazine CD I’ve spent too many hours flipping through the PDFs just staring at the ads. Seriously, it’s more fun than … Read entire article »
GM Oracle Nominated for RPG Site of the Year
Wow. Stuffer Shack has listed this site as one of their five finalists for RPG Site of the Year. Absolutely stunned by the news, but the real credit goes to Michael for the dozens upon dozens of posts he’s loaded to the site since it was launched last summer. I hope all of you have been enjoying the recent posts, and … Read entire article »
Featured: Diseases from Space
Diseases coming to earth from outer space can be viewed as another Jungian archetype, in modern times worked into redundancy by science fiction writers. But this banality does not rule out a real scientific basis for the idea of diseases from outer space. – Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague* Sean Holland (blog) commented in yesterday’s post about Gévaudan’s … Read entire article »
NPC: Gévaudan’s Children
The beast grew bolder, prowling along village streets after dark and snarling at barred doors. People whispered that it often walked upright on hind legs, like a man, and now a fearful name sped from mouth to mouth — a name that no-one had dared to utter until now. – Robert Jackson, Mysteries of Witchcraft and the Occult* The Beast of Gévaudan … Read entire article »
Books on the Trip
I’ve been in Atlanta this week for a distributor show — we did a great job of showing off a few upcoming releases and even teasing some completely new and unannounced items — and as always happens on trips I brought along a few books. This won’t be the most exciting post I ever write for gmoracle.com, but I know … Read entire article »
DungeonMorph Dice on Kickstarter
I wrote about these dice last month (Tumblr post) but figured that with the project close to ending I should be sure to mention it over here. DungeonMorph Dice is a Kickstarter project with the end goal being the manufacturing and sale of special geomorphic dungeon design dice. The designs look remarkable, but as I said last month: As you can see … Read entire article »
Featured – Heroic Death
Death most strongly felt that, if only for artistry’s sake, heroes should be made to make their exits from the stage of life in the highest melodramatic style, with only one in fiftyscore let to die of old age and in the bed of sleep for the object of irony. – Fritz Leiber, “The Sadness of the Executioner” from Flashing Swords! … Read entire article »
Review – Dragon Warriors: Friends or Foes
Friends or Foes presents thirty-seven of the most colourful NPCs from the Lands of Legend, each one ready to be used in your game, to set your players’ characters off on adventure, help them in their hour of need — or stab them in the back. Now with Serpent King Games, the Dragon Warriors RPG series* isn’t a deep library of … Read entire article »
Rumor: Spirits of Demons Haunt the Alleys
A recent reading of the Pathfinder GameMastery Guide* made me think that the concept of haunts could lead to some truly terrible dangers right inside a normally safe place, such as a city. Yes, alleyways in fantasy campaigns are an excellent place to assault a group of adventurers, but most city encounters do not involve dark, necromantic powers that were … Read entire article »
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Classic Ad: Thieves’ Guild from Gamelords
One of the things I loved most about gaming magazines back in the eighties was how the … Read more »
Featured: Diseases from Space
Diseases coming to earth from outer space can be viewed as another Jungian archetype, in modern times … Read more »
Featured – Heroic Death
Death most strongly felt that, if only for artistry’s sake, heroes should be made to make their … Read more »
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Encounter: When To Coup De Grace
Check out this tip from page 40 of the 4th Edition DMG: Don’t hit people when they’re down. … Read more »
Do I Need Both The Wizard And The Sorcerer?
There is such a thing in life as having too many choices and one of those instances in 3.0, to me at least, appears to be the presence of both the Wizard … Read more »
What To Do With The Monk?
***Reminder: Please allow 24 hours for your comments to be approved and responded to.*** When I run my fantasy campaigns I run them in the vein of LOTR with Western-based themes, ideas, and … Read more »
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