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"It’s painful enough when he rolls the dice, announces that a drunken orc has unspooled some Valentine’s guts for sport. Worse are the silly accidents. One Valentine tripped on a floor plank and cracked his head on a mead bucket. He died of trauma in the stable. “Take it!” the Dungeon Master said that time. Spit sprayed over the top of his laminated screen. “Eat your fate,” he said. “Your thread just got the snippo!”" - Steele Lawman from Bookmarklet

LOVE Sam Lipsyte. - Steele Lawman

Recently I was reading a blog by the name ‘Blog of Holding’ and read this post. In summary he thinks that every book has roleplaying ideas in it, just waiting to be unlocked. I think this is an excellent idea, so I am going to go over some of the books I have done this summer. As a warning each one of these posts will have spoilers in it, though I will try not to give away too much.First up: Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer. - Canageek from Bookmarklet

The module has a complete backstory, maps, and room descriptions but it's up to me to populate the dungeon with monsters, treasures, and perhaps traps or other features. I have much of it planned out, but would love ideas for cool objects, monsters, or other features. - Steele Lawman

The retro clones all seem rather similar. I had also looked at Basic Fantasy RPG http://www.basicfantasy.org/main... and I frankly forget why S&W won out. S&W has ascending armor class rules, so you can add a bonus to your roll and compare to opponent's AC, so not THAC0. No skills. Basically, it's pretty darn close to the Basic or Original D&D rules, just re-written to be a bit clearer (and, of course, available to download or buy). - Steele Lawman

’ve been working on an adventure but it is taking longer then I thought. I’m mostly done the statblocks & body of the adventure but still need to write up the finale and locations for when the players inevitable break into places. However it has been a month since my last update and well, that one was pretty light to say the least. So here is a preview: The Haunter of the Ring is the main threat in the finale, so I’d like some feedback on him. He is stated out from the Call of Cthulhu, which is about 90% compatible with BRP. If you are familiar with either of those systems let me know. The description is intentionally vague since I figure players imaginations are stronger then my writing, though if you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them. - Canageek from Bookmarklet

I was going to say how much I love this, but now I'm afraid that "Diana" is in blackface. Also, that led me to this kinda NSFW post: http://www.protozoic.com/2007... so now I think I might have to never use the internet ever again. - Steele Lawman from Bookmarklet

:| - Rochelle

blackface is creepy, but otherwise fab photo. I too loved the cartoon when I was a little kid. (didn't play D&D 'til I was in my 20s) - Elaine is trying to write