Thursday, July 25, 2013

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Antipode System

Below is the star system that The Boy and I worked on during vacation for the Star Wars game:


"Details are sketchy in the galactic databases on the Antipode system.  It was a member of the Old Republic, settled by a mix of sentient races.  Due to a nearby supernova approximately 1,000 years ago, the hyperlanes connecting Antipode to the rest of the galaxy shifted, causing it to be unreachable.  During last days of the Clone Wars, CIS scouts detected a large hyperlane shift and rediscovered Antipode.  The last official records indicate that at the close of the Clone Wars, the Antipode system was absorbed into the Galactic Empire as an Imperial Species Preservation Zone with extremely limited civilian access."

This should be interesting, as it will be the core setting of an Edge of the Empire campaign. :)

- Ark

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Star Wars for Kids Only

The guys get serious as they plan to steal a freighter.
I've been wanting to run a kids only game for a while.  Before vacation I talked to the owner of the FLGS and she helped me set one up.  Last night we had our first game.

My son and two other boys played. Neither of the two other boys had played a role playing game and were a bit apprehensive, but they knew it was Star Wars, so they were willing to give it a go.

I'm amazed how a strange movie I fell in love with 36 years ago can still hold the attention of young and old alike.  Rather than overwhelm them with the 450 page rulebook, we played the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire - Beginner Game.  I had some issues with the beginner game earlier - but those all melted away as I saw the completely fresh gamers dive right in.

They seemed to really like the pregen character packets - especially after I told them that the character's names and genders were flexible - they could change them how they liked. Well, no one picked the droid doctor - so maybe he has a different target audience.

It fascinates me how quickly people pick up the funky proprietary Star Wars dice.  Within a couple of rolls they had it down and were chugging along, determining their successes and advantages with ease.  While they took to playing very quickly, they couldn't convince any NPC of anything, blowing their social type rolls catastrophically.  So they brute-forced their way along, bashing heads and making a general nuisance of themselves.  In other words, they behaved like seasoned RPG veterans.

I had great fun running the game, and to hear "when can we play next?" is just one of those things that money just can't buy.  In following games, I'll bring out the big book and let them rework their characters with the advanced rules.

It went really well. Most issues were minor - such as frustrations brought on by failed rolls.  The biggest problem with the game came to the fore as one of the boys asked "Can I play a Jedi?"  Yeah.  There are no Jedi in the Beginner Game.  There are no real Jedi in the Edge of Empire game at all, for that matter.  There are force sensitives - proto-Jedi perhaps - but they are expensive point-wise and rather ineffective at low levels.  Which is the way I like it.  But, you know, it's something iconic to Star Wars - especially those who grew up on the prequels - and seems like a gaping hole that will take two years to fill.

I explained the reasoning behind the missing Jedi, and that he could play a Jedi in training if he wanted too.  When we concluded the game and I told them about customizing their characters with the advanced rules, I asked the boy if he wanted to make the character a Jedi.

"No," he said, "I think I'd like an assassin better.  He wears all black and sneaks around.  He needs a jet-pack too.  I'm going to go home and draw him.  Is that okay?"

"Um, yeah, sure. That's just fine," I smiled.  Perfect, actually.

- Ark

Monday, July 22, 2013

World Building While on Vacation

First Catch of the Day (and last)
When I was young, we didn't get to go on vacations much - aside from spending Christmas or summer with one grandmother or another.  Many of my teenage years were spent on the flat, dry desert of West Texas, drawing maps of lush, forested mountain valley in which to set my D&D adventures.  I had a hard time grokking what these landscapes would actually look like, so I made contour maps of the imaginary regions and made slices of the maps to show the elevations.  Yeah, I was that kid.

Much of my idea about what wilderness looked like came from the land around my grandmother's house, which was a mixture of ranch land and wild areas full of pecan trees about 30 miles south of Cross Plains, Texas.  Those were Robert E. Howard's stomping grounds, so at least I was in good company.  But still, I didn't see a mountain until I was 17 on a trip to El Paso.  The meager 23 mile long Franklin Mountain chain inspired an entirely new continent in which to set fantasy rpgs.  Later, trips to Cancun and regional Texas lakes helped to form the Sea of Tears campaign, a world I designed made entirely out of small island chains - the peaks of mountains left dry after an aquatic cataclysm.

Attempting to Draw Palo Duro
This year we headed up to the Colorado via the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico.  The Boy wanted to see the Palo Duro Canyon, the second largest canyon in the United States.  I was impressed.  When you first drive up on it and get out of the car - well - my head started hurting.  It is such a big hole in the ground that my brain could not comprehend it.  There is no really good mental vantage point to attach anything to.  You just have to stare at it long enough to realize that those tiny green bushes down there against the orange and red rocks are actually trees three time bigger than you are.  Palo Duro really needs to be in one of my worlds - somewhere.

It wasn't my first time through New Mexico, but it was The Boy's, and it was great fun to watch his expression as the bumps in the land grew bigger and bigger.  "Is that a mountain?"  "No, not yet."  "Is THAT one a mountain?"  "Nope."  Eventually we got to a point where he didn't have to ask.  The stark, empty terrain had me thinking a lot about Cowboys and Indians.  Well, until I was jarred awake at the Dhillon Truck Stop in San Jon, New Mexico, a Punjabi buffet serving up chana masala, tarka daal, and a variety of curries.  Life is funny like that.  I wish I could come up with things half as amusing as that in my games.

Colorado was just breathtaking.  (Really.  The air is pretty thin up there.)  I had never been up so far in the Rockies.  We went up to the mythical town of 'South Park,' (which more or less actually exists,) and said 'wow' a lot at the scenery.  At one point, we went to the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour, where they take you 1,000 feet underground.  I learned a lot about dungeoneering there.

First off, it's really, really hard to dig through basalt and granite.  Black powder was used before the advent of dynamite to blast through the rock.  And it is dark down there.  The guide showed the differences in lighting techniques over the ages, and a candle just does not cut it.  Yes, they mined by candlelight.  I, however, cannot see a very successfully melee against goblins happening that way.  And swinging a sword in a 10x10 corridor?  Yeah, right.  however, surviving an AD&D fireball was probably a lot easier than Gygax lets on - because the miners used to do it every day.  They were just all deaf afterwards and, on average, had 15 years to live. :)

While up in the the thin air, the boy and I sat down and worked on a planet for the Star Wars game.  It's a football shaped planet, either end having great big mountains.  The equator is all pretty much ocean with some islands.  The north pole points directly to the system's star, leaving the other pole constantly frozen.  He's great at naming things, so we fleshed out the entire solar system and he named everything we could think to name.  The planet itself, Antipode, should be a great place for adventure - maybe even as much as Colorado on summer vacation.

- Ark

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Fanboy

I've been staring a lot at Carrie Fisher circa 1977 lately.  My art style has been all over the place in my sketches for the past two or so months and I've been somewhat frustrated that nothing that I draw looks even vaguely like how I intended it to look.

So, I've been sitting down with the good princess and sketching her over and over again with the idea that maybe if my style won't calm down, perhaps I could draw at least one iconic person in a halfway similar manner semi-consistently.

Not so much. :)

Oh well.  But while practicing and icing my hand when it hurts, I have come to the conclusion that I probably am a Princess Leia fanboy and just never realized it. :)

- Ark

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Breathing Blogs

On to a happier note compared to yesterday's post - here is my list of BLOGS ACTIVE IN 2013.

Admittedly, some of these blogs have statements that they are shutting down, but at least they made the SHUT DOWN statement in 2013. :)

Here is my meager attempt to categorize them so far:








  • Art (68) - These are blogs where art by the author is published by the author.  There are some gaming blogs in here, but with these, I get the vibe that the art is more important than the game.
  • Gaming (46) - These blogs are gaming blogs that expand well beyond Old School, or don't have an old School vibe at all.
  • Miniatures (21) - Lead porn - pure and simple.
  • Nerd/Geek (34) - Kitchen sink nerdery.
  • Old School (298) - These are blogs that I get a heavy Old School vibe from, even if the topic of the post is 'Cheeses from Around the World.'


Again, these are blogs in my reader list, not a comprehensive list of blogs out there.  I'll be working to widgetize the fresh list over to the right one day - soon hopefully.  If you know of a blog that I should be looking at, please let me know.

Oh, and feel free to browse below. :)

- Ark


Art
*** http://alessandrobarbucci.blogspot.com/ 
Anillo de Sirio http://anillodesirio.blogspot.com/ 
Back Screen Pass - A DM's Secrets http://backscreenpass.blogspot.com/ 
Beholder Pie http://beholderpie.blogspot.com/ 
Beyond the Wall http://walllandbeyond.blogspot.com/ 
Blah, Blah, Blog! http://gobukan.blogspot.com/ 
CANNIBALCANDY http://mercilessdesign.blogspot.com/ 
Carey Draws - a sketchblog by Carey Pietsch http://careydraws.blogspot.com/ 
Cartoon Concept Design http://cartoonconceptdesign.blogspot.com/ 
Casondra Logan's Portfolio http://casondraloganportfolio.blogspot.com/ 
Casondra Logan's Sketchbook http://casondrassketchbook.blogspot.com/ 
Christian Nauck http://christiannauck.blogspot.com/ 
COMPOSE http://visualcomposing.blogspot.com/ 
concept ships http://conceptships.blogspot.com/ 
Creative Differences http://www.mahmudasrar.com/ 
D and D Doodle http://dandddoodles.blogspot.com/ 
Daily Peril http://billpresing.blogspot.com/ 
Danis World http://danielauhlig.blogspot.com/ 
Dapper Dan's Pomade http://dapperdans.blogspot.com/ 
Drawlikecrazy Daily Sketch Blog http://www.drawlikecrazy.net/ 
El Gunto Blog http://el-gunto.blogspot.com/ 
Erik Johnson Illustrator http://erikjohnsonillustrator.blogspot.com/ 
Franco's Blog http://francorama.blogspot.com/ 
From the Can http://fromthecan.blogspot.com/ 
furmanportfolio http://furmanportfolio.blogspot.com/ 
Hard Boyle'd http://joeboylenyc.blogspot.com/ 
HEILLUSTRATIONS http://www.edheil.com/illustration/ 
Holy Sketchblog! http://holysketchblog.blogspot.com/ 
Iron Image Industries http://ironimageindustries.blogspot.com/ 
Jerry's Map http://jerrysmap.blogspot.com/ 
Jessica Plummer http://jessicaplummer.blogspot.com/ 
jonmcnallyblog http://jonmcnally.blogspot.com/ 
Lithium Melange http://www.lithiummelange.com/ 
LLToon http://lltoon.blogspot.com/ 
Lorena Azpiri http://lorenaazpiri.blogspot.com/ 
Mathieu Reynès http://mathieureynes.blogspot.com/ 
MechaMonkey Business http://mechamonkeybusiness.blogspot.com/ 
Monsterfink's Midnight Monster Spookshow http://tomkrohne.blogspot.com/ 
Murph http://gardenturtle.blogspot.com/ 
Nadia has a blog? http://vg-heart.blogspot.com/ 
nene!  art by nadia enis http://nadiae.blogspot.com/ 
No Smoking in the Skull Cave http://nosmokingintheskullcave.blogspot.com/ 
Nolan's Memory Palace http://nolansmemorypalace.blogspot.com/ 
Ostensible Cat http://xyanthon.blogspot.com/ 
PapaNinja http://sergebirault.blogspot.com/ 
Papercraft Paradise http://papercraftparadise.blogspot.com/ 
Process Junkie http://processjunkie.blogspot.com/ 
purge theory http://purgetheory.blogspot.com/ 
Put your pencil down! http://bentanart.blogspot.com/ 
Rad how to http://radhowto.blogspot.com/ 
Red J :: A Blog of Art by Jon Sommariva http://jonsommariva.blogspot.com/ 
SalBa Combé http://salba-artbook.blogspot.com/ 
Shaun Patterson's Art Blog http://2dshaun.blogspot.com/ 
Skinny Elbows http://skinnyelbows.blogspot.com/ 
Steffi Schütze http://miss-matzenbatzen.blogspot.com/ 
Tabletmonkey Presents http://tabletmonkey.blogspot.com/ 
Tayete's fantasy art blog http://tayetefantasy.blogspot.com/ 
The art of Celãoxxx http://celaoxxx.blogspot.com/ 
The Cartoon Cave http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/ 
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson http://russnicholson.blogspot.com/ 
the Hurtt Locker http://thehurttlocker.blogspot.com/ 
The Muse http://hoffmanmuse.blogspot.com/ 
The Pictorial Arts http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/ 
The Trumpet Parade http://patrickschoenmaker.blogspot.com/ 
Twisted Oak Press http://deankuhta.blogspot.com/ 
UNDERWORLD INK http://alligatorking.blogspot.com/ 
Year of the Dungeon http://blog.microdungeons.com/ 
yog-blogsoth http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.com/ 

Gaming  
20 Sided Woman http://20sidedwoman.blogspot.com/ 
50mm Game Room http://50mmgameroom.blogspot.com/ 
A Hero Twice A Month http://www.aherotwiceamonth.com/ 
Armchair Gamer http://armchairgamer.blogspot.com/ 
AVENTURAS EN LA MARCA DEL ESTE http://www.lamarcadeleste.com/ 
Book Scorpion's Lair http://bookscorpionslair.blogspot.com/ 
d20 Pirates http://d20pirates.blogspot.com/ 
Dice in the corner http://diceinthecorner.blogspot.com/ 
Hard Boiled Zombies http://hardboiledzombies.blogspot.com/ 
Harvester http://derekas.blogspot.com/ 
Hazard Gaming http://victoriaroleplaying.blogspot.com/ 
helsmuth http://helsmuth.blogspot.com/ 
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less http://revolution21days.blogspot.com/ 
I Fly By Night http://iflybynight.blogspot.com/ 
In the Mind of a Mad Man!!! http://lpjd.blogspot.com/ 
Key Our Cars http://www.keyourcars.com 
Lances to Lasers - A gaming blog http://lancestolasers.blogspot.com/ 
Lord Archaon's Grimoire http://lord-archaon.blogspot.com/ 
MilwaukeeJoe's Grind4E http://grind4e.blogspot.com/ 
Paper & Plastic http://atoolongurl.blogspot.com/ 
Points of Light http://daegames.blogspot.com/ 
Revenge of the DM http://revengeofthedm.blogspot.com/ 
Rhonin's Ramblings http://rhoninsramblings.blogspot.com/ 
Risus Monkey http://www.risusmonkey.com/ 
Robin D. Laws http://robin-d-laws.livejournal.com/ 
roleplay-geek http://roleplay-geek.blogspot.com/ 
Shouting Into The Void http://mojobob.blogspot.com/ 
Solo RPG Gamer http://solorpggamer.blogspot.com/ 
Star Clans http://starclans.blogspot.com/ 
Steve's Gamer Blog http://stevesgamerblog.blogspot.com/ 
Super Galactic Dreadnought http://supergalacticdreadnought.blogspot.com/ 
Tales From The Savage Troll http://rptroll.blogspot.com/ 
Tankards & Broadswords http://tankardsandbroadswords.blogspot.com/ 
The Blue Gnoll http://bluegnoll.blogspot.com/ 
The Clumsy Monk http://clumsymonk.blogspot.com/ 
The Dark Dungeon Vaults http://nirdday.blogspot.com/ 
The DM's Screen http://theopenhearth.blogspot.com/ 
The Dump Stat http://thedumpstat.blogspot.com/ 
The Fine Art of the TPK http://thefineartofthetpk.blogspot.com/ 
The Free RPG Blog http://www.thefreerpgblog.com/ 
The Geek Flag http://waveyourgeekflag.blogspot.com/ 
The Weirdlands of Xhuul http://xhuul.blogspot.com/ 
theWeem http://www.theweem.com 
What Do I Know? http://knighterrantjr.blogspot.com/ 
World of Wonder http://aychplace.blogspot.com/ 
Zalchis http://zalchis.blogspot.com/ 

Miniatures
48 Orcs in 28 days http://48orcs.blogspot.com/ 
A Bunch of Tactical Whatevers http://40kwartales.blogspot.com/ 
Captain Richard's  Miniature Civil War http://captainrichardsminiaturecivilwar.blogspot.com/ 
Captain's Blog http://rhingley.blogspot.com/ 
Chainmail's not the only thing... http://northyalsopaints.blogspot.com/ 
Colonel Shofer's Mild OCD Model Blog http://colshofer.blogspot.com/ 
Gloranthan Army http://gloarmy.blogspot.com/ 
I SEE LEAD PEOPLE http://leadpeople.blogspot.com/ 
It's Grymn Out There. http://grymnoutthere.blogspot.com/ 
Lead Legion Miniature Painting Services http://www.leadlegion.com/ 
O'Leary Miniatures http://fortwitter.blogspot.com/ 
Plastic Legions http://plasticlegions.blogspot.com/ 
Tactical Rock http://tacticalrock.blogspot.com/ 
The Angry Lurker http://theangrylurker.blogspot.com/ 
The Army Collector http://thearmycollector.blogspot.com/ 
The Lead Dragon http://theleaddragon.blogspot.com/ 
The Procrastinators Guide to Wargaming http://somuchleftundone.blogspot.com/ 
The Realm of Zhu http://realmofzhu.blogspot.com/ 
The Stronghold Rebuilt http://hordesofthethings.blogspot.com/ 
Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog http://saskminigamer.blogspot.com/ 
Turelio - Random Thoughts http://tureliopt.blogspot.com/ 

Nerd/Geek
Adventures in Nerdliness http://adventuresinnerdliness.blogspot.com/ 
Adventures In Writing http://melodom.blogspot.com/ 
BibliOdyssey http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ 
Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness http://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/ 
Christian Reads Comics http://www.christianreadscomics.com/ 
Creepy Query Girl http://creepyquerygirl.blogspot.com/ 
CROM! http://ultimateconanfan.blogspot.com/ 
HeroPress http://www.heropress.net/ 
Luck and Death http://luck-n-death.blogspot.com/ 
Lurking Rhythmically http://lurkingrhythmically.blogspot.com/ 
Midnight Folklore http://midnightfolklore.blogspot.com/ 
Monster Island News http://robojapan.blogspot.com/ 
Nerdy But Good At It. http://lastonk.blogspot.com/ 
Opening a Can of Wormholes http://canofwormholes.blogspot.com/ 
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/ 
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things http://isungr.blogspot.com/ 
Propnomicon http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/ 
QuasarDragon http://freesciencefantasy.blogspot.com/ 
Red Sonja: She Devil with a Sword http://redsonjashedevilwithasword.blogspot.com/ 
Satisfactory Comics http://satisfactorycomics.blogspot.com/ 
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery http://siskoid.blogspot.com/ 
space1970 http://space1970.blogspot.com/ 
strange spanners http://strangespanner.blogspot.com/ 
The Book of Worlds http://thebookofworlds.blogspot.com/ 
The Door In Time http://thedoorintime.blogspot.com/ 
The Happy Whisk http://thehappywhisk.blogspot.com/ 
the only successful one http://betweengoodandawful.blogspot.com/ 
The Orientalist Gallery http://theorientalistgallery.blogspot.com/ 
THE WIT AND WEIRDNESS OF AL BRUNO III http://albruno3.blogspot.com/ 
Triple Bladed Sword http://triplebladed.blogspot.com/ 
Trollish Delver http://www.trollishdelver.com/ 
Underworld Kingdom http://worldofortix.blogspot.com/ 
Who Can Turn The World Off With Her Smile? http://turntheworldoffwithhersmile.blogspot.com/ 
Zombies Everywhere http://www.zombieseverywhere.org/ 

Old School  
"The Troll Ate My Homework" http://trollhomework.blogspot.com/ 
. . lapsus calumni . . http://www.msjx.org/ 
19th Level http://19thlevel.blogspot.com/ 
1d8 http://1d8.blogspot.com/ 
3d6 http://h-town-3d6.blogspot.com/ 
5 Stone Games http://5stonegames.blogspot.com/ 
A Bunch of Savages http://abunchofsavages.blogspot.com/ 
A Dungeon Master's Tale http://admtale.blogspot.com/ 
A Field Guide To Doomsday http://afieldguidetodoomsday.blogspot.com/ 
A Pack of Gnolls http://packofgnolls.blogspot.com/ 
A Paladin In Citadel http://apaladinincitadel.blogspot.com/ 
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword... http://rustmonsteratemysword.blogspot.com/ 
A Wolf-Man, Not A Wolf In Man's Clothing http://faoladh.blogspot.com/ 
About Bruce Heard http://bruce-heard.blogspot.com/ 
Adventures and Shopping http://adventuresandshopping.blogspot.com/ 
Adventures in Gaming v2 http://adventuresingaming2.blogspot.com/ 
Aeons & Augauries http://aeonsnaugauries.blogspot.com/ 
Age of Ravens http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/ 
Akratic Wizardry http://akraticwizardry.blogspot.com/ 
Alien Shores http://knightsky-alienshores.blogspot.com/ 
Appendix N http://modernappendixn.blogspot.com/ 
Applied Phantasticality http://appliedphantasticality.blogspot.com/ 
Asshat Paladins http://asshatpaladins.blogspot.com/ 
B/X BLACKRAZOR http://bxblackrazor.blogspot.com/ 
Back to the Dungeon! http://backtothedungeon.blogspot.com/ 
Back to the Keep http://backtothekeep.blogspot.com/ 
Barbaric Frontier http://barbaricfrontier.blogspot.com/ 
BARKING ALIEN http://barkingalien.blogspot.com/ 
Bat in the Attic http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/ 
Battleaxes & Beasties http://battleaxesandbeasties.blogspot.com/ 
Beacon http://beacond20.blogspot.com/ 
Because In A Blog No One Can Hear You Scream... http://citizensmusings.blogspot.com/ 
Bernie the Flumph http://bernietheflumph.blogspot.com/ 
Beyond the Black Gate http://beyondtheblackgate.blogspot.com/ 
BigDungeon http://bigdungeon.blogspot.com/ 
BladeSharp http://bladesharprpg.blogspot.com/ 
Blog of Lairs http://blogoflairs.blogspot.com/ 
Blood of Prokopius http://bloodofprokopius.blogspot.com/ 
Bloody 20s http://bloody20s.blogspot.com/ 
Blue Boxer Rebellion http://blueboxerrebellion.blogspot.com/ 
Bugbears for Breakfast http://bugbearsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/ 
Built by Gods Long Forgotten http://builtbygodslongforgotten.blogspot.com/ 
Carjacked Seraphim http://carjackedseraphim.blogspot.com/ 
Carto Cacography http://cartocacography.blogspot.com/ 
Castle Dragonscar http://castledragonscar.blogspot.com/ 
Chronicles of Ganth http://daggerarts.blogspot.com/ 
Cimmerian Chronicles http://cimmerianchronicles.blogspot.com/ 
ConstantCon http://constantcon.blogspot.com/ 
Cradle of Rabies - From role to games http://cradleofrabies.blogspot.com/ 
Crawdads and Dragons http://docgrognard.blogspot.com/ 
Cross Planes http://crossplanes.blogspot.com/ 
Crypt of the Sorcerer/Caverns of Doom project http://mikemonaco.wordpress.com 
Cyclopeatron http://cyclopeatron.blogspot.com/ 
D.M.G. Dice, Mates, Game! http://dmg-dicematesgame.blogspot.com/ 
d20 Dark Ages http://d20darkages.blogspot.com/ 
Daddy Grognard http://daddygrognard.blogspot.com/ 
Daddy Rolled a 1 http://daddyrolleda1.blogspot.com/ 
Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws http://dancingdragonsjaws.blogspot.com/ 
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog http://dangerousbrian.blogspot.com/ 
Delta's D&D Hotspot http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/ 
destination unknown http://unknownzine.blogspot.com/ 
Dice Of Doom http://diceofdoom.blogspot.com/ 
Digital Orc http://digitalorc.blogspot.com/ 
DISCOURSE AND DRAGONS http://discourseanddragons.blogspot.com/ 
Dispatches From Kickassistan http://fromkickassistan.blogspot.com/ 
Dreams in the Lich House http://dreamsinthelichhouse.blogspot.com/ 
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy http://dreamsofmythicfantasy.blogspot.com/ 
DUNGEON ADVENTURES http://tormacksdungeon.blogspot.com/ 
Dungeon Diary http://dungeondiary.blogspot.com/ 
Dungeon Fantastic http://dungeonfantastic.blogspot.com/ 
Dungeons and D20s http://rwchandler.blogspot.com/ 
Dungeonskull Mountain http://dungeonskull.blogspot.com/ 
Earth Alpha http://earth-alpha.blogspot.com/ 
Echoes from the Geekcave http://geekechoes.blogspot.com/ 
Edgar's Game Blog http://revdoctoredj.blogspot.com/ 
El RagnaBlog http://elragnablog.blogspot.com/ 
Elthos RPG http://elthosrpg.blogspot.com/ 
elves ate my homework http://elvesatemyhomework.blogspot.com/ 
Esoteric Murmurs http://esotericmurmurs.blogspot.com/ 
EXONAUTS! http://exonauts.blogspot.com/ 
Fabled Lands http://fabledlands.blogspot.com/ 
Fame & Fortune http://satyrelite.blogspot.com/ 
FightingFantasist http://fightingfantasist.blogspot.com/ 
Forever Free Games http://foreverfreegames.blogspot.com/ 
Forgotten DM http://forgottendm.blogspot.com/ 
Forgotten Runes http://forgottenrunes.blogspot.com/ 
From the Ashes http://fromtheashesrpg.blogspot.com/ 
From the Sorcerer's Skull http://sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/ 
frothsof 4e http://frothsof4e.blogspot.com/ 
Game in the Brain http://gameinthebrain.blogspot.com/ 
Gamer Stuck in China. Send Dice. http://senddice.blogspot.com/ 
Gamers & Grognards http://gamersandgrognards.blogspot.com/ 
Gaming All Over The Place http://gamingallover.blogspot.com/ 
Geek Ken http://geekken.blogspot.com/ 
GIBLET BLIZZARD http://gibletblizzard.blogspot.com/ 
GM Games http://gothridgemanorgames.blogspot.com/ 
gnotions http://gnotions.blogspot.com/ 
Goblinoid Games http://goblinoidgames.blogspot.com/ 
Gorgonmilk http://gorgonmilk.blogspot.com/ 
Gothridge Manor http://gothridgemanor.blogspot.com/ 
Graphs, Paper, and Games http://graphpapergames.blogspot.com/ 
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild http://greenskeletongamingguild.blogspot.com/ 
Greyhawk Grognard http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/ 
Greyhawkery http://greyhawkery.blogspot.com/ 
Grognardling http://grognardling.blogspot.com/ 
GRUBB STREET http://grubbstreet.blogspot.com/ 
Grumpy RPG Reviews http://thegrumpycelt.blogspot.com/ 
Gutter Cult http://guttercult.blogspot.com/ 
Hack & Slash http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/ 
Hall of the Mountain King http://jasonzavoda-hallofthemountainking.blogspot.com/ 
Harbinger of Doom http://harbinger-of-doom.blogspot.com/ 
Havards Blackmoor Blog http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/ 
Have dice, will travel... http://havedicewilltravel.blogspot.com/ 
Henchman Abuse http://henchmanabuse.blogspot.com/ 
Heroes of the Age http://heroesoftheage.blogspot.com/ 
HIGH DYNASTY TRAVELLER BLOG http://shawndriscollrpg.blogspot.com/ 
Hill Cantons http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/ 
How to Succeed in RPGs or Die Trying http://psychicmayhem.blogspot.com/ 
Howling Tower http://www.howlingtower.com/ 
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow http://xbowvsbuddha.blogspot.com/ 
Idol Hands & Devil's Playgrounds http://devilsplaygrounds.blogspot.com/ 
In a Dark Cell http://inadarkcell.blogspot.com/ 
In Like Flynn http://flynnwd.blogspot.com/ 
In Places Deep http://inplacesdeep.blogspot.com/ 
Inso's World http://insosworld.blogspot.com/ 
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