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I write about RPGs: knightattheopera.blogspot.com
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My lawyer @prismaticwasteland.com has cleared me of any liability for sharing this meme edit I made:
Meme about the game Mausritter. The left panel is labeled "expectation," and depicts two cute mice doing little cozy mousey things. The right panel is labeled "reality" and depicts one traumatized mouse cradling the bleeding corpse of another mouse in their arms, edited from the painting "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" by Ilya Repin.
September 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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White Plume Mountain. The main villain, the wizard Keraptis, is in a room not actually found on the map or described anywhere in the map key. The module assumes the players likely won't encounter him, but if they DO manage to reach his area, it just says "good luck dawg you got this."
August 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Yes in my view these would technically be rulebooks. Supplementary texts for all sports manuals, if you like.
July 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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June 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The closest I know of is recorded in Morgoth's Ring, in the section "Myths Transformed." Here, Tolkien supposes that the corrupting process is triggered by choosing to worship Morgoth.

But this is an idle thought in a long essay that's otherwise pretty fixed on the "corrupted by a dark god" idea.
Excerpt from an essay by Tolkien on the origin of orcs. The relevant text: "It does however seem best to view Melkor's corrupting power as always starting, at least, in the moral or theological level. Any creature that took him for Lord (and especially those [who] blasphemously called him Father or Creator) became soon corrupted in all parts of its being, the fea dragging down the hroa in its descent into Morgothism: hate and destruction."
June 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The cover of Tracy & Curtis Hickman's book on game mastering, "XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery"
May 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
President Josiah Bartlet, from the West Wing Captain Benjamin Sisko, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, from Twin Peaks Princess Jasmine, from Disney's Aladdin
May 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Like Exalted, Fantasy Craft is janky as hell. But the blurb on the back cover has always gotten me so fired up to play some games about dungeons and dragons.
Your Dungeon, Your Dragon, Your Way This is the time of high adventure — your adventure! Take charge of your gaming experience with simple yet powerful rules that let you craft any character, any monster, and any world you can imagine. Whether you like your fantasy bright or bleak, gritty or gonzo it's all here, supported with one of the most versatile RPG systems ever devised. Imagination has a New Home * Versatile mix-and-match character creation * Revolutionary point-buy monster construction * Sleek, simple, character-centric combat * Skill-driven spellcasting and world-driven miracles * Collaborative, dynamic storytelling rules Fantasy Craft gets back to why we love gaming: It's about the stakes, and raising them. It's about the odds, and beating them. It's about legends, and making them. It's about you. Roll your dice like a hero again
May 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Wait D&D is back actually???
May 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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RPGs are a dead end. We are all pop girlies now I dont make the rules
May 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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youtu.be/1UpoZpMBM9Y
April 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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March 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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(Aside: One of my favorite pieces that touches on this is here: riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2021/09/safe.... Another take I really like is Mothership's "hospitality principle")

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So, this is me, Sean McCoy, the creator of Mothership® talking directly to you, the Warden, right now. I want to talk to you about safety in gaming for a second. Stick with me, it’s important. This is a horror game, which means we’re all deciding to get a little uncomfortable. To give up a little of our agency. We do this because we want to be scared and surprised. But not too much. And that’s the tricky part. There are still some doors we want to keep closed, some horrors that are just for us. We want to be safe in the unsafe place. Safety in gaming is about hospitality. If I were to invite you over to my house for dinner, I would work with your dietary restrictions. In conversation you could be sure that racism, slurs, transphobia, homophobia, bigotry of any kind would be unacceptable at my table. You would know that you would not be shamed or mocked by the other guests for the way you look, the way you dress, the things you believe. This grace would be extended to you and expected of you. In short, while under my roof, I would do everything in my power to make sure you were safe. And we wouldn’t always get it right. Sometimes I wouldn’t realize until later that I, or someone else, had said something stupid or insensitive, and for that I’d hopefully apologize and we’d figure out how to not end up in that situation again next time. But we all accept that these things happen because we want to be around other human beings and we don’t expect perfection of them. Playing a horror game is like that. You need to be graceful and understanding and you need to listen to the other players. In addition to all the other social requirements of being a human in a shared space with other humans you need that basic human requirement of kindness. Hospitality has been with us since we travelled in packs and lived in caves. It’s a way to say: under this roof, friend or stranger, you are safe. There is nothing more important in gaming than this.
March 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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notorious STORY GAMER jay Dragon EXPOSED as a hack fraud
January 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Same. Happy birthday girlie
December 4, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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In Disney Villainous, you play as a Disney Villain trying to enact your evil scheme. The basic mechanics are universal, but each character has some unique rules that help to recreate their movie.

The Queen of Hearts has a "shrink / enlarge" effect. I hope this image speaks for itself. I like it.
November 19, 2024 at 1:56 AM