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Pets & Sidekicks

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Pets and companions for your D&D and A5E characters!
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Shane is a hopeless grognard -- er -- veteran tabletop RPG player, having first rolled the dice in the early 80s with Traveller, Villains & Vigilantes, Middle-Earth Role Playing, WEG Star Wars, Paranoia, Top Secret, Star Frontiers, Marvel Super Heroes, DC Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons and more.

He's an equal opportunity geek who loves a variety of interests and fandoms, including tabletop games, video games, comics books, sci-fi, fantasy, retro computers and more.

Shane is the host of Shane Plays Geek Talk, a terrestrial radio geek talk show and podcast, as well as the co-author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2nd Edition. Bree-yark!

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