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    Tell your overdue Kickstarter story

    Redshirts, Vol. 2: A Starfinder Compatible AP. It's been almost eight years since the campaign ended, and nary a sign of the product. The creator, T.J. Lantz, has multiple unfulfilled KS campaigns. Apparently he ran into financial troubles due to a misunderstanding of tax laws and subsequently...
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    Worlds of Design: Mind Your Mercenaries

    A really good resource for fantasy mercenary companies can also be found in Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion and Paladin's Legacy series - the books delve into the day-to-day activities of mercenary companies both in and out of battle, as well as the considerations for contracting out...
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    RPG Archive: Star*Drive for D&D and Traveller

    Neat! Mine were: Fraal: Gray Mechalus: Mechanoid Sesheyan: Flitter T'sa: Iguanoid Weren: Squatch I was trying to capture the idea behind the original species. Not terribly imaginative, but they worked for me.
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    RPG Archive: Star*Drive for D&D and Traveller

    Same for me. I even went so far as to convert the Star*Drive species to SW Deluxe several years back, which was easy as pie at the time. I haven't gotten around to doing a SWADE conversion because life and other games happened. Continuing on Twiggly the Gnome's path, here's what I had for the...
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    RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – ALIEN RPG, DCC, Jeff Easley, and more

    Here's one from Backerkit: Han Cluster - An Optimistic Sci-Fi RPG for Savage Worlds, ending April 17th.
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    D&D General The First Map of the Forgotten Realms

    I love a good map. For inspiration I still dig out my Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas on occasion, though it doesn't see much use these days as I spend most of my gaming life in Absalom, Lost Angels and the Shackleton Expanse.
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    The Fumble: Veteran RPG Player Suddenly Feels Insecure

    The gazebo hides in the darkness. Both are legitimate targets.
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    The Fumble: World's Most Popular Tabletop RPG Offers Exciting New Player Freedom

    I can heard the grognards now: "In my day, we didn't get no rules on cardboard, we got them on parchment - or vellum! And we liked it that way!"
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    Mythological Figures: Nikola Tesla (5E)

    That's neat! I wasn't aware that was even a thing that existed, even though I grew up in that era. Now I have to wonder if that's where the Foglios got the idea from as well.
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    Mythological Figures: Nikola Tesla (5E)

    Looks interesting. In developing his "Dingbot" familiars, is it possible Nikola ran across some papers at the nearby Transylvania Polygnostic University penned by one Agatha Heterodyne a couple of centuries earlier?
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    #RPGaDAY Day 31: What do you anticipate most for gaming in 2018?

    I'm hoping to see the Flash Gordon setting for Savage Worlds that was announced a while back. It's one of my favourite pulp stories.
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    #RPGaDAY Day 30: What is an RPG genre-mashup you would most like to see?

    This might seem like jumping the gun, given how recently one of the sources came out: Steampunk Starfinder. Still post-Golarion, but with the races and factions interacting in an age where the corporations are deep in the middle of an industrial revolution where spaceflight has just begun and...
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    #RPGaDAY Day 18: Which RPG have you played the most in your life?

    Savage Worlds. Thanks to being in the military and moving around a lot, I played several RPGs quite a bit for a few years each. Since I retired, the gaming group I'm in has played SW for several years now, along with short stints at a few others, so Fast! Furious! Fun! wins.
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    #RPGaDAY Day 17: Which RPG have you owned the longest but not played?

    Star Wars d20. I had gotten a look at JD Wiker's heavily-tabbed still-in-revision galley of the core rules at a con in Belgium in 1999, and I liked what I saw. Unfortunately, none of the people I gamed with at the time were too interested, so even though I bought it, I had no-one with whom to...
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    #RPGaDAY Day 12: Which RPG has the most inspiring interior art?

    AD&D2e's Al Qadim Arabian Adventures sourcebooks had the most amazing art - they were so evocative of the "cinematic" Arabia that the writers were going for. I never had to struggle to imagine the places my characters would go or how they looked. Even the chapter intro sidebar pictures were...
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