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    DarkMatter D20: Drunk Southern Girls with Guns ... UPDATED - 8/18/05!

    You should also check out John's blog Kung Fu Monkey. Fantastic writing on a variety of topics. That monkey's kung fu is strong!
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Naja is played by Ron. More on that in another post. For now, here's an email he sent out to the group today. It speaks for itself, really.
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    How far do you travel to game?

    It seems so long ago when we all lived mere blocks from one another -- an elegant commute from a more civilized age of gaming. These days, we've flung ourselves to the furthest corners of the Chicagoland region, spread across the northernmost, westernmost, and southernmost suburbs, as well as...
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    Responsibility for fun: DMs and/or/vs. Players

    Quasqueton, you always start the most interesting discussions! In our group, many of the members have been playing together for 15+ years, so we've clearly managed to sort this out in a way that everybody's pretty comfortable with. In our case it comes down to everybody's being flexible and...
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    The Scinterlands: Sibling Rivalry

    How about another peek into the Scinterlands? I for one would like to know how the good ol' days went bad. (Left out on the counter overnight in the summer heat, I'll bet.) Roquesdoodle, are you still around? Is there more to this tale? Here we are; entertain us.
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    The Happenings of Lucifus Cray: Update{23}07/06/06 - The Threading of the Weave

    Yeow, that first post is a doozie! I wound up reading half last night and the other half this afternoon. Fortunately, it's written with such an engaging style, and Lucifus is clearly such a force of personality, that you're encouraged to return to it if you don't get through it all in one...
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Naja, cont. One thing was clear to Naja at the start of his horizon quest: he couldn't shoot an arrow across even a small slice of the sky. That talk was no doubt the exaggeration of the elderly. Misja was wise, but it did not stop him from being old and speaking like one who was old. Always...
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    The Happenings of Lucifus Cray: Update{23}07/06/06 - The Threading of the Weave

    BiggusGeekus lured me here. He's sexy. (And cool in a Latinate way.) And I've always liked the Tad Williams quote. Figured it was worth checking out the story hour, too -- which I haven't done yet but am off to do now.
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Naja Misja, who learned medicine* from Valya, who learned medicine from Deyja, who learned medicine from Nagian, who learned medicine from Maia, who tricked medicine from Vizsascha the Wyrm, watched Naja slowly shrink into the horizon -- the first of many horizons on the journey that lay ahead...
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Kylax is the product of Neil's quirky imagination. Neil's a civil engineer / construction manager here in Chicago. We met in 1992 and became fast friends in no small part because of our mutual interest in motorsports. These days, in addition to gaming, we also participate in several high...
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Thanks for the thoughts, Kevin. I hope you'll be able to continue to offer a player's perspective as events unfold. Just yesterday I was thinking about how ineffectual the party was during those formative sessions and laughing at some of its early disgraces. After the previous decade-long...
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Kylax, cont. Within civilized society, there is a class of people to which self-sufficiency comes naturally -- hard-working folk, the salt of the earth, who by nature are disposed to provide an honest day's work for an honest day's wage. To such people, the company of others is appreciated on...
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    DMO's New and Improved Story Hour (Excellent Source of Whole Grain!) [Updated 8/17]

    Kylax Kylax sat at his desk, a cluttered affair with scrolls stacked like firewood about the perimeter and several towers of books tilting threateningly over the scatter of writing implements, charcoals, lenses, inks, and parchment sheaves strewn across the surface. The desk was tucked into an...
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