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  1. Birmy

    I Spoke To Frank Mentzer About His Empyrea Setting For 10 RPG Systems!

    Years and years ago, a buddy of mine made a documentary about RPGs. When he interviewed Gary Gygax, my friend asked him to introduce himself to the camera. Gygax said, "I'm Gary Gygax, and I'm a gamer," and half-smiled. He'd probably used that line a thousand times, but I thought it was just...
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    #RPGaDAY Day 29: What has been the best-run Kickstarter you have backed?

    Shockingly few have ever been run well for me; either they wind up late (95% of the time), the shipping costs turn out to be outrageous, or the books get battered in transit. I'll echo those who have said JWP and Monte Cook, and I'll add Onyx Path (...eventually, and provided you take even their...
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    New Releases In Stores This Week : 31st July 2017

    As someone who backed the Kickstarter for Lobotomy and has yet to receive it, it's a little concerning to see it listed for general sale. Hmm, off to the KS comments I go...
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    Generating Better Character Names

    I had a GM for an old Star Wars campaign who would use the names of NHL players for NPCs. Names like "Teemu Selanne" fit right in.
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    News Digest: Gen Con 50 (kinda) Sells Out! ENnie Award Voting! Star Trek Adventures! Massive Copyrig

    Eh, Onyx Path builds in a lot of "Life Happens" contingencies into their projects, particularly with freelancers and/or people with normal full-time jobs involved, so at this point I just kind of assume that digit at the end of the "Estimated Delivery" date is going to change. By "learned from...
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    Yesterday's Enterprise: Talking With Guy McLimore About FASA's Star Trek Roleplaying Game

    I saw the headline and thought, "I bet this article was an easy sell for Morrus."
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    Want to Playtest Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (V5)?

    I hope you just have the whole explanation ready to cut-and-paste when you need it, at this point...
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    RISE OF THE DUNGEON MASTER - Gygax's Story In A Graphic Novel

    Here you go: http://smile.amazon.com/Rise-Dungeon-Master-Gygax-Creation/dp/1568585594/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494099711&sr=1-1&keywords=rise+of+the+dungeon+master Preordered this from my local comic shop months ago. Looking forward to seeing where it overlaps/doesn't with the recent...
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    News Digest: Star Trek Adventures Announcements, True Dungeon at New Location, Green Ronin's New Fic

    Hasn't True Dungeon already been at Gamehole Con for several years?
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    New Dragon+ (issue 12): The Inspiration Issue

    Having two different articles about the cat person on the cover (three, actually, if you're counting the editor's letter) is a little strange.
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    D&D 5E (2014) New Dragon+ (issue 12)

    Having two different articles about the cat person on the cover (three, actually, if you're counting the editor's letter) is a little strange.
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    News Digest: Star Trek Playtest Open, Official My Little Pony RPG, No Man's Sky Investigation, Steve

    With all those Star Trek novelists on board, I wonder if they approached Peter David to write for the game. Man certainly has enough ideas forTrek stories.
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    Flying Buffalo's Legacy - Part 2: Tunnels & Trolls

    That stuck out as strange to me, too; I'm surprised an editor didn't question his word choice there, or at least ask Peterson to elaborate. EDIT: Peterson quoting St. Andre, as pointed out. In the context of the book, does Peterson follow up on St. Andre's comment?
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    (ENN) Golden Goblin Press License Cthulhu Invictus from Chaosium

    Good news! Golden Goblin has been really upping their game (so to speak) lately. Chaosium gets to revive a largely unsupported setting without having to lose focus on main line stuff they're developing in-house; everybody wins. Well, I've been looking for an excuse to pick up De Horrore...
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    Minsc & Boo In Ravenloft?

    IDW's D&D comics have been very hit (the Fell's Five stuff--why did that vanish?) or miss (that virtually unreadable miniseries Greenwood wrote), but Zub's pretty solid and well within his comfort zone here. I hope they include people/places/events from the comic as game material in the back of...
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    What's an OGL? An SRD? What's OGC? A Quick Primer!

    This was pretty handy, especially as someone who's not exactly a casual gamer, but not really hardcore enough to have followed everything over the years. Thanks.
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    Your most anticipated games of 2016?

    Having backed the Kickstarter for it, I'm interested in the final product of Witch: Fated Souls.
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    Explore New Fey Options For 5E & Pathfinder With THE FAERIE RING

    Meta question: How do you decide which Kickstarters to feature, and which to leave in the Press Releases sidebar?
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    Double Digital D&D Delights! GOG.com has new goodies & a new sale!

    How do they handle the copy protection issue?
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