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I just finished reading King James I of England's 1604 treatise, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, and found it quite entertaining. This is the second publication of King James that I've read through, having previously partaken of the Basilikon Doron. But unlike that work, which was meant for his son...

Mitchell Bartz has marked down their Hair Trigger game down by 80% for the rest of November! Pick it up before the sale ends! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For the remainder of November, you can get Inverted Castle Press's OSR adventure Manic at the Monastery for 30% off! Grab it before the price goes back up! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

It's worth pointing out that pretty much all of the cool stuff about the Sith also comes from the prequel trilogy. Yeah, the OT refers to Darth Vader as "Dark Lord of the Sith," but it's the prequels which establish: That "Sith Lords" are the Dark Side-using enemies of the Jedi Order, with...

I just finished reading H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure, and have to say that I'm quite impressed by it! I'm slightly chagrined that I hadn't heard of this title as recently as a month ago, only finding out about it because of a "wiki walk" which began (as so many...

Owen K. C. Stephens has played around with the gestalt rules here and there over the years. For instance, on his old blog, he talks about "amalgam" characters, which is basically the same thing as gestalt characters except that "All of the abilities of both classes are considered to be native...

Aaron Best is having a Black Friday sale! For the rest of November their entire catalogue is marked down, with discounts ranging from 60% to 80% off! Go check their stuff out! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For a limited time, you can get Atelier Clandestin's new system-agnostic supplement, Space Station Generator, for 25% off! Click on the link to apply the discount. Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For the next twenty-five days, you can get all of Headcheese Productions' titles 30% off! Check their games out before the sale ends! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

There's an excellent series of essays about the life of medieval peasants by Bret Devereaux over on his blog, which I'm a big fan of.

If you're looking for Living Greyhawk stuff, check out the works of Casey Brown (affiliate link). His "LG BK Classics" adventures are adapted from the Bandit Kingdoms regions of Living Greyhawk adventures, of which he's also published the (excellent) Unofficial Living Greyhawk Bandit Kingdoms...

I'm very sorry to hear what you're going through. I have a sick cat myself, so I can empathize with how heartbreaking it is to watch a beloved pet slowly slip away.

Sneaky, tricksy little hobbitses!

On a very quick skim, the "Hit Dice" in the Amyna's stat block should be in bold. Other than that, I'm not catching any obvious errors (which is meant to be a compliment, since I've seen a lot of stat blocks where mistakes jump out even on a casual overview).

From now through the end of November, Precis Intermedia is offering their Iron & Gold Expanded RPG for 20% off! Click on the link to apply the discount. Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

To help pay for their cat's medical bills, Darrin Drader Designs is currently offering 25% off their entire catalogue! Pick up some great stuff and help keep a kitty sitting pretty! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For the next two weeks, Marshal Games has made their Savage Worlds campaign setting Amanar - World of the Dawn available for only $2.00, a 50% discount! Pick it up before the sale ends! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

Today's Deal of the Day at DriveThruRPG is Infinium Game Studios' system-agnostic supplement FlexTale Adventure Generator: Dungeons, which is 70% off for the next twenty-four hours! Grab it before the price goes back up! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For the next week, DriveThruRPG is having a Teach Your Kids to Game Sale! Get up to 20% off thousands of products and help bring the next generation into gaming! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

I recall an anecdote when, upon written poetry becoming a thing in Ancient Greece, one storyteller denounced it as marking the death of human memory. Unfortunately, I can't recall precisely who said that, so maybe he was right. :P