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ROLEPLAYING

D&D 2024: Why Rule Glossaries Kinda Suck
Some Thoughts on Swords & Sorcery
RPG Flags: Wants vs. Warnings
Definition: Railroad Nonsense
Book Update: Bestseller & Getting a Copy
Gaming Groups vs. Going to Play a Game
Treasure Island: The Map is the Adventure
Notes on the Masters of Exandria
Sandbox & Simulation
Evolution of Session Zero
Dragons = Dungeons
Notes on Writing Horror Scenarios the Sandy Petersen Way
Lining up a Called Shot
Reasons to Go in the Dungeon
A Pokemon Hexcrawl
Footsteps of the Colossi
The Captain’s Chair in RPGs
Three Secrets of Prep
Abstract Distance Systems in RPGs
Ruining Adventures
Player Characters and Surrender
God Fights and Other Titanic Struggles
Copyright and Games
Take-Backs
The Singular of Dice
Where Did All These Dungeons Come From?
Fey Moss
Technoir + Vornheim Contacts
Anecdotal Encounters
Big Hero 6 and Splitting the Party
Balancing Advantages & Disadvantages
Canonicity in Gaming
Mind Flayed Symbology
Remixing the Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Bloat in Extended Narratives
Hexcrawl in the Underdark
Margin of Success in Eclipse Phase
The 5E Consultant Witch Hunt
Why I Don’t Use the Word Immersion
Social Skills and PCs
On the Subject of Immortal Fame
Gaming as an Art Will Mature
High Level Characters Are (Literally) Awesome
Optimization Arms Race
Development Query: Active Perception Checks in Pathfinder
Meaningful Choices in Dungeons
Development Query: Pathfinder or 3.5?
The Creator of Roleplaying Games
Flipping Magic Cards
Secrets and Stuff
Are RPGs Due for a Boom?
Dwarven Songspire
A World Without Heroes
Running 3E for Very Small Groups
Encounters and Railroading
Introductory Scenarios
2ER! – The 2nd Edition Revolution (Will Not Be Happening)
If Book Reviews Were Written Like RPG Reviews
Your Second Day Roleplaying
Blue Doors of Ptolus
Plugging the Traveller Scenario Structure
On the Importance of Illustration in Bestiaries
History RPG Mechanical Design
The Design History of Saving Throws
Rulings vs. Fiat
5th Edition
My Next PC
Sit-In Fireplaces
Neolithic Point of Light
Rewarding Strategic Goals vs. Tactical Methods
Magical Beriberi
Space Scurvy
The Rise of Tactical Gaming
Filthy Light
On the Insanity of the Mythos
Battlemapping Helical Stairs
A Descriptive Skill System
Compact Dungeon Thingies
Target Number
Words That Don’t Exist
Bull Ants
Sarajevo Roses
Adventure Worksheet
Re-Skinning
The Bodies of the Dead
Dragon Winds
The Money Malaise
Sponsored Pilgrimages
Party Scurriers
The Malero
The Cover of the DMG
RPG Art Thru History
What’s Down the Ladder?
Coming Soon to a D&D Campaign Near You
Ice Dwarves
The Terror of the Dire Deer
The Law of the Conservation of NPCs
Caving Lies for Dungeoncrawlers
Hulling Troll
The Shock of Polymorph
Random Encumbrance Thoughts
Navigating the Underworld
The Poor Man’s Hex Stocker
Fortune Cards
Hostile Forces
Ivory Tower Design
The Ivory Mines
Taking (How Much?) Action
RPG Challenges
Biologies of the Fantastic
ENnies
One-Page Rip-Off
Wearing Targets
D&D vs. Arkham Horror
Urban Planning in Fantasyland
Roper Skull-Throwers
Of Lords and Ladies
Character Backgrounds
Plot Juggling – The Levitz Paradigm
The Amazing Healing Power of… Eyes?
Even More D&D Weirdness
More D&D Weirdness
D&D Weirdness
Trap Methodology
Re: GSL

POLITICS
Gender Neutral Pronouns
Deep Water Oil Spills
Liberty and Equal Opportunity
Politics is Not a Math Test
Randi Rhodes is Flippin’ Insane

POP CULTURE

Re: Graphic Novel Collections
Why Is Spider-Man So Popular?
The Juicy Bits
Fantastic Four
Why People Don’t Like Star Trek: Voyager
Zombies: Feasting on Flesh
On the Reading of Ender’s Game
Sherlock and the Second Fool
Interstellar and Bootstrap Paradoxes
Re: CGI
A Lovecraft Primer
For Goodness’ Sake
Star Trek’s Prime Directive
The Cameron Trilogy
Whorehouse Nunneries and Vagina Nothings
Inception: The Spinning Top
Time Travel in Looper
Progenitor Species
Star Trek: New Frontier
A Superman Video Game
Interactivity in Video Games
Netflix
Conan and Fight Choreography
Nightfall = Mythos
The Batman Story We All Know
The Length Fetish of Video Games
A New Chapter in Batman’s History
All-Star Balance
Why SF is Awesome!
Tie-In Fiction
The Big Sleep Fallacy
Running Star Trek

TECHNOLOGY

Why Do We Buy Consoles?
Kinect Will Fail
Legacy Systems
DRM: Case in Point
Valve Steams Ahead
Cloud-Computing

MISCELLANEOUS

Millennium Things
Anselm’s Ontological Argument for God
Self-Driving Cars
The Drift of Tongues
The Evolution of Friend-Zoning
Deep Storage Project (of Eldritch Doom)
Flowers for a Funeral
The thing about the transit of Venus…
The Spam Bots Are Playing RPGs
The Zen of Spam
Ah, DRM, How I Despise You
Oxford Commas
The Used Market
The Hollow: Opening Night Fright
John & Abigail Script Book
Exercise Carpe Diem
My Dreams Shall Be the Stuff of Nightmares…
The Great War… By Way of Decatur, IL
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