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Choose Your Own Adventure
I have recently begun rereading some of the old “Choose Your Own Adventure” books that dominated my childhood. For the young people here, Choose Your Own Adventure (or CYOA) books were a young adult...
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No Matter What…
No matter how carefully, it seems, that I double or triple check a book, there will always be some typos that creep into the final copy. Unicorn Hunt is no exception to that rule. For those that follow...
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Thinking Like a Programmer
I’ve started to dabble a bit in interactive fiction. My tool of choice so far has been Inform 7, which allows you to write Z-machine based games (they’ll operate like Infocom games of the 70s and 80s,...
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My Nervous Hang-Up
I’m generally an extroverted person, but I do have one unfortunate nervous hang-up. It’s one that I find is fairly common among writers: I don’t like talking about my work-in-progress (or even my...
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5 Room Dungeon, Room 5: The Twist
So, it has been almost five months since I last visited the Five Room Dungeon Model. It is time to finish my discussion of it. The obvious way to finish any adventure is the treasure room, and that is...
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Knight Rider Reboot
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Knight Rider? David Hasselhoff as the ultimate 80s lone wolf hero type, Mr. Feeny voices an AI car, plots right out of a comic book. What’s not to love? Now, it...
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The Ninja: PREVIEW
For a long time, I have been promising a series of novellas about superheroes. The first one was always to be The Ninja. At long last, I am releasing a preview of this upcoming novella, hopefully to...
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The Audio Drama
SoundCloud appears to be in some trouble. They won’t see a profit for two more years. Let’s face it: I’m still small potatoes. I don’t see much traffic on a robust platform like Facebook yet, let alone...
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NEW AUDIO: The Unliklies, Episode #1
Imagine if Skeletor actually took over Castle Grayskull. Imagine if, to preserve the balance of power in the universe, the Cosmic Enforcers tried to retake Castle Grayskull with a band of very unlikely...
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My Little Pony: The Movie on the BS2
The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet (BS2) is an easy tool for screenwriters to make sure that they hit all of the important beats. It’s become commonplace for analysts to chart out popular movies to see if...
View ArticleHero Quest Quest Pack #2: Warnoc
What is the next logical step after the one-page dungeon? An interlinked campaign of adventures. The one-page dungeons that I’ve already put up, both the HeroQuest adventures and the ones from last...
View ArticleREVIEW: Savage Encounters: Villains & Lairs
Available: DM’s Guild Villains & Lairs is the perfect product to review first for the blog since I absolutely love villains and everything to do with villains. Just the other day I was texting my...
View ArticleHero Quest Quest Pack #3: Ograk
What is the next logical step after the one-page dungeon? An interlinked campaign of adventures. The one-page dungeons that I’ve already put up, both the HeroQuest adventures and the ones from last...
View ArticleHero Quest Quest Pack #4: Adventure in Arcania
What is the next logical step after the one-page dungeon? An interlinked campaign of adventures. The one-page dungeons that I’ve already put up, both the HeroQuest adventures and the ones from last...
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Avengers: Alternity Wars
With the fervor surrounding superhero movies thanks to the recent releases of Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, I thought I’d use it as an excuse to revisit my first (and still one of my favorite)...
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Building Superheroes in Alternity
Building superheroes in Alternity isn’t that different from building normal characters. Alternity is one of the last “Old School Games” wherein advancement means very little. You gain no additional...
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Superheroes in Alternity: Sample Careers
Although any career path could conceivably lead a person to be a superhero, these sample careers are how the members of the Avengers started out. These all came from chapter 6 of the Player’s Handbook,...
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Rainy Day Golf: A Dice Game
My usual preference in games is for more strategy over pure luck. It’s one of the reasons that I love chess so much–there’s no luck involved, just the skill of the players. But for some reason, I have...
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Watabou’s One Page Dungeon Generator
I’ve recently been inducted into the wonderful world of the One Page Dungeon, though I admit it shouldn’t be a “new” concept to me. One Page Dungeons are easier to design and with my short attention...
View ArticleHow to Fix America
I’m going to do something that I very seldom do. I’m going to make an explicitly political post. I don’t do this because I’m a conservative and we are so very unpopular right now. “Coming out” as a...
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