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Of Arduin And Green Slime Golems

(This is from my gaming blog; it started as an introduction and turned into a free-floating, rambling, essay. I blame/credit Adderall.) To my mind, the pinnacle of gaming is/was the Arduin trilogy by David Hargrave. The…
Further Gencon Reportage...

Well, it's been interesting. Yesterday was my first pass at joining games. I did "Learn To Hack", an introduction to Hackmaster 5th edition. First, the people running it were late. Second, the introduction mostly consis…
Whoa, It's Been a WEEK?

Sheesh, how could I go nearly a week 'twixt blogging? I blame Facebook -- I've started tossing my usual random tidbits on there. Bad Lizard! Anyway... a)Beth is back inpatient. IMO, she was doing better off her meds th…
Heard In Last Week's D&D Game

"It's gargantuan.... and I have a ritual which can increase its hardness."
Adventurers

http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1136You know... you always know who is going to start gaining class levels... (The strip is from Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, which I generally recommend.)
Updating My Other Site...

New plane of the Abyss! The Mines! Where do the armies of evil get all the metal they need for their ludicrously spiky armor? Now you will know! New Fiction: Repatriation! Well, I wrote it a few years ago, but it's new …
Remember When D&D Was Cool, I Mean, Satanic?

Another link to an RPG.net thread, this time detailing (with great newspaper clippings!) how a "satanic panic" gripped a small Canadian town in the late 70s/early 80s over the horrors of... DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS!!! Boy,…
Who Says Gaming Ain't Edjimacational?

This thread, over on RPG.net, is a wonderful reminder of all those great words we learned from AD&D, First Edition. Each edition since then has dumbed down the prose, to, I think, the detriment of both the hobby and …
Lizard And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

But Australia has taxes that are too high. And I couldn't bring the kitties in. Foo. So, let's start with the good news: I actually managed to update mrlizard.com in under a month, bringing the total number of abyss lay…
Abyssal Amusements

Since the very earliest days of D&D, the Great Wheel cosmology has featured all sorts of symbolically numbered planes: The Nine Hells, the Seven Heavens, and, of course, the 666 layers of the Abyss, all Chaotic Evil …