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Crunchy Flavor
One of the best things about role-playing is making and playing an actual character. While there are many types of players and many types of characters, the ones I find the most fulfilling…
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Clovis the Invincible – A Path Forward
Clovis has been hard at work these past few weeks, returning from evicting the goblins with little a few bruises, but no worse for wear. The rats were his worst foe, and though…
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Clovis the Gremlin – Flowers Worth Fighting For
While I’ve repeatedly introduced my current D&D character: Clovis the Gremlin (in the first day I changed his moniker from Brutal to Gremlin on a whim. Sue me.) I have not expounded on his…
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From the Ground Up – Peasant Housing
One of the basics truths of the Middle Ages, and many of the fantasy worlds that we create based in them, is that the world is bleak, cold and dirty. Many everyday conveniences…
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From the Ground Up – Laws
It’s been another long stretch, but I want to start getting back to writing about the small yet important things that people should pay attention to that make a dig difference in…
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Character Creation: Clovis the Brutal
Well, its finally come: A day I get to create and build my own character and see how swiftly I can get them killed by the DM I’m going to be running under. …
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The End of Days
Yesterday, as I write this, I finished up one of the longest campaigns I’ve ever ran, and the first one that took the group from 1-20. It was an awesome nearly 3 years,…
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From the Ground Up: Religon
Up until recently, religion was an extremely important part of the lives of many people. There is something played into that in many fantasy games, but to often, it is left as an…
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From the Ground Up – Divine Right of Kings
One of the most often missed and yet the largest factors in how the world worked in the High Middle Ages, is the concept of the Divine Right of Kings. This wasn’t codified…
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From the Ground Up- Positions of Power
It has been a while since I’ve done a From the Ground Up Article. I stopped in the middle of Feudalism, so I figured I’d pick it back up and have a go…
