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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving

Headed out to various Thanksgiving celebrations. See you all next week!

Posted by Timothy S. Brannan at 8:39 AM

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The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections - Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game, Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue and The Tom...
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A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! - Today's the day!The day that Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! :D Brought to you by Paolo Greco of Lost Pages (lostpaolo @ Twitter), with lovely art by ...
2 years ago
A Paladin In Citadel

NEW Appendix N Video Review Series - Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his inves...
2 years ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

Forgotten Depths - Dungeon Crawling Tile Action - So it appears that all I do is pimp out Kickstarters on this blog once every eighty years... ... but this one needs some love. Check it out - Forgotten...
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