Reviews and thoughts about games, books, and life.
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Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Tree Fisher
With this post I’m going to take a short break from the undead I’ve been talking about related to my last campaign to talk about a monster from my current game. If you’re a player in my game, look away now, spoilers lie ahead. We’re talking about the Tree Fisher, a monster introduced in the…
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Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Wolf Skeleton
If Skeleton Guards weren’t enough undead for your players, it’s time to bring the puppies to the game. Wolf Skeletons can be terrifyingly quick and add an interesting tactical element to your undead armies. Dire Wolf Running by Peter D. Tillman, used under CC-BY-SA 2.0 Skeleton Traits Like the Skeleton Guard, the Wolf Skeleton is…
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Lore24 Week 2 Recap
I’ve been continuing my participation in Lore24 this week, though I pivoted from writing about the setting of Denisete I used for a Pathfinder Second Edition Game to a discussion of the fictional town of Bookerfield, Ohio, which I plan to use as a setting for my Supernatural Social Workers game I’m writing. You can…
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Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Skeleton Abilities
Rather than speaking about a specific monster in this post, I’m going to talk about the special abilities that can be added onto any monster from the Skeleton family. I wrote about the Skeleton Guard on Friday, and these abilities can be added to it to add some addiitonal diversity to your skeletons. I really…
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Squishy Mage’s Field Guide: Skeleton Guard
Inspiration Today, I’m starting an undertaking that I’ve had in mind for a bit. I really like the advice given in The Monsters Know What They’re Doing for Fifth Edition, but lately I’ve been playing Pathfinder Second Edition far more than I’ve played Fifth Edition. Pathfinder has its own Bestiaries with its own monsters and…
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Lore24 Week 1 Recap
This year, I’ve been taking part in the Lore24 challenge on my Mastodon feed. Many of the posts there will feature information about Denisete, a place I developed for a Pathfinder campaign I played through with my gaming group and that I’d love to play another game in. That’s not to say that I won’t…
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Try the Beetle Milk by Em Quintanillo
On Christmas, as we were getting food ready at my in-laws, my wife brought me a package that had arrived at our mailbox. That package contained my copy of Try the Beetle Milk, an adventure written for Cairn by Em Quintanillo. I’d bought the adventure a while back, and had read it on my tablet…
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Open Game License v 1.0a
The following text is the property of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. and is Copyright 2000 Wizards of the Coast, Inc (“Wizards”). All Rights Reserved. Definitions: (a) “Contributors” means the copyright and/or trademark owners who have contributed Open Game Content; (b) “Derivative Material” means copyrighted material including derivative works and translations (including into other computer…
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2023, or a Life in Review
This year has been the second that my blog is more of a personal project rather than an attempt to just get people to call me and hire me as an attorney. Earlier today, I read a Mastodon post from Dave Clark of Full Moon Storytelling and Sounder at Heart about writing a year in…
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Monster of the Week by Generic Games
I realized this week that I’ve never written anything here about one of my favorite RPGs that I’ve played in the last couple years. Monster of the Week is a game which tries to emulate the tropes you would see in a “Monster of the Week” show like The X-Files or Buffy the Vampire Slayer…
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