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Orin Markala

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Thoth

The fire was not a large disaster really. It was only a couple of village cottages, and would only be a tragedy for the few people who’d been trapped beneath a falling beam. Orin was only seven, small enough to be kept back by his mother, and far too small to really haul buckets with [...]

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- the trapmonkey cleric: basing perception checks on wisdom from Blog of Holding May 30, 2012
  5e says that it is going to make attributes more important than skills: if you want to open a door, you roll your Strength. If you want to notice something, you roll your Wisdom. This really highlights the fact that Perception has been a problem since early D&D, when it was briefly its own... [...]
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- Playing Drow Part 2 – Know Where You Came From from Dungeon's Master May 30, 2012
  One of the toughest parts of role-playing a non-human character is to give that PC a distinct cultural identity. We often play ever character of every race as if they were born and raised in the Human world. For many races this isn’t a big deal because their societies will parallel Humans’ in many... [...]
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- Origins – The Start of it All from This is My Game May 30, 2012
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- D&D Next: The math behind advantages/distadvantages from Bat in the Attic May 30, 2012
  There been a lot of talk over the new advantage/disadvantage system in D&D Next where instead bonuses you get to take the best of two rolls for an advantage and the worst of two rolls for disadvantages.The math is straightforward With an advantage... [...]
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- Cityographer Sample Maps from 2nd Streetgen Algorithm from Inkwell Ideas May 30, 2012
  I’ve got a second city street generation algorithm looking good. It creates a more randomly laid out city. (Still have lots of work to do: another algorithm, adding random rivers, a possible harbor, city walls, and a bunch more.) But hopefully everyone can see the potential! (If you haven’t... [...]
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- Indie Talks: Tales from the Fallen Empire Kickstarter kicks off from Troll in the Corner » Role Playing Games May 30, 2012
  Chapter 13 Press have just launched a new Kickstarter which looks really promising: Tales from the Fallen Empire! Tales From the Fallen Empire is a post-apocalyptic swords & sorcery setting created for use with the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG ... [...]
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- Mary Pickford this Friday from The Other Side blog May 30, 2012
  This Friday I am participating in the Mary Pickford blogathon hosted over at Classic Movies.http://www.aclassicmovieblog.com/2012/04/mary-pickford-blogathon-announcement.htmlPlease stop by all the bloggers participating and see what they have to say ab... [...]
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- Silver Gryphon Games Are Good Guys from Big Ball of No Fun May 30, 2012
  This past Friday I was looking at my Drivethrurpg wish list and they were having a "wish list sale". Since the sale was going to end soon (it's already ended) I went ahead and did an order. One of those items was for the print version of Zombacalypse for Savage Worlds by Silver Gryphon... [...]
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- The Gassy Gnoll: Random, Deep, Spacey Thoughts from Game Knight Reviews May 30, 2012
  That’s right, the Gnoll is going random on your… web page. Blame it on too much sun, not enough sleep, and a dream where gnolls are playing soccer something similar to Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf. Obviously I picked the wrong week to cut back on caffeine. With SPACEX not only... [...]
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- On Organic Growth from Hack & Slash May 30, 2012
  One assumes that you are ignorant, so you get on the internet to learn more.If you get on the internet to wallow in the filter bubble, then what conclusion can be objectively drawn from that?Some people use cards to play poker for money. Other people u... [...]
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- Balticon from Tower of the Archmage May 30, 2012
  Memorial Day weekend has, for about the last decade, been a big deal in my life because it's the weekend that Balticon, the science fiction & fantasy literature convention is held in Hunt Valley (just north of Baltimore). It's a great con with mult... [...]
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- Star Wars Round Up: Starships, Dragon Age, Rodney Thompson interviewed from Role-Playing Games May 30, 2012
  It's been a long time since I did a Star Wars RPG round up -- unfortunately without an active campaign I find it's all to easy to let the months slip by without searching the internet for material. For my part, my campaign isn't entirely dead. I ran a... [...]
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- Wizardly Wednesday from Jeffs Gameblog May 30, 2012
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- Telling a Story From Multiple Viewpoints from Exchange of Realities May 30, 2012
  There are some stories that just can’t be told from one perspective—there’s too much going on, and no way the main character can be there to see all of it. That’s where multiple viewpoints come in—and where things start to get a little complicated. The first thing to think about... [...]
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- Trapsmith: Stunning Switch from Kobold Quarterly May 30, 2012
  Tomb robbers bring friends or associates with them to help haul away the treasure that they seek. There is safety in numbers, but it also introduces certain group dynamics—exploitable group dynamics such as friendship, caring, trust, and a variety of other deadly virtues. You are on the southern... [...]
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- King of the Monsters 3 Finalist: Necrocorn from Kobold Quarterly May 30, 2012
  It is time to return to Monster Island and see which five of the creatures remain standing. Our judges have poked, prodded, and challenged each monster adversary, and now we have the third of the five available for you, the voting public, to look over and determine if its creator is worthy of the... [...]
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- With a 10′ pole and an electrum piece from Greywulf's Lair » RPG May 30, 2012
  People complain about the strangest things. Take, for example, two gripes from the #dndnext twitter stream. It has been argued (extensively!) that the D&D Next Playtest documents include a 10′ pole and electrum pieces (an ancient form of currency from … Continue reading → [...]
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- Upcoming Review: Birthright Campaign Setting Box Set from Ravenous Role Playing May 30, 2012
  I pulled out my dice again and aimed them at the various shelves of RPG material awaiting reading/review. They landed on my Birthright Campaign Setting Box Set. The box contains all of the original materials along with two books I’d forgotten about. At some point I had picked up the Roesone... [...]
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- Grimworld – what it is now from Cradle of Rabies - From role to games May 30, 2012
  Over a year ago I started creating my own fantasy setting Grimworld inspired by Zak Sabbat's Vornheim, Discworld, Ravenloft, gothic horror fantasy, mega-dungeons and so on. Later when I got Lamentations of the Flameprincess Grindhouse edition I found o... [...]
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- Dungeoneering Abroad from Stargazer's World May 30, 2012
  I suppose I can’t take full credit for Michael’s post on German RPGs, but I may have been the match to the powder keg! I’m American, and a native English speaker. For many years now I’ve been learning German and Japanese. I did ... [...]
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