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Alignment & Other Expectations to Subvert

Rules as Written in the BX and OSE rules, you can have a Cleric of any alignment. You can have a Magic-User of any alignment. And, this is great, but if there were alignment restrictions for either or both of these classes, what would they be? For the most part I’m going to assume a three (and sometimes four) alignment system: Law, Chaos, Neutrality/Balance, and sometimes a non-aligned or…

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Magic-users (and elves, too. I guess.)

I’ve been boosting the idea that with very little work the Magic-user of editions old and OSR clones can represent the Wizard, Sorcerer, or Warlock archetypes just fine. I’ll explain this and later answer the question, “what about elves?” As that question just occurred to me and prompted me to collect these half baked thoughts some where semi-permanent. Let’s start with a review of the rules as…

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Untitled Update One

I’ve mentioned it before – and I promise this isn’t becoming a grief blog – but, my Dad died January 3rd. My professional life is also taking more processor time than it ever has before. I love my work (most days… today is testing my faith in humanity, but it’s just one day). However, it just occupies more of my brain’s run time. Efforts to start a regular game are stalled so motivation for…

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The Bugbear Lawyer: Grapple Edition

I’m about to solve a problem that has haunted nearly every table I’ve sat at across a half dozen or more TTRPG rule sets. And, it will take very few words to do it. You can thank me at your leisure. If it isn’t obvious already from the title and that presumptuous introduction, this is intended to be mild satire. The views are my own and genuine, but I am not telling anyone there is “one true…

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The Ophidian Sorcerer's Redoubt

I had started a new blog somewhere with some nostalgic connection to previous blogs about similar topics. But, suffice to say, “I’ve changed the plan.” If you know you know it is what it is. 6foothalfling is as fine banner for such a blog as the title I had originally envisioned and it probably doesn’t make sense to divide my effort anyway. The Ophidian Sorcerer’s Redoubt was going to be an…

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down side up

Two days after last month’s post my father died. It was sudden and unexpected and I’ve begun this post now ten days after his death. Obviously, I’m still processing. My family is still processing. My Dad’s side isn’t a big family. He has cousins I’ve never been terribly close to – outside of a few holidays I’ve barely had any contact with them. My uncle took care of those notifications. My…

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Hear me out. The Deck of Many Things!

Happy New Year! We’re trying something new regarding creativity and productivity this year. I also hate meta posts, so this won’t be that. I’ll only mention that the other posts published on the blog at the moment are test posts while I familiarize myself with a new template. The Deck of Many Things has fascinated me for years. Before I stopped worrying about dooming my character, I never wanted…

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Back to the Shire, Back to Basics

There’s nothing more to say. Hello World and Test Post are what is going on right now. I think I’ve settled on a template, but that could change, too. This is a glorified Lorem Ipsum text bubble so that I can see how the editor works with the new template. I think WordPress is a fantastic platform for professionals. I’m not a professional and I might yet find my way back to blogger. Dunno. Right…

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Hello World!

Welcome to WordPress! This is your first post. Edit or delete it to take the first step in your blogging journey.

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Test Post

Body of test post More body of test post Still more body of test post

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Fnkc Billionaires

It isn't political, it's just math. Nothing but arithmetic.

I need to create a copy pasta I can drop in the comments of every thread talking about how unimaginable even ONE BILLION is. How at six digits of income the lives of not just myself, but everyone inside my “monkeysphere” would be changed. At seven?! Come on. What people don’t realize is 1 000 000 000 is TEN DIGITS. But, I don’t have a copy pasta. I do have a link:…

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Terrain Build Journey GO

This month got away from me. But, the doldrums or funk or whatever it was has passed. On with the show. I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how I run TTRPGs what I find most fun about the process, what I think my players over the years have found the most useful or fun. And, I’ve been watching a lot of TTRPG YouTube. Even more now that the Bruins’ season is over. Among those I’ve been watching…

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I don't have anything to say

I had started a post about Warner Brothers and DC Comics and I was quite fond of that start, but it’s just so… pointless. And, I don’t have a lot else to say about anything else. Not that I haven’t already said, right? There isn’t anything canned for the 27th either, so the big ideas I had a month ago… Yeah. I’ll revisit this space next year maybe. If I still don’t have anything to say or even…

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A political apolitical note

In a perfect world I don’t have to explain to anyone that it isn’t “woke” to believe that everyone is entitled to the same human rights. I don’t have to explain that human rights aren’t pie. But, here we are. So with as few buzz words and hashtags as possible, here’s what you can expect here. I believe biological essentialism is a horrific artifact of the past. I believe systemic racism…

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FIRST POST OF THE NEW ERA

I’m going to try something new-ish this year. Starting next month every other month I’m going to post on the sixth, thirteenth, twentieth, and twenty-seventh. Look for material in May, July, September, and November. Then we’ll start the cycle over again in January. I’m thinking of 2024 as year zero or beta for a new era of my blogging. The off months, I may post something, I may not. Maybe if I…

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Sidereal Dragons

In a before blog, I might have mentioned how I thought dragons – as presented over the years by D&D and all the creators under that banner – felt a little like eldritch or cosmic horrors from out of time or beyond space. I present as evidence of my case: Sorcerous blood, weird cross breeding, and innate fear effects. They’re always mixes of two, three, or more animals. Usually reptilian…

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I don't know what comes next

I do know the past has become a burden I no longer have the strength to carry. Oh, I want to carry it. Clearly, or I wouldn’t have dragged it all this way. I think it is fair to say I never wanted to let it go. But, I tore out pages. I deleted files. I deleted blog posts. I emptied the resulting full waste bins. It was time for a change. It was time to acknowledge that the past is unrecoverable…