#larry macdougall

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Door of Destinies

Artist: Larry MacDougall

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Larry MacDougall

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Inkfathom Witch

The murk of the Wanderbrine concealed unseemly rituals designed to bring out the worst in merrowkind.

Artist: Larry MacDougall TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Larry MacDougall

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Larry MacDougall

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Pub Patio - Larry MacDougall

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plains

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Though if you're open to a recommendation of purely lore with no attatched RPG system, I also greatly enjoyed Larry MacDougall's Gwelf: The Survival Guide. I got it on a whim from a local bookstore and between the wonderful illustrations and charming framing narrative, it's a delight to go back to on a rainy day.

Anybody got any good recommendations for ttrpgs if I'm primarily looking for extended loredumps about a setting with little to no intention of trying to run a game? I being realistic about my social prospects, and worldbuilding

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Wort vs. Kaya Cassir

Magic: The Girlbossing, Round 1, Match 11

Propaganda under the cut:

Wort

Color identity: Rakdos / Gruul

Featured art by Larry MacDougall

Sneaky AF and proud of it

Kaya Cassir

Color identity: Orzhov

Featured art by Yongjae Choi

1) Ghost Assassin. 2) Consistently one of the coolest warriors on any plane, assassinated multiple undead rulers, ran the Orzhov with her "it's complicated" situationship Teysa, fought Phyrexians and won, crashed a vampire wedding, the list goes on

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The Black Crowes: Before the Frost … Until the Freeze (2009)

Distant timelines are starting to blur and blend, but it says something about The Black Crowes' escalating internal dysfunction that, after taking seven years between 2001's Lions and '08's Warpaint, the group returned just one year later with a double album.

Let's just get it out there: Before the Frost … Until the Freeze was the twenty-track, live-in-the-studio, The Band-inspired roots-and-country-rock album that the Crowes -- or at least lead singer Chris Robinson -- had long dreamed of making.

And I have to give props to the band -- Chris, brother and guitarist Rich Robinson, drummer Steve Gorman, bassist Sven Pipien, lead guitarist Luther Dickinson, and keyboardist Adam MacDougall -- for recording these songs before a live audience at Levon Helm's Woodstock studio, The Barn, with minimal overdubs.

And yet, impressive as this may be, even diehard Crowes fans like me, who have gone to great lengths to collect all of the band's copious B-sides, outtakes, and unreleased gems (hello, Napster!), the chutzpah to foist so much new material new upon more casual listeners reeked of arrogance and self-indulgence.

It's just a lot to expect, and though the album's track-sequence differed significantly across formats, since we're considering the LP here, this country-infused set begins with the lackadaisical sitar of "Aimless Peacock" ... did I say it was just one country?

Honestly, though, follow-ups like "Appaloosa," "Garden Gate," "Roll Old Jeremiah," and "Fork in the River" are all legit country, complete with banjo, pedal steel, and fiddle performed by the immensely talented Larry Campbell, best-known for his work in Bob Dylan's live band.

And as good as they are, I just love the Stones- and Faces-reliant, classic rock Black Crowes, so it's no coincidence that this facet dominates personal favorites like "Good Morning Captain," "Houston Don't Dream About Me," and the fabulous "A Train Still Makes a Lonely Sound."

I also dig the dirty blues of "Kept My Soul" and gospel-funk of "Make Glad," but, along with mellow numbers like "The Shady Grove," "Lady of Avenue A," even the folksy "Greenhorn" and "What is Home?," they mostly revise past glories and fall just short of them.

Oh, and then there's "I Ain't Hiding" -- a bona fide, old-school disco workout, including pulsing bass and chicken-scratch guitar, that seemed like a pretty great idea at the time, but just feels forced and contrived to me today.

Before I come off too negative, it obviously takes an amazing band to pull off so many styles with even remotely this much confidence and success, so surely such eclectic productivity portended a long and happy road ahead for The Black Crowes, did it not?

Well, no, because according to Gorman's autobiography, Hard to Handle, by 2010, "Every moment of the band's existence had become a sheer test of brotherly will. They couldn't agree on anything. Ever."

"Give us a head start and a full tank of gas," he continued, while referencing the Crowes' inexorable decline in broad popularity over preceding years, "and we'll drive right into the fucking ditch."

Indeed, when the group next convened for a tour in 2013, Dickinson bailed (replaced by Jackie Green), Papa Robinsons, Stan, passed away, and Chris demanded Rich and Gorman conceded a larger portion of the band's earnings, foreshadowing even more outrageous demands that finally split the Crowes in 2015.

Yes, the eternal reconciler -- reloading the ol' bank accounts -- eventually drew Chris and Rich back together for post-pandemic touring and 2024's Happiness Bastards LP, by which time the 15-year-old Before the Frost … Until the Freeze was literally a distant memory.

But that's the power of music for you: it'll always bring bands, fans, even family, back together for a little or long while, so we'll just have to see what dramatic chapters The Black Crowes will add to their saga in years to come.

More Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker, “Jealous Again,” ��Remedy,” The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Amorica, Three Snakes and One Charm, Warpaint, Happiness Bastards.

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Plains

Artist: Larry MacDougall

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Badgers will hold the line by Larry MacDougall

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Sygg, River Guide

"If there's a place worth going, the Merrow Lanes already do. And if there's a route worth taking, yours truly already has."

Artist: Larry MacDougall TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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have you heard of the book “Gwelf the Survival Guide” by Larry MacDougall? It has a really similar vibe to the longburrow series but instead of being a novel it’s sort of like a guidebook for the fictional land of Gwelf (which is unique to this book as far as I’m aware). It even has a big fold-out map and tavern recommendations and all sorts!! It’s a really pretty publication too and I’d definitely recommend it if you enjoy Kieran Larwood’s stuff as much as I do :3

lmk if you’d like pics!

WHATTTT I WILL DEFINITELY LOOK INTO THIS

it sounds so cool!! thank you for the book recommendation! :3

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toil to renown by larry macdougall

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Inspired by this image by Larry MacDougall

“Good tomorrow to you, Miss Judy." Aleck the Fox said, tipping his flatcap to her in passing, a ritual he had done every day ever since he could remember.

Judy leaned out the window of her housetree, smiling at the silly fox who had graced her path during her morning sun-watching. "Tomorrow? But it's clearly today!"

Aleck paused in his walk and stopped to lean on his fine oaken walking stick. "What?"

"It's today you fool. If it were tomorrow, it wouldn't be today." She offered by way of explanation.

"But it was today, yesterday." Aleck scratched his fuzzy chin, pondering on this new information, before raising his finger to the sky. "And yesterday you said 'See you tomorrow' So that *must* mean that today is tomorrow!"

The fox looked very proud of himself, placing one hand on his hip as if he'd won. Judy, laughed to herself. "Silly Aleck. Tomorrow is not a day, it's... it's..." Judy hadn't been ready to argue the concepts of tomorrows this morning and found herself wholly unequipped to explain such ideas at this present time. Which was of course today.

Her confusion wasn’t helping matters. “But how could I see you on tomorrow, which I clearly am, if it is not a day?”

“Tomorrow is just an idea, Aleck, a concept. Something that’s always there but you can never have. Like the last cookie, or a rainbow.” The words made sense to her at least.

Unfortunately, they had Aleck thinking of something else. “My cousin caught a rainbow.”

“What? A live one?” Judy said in disbelief.

“Umm, no, I don’t think so. I don’t think it was alive. More like one of those concept thingies.”

“Then how did he catch it?” Judy said, folding her arms across her chest.

Aleck shrugged. “I don’t know, I didn’t ask.”

“Well, you should, next time you see him.”

Aleck nodded. “That’s a good idea, Miss Judy. I’ll do that.”

“Thank you, Aleck.” She said with a satisfied smile.

“See you tomorrow, Miss Judy.” Aleck waved goodbye and trudged on.

“See you tomorrow, Aleck.” Judy went back to enjoying the morning sun.

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