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Great Ideas Abound

By: Bryan; November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Wil Wheaton linked to this on Twitter today. It is 24 Ghost Towns and Abasndoned Cities. I looked at only a couple of them and I already have several adventure ideas floating about.

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Free Books

By: Bryan; November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

RPG Now/Drive Thru RPG is celebrating a Thanksgiveaway in which they are giving away free books during the week of November 12 through 16.
New items are posted each day at 10 am EST. Books can be downloaded for free only on they day they are posted. I just grabbed today’s titles and I can’t wait [...]

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Tags: Books · Gaming Aids

Make your own paper dragon

By: Steve; September 5th, 2007 · No Comments

http://jclahr.com/science/Illusions/3d/paper_dragon.html
http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/three_dragons/

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A link for D&D terms

By: JustChuck; May 9th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/glossary&term=Glossary_dnd_Elfdomain&alpha=E

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Tags: D&D · Gaming Aids · d20

Alea Tools Magnetic Markers

By: Bryan; March 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Another great tool I picked up at Gen Con were magnetic markers from Alea Tools. These small round disks are the perfect size to fit under miniatures and on mapboards. Alea Tools suggests that these work great for indicating the status of certain characters.
For example, they suggest using red to indicate when a character is [...]

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The Ultimate Combat Pad

By: Bryan; January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

At Gen Con 2006 I found a new product made by Open Mind Games. The product is called a Combat Pad and it is meant to make combat easier for a GM to run in a d20 game. You can write on the pad with either wet or dry erase markers. Additionally, the pad includes [...]

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Tags: D&D · Gaming Aids · Gen Con · d20 · d20 Modern

Creating Better Characters

By: Bryan; January 6th, 2007 · No Comments

I just finished a really good book by Orson Scott Card. This one was not one of his novels, however. It was Characters & Viewpoints, a book written to help fiction writers. Chapter 2 of the book details the process a writer should go through to create good, memorable characters that readers will love.
Reading the [...]

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