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Updates (from the fringe IX)

Just a quick update. I have worked mostly on naming locations, geographical features, on the map so there has been no addition to the timeline, but 3 full pages of single line geographical entries is...

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Everything you know…

…is wrong. * Your memory is manipulated by being told “facts” repeatedly. * Your brain ignores things you aren’t focusing on. * Your brain makes shit up to fill in the gaps. * Your brain will tell you...

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Updates (from the fringe X)

Well, nearly every major island and all the lakes on the map have now been named. All other mixed-language named locations have been fixed so that it is single-language. For example, when it gets late...

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How the History Channel Screws Us

Bill: Oh, watch out for the horse crap, Ted. Ted: Oh, thanks dude. -Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure There is so much horse shit out there, the key to managing existence is to learn to identify the...

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How the History Channel Screws Us, part 2

Prophets of Doom is a year old History Channel program (I know, I’m late to the party once again) which is on youtube here. It’s caption reads: “Today’s world has troubles unique to its time in...

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Anti-Privilege

A response to the poem: Privilege: A Free-Verse Poem You level your accusations at me, Claiming I fly on privileged pedestal, Lording danglely bits and skin so creamy Over minority multitudes below....

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Down the (campaign) Rabbit Hole

So my current DM, about two months ago, expressed that he was in need of a break. Not a big break but a minor break; like “hey, work’s really busy and DMing every week is getting to be to heavy a load,...

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Discovering Privilege

I’d always been a pro-equality kind of cisgendered white male so after some friends pointed out that the used miata that I bought in ‘07 is a car that has been embraced by the gay community (a fact I...

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D&D Economy

In reading TheIdDM’s post, Combat Speed in D&D Next, he says (as an aside), “I am curious to see how the economy in D&D Next is handled. I wonder why a Spyglass is 1,000 gp! For the price of...

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Combat “Speed” in Role-Playing Games

One of the largest concerns for gamers, especially DMs, is the time it takes to get through each round during combat. This concern can be seen in the Angry DM’s post as well as several of The Id DM’s...

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My thoughts on Disney buying Star Wars

Star Wars sucks sarlacc ass! At least it’s out of fuck’wit dipshit George Lucas’ fucking fingers. It now has the possibility of being better…but probably not. Star Wars, the remastered IV – VI and I –...

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Updates (from the fringe X)

Currently the endeavor is steadily working through the history timeline of the continent, but more importantly play-testing the campaign has begun, having started around July of 2012 spanning...

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Updates (from the fringe XI)

The Great Work is now at 787 pages, up 10 pages from 2 weeks ago, which averages to 5 pages per week which means I’m a bit ahead of my 15 pages per month average over the past 10 or so months. More...

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Updates (from the fringe XI)

So my game group switched from 4th edition to Pathfinder about a year ago. This meant that I had about 160 pages of my campaign book to edit back from 4th edtion D&D to Pathfinder (seems I lost my...

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Updates (from the fringe XII)

Well, it’s been a slow week. I entered at least one event in the historical timeline, but other than that… well…Tuesday through Thursdays are my main evenings for getting anything done. On entering...

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Updates (from the fringe XIII)

Despite being sick today (Thursday), I got approximately 14 pages written in the last week (up from 788 to 802 pages), the majority of which is on the residential and temple architectural styles of the...

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There She Stands (an attack against an 18 year old valedictorian)

A friend of my pointed out this transcript of a high school valedictorian speech via Facebook and asked for a 5-7 sentence opinion response from his Facebook friends. He asked, “Is this just Generation...

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Everything you know…

…is wrong. * Your memory is manipulated by being told “facts” repeatedly. * Your brain ignores things you aren’t focusing on. * Your brain makes shit up to fill in the gaps. * Your brain will tell you...

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How the History Channel Screws Us

Bill: Oh, watch out for the horse crap, Ted. Ted: Oh, thanks dude. -Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure There is so much horse shit out there, the key to managing existence is to learn to identify the...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How the History Channel Screws Us, part 2

Prophets of Doom is a year old History Channel program (I know, I’m late to the party once again) which is on youtube here. It’s caption reads: “Today’s world has troubles unique to its time in...

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