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Steampunk Star Wars RPG… How cool would it be?

April 15, 2008 – 6:00 pm

I love the concept of Steampunk Star Wars, I really do. It blends two styles that I really love: Space Opera and Jules Vernes’ Victorian setting. As I already talked about, blending two cool things together can result in an explosion of cool.
I mean, just look at the Spork! (Credit: Graham)
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Martial Arts + Chinese Bear + Jack Black = COOL!

February 22, 2008 – 9:23 am

Yeah I’m in a YouTube mood…

John, I want you to stat me up a Kung Fu Panda in Silvervine for Gen Con, not negociable!
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RPG Lessons from my kids: Never curb your enthusiasm!

December 16, 2007 – 2:58 pm

Have you ever noticed that bloggers have a tendency to take whatever thing that happened in their life lately and write all the post of the following days about that very thing… Well I’m no exception…
I got the idea for this post while my 5 year-old son was very enthusiastically beating my Mii [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Gravity? Pfaa!

December 12, 2007 – 10:18 pm

It’s been quite some time I’ve posted an honest to goodness, fluff-rich Mining Tropes post. I’m also nearing the end of the tropes fueled by the Rule of Cool, so I combined two tropes that share a certain ‘airy’ theme as a tribute to a sub-series I really enjoyed writing!
Asian Wire-fu and Anime [...]

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Tweaking Classes for Cooler Characters: The Class Mish-Mash Challenge, Part 2

November 5, 2007 – 2:49 pm

Now this is one lengthy crunchy post, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did writing it. Although I must admit that I’ve never worked so hard for a role playing game before. Monte, Wolfgang and all game designers, developers and writers out there, you have my [...]

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