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Violent Resolution – Let’s Get Ready to Rumble (repost)

It’s perhaps old news to state that at the very least, the largest force in the tabletop RPGing market – Dungeons and Dragons in all its flavors – evolved from fantasy wargaming, and that combat is a huge part of the game, and therefore a huge part of roleplaying games in general. Gygax noted the…

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Grappling in the OSR

Gothridge Manor 8 Preview L-O-C-K in the OSR! L-O-C-K in the OSR! L-O-C-K in the OSR! Lockin’ in the OSR. (Apologies to John Mellencamp) Look, a preview! A while ago, +Peter V. Dell’Orto and I decided that it should be possible, and more importantly, it would be fun to apply the principles of Technical Grappling to a game…

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Violent Resolution – a new blog series

Over at Castalia House, +Jeffro Johnson has written quite a large number of posts that he’s collected on his blog under the heading Appendix N. He also threw my way a nod as one of the Top 10 Gaming Blogs of 2014, which shocked the hell out of me, frankly. He likes my interviews, he says. So…