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Gearing Up: Finally Starting a Campaign

It’s been a long time coming, but I feel like things are steady enough that I can apply myself properly to a campaign. It’ll be modern, probably monster-hunter-ish. It will start with templates and characters from Action 1, Action 3, or Monster Hunters 4: Sidekicks. I’m not going to be slavish about that, though. It…

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The Obsession with Gold

I blame my kid. As someone who used to do gold evaporation for my PhD thesis, I was always shocked at just how heavy it it. We always talk about uranium and tungsten as being dense, and they are. They’re also hard, high-melting refractory materials, so they do occupy a unique place in the hearts…

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Treasure’s Big Brother

OK, so yesterday we talked about loot. About $100,000 in loot, conveniently packed into a box no more than six inches wide, and maybe three inches deep and two high. More or less. What about real treasure. The kind you imagine you find in a dark hole that took you months of delving? Well, let’s consider…