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I have written quite a bit about FASERIP in comparison to other systems here and there. And, recently, I ran a game of "Four Color System" (aka 4CS, aka FASERIP clone) for my friends. I always thought it would be a "cool idea" to take the 4CS rules and make a game that was medieval high fantasy themed (instead of super hereos).

It all started when Zak Smith made a post, calling for contributions in detailing a map by Brendan Strejeck. The rules were simple. Make a two or three sentence description of what lay in wait in a hex from the map. Contributions started pouring in, and after four days, over 700 descriptions had been submitted.![]() |
| The Portable Hexenbracken |
D&D fans love hearing about famous people who have played our hobby. Joss Whedon, Vin Diesel, Kevin Smith, Metallica, My Chemical Romance, the list is too long to mention everyone here. We all know Wil Wheaton was a D&D player of course, but I did not know that he had journeyed to Mystara. "I started playing with the 1981 Red box" Wheaton says and goes on to mention having throughly explored the Caves of Chaos (B2 - Keep on the Borderlands) and many other known D&D locations.
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| La copertina di DragonFist |
The dwarf from the character section of Moldvay Red, and Duck Commandor CEO Willie Robertson.
The frost giant from the monster section of Cook Blue, and head of manufacturing Jase Robertson.
The alignment guy from Moldvay Red, and family patriarch Phil Robertson.
The female halfling from the character section of Cook Blue, and family matriarch Miss Kay. (Check out how similar the hair and the eyebrows are!)
The female elf from the same picture as …
Calimshan and the Lake of Steam Revealed!
The dusty trails from the North have brought you to the warm and welcoming coasts of the Shining Sea and the Lake of Steam. Here is history spanning millennia, not just centuries; passion, profit and danger; dreams of power and conquest; and wonders mysteries centuries older than any hedge realm north of Dalagar's Road and the Snowflake Mountains.
Empires of the Shining Sea goes farther and deeper into the southern reaches of the FORGOTTEN REALMS campaign setting, providing a breadth of scope and a level of detail …
Ongoing weird science game done as dungeon zone like my long stair stuff. Useable in gamma world or Psychon settings but also good for weird fantasy or even carcosa. In a more fantasy setting could mix with other earlier dungeon zones. Actually the under land zone would fit mostly in weird science too. Im thinking for Psychon letting players pick 6 levels in anything - dwarf2 elf2 orc2 or a sorcerer3 monk3 or something stranger. Tempted to run Devilmount ot Anomylous sub surface environment on psychon.I hadn't heard, but flickr hasn't been doing good lately and they are trying to get back in the game. Today they rolled out a new look and huge incentive to be a free member.
If you haven't seen in yet, you can let me know what you think. Here's my photostream, the default view, here are the sets, and the collections, which I would prefer to have front and center, are still shortchanged and hidden, never to be seen by anyone unless you follow a link from here (go on, see if you find the collections starting on the photostream).
I have a flickr account for one because in order to justify my miniatures projects to myself I need to see them organized well all in one public place. For two I want a more robust backend than blogger and Picasa offer. I had a go at hosting my own galleries with Gallery2 and a lesser known one (but far superior feature-wise) called Piwigo, but I found the development and upkeep not worth it, and I found an isolated gallery or one tied only to a blog a real …
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| Cover of the Winter 1982 issue of the short-lived Beyond magazine, image from philsp |






Character classes: Player characters are restricted to being a Fighter, Cleric, Thief, Magic-User, Elf, Halfling or Dwarf. This probably covers the roles most beginning players want to try, but I am personally sorry to see the range of possibilities so restricted. The original rules (the three little brown books) specifically stated that a player could be a dragon if he wanted to be, and if he started at first level. ... I enjoyed having dragons, centaurs, samurai and witch doctors in the game. My own most successful player character was a Dreenoi, an insectoid creature borrowed from McEwan’s Starguard. He reached fourth level (as high as any of my personal characters ever got), made an unfortunate decision, and was turned into a pool of green …
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| Art by Matt Bulahao |
The Pact (2012): Tough biker Annie (Caity Lotz) is called back to the family home she hasn't seen for years by her flighty sister, Nichole (Agnes Bruckner) to help sort out their late mother's estate. 
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I like all of these, but love the style of the last one. It's close to what I was talking about in my post here, showing players what to expect visually. I wanted to stitch it together for you, but after several days of putting off the post because of it I realized I was procrastinating and decided to just give you the halves.![]() |
| Josephine Marcus "dancer" who became Wile Earp's third wife. |
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| "A View Near Tivoli", by Thomas Cole |
This is a topic we've been discussing in comments for a while now (here, here and here). But let's first agree on definitions. Gamebooks are evolving, just as the whole object class of books is evolving, and some of the directions they’re going may not use text at all. So, to describe the core medium of prose-plus-choices, I'm going to use the term interactive literature. (And by literature I don’t of course just mean Dostoyevsky. For the purposes of this discussion, Dan Brown is literature too.)
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by R. Lawrence Blake Prime Requisite Games Labyrinth Lord Levels 1-3 The legend of the Salstine Pirate tells of a sea captain who turned pirate, killing off most of his crew and taking his treasure to land. Salstine found an … Continue reading 
Here is the (initial) finished version of the hex map of the City of Tear -- Seat of the Empire. The city will form the foundation of the Dying Sun campaign.

I'm really pleased with this red guy. The demonic aspect really isn't subtle...
Pair of archers.
It's really hard to see in this picture, but these guys have one clawed foot and one with a hoof!
This pic shows how his face is half ripped off.

So Haynes Publishing has just released Dan Dare: Spacefleet Operations as part of their Owner's Workshop Manual Series, which already includes a couple on ships from Star Trek and one on the Thunderbirds.
Talented Tim Brannan, author of The Witch supplement for old school games, is offering a free PDF of his book as a draw prize. | Frazetta cover, 1964 |