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Ex-RPGNet Reviews - February 2015 (Early Access)

Early access to all the Ex-RPGNet reviews coming in February: - Sailor Moon: Character Diaries - The Great Dalmuti - Mindtrap - Dragon Magazine Archive PDF Link: 2015-01-17 06:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Thinking About Urbancrawls - Part 5: Using the Ptolus Hexmap

Spoilers for those who don't have early access: The hexmap approach doesn't really work. This series really does walk though a (slightly cleaned up) version of how my thoughts on urbancrawls develope...

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Double Helix: Battletech Alterworld (Early Access)

This is one of the dumber things I’ve written. It’s a proposal I wrote to FASA for a Battletech novel at some point between 1996 and 1998. The reason it was dumb is that I was trying to carve out ...

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Thinking About Urbancrawls - Part 4: Experimental City Hexes

I debated about whether or not sharing this step in my thought process in such detail was actually useful or not. But I'm very curious to see if other people draw different lessons from it than I did.

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Thinking About Urbancrawls - Part 3: Vertical Integration

“Peril hides in the house of Aram Baskh!”

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Shakespeare Sunday - Richard II Collection (Early Access)

This PDF is an interesting blend of early access and... well, whatever the opposite of that is. Back when I was directing the Complete Readings of William Shakespeare, I wrote a whole series of essa...

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Thinking About Urbancrawls - Part 2: Applying the 'Crawl

Breaking down the three basic elements of ‘crawl-based play and trying to apply them to an urban environment.

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Richard II: Thomas of Woodstock - The End of the Story (Early Access)

Richard II: Thomas of Woodstock lacks an ending. The attached zip file includes an essay discussing how and why I wrote an ending for the play, a copy of the new ending, a copy of the full script, and...

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Thinking About Urbancrawls

This is a series I talked about being unable to finish in my initial pitch for my Patreon. Thanks to your patronage, I was able to dedicate a couple dozen hours to it over the past week and finish it ...

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Thinking About Urbancrawls (Early Access)

The attached PDF contains the entire "Thinking About Urbancrawls" series (which is scheduled to run through February 6th on the site). Apologies for this reaching you a few hours late. My intention...

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Don't Prep Plots - "You Will Rue This Day, Heroes!" (The Principles of RPG Villainy)

As I mentioned last week, when I launched this Patreon campaign I was overjoyed when it took less than three hours for us to hit our first milestone goal of $10 per blog post. So I immediately sat dow...

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Happy New Year!

Over the past few days I've been soft-launching and testing some of our pledge goals, but this is the official launch of all the Alexandrian's Patreon features. (Although I would not be shocked to dis...

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The Authorship of Richard II: Thomas of Woodstock (Early Access)

Early access to the full Authorship of Richard II: Thomas of Woodstock. This Sunday Shakespeare feature started back in December, so most of this PDF is stuff arleady on the Alexandrian. But the thril...

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Ex-RPGNet Reviews - January 2015 (Early Access)

Early access to all the Ex-RPGNet reviews coming in January: - Brawl - Devil Bunny Needs a Ham - Dice Wars - Government-Funded Robot Assassins from Hell (Mission One: Kill All Evil Game Designers) PD...

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Don't Prep Plots - "You Will Rue This Day, Heroes!" (The Principles of RPG Villainy) (Early Access)

When we hit our first milestone of $10, I sat down and started writing this piece. I said that $10 per post was the point where I could start dedicating more time to the Alexandrian and this is the ab...

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Ex-RPGNet Reviews - Brawl (Early Access)

Salutations to my first patrons! I'm stretching my legs here at Patreon. This is a beta test for using Patreon to deliver the Early Access sneak peeks. A few points of interest: First, I'd prefer t...

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