Titans Will Clash!
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Clash Of The Titans is due to hit the big screen in March 2010 and this is
one remake I'm unequivocally looking forward to.
The 1981 original was always ...
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About Me
- Tim Brannan
- Chicago, IL, United States
- A bunch of stuff, all at once. I'll talk about games, stuff I am working on, old school, new school, horror, and random stuff.
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It's H.P. Lovecraft meets the Gilmore Gilrs!
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My continuing obsession with something I'll probably never own. - Some folks at rpg.net have gotten their little grubby hands on the WHFRPG 3rd ED starter and have been answering questions. The thread derails a little bit...4 hours ago
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Of Chtin And Creativity, Part VI - Of Chitin And Creativity VI: The Undiscovered Country Whew. It's taken a lot longer to get here than I'd ever dreamed, but this is the finale of the serie...5 hours ago
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Alphabet - Before getting into the meat of the post, I feel I have to take a moment to clarify the difference between ‘writing’ and ‘alphabet’ as I understand it from...7 hours ago
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Hexographer? - Anyone out there ever used Hexographer? It looks rather nifty and might be just the little program I want for designing the kinds of wilderness maps I pref...12 hours ago
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I've Seen Diamonds Cut Through Harder Men - Here's another Top Secret memory courtesy of the scanning project: a villain's multi-level underground stronghold. I distinctly recall drawing this up afte...12 hours ago
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We Play Dark Ages OSRIC - Season Finale, Part 1 - I'm a sucker for Season finales, although I have high standards. To me, one of the best was "Best of Both Worlds", the Star Trek: Next Generation finale fo...12 hours ago
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Let's Watch Some Movie Trailers! - Damn, there are a ton of movies coming out worth getting excited about! So, enjoy these trailers from Clash of the Titans, Kick-Ass, Prince of Persia, Avat...16 hours ago
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How to have fun with your kids - I swear it had nothing to do with Grognardia talking about dice! Buying crayons was something we had been thinking of doing a long time now. My daughter is...17 hours ago
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Veterans Day 2009 - Again, a guest post from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "As for us, our days of combat are over. Our swords are rust. Our guns will thunder no more. The vultur...19 hours ago
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Test Post - For some reason I'm not getting new posts from my blog on my RSS reader, so this is a quick test to make sure everything is working.19 hours ago
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Mapping Challenge – Day 12 - This geomorph is broken into three distinct sections that don’t make contact (but share walls). For old school play I really enjoy these areas on a map on ...21 hours ago
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A Screen for Every Game - Customizable GM screens have been around for a while, starting with the now defunct Citizen Games’ Masterscreen. The next one to come along that of which I...21 hours ago
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Channel Divinity: Melora - A whopping two page article that details seven thematic magic items centric to Melora: two weapons, a consumable, one foot-slot, one symbol, and two wondro...1 day ago
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NaClaMoMo: Looking At "D3: Vault of the Drow" - I would love to see a well-known “name” author write an adventure module in the style of “Vault of the Drow”, and have it published by one of the big gun...1 day ago
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Moving my Blog - Hey folks, I'm merging this blog into the Brave Halfling Publishing website. I'll still continue my regular posting, just now I will have one less site to ...1 day ago
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Doing the math - On Sunday mornings, my choir gets a break between the two services we sing, and I usually sit down in the choir room with a book or a manuscript or somethi...1 day ago
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Dragon Age: Origins, Windows 7 Pro and Ninite: Results - After a marathon weekend in the company of Dragon Age: Origins we’ve returned to compare our PC and PS3 games. As a veteran of Baldur’s Gate and Neverwin...1 day ago
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First chapter of Still Sucks to Be Me! - Hey! Woot! I got the okay from my editor to post the back copy and first chapter of Still Sucks to Be Me! Yippee! So you can check it out: the back copy is...1 day ago
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Lejendary Adventure - The "other" Gygax RPG - As the 20th century drew to a close, D&D was being re-worked and "re-imagined" into a whole new beast: 3.0. Unlike the advent of 2E, 3E was introduced int...1 day ago
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Premature Book Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart's *Mysterious Benedict Society* was supposed to be a one shot book, but is now on its third title. *The Perilous Journey* is the second...1 day ago
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Let's hope they have another go - The French Invade Texas by Jaap de Goede - The French Invade Texas is an alternative-history (sort of) roleplaying game by Jaap de Goede. Play the role of La Salle, a French explorer and use the Kin...1 day ago
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Apologies - I know I've been posting much less frequently than usual. My usual computer has mechanical difficulties, and I was forced to order a replacement fan from S...2 days ago
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Time to quit the game (or “take this game and shove it”) - Early this year a lady contacted me about running a Knights of the Old Republic setting campaign for her regular Star Wars saga group. I was totally unfami...2 days ago
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Thoughts on Riverworld, Mad Max, and Other Such Things - So as I indicated in an earlier post, my recent revisiting of the Mad Max trilogy gave me some interesting food for thought. Primarily, I hadn't realized w...2 days ago
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What Players Want - I got together with some friends of mine - both of them experienced gamers - as they wanted to talk to me about possibly playing in my new campaign. We ha...2 days ago
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Free Old School RPG: Monsters and Mazes - Sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s, John Garwood wrote a small roleplaying game called Monsters & Mazes. It was published as a text file designed to...2 days ago
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Pete Seeger and The Advent Of 'This Land Is Your Land' On My Life - Literally, one of my earliest memories is of my dad sitting at our dining room table, a yolk-colored classical guitar sitting on his knee as he played and ...2 days ago
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Manly Music Monday - Gettysburg One of my all time favorites. I have the special collectors edition of Gettysburg on VHS which shows several deleted scenes. Because of this e...2 days ago
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[Playtest Campaign] Friday, November 6th- - Let me back-track a bit: When Delver passed through the screen, Tybalt executed a Jaunt, but was suspended in a 'buffer' of a nebulous milky-white light wh...2 days ago
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I'm still off the WoW habit, but... - I let my *World of Warcraft* subscription lapse in May. This might be the longest I've gone without playing it since I started, come to think of it, which ...3 days ago
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Dream Cover...N C Wyeth - What if NC Wyeth had illustrated the original classic fantasy role playing game? If there is an illustrator who has influenced modern fantasy art more than...3 days ago
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The Malevolent Mana Muncher - I am pretty sure that every DM has had this happen from time to time, a new player joins his group - and you are MORE than a little suspicious about his ha...4 days ago
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Sand Ghul: Nightmare of the Wizard - Sand Ghul No. Appearing: 1d6 Alignment: Chaotic Size: M Armour Class/Defense: 1/1 Move: 90’ Hit Dice: 2 HD (8HP) Attacks: ...5 days ago
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Post-Halloween Pick-me-up - As of this morning the 282 posts on Sexy Witch have been viewed 2,480,606 times. My busiest day was Halloween this year with 7,123 visits. I always get a s...5 days ago
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Making your own StarCluster Setting - Back when I started working on the first version of what would become StarCluster - about 1995-96, long before I released it - I created a bunch of cascadi...5 days ago
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Tiger tiger.. - This is one of the images appearing in Labyrinth Lord Revised, (soon available in a game store near you). Dan asked for a weretiger, and I couldn't make a...5 days ago
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Magic Item: Green Fire Wraith - Green Fire Wraith: A marvel of magitech, the Green Fire Wraith is a construct of steel and brass and glittering green glass as hard as adamant, of smooth bu...5 days ago
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A Very Merry Un-Birthday To Who? To Me! - It may not be my birthday today, but it will be tomorrow. I will be 31 years old. This is the second birthday of mine to be commemorated on this blog and h...6 days ago
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Feature of Singer Heather Dinnarr of Rose Red - November,I have decided, is a month of shake-ups, but don't worry my diabolical denizens: I won't be writing about happy bunnies prancing through the meado...6 days ago
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The Stars Come Right for 4th Edition D&D - I just wanted to take a minute to share something I ran across this afternoon. Goodman Games has released a creature supplement for 4th Edition Dungeons & ...1 week ago
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Chapter VI: The Bugbear - Once the cruel breath of winter warmed up, I braved the rain and elements barely making my way south to a warmer, more humane climate. This journey was ...1 week ago
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Steampunk Cthulhu, Victorian Super Agents & Chaosium Weird West! - Steampunk Cthulhu, Victorian Super Agents & Chaosium Weird West! Queensguard A Steampunk Call of Cthulhu Campaign Agents of the Crown Super Agents in Vic...1 week ago
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Enough whining about DMs! What do you want from your Players? - There just sometimes seems to be no end of the carping and bitching and whining about DMs exercising their Gary-given powers. It's the Authoritarian DM, or...1 week ago
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"The Gods Have a Plan for You" - Words that would certainly strike fear into the hearts of most of my players over the years. Luckily for them, I'm just quoting this movie trailer: Prince...1 week ago
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Gearing up for the Hyborian Age - Sunday we will do character generation for my Hyborian Age OD&D game. I'm hastily printing off copies of my Age of Conan booklet for the group, and will tr...1 week ago
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Mythic GM Emulator + Swords & Wizadry = Great Gaming Experience - Last week we started a little experiment and went GMless with Swords & Wizardry using the Mythic GM Emulator. It may sound crazy but I've got to say that i...1 week ago
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Madison Games Day 2 a Success - Madison Games Day was a success for TARGA events. Some logistics to churn: The total turn-out for this one-day free game-a-thon was somewhere around 40-50 ...1 week ago
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The Oak King - I'm truly honored to have been chosen as the Green Man Review's Oak King for 2009. There are tons of reviews, a short story, and a lengthy interview I enjo...1 week ago
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Aspects-as-Skills FATE - I know this has been done by others, but I've had this kicking around for a while and figured it was worth posting in case anyone else is interested in it....1 week ago
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Bad luck and timing ruins good luck - I go around to the used book stores for RPG material and I found a great haul. There was Dark Sun and Star Wars books I needed, some good WoD and CoC books...1 week ago
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[4E] Magic Halloween Candy - *This post originally appeared Oct 31, 2008. * * * Halloween is finally here, and so I give you 19 new types of consumables for 4th Edition Dungeons & Drag...1 week ago
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Sitting Idle In The Doldrums - I'm currently in a position where I don't have any GMing projects that need my attention. I've got one more D&D with Kids game to run before I hand off to...1 week ago
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Artistic Inspiration: Virgil Finlay - Being one of the favorite artists of James M. of Grognardia means you're probably a good artistic inspiration for old school gamers. Add in the use of a ...2 weeks ago
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Greyhawk Fetish - James and Joseph posted recently about how Gary Gygax never published a full megadungeon, and have differing views of whether publishing a megadungeon is e...2 weeks ago
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Nice Shiny Silver - So discussion with the gaming group have helped solidify superhero plans a bit more. How does one reconcile a desire for a superhero setting featuring talk...2 weeks ago
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On Extended Hiatus - Hey all, I will be absent from the blogosphere for several months. I have many and various pressing things to take care of in the real world. So y'all play...3 weeks ago
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Personal Blog - If anyone's interested in my more mundane comings-and-goings, I've begun a personal blog at http://grey-elf.blogspot.com/ I did this so as not to clutter u...3 weeks ago
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Slime Story: Playtest Version 2 - If you’ve been following this blog, then by now you know that Slime Story is my RPG of “teenagers hunting cute monsters for spending money.” Basically, ima...3 weeks ago
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The Evil Dead... Lesbian Edition - In keeping with my theme of being as outdated as humanly possible on this blog, I finally read the Willow and Tara as Evil Dead Lesbians article by Stephen...5 weeks ago
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Running for the Fun of All - “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. I always find my best inspirations for blog posts after ...1 month ago
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Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: the Old School Revolution is here - Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets is an excellent blog dedicated to the Swords & Wizardry and Labyrinth Lord 'clone games'. S&W emulates the 1974 Original ...1 month ago
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So, let’s talk about your fear of multiclassing - I occasionally hear or read comments in which unrestricted multiclassing in 3.X D&D is held to be a bad thing. People will confidently assert the ridiculo...1 month ago
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Mismarked Gamescience dice: 1d6 = 1d4+1? - So, I recently added to my (embarrassingly too large) pile of Gamescience dice. I just can't help myself, really. It's quite sad. I snagged a few packs fr...1 month ago
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Monsters and Madmen - Evil draws men together ~ Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC), Rhetoric The best fiction is defined by a strong villain. Star Wars was cool, in part, because Darth...2 months ago
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43 - It was 43 years ago today when Star Trek was born, or at least when it aired its first episode on NBC. Since that time Star Trek has been through a lot with ...2 months ago
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StevenJTodd.com is now on the web! - My website is now ready to view. Please feel free to look it over and blog, baby, blog!2 months ago
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More On Resistances - I've been thinking a bit about resistances lately, and I think I figured out a solution that I like. I'm sure someone else has come up with this before, so...2 months ago
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No more Ultrashort Reviews - Hello all I just wanted to let you all know that there will be no more reviews coming from me. Truth is, it has been feeling quite a bit like a grind for a...2 months ago
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Free Spellcraft & Swordplay! - Just a Reminder to the few of you listening to pick up a free copy of Spellcraft & Swordplay Deluxe Ed pdf some time between now and Friday. Spellcraft & S...4 months ago
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What is Black, Red & White? - The new, non-digest version of "The Return of the Mountain King," of course! Exactly one year after the first Module for Labyrinth Lord was released by Br...4 months ago
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Star Trek - This is the real deal. Go see it! For the first time Star Trek looked as epic as it should. And Star Fleet has real aliens in it!6 months ago
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Wizard Spell List - I haven't done much with *D&DME* in a while, as I have been busy with other projects. The last thing I was working on was the Wizard class. Here's the prel...8 months ago
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