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apparition de l'Église éternelle (Messiaen) (mp3)
Kirche Unt Abyss AeonOlivier Messiaen was a deeply religious French composer who long held the position of organist of La Trinité in Paris. He was forty-eight in 1956 when he recorded there a number of...
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Intelligence in AD&D
Intelligence in AD&DLooking back it appears I first made a post here on Monday January 5, 2009 which means I have been blogging about D&D for a year and half longer than I thought. I suppose I...
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Lack of Originality in the OSR is Driven from the Top Down
Two prevailing assumptions which are promoted implicitly by the 'thinktank' within the OSR are damaging to the OSR if it has any serious intent to produce work rising above the mediocre.The assumptions...
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Musical Diversions & Leisurely Plans
I have been preoccupied lately with a new set of speakers, specifically a pair of Bowers & Wilkins 685. I bought these speakers at the end of two years of slog and graft hunting out *unremastered*...
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An exercise for DMs in Aione Section West
The image above shows what I call section west of nine sections of the Aione skin. Section west will feature in the Affryqq Campaign and since there is the remotest possibility enterprising adventurers...
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An Exercise For DMs on an Aione MapA Plan for a Preliminary Adventure==I believe this community supports somewhere between a half dozen and a dozen DMs who admire the same few fantasy novels I do, who...
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Sample NPC, Map and Hex Description for Preliminary Adventure
This sample has been edited for readers of my blog from the complete material I am sending to those who emailed me.===
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Current Thoughts On Adventure Writing
AFFRYQQ, The Primeval Dangerlands House ITON, on cliffs in the NW of the VoidmarkClockwise from TL: House AMENPTAH, House NEFERARE, House DJED, House NAQAD======Here are a few thoughts on the process...
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High Resolution Scan of Zanzibar
Click here to download image [4Mb](then select File & Download)Only the major streets and thoroughfares of the city are shown, or revealed, in white. Filaments abound between and are determined for...
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The Man Who Sold The World
Five Great Houses.Five Wise Men.One in Thrall to the Spirit of Fire and Night,Beneath Africa's Dying Light,A Balrog.======I thought you died alone, a long long time ago? Oh no, not me I never lost...
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Recommend a Good Translation of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil?
I have this Oxford Edition translated by James McGowan in 1993. I rarely read modern poetry in translation because the difficulties are insurmountable for a translator who is not a brilliant poet is...
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Preliminary Adventure Cover
I have started tagging those posts relating to the adventure with "Zanzibar".Also, a reminder that the adventure will not be made available generally through the blog. You have to ask for it before it...
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What Kind of Post do You Prefer?
In my mind there are four kinds of posts I have made here:(i) Image heavy in an attempt to convey the mood or style of the campaign. This includes the maps.(ii) Commentary and observations on the OSR....
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Viking Book Collection Illustrates Why Gaming Books Are Obsolete
Present clockwise from bottom left:======The Viking, Tre Trykare -- Crescent, 1972A History of the Vikings, Gwyn Jones -- Oxford, 1968 rev. 1984.The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson -- tr. Jean Young --...
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Reading the 1981 book of Tolkien's Letters I have formed a view of Tolkien as a narrow minded and tiresome know-it-all, which is disappointing. I have always considered him an imaginative writer, not...
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AD&D Thief Climbing Distances for a Given Risk - (By The Book)
The tactical considerations arising from AD&D concepts such as movement, encounter distance, surprise and initiative, when enriched with the advantages accorded to the Ranger, Thief and Assassin...
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