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Ten Laws to Ponder

2012-01-28T14:06:00.000-06:00

Here are Ten Eponymous Laws attributed to science fiction authors, experts, pundits and mythical Irishmen, with a bonus link to a whole pile of other such laws all listed out for your edification and free use at Wikipedia. Murphy's Law Finagle's Law Peter Principle Sturgeon's Law Hanlon's/Heinlein's Razor Clarke's Three Laws The Three Laws of Robotics (Asimov) Niven's Laws Sutton's Law

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Brown Jenkin is up for grabs!

2012-01-19T13:40:00.002-06:00

Image from: Zombiequadrille at Deviant Art The Lovecraft eZine is having a contest--you could win a sculpture of Brown Jenkin himself. The details are fairly straight forward and even quite painless. Just go check out the eZine, follow or subscribe to it and you've got a chance at winning your own nasty little rat-thing... Here's a link.

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Bujilli 9

2012-01-19T13:11:00.000-06:00

Bujilli's Sojourn: Episode 9 is now live at Hereticwerks. What happens next is up to You...

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Bujilli to Resume at Hereticwerks

2012-01-06T08:30:00.000-06:00

After a hiatus of several months, Bujilli will be continuing his adventures at Hereticwerks. The character sheet, Map, and the Wandering Monster Matrix have all been posted to Hereticwerks. The first seven and a half episodes/installments will be re-posted, followed by a quick summary and Bujilli will be ready to go in time for a new episode on Thursday, January 12. New episodes in the series

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HNY!

2011-12-31T10:38:00.001-06:00

Happy New Year from the heart of Mnemosyne Complex...you'll have a chance to learn more about that in the coming year over at Hereticwerks.

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Mr. H on the CC

2011-12-23T14:18:00.001-06:00

We recently ran across an article by James Hutchings (of Teleli and Age of Fable,etc.) that discusses and explains the use of Creative Commons for writers (and game bloggers as well...). The article is available at the Full Moon Bites blog and they are having a give-away offer of James' excellent recent publication 'The New Death and Others.' The article is worth reading, and it's a nice offer

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Weird Adventures Now Available in PDF-format!

2011-12-17T12:00:00.000-06:00

Trey Causey's Magnum Opus Weird Adventures is now ready for immediate download as a PDF at RPGnow andDrivethruRPG both. It's 165 pages (black and white with 4 full color maps) featuring: City Confidential--A guide to the 5 baronies, numerous neighborhood, and weird locales of the City. A guide to the Strange New World beyond the City, including the mysterious jungles of Asciana, morbid and

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What's Inside the Tome Free PDF Now Available From Rended Press

2011-12-05T23:03:00.001-06:00

Our Inside the Tome Community Table is now available from Rended Press as a free PDF. You can find it HERE. Thanks again to Matthew Schmeer for assembling things into a PDF and making it available.

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Remembering The First Kingdom by Jack Katz

2011-11-22T16:44:00.000-06:00

"Our choice: the caves or the stars…” Jack Katz Reprinted from Cthulhu Ate My Comics. Originally posted: 12/23/2010 The First Kingdom is very special to me. I remember discovering a copy of The Fist Kingdom: Issue One in the newsstand rack at the old Shinders that used to be on the corner of Block-E in downtown Minneapolis. It was snowing, close to Christmas-time, and I pulled the

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Law & The Multiverse

2011-11-22T00:00:00.000-06:00

Reprinted from Cthulhu Ate My Comics. Originally posted: 12/23/2010 Ever thought about the legal ramifications of some of the more off-the-wall antics of your friendly neighborhood superheroes? You know you have. When bullets ricochet off of Superman's invulnerable chest or the Health & Human Services folks look into that little matter with the kid in a birdy suit that Batman runs around with,

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Motivational dysfunctions: The Free PDF

2011-11-21T15:18:00.001-06:00

Matthew over at Rended Press has taken our old post on Motivational Dysfunctions and converted it into a nifty Free PDF which you can find by going to his blog, Rended Press, or by going straight over to the file at Dropbox. Thank you Matthew!

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World Toilet Day

2011-11-19T14:47:00.000-06:00

Happy World Toilet Day! More details: http://www.worldtoilet.org/wto/index.php/our-works/world-toilet-day If you're rolling dice and moving little figurines around on tables--consider going and slaying some nasty monsters in the sewers in honor of World Toilet Day.

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Mighty Samson

2011-10-31T16:36:00.000-05:00

Mighty Samson No longer blonde & no eye-patch, but still kicking post-apocalyptic butt ...sort of... (Reprinted from Cthulhu Ate My Comics blog) Mighty Samson isn't as well known as Magnus: Robot Fighter, but he is a major-league pugilist par excellance whose stomping grounds are the irradiated and jungle-infested ruins of N'Yark some 500 years hence, give or take a millennium or whatever now

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Moving Forwards (Revised: 11/22/2011)

2011-10-25T16:51:00.000-05:00

After 13 years of using Netherwerks as an online identity and the name for our rpg-oriented studio, we've decided that we are going to let the domain name lapse and move on. Three Netherwerks/Netherworks are two too many. We wish the other Nether-folks the best of luck in their endeavors. We've never interacted with any of them, but we do know that they have very good taste when it comes to

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One Big Idea: 100 Year Starship

2011-10-07T13:08:00.002-05:00

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has set-up ('seeded') the The 100 Year Starship™ Study. This is nothing less than a direct and concerted effort to "develop a viable and sustainable model for persistent, long-term, private-sector investment into the myriad of disciplines needed to make long-distance space travel practicable and feasible." Yep. The folks at DARPA want us to

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Sir Arthur on Predicting the Future

2011-10-07T07:00:00.000-05:00

Arthur C. Clarke. 1964. The future is more likely to be unbelievable... ...and already all around us...

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The Mole People (1956): Courtesy of Google Video

2011-10-06T08:30:00.000-05:00

Here, for your viewing pleasure is the movie The Mole People, which for some reason is available in its entirety. The introduction alone is worth sitting through once. The rest of the movie...well...that's a matter of taste and expectations. Don't expect a lot and you'll be pleasantly lulled to sleep. Expect a lot and you might as well watch something like The Monolith Monsters...

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The Monolith Monsters (1957) Courtesy of Veoh

2011-10-05T15:00:00.000-05:00

So here's another classic B-movie from the Fifties. This time the monster is some sort of extraterrestrial / meteoritic gravel that grows really, really big (becoming rough-hewn even cyclopean monoliths...) and then fall over and crush things too slow to run out from under them. Really. I'm not making it up. Just add water... Watch The Monolith Monsters (1957) in

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RPG Brainstorming: Underground Playground

2011-10-05T12:34:00.002-05:00

You Tube continues to provide a lot of fun resources for re-thinking stale old tropes or for incorporating real world stuff into fiction and games. A lot of the actual and factual is ten times more unbelievable than anything made-up. If you can look past the breathless proponents of various agendas and whatever theories, and just examine the ideas involved in some of this stuff, it starts to

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...An Age Undreamed Of...

2011-09-28T18:51:00.003-05:00

“Hither came Cthulhu, the Vhoorlian, be-tentacled, swollen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer and a dreamer, with cyclopean melancholies and gargantuan girth, to tread the jeweled thrones of Earth under his slimy pseudopodous feet.” H. P. Lovecraft, The Squamous Sword of Cthulhu (unpublished), 1933.

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Mapping Barsoom...Some Handy Articles at the ERBzine site

2011-09-27T07:00:00.000-05:00

Burroughs’ Barsoom and Lowell’s Mars: A Map for the Interpretation of Barsoomian Geography by Leathem Mehaffey http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1438.html Seven Wonders of Barsoom by Woodrow Edgar Nichols, Jr. I: The Pumping Stations (http://www.erbzine.com/mag33/3308.html) II: The Twin Cities of Helium (http://www.erbzine.com/mag33/3307.html) III: The Hot House Cities of Okar (http://

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Stories in the Ether (Vol.1 Available)

2011-09-26T16:00:00.000-05:00

From the folks at Nevermet Press: Stories in the Ether, Issue 1 is now available from Amazon Kindle, the Apple iBookstore, RPGNow, DriveThruStuff, and Lulufor $4.99. The journal is available electronically as an ePUB from all our retail channels, as well as a beautifully presented PDF exclusively from RPGNow and its sister sites. We will continue publishing new stories, for free, weekly on our

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Four Bullets for Dillon now available

2011-09-26T13:22:00.002-05:00

Four Bullets for Dillon is now available! From Dillon's own blog: "A lost city in the Cambodian jungles run by a pint-sized tyrant wearing a gem-encrusted belt buckle; Beautiful women who lure Dillon and his rival, rock musician Sly Gantlet, into a clash of alpha males and a deadly set-up; a deceitful queen and a backstabbing friend; a quest for an evil artifact linked to the betrayer of

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Atlas Unified...Let's Hope It Works...

2011-09-23T09:12:00.000-05:00

This Recent Article over at The Scoop makes the new Atlas Unified cross-over mini-series sound really interesting... http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=265&ai=113290 So far, I've been very disappointed with the slow pacing, clunky dialogue and sense of never really getting anywhere that has dogged the new Atlas titles...but I still hold out hope that things will

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Two Tables of Terror

2011-09-20T12:33:00.000-05:00

First the Editor-Texan posted a deceptively innocent looking Random Table based on cliche' and Seventies' module-marketing acumen which you can find here. Then the inimitable illuminatus of immolation himself posted an alternate Random Table that can be found here (at his proudly and loudly NSFW blog). Two Random Tables. Two relatively simple exercises in the randomization of grammatical

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