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Review: Realm Works and Hero Lab

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Barwickian

After a year of running Pathfinder Society games almost exclusively, I needed to scratch the itch for a longer campaign with a regular group. With several regular PFS players feeling

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RIP, Dave Trampier

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Barwickian

I learnt through Facebook that former TSR artist Dave “Tramp” Trampier died earlier this week. There’s a very brief obituary here. Tramp’s art was a major part of my AD&D

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FASA Star Trek: to boldly go

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Barwickian

West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young star-captains glow James Elroy Flecker I’m not

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My Pathfinder set-up

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Barwickian

I’m a rather old-school gamer, more used to descriptive combat, judgement calls and hand-wavery than a strict adherence to the rules. Even when I ran the tactically intense D&D3.5 I

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Star Trek TOS characters for Hero System

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Barwickian

I’ve just updated my Hero System page with the Enterprise bridge crew statted out for Hero System 6th Edition. You can find them here. They’re intended for a minicon where

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Hârn: Back in the saddle

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Barwickian

It’s been a long time since I ran a Hârn game, but at last the drought is ended. Hârn is a setting I adore. I named this website after it

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Dangerous Journeys: Mythus

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Barwickian

Note: Since writing this piece I’ve had the opportunity of playing in a Mythus campaign. You can read about those experiences here. Back in 1992 I was on the lookout

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We were munchkins once, and young

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Barwickian

Note: some of this was previously published on James Maliszewski’s Grognardia blog, where he called it Memories of the British Old School. I’m allowing myself more time to ramble now;

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Vancian magic revisited

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Barwickian

One of the things that’s bothered me about D&D from its early days was that magicians forget spells when they cast them – the so-called Vancian magic system, named for

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Review: Robin of Sherwood

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Barwickian

 Note: this is a minor reworking of a review I originally published on rpg.net in August 2003. “Nothing is forgotten. Nothing’s ever forgotten.” Robin of Sherwood is, for many people

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Gaming, History, Stuff C&S, Chivalry & Sorcery, review, Robin Hood, Robin of Sherwood, TV series Leave a comment
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