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Games, plots and the death of Bin Laden

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Barwickian

“It was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest

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Review: Robin Hood – The Role Playing Campaign

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Barwickian

As part of an effort to assemble my various scribblings in one place, this is a review I originally posted to rpg.net in August 2003. Graham Staplehurst’s Robin Hood: The

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Review: Lionheart – Living History in England 1190AD

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Barwickian

As part of an effort to assemble my various scribblings in one place, this is a review I originally posted to RPG.net in August 2003. Edwin King’s Lionheart: Living History

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Review: Hero System 5ER

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Barwickian

As part of an effort to assemble my various scribblings in one place, this is a review of the Hero System 5th Edition (Revised), which I originally posted to RPG.net

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Review: Fantasy Hero Grimoire

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Barwickian

As part of an effort to assemble my various scribblings in one place, this is a review of the Fantasy Hero Grimoire for Hero System 5th edition which I originally

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How to design Hero System characters

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Barwickian

Tasha Greenbottle (aka Jenevieve DeFer) has an excellent guide to creating balanced, effective Hero System characters for any genre or campaign on her blog here, cross-posted and debated on this

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Using status in RPGs

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Barwickian

This is a work-in-progress for a piece I’m writing on GMing Hârn games. I think there’s enough general applicability for other games to do put the current draft out (every

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The Shadow Isle

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Barwickian

I’m making another stab at reading Katherine’s Kerr’s The Shadow Isle, the penultimate book in her long-running Deverry Saga. I started reading the Deverry books in the late ’80s, and

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Play Unsafe review

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Barwickian

Quick summary: if you play tabletop RPGs, of whatever flavour, you need a copy of this book. It’s that good. Like many roleplayers, I’ve often described my hobby to straights

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In Praise of the Dumb

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Barwickian

This post won the Rolemaster Moments montly award in January 2003. Since ICE have dropped this part of their website, and the post has otherwise vanished into the ether, I’m

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