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For the first time in a very long time I wrote something using the d20. It Dave’s family has established a website that includes up to date
is a new monster and will be up on Megadungeon.net in a day or so (I information about funeral home visitation and memorial bequests, as
sent it to James for his editing and approval). well as how to contact them if you have any questions.
I never thought I would be writing d20 again. Funny how life works The website is located here.
sometimes.
Megadungeon.net, writing
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We will be at GenCon
APR 13, 2009 10:51P.M.
Like year’s past, this GenCon will see a debute of new product, new
surprises and a few other cool things. One of the cool things? Packs of
d12s for sale.
There are other cool things as well, but we are selling d12s. This is what
makes me geek out.
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The Worm Ouroboros is, quite simply, an amazing piece of work that
defies easy categorization. With its unique prose style, it’s quite unlike
any fantasy novel that has come in its wake. Its characters are vividly
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drawn and compelling, even the villainous ones, who come across as very
real, if flawed, human beings. The story itself reads like a Greek tragedy
in the form of a Norse saga: a dark, larger-than-life struggle in which
hubris plays as large a role as heroism and honor. It’s this, I think, that
so offended Tolkien. Eddison’s characters, even the putatively noble
ones, are arrogant brutes who adhere so thoroughly to a warrior ideal
that they pray for the resurrection of their enemies so that they may
avoid the boredom of peacetime. This is part of what makes the novel so
compelling. The world it presents is at once attractive and repulsive,
making it hard not to be drawn headlong into it, despite one’s feelings.