Love the space-homage-to-1ePHB-cover (intentional or not) ... pretty sure Pigeons from Hell did not contain any barbarians, green demons or bronze lingerie damsels ... remember vividly the weird, doll-eyed trio from that Basic D&D ad.
Re Thayyam: "Why are his eyes covered? Because if they were not, when he opened them he would unmake the world."
See also the chapter on Khun Daeng, "Outside, eyeless, and on fire" in Ros Morris' otherwise not entirely awesome In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand. That chapter alone is worth getting the book for. Ummmm... here.
All Dogs Go To Hell
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So it was like this.
James Raggi, in his wisdom, decided to make a free adventure for Gencon to
go with the LotFP catalog. Since he had a lot on his pl...
Potion Colors
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Created with a lot of of help from Simon over at Professional NPC
Inspired/influenced/aided by his post on color as alignment HERE
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Scare Tactics: Pervasive - The Insinuator
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^ On the one hand, there's the performance values that might be shared
between dungeon mastering and being a fancy cannibal that the FBI needs to
help t...
Pig Faced Ork Con 2023!
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If you are down in So-Cal I highly recommend the *Pig Faced Ork Old School
Role Playing Game Convention *set for *Saturday October 21, 2023*. This
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Cities of Darkness
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Unlike D&D, I've got a soft spot for the classic World of Darkness lore. I
am too young to have been around while it was relevant but it's always had
the...
I'm Zak, I live in Los Angeles. Most of the people I know here are women I know from being a porn "actor"--so they're porn stars and strippers. So that's who I play Dungeons & Dragons with.
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Hey Zak, you wouldn-'t happen to know the artist who did that last once (Pretty lights). I always loved those spaceship designs (70s+80s I think)
dan mcpharlin
Love the space-homage-to-1ePHB-cover (intentional or not) ... pretty sure Pigeons from Hell did not contain any barbarians, green demons or bronze lingerie damsels ... remember vividly the weird, doll-eyed trio from that Basic D&D ad.
Evocative imagery - though you generally post the most interesting pictures.
If one hasn't yet - do a search for 'Theyyam dancers' and literally hundreds of versions of the red dressed Balinese fellow(?) above will come up.
The wikipedia entry on Theyyam is also a good read - dance based Hindu folk 'cult' that's thousands of years old.
Re Thayyam: "Why are his eyes covered? Because if they were not, when he opened them he would unmake the world."
See also the chapter on Khun Daeng, "Outside, eyeless, and on fire" in Ros Morris' otherwise not entirely awesome In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand. That chapter alone is worth getting the book for. Ummmm... here.
Broo!
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