Murky Murky: Roleplaying Advice and Fiction

   I can't find it for the life of me, but in one of the Mage the Ascension books (the Revised Era of the late 90's, not the M20 stuff), there was a grey little side bar, and it made somet...

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GHOSTIES AND GUILLOTINES  I have the extreme blessing of running a Ravenloft game currently with some old friends. I have been running it on Rolz.org new free VTT, which I absolutely adore (mos...

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Doctors get a lot of burnout: long hours, lots of regs, busted technology, and patients with problems they cannot solve. #MY FRIEND I saw this comment under a Youtube video once. "My bigges...

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HOW DO I MAKE PEOPLE DO WHAT I WANT THEM TO DO? This is not only a question that Game Masters have asked the cold unfeeling void of dark basements for decades. This is a question that made the...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2018/12/problems-and-oppurtunities-controling.html

More Alexa concept art, this time regarding the heavier armor that she brings along when she knows she will need it. At first, I was really in love with the bottom row, the heavier st...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2016/11/full-armor-alexa-and-more-fiction.html

To whip or not to whip it? More Alexa art from Tobias! He suggested this lovely whip concept for Alexa, as opposed to just arm blades. I love it! Its deadly, versatile, and likely prehensi...

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Hello all my loyal blog readers! I need some help. I just got this lovely concept art in by the artist +Tobias White, and I need your opinions. These images are depicting Alexa from the recent ...

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RIP It still hurts just as much as the first time. You know what I'm talking about. If you don't please read Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Dragons of Winter Night as soon as you can. SPOIL...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2016/09/by-reading-dragonlance-i-know-i-am.html

Have you ever accidentally wrote something else when you were supposed to write another thing? I just did that. I was trying to work on my project for a Golden Fleece anthology themed on ...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2016/08/oopsi-made-flash-fiction.html

ANOTHER OF MY FAVORITE CLICHES... DISGUSTING! GRIEVING LICH RESPONDS TO "GENOCIDAL" WHITE KNIGHT! "THEY JUST WANTED A HUG!" I know that the knight in shining armor is deeply out of fashion...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-case-for-knight-in-shining-armor.html

First page of rough draft of a new WIP. I got two of 'em now! "Where Was I" is still in edits, but it will see the light of day soon. Just finished editting "The Whole Bottle" to my satisfaction...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2016/03/wip-3-prick-1st-draft.html

Another 777 challenge from my current WIP (same WIP as last time ) - Low tempo baseline let Alexa drift, but not too far. She wanted to play some Nirvana, some Pretty Reckless, maybe even Cat P...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2016/02/low-tempo-baselines.html

Present for you, can't open it yet though... Y'all have been good loyal readers, yes indeed. Thus I'm gonna give y'all a shiny present. What? *** Close your eyes. Stick out your hands. Un...

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>  >  > A GIMP-collage by MurkyMaster. Image credits: What a statement! What a book! Put on your parka's ladies and gentlemen, because I am about to gush all over you about one of my fav...

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So, I was trolling the webz, and lo and behold, find the blog of one of the editors at Albedo1  (Thanks Sharon). Most current post had the "777 Writing Challenge." I was intrigued, at first b...

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When you see a spider and reach for a shoe, remember this... You were lied to. The beastmasters who wrote your beastiary promised you. They promised you that even the most tested adventure...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-your-power-gamer-is-your-most.html

Murky Master is an observant man... He has noticed that his #3 post of all time is one in regards to a kickstarter than he was rather passionate about. So, it might be that you all like to hea...

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I thought to myself, as I made up my mind to read Austen's two most well known novels: Oh my. Some books about Regency England. More specifically, some books about people trying to get ma...

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Worldbuilding dark magic into your campaign or chronicle The Summoning  by Balaskas  www.deviantart.com WHAT IS DARK MAGIC? Dark magic is magic that is dark. Dark, in this case, mean...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2015/01/secrets-how-i-create-tempting-yet.html

NEOCLASSICAL GEEK REVIVAL, 5th Edition Author: Zzarchov Default Genre: Fantasy Minimum number of books needed to play: 1 Dice used: d20, d12, d10, d8, d6 and d4. Learning Curve*: Medium A...

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Using the "Call of the Wyld" here! By the way, my readers: I am recruiting for a Classic World of Darkness game, to be played on the White Wolf Forums Play by Post subforum. It is "potential...

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Clark Kent. Nice. Simple. Super. Something occurred to my wife the other day: the names of "good" characters (i.e. characters designed to be adored or admired or at least pitied by the audie...

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John Carter needs no armor!!!!  ISBN-13: 9780307430458*  John Carter of Mars has been said to be seminal (Google says that word means “a work, event, moment, or figure that strongly...

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Why wouldn't you want this guy in your game? Fei Long of Street Fighter Ah, the overpowered, out of genre, anachronistic monk. I have no idea how 5th edition (or even 4th edition, for that...

http://murkypool.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-i-run-monks-in-fantasy-settings-or.html

Cover Art and Design by Jim Tierney In this time of steampunk love, I though it would be apropos to review one of Verne's best remembered tales of wonder, science, and adventure. When a sh...

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