It is another Monstrous Monday in the A to Z Blogging Challenge, so let's talk about a Y monster. And really there is only one I am going to need for today. THE YETI. I have often done the Ye...
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Our last Sunday we will cover the newest version of the game at this moment, the extremely popular Fifth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, 5TH EDITON Sadly, D&D 4e did not...
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Something different for me today. While I have been writing about D&D all month, they are all topics I have quite a bit of knowledge about. This is not one of those days. In the past I have...
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A nice mix today. Let's get to it. FRIGHTSHOW CLASSICS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frightshowclassics/frightshow-classics?ref=theotherside Two new classic horror tabletop RP...
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Of course, I was going to do this. I talk a lot about witches here. I mean a crazy amount. It is by far my most commonly used post-label . I am obsessed, and I don't apologize for it. "W...
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Dracula by Edgar Alfred Holloway Long before I was ever known as the "witch guy" I was the "vampire guy." A lot of my peers came to Dungeons & Dragons via the tales of Conan, Elric, and John ...
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Often times the campaign settings of Dungeons & Dragons are known as "worlds." If there are multiple worlds then there must be a Dungeons & Dragons Universe. So what are these worlds, and wh...
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It has been a month since I have done one of these. My plan was NOT to do one during April with the whole A to Z thing, but today is St. George's Day and he rather famously killed a dragon. I...
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Delving into the history of Dungeons & Dragons, one must spend some time discussing the company (or companies, as it were) that produced and published it. Most of them went by the initials TSR. ...
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Click to get your own! Now, this is always a fun topic. It would be difficult to talk about the history of Dungeons & Dragons and not talk about the 1980s moral panic known as THE SATANIC...
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While working on my post for earlier today on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, I can't help but think about the lost opportunities that game had. I read through the books and they are barely use...
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This Sunday A to Z special we are talking about the most controversial version of D&D put out. That would be 2008's Fourth Edition Dungeons & Dragons. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, 4TH EDITION Again...
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This has been a favorite feature of my A to Z posts over the years, with two of my earliest A to Z posts covering the same topic. 2011: R is for Ravenloft 2012: R is for Ravenloft: Masque...
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Ah. Two of my favorite topics. Let's see what this weekend has in store for us on the Kickstarter front. THE WITCHES OF OZ #1 - A MATURE MAGICAL QUEER ROMANCE https://www.kickstarter.co...
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I have an inordinate amount of Queens in my games. I am going to talk about two groups in particular, the Vampire Queens and the Witch Queens. Tea with the Witch Queens by Brian Brinlee ...
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A bit of a divergence today for, well, a bit of divergence. Let me set the stage a bit. It is 2007, and Wizards of the Coast has decided to end the publication of the wildly successful Dungeo...
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I can't properly celebrate 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons and not talk about where the game started. So let's go back to 1974 and the ORIGINAL EDITION OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. This is the or...
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The original 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a treasure trove of material for running an AD&D game. It is also a treasure for running any sort of game. What...
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Today is Monday. It is also "M" Day. Here at The Other Side, Mondays are used for Monstrous Mondays, where I talk about monsters. Since I am doing the A to Z of Dungeons and Dragons my topic fo...
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This is another Sunday special to talk about another edition of D&D. Today, we are going to visit the year 2000 and the Third Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, 3RD EDITION ...
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I have been talking a lot about D&D history this month, but today I want to shift focus for a moment and talk about D&D's present. Honestly, the best Dungeons & Dragons content is not coming fr...
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I am sharing this one again. Why? Well, mostly because I want to, but I also think there will be images of my little witch Larina in it! At least I saw some in the previews. So I am quite happ...
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Today I am going to talk about the Known World, or the campaign setting implied in Basic D&D. When the D&D Expert Set was introduced, it included a two-page map of part of a continent. Th...
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A double one today, but related topics. You can't talk about the early days of Dungeons & Dragons and not mention the Judges Guild. And you can't talk about the Judges Guild or D&D and not menti...
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It has often been said that all you really need to enjoy Dungeons & Dragons is some rules, dice, paper, pencil, friends, and IMAGINATION! TSR 1983 Product Catalog This is pretty much tru...
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