Posted by Mark on Jun 24, 2010 in
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Number of Views :2894In the military, there are a lot of acronyms, as many of you know. FNG is one known throughout the fleet, and probably throughout the rest of the armed forces as well. Instead of belaboring what an FNG is, I’ll just tell you: It’s a F***ing New Guy. But I’m not talking [...]
Posted by Mark on Jun 4, 2010 in
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Number of Views :366That’s right, we’ve moved to Chicago, and we’re ready to start posting again. It’s good to be back!
Posted by Bridget on Jun 2, 2010 in
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Number of Views :716This post originally appeared on October 30, 2008. On a lazy lazy lazy Sunday afternoon my husband and I were rolling up a new Star Wars character. Because it was a lazy day we were doing this from our bed. After some terrible rolling on the comforter I decided that the prudent [...]
Posted by Bryan on Jun 1, 2010 in
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Number of Views :575This post originally appeared on November 18, 2008 DM’s Leak? Is that what happens when we’re in the middle of the boss encounter, and the multiple liters of Mountain Dew finally catch up with our fearless leader? As tempted as I am to say yes, the answer is that I define the [...]
Posted by Mark on May 31, 2010 in
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Number of Views :463This post originally appeared on October 3, 2008. On an episode of Fear the Boot, the hosts posed a question: what percentage of roleplaying books that you own have you actually read? This is an interesting and multi-layered question. The question arises: what do you mean by read? If you mean flipped [...]
Posted by Mark on May 29, 2010 in
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Number of Views :640This post originally appeared October 18, 2008. Almost every RPG player has faced it: either playing a game with your significant other, or playing in a game where a couple was playing. I’ve heard a lot of horror stories. Some tell of a GM who would give their significant other a break, [...]
Posted by Mark on May 28, 2010 in
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Number of Views :547Over the next week or so, we’ll be in the process of moving from the East Coast to the Midwest. We’ll be posting up old posts that we don’t think a ton of people have seen, as they’re almost 2 years old. Keep an eye out for some great old posts. Thanks, [...]
Posted by Mark on May 12, 2010 in
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Number of Views :911It appears that Virginia Nibbelink has lost her battle with cancer. Virginia is the wife of Steve Nibbelink, known to the RPG Blogger community as VulcanStev, and a mother of three. As a husband myself, I can’t imagine the pain Steve is going through right now. The Gamer Traveller, Daniel Perez has [...]
Posted by Mark on May 9, 2010 in
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Number of Views :1366Penny Arcade has made another fantastic series in “Lookouts: A Boy Must Learn”. In the previous Lookouts comic they did, they showed how dangerous the Eryewood is. Now, we actually see it as the boys train to battle the Winter King, an awesome creature I’d love to see the stats for. This [...]
Posted by Mark on Apr 26, 2010 in
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Number of Views :868A little off topic from RPGs directly, but I’ve found (as I’m sure many have) that most comments I get here at Dice Monkey are primarily from other members of the RPG Blogger’s Network. Now, this isn’t to say it’s a bad thing. At this point, the RPGBN has, what, about 200 [...]