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Free Englishmen and the Importance of Thumόs (θυμός)
Poul Anderson's The High Crusade, its forgotten sequel "Quest," and the argument that cultures can decline
Jul 13
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Christian Lindke
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Happy (Belated) Birthday to CHAMPIONS 1st Edition
Not the First Superhero Role Playing Game, but the First Great One
Jul 10
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Christian Lindke
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Independent RPG Month 2026: Week One Recommendations
Three years ago Professor Dungeon Master announced that July was going to be Independent Tabletop RPG Month on his YouTube channel. I’m not 100% sure…
Jul 6
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Christian Lindke
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Retro-Review: Superworld a Game Where Punches Impale
Revisiting Chaosium's Superworld — the BRP superhero game that lost to Champions and gave the world Wild Cards
Jul 2
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Christian Lindke
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June 2026
THE EYE OF ARGON: The Toxic Fans Aren't Who Most People Say They Are
Starting in 2014, I began an odd tradition, I began reading Jim Theis’ The Eye of Argon every year.
Jun 25
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Christian Lindke
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Constant Vigilance: A Superhero d20 on the Seam of Two Licenses
A Retro Review of Charles Rice's Vigilance Superhero Role Playing Game (2002) and what one five-dollar PDF tells us about the open-gaming gold rush.
Jun 24
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Christian Lindke
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Code Your Own Adventure? Micro Adventure #1: Space Attack
A Gamebook That Almost Understood How to Use Code
Jun 18
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Christian Lindke
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Heroes of Karameikos Part 3: The Four Design Pillars
My baseline assumptions. Old edition rules, new edition feel.
Jun 17
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Christian Lindke
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The Long Road from Magic World to Dragonbane
There is a particular pleasure in watching a game begin as a translation and evolve into something completely new, that gets translated into the…
Jun 15
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Christian Lindke
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Adventure Gamebooks as RPGs, Part 3b: The Superpower Problem
Before you can stat a single hero, you have to answer one question. How do powers activate?
Jun 10
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Christian Lindke
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Adventure Gamebooks as RPGs, Part 3a: Advanced Fighting Fantasy and the Superhero Problem
Arion Games turned a gamebook engine into a full RPG, but they left behind one hero and that hero was You!
Jun 1
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Christian Lindke
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May 2026
Happy Belated Birthday to the Maestro of More than Horror Films.
Vincent Price was born on May 27th, 1911 and I meant to post this then, but I was submitting my dissertation for review by both my committee and grad…
May 29
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Christian Lindke
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