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CTHULHU!!!
It’s been a long time since I kept the tradition of running a Call of Cthulhu game on Halloween. I decided to re-up the tradition, but in spades. A four part story, each chapter in a different Era, all linked by a single element, starting on the first Friday in October, ending on Halloween night.…
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Don’t Vote
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HotB Sales for the Quarter
For the Fall Quarter, Houses of the Blooded sold better than I ever expected. The PDF sales alone were amazing. Over 400 people paid five bucks to look at my game. How many more have copies of the PDF… we can only speculate. I’ve gone through 4 print runs of the core book and with numbers…
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HotB: The Blood Opera Suite: Available at IPR
When scholars write about No More Roses (one of Shivon Mwrr’s last operas) most call it one of his "mediocre masterpieces." Mwrr wrote it in a time of mourning for his lover, the unamed "Lady V." His heart broken by grief, Mwrr made three aborted attempts to compose the pieces, finally completing it five years…
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Hey Brother, Can You Spare…
(delivered via savageplanet ) > I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor> of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.> To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide> U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting> every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might…
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Love Poem (via joemorf)
They call it Proposition 8 in California.They call it Proposition 102 in Arizona. I call it "legalized gay bashing." If someone can make a non-religious argument against same-sex marriage, I’m willing to listen. Otherwise, keep your goddamn book out of my Constitution. Thanks to joemorf for the video. (He’s in there!)
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On the Issues
Instead of reading what other people have to say about McCain and Obama, why not read what they have to say about themselves? Here’s McCain’s stance on the issues.Here’s Obama’s stance on the issues. This is what they want you to know. May as well read it. Read for yourself. Make up your own mind.…
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RinCon 2008: Guest of Honor
I’m one of the Guests of Honor at RinCon, an Arizona game convention that takes place over Halloween weekend. I’ll be there with Houses of the Blooded as well as some special surprises. (Wait till you see the booth. I’ve got two words for you. Ven. Library.) I’ll also be running games and possibly testing…
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Houses of the Blooded: Advanced Bloodswords
I meant to save some advanced Bloodsword mechanics for The Invisible World: Sorcery and the Suaven but players have asked for something more substantial and I’m the guy who does what people want. Especially when they buy my book. So here are some advanced Bloodsword rules… See more in the HotB News and Design Blog.
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FactChecking Debate No. 1
(from Factcheck.org) Facts muddled in Mississippi McCain-Obama meeting. Summary McCain and Obama contradicted each other repeatedly during their first debate, and each volunteered some factual misstatements as well. Here’s how we sort them out: Obama said McCain adviser Henry Kissinger backs talks with Iran “without preconditions,” but McCain disputed that. In fact, Kissinger did recently…