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Once upon a time this blog had zero followers. Assuming you are reading this before the end of all things, it probably now has more than that. Here's a highlight reel for anybody who might've jumped in mid-stream.

WTF is This Blog?

An orientation I wrote once

Our TV Show (episode 18 is the best, they let us kinda do what we wanted starting around episode 5, the ones starting at 8ish are the most popular)

Yeah, We Were In Maxim

Essays

Oh I Love Dungeons

Published dungeons should be better

So you wanna write a random table?

DC=Old School Marvel=New School, Sorta

Snakes Are Books ( a quick setting bit)

Everybody like this long essay I wrote where I explain that D&D is a story, it's just a picaresque story, not a 3-act story

Monsters and the Imaginability Issue

Why roguish PCs and sandbox play go together

On Buy-in: why we like D&D and don't convert to storygames

The Best D&Dable Comic Books

On Player Knowledge and Sandboxing

Panic In The Hands of An Indifferent God (How I DM)

How Jeff DMs

Irony and D&D: Not-Immersion Isn't So Bad

How to do a sandbox

The Mood/Morality Scale

Psychotically long but kind of useful post about degrees of railroading

My biggest fattest blog project: going through all the monsters in alphabetical order--this tag links to the posts in reverse order of when they were written

The DNDWPS crew explains how to play an RPG

When do you need mechanics for stuff?

On That Which Is Weird

How I Want To HearAbout Your Setting

The Explosions In Space Rule (or How To Weed Out Stupid Players)

Kimberly Kane's first game--an early example of my current group rolling

I review Type IV D&D

Allegedly funny

Caveats

Of Snacks

In The Car After Play Report

McCormick & His Paladin

Angry bitter popular review of old free adventures

Resources

All The Monsters I've Invented & Blogged Up Should Be Under This Tag

Ditto For Items

And The Random Tables

Here's a one-shot I wrote that won a contest

Cathedral of All-Flesh (A dungeon)

Adventure-seed generating hack of Jeff's Carousing Table

Early version of the kind of stuff that got made into my book, Vornheim: The Complete City Kit

Worst Review of Vornheim Yet

All the "actual play" posts

All the pretty pictures

Some rules & DM tricks I use and, sometimes, why I use them:

Simple initiative

Nested Wandering Monster Tables

Lucky Number Kung Fu (a simple bolt-on martial arts system)

RPG Politics & Other Blah Blah Blah

Just link to this instead of saying "Yes, I know about your game, I actually am playing my game on purpose"

Subclans of DIY D&D and OSR people

The girls on hot RPG chicks and pin-up art

Teaching Nerds How To Talk About Taste

Dear Wizards