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<title>Alex Schroeder: Diary</title>
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<title>One Page Dungeon Contest Winners</title>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-25_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Winners;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: We have the winners of the One Page Dungeon Contest 2013!&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have the winners of the &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_2013"&gt;One Page Dungeon Contest 2013&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/1PDC%202013%20Winners.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Download the PDF&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table class="user"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Author &lt;/th&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Dungeon Name &lt;/th&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Category &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Andrew and Heleen Durston &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Only Acrobats Need Apply &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Swashbuckling &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;bygrinstow &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Arena of Blood &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Most Macabre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Caelum Roberts &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Iron Cloud &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Sci-Fi &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Daniel O&amp;#x2019;Donnell &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Down Among the Dead Men &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Undead &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Gus L.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;The Brittlestone Parapets &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Wizard Duel &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Jens Thuresson &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;The Giant’s Dollhouse &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Fairy-Tale &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Jobe Bittman &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Into The Demon Idol &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Homage &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Josh Burnett &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;The Burial Mound of Gilliard Wolfclan &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best One Shot &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Kaylee Thumann &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Girly Girl Dungeon &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Most Original &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;LSF &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;A Stolen Spring &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Fantasy Mystery &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Matthew W. Schmeer &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Wizard in the Woods &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Non-Traditional Map &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Misha Favorov &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Court of the King of No Men &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Beastmen &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ramsey Hong &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Something Happened At The Temple Near Glourm &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Map &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Rob S &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Citadel of the Severed Hand &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Myconids &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Roger SG Sorolla &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Devil’s Acre &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Single Location &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;S. J. Harris &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;The Baleful Spring &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Tower &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Simon Forster &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Church of Consumption &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Best Religion &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=1PDC"&gt;1PDC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/1PDC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:11:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>List of Open Books</title>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=List_of_Open_Books;diffrevision=344"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Changed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="old"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt; From a review by David Runciman in The Guardian [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/22/better-angels-steven-pinker-review]]: [...] The real fascination of this book is how we got from being a species that enjoyed the spectacle of roasting each other alive to one that believes child-killers have the same rights as everyone else. As Pinker shows, it is both a long story and a relatively recent one. [...] In the final section of the book he moves from history to evolutionary psychology to show that human beings are always torn between their inner demons and their better angels. What decides us between them is not virtue or vice but strategic calculation. We resort to violence when violence seems the better bet. We resist it when it seems riskier than the alternative. That's why violence can be self-reinforcing - as in the tit-for-tat world of the hunter-gatherers &lt;strong class="changes"&gt;â&lt;/strong&gt;- but it's also why peace can be self-reinforcing &lt;strong class="changes"&gt;â&lt;/strong&gt; as in the love-bomb world we inhabit now. Pinker is adamant that we should not be complacent about the decline of violence: the inner demons are still there. But neither should we be fatalistic: as things stand, our better angels are a truer reflection of who we are. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="new"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; From a review by David Runciman in The Guardian [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/22/better-angels-steven-pinker-review]]: [...] The real fascination of this book is how we got from being a species that enjoyed the spectacle of roasting each other alive to one that believes child-killers have the same rights as everyone else. As Pinker shows, it is both a long story and a relatively recent one. [...] In the final section of the book he moves from history to evolutionary psychology to show that human beings are always torn between their inner demons and their better angels. What decides us between them is not virtue or vice but strategic calculation. We resort to violence when violence seems the better bet. We resist it when it seems riskier than the alternative. That's why violence can be self-reinforcing - as in the tit-for-tat world of the hunter-gatherers - but it's also why peace can be self-reinforcing &lt;strong class="changes"&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt; as in the love-bomb world we inhabit now. Pinker is adamant that we should not be complacent about the decline of violence: the inner demons are still there. But neither should we be fatalistic: as things stand, our better angels are a truer reflection of who we are. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;This page is too big to send over RSS.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:02:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>One Page Dungeon Contest Status Update</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2013-05-23_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Status_Update</link>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-23_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Status_Update;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: Google Spreadsheet is my friend…&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8798868810/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/8798868810_8a186e3ffb_m.jpg" alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/8798868810_8a186e3ffb_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google Spreadsheet is my friend… &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x2019;ve been tallying the nominations, looking at our favorites and comparing notes for the &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_2013"&gt;One Page Dungeon Contest 2013&lt;/a&gt;. It &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; like we&amp;#x2019;re going to have 17 winners this year. This looks about right, compared to previous years. In 2009 there were a lot of &lt;em&gt;honorable mentions&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;runner-ups&lt;/em&gt; but only three winners. I personally like to spread prizes around and celebrate the sheer &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;variety&lt;/em&gt; of submissions we get every year. It&amp;#x2019;s a win for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table class="user"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Year &lt;/th&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Entries &lt;/th&gt;&lt;th align="center"&gt;Winners &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;72&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;17&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;107&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;71&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;2010&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;64&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;112&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;3/6/12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope we&amp;#x2019;ll be able to finalize the list soon enough!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What will happen next:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;assemble a PDF with the winners&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;publish the list of winners and link to the PDF&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;celebrate!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;notify winners by email and ask them to create a wish-list based on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_2013#prizes"&gt;the prizes donated by our sponsors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;try and maximize happiness using another spreadsheet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;notify sponsors and winners and have sponsors send their prizes directly to the winners (except for the cash prize; I&amp;#x2019;ll handle that one since the sponsor wants to remain anonymous)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;celebrate again! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully my work is done before June 8, because that&amp;#x2019;s when I&amp;#x2019;ll leave for a two week vacation to &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia"&gt;Sardinia&lt;/a&gt;. Yay!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=1PDC"&gt;1PDC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/1PDC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 07:55:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Comments on There Is No Hope</title>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Added:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="new"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ----&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; [[gravatar: AlexSchroeder:e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28]]&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; [http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/obama-civil-liberties-sea-change Obama, years later]. Sing with me and Johnny Cash: "What have you become?"&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; -- AlexSchroeder 2013-05-18 11:50 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://blog.microlite20.net"&gt;greywulf&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-11 12:50 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some ranting inspired by &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://godlesspaladin.wordpress.com/"&gt;The Godless Paladin&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-11 23:19 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;you forgot to mention, that there is still NO eqal rights for gay people as well..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.schroeders.twoday.net"&gt;dein cousinchen&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-12 11:28 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Du meinst &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_8"&gt;Proposition 8&lt;/a&gt; und ähnlichen Hirnriss? Auch da sehe ich wenig Fortschritte.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-12 11:47 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why are you surprised? Most (if not all) of the glamorous awards in most fields are expedient and marketing gimmicks. This is just another facet of Brand Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://nibrahim.net.in"&gt;NoufalIbrahim&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-12 12:22 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x2019;m not yet as cynic as that. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I liked half the prize for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007. I don&amp;#x2019;t think Al Gore really deserved it. Muhammad Yunus in 2006 was ok for micro finance. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohammed el-Baradei in 2005 was ok for struggling against Bush in Iraq, even thought it ended up being to no avail. Wangari Maathai in 2004 seemed to be ok as well. I know very little about her. Shirin Ebadi in 2003 seemed to be well deserved. Médecins sans frontières in 1999 was deserved. My personal highlight of recent years remains the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams in 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-12 13:44 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x2019;ve got a brighter heart than me then. I consider all the genuine winners of (atleast) the Nobel peace prize as exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://nibrahim.net.in"&gt;NoufalIbrahim&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-12 17:25 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hm, I found a link to &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJuEOaF84o"&gt;Rachel Maddow: The Nobel Prize &amp;amp; Obama Derangement Syndrome&lt;/a&gt; via Twitter via &lt;span class="nick"&gt;@&lt;a class="url http" href="http://twitter.com/seankreynolds"&gt;seankreynolds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Hm, interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2009-10-13 01:41 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/obama-civil-liberties-sea-change"&gt;Obama, years later&lt;/a&gt;. Sing with me and Johnny Cash: &amp;#x201c;What have you become?&amp;#x201d;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-18 11:50 UTC&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:50:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pendragon RPG</title>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-17_Pendragon_RPG;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: What we like about Pendragon&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8746075723/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8413/8746075723_1d6720b08a_o.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8413/8746075723_1d6720b08a_o.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recently Joshua Petronis-Akins asked in the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/communities/102395761736499103859"&gt;Pendragon RPG Google+ community&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/115052207789261024447/posts/Ny3yy3iZn2v"&gt;Could anyone sell me on Pendragon? What makes it cool?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Coming from a D&amp;amp;D background, this is what made us want to play Pendragon RPG and The Great Pendragon Campaign:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a multi-generation campaign&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#x2014;play your knights, their sons, and their grandsons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the annual cycle&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#x2014;every session is about the adventures during the summer and the &amp;#x201c;levelling up&amp;#x201d; in winter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;personality traits&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#x2014;knights have multiple traits that come in opposing pairs such as &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; vs. &lt;em&gt;arbitrary&lt;/em&gt; and usually whenever you increase one, the other decreases; these traits sometimes get used to determine what the character does &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;in spite of what the player might wish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really like the combat system: your skill is a number; roll below this number to succeed, roll the exact number to succeed critically. In a round, there is no need to roll for initiative. It&amp;#x2019;s all opposed checks. If you want to fight multiple opponents, you must split your skill between all your opponents and roll for each one. This is devastating. If you hit, roll damage. The opponent checks whether this value is higher than their &lt;em&gt;knockback&lt;/em&gt; stat. If so, succeed at a horsemanship test or fall off the horse. Armor reduces damage. You can further reduce damage using a shield, but only if you had a &amp;#x201c;partial success&amp;#x201d;&amp;#x2014;only if you succeeded in your check but lost against an opponent who succeeded with a higher roll.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Critical hits count as 20. If your skill rises above 20, just add that much to your roll. If your skill is 23, you roll 1d20+3. Thus, your crit range in effect is 17–20.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x2019;s interesting, it&amp;#x2019;s different, and it still works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our campaign is still in the Anarchy period.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x2019;s a German campaign wiki, if you want to take a look: &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Ritter%C2%A0von%C2%A0Salisbury/Hauptseite"&gt;Ritter von Salisbury&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Things we&amp;#x2019;re not that much into:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the resources game&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#x2014;gaining manors, building fortifications, hiring men, the minutiae of earning your taxes, paying for upkeep&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the family events&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#x2014;we switched from the table in the rulebook to &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://recedingrules.blogspot.ch/2012/12/the-dramarama.html"&gt;Telecanter’s Dramarama&lt;/a&gt; (with a few changes once we discovered that too many of our relatives kept eloping with butchers and tax men)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-12-28_New_Print_On_Demand_Option"&gt;bought the books&lt;/a&gt; in 2011 from RPG Now, and they&amp;#x2019;re still doing fine:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8539404868/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8539404868_eaab402d46_n.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8539404868_eaab402d46_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8539409258/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8244/8539409258_dd5be18586_n.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8244/8539409258_dd5be18586_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8538296923/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8538296923_732dc0d2d7_n.jpg" alt="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8538296923_732dc0d2d7_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:25:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Added:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="new"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ----&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; If you get a powered hub, your Pi will take power from it too!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; -- [http://sheep.art.pl Radomir Dopieralski] 2013-05-16 18:15 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you start X, there is a GUI app on the desktop to set up the wifi &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://sheep.art.pl"&gt;Radomir Dopieralski&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-08 08:07 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Hah. The problem there is how to provide keyboard, mouse and wifi all at the same time without a USB hub. I think I need a hub.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-08 10:17 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you get a powered hub, your Pi will take power from it too!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://sheep.art.pl"&gt;Radomir Dopieralski&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-16 18:15 UTC&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;div class="new"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ----&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; [[gravatar: AlexSchroeder:e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28]]&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Having painted the [http://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/shop/demons-devils/dd1a-the-demon-idol-diorama-pack/ Otherworld Miniatures demon idol], I concur! Best old school cover. :)&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; -- AlexSchroeder 2013-05-16 08:17 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://www.ultanya.com"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e2aab629727bb28f3d2ca70516851d83" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/B._Pace"&gt;B. Pace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; The Demon Idol is my favorite - although I&amp;#x2019;m a bit biased since that is my favorite old school book cover &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.ultanya.com"&gt;B. Pace&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-16 03:16 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Having painted the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://otherworldminiatures.co.uk/shop/demons-devils/dd1a-the-demon-idol-diorama-pack/"&gt;Otherworld Miniatures demon idol&lt;/a&gt;, I concur! Best old school cover. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-16 08:17 UTC&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:17:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Added:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="new"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ----&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; [[gravatar:http://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com  Ynas Midgard:ad5a065323fdec5121f5b6c2bf723490]]&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; @ Alex&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Nice game :) What a memorable treasure trove.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; @ Harald&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; "summons twelve tengu once per day: crow-headed, flying swordsmen (HD 5; AC 7; Atk 1 two handed glass swords (2d6); MV 9 fly)"&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; -- [http://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com Ynas Midgard] 2013-05-15 15:43 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does the horn of the mountain cedar do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; Harald 2013-05-15 11:40 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ad5a065323fdec5121f5b6c2bf723490" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Ynas_Midgard"&gt;Ynas Midgard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; @ Alex Nice game &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt; What a memorable treasure trove.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;@ Harald &amp;#x201c;summons twelve tengu once per day: crow-headed, flying swordsmen (HD 5; AC 7; Atk 1 two handed glass swords (2d6); MV 9 fly)&amp;#x201d;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com"&gt;Ynas Midgard&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-15 15:43 UTC&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-15_Treasure_Hunting_In_Niflheim;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: The party had just finished The Eternal Boundary and had found a treasure map that would lead them into The Gray Waste. I prepared a very linear adventure…&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8739860841/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8739860841_54fe5d2a6a.jpg" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8739860841_54fe5d2a6a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The party had just finished &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;The Eternal Boundary&lt;/em&gt; and had found a treasure map that would lead them into &lt;em&gt;The Gray Waste&lt;/em&gt;. I prepared a very linear adventure that you can see on the on the right. I decided that the map represented an incomplete list of dangers to be overcome:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;near the roots of Yggrasil sleeps the dragon Níðhöggr&amp;#x2026;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;in the woods the &amp;#x201c;children&amp;#x201d; of Hekate roam freely, the &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;trolls&lt;/em&gt; of Niflheim (I&amp;#x2019;m claiming that Hel and Hekate are the same)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;there are big, flightless birds in the swamps with big &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;hands&lt;/em&gt; instead of wings and they are called Diakka&amp;#x2026;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;there is a plain where nightmares ride, the mighty horses of black riders&amp;#x2026;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the larval petitioners live in the sea of fog&amp;#x2026;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the island of the black trees is the realm of a ghoul-witch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also had a number of NPCs in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Njal&lt;/em&gt;, a priest and a drinker and a melancholy man who would act as a guide, if they wanted to pursue their connections with priestess Anja of the Freya temple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Raud&lt;/em&gt;, another priest and a gloomy, apathetic victim of Hades, who can provide them with information about Hades and who&amp;#x2019;ll offer to lead them to &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Hopelessness&lt;/em&gt; and through its gate to Hades (but this is a false lead since this gate will lead to the upper layer called &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Oinos&lt;/em&gt; where the &lt;em&gt;Blood War&lt;/em&gt; rages)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Lissandra&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x201c;gate-seeker&amp;#x201d; will contact them if they brag about the portal they know; she is described in &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.dndclassics.com/product/17285/Uncaged%3A-Faces-of-Sigil-(2e)"&gt;Uncaged: Faces of Sigil&lt;/a&gt;; she can lead them to &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Alluvias Ruskin&lt;/em&gt; (in the same book) who will sell them &amp;#x201c;the holy axe with the wooden root-grip of wisdom&amp;#x201d; which will be required to travel to Niflheim via Yggdrasil&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;b&gt;the first challenge&lt;/b&gt;: figure out whom to trust and discover through questions that Raud would lead them to the wrong layer on Hades since Oinos ≠ Niflheim. This was also the opportunity for them to learn about the &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;apathy&lt;/em&gt; of Hades. One player expertly decided to spend 100gp on books with jokes, fart machines and other ludicrous things to drive away apathy and despair.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x2019;t contact Njal but they do talk to Raud and end up going with Lissandra. They made such a good impression on her, in fact, that she decides to tell them about a merchant called &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Kherion Mallibrun&lt;/em&gt; (described in the section about &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Death of Innocence&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Planes of Conflic&lt;/em&gt; box). In return, he wants them to protect him from Hekate&amp;#x2019;s trolls.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;b&gt;the second challenge&lt;/b&gt;: take along a guide and avoid fighting rock pythons and giant squirrels on the branches of Yggdrasil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The dragon is easy: &lt;b&gt;the third challenge&lt;/b&gt; is simply to be quiet. The cleric is prepared and casts &lt;em&gt;silence&lt;/em&gt;. No problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The woods and trolls present &lt;b&gt;the fourth challenge&lt;/b&gt;: unbeknownst to the players, I had decided that the forest houses both &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;wolves&lt;/em&gt; and trolls. Even though the party was silenced, the wolves had picked up their scent and the trolls were following the wolves. One player who plays a character that can fly decided to take a listen and fly overhead. He soon discovers the wolves and using the fillings of a little rocket full of itching powder they disable the wolves&amp;#x2019; scent ability and the flying character distracts and enrages the trolls until they break off the chase.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the village, they see that the merchant is selling &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;colorful textiles&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;b&gt;the fifth challenge&lt;/b&gt; is finding a guide to the island. They discover that there is a hunter of nightmares who will lead them in exchange for the funny articles one of the characters had bought. This part was all improvised but it worked well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He warns them of the giant, flightless birds. Luckily they are slow. The party buys horses for the three characters in plate armor and can thus outrun the &lt;b&gt;the sixth challenge&lt;/b&gt;, the Diakka birds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had thought that the nightmares would be the next challenge but at the table I suddenly felt strange using the nightmares as predators. As I had seen one of the players get really excited about the prospect of catching and taming a nightmare, I decided that &lt;b&gt;the seventh challenge&lt;/b&gt; would be the &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;temptation&lt;/em&gt; of catching a nightmare. The party would have to start a fight. And they didn&amp;#x2019;t&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The eight challenge&lt;/b&gt; had not been listed on the &amp;#x201c;treasure map&amp;#x201d;: flying yeth hounds. The party moved away from their baying (it&amp;#x2019;s effect only works within 100 ft.) and decided to &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; the dogs. It worked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the edge of the sea of fog, they left their guide who, when asked, said that all they had to do was &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; the larva. And they did. No talking, no eye contact, no listening. Again, the party used &lt;em&gt;silence&lt;/em&gt; to bypass &lt;b&gt;the ninth challenge&lt;/b&gt;. It worked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, they reached the witch, &lt;b&gt;the tenth challenge&lt;/b&gt;. I decided to use witches from the &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/Shark_Den"&gt;Shark Den&lt;/a&gt; section of the &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Caverns_of_Slime"&gt;Caverns of Slime&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Vialashta&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Kurmatesha&lt;/em&gt;, the four lesser witches, the &lt;em&gt;tengu horn&lt;/em&gt;, and my own treasure I had rolled up. As you can see, I had prepared a different night hag in my notes (including a 65% magic resistance)&amp;#x2026; Oh well. There was a lot of talking, bluffing and haggling involved, a short discussion on the merits of both Odin and Hekate, but in the end, the orc witch has charmed the talking character and disappeared into the tent and the fight was on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The party consisted of a cleric 5, a fighter 4, an elf 2, and some henchmen: two giant apes, a cleric 4, a fighter 2, and a magic-user 1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The enemies:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vialashta&lt;/b&gt;, the one-eyed crow priestess of the orcs (HD 9; AC 8; Atk 1 orcish hammer (1d6); MV 9; &lt;em&gt;curse&lt;/em&gt; at will, roll d6: 1. slowed, 2. blind, 3. stupid like an ox, 4. weak as a baby, 5. contract the plague, 6. crippling pain; save vs. spells to avoid)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;her &lt;b&gt;four witches&lt;/b&gt; (HD 5; AC 8; Atk 1 cudgel (1d6); MV 9; &lt;em&gt;curse&lt;/em&gt; 3×/day as above)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kurmatesha&lt;/b&gt;, the orc witch (HD 9; AC 9; Atk 1 staff (1d6); MV 9; spells as per her spellbook below); she has the &lt;em&gt;horn of the mountain cedar&lt;/em&gt; which summons &lt;b&gt;twelve tengu&lt;/b&gt; once per day: crow-headed, flying swordsmen (HD 5; AC 7; Atk 1 two handed glass swords (2d6); MV 9 fly); if attacked she will polymorph into a &lt;b&gt;shadow wolf&lt;/b&gt; (HD 9; AC 7; Atk 1 bite (2d6); MV 12; &lt;em&gt;howl of pain&lt;/em&gt; (anybody touching the ground within 60 ft. must save vs. petrification or be stunned for a round and save vs. death or suffer 1d6 damage from bleeding ears)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;b&gt;hanging tree&lt;/b&gt; (HD 15; AC 3; Atk 8 branches and roots (1d6 each); MV 0); the branches of the hanging tree are loaded with twitching corpses: &lt;b&gt;twelve armless ghouls&lt;/b&gt; are hanging up there, unable to free themselves (HD 2; AC 9; Atk 1 bite (1d6); MV 12)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kurmatesha is reduced to less than 10 hit-points in two rounds. She, in turn, blows the horn and summons the tengus, then polymorphs into a shadow wolf. The party then kills her and have a quick chat with the tengu. They want the horn (and their freedom), but one character is close enough to the horn to blow it again, at which point I decide that the tengu are all dispelled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second half of the battle is a running battle as the witches are standing under the hanging tree, cursing all that approach. With a desperate rush, a character delivers the arrow that has &lt;em&gt;silence&lt;/em&gt; cast on it to the witches. The witches start releasing ghouls but they are being turned as fast as they are being released. Finally, when the crow witch Vialashta is finally &lt;em&gt;held&lt;/em&gt; using magic, the remaining lesser witches flee into the sea of fog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The witch tells them that the hanging tree is guarding the treasure and since they stocked up on oil and hadn&amp;#x2019;t used any of it, I decided that burning a 15 HD tree required 15 flasks of oil&amp;#x2014;and having bought 20 flasks of oil without having to use them against the trolls, that was no problem at all&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;20&amp;#x2019;000 gold pieces&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;10 gems worth 1980 gold pieces (1000, 10, 50, 10, 10, 500, 100, 100, 50, 100)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;two pieces of jewelry (&amp;#x201c;the crown and sceptre of the Ulfides&amp;#x201d;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a halfling chain +1 and a small shield +1 (&amp;#x201c;the magic armor of a halfling hero with the heraldry of the Oxwrestler clan&amp;#x201d;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;em&gt;horn of the mountain cedar&lt;/em&gt; (I already fear that this item might be too powerful!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Old%20School"&gt;Old School&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Old%20School"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Caverns%20of%20Slime"&gt;Caverns of Slime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Caverns%20of%20Slime"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=Comments_on_2013-05-14_When_To_Roll;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary:  I still struggle with this often.  Extra rolls are a fast route to a dull game.  Normally I roll for opening doors just once, on a failure there is no chance of surprise. The attempt always draws a wandering monster roll.&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9cf021732ee0339d3a073e62564ba7be" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/-C"&gt;-C&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I still struggle with this often.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extra rolls are a fast route to a dull game. Normally I roll for opening doors just once, on a failure there is no chance of surprise. The attempt always draws a wandering monster roll.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://Http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com"&gt;-C&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-15 08:58 UTC&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 08:58:09 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-14_Scrobbling_Fail;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: Ever since I stopped listening to music on iTunes, scrobbling is absolutely broken.&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ever since I stopped listening to music on iTunes, scrobbling is absolutely broken. I listen to music on at least three different Apple devices, sync them with iTunes every now and then, checked &amp;#x201c;Enable iPod submissions&amp;#x201d; using playlist &amp;#x201c;zuletzt gespielt&amp;#x201d; which is defined as matching both of these rules: &amp;#x201c;last played in the last 3 months&amp;#x201d; and &amp;#x201c;media kind is not podcast&amp;#x201d; with live updating. I listen to music practically constantly. If you &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.lastfm.de/user/kensanata"&gt;check my profile&lt;/a&gt;, you&amp;#x2019;ll note &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; gaps everywhere. Why is that? Are the devices &amp;#x201c;overwriting&amp;#x201d; each other? iScrobbler says 586 items queued. Ok… All I&amp;#x2019;m seeing is &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; new items. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/sad.png" alt=":(" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;ins&gt;Apparently I'm an idiot. It just takes a long time (a day?) to process the tracks submitted. Yikes, sorry for the bad press, iScrobbler!&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8738643028/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7286/8738643028_80349f0e2e_o.png" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7286/8738643028_80349f0e2e_o.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x2019;s a lot of titles&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x2019;ll notice that &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;The Beatles&lt;/em&gt; have made a big comeback in 2013. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;2013&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8737525023/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8737525023_225628fc02_o.png" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8737525023_225628fc02_o.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;2012&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8737525275/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/8737525275_9d48546b9d_o.png" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/8737525275_9d48546b9d_o.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;ins&gt;Apparently there's another abandoned scrobbler…&lt;/ins&gt; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://mmrr.fi/scrobblepod/"&gt;ScrobblePod&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Music"&gt;Music&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Music"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:13:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recently I left a comment on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="https://plus.google.com/106791563133302266720/posts/eRGb8EUYF8C"&gt;Philip Watson's thread on Google+&lt;/a&gt; where he wondered whether players should know when their thief failed to hide. I said:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;I let them roll in the open but will delay the roll until immediate consequences are at hand. Player says their character is hiding, no roll required. Orcs are coming. &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;Now&lt;/em&gt; you roll—and if you fail, they spot you.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consequences happen right after the result of the die roll is known. As a referee, I have have no &amp;#x201c;information advantage&amp;#x201d; and thus the question of unfairness doesn&amp;#x2019;t come up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was reminded of Courtney Campbell&amp;#x2019;s blog post &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.ch/2011/11/on-skill-deconstruction-why-roll-for.html"&gt; On Skill Deconstruction: Why Roll for Resolution?&lt;/a&gt; He lists five reasons for rolling dice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;time constraints&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;in conflict with another entity&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a serious consequence for failure&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;impossible to model at the table&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(partial results can make the procedure more exciting)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m trying to have thieves succeed automatically whenever possible. I&amp;#x2019;m going to opt for dice rolling when the conditions listed above are true. If the dungeon has wandering monsters, each failed roll to open a door or unlock a chest means one check for wandering monsters. If there are no monsters, we don&amp;#x2019;t need to know how long the thief takes to unlock the chest. It will succeed eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:25:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Added:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="new"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ----&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; [[gravatar: AlexSchroeder:e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28]]&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Oops, fixed. Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; -- AlexSchroeder 2013-05-13 21:15 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/078887483eac7f5ba9e62b7fce521a79" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Paul_Gorman"&gt;Paul Gorman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Your link to your nominations points to the Edit page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com"&gt;Paul Gorman&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-13 19:32 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="portrait gravatar"&gt;&lt;a class="newauthor" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;&lt;img class="portrait" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e33b88db6bc04e1c93db25c702baea28" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Oops, fixed. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/AlexSchroeder"&gt;AlexSchroeder&lt;/a&gt; 2013-05-13 21:15 UTC&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-13_Other_Favorite_Entries;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: Other entries I liked. What about your favorites?&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8733961353/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7294/8733961353_32f503d211_n.jpg" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7294/8733961353_32f503d211_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just posted &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2013-05-13_My_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Nominations"&gt;my nominations for the One Page Dungeon Contest 2013&lt;/a&gt;. I also liked the following entries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://enterik.blogspot.ch/2013/04/the-issue-of-blipdoolpoolp.html"&gt;Erik-Karl Read, The Issue of Blipdoolpoolp&lt;/a&gt;: a small vertical dungeon, ocean, the tide and watery creatures.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Heikki%20Hallamaa%2C%20The%20Diamond%20of%20Hishep-Ratep.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Heikki Hallamaa, The Diamond of Hishep-Ratep&lt;/a&gt;: a short tomb raiding adventure with grey aliens, a lovely combination.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Josh%20Burnett%2C%20The%20Burial%20Mound%20of%20Gilliard%20Wolfclan.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Josh Burnett, The Burial Mound of Gilliard Wolfclan&lt;/a&gt;: a short, simple and cute tomb raid with goblins. I liked the map and the elf leader.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://acornafloat.blogspot.se/2013/04/the-giants-dollhouse.html"&gt;Jens Thuresson, The Giant's Dollhouse&lt;/a&gt;: a giant that petrifies and depetrifies people, go! I like the setup. I just wondered what to do about the rod in the end.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Joe%20Pruitt%2C%20Echoes%20of%20Empire.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Joe Pruitt, Echoes of Empire&lt;/a&gt;: I don&amp;#x2019;t think I can simply insert this into my campaign, but perhaps my campaign can use this sort of mini-game one day.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/LSF%2C%20A%20Stolen%20Spring.pdf?dl=1"&gt;LSF, A Stolen Spring&lt;/a&gt;: a beautiful map, a mage&amp;#x2019;s expedition gone wrong, a nice encounter to insert into your running adventure.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://rolesrules.blogspot.ch/2013/05/one-page-dungeon-contest-reviews.html"&gt;Roger the GS’ recommendations&lt;/a&gt; the other day. What about your favorites?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=1PDC"&gt;1PDC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/1PDC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<description>&lt;div class="diff"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last major edit (&lt;a class="diff" rel="nofollow" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=2013-05-13_My_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Nominations;diffrevision=1"&gt;later minor edits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="summary"&gt;Summary: My top ten.&lt;/p&gt; No diff available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8735009164/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7318/8735009164_dbb6eb8e7c_n.jpg" alt="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7318/8735009164_dbb6eb8e7c_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;ve finished reading the submissions to the &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_2013"&gt;One Page Dungeon Contest 2013&lt;/a&gt;. As always, an interesting mix of styles. Less tombs than in previous years. The ever popular &amp;#x201c;get into the dungeon and trigger a trap&amp;#x201d; is there. Bandits, undead, but &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; pirates! This year&amp;#x2019;s popular rare monster must have been the &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;gibbernig mouther&lt;/em&gt;. It showed up in three submissions. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gibbering Mouthers:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://rpggeek.com/blogpost/18678/opd-2013-the-parched-throat"&gt;Intrepid Eddie, The Parched Throat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://jaspersrantings.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/one-page-dungeon-contest-the-lost-temple-of-tyrandraxu/"&gt;Joshua J. Laboskie, The Lost Temple of Tyrandraxu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Ramsey%20Hong%2C%20Something%20Happened%20At%20The%20Temple%20Near%20Glourm.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Ramsey Hong, Something Happened At The Temple Near Glourm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to comment on my &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;nominations&lt;/em&gt; for the contest winners. I&amp;#x2019;ve done this before (&lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-03-21_My_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Nominations"&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2011-04-24_My_One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_Nominations"&gt;2011&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2012-05-28_Regarding_My_Nominations"&gt;2012&lt;/a&gt;). Writing it all down helps me think it through.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Daniel%20O%27Donnell%2C%20Down%20Among%20the%20Dead%20Men.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Daniel O'Donnell, Down Among the Dead Men&lt;/a&gt;: beautiful map; lovely visuals such as a well surmounted by the jaws of a giant shark or acolytes on stilts &amp;#x201c;tending&amp;#x201d; the undead in the water. It&amp;#x2019;s gruesome. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://dungeonofsigns.blogspot.ch/2013/04/one-page-dungeon-contest-brittlestone.html"&gt;Gus L., The Brittlestone Parapets&lt;/a&gt;: a lovely amalgam of trench warfare, undead soldiers, Beowulf, D&amp;amp;D as an implied post-apocalyptic setting; and it comes with an inspiring map, an interesting list of random encounters, the witch comes with the list of spells prepared, one faction can be hired for a few weeks. It&amp;#x2019;s fascinating. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.metagamemastery.com/2013/05/01/one-page-dungeon-2013/"&gt;Jobe Bittman, Into The Demon Idol&lt;/a&gt;: an iconic image, a beautiful map, the giant grab pincer. Best of all: the option of reanimating it! A potential long-term change for your campaign. It&amp;#x2019;s tempting. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Misha%20Favorov%2C%20Court%20of%20the%20King%20of%20No%20Men.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Misha Favorov, Court of the King of No Men&lt;/a&gt;: a map that allows multiple approaches; the most important notes are on the map itself. That&amp;#x2019;s what I love! The two simple magic items are interesting without being overengineered: a sword dealing wounds that heal within 24h, a hammer that can be thrown once a day, a rod that allows you to control the movement of an opponent (but nothing else). It&amp;#x2019;s sylvan. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Paul%20Gorman%2C%20Faery%20Ring%20to%20Alpha%20Ari.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Paul Gorman, Faery Ring to Alpha Ari&lt;/a&gt;: not the only adventure using myconids and various fungus effects, but what I liked in particular was the strange mix of fantasy and present day space exploration; the observatory and the tiny island on the one hand and a map that looks appropriate for a Mars colony. I also like how enemies come in all sizes from pixies to giant. I&amp;#x2019;m not sure it would simply fit into my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Ramsey%20Hong%2C%20Something%20Happened%20At%20The%20Temple%20Near%20Glourm.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Ramsey Hong, Something Happened At The Temple Near Glourm&lt;/a&gt;: a beautiful map with village and five dungeon levels; multiple stairs and entrances; notes on the map itself. This dungeon is beautiful. It&amp;#x2019;s terrifying. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://6ironspikes.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/citadel-of-severed-hand-one-page-dungeon.html?view=classic"&gt;Rob S, Citadel of the Severed Hand&lt;/a&gt;: another beautiful map with notes on the map itself; it also features myconids and &amp;#x201c;shroom effects&amp;#x201d;. The part I like is the tragic figure of the orc boss with his &lt;em&gt;staghelm&lt;/em&gt; who hates the torturer demon because she has his son in her power. The entire setup with the two slaves is genious. It&amp;#x2019;s evil. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://rolesrules.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/devil%27s%20acre"&gt;Roger SG Sorolla, Devil's Acre&lt;/a&gt;: when I first read about it on the author&amp;#x2019;s blog I thought that it was an interesting take on the complex of sin, vigil, prayer, temptation, saint and devils, and all of that in a D&amp;amp;D context. My campaign hasn&amp;#x2019;t featured these topics, however, so I&amp;#x2019;m not sure how well it would work for me.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/S.%20J.%20Harris%2C%20The%20Baleful%20Spring.pdf?dl=1"&gt;S. J. Harris, The Baleful Spring&lt;/a&gt;: a small tower always comes in handy. This one has a tower with an evil master and a ship with a neutral captain. I like the framing story: two diplomats trying to secure a peace accord have gone missing. It&amp;#x2019;s nothing fancy with a functional map. It&amp;#x2019;s useful. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://content.wuala.com/contents/kensanata/Dokumente/1PDC%202013/Simon%20Forster%2C%20Church%20of%20Consumption.pdf?dl=1"&gt;Simon Forster, Church of Consumption&lt;/a&gt;: a beatiful map; another cult trying to raise a demon. Unfortunately it&amp;#x2019;s very linear. Strangely enough it appears to be open on both ends with major treasure sitting right next to one of the two entrances. But… it&amp;#x2019;s so beautiful. And I love the imagery of the cultists eating their dead god, the meat grinder, the ghouls dreaming about eating the same dead god, one day… It&amp;#x2019;s gruesome. It stands on its own and can be placed in my campaign.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;The One Page Dungeon Contest is just so damn &lt;em style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 0.125em; padding-left: 0.125em;"&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; it amazes me every year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=1PDC"&gt;1PDC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/1PDC"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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