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The Amazing Adventures of FINDERMAN!!

Sep 28, 2016
2 min

The Amazing Adventures of FINDERMAN!!

As a superpower, it's not much to brag about (but I'm going to). My abilities are strictly limited. They only work inside my house, and only on my family. Don't come running to me if you've lost something important; in fact, my abilities don't seem to work on myself. You see, I have the power to find stuff that my family members have misplaced, ESPECIALLY if they have left their belongings in an extremely obvious place. Why? Because I am... FINDERMAN!!! Can't find your keys

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TPK Diary

TPK Diary

Jul 22, 2015
1 min

TPK Diary

Reminiscences of games gone wrong. ...To Be Continued Annotations for the curious and/or RPG-challenged: The game system used here is D&D 5e (5th Edition). TPK: Stands for Total Party Kill. When all the player's characters are wiped out. I Storked it: I rolled a terrible roll at a vital time. From the host of Happy Jacks RPG Podcast, Stork, and the accompanying song "I Storked It". The plot of this adventure comes from the published Hackmaster game supplement, "Wrath of the V

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All The Secrets of Magic--Revealed!!

Jan 19, 2015
2 min

All The Secrets of Magic--Revealed!!

They say a magician NEVER reveals the secret. Magicians love secrets, especially knowing them. We love thinking we're smarter than everyone else in the room. We giggle to ourselves about it, in fact. We love to smirk when people say, "How did you DO that?" We love it so much that the International Brotherhood of Magicians (yes, it's a real thing) wrote it into the Code of Ethics so we can say, "Sorry. Can't tell you. Union rules." A MAGICIAN NEVER REVEALS THE SECRET. It

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N00b!

Jan 16, 2015
4 min

N00b!

GM: You walk through the door into a room. It's maybe 10' by 20'. Bookshelves line two of the walls, with many strange volumes upon them that you don't recognize. Weird statuettes or figurines adorn the table in the center, around which sit four men. N00b: What do the men look like? GM: They all wear glasses and T-shirts bearing nerd-related sayings or images. They are in their late 30s or 40s; it's hard to tell because they're kind of doughy. On the table in front of them is

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Sir Hugh Essbee astride his charger.

Creativity IS Rocket Science

Nov 3, 2014
2 min

Creativity IS Rocket Science

Mission Control, this is Ticonderoga 2; we are go for creative launch. Commencing countdown at T minus 4… 4...) FUEL PUMPS ARE GO. Everyone knows that without fuel, a rocket just sits on the launch pad like a high-tech grain silo. The same is true for creative people, and the fuel is called IDEAS. Ideas are highly volatile, evaporate quickly if exposed to the open air, and sometimes they stink. 3...) OXYGEN TANKS ONLINE. Take a whole bunch of rocket fuel into outer spac

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Marriage Is a Martial Art

Oct 27, 2014
3 min

Marriage Is a Martial Art

It may seem counter-intuitive. You join a karate dojo to learn fighting techniques, and you get married (presumably) because you love someone. Kung Fu practitioners kick boards and their mouths don’t match their dialogue, while married couples have babies and stop going clubbing. But matrimony and the martial arts have a lot in common. Both are highly stylized, ritualized forms of combat best done in loose clothing—but it goes even deeper than that. Here are five things

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That All Important First Post

Oct 24, 2014
1 min

That All Important First Post

I never thought I'd start a blarg. Now that I have, you deserve to know who you're dealing with. This is me in cartoon form. Why "The Blarg"? Because I'm not sure what's going to land on this page, and "blog" denotes some measure of confidence and planning. It's an onomatopoeia of ideas hitting the internet, and that's what I expect--I'll serve up ideas in my own way; you decide what to do with them! #writing #cartoon #karate #art #magic #gaming

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