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Yggdrasil MGZ Halloween Preview
In the mythology of Yggdrasil, necromancy is one of the worst crimes that can be committed. This class in conjunction with the Grey Guardian illustrate this. It will come with a host of Necromancy wyrds, a new Necromancer skill, and a new magic item, the Bound Bracelet. It has been a lot of fun to write up.…
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Yggdrasil MGZ Halloween Issue
I have a fondness for Halloween and Halloween themed issues of magazines. It is only natural that for my own, Yggdrasil MGZ, that the third quarterly issue would follow suit. I already had the seeds in place with the second half of the comic I was finishing for it – it’s a ghost story – so…
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Halloween Issues
A lot of my game design and writing these days is a reflection of my fondness for the weird publishing moment of the 90s. Though entirely unsustainable as a business model, you have this rush of high quality print products hit the market seemingly all at once. Bookstores were awash with magazines covering every subject…
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Who Doesn’t Love a Good Monster?
One of my favorite things when I was a teenager was the loose leaf pages of the AD&D 2E monster manuals. I loved how the best entries treated the monsters they covered with the seriousness of an 18th century naturalist, positing theories on how a goblin exists inside its corner of a wider ecosystem. And as these…