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April 7, 1999
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Continuum

Time travel is one of those tasty subjects for science fiction games that never seems quite to ferment. Between Grandfather Paradoxes, missing time, meeting yourself and endless causality problems, it seems like the…

August 5, 2000
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Converting Your AD&D Campaign to 3rd Edition

On August 10, many of you are going to walk into your gaming group to run the night's session and pull this brand-new, shiny Player's Handbook from your backpack. Your players will probably be excited at first, flipping…

September 11, 2000
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Cultured Gaming

After having done my best to tackle heroics last time round I will take a closer look at the second major style of play, culture games.

July 14, 2001
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Cutting Edge, My Big Toe

Can storytelling games really claim the title of role-playing games? And just how revolutionary is the "new trend" in gaming? Jack Spencer, Jr. tackles these questions in this latest installment of The Wanna Be .

January 10, 2000
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Cybergeneration: Revolution 2

The year is 2027, and the Edgerunners have all but vanished; most adults have been assimilated, and spend their days working dull, soulless jobs and their nights dreaming of the days when they had s real future. A…

September 12, 2001
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D20 Crackdown

D20 releases have been fast and furious. This week, Gareth looks at the repercussions that come from a large number of amature publishers not paying attention to the rules Wizards of the Coast insists they play by.

July 2, 2001
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D2020

D20's a fad, right? It'll lose popularity eventually, right? Maybe not. This week's "Grains of Sand" presents a world where the System has taken over everything.

July 31, 2000
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Dak's Origins 2000 Report

The Gaming Outpost's very own Dak gives his thoughts and experiences at this year's Origins gaming conventions. Lots of pictures included.

August 19, 2000
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Dan's Gen Con Report: Top Ten and Bottom Five

I was having a bit of writer's block trying to organize my thoughts on this year's Gen Con experience. So, I came up with this half-baked "Best and Worst" list idea. (Been watching too much Comedy Central, I think.)

May 12, 1999
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David Williams

The person being shot at could have responded all sorts of ways to justify his continued existence - 'Bounced off my Titanium Armor', or 'You can't see me, I'm invisible' or even 'The bullet goes right through this…

August 31, 2000
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DC Universe RPG

When you think hard enough about it, superheroes are probably one of the goofiest concepts to come out of the 20th century.

October 24, 2000
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Deadlands: Men in Black Dusters

This book explores the ins and outs of the Deadlands universe's equivalent of the Men in Black. Granted, they don't have neuralizers (a.k.a. "the flashy thing"), but they do have some neat gadgets at their disposal.

September 21, 2001
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Deceased

Death is part of the fantasy. But do we take it seriously? M. Joseph Young looks at how we react to death, and compares that to the experiences of our characters.

April 20, 1999
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Delta Green: COUNTDOWN

Listen to me: this book is 432 pages long. This redefines 'supplement' as 'gigantic opus full of more material than some game lines release in 5 products'. It's a third longer than the core Delta Green book it came…

May 10, 1999
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Devil Bunny Needs a Ham

With a backstory so delightfully inane, I was certain that the game would need special help for testing, so my fiancee and I with some friends drank Jagermeister shots for about an hour, to see what would happen to our…

August 24, 1999
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Diskwars

So I was pretty impressed that Fantasy Flight, the company that released Twilight Imperium and its many high priced add-on sets, has now released a series of very reasonably priced, pseudo-miniature style wargames…

August 14, 2001
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DoL: Episode 19

In this week's Dreaming Out Loud , Seth gives us a look at the Blessed, the wizards of Alyria.

March 2, 2001
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Dreaming Out Loud Episode 5: The Face of Evil

Let me begin with an important statement. I believe in evil. I dont just mean evil as in not being nice to each other, although thats true. I dont even mean evil as in actively harming each other, although thats true as…

April 5, 2001
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Dreaming Out Loud Episode 7: Letting My Baby Go

The fateful day must come at last when the piece of art is released into the world to fend for itself. The artist who cannot let go of his work will never be successful. He might make himself happy with his work, but he…

June 24, 2000
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition Demo Report

If I had to describe Third Edition in a sentence, Id say that its kind of like some other D&D games youve played in, with extra house rules you may have seen other DMs use to make the system more flexible and give the…

July 17, 2001
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Dust to Ashes

This week, Seth Ben-Ezra reveals details of Alyria's Restored, workers in the Citadel.