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Rough sketch of comic page of a warrior facing perils in a fantasy world.

Crude drawing of an unhappy looking wizard with heavy eye lids, a mustache and a pointy hat.

For our comic to appear in @swordsagainst.bsky.social, Jason Sholtis and I decided to work in the old "Marvel Method" where I wrote a plot, he draws the pages from the plot, then I script it (and letter). I did my own rendition of one of the principles, Hokus, though.

One can only hope! :D

See, I think: "I wanna accomplish what BREAK!! has."

Dungeons & Baubles The Revenger Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Alastair Reynolds. In a future millions of years hence, there is a spacefarin...

What Alastair Reynolds' Revenger series has to inspire dungeoncrawling games. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2026/03/dung...

Wednesday Comics: DC, June 1985 (week 1) My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were ...

The Crisis keeps going and we get the Best Comics Stories of '84. This week in 1985 in #dccomics
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I was just listening to this earlier today.

It does. It's some art from a jrpg. Granblue, I believe

A New World With our Land of Azurth campaign nearing its conclusion, I've been thinking about what might come after. Or more truthfully, I've thought of...

Planning for a new campaign.
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Review: Azurth Adventures Digest Issue 1

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In the Shadows In the Latter Ages of Earth , it is known that the scientist mages of more lucent eras spoke of an invisible, co-existing realm. Scholars kn...

More from the science fantasy Latter Ages of Earth. This time, a bit about shadow matter and the so called Plane of Shadow. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2026/02/in-s...

Manmachine or Self Destruct Button by Blambot

Wednesday Comics: DC, May 1985 (week 4) I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on February 28, 1985. World's ...

The #dccomics from the 3rd week in February 1985.
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In the Light of the Black Sun Our Land of Azurth 5e game continued last night with the party first dealing with an odd bird creature in the strange subterranean prison wh...

The party confronts the Wizard of Azurth. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2026/02/in-l...

R&R (Revenge & Railroads)

Skadria .... writhing, it emerged from the blackness. Undulating, its tentacles curled and twisted. Extending, its spine lengthened. Glowing, emanating, emitting, from within it glowed, and the transformation began.

Decisions, decisions

Dungeon Innovations Tsutomu Nihei The following suggestions for dungeon adventure rpgs may not be entirely novel, but they certainly aren't common in published ...

A few under utilized ideas related to dungeons and dungeoncrawling
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The Dungeon Cycle:
Dungeons full of loot attract adventurers > surviving adventurers get wealthy, powerful, and eccentric > they build dungeons to protect their loot and secrets

Wednesday Comics: DC, May 1985 (week 3) I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis ! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on February 21...

Todd McFarlane makes his full-fledged professional debut and The Barren Earth is conquered. This week in #dccomics in 1985.
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I've seen at list one comic book with that sort of sequence, too. So it's spreading

Swords (and Spells) Against Paul Wolfe of Mystic Bull Games is starting up a Sword & Sorcery fiction magazine called Swords Against! The first issue is being crowdfund...

The Sword & Sorcery fiction mag Swords Against is now in crowd funding and Jason Sholtis and I will have a comic in it about feuding wizards.
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The Bravestarr Bible Poking around the Internet Archive yesterday, I discovered the series bible to BraveStarr , the 1987 Space Western from Filmation. The mos...

The concept art for Bravestarr was pretty cool.
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Wednesday Comics: DC, May 1985 (week 2) I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) through  Crisis ! This week, I read the comics released the week of February 14...

Omega Men makes a time jump to a new status quo and Batman battles to get some sleep. This week in 1985 in #dccomics
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Questing at Home This weekend, I set up a sort of escape room/LARP for my 8 year-old. She took on the role of a warrior princess sent to retrieve a golden tr...

Yesterday, I turned our house into a fantasy adventure locale for a short escape room/LARP for my daughter. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2026/02/ques...

Into the Shadows Our 5e Land of Azurth game continued last Sunday with the party (after a rest and healing) undertaking the capture of the other shadow/tempo...

The latest happenings in the Land of Azurth involving a prison run by Mole Folk. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2026/02/into...

That's "bravely" not "briefly." It doesn't seem brief! 😄

Classic TV Flashback: More Thoughts on Space: 1999 Anne is a friend and blogging compatriot (she has a rpg blog at DIY & Dragons and a book/film blog at The Lunar Flaneur ), and since the al...

Algorithmed into middle age, @diyanddragons.bsky.social briefly faces the old sci-fi tv streaming offers her.
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Wednesday Comics: DC, May 1985 (week 1) My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were ...

Deadman gets a limited series and Crisis gets on for real. This week in 1985 in #dccomics.
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Skeletor, skull-faced lord of destruction with power sword and ram-skull headed havoc staff.

Beast Man, orange hairy hominid with a whip

Evil-Lyn, evil Sorceress in purple and blue

Fakor, blue-skinned orange armored, evil He-Man copy

MOTU toy cross sell style art by Gerald Parel.

Weird Revisited: The Paper Town This post originally appeared in May of 2016. It became relevant in last night's session of our Land of Azurth 5e game, so it seemed a good ...

Situated in the Uncanny Valley of the Land of Azurth, there is a Paper Town
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