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Retro-Review: Superworld a Game Where Punches Impale
Revisiting Chaosium's Superworld — the BRP superhero game that lost to Champions and gave the world Wild Cards
 • Christian Lindke
THE EYE OF ARGON: The Toxic Fans Aren't Who Most People Say They Are
Starting in 2014, I began an odd tradition, I began reading Jim Theis’ The Eye of Argon every year.
 • Christian Lindke
Constant Vigilance: A Superhero d20 on the Seam of Two Licenses
A Retro Review of Charles Rice's Vigilance Superhero Role Playing Game (2002) and what one five-dollar PDF tells us about the open-gaming gold rush.
 • Christian Lindke
Code Your Own Adventure? Micro Adventure #1: Space Attack
A Gamebook That Almost Understood How to Use Code
 • Christian Lindke
Heroes of Karameikos Part 3: The Four Design Pillars
My baseline assumptions. Old edition rules, new edition feel.
 • Christian Lindke

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The Long Road from Magic World to Dragonbane
There is a particular pleasure in watching a game begin as a translation and evolve into something completely new, that gets translated into the…
 • Christian Lindke
Adventure Gamebooks as RPGs, Part 3b: The Superpower Problem
Before you can stat a single hero, you have to answer one question. How do powers activate?
 • Christian Lindke
Adventure Gamebooks as RPGs, Part 3a: Advanced Fighting Fantasy and the Superhero Problem
Arion Games turned a gamebook engine into a full RPG, but they left behind one hero and that hero was You!
 • Christian Lindke
Happy Belated Birthday to the Maestro of More than Horror Films.
Vincent Price was born on May 27th, 1911 and I meant to post this then, but I was submitting my dissertation for review by both my committee and grad…
 • Christian Lindke
Some New Music I've Been Listening to Lately
My twin daughters just graduated from high school and as one of our gifts to them, I took them to Denver for an overnight trip to see their favorite…
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Bone and Silver: The Many Worlds of Manly Wade Wellman
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Christian Lindke's Geekerati Newsletter
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