At some point soon, I’m going to start doing a round-up of all the links I send to Twitter.After all, since I’ve become a curator of sorts, I can at least summarize.

For now, though, I’ve been keeping the following links up because I don’t want to lose them.

A Word List of Shapes

Over at the phontistery, you can find all kinds of wonderful word lists. This list of shape words is my favorite. Many of the names just ooze Old School Odd.

Open Game Content from Mutants & Masterminds

The D20 Hero SRD has the goal of providing all the OGC from the third edition of M&M. Of interest to me is the Measurements Table. I keep thinking I can use it in Andras somehow…

Secret Maps of the 1930s

I found the link from another blog, but I’ve had a heck of a time finding out who pointed me here. My apologies. Anyway, this link features a tale of a man that claims to have mapped a secret underground world. Map is included in the article. Woot!

Irregular Magazine

Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure. What a great magazine – and it is free!

Project Gutenburg Is Great

Noisms publishes a list of great source material for gaming from Project Gutenburg. I have greatly enjoyed reading the books by Baron Dunsany.

Speaking of great source material, I have begun reading Almuric. The English Major in me reels at the thought. It’s like mental bubblegum. The twelve year old in me, though, just relishes the story. For the record, this is a poignard.

Rethinking the Core Races

Sword and Board provides a 5e take on core races. Very cool. Speaking of cool core races, here is the reskinned Halfling as rat-people. Very, very cool.

The Fantasy Trip Resources and Clones

This kind of speaks for itself.

I have been feeling awful for quite a while. I’m hoping to be back to writing soon. I have revised The Needle post so many times, I fear I won’t just push the Publish button and move on.

I star and share a lot of stuff in Google Buzz, but sometimes I have trouble finding a specific post that I meant to mark as something to post about later.

Of particular note is Sean Robson’s post about how to write an adventure. When I ran Isle of Dread, Keep of the Borderlands and other modules back in the day, I ended up re-engineering modules to look this way. When I get around to writing an adventure, I definitely plan on doing it *this* way. Thanks Sean for a great post!

Speaking of adventures, I’ve really had a thought that some of the ideas presented, when polished up and placed in a PDF, would be best presented as an adventure or mini-adventure. This will especially be true of the Arcanist class. In the future, I’ll present one as the “Big Bad” in an adventure.

Another post is Telecanter’s One Page Potions. I wish I could make stuff this useful.

When I start up a new in-person game this winter, I definitely plan on following the Land of Ara’s method of holding an initial players’ meeting.

Lastly, here a post about using Stars without Number as a fantasy engine. Really cool!

The origin of dragons post is delayed, so here is the story that inspired its creation. See you soon!

First item is something I found off somewhere in the dawn of the internet. Folks will probablu recognize it when they see it, but I don’t remember when and how I got it. It is a “High Magic” system that relies on the zodiac to determine effects on spells. One day, I would love to turn this into a spell building system.

High Magick Zodiac

My favorite read of the day features some unusual weapons from spaghetti westerns, all real weapons. My favorite is the LeMat Revolver.

I could see this revolver as one of the rare Garuda Firearms in my Shayakand campaign.

Lastly, is a discussion of class. I mention it because my retroclone address this.

Out of time. More later!