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Color My World: Painting Miniatures

Posted on Aug 20 2010 | 1 Comment
Color My World: Painting Miniatures Just recently I’ve rediscovered the art of painting miniatures. I’d dabbled with it in high school and again in college, but I was never really happy with my results. At that time, before the Internet, it was... Read More »

The Collected Beg, Borrow & Ste...

Posted on Aug 04 2010 | No Comments
The Collected Beg, Borrow & Steal is a PDF eBook containing the first ten issues of the Beg, Borrow & Steal newsletter. More than just a reprint of the newsletters under one cover, the information in this book has been edited and reformatted to make it easier to read and use. Also included is a new list: “20 Magical Curios” that is unavailable... Read More »

Growing the Hobby

Posted on Jul 15 2010 | 2 Comments
Growing the Hobby For this month’s blog carnival Mad Brew Labs has posed the question “Challenge: Growing the Hobby”. Since I started playing in 1980, the hobby has grown exponentially and shows no sign of stopping. Sure,... Read More »

What Do You Need Help With?

Posted on Jun 18 2010 | No Comments
In addition to the world setting I’m creating, I’m looking at producing a line of products to help GMs run better and more immersive games. To that end, I’ve created a short survey asking for your input. Please help me out by taking a moment to give me your ideas. I’ll post the results here next week. Click here to take survey

Notable Absence

Posted on Jun 15 2010 | No Comments
Notable Absence As you’ve all noticed by now, my writing has been rather sporadic recently. It’s not because I’ve run out of ideas or developed a sudden allergy to blogging. No, the reason I’ve been rather absent... Read More »

Upgrading Issues

Posted on May 06 2010 | 1 Comment
Please bear with me as I finish upgrading the theme for this site. I had technical difficulties installing the new theme and upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress (which for several reasons on my end, most of which come down to RTFM). I’ll be finishing the set-up on the new theme over the course of the next few days. Everything’s there... Read More »

Top 10 of 100 and One

Posted on Apr 30 2010 | 4 Comments
This month, Evil Machinations celebrated it’s first anniversary. On top of that, this is my 100th post. Because of all that, I want to say thank you to everyone who’s made this blog a success.  Without my readers, there would be no Evil Machinations . Below is a count-down of your top ten favorite posts and pages on this blog since it began in... Read More »

Please Answer Survey

Posted on Jan 18 2010 | 2 Comments
Over at the Guang Keshar website, I’ve created a survey. Okay, the survey’s really at SurveyMonkey, but there’s a link to it from rpgGM.com. Even if you don’t plan on using a new campaign setting anytime soon, please stop by and let me know what you look for in a game setting. It’s short. Only these five questions. That’s all... Read More »

End of Year Round-Up: The Top 10 Pos...

Posted on Jan 08 2010 | No Comments
Here’s a countdown of the 10 most popular posts on Evil Machinations in 2009: 10. An A-to-Z List of Lesser-Known Roleplaying Games, pt. 4: A survey of roleplaying games whose titles begin with the letters Q-U. 9. Building Better NPCs II: 8 Steps to Memorable NPCs: Eight steps for bringing your important NPCs to life and making them unique. 8. How Do You... Read More »

It’s a Brave New World —...

Posted on Dec 20 2009 | 1 Comment
It’s been a long-time coming, but I’ve finally done it. After nearly thirty years of kicking the idea around (and thanks to the guys at the Gamer Lifestyle program), I’ve finally take the plunge and started my own small-press game company, rpgGM.com. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now, but just never really was... Read More »


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