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March 26, 2011

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A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets

I don't know if anyone out there is still playing Beyond the Supernatural ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the paranormal, but I thought I'd share some of the sheets I've been using for the game. When I was introduced to my new game group and we began our foray into horror/supernatural role playing, we did so with BtS. Shortly thereafter, one of the members of the group introduced me to the first edition of Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic ("B13"). We didn't play it at that time, but we did adopt B13's intricate (and often hilarious) hit location tables for our games of BtS. We played a bunch of BtS through late '89 and early '90, and had a ton of fun doing so. Then, one day around the middle of 1990, I discovered the recently released new edition of B13 . I snapped up the game, and around Halloween of that year, I ran our first game of pure B13. From that session, BtS was retired, and B1...

Map of Aerth

Okay, I know the world name's not clever - nor was it intended to be. I was in full-on retro-mode when I created this a couple of years back, so I make no excuses for place names, no matter how cliched they may be. (Fans of Milton Bradley's Dark Tower board game will undoubtedly recognize some of the names on this map - what can I say? I'm a big fan of the game, and I've always wanted to include some of these in my own sandbox world. And, as I said, I was feeling very nostalgic when I made this...) So, without further ado, here's my map of my D&D game world, called simply Aerth :

Meet Hal Billings

I was rereading a few old posts here on my blog (" I wrote that? Huh. How about that...") and got the inspiration to share this little image (drawn by my too-talented-for-his-own-good-why-can't-I-draw-like-that friend, Terry). And to share the story behind it, of course. In the early- to mid-nineties, Terry and I were gaming madmen. We'd get together at least once a week in my flat on the second floor of a big, old Victorian-style house, sit down at my amazing, gigantic oak dining room table in my large "study" (which was usually the front bedroom of the apartment) to roll dice and eat food that was bad for us. Most often, these were one-on-one games. Terry was truly my partner in crime in this, as he and I had much the same sensibilities, but he played much more heroic characters than I did. But that was great for me, because I loved telling heroic stories. His style of playing games synced perfectly with my style of running them. We tried one game after a...

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