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Brigands of Mirkwood (1987) is an alright adventure that gives players a new, interesting base of operations and then pits them against regional problems. The hub is Straytown, an enclave of seedy operators in Mirkwood. Sort of a rustic, frontier town, lined with corduroy roads and full of opportunities and danger. A bit like Lankhmar, really.

The first scenario is a check-out-the-neighborhood kind of jam, where a scholar requires the players to purchase a book on his behalf. Some light hi-jinx ensue, but for the most part this is a sightseeing mission. The second scenario has the players raiding the guild hall of the rogues, which is basically a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser scenario. I’m not complaining. The final scenario pits them against the local mage, who is the primary power in the town. He’s also in league with Sauron and has a castle, of course. That’s a fairly straightforward assassination, but disappointingly, his removal likely leads to the dissolution of the whole settlement, which is a shame.

Another Angus McBride cover, so baseline great. It isn’t one of my faves, though and it doesn’t really seem aligned with the module the way most of his other MERP work is. I like that little lizard guy tho. Interior art is again by Jason Waltrip. Much of it is rather cartoony. Like, Disney-level cartoony. Which is an unusual choice. Not a bad one, necessarily, but unusual.

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king in yellow is a public domain work that i woudl really really love to do an edition of myself, but when thinking about cover design its borderline impossible to do better than the 1895 edition

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Ubi Soft Entertainment Software (Ordilogic Systems) UK 1990

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im laughing so hard

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they said SWAP TO FIRE LOSERS 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

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time is a flat circle

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imaginary world…..

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“Martin Luther King Jr. made the forbidden connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, Racism, and the Vietnam War. As a result, after he was assassinated even his memory became toxic, a threat to public order. Foundations and corporations worked hard to remodel his legacy to fit a market-friendly format. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, with an operational grant of $2 million, was set up by, among others, the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Western Electric, Proctor and Gamble, US Steel, and Monsanto. The center maintains the King Library and Archives of the Civil Rights Movement. Among the many programs the King Center runs have been projects that “work closely with the United States Department of Defense, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and others.” It cosponsored the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series called “The Free Enterprise System: An Agent for Nonviolent Social Change.”

— Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy (via rikodeine)

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“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”

— The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin