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News and Advice<\/h3>\n

\"\"Pour Over Lovecraft’s notes for At the Mountain’s of Madness<\/a><\/strong>
\nLovecraft’s notes have been posted by Author Paul Tremblay on Instagram<\/a>. It looks like you might have to sacrifice some sanity to decipher them. Just don’t stare at it for too long…<\/p>\n

NASA Discovers Earth’s Older Cousin<\/strong>
\n<\/a>“This particular planet\u2019s combination of factors \u2013 including the type of star, the planet\u2019s distance from it and its size \u2013 make it the closest analogue to Earth ever found, the scientists said.”<\/p>\n

Kepler-452b circles a sun-like star about 1400 light-years away. It’s bigger then earth, but has a similar orbit around it’s sun. They’ve determined it is approximately 6 billion years old, giving it time to develop life if other important factors are present. This is super exciting as a geek, and is it wrong that my first thought went to how to incorporate the aliens that live on Kepler-452b into a game? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

4 Tips for Running Published Adventures<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>
\nI run a lot of published adventures. I’ve only recently begun feeling comfortable enough to tell my own stories, or even change published adventures to make them my own. The railroad tracks are nice and safe. But I think the advice given here is a great way to let go of the railroad track set down in a published adventure. It’s alright, just let them go and embrace the story that is being developed between you and your players. It doesn’t mean you have to throw the whole story out, it just takes a little more work.<\/p>\n

Meet the New Pathfinder Iconics<\/a><\/strong>
\nPathfinder is releasing Occult Adventures on the 29th, and they’ve begun to introduce their new iconic characters. You can find them on Paizo’s website, or all the links are in the article I linked to. The new classes that will be available are occultist, spiritualist, psychic, medium, mesmerist, and kineticist. I’m interested to see how these new classes work in a game, but I can see them to be a little difficult at first to figure out exactly how to fit them in.<\/p>\n

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New Products<\/h3>\n

There’s a new expansion pack for Munchkin, which is full of a great evil. Well, it’s full of hipsters. It’s available on ThinkGeek<\/a> for $9.95<\/p>\n

Worlds Numberless and Strange<\/em> was released this week, a supplement for\u00a0The Strange<\/em>. It has over 70 new recursions and great info for your\u00a0Strange<\/em> GM. I wrote a review here<\/a>. You can get a copy on DriveThruRPG<\/a>\u00a0and the MCG Store<\/a>. The\u00a0PDF is $16.99 and the book is $44.99.<\/p>\n

Sales and Bargains<\/h3>\n

DriveThruRPG<\/a> <\/strong>is doing their Christmas in July sale, with 25% off thousands (and thousands) of PDFs. There are deals for Numenera, The Strange, Dresden, Achtung! Cthulhu, and more. You should check it out – it lasts for a week.
\nLost Lands\u00a0Bundle<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>Frog God’s settings and adventures written for Pathfinder<\/p>\n

Looking for a Game?<\/h3>\n

We’re itching to try the Leverage RPG, and just need a few more players. We’re planning on trying for a Friday night. Interested? Email us at redactedfilespodcast@gmail.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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