October | 2025 | The Mule Abides
3 posts published by Eric Minton during October 2025| The Mule Abides
3 posts published by Eric Minton during October 2025| The Mule Abides
We had our first Glantri reunion session, and it was largely successful! After 10 years of war and political shenanigans, the Company of Crossed Swords (our PC party) got back together to take another crack at the Chateau d’Ambreville (our tentpole megadungeon). Many dice were rolled, a devil and a lich were parlayed with, and […]| The Mule Abides
This new class was originally inspired by the alchemy system in His Majesty the Worm, but drifted back toward a more typical spell-slot system. That was, frankly, much easier to try and balance in the context of D&D play. The focus on concoctions was intended to make this more of a PC class, rather than […]| The Mule Abides
In order to keep track of time in-game, my Glantri campaign’s timeline was synced up with real time. As our first session was held on May 28, 2008, the party’s first adventure transpired on May 28 in the Glantrian year 208. Logically, the upshot of this is that a reunion session that takes place a […]| The Mule Abides
He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, “All right, we’re back together again. What the hell do we do next?”…| The Mule Abides
I am always looking for good ways to give players information. As a Judge I like to talk – part of the fun of the role for me is showing off the wonky knowledge about weird goings-on in fanta…| The Mule Abides
Wow! So, it’s been… (checks notes) …12 years since I last posted here? That’s as many as four threes. And that’s terrible. During that time I was heavily invested in w…| The Mule Abides
A mere 10 months ago (hot off the presses by what James refers to as our shambolic standards), “The Problem with Appendix N” over at Grognardia lamented: Yet, for all that, Appendix N s…| The Mule Abides
By Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940. This is the official position of the Mule.| The Mule Abides
So, the thing is, I kinda forgot that we had this blog. Once a year or so I would remember it, and sigh, thinking of happier (or at least more dice-filled) times, and get too overwrought to post an…| The Mule Abides
In “The First Female Gamers” (2014), Jon Peterson identifies three “decidedly female names” in the of the December 1959 subscriber list of Jack Scruby’s War Game Digest before considering the trajectory of women in war gaming and the early fantasy role-playing games of the 70s: “Virginia Esten of Hammond, Indiana; a Jane Sala of Bolton, […]| The Mule Abides
In 2014, Jon Peterson published an essay, The First Female Gamers, describing the gender dynamics around early D&D, how those fit into a longer trajectory of wargaming history, and how they beg…| The Mule Abides
