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  • Class Notes: Archaeology of Words

    Having recently celebrated my birthday, I’ve had cause to muse over the peculiar benefits of growing older. I was reminded of one such benefit a couple days ago while flipping through some game books that I’d nearly forgotten buying. Tucked within the pages were some some post-its with hand-written notes for Degrees of Horror. Like the…

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  • Writing: Meet Johnny Doe

    As I mentioned a week or two ago, Ed and I have been batting around the idea of writing new Pinebox short stories to be collected into a shared world anthology.  The general idea is to create a “Scooby gang” of characters who would appear in a variety of adventures set on and around the…

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  • Class Notes: Trivia Edition!

    The oldest Degrees of Horror-related file on my computer is called Majors2, and it was last modified on 12/16/2005. That’s seven years ago, for those of you playing at home. 12 to Midnight attended Origins in 2007 and playtested the first plot point — Sweat Lodge. At that point we’d written a good chunk of…

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  • Class Notes: All Hallows Eve

    Howdy and welcome to another edition of Class Notes. Also, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Ed and I talked about whipping up a Halloween-themed one-sheet for Pinebox, which would have been fun. At this point though, I am 100% committed to finishing Degrees of Horror and didn’t want to divert my attention even to another relatively short Pinebox-related…

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  • Class Notes: Charging Ahead

    As I did last week, I’d like to begin this week by recognizing and thanking some individuals who made a point of letting me know they were still following these posts. Anarxus, J Gregory, and Darren– THANK YOU! The news this week is almost the polar opposite of last week. In fact, it’s pretty great…

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