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Month: February 2019

RPG Blog Carnival: Divine Worldbuilding Roundup

RPG Blog Carnival: Divine Worldbuilding Roundup

kjdavies February 3, 2019 2019-01 Divine WorldbuildingOne Comment

A couple days late, for which I apologize. I hadn’t realized just how much losing three of my senior staff — my two peers to retirement, our (former) director to a reassignment — would take out of me. Regardless, time for the round up. I led the charge with a …

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