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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 3: Birth Of An Empire – 1782-1910

This entry is part 3 of 12 in the series The Imperial History of Earth-Regency

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns.       All images used to illustrate this article are public-domain works hosted by Wikipedia Commons or derivations of such works. Introduction The Magna Carta was […]

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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 2: The Road To Empire – 1220-1782

This entry is part 2 of 12 in the series The Imperial History of Earth-Regency

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns.     Welcome to part two of this series of articles introducing the history of Earth-Regency. Part 1 showed how a small change in one weak Baron’s […]

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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part I: The Middle Ages – 1189-1220

This entry is part 1 of 12 in the series The Imperial History of Earth-Regency

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns.     Introduction A couple of weeks ago I described my ground rules for handling alternate histories in RPGs and promised to excerpt the writeup I did […]

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Ghosts Of Blogs Past: All The World’s A Suggestion Box

This irregular column resurrects (relevant) lost blog posts from Mike’s 2006 personal blog on Yahoo 360 and updates them with new relevance and perspective. From December 2006: There’s never enough time to do everything right – so concentrate on the little things that make everything else tolerable. It’s easy to underestimate how big a contribution […]

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Pieces Of Creation: The Hidden Truth Of Dopplegangers

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns. A somewhat unusual example to get this first “Pieces Of Creation” off to a flying start. Normally, I would present the game materials within the column text, […]

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Melodies & Rests: ‘Euphoria’ by Def Leppard

Melodies & Rests is intended to be an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike plucks a CD at random from his collection and sees how much creative inspiration for gaming he can squeeze out of it. You don’t have to agree with his musical tastes – but play close attention to the […]

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