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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is a review of Once We Were Heroes by Fool Moon Productions, which uses art that&#8217;s AI-Generated. So I&#8217;ve had to set some ground rules. This post features AI-generated art. If you object to that art or its use, you can click on This Link to read a plaintext version of the article. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is a review of Once We Were Heroes by Fool Moon Productions, which uses art that&#8217;s AI-Generated. So I&#8217;ve had to set some ground rules. As the owner/operator of Campaign Mastery, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what the site&#8217;s policy should be with respect to art by Generative AI, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An observed pattern sheds surprising light on how RPG styles differ from one nation to another. This is the latest in my series of time-out posts in between the Trade In Fantasy series. The YouTube viewer that I use most often displays, at the end of a video, thumbnails of other videos that you might [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 14:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It took so much longer to plan out the article that I intended to publsh today, and it contains so many sections that I hasd grave doubts that I could finish it in time. Rather than risk having nothing to post in what is already shaping up to be a very busy week, I decided [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finished at last &#8211; this is only about 90 minutes late! Enjoy :) Anytime a product with the combined talents of multiple industry heavy-hitters like Ed Greenwood and Skip Williams comes onto your horizon, you pay attention. When that product made its funding targets in just 2 1/2 hours, you pay even closer attention. Clearly, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Surviving Artifacts with Demi-Relics (BC Apr 2021)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All GMs should recognize and follow the rule of cool, which states that if a player wants his character to do something cool, the GM should try to find a way to let him, even if it violates canon or what the character should normally. be capable of. Alas, in one of the great inequities [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Glow Around The Corner</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just to prove that the recent two-and-a-half-part article RPGs In Technicolor (part 1,part 2, part 2a) weren&#8217;t the last word on the subject, I thought of this topic of discussion. Picture a room in which your character is located. A partially-closed door leads to a corridor beyond. Somewhere down that corridor, something is glowing in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Four Frontiers Of &#8216;Alien&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The First Frontier: Appearance Early science fiction depicted aliens as having animal heads or other elements of animal anatomy. Fantasy, myth, and legend carry the principle even further back in time &#8211; the Minotaur of Knossos comes to mind. And I would not be at all surprised to be told that centaurs predate even those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Combining Abilities: Teamwork and Synergy between RPG Characters (updated)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One problem. Two characters with the same Skill. How do they combine abilities to make the problem easier to solve? Or are two heads no better than one? This is the Dual Competence rules problem. Another problem. One character has the Skill needed to solve it, another who doesn&#8217;t &#8211; but who has to actually [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Janus: A new concept in Campaign Structure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Bourke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;at least, I hope it&#8217;s new. As I wrote, a strong sense of deja vu crept over me, and it started to sound awfully familiar. But a careful search of past posts failed to turn up anything&#8230; I come up with more ideas than I can ever use. Until I co-founded Campaign Mastery, I simply [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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