1. Qerth Treasure Hunt (v1.1) : 3. Layout Samples
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To celebrate the long-awaited release of the first Qerth book (and our status as Gaming Guests of Honor) at Archon 30, we came up with a "treasure hunt" promotional event. I did the layout for the flyer ...

2. Archetype of the Week: The Holy Man
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The holy man is a character who serves God. Most fictional holy men serve the Christian God, but there are occasional examples of holy men serving other deities, especially in fantasy stories. It should ...

3. Somewhere A Metalhead is Playing D&D and Weeping
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... May, the metal/fantasy community lost two of its all-time greats: Ronnie James Dio and Frank Frazetta. Comic book artist Tony Moore (Battle Pope, The Walking Dead, Fear Agent) said it best in his Twitter ...

4. The Rules: Robin Hood
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... book, Robin Hood, which attempts to find the historical Robin by tracing the character's literary history, I bought a copy. I've also been watching the second season of the recent BBC Robin Hood ...

5. The Rules: Sword & Sorcery
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Lately, several members of the Hex staff have been discovering or re-discovering classic pulp sci-fi and fantasy. I picked up a big ass book of Conan stories a few months ago and have been slowly making ...

6. The Funniest Shit You've Never Seen: God Edition
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... viewpoint. You can read the Bible straight through, navigate by Book, or look up particular categories of wackiness, such as “Absurdities,” “Science and History,” or (because we know what our readers want) ...

7. Book Review: The Wrecking Crew
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In What's The Matter With Kansas? Thomas Frank explained how conservatives hoodwink (mostly poor) Americans into voting against their own financial self-interest. In The Wrecking Crew, he goes into ...

8. Wednesday WWPHITM?: Preacher
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That's right, it's time for another installment of WWPHITM? This time around, we're going to cast the Preacher comic book series. While it might be possible to do it as a movie, I think this is best ...

9. Web Series Review: Broken Toy
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... effects that can hold their own against major studio releases. The comic book geek in me was happy to find out that, whether intentional or not, this has all the makings of a great super-hero story. Of ...

10. 2009 Book List
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You're probalby wondering where you can find a complete list of books I read in 2009, along with short reviews or links to longer reviews. If so, you can find just such a list at Goat Head Gumbo.  ...

11. Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
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The usual way to adapt a movie based on a piece of reporting is to tell the story being reported on, leaving out the reporter entirely. With a Jon Ronson book, however, that sort of adaptation doesn’t ...

12. Book Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats
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... the first trailer and decided I definitely needed to pick this one up. Of course, since the only book store in our crappy little town is a Books-A-Million (motto: "If you actually want to read it, we ain't ...

13. Book Review: Death's Daughter by Amber Benson
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Death’s Daughter tells the story of Calliope Reaper-Jones, a young woman trying to make her way up in (or, more precisely, up to) the fashion industry in New York. Or at least that’s who she thinks ...

14. Book Review: Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way
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... by tons of fake book covers, movie posters, newspaper articles, websites, and other graphical gags, all done very well by Craig “Kif” Sanborn. Unless you hate books that are fun and entertaining, ...

15. Book Review: Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch has been on my “to read” list since sometime in high school, but I took my time actually getting around to reading it. This was due in equal parts to the intimidation factor of the book ...

16. Book Review: Monster
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In the urban fantasy world of Monster, there are three types of people: incognizants, light cognizants, and cognizants. In incognizants, the part of the brain known as Merlin’s lobe, which allows one ...

17. Book Review: Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
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... in its entirety in a separate section of the book, and provides biographical information about the hacker as well as the details of his crime(s) and capture. While there are occasional references to other ...

18. Book Review: I Am America (And So Can You!)
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If you’ve ever watched his show, you know that Stephen Colbert is no fan of books. He is, however, a big fan of the free market, and what better way to increase his share of it than to release a book ...

19. Kick Ass Dude: Joshua LH Burnett
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... here). Since the game is being given away for free, I couldn't even afford the criminally low Hex rates for art, so I assumed that the book would be forever artless. Imagine my surprise when I opened my ...

20. Comic Review: The Pro
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Garth Ennis excels at comics that are sick, twisted, and brilliant. His assualt on things right and good in the comic medium has included sex toys made of meat (Preacher), super-hero orgies (The Boys), ...