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		<title>Danger! Female Characters in a &#8220;Medieval&#8221; Setting</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/09/01/danger-female-characters-in-a-medieval-setting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladymedieval</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his last post, Gestalt wrote about creating characters with more traditionally medieval values in his fantasy games. Now in reality, if you are striving to recreate (for lack of a better term) the most historically accurate medieval fantasy game ever to exist, that’s going to be very difficult. Many of the pieces of literature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cowboys in Chainmail: Individualism and Medieval Settings</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/08/29/cowboys-in-chainmail-individualism-and-medieval-settings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gestalt Gamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to begin today&#8217;s blog post with an important caveat: this post is not intended to imply that any form of roleplay is wrong or that there is a right way to run games in a medieval setting. With that out of the way I can hopefully reduce the number of cave trolls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Off Dependent NPCs</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/08/10/killing-off-dependent-npcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gestalt Gamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a long time reader of More Than Dice, you know that I am big fan of player characters and NPCs having close relationships. If that NPC can be a spouse, ward, or family member, so much so the better. Today I want to talk about why those relationships are important: so you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it wasn&#8217;t for those meddling kids&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/08/04/if-it-wasnt-for-those-meddling-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladymedieval</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a player, one of my favorite parts about gaming is finding creative and unexpected solutions to thwart villains and move the party forward to new adventures. Sometimes these creative and unexpected solutions are a little sketchy. One of my favorite examples from the Star Wars game I am in is when we were trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rated &#8216;A&#8217; for Adults</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/22/rated-a-for-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ironclad Penguin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the video game world a game that earns an Adults Only rating generally must have one of two things in the game: sex and/or excessive gore. This kind of rating doesn’t really exist in the average pen and paper game because the content of the campaign is determined by the DM and the players. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the Table&#8217;s a Stage 3</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/21/all-the-tables-a-stage-3/</link>
		<comments>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/21/all-the-tables-a-stage-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ladymedieval</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite theatre personalities is Peter Brook (he directed a really influential production of Titus Andronicus that brought that play with all its gore and glory back into the theatre canon). In his book The Empty Space, he has a chapter called Deadly Theatre, a term which he uses to describe crappy theatre. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Rise of the Black Prince 1.1</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/21/podcast-rise-of-the-black-prince-1-1/</link>
		<comments>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/21/podcast-rise-of-the-black-prince-1-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gestalt Gamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have  a special treat for our Readers. The first session podcast from the More Than Dice crew. This Pathfinder campaign, entitled Return of the Black Prince contains two new players, four women and one Josh. It takes place in a steam-punk world of my own design called Vion. The first session was a little shaky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Villain Profile: Gaius Kendrix, Sith Apprentice</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/20/villain-profile-gaius-kendrix-sith-apprentice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gestalt Gamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Star Wars is choc full o&#8217; iconic villains, from Vader to Revan to the Hutts &#8211; the bad guys are larger than life and diabolical to the extreme. Part of the charm of the universe is the stark contrast between good and evil and the galactic level conflicts that are generated by a handful of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Back-stories to Bar Stories 2</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/18/from-back-stories-to-bar-stories-2/</link>
		<comments>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/18/from-back-stories-to-bar-stories-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gestalt Gamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last time I talked about how – for some of us – it can be easier to think of a character’s background in relatively recent terms, rather than going Freudian and beginning in childhood. Today I’ll be talking about how hopefully all of us can benefit from knowing how stories like these get told. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack of Spades</title>
		<link>http://morethandice.com/blog/2011/07/12/jack-of-spades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gestalt Gamer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello friend, my name is Jack Connor. I was born in 1885 and I am immortal&#8230; Well, not exactly immortal. More like really hard to kill. I was the world&#8217;s greatest card shark, so good people used to say I was born with a deck of cards in my hand. Actually, I was the only [...]]]></description>
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