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Bruce Heard

Bruce Heard (born in in Nice, France) is a game designer, and an author of several products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR. At least, this is what Wikipedia says about me!

I grew up in France (mostly), England, Morocco, Washington DC, and Texas. I speak mostly French and English, with a little Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Returning to Nice for my education, I graduated from the lycée hotelier in 1977; I got passionately interested in wargames when I was attending the Lycée ... primarily in Avalon Hill games like Kriegspiel, Luftwaffe, Third Reich, and Panzer Leader — the classics. There were, of course, no French editions of these games at the time, so I had to learn the American versions. I loved to travel, so I studied hotel management and worked as a concierge in both France and California.

While living in San Francisco I discovered the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, and when I returned to Paris I joined my first regular Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) group. I started writing articles on D&D and AD&D for French gaming magazine Casus Belli, and there learned that TSR was looking for someone to translate the games into French. Well, I spoke and wrote both languages, and I knew the games, so a request reached Gary Gygax. By a coincidence, he was just about to come to Paris on business, and so we set up a meeting. I must have done OK, because he offered me the job. After a few months of doing translation work in Nice, TSR requested I move to the home office in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. For a sun-loving Mediterranean like me, Wisconsin in February was a bit of a shock.

After working for two years as a translator, I transferred to TSR's Games Division in July 1985 as an Acquisitions Coordinator, in charge of contracting freelance writers. I also did game design, including adventure modules CM7, Tree of Life; M1, Into the Maelstrom; and co-authorship of DL12, Dragons of Faith.

I worked on a number of products for the basic Dungeons & Dragons game, including writing the "Voyage of the Princess Ark" series for Dragon magazine, a monthly feature that lasted about three years, as well as other products for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. I was the Basic D&D line Product Manager for years, during which the beloved D&D Gazetteers and the Rules Cyclopedia were published. I also worked at TSR as the director of production planning and head of games acquisitions.

My son Noel came to this world when TSR went bankrupt. One of the outcomes of the happy event in my life was that I could not follow my colleagues to Renton, Wa, at WotC, which had salvaged most of TSR's creative team. My writing years went on hiatus while I explored other avenues. After some time at US Web near Milwaukee and United Airlines at O'Hare, I'm now back in Wisconsin to re-invent myself and do what I really want to do! This now includes the creation of the World of Calidar.

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My Blog List

Tenkar's Tavern

OSR Christmas - Day Four - Another Box of andom Gaming Shit from the Tenkar's Game Collection - and Much More! - Here we go with *Day Four of OSR Christmas*. Print books can only be delivered in the US with this gift pool, digital can all be delivered worldwide. Le...
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Anniceris

Toasts de Chaosium - Chaosium réorganise ses jeux après le décès de Stafford et a annoncé que les Editions Sans Détour ne pourraient pas garder les droits de traduire en franç...
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Mystara on The Piazza

The Wishing Well • Re: Secrets of Blackmoor Documentary Now on Kickstarter - Funded! - This Kickstarter has now been successfully funded! Still 13 days to go! [image: :)] -Havard Statistics: Posted by Havard — Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:35 pm -----...
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Havards Blackmoor Blog

Blackmoor Documentary Successfully Funded! - Great news! Secrets of Blackmoor, the documentary about the history of Blackmoor has been successfully funded on Kickstarter. Out of all the D&D history d...
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The RPGPundit

DCC Campaign Update: The Catboy is Going Commando - In our last adventure, the PCs had returned from the Realm of Fire to the material plane, arriving in the middle of some swamp, they knew not where. They...
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Forbeck.com

Blood Bowl Anthology Out Today! - Death on the Pitch, an anthology that collects a series of recently published Blood Bowl stories, debuts today in both paperback and ebook formats. This co...
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Gazette du wargamer

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Axes and Orcs

First draft of Stars Without Number Spelljamming Helms - *Reminder, helm refers both to the place a vessel is steered and the person performing that duty, although helmsman is also used and Spelljammer refers t...
7 hours ago
Stargazer's World

Somewhat DISCONNECTED - I realised today that all the adventures I have run in the past five years have been set above ground. One was on a snowy mountain top in the treeline in t...
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Kaijuville

A quick word - Was my last post four months ago? Time moves quickly. Expect a longer post here soon to catch up on what has been happening, what to expect here in the fut...
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The Other Side blog

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Sacnoth's Scriptorium

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Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

"Gaming" with Little Man! - Pardon if this is a bit off topic, but had to share. My grandson is about to turn 4, and he is getting at the age where we can sit down in the floor, set u...
23 hours ago
Dungeon Fantastic

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Tyrean's Writing Spot

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Armchair Gamer

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Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

The OSR News - December 8, 2018 - Gregorius21778 continues to release weird fantasy material, Randall Stukey is still making Microlite games and Hero Games floods DTRPG with oldies but good...
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2 Hour Blog

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In Places Deep

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B/X BLACKRAZOR

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4 days ago
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d20 Pirates

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Writing Off the Edge

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4 days ago
Luxor Times

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Postmortem Studios

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Hall of the Mountain King

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3rd Party Plugs Wednesdays - Couple of things that came to my attention recently that are RPG related. The Fantasy Network free-to-watch streaming video service "deliver creator-owned...
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1973 Preview of Mythical Earth Minifigs - *"Middle Earth wizard painted as Saruman in his 'coat of many colours'; a vicious-looking man-orc; a rather stocky elf; axe-wielding dwarf, and of course...
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Rather Gamey

Exodus - I'm working on simplifying my browsing, so I'm joining the Google+ and Tumblr mass exodus early and won't be checking either. You can find me here on Blo...
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Dyvers

Dragons Never Forget - Over the last few months I've largely been absent from Blogger. The website has been aggravating me as I've lost posts I've scheduled, and the integration ...
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Hill Cantons

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Gothridge Manor

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Greyhawkery

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The Raskal RPG

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Playing D&D With Porn Stars

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Dorkland!

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1 week ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

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1 week ago
Back to the Keep

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1 week ago
AuldDragon's AD&D Blog

Fanthros Storm-Hooves - This month features the second of the four centaur deities that were listed but not detailed in an old Dragon Magazine articles on centaurs. Fanthros is th...
1 week ago
The Grand Tapestry

Three Months Later... - Well, with G+ dying a slow death, the transporter beaming a lot of us to MeWe, and my weekly games, I have a lot of new material to incorporate or supplant...
1 week ago
Trollsmyth

Brave New Thawed Out World. - DM David is wondering about different styles of DMing, and he’s especially interested in the dichotomy between the “classic” impartial referee and the mor...
1 week ago
About Bruce Heard & new stories

Guild of Dracologists - This article is the third in the guild series. *Click here* to catch the first one, along with a word explaining how Caldwen's guilds are set up in general...
1 week ago
The Kickstarter Blog

Highlights from Bold Type, Our Celebration of French Typography - *Version française ci-dessous.* This fall, Kickstarter and the French graphic design and visual culture magazine *étapes:* teamed up to launch *Bold Typ...
2 weeks ago
Roll For Initiative

RFI Podcast Volume 9 Issue 216 – D&D Cartoon – The City at the Edge of Midnight - We are back for RFI Podcast, Volume 9, as Matt and Nick start review of the D&D cartoon, season 2 start, as we recap the sixteenth episode, talking about t...
2 weeks ago
Módulos RPG

Entrevista com Marcelo Paschoalin - Salve pessoal! Hoje trago uma entrevista que tive o prazer de fazer com o grande Marcelo Paschoalin, prolífico escritor, mestre das artes místicas e gent...
2 weeks ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

An OSR logo - I was bored after stuffing myself with turkey, so I opened up Inkscape and came up with an logo that I really liked. I am far more inclined towards one-col...
2 weeks ago
Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign

Sigh... - “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time
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rleebyers

Nisaba Journal: Issue 1 is now available - NISABA JOURNAL: ISSUE 1 is now available! This is an anthology of stories set in the worlds of Green Ronin Publishing and includes my story "The Prisoner,"...
3 weeks ago
Jeffs Gameblog

check this out - I am right now in a workshop on gamification in faculty development. I just took this interesting quiz on gamer type: https://gamified.uk/UserTypeTest2016...
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Hack & Slash

Don't look at this trap! - I was drawing a map on the table, extemporaneously from a source online. My players had predictably wandered off course. Not having thoroughly prepared, I ...
4 weeks ago
Ramblings of a Great Khan

Ostschild News Update 11-08-18 - Following the latest TPK I am advancing the date a bit to match our own season, the new party will begin at Guido's Fort on the Donau river on November 13t...
4 weeks ago
The Swordfish Islands

Reddit AMA - 11-09-18 - Things have been kinda nuts on this front. The Dark of Hot Springs Island won the gold Ennie for best adventure at Gen Con 2018. It won the prestigious R...
4 weeks ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

Status Update - For those dedicated regular readers out there, just a quick update: posting will be light to nonexistent through the month of November. I've been trying to...
4 weeks ago
Save Versus
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Announcing the Contest Winner! (Plus Some Interesting US Coin Facts) - The third semi-annual Save Versus All Wands contest - What is the Value of this Coin Hoard - is over. $1,000 was the winning guess, only a bit below the ...
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Forgotten Runes

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1 month ago
Stocking The Dungeon

A lighthearted open letter to Greyhawk fans. - Let me start by saying I don't dislike Greyhawk. I play in a current AD&D 2nd ed. game set in that setting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor also, as the settings de...
1 month ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

My new blog: devilghost.com - For months, I’ve been slowly moving entries from my old blog (here) to my new blog. I want to escape Blogger both because of technology preferences (I li...
1 month ago
3d6, Traps and Thieves

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1 month ago
geoffgander | Just another WordPress.com site

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2 months ago
Dark Paths and Wandered Roads

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Hidden in Shadows

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The Dungeon Dozen

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Vintage Wargaming

Desert Update 2 - Thanks to Carl (in another place) pointing out these figures are now up on the Pictart web site and can be ordered on line using the site’s shopping basket...
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Aeons & Augauries

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Thorn's Chronicle

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Age of Ravens

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BRW Games

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3 months ago
The Secret DM

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Underworld Kingdom

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Forgotten DM

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No School Like The Old School

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Appendix N

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Little Odo's Grand Days Out

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A Paladin In Citadel

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4 months ago
RPG MUSINGS

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Thorfinn Tait Cartography

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JAMES MISHLER GAMES

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Really Bad Eggs

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Fantasy Maps by Anna B Meyer

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6 months ago
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7 months ago
The Signe of the Frothing Mug

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8 months ago
Elaine Cunningham

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8 months ago
Unicorn Bell

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8 months ago
www.elisemartinson.com

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A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

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10 months ago
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10 months ago
Some Dark Romantic

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10 months ago
Gruntz 15mm SCI-FI

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11 months ago
The Known & the Hollow

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11 months ago
Unusual Historicals

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1 year ago
Stormwolf.com

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1 year ago
Atomic Dragon Battleship

New Blog Location! - Hi, everybody -- I'm relocating this blog on over to my shiny new website. If you're looking for Atomic Dragon Battleship or Baker's Field posts, well, I'l...
1 year ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Illyria Game Two - Against the Cult of the Reptile God! - Illyria Game Two picked up back in the waterside city of Fraus, on the northwest of Lake Laconic. The players met Nicodemus, the thieves' guild master, a...
1 year ago
Dragon Grumbles

- *Life below armpit level* I just spent 4 days using a mobility cart at GenCon 50. I never realized that my fellow gamers were so: (take your pick) obliviou...
1 year ago
THE LAND OF NOD

The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...
1 year ago
Beyond the Black Gate

B/X: Ability score adjustments - This is kind of an interesting idiosyncrasy of B/X. Its also one of those odd rules that seemed to make it's way informally into a lot of the 1E campaig...
1 year ago
Cinema Steve

The InspiroBot Zodiac... help me collect 12 great ones! - In case you haven't heard, InspiroBot is the greatest toy to ever appear on the web. It lets you generate images that resemble those inspirational posters ...
1 year ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

Agents of D.O.F.I.E. - Now and then, I make notes for some game-thing-or-other, then forget about it. Then I'll find it again, and laugh at my own jokes, then forget about it aga...
1 year ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
1 year ago
Howling Tower

Cardtography 2: A Simple Dungeon - The second installment of Cardtography is up at Kobold Press. We didn’t choose cards as our randomizers because they’re somewhat room-shaped. That’s a h...
1 year ago
Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old

Time for a New Edition! - I guess I should explain what I mean by that title. Today, I will be rebooting *Dungeons Deep & Caverns Old*. I feel like I have hit a road-block creative...
1 year ago
Battleaxes & Beasties

- I'm very pleased to announce that I've received the outline and readied the cover for the first Battleaxes & Beasties adventure that is not written by me. ...
1 year ago
The Semi-Retired Gamer

What's In The Drawer or On The Desktop? - It has been some time since my last post but I was just overloaded with work commitments and other things. Things seem to have slowed down and I took an ex...
1 year ago
ROFL Initiative

How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
1 year ago
Creative Mountain Games

The Friday Grab Bag - Going Dark - My blogs and Facebook will be (mostly) dark for the next couple of weeks. This includes creativemountaingames.com, grymvald.com, and mfwars.com, all of wh...
2 years ago
The Evil GM

This Blog has moved, http://theevildm.com - This Blog has moved, http://theevildm.com
2 years ago
Dungeon's Master

10 Most Common Mistakes DMs and Players Make in 5e D&D - If you’re like me you’ve been playing D&D a long time and 5e is not your introduction to this wonderful game. And if you’re like me you haven’t read every ...
2 years ago
Tracy Hickman

Life Reset Button & the Future - "Have you turned it off and on again?" -- Roy, 'The IT Crowd' I did not know that life had a reset button but now I can tell you that God is the one who ...
2 years ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Green Devil Face 3D Printed - This feature is LEGENDARY in the infamous S1 Tomb of Horrors by Gary Gygax. Now you can print (a version of) it for your own game. Derived from OpenForge...
2 years ago
Precious Monsters

Paranormal Romance Boxed Set - For The Love of the Vampire - I'm pleased to announce that I'm in a new boxed set. It's all about romance and vampires in the *For the Love of the Vampire* collection by 8 paranormal...
2 years ago
Tabletop On the Desktop

Interview - Shane Ward has a posted a lovely interview with me. Check it out when you can.
2 years ago
Elf Lair Games

Updates - Low-res concept for SHAMA issue 1 cover Just keeping everyone in the loop. Working on getting a video together for the Kickstarter while awaiting the paper...
2 years ago
The Cartography of Thorfinn Tait

This Blog Has Moved - Late last year I opened a new web site, with a new blog. Consequently, I will be archiving the material in this blog, and I won't be posting any new mater...
2 years ago
Random Wizard

Moved - The Random Wizard Blog has moved to https://www.kirith.com/random-wizard/
3 years ago
aldeboran

MOVED - I've moved everything to www.stefanpoag.com. Thank you, blogger.com, for the years of hosting; please visit my new site.
3 years ago
Notes From the Lizard Lair

4th of July Book Sale - Get World Building books and other good reads for 10% off through July 4th at my online bookstore!
3 years ago
CRUT ROOM

- "the Guardian" Artworks for caravan artbook 2014 [image: photo guardian series quotthe Shipperblog.jpg] [image: photo The Keeperblog.jpg] [image: photo guard...
3 years ago
The Blog of Fantasy Author & Editor Paul Genesse

Short Story Writing Presenation June 2015 - UTAH SPECULATIVE FICTION WRITERS MEETING I'll be presenting on writing short stories. Meeting Date: Thursday, June 4th 6:30-9:00 pm Meeting location: Riv...
3 years ago
The Dungeoneering Dad

I'm a Sucker for Battlemats, so I had to Share this Kickstarter - Figured I'd dust off the ol' blog to share this... I'm a sucker for a good battlemat... (just take a gander at these posts: link). I recently relocated an...
3 years ago
Inspired Mythos

Castle Keepers Guide - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Overview - A new printing of the Castle Keepers Guide for Castles & Crusades is soon to be released by Troll Lord Games.Once upon a time this book seemed like vapour...
3 years ago
formergamer

Arms and armour in Middle Earth – Update - I spent some thought on yesterday’s post (mostly, to make sure I had not written bullshit). I ended up picking up my Italian translation of David Day’s Tol...
3 years ago
Treasured Surviving Relics

Bruce Heard's Calidar in Stranger Skies - The history of the Dungeons & Dragons game as those of us who indulged our curiousity into the corporate shennanigans of TSR through its lifetime will kno...
3 years ago
Burning Monster: A Sketch-Blog

Goodbye 2014 - Goodbye 2014. A great many things have started to change in 2014 and will result in a very different world and life for me in 2015. Come this spring, I’...
3 years ago
Cyclopeatron

Menoth Avatar Conversion with Scourge of Heresy Sword - I've been working on improving the Avatar of Menoth to make it look a little more threatening, as it should. I want to get this thing on the table, though,...
4 years ago
John's Odd World

What's Wrong! I'm Your Son! - Burial Ground is perhaps one of my all time favorite zombie movies to come from over seas. After George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, something happened in z...
4 years ago

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