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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="640" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTchgEHZgftapR7v93_U1kDWlSnWqXvp-xWfTLGc-kceRjG3STVkkf3Wi_ZiP9jPe8YMQdw39ezWKBwGuGmveD3-lb8884W71pl3I8TyAxkzQ4t67HrksTcSLwHcgloupGaA2mmGf7dE/s320/2768328826-2bbb14b4324486778fbba16f6c07f616.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>7</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCTw6uQaHNTbg9FfwdN0zYjyxQE4Bh1fA1X9TkdneZCdTEboetnVv8oJpGDI_8e1PL1SPo39WG7-sfCDjAXF7qE4HNm0SWlfQQuqODarrExztay3Rqi0ai6lfxAhr-qtHGRUqjmGh_cEA/s1600/bats_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqHps5lUliYIqgcK9S7R5oO3bnyqyMdrjCbPq_kIjcwCM.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="864" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCTw6uQaHNTbg9FfwdN0zYjyxQE4Bh1fA1X9TkdneZCdTEboetnVv8oJpGDI_8e1PL1SPo39WG7-sfCDjAXF7qE4HNm0SWlfQQuqODarrExztay3Rqi0ai6lfxAhr-qtHGRUqjmGh_cEA/s320/bats_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqHps5lUliYIqgcK9S7R5oO3bnyqyMdrjCbPq_kIjcwCM.JPG" width="320" /></b></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>8 </b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8Z2bkKiinxP5Z2mES8xiMh2PoKnsnCodvIgaNZy3b2R5LARSJGdfHP2Hblf3Cbdzto9DDanUCF7ffq22OJhWaSZe7nlB6gxrq-IpIWLyx4Mv9tGAVp4i5xmr7JUc2H-tGZbAccqIGNw/s1600/creepy-victorian-vintage-christmas-cards-29-584ab65010e48__700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8Z2bkKiinxP5Z2mES8xiMh2PoKnsnCodvIgaNZy3b2R5LARSJGdfHP2Hblf3Cbdzto9DDanUCF7ffq22OJhWaSZe7nlB6gxrq-IpIWLyx4Mv9tGAVp4i5xmr7JUc2H-tGZbAccqIGNw/s320/creepy-victorian-vintage-christmas-cards-29-584ab65010e48__700.jpg" width="250" /></b></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>9</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vCGijxiUO0SmMvoqpM2U0RN1xagVwnKwDmlcDur3oUKcpcCTGIsMoJef0pJoZ6zHhOnq38fx1G7i4demc9CoyNAMD_W_leS_hzzUubOrQ0qF3RjZ2q2XLWAx0bEpapD7k_RX_ojNymY/s1600/CzvdMdQXgAALGhl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="500" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vCGijxiUO0SmMvoqpM2U0RN1xagVwnKwDmlcDur3oUKcpcCTGIsMoJef0pJoZ6zHhOnq38fx1G7i4demc9CoyNAMD_W_leS_hzzUubOrQ0qF3RjZ2q2XLWAx0bEpapD7k_RX_ojNymY/s320/CzvdMdQXgAALGhl.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>10</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="720" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLu6uND_xpkGZwAa_IlQ6zzZ8kXb_kqoAeILdaDZWVPvp4gyA9tXRG69v5fcK9POuvpBYWPxCelOhZXZRmt7bgjgE0G9dX9aFZ4MzntI6Kdrmq9LqSXQsBRH_dF35TVPxNOxoPTjMcQQo/s320/DuTe15rWoAAjhNU.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>12</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFewgmCdwoK1vJ1fbCfoWwQP77uB0VrL-712q_s5wASXYc9nYdzFCiehdqL5Rv9S2GDGltYlcbcZq0srGg48YbF-TbPItJ0pbAHFPWTJiYznx_uGoc6R5zXAZJ1wBNXL7OZ4vqOgnsoQ/s1600/Rabbits+Owls+Blind+Buff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1600" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFewgmCdwoK1vJ1fbCfoWwQP77uB0VrL-712q_s5wASXYc9nYdzFCiehdqL5Rv9S2GDGltYlcbcZq0srGg48YbF-TbPItJ0pbAHFPWTJiYznx_uGoc6R5zXAZJ1wBNXL7OZ4vqOgnsoQ/s320/Rabbits+Owls+Blind+Buff.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">13</span></b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJRSglEwdS9maoiAAbRN5_1XdrJXnVi5tlwjQ70T_HDqJp2jzD3llqgcAHGJ1iIckb8xtMdyKuzIPbdJSMSZzBuvtJh2mYcKDzLL-2hr0hZfGDrRuL_3bhTQyQ8ttBPAQ8ak9cvU5fJk/s1600/victorianxmas04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1280" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJRSglEwdS9maoiAAbRN5_1XdrJXnVi5tlwjQ70T_HDqJp2jzD3llqgcAHGJ1iIckb8xtMdyKuzIPbdJSMSZzBuvtJh2mYcKDzLL-2hr0hZfGDrRuL_3bhTQyQ8ttBPAQ8ak9cvU5fJk/s320/victorianxmas04.jpg" width="320" /></span></b></a></div> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">14</span></b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9GnRmgsLkAB003LxA0iTfz_3F0Iwl2Pv76k9qrKVfb0yVrsd45ntJxJzGvDACoU0bxByRi8FuyU2pgBiRQKtp4_nYho0kwkeJWeXW33fMGOVo8DEIoepsKo-R-f4J5ckspOa18bTJJNw/s1600/3b7b3a9d31889c7623b19848227c841b--christmas-postcards-vintage-christmas-cards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9GnRmgsLkAB003LxA0iTfz_3F0Iwl2Pv76k9qrKVfb0yVrsd45ntJxJzGvDACoU0bxByRi8FuyU2pgBiRQKtp4_nYho0kwkeJWeXW33fMGOVo8DEIoepsKo-R-f4J5ckspOa18bTJJNw/s320/3b7b3a9d31889c7623b19848227c841b--christmas-postcards-vintage-christmas-cards.jpg" width="206" /></span></b></a></div> <br /> <b><span style="font-size: large;">15</span></b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_oY9c2EWqgJrgiFdaHcw_iF7yrJVch98IFaH5PNMj3FJ7jMvGG2nyhAVtoGnVHtYN3hhkUFSvVjBWw2KDNEZQFGvEJwpVnruXU5H5er7TxF499XAowKoBBYVSrulhUDNUcRWnM5ZCtQ/s1600/4569282_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_oY9c2EWqgJrgiFdaHcw_iF7yrJVch98IFaH5PNMj3FJ7jMvGG2nyhAVtoGnVHtYN3hhkUFSvVjBWw2KDNEZQFGvEJwpVnruXU5H5er7TxF499XAowKoBBYVSrulhUDNUcRWnM5ZCtQ/s320/4569282_orig.jpg" width="205" /></span></b></a></div> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">16 </span></b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Our picklehaube-wearing German was abducted by an airborne monster. Unfortunately, the Dancing Swordsman's attempts to shoot the beast down resulted in cooking our Terran compatriot. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">One cannot mourn for long on Mars. It is a waste of precious water. We decided to head toward a guarded tower we had seen nearby.</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-size: large;">Of course, we were ambushed on the way by a party of Red Martians and White Apes and stripped of our weapons. We resisted our captors' attempt to lock us away in a prisoner's cell. My character, Cymzo Drox, Menton of Mars, threw a "stingstick" at the group's leader, then drained the lifeforce from our captors to power his mental warp abilities. We freed a Thark! who quickly joined the fray on our side. We then made a mad rush for the tower to escape further pursuit.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7gtHOqCdy61J-mNfo3JcDP6SvCGokP35CbZgczcpil_VdABSBT0JCa1Qq3xVRpt2EGtmHrHGLcjNKPNEu4u2mqhu0y2YlS3fM2NOvuoDJFPp2BSNN8JgcC7CSKGnzCyvGCHLzdVtCQU/s1600/SpaceX-Thaicom-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7gtHOqCdy61J-mNfo3JcDP6SvCGokP35CbZgczcpil_VdABSBT0JCa1Qq3xVRpt2EGtmHrHGLcjNKPNEu4u2mqhu0y2YlS3fM2NOvuoDJFPp2BSNN8JgcC7CSKGnzCyvGCHLzdVtCQU/s320/SpaceX-Thaicom-8.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The "tower" turned out to be a rocket ship currently operated by our nemesis, Mr. Whip. Although Mr. Whip had been an object of abject terror for us in the past, we quickly liquefied him. He will moonwalk no more. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Cymzo then realized that the rocket could be weaponized against the Red Martians and White Apes banging on the door outside. He initiated launch, immolating our foes, and enabling the rocket to fly on its pre-programmed course to the moon.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />And then we blacked out.</span> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/05226738666709754348' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/05226738666709754348' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Jack Guignol</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/immolating-your-friends-and-foes-on-red.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/immolating-your-friends-and-foes-on-red.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2018-12-19T00:05:00-05:00'>12:05 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1248343450'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5454587140887591817&postID=8650397041050679078&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=5454587140887591817&postID=8650397041050679078&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=5454587140887591817&postID=8650397041050679078&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXrtsxHk0QuOIcsk93rTSR9M0GmHKzGz4BU5Psd0GMK_hrPM2V8hdjEEIx8iaIxroQydr8s0LnmlNWuysNfMsjYwpmC0x0s0ybsaaDpI4ajHlKQ6Qc60Uvs9m0z-EcPElUkRAcwrFCNco/s1600/height_250_width_250_overlay_swelllookingbabe-bbfbp-cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXrtsxHk0QuOIcsk93rTSR9M0GmHKzGz4BU5Psd0GMK_hrPM2V8hdjEEIx8iaIxroQydr8s0LnmlNWuysNfMsjYwpmC0x0s0ybsaaDpI4ajHlKQ6Qc60Uvs9m0z-EcPElUkRAcwrFCNco/s1600/height_250_width_250_overlay_swelllookingbabe-bbfbp-cover.jpg" /></span></a></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://badbooksbadpeople.com/episode-28-a-swell-looking-babe-hard-boiled-crime-against-nature" style="background-color: white;">Bad Books for Bad People, </a></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Intervening years have seen a reassessment of his work, with Stephen King singing his praises and cultural historian Geoffrey O'Brien dubbing him "The Dimestore Dostoyevsky." <a href="https://amzn.to/2rEIW78" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Swell-Looking Babe</em></a> finds Thompson at his sharpest, weaving a taut tale of a bellboy who finds himself drawn into a seedy series of schemes that might actually be about altogether different--and far darker--themes.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Listeners are encouraged to seek out the book before listening, since <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">SPOILERS ABOUND</strong>.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will Kate and Jack encounter any familiar themes as they explore a new-to-the-podcast genre? 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text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5t3VBbI1p1cAKeV6Ke-Y66wZCPgloog082klWJii3112eWLqhVopVlJrYqOcwerVauu44I_9sdRuQd4abF7mzJQWWmnqtDAVU1rAkwQyEc1dupkhE4kR-JFDho_wH94T8fxXy6cbdrDw/s1600/top-7-books-that-changed-the-world.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5t3VBbI1p1cAKeV6Ke-Y66wZCPgloog082klWJii3112eWLqhVopVlJrYqOcwerVauu44I_9sdRuQd4abF7mzJQWWmnqtDAVU1rAkwQyEc1dupkhE4kR-JFDho_wH94T8fxXy6cbdrDw/s320/top-7-books-that-changed-the-world.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">The way "canonical literature" </span><span style="font-size: large;">supposedly </span><span style="font-size: large;">works is </span><span style="font-size: large;">that over time scholars figure out which authors are the best artists of their eras and which of their works are essential contributions to the literary form. Think of canonization as the notion of "the cream always rises to the top" mixed with a largely unseen political impetus. It's a comfortable myth that serves a variety of social and political ends; the intellectual deputies of the status quo tend include authors and works whose virtues just so happen to fit the current and persisting ideological goals of "culture" and "society" when formulating the literary canon. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Canonization also has the unfortunate tendency to narrow focus on an author's works to a scant handful of their creative expressions; we know that Melville is the </span><i style="font-size: large;"><b>Moby-Dick</b></i><span style="font-size: large;"> guy and that Mary Shelley wrote </span><i style="font-size: large;"><b>Frankenstein</b></i><span style="font-size: large;">, even if we haven't read either--and the average reader will never even think of straying beyond those well-worn paths.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">In this post I am going to draw your attention to some fantastic "lesser lights"--the novels, plays, and short fiction that have been overshadowed by their more famous counterparts and deserve a wider audience.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7C2nz-KjEwwRFynqGRkovrtyUmJZi2B8xkMgz2szyu4rJdXuZU1bYPxuWKdvcWB4EToTzWUnMW13f5r4AQr7BeuZsz8OeSoMeqi_tc3l6sFL9cg6dISoV-PhvjwEPQTJ0K3CDBMmxQh8/s320/128770.jpg" width="207" /></span></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>William Faulkner, <i>The Unvanquished</i></b></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Faulkner's reputation largely rests on his novel <i><b>The Sound and the Fury</b></i> and the oft-anthologized short stories "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily." (Oddly, Oprah helped boost his modern profile with her book club, so some of his other novels have maintained some rediscovered prominence.) <b><i>The Sound and the Fury</i> </b>has always struck me as a bit of a dodge; it sometimes gets away with really obvious symbolism by cloaking it in a stream of consciousness form that bowls over educated rubes. In contrast, <i><b>The Unvanquished</b></i>, though little-read, is a profoundly powerful novel-in-short-stories that addresses the Southern family, the nature of vengeance, and the violence inexorably tied to American history. It's also beautifully written. Consider this prose from a scene in which a young man of the modern world is offered deadly tools of honor and revenge--and is expected to use them as his forefathers would:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>I could see that too, who had had no presentiment; I could see her, in the formal brilliant room arranged formally for obsequy, not tall, nor slender as a woman is but as a youth, a boy, is, motionless, in yellow, the face calm, almost bemused, the head simple and severe, the balancing sprig of verbena above each ear, the two arms bent at the elbows, the two hands shoulder high, the two identical dueling pistols lying upon, not clutched in, one to each: the Greek amphora priestess of a succinct and formal violence.</i></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>I give them to you. Oh you will thank me, you will remember me who put into your hands what they say is an attribute only of God’s, who took what belongs to heaven and gave it to you. Do you feel them? the long true barrels true as justice, the triggers (you have fired them) quick as retribution, the two of them slender and invincible and fatal as the physical shape of love?</i></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGapnJuYr9VTGbTJyPS334834CBp87sHPK_VBxEauRGs5_QPsghYeOWwXBaJkFNGRE1e_VxnXcTyAY8MNfPLW_8z3o4uSd4xtwCYKAkkp-TRKthCvpcDq8j8MeeAYkMvxXdq0qoSQ-uZ0/s1600/verawildemini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGapnJuYr9VTGbTJyPS334834CBp87sHPK_VBxEauRGs5_QPsghYeOWwXBaJkFNGRE1e_VxnXcTyAY8MNfPLW_8z3o4uSd4xtwCYKAkkp-TRKthCvpcDq8j8MeeAYkMvxXdq0qoSQ-uZ0/s320/verawildemini.jpg" width="194" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Oscar Wilde, <i>Vera; or, The Nihilists</i></b></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Wilde was a celebrated playwright in his own lifetime, but that miraculous career writing for the stage got off to a rocky start. Before he hit on the winning formula behind successful dramas such as <i><b>Lady Windermere's Fan</b></i> and <i><b>The Importance of Being Earnest</b></i>--critique of British society adorned with witticisms and bon mots--Wilde tried his hand at political theater...and failed spectacularly. <b><i>Vera; or The Nihilists</i></b> was withdrawn from the theater within a week of its debut, and has rarely been revived since. And yet, although it isn't the kind of play that Wilde became known for, <b><i>Vera</i></b> is a moving and insightful look at political and social extremism that is perhaps more relevant today than it was when Wilde wrote it; neither the extremism that defends the status quo nor the extremism of revolutionaries willing to sacrifice their humanity for retaliation are allowed moral ground. For example, look at the internal struggle that results from the "Nihilist's oath," a catechism meant to harden the heart against the very feelings that make human life worthwhile:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Ay, red with the blood of that false heart. I shall not forget it. To strangle whatever nature is in me, neither to love nor to be loved, neither to pity nor to be pitied. Ay! it is an oath, an oath. Methinks the spirit of Charlotte Corday has entered my soul now. I shall carve my name on the world, and be ranked among the great heroines. Ay! the spirit of Charlotte Corday beats in each petty vein, and nerves my woman's hand to strike, as I have nerved my woman's heart to hate. Though he laughs in his dreams, I shall not falter.</i></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidpLCRnB4m8zK6eIMhCB_a-n9_OUUv7IxTa27iWP3ArZda5HW8zcgiXEw-TkPz4DOUFW6qm_U0Khym0weD4fqU2JC1RXFyv2aBEPZnoAdB89t1VkK3wjLEmzCcGyM8E5lP9fPdQ-jmkWU/s1600/61G%252Bm34T%252BzL._SX322_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidpLCRnB4m8zK6eIMhCB_a-n9_OUUv7IxTa27iWP3ArZda5HW8zcgiXEw-TkPz4DOUFW6qm_U0Khym0weD4fqU2JC1RXFyv2aBEPZnoAdB89t1VkK3wjLEmzCcGyM8E5lP9fPdQ-jmkWU/s320/61G%252Bm34T%252BzL._SX322_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="207" /></a></div> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Isak Dinesen's "The Monkey"</span> </b><br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isak Dinesen, real name Karen Blixen, is most famous for her dream-like memoir <b><i>Out of Africa</i></b> and the story "Babette's Feast," but it is a shame that so many people miss out on her weirder and darker short fiction, which is a particularly strong vein of oddity. One of my favorites in her bibliography is "The Monkey," part of her collection <b><i>Seven Gothic Tales</i></b>. "The Monkey" ushers us in a strange world: we have a soldier wishing to marry to avoid censure for "inappropriate" sexual dalliances, his prioress aunt who is more than willing to engage in secular manipulation, a woman marked out as a potential love-match who towers over her intended with a Valkyrie-like form, uncanny transformations, and a crossing of the boundaries between rational man and irrational beast. Ultimately, we're adrift in a world to which we are poorly suited because we crave stability even amid the maelstrom: </span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom, or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast, and are up against a force majeure. Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one mood, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting. It is all wrong, he thought, to imagine paradise as a never-changing state of bliss. It will probably, on the contrary, turn out to be, in the true spirit of God, an incessant up and down, a whirlpool of change.</i></span></span> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/05226738666709754348' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/05226738666709754348' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Jack Guignol</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/in-praise-of-lesser-lights.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/in-praise-of-lesser-lights.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2018-12-12T00:11:00-05:00'>12:11 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1248343450'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5454587140887591817&postID=2312489905829054813&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=5454587140887591817&postID=2312489905829054813&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=5454587140887591817&postID=2312489905829054813&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRW-U3qQdzzd7aoqcXjH0KcuSyzdjw_RAFok6NPaQEylq4z0X1MxK7m88ICAJ2qLw1zl3766zBK4naRl3FvnFrmXLLLha3AqvrQerlRQiZUAlK2y1OGENTli8wtgqK-rXphOGI3sWw30/s1600/b19bfc54d62f430279efdd02d9af07b1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRW-U3qQdzzd7aoqcXjH0KcuSyzdjw_RAFok6NPaQEylq4z0X1MxK7m88ICAJ2qLw1zl3766zBK4naRl3FvnFrmXLLLha3AqvrQerlRQiZUAlK2y1OGENTli8wtgqK-rXphOGI3sWw30/s320/b19bfc54d62f430279efdd02d9af07b1.jpg" width="211" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">Players seems to love spears, but D&D has never really given spears much love. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">In 5e, the spear is a simple weapon. (Literally.) There's not much to recommend it over martial weapons if you have access to them.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">This is a problem we can fix for the spear-lovers out there by creating a spear for all seasons, like so:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <br /> <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="width: 643px;"> <colgroup><col width="119"></col> <col width="68"></col> <col width="106"></col> <col width="64"></col> <col width="244"></col> </colgroup><tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0.04in; padding: 0.04in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="119"><b>Name</b></td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0.04in; padding: 0.04in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="68"><b>Cost</b></td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0.04in; padding: 0.04in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="106"><b>Damage</b></td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0.04in; padding: 0.04in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="64"><b>Weight </b></td> <td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0.04in;" width="244"><b>Properties</b></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="119">Battlespear (1)</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="68">10 gp</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="106">1d8 piercing</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="64">3 lb.</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="244">Versatile (1d10)</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="119">Greatspear (2)</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="68">30 gp</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="106">1d12 piercing</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="64">6 lb.</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="244">Heavy, two-handed</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="119">Longspear (3)</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="68">20 gp</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="106">1d10 piercing</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="64">6 lb.</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="244">Heavy, reach, two-handed</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="119">Quickspear (4)</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="68">25 gp.</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="106">1d8 piercing</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: none; border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="64">3 lb.</td> <td style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top: none; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in; padding-top: 0in; padding: 0in 0.04in 0.04in;" width="244">Finesse</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-size: large;">What I've done here should be obvious: I've really just re-skinned existing weapons from the game as spears:</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>(1)</b> - It's a longsword.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>(2)</b> - It's a greataxe. Could also be a 2d6 damage weapon, as per the greatsword. Whatever you like.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>(3)</b> - It's a glaive. Actually, it's already in the game as a pike but people get scared off by pikes when they have a spear fetish. Don't ask me why. But hey, maybe renaming it a "longspear" will convince your DM to let you use it with the Polearm Master feat. I'd allow it.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>(4)</b> - It's a rapier. Now your swashbuckling rogue can be that spear guy from Game of Thrones who got his face crushed.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">This is a method that can get you where you want to go. And nothing will be broken because you're already using the tried-and-tested stats for weapons that already exist in the game. No need to add new properties, complex rule kludges, etc. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Need a bunch of Castlevania-style chain whips? Change the damage type to bludgeoning. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Think the idea of dual wielding two rapiers is goofy? (It is.) Write down "Parrying blade (rapier)" on your sheet and use the stats for the rapier anyway.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Want a bludgeon with the finesse and/or light properties so you can play a thuggish rogue who sneak attacks with a blackjack? 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class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(4)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/'> 2020 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(86)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2020/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/'> 2019 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(95)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/'> 2018 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(111)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-christmas-spirit-and-humbug.html'>The Christmas Spirit and Humbug</a></li> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/vintage-christmas-cards-as-adventure.html'>Vintage Christmas Cards as Adventure Ideas</a></li> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/immolating-your-friends-and-foes-on-red.html'>Immolating Your Friends and Foes on the Red Planet</a></li> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-swell-looking-babe.html'>A Swell-Looking Babe</a></li> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/in-praise-of-lesser-lights.html'>In Praise of Lesser Lights</a></li> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/why-tsr-failed-manifest-zone-ravenloft.html'>Why TSR Failed, Manifest Zone, Ravenloft</a></li> <li><a href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/12/spearmania.html'>SPEARMANIA</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2018/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/'> 2017 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(183)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(19)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2017/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2016/'> 2016 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(142)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2016/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a 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