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These are the places you can regularly hear and/or see me talking about gaming or doing the thing and streaming some play. Links are both in the pictures and in the text beneath.

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Daydreaming about Dragons Podcast

The logo for my podcast, Daydreaming about Dragons

In which I have a conversation with you about techniques that are shaking out at the tables where I sit and inspirational media.


The Sixth Ring, a Trophy Podcast

In which Jason and I discuss the Trophy RPG and in doing so end up talking about game culture and techniques that link up to all kinds of tabletop RPG’s.


I’m often gaming on the Actual Play twitchstream channel.

World of Dungeons, Twitch.com/ACTUALPLAY

Municipal Dungeon Delving in the fantasy city of Jaquays (pronounced Jake-Ways) in the wake of the Sorcerer-Kings, who have abandoned this world and have left their toxic labs, wyrd towers and feral pets all over the city-scape. More about the making of this game here.


I’ve been honored to play so much on the Actual Play channel, a place where I’ve made wonderful friends and played wondrous games.


What am I regularly playing off-stream?

On Thursday evenings we play our Thursday night game, founded at the start of the pandemic. We are deciding what to play in 2023 and are playing Into the Megadungeon until we all can get together, put our previous campaign to a satisfying end and get behind something new.


At the bottom of most blog posts you might notice links to my Threadless shop. A few years ago I started combining my librarian’s passion for finding old out-of-copyright pics and general geekery with the Affinity Art Suite and this Threadless shop was born. I set up the shop so the proceeds that would go to me go to amazing organizations. Below is what the shop has earned as of 11/28/22 a total of $346.69 for organizations like Medshare India, Fair Fight, National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, National Center for Transgender Equity and many more.

Design examples and links to collections below:

Goth Collection
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https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/collections/tabletop-role-playing-games
https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/collections/science-fiction
https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/collections/dune-collection
Geek Media Studies
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Wizard’s Apprentice

Wizard’s Apprentice

Wizard's hat, wizard's staff and wizard's tome on a dark red background. Art by @lineartestpilot

Daydreaming about a game about playing a wizard’s apprentice.

To become a wizard the apprentice must…

…summon an entity from another world, keeping it contained and making a useful pact.

…learn 1 spell from teacher.

…learn 1 spell from rival.

…learn 1 spell from ancient source.

…create 1 spell.

…craft a meaningful tool or weapon.

…enchant your staff.

…pass a final test decided by no less than 3 wizards (teacher cannot be involved)

I’m imagining that these were put together from a quote from an ancient wizard that went something like:

A wizard has been touched by another world. In their tome you will find their elder’s magic, an understanding of their enemy’s spells and an arcane creation all their own. They have crafted their own arcane implement and hold their staff proudly.

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What kind of arcane practitioner(s) teaches you?

A Hedge Wizard

The Hedge Wizard’s tower is…

…half a day’s walk from a grateful village.

…at the crossroads of a long-dead empire’s trade routes.

…or at the foot of the mountain where the dragon they helped hunt was slain.

…at the entrance to a demon-haunted gorge.

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A Court Sorcerer

The monarch they serve is…

…impossibly young, at the mercy of a noble council.

…dying, with vultures circling to take the throne.

…or in the prime of their power, trying to stop a civil war from erupting.

…away at war.

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A Back-alley Warlock

To survive the warlock is…

…in hiding.

…a lone player in an active criminal web.

…a crime lord of an up-and-coming syndicate.

…trying desperately to stop a Mage War.

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A War Mage

This mage serves…

…a mercenary company they helped found.

…in a storied company of the Emperor’s Legion.

…in a rebel cell attempting to topple a throne.

…in a ducal army, laying siege to their hated rival.

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A Boneyard Necromancer

The Boneyard is a…

…necropolis built by long-gone civilization.

…a dragon cemetery where these mythic beasts go when they die.

…an ancient battlefield, still scarred by arcane weapons, whose energies are lost to time.

…a city’s labyrinth of tombs.

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A Country Witch

Her hut is currently…

…at the edge of a haunted forest.

…among a ring of villages plagued by bandits.

…along the coast, where frothing raiders often land.

…in land claimed by a corrupt cabal of knights.

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An Arcane College

This college was founded in…

…an ancient city where magic was said to be born.

…a library built atop the world.

…an otherworldly borderlands where alien beings frequently wander through.

…a remote island where the first sorcerer was punished after stealing arcane fire from the gods.

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Was your apprentice sent to learn magic because of one or more of the follow reasons or is there another?

You summoned something fell and lost control of it.

You attempted to marshal elemental forces.

You found your teacher so you could learn some mystery that only arcane arts can solve.

You fell into another world and came back marked by the experience in ways that made home uncomfortable for you.

You see something wrong with the world that you currently believe only magic can change.

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Tempted to use Fighting and Why It is Horrible for any violence.

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When you cast a spell, tell your friends what energy from this world or another that you are attempting to manipulate and to what effect.

The GM will tell you one or more of the following:

It works as you intended but…

…does something surprising.

…and the landcape’s buried history exerts some influence.

…but demands more than you had anticipated.

…but plants a seed that will bear fell fruit later.

You have forgotten or misunderstood a vital lesson…

…and the GM will describe how these energies begin to coalesce in ways you had not anticipated.

…and the GM will describe the pain inflicted on your flesh.

…and the GM will describe the horror you have wrought.

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The Sigil 6 Brains and Thorns on the Rock of Bral

The Sigil 6 Brains and Thorns on the Rock of Bral

We began the campaign in 5 Torches Deep, shifted over to 5e and now we are playing Godbound.

Read more about the Sigil 6 here.

The Sigil 6 used several Words and Powers to fly and then Shadow-walk into the Illithid’s subterranean lair under Prince Andru’s palace. The elvish mercenaries got a pair of lucky shots off and hit Shepherd.

One of the Mind Flayers was astral projecting to get reinforcements; its body was limp but its Mind Flayer comrade was nearby surrounded by wyverns with thrall-studs in their skulls to make psionic domination easier. It was a 3 round battle but the wyvern tail-venom was nasty; Trundle was dropped in the first round and Kuru followed soon after – but not before stealing the Mind Flayer’s ability to probability travel.

I need to ask Kuru to hold his action if he wants to steal an ability. I love that power but we’ve been using it like an interrupt, which is a bit powerful. Kuru’s ability theft meant the Mind Flayer couldn’t just walk away from the losing battle. And so it died. Once the Mind Flayer was dead it was an easy thing for Shepherd, still in a Mind Flayer body, to psionically order them to sleep.

Kuru grabbed the Mind Flayers’ treasure. They were running a little low on funds. Now they should have some more liquid funds.

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I’ve been using the AD&D Monster Manual, Monster Manual 2 and Fiend Folio for the stats and such. For the wyvern’s poison tail venom, I went with a Hardiness Save, failure meant the damage was Straight d10 (which is BRUTAL) and success meant just a straight d6. This dropped 2 characters. If the players had tried to futz around with the wyverns instead of finding out early that Shepherd, in the Mind Flayer body, could easily mind control them once the other Mind Flayers were out of the picture it would’ve been a bad night for the Sigil 6.

I’ve been enjoying Godbound combats. They are fast, brutal and the players are using their powers in interesting ways. We got slowed down a bit by figuring out exactly how Effort works and when Effort is spent and when it is just making a power work and goes back to the character once that power is turned off. It is a process and that is fine.

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They killed Shepherd, forcing him from the Mind Flayer body, after they were refusing to leave the Illithid shell and return to his angel-made flesh golem procured in Ravenloft. We rolled some dice on it but it was all in good fun and Trundle and Jusko rolled well – ending it quickly. The corpseflea made his way into his golem sleeve and apologized for how he acted. Shepherd’s new Fact reflects his time spent in the Mind Flayer sleeve and he took a new power that we are coloring as a Psionic Blast.

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They used powers to look around Bral and see what was happening. They saw the Prince’s elf mercenary guards coming back to themselves and watched them kill Prince Andru, saying he had been in league with the Mind Flayers and had even given them access to Potions of Mind Control made to control elves. These elf soldiers were preparing to take over the Rock of Bral’s governance. No one was exactly comfortable with this. Trundle tried to get them to agree to turn the governance over to an elected republic but it was a failed Spirit Save. Nope.

They gave the Elf General (why didn’t I name him!?!) a letter of introduction to the Lady of Pain, hoping to set him up with Outlands Expedition Teams should they need more support. After getting some advice from their AWOL Githyanki ship captain, they overheard them talking about something called the Siege of Thorns. They found out these elves were on the losing side of a war in which their queen attempted to take control of the Radiant Citadel.

Inspiration for Elvish Empire is the Two Drakes‘ BBEG, Widow of Roses.

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Kuru wanted to steal something from the Prince’s palace before they left. Part of me is tempted to roll some dice at the start of next session but I’d also like to get to the Radiant Citadel already. I’ll roll up some random treasure.

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A few inspiring d6 tables to get the juices flowing.

A few inspiring d6 tables to get the juices flowing.

When do I use tables like the ones below?

I might use them before the game as my pre-game prep, figuring out a few rumors or a handful of missions or things that might be happening.

I might use one of the d6 tables to figure something out and disclaim some decision making to the dice. Maybe I want 2 factions that are fighting – handy to have 6 factions in a d6 table (or 4 or 8 or 10 or 12 or…you get the idea), isn’t it?

Might use it to figure out what is happening in a part of the map that I did not think the players were going to head into or to flesh out an idea.

Might just use them as lists of cool shit to inspire ideas during play. They can be a good way of writing down the campaign’s starting vibes.

If I’m stuck, I find I can usually write down 6 bullet-point ideas that aren’t fully formed. After that, 6 more bits to spice up those 6 and then one more to add something odd. If you really aren’t sure, put down your 6 favorite monsters, your 6 favorite types of places and 6 more odd things that have nothing to do with anything else. Roll some dice and see what comes of it or pick my favorite from each and see what that inspires.

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PIC: faded gaming table behind the words TEXT: Type of place: 1 Ruined Tower 2 Ancient Temple 3 Beautiful Grove 4 Abandoned castle 5 Barrow 6 Wizard-scorched battlefield Glimmer of Past: 1 Shrine to dead god 2 Statue of a dead dynasty's monarch 3 Dying empire's boundary marker 4 Ancient druidic order's standing stone 5 Ancient road 6 Mass grave from a slaughter lost to history Wild Card: 1 Remnant of a spell gone wrong 2 Spirit, watching and judging 3 Ghost, longing and reaching 4 Bandit scout, hiding and assessing 5 Beast, hunting and sniffing 6 Your favorite monster
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Places Serene Glade Ancient Witch-Tree Coven Devil Gorge Ancient Standing Stones Elf Ruins Raging River Factions (roll twice if you want factions fighting – same result might be in-fighting) Satyrs Queen’s Elves, returning to lands they left long ago Witch-Elves, sworn to fell trees, never left Tieflings (with a keep and small castle town in Devil Gorge) Gnomes, ply the river Scattered human nomads, hither and yon Problems Something ancient has stirred One faction’s forces is stalking the other from stealth One faction’s forces is retreating desperately Diplomacy among two factions is occurring One faction is celebrating a holy day Two factions are trading goods
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The ship is dealing with

1 plague
2 storm damage
3 mutiny
4 a difficult mission ahead
5 being hunted by a sea beast
6 being hunted by a rival ship

Ship type:

1Merchant
2Ship of War
3Whaler/Beast Hunter
4Refugee Ark
5Cartographer
6Storm Wizard's Sanctum/Storm Deity's Temple

One more thing:

1 Ghost Ship
2 Treasure Map
3 Storm on the horizon
4 Pirates on the horizon
5 Land Ho!
6 Dragon
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Inspired by:

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Reddit GM Advice: The Precarious Character/Strategy/Fun Triangle, Bummer Mentor & Your Voice is Enough

Reddit GM Advice: The Precarious Character/Strategy/Fun Triangle, Bummer Mentor & Your Voice is Enough

TEXT: REDDIT GM ADVICE THREAD

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Reddit GM Advice: Planning, Princess Glorious Chaos & Game Start Questions

Reddit GM Advice: Planning, Princess Glorious Chaos & Game Start Questions

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The Sigil 6: The Mind Flayer Hunt Gets Personal

The Sigil 6: The Mind Flayer Hunt Gets Personal

We began the campaign in 5 Torches Deep, shifted over to 5e and now we are playing Godbound.

Read more about the Sigil 6 here.

Our game is switching from 5e to Godbound. The characters were up to 12th level and Godbound is a fun system for powerful D&Dish folks.

The group voted for the Winter World to be their next adventure and so I started prepping and daydreaming about how I’d alter Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. They had killed a Mind Flayer that was living under the Rock of Bral last adventure and foolish me, I did not ask if that was the end of it.

It was not the end of it. Kuru’s run-in with an aboleth’s mind control has left its mark; he doesn’t like cthonic mind control beasts. Shit got personal. Then Shepherd, the Corpseflea, jumped into the Mind Flayer corpse. I’m getting ahead of myself. First, the treasure tables…

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PIC: Monster Manual Mind Flayer, Monster Manual's Appendix Treasure Table and the DMG treasure Tables. TEXT: Randomly generated the treasure from the Mind Flayer. so much fun! 3000 Gold, 7000 Copper (coins from uncounted worlds) Potions of Plant Control, Invulnerability, Polymorph and Human Control (elves and half-elves). Scrolls: Find Familiar, Strength, Dig and one magic item, randomly generated which was - no shit A Bag of Holding

Nice thing about using the AD&D Monster Manual (and the Monster Manual II and the Fiend Folio) is that I get to use its treasure tables. I rolled, not knowing that there is an automated option. I decided the Mind Flayer kept bodies whose brains it had eaten in its Bag of Holding, doing some light, non-necromantic hobby-mummification for fun.

It seemed like the Sigil 6 wanted to put an epilogue on the slaying of the Mind Flayer from last week, talk to Prince Andru of Bral, maybe get a reward and then leave. I had described Andru’s honor guard as haughty elves in red and gold livery. They were turned away at the bridge to the prince’s palace, leading them to believe that this Mind Flayer wasn’t working alone. Even Jusko’s Leadership Word couldn’t penetrate, furthering the theory that some greater power was behind it all.

Shepherd is a corpseflea, a little spark of sentience that can jump into corpses (taken from the cool af 5 Torches Deep: Heritage supplement). I was straight-up eager for him to jump into the Mind Flayer body. He did. I asked for a Spirit Save and it was a fail. He wouldn’t be able to jump out at will. I got to describe the sense of communal consciousness and connection to the other Mind Flayers in his pod, especially the two others on the Rock of Bral, who he had grown up with from tadpoles. Getting to describe shit like going from primate bodies to something really alien is fun.

My vision of Mind Flayers is that they operate on science fiction logic. When Shepherd-in-the-Mind-Flayer saw their Githyanki-renegate ship captain, he could see the botched breeding cycle of a fine servant species. I described his friends as deliciously sentient. He was able to access his memories easily, not getting vague flashbacks like when he is in primate corpses.

He reached out telepathically to another Mind Flayer and learned that when the first Mind Flayer whose corpse he was riding had died, one Mind Flayer went into the astral plane, seeking reinforcements. The conversation didn’t go well and the third Mind Flayer suggested Shepherd go to the Elder Brain to regain his connection and focus rather than seeking out this primate-like individualism.

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Shepherd knew that when they went astral, their body was stowed in a secret area by some Mind Flayer thralls. They secreted back onto the Rock of Bral through Trundle’s almost-constructed Well of Worlds.

Behind the scenes, I rolled an Intelligence check for the third Mind Flayer. He succeeded. The Monster Manual said these things are geniuses. His friend is acting weird and reinforcements might be far away. They are surrounded by enemies. It moved the helpless Mind Flayer whose body was left behind while it went into the Astral Plane.

The thralls were a trap; they unzipped their skin and combined to become some combination of Voltron and John Carpenter’s The Thing. I statted it as a Hulking Abomination from Godbound, which suggested it have access to a Word – I chose Undying from Endurance. The fight was going rough and then Kuru, who can steal Gifts, stole the creature’s Undying. The beast flipped out and killed Kuru the next round but he had Undying. When Jusko finished the creature, screaming Kuru’s name like a killing word, Kuru popped back up, regenerating despite haven taken a cthonic tentacle through the skull.

It was a fun fight and I have just barely gotten my feet under me. This is going to be fun.

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What now? Now I’m going to roll up the treasure of the remaining Mind Flayers on treasure tables B, S, T and X. Let’s see what these Lovecraftian assholes are working with.

We’ll get to the Radiant Citadel some day…I think.

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Reddit GM Advice: Chargen = World Building, Secrets are Overrated & Stealth Fun

Reddit GM Advice: Chargen = World Building, Secrets are Overrated & Stealth Fun

TEXT: REDDIT GM ADVICE THREAD

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Pirate D&D, roll 3d6 for an encounter

When in doubt, I come up with 3, d6 tables and if I don’t have an idea, I roll or pick or do a bit of both. Often, in the act of making up the tables, I get ideas. See also, How to make the forest interesting.

PICS: Nautical shit and some dice

TEXT:

Someone asked for D&Dish Pirate/Sea encounters.

Roll 3d6

The ship is dealing with:

1) plague
2) storm damage
3) mutinee
4) a difficult mission ahead
5) being hunted by a sea beast
6) being hunted by a rival ship

Ship type:

1) Merchant
2) Ship of War
3) Whaler/Beast Hunter
4) Refugee Ark
5) Cartographer
6) Storm Wizard's Sanctum/
Storm Deity's Temple

One more thing:

1) Ghost Ship
2) Treasure Map
3) Storm on the horizon
4) Pirates on the horizon
5) Land Ho!
6) Dragon

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The Sigil 6: Liberty on the Rock of Bral

The Sigil 6: Liberty on the Rock of Bral

We began the campaign in 5 Torches Deep, shifted over to 5e and now we are playing Godbound.

Read more about the Sigil 6 here.

TEXT: The Sigil 6
Liberty
on the
Rock of Bral

PIC: Blurry map of the Rock of Bral from the 2nd Edition AD&D supplement, The Rock of Bral

Tonight in our game with only half the group at the table, we took a detour to the Rock of Bral.

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I was totally floundering. I narrated people gathering at the shipyards to watch some convicted pirates being put out into the void by the Rock of Bral’s ruler, Prince Andru in red and gold raiment made to look like some kind of Napoleonic era admiral with elf mercenary guards, also in red and gold.

Shepherd, being a Corpseflea in an angel-made Flesh Golem, climbed out to talk to one of the pirates, Half-a-Smile Harry Halton, who didn’t believe in any afterlife, since his death was surely the gods’ coin flip that allowed Prince Andru to win and Half-a-Smile to lose.

“If you can, go see the Radiant Citadel; it is the most beautiful place I have seen in all the worlds,” Half-a-Smile said to Shepherd before he climbed back to the Rock.

I have no idea what I wanted to happen with that pirate/prince execution encounter thing. I only know that when I pictured it and daydreamed about it the whole game jumped off from that moment. No idea what I was hoping for.

That is alright. We found our feet eventually.

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The floundering continued through some shopping. They discussed robbing Prince Andru but decided against it. I was eager to give Godbound a whirl. Then Anthony mentioned that he wanted to look to see if any Sigil Outlands Expeditioners had left any travelling symbols carved into anything. I asked for a roll and I shoudln’t have done that. The answer to that question should always be, “YES, here’s an interesting detail about this place that you wouldn’t have otherwise known.”

It was clear that a Sigil-born Expeditioner had been press ganged onto a Spelljamming ship, made his way to Bral, uncovered the Mind Flayer on the underside of the asteroid city who was mind controlling the prince and died fighting the creature.

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I grabbed the Mind Flayer from the AD&D Monster Manual and off we went. I upped its Hit Dice a touch and frantically looked up what Probability Travel and Body Equilibrium were as the crew planned. I’ll plan monsters a little more carefully but page 171 of Godbound has pretty clear guidelines for making monsters.

When the first round of combat made it clear that the Mind Flayer was outmatched, it phased out of reality into another plane of existence with Probability Travel. Kuru has a power where he can steal powers from other creatures but we had to work out if he had the Effort to do so. He did. Dex save to see if he can grab the power before the Mind Flyer phases out and he made it.

“Do you take on some characteristic of the creature whose power you steal? If so…what?”

“Oooh, I hadn’t thought of that. I like that. Yes…”

The Mind Flayer had 2 of 4 tentacles on Kuru’s head. The Halfling had taken on the Mind Flayer’s ocean creature-but-more-chemical smell from stealing its psionic power.

It was getting late and Trundle rolled a 1 to hit the Mind Flayer with his sword. I told him I’d let him roll damage but he’d have to swing through Kuru, doing whatever damage he did to the Mind Flayer to his comrade too. The math worked out and the Mind Flayer was defeated and Kuru was clinging to life.

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Being able to grab monsters right out of the AD&D Monster Manuals and Fiend Folio is going to be just lovely. Looking forward to building monsters out a bit from Godbound’s guidelines.

Worth noting that Trundle grabbed a stone so that he could jump to the Rock of Bral from his soon-to-be-constructed Well of Worlds.

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Reddit GM Advice: Inspiration, Swamp Lore &

Reddit GM Advice: Inspiration, Swamp Lore &

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