Posts in the "The Lost Archives" Category

  • Index to Sharn, City of Towers

    This index was submitted to GameWyrd by the writer Jason Tondro (aka 7th son). The original had a very flaky JavaScript search function written by yours truly. To search the index today; I recommend Ctrl+F.
    Name: Last name is given first, even in the case of cultures which list a family name first and given name [...]

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  • Gamer humour | The Newbie and the Ranger

    This joke was always bad… and it’s even worse out of context. The whole point is that the Ranger class in one addition of D&D lacked focus – at least, some would argue it did. There’s no point in bringing this over from GameWyrd except to prove that I tried to save as much as [...]

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  • How Stupid Do You Think I Am?

    Are you stupid? Is your current PC stupid? No. Thought not.
    Let’s have your expert advice on these then:

    Adventurer bait – often pinned to notice boards in taverns.
    Annoying spam – often arriving as unsolicited email.

    Adventurer bait
    Dear friend,
    My name is LOI ESTRADA,The wife of Mr. JOSEPH ESTRADA, the former President of Philippines [...]

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  • Sapphire College for Elf Maidens

    In response to the Book of Erotic Fantasy Wizards of the Coast updated the rules and regulations around the use of the d20 logo.
    Needless to say; GameWyrd set out to break them!

    “At Sapphire College sexy elf maidens frequently engage in wanton bathroom activity! They do so twice a day!”
    Apriale Raytho’lor: female elf; CR ½; [...]

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  • Gamer humour | Cool… not cool

    This is list from GameWyrd’s Lost Archives. It’s a user generated list of cool/not cool pairs from the world of gaming.
    Cool: Sparkling dice.
    Not Cool: Exploding dice.
    Cool: Describing the spray of blood when your party’s fighter kills an orc.
    Not Cool: Throwing a balloon filled with pigs blood at the player whose fighter just killed your favourite orc.
    Cool: A well-drawn picture [...]

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  • Downloading and extracting PDF RPGs!

    I wrote this back in 2001. Back then, nearly 10 years ago, I think it was helpful. The article really did serve as an introduction to PDFs and RPG ebooks for many Wyrdlings. It looks a little out of date now – for example, it suggests many gamers are using Internet Explorer. Heh! No. Not [...]

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  • Find Time For Time

    This tosh was written for GameWyrd waaay back in 2001. There was some crud reason why the site needed something that looked like an academic essay on RPGs or something which explains the rush job in putting it live – nevertheless; I still maintain you can put all sorts of wonderful mythology/world goodies into a [...]

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  • So, you’re thinking about starting a RPG site?

    This was written right at the start of 2001. Some of it was useful. Some of it was a shameless ploy to direct readers into a choice that would only benefit me! Me! ME! Muahaha!
    Nevertheless; despite the mercenary tactics I still find it interesting that GameWyrd was set up to be geeky and [...]

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  • Ride the Riddles

    Ride the Riddles was a late but popular addition to GameWyrd. There were two ways in which Wyrdlings could interact with it. They could simply supply riddles to the database – and so all the riddles below are user generated from GameWyrd – or they could try and guess the answer and score points for [...]

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  • Avatar art from Cassandra Gunn

    I suspect Cassandra Gunn has one of the best names any artist can hope for! Way back towards the end of GameWyrd’s active life I commissioned Cassandra to do some avatar art and she very kindly agreed. It’s taken this long for the avatars to see the the light of day.
    To enjoy more Cassandra [...]

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