A Bucket of Kentucky Fried Links

Flavoured with our secret recipe of herbs, spices and waffle, the best of this week’s blogging in one tasty bucket.

• One of several competitions around at the moment (like our own Adventure Writing Competition), the Free RPG Blog has a 24 hour RPG Competition – Win Amazon vouchers!
• Another competition is from Critical Hits (and others) Announcing the One Page Dungeon Contest
• The third and final competition this week is the Game Design Challange- 48 Hour RPG Design Challange from Wild Die who also have Open D6 News
• The Fine Art of the Total Party Kill has disturbing news – We’ve all heard of furries…but SCALIES!?
• Pen & Paper Portal are took this idea too far and found NSFW: Bad Dragon Sex Toys Are A Critical Eww
• Dr Checkmate has the best post title this week – Save vs. Office Supplies
• But pun of the week goes to Campaign Mastery and Lore Enforcement: The Legal System in an RPG
• In a similar vein, How do campaign governments deal with adventurers? is a great question from The RPG Athenaeum (who is making their first appearance in the bucket)
• Ideas for your campaign from Mostly Geek (another first timer I think) in An unbelievable heist – a real life RPG scenario
• RPG Dumping Ground as been playing with some of my favourite open source tools and made Map Hackings: The Beginning
• Darrens Sims is also showing off his artistic side in Cut-away Orlanthi Steadhouse
• I make a point about not linking to non-gaming / real life blog posts but I have to make an exception for this because the Dice Monkey deserves his bragging rights – Critical Failure: Twitter
• Chgowiz’s is going back to my youth and my Atari 800XL with Ultima – How Will Magic Work?
• Sad news from the Traveller community but a great tribute to Jerry Mapes by The Zhodani Base
• In the RPG Corner there is an interesting take on history – The OD&D Endgame…in Real Life!
• 3Point75 follows up on the WotC PDF cock-up with WotC president Greg Leed and I!!!
• Exchange of Realities is teasing us with Dangling a Curtain: The Secret to Keeping People’s Interest
• UncleBear’s stance on #amazonfail is a good description of this post from Uncle Bear.
• NewbieDM and I have very similar views On game balance…
• Stargazer’s World is playing with himself in Solo Game with Fudge and Horror
• It looks bad but RPG Centric likes it – Krod Mandoon and Your Campaign
• Geek Related has something else for us to watch – TV for Gaming: Deadliest Warrior
• Useful tips from D20 Source in Five Ways To Speed Up Combat
• Feeling a bit lonesome, A Hero Twice a Month asks Am I The Only Person Using Rituals?
• A great source of information from Purple Pawn in Webzine Roundup
• Maybe taking a metaphor too far, How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less suggests that D&D is a Grand Romance