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Beowulf, the epic poem, is fertile ground for fantasy RPG game masters—a creature that returns night after night to plague a king, the ripping off of a monstrous hand, the creature’s mother who seeks revenge, and a dragon so powerful the hero dies slaying it.

Books:

• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary - Absolutely. Awesome.

• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

• Beowulf: A Prose Translation

• Beowulf on Film: Adaptations and Variations

RPG:

• Beowulf: Age of Heroes (5e) - I hadn’t heard of these before. It’s a huge line of supplements all on DriveThruRPG to give your D&D games the feel of Beowulf.

Links:

• Beowulf (history, Wikipedia)

• Beowulf (audio, free)

Movies:

• Beowulf (1999) - Mad Max meets Beowulf! I went back and forth on whether or not I should admit I've seen this. Yes, I rented it back in the day. It's terrible, I think—I don't remember anything about it.

• Beowulf and Grendel (2005) - I haven’t seen this, but it appears to depart from the source material.

• Beowulf (2007) - An insane trip of a weird movie.

Documentaries and Lectures:

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Amazon is Cutting Royalty Rates

The change is officially coming in June: Amazon is cutting royalties for printed titles priced under $9.99. Prepare yourself—many books will be increasing in price.

Most of my random tables will be unaffected, as I already had to raise their prices. However, my fiction titles will be affected, since those are usually priced under $9.99.

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• Interface RED Volume 4

• SOLO Second Edition For Traveller

• Rolemaster Creature Law Volume One (RMU)

• Rolemaster Creature Law I (RMU) (Roll20 VTT)

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• Backgrounds: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

• Demon Slayer - a 5E Class

• D&D Solo Adventure: The Death Knight's Squire

• 2024 Class Character Sheets

• Witchlight Carnival Expanded

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The Screening Room

Dungeon Masters can draw inspiration from movies to create better, more engaging sessions.

• 30 years ago, ‘Hackers’ and ‘The Net’ predicted the possibilities—and horrors—of internet life - Fascinating article, and I can’t believe I saw both of these movies in the theater 30 years ago.

• Box Office: ‘Thunderbolts*’ Rules Quiet Weekend With $33M, ‘Sinners’ Continues to Wow

• ‘Godzilla x Kong’ Sequel Gets New Title and Teaser as It Starts Production - I haven’t kept up with these movies. It’s wild to me that they’re still making them.

• ‘Crimson Tide’: THR’s 1995 Review - Speaking of 30-year-old movies, I saw this in the theater as well. It blew my mind.

Extras:

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