A Dozen "Dozen" Game Books

A Dozen Dozen Game Books, Philip J. Reed (2019)

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I spent a lot of time reading gaming material in the latter part of the year. Altogether, those pages could comprise a book the size of many others I'd read this past year. And they were better written than some of the things I subjected myself to (particularly things I didn't bother to list on the blog).

The title of this post doesn't mean that I read 144 books. It means that I read many of the books in the A Dozen Adjective Nouns series by Philip J. Reed (@philipjreed on Twitter). There will eventually be more than a dozen of these, and many are already available for preview by the backers of two separate Kickstarter campaigns. (And I'm one of them.)

Here are some of the coming PDF files:

On top of this, there was an additional Kickstarter for Delayed Blast Gamemaster #2, which had issues #1 as an add-on. These were each 48 pages of well-thought-out source material.

I thought all of this merited an entry before the end of the year. The question, in my mind, is how to count them. Definitely as one. Maybe even two -- one for Delayed, and one for the Dozens.

Below is a list of the supplements I've read already read, mostly presented here so I'll know what to put next year:

  • Delayed Blast Gamester, issue 1 (48 pages)
  • Delayed Blast Gamester, issue 2 (48 pages)
  • The Book of Unusual Potions (64 pages)
  • A Dozen Ancient Dragons (14 pages)
  • A Dozen Arcane Spell Components
  • A Dozen Sinister Rumors
  • A Dozen Dreadful Rumors
  • more to come ...

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