HeyJaredThe Black Campbell Review
Musings on role games and entertainment, with a side helping of guns, and motorsports.
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Has the Collapse of Quality Control Reached Ammunition? (opens the original)
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Over the last year, I’ve noticed a trend when shooting — especially with 9mm ammunition, but also other calibers: after shooting even a relatively small amount (100 rounds, say), I’m finding heavy brass residue in the weapon. Slide rails, on the firing block, in the firing pin channels, all over the bolt — little brass flakes…everywhere. Now, seeing some flaking is normal on some of the crappier ammo, like Skorpion or Patriot (both SVT products), but I’m seeing this in all the bigger names as we
RPGaDay, Day 31: Edge (opens the original)
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Walking away from my day job this summer and entering quasi-retirement on the education front, I find myself on the cusp — the edge, if you will — of deciding what to do next. Since the last big publishing push in 2021, Black Campbell Entertainment — our publishing group has been coasting. Our focus has been roleplaying games, and specificaly in the pulp adventure subgenre.As I extricate myself from the other things that build up when you’re working full time. Ask any retired person and they’ll
RPGaDay, Day 30: Pride (opens the original)
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We always tell folks to be proud — of their accomplishments, who they are, where they’re from — but for much of humankind, pride is seen as a danger, as well. Pride is probably the one sin that crosses all religions. For the Greeks, hubris was the ultimate crime against the gods…even though they often respected heroes who skirted the edges of this with their pride. Proverbs 16:18 tells us “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit comes before a fall.” and hits us a bit later with “Bef
RPGaDay, Day 29: Labour (opens the original)
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Ponos, in Greek mythology, was the god of labor, toil, of hardship. Labor, hard work, wasn’t just something you have to do, but a virtue — something divine that defines the character of a person. Egyptians saw works as essential to the maintenance of the harmony of the universe. Greek myth has the Labors of Heracles, the voyage of Odyssey, Sisyphus’ punishment — work so difficult that it requires the aid of the gods, themselves. This notion of work being tied to the order of the universe is an i
RPGaDay, Day 28: Devotion (opens the original)
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We’ve touched on some of this in other days during this year’s RPGaDay, in the Loss and Familiarity days, most notably. When building a character, and a group, why they are together is important, how they interact, but also other motivators — who do they love? Who will they protect? Who will they do anything for??Maybe the character has a sick relative and this sketchy job for the megacorp will make enough to keep them alive. Maybe the characters’ village is under some threat and they need to ba
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