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Weight Training Secrets For Gaining Muscle Mass
By Jim Slate · 12 years ago
When you’re trying to get larger muscles, it’s important that you work hard and treat your body right. Your ability to perform athletically, as well as the strength and muscular form that you can gain, ...
Inspirational Home Decorating Ideas
By Jim Slate · 12 years ago
Home decorating is more than a chore; it’s a living form of art, a breathing, growing, evolving celebration of the world you inhabit. It is an act of creating beauty, in a space that will ...
Death of a Dictator, Infiltrating the Fae, and the Madness of the Vampire Elder
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The Death of the Dictator at His Sisters Hands
Late last week, tragedy struck Hellifyno as Lord Executive Havoc was killed alongside his sister Harmony, in a violent and surreal Fae inspired episode. The loss ...
The Advantages of Certain Types of Coasters
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
When designing a product it’s important to keep functionality in mind. Drink coasters are inherently functional pieces, created to serve a purpose, and as such it is vital that they carry out their reason for ...
Giving Beverage Coasters – A Gift Guide
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
A beverage coaster is a functional accessory that is most often used in a living room or den, but which can also be used effectively in a bedroom, on a patio, or in the kitchen. ...
War and Famine, Madness and Anarchy
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
State of Emergency
Hellifyno remains in a state of emergency this week, as citizens struggle to recover from the devastation that was wrought by the temporary death of the planet's sun. The unseasonable cold and ...
Creative Things You Can Do With a Coffee Table
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The coffee table is a large and prescient object, which tends to dominate the nature of the living room or den that it is placed into. Acting almost like the spine of the space a ...
Eternal Night, The Summer Snow, and the War of the Fae
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Darkness and the Summer Snow
Our top story is the disappearance of the stars. Across the universe, millions of planet's suns have simply... gone out, growing cold and turning into smoldering pockets of lifeless gas. ...
RolePages Role Playing Summary – July 15th 2010
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The main continent on the planet of Hellifyno, cultural and symbolic center of supernatural activity, is coming into the dog days of its warmest summer months. Across the land temperatures are averaging from 85 – ...
Dungeons and Dragons is for Losers
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Dungeons and Dragons is an abomination. In both term and action it has choked the birth of emerging art forms, making it nearly impossible for interactive storytelling to move beyond its infancy into the realm ...
Interior Decorating With Drink Coasters
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Coasters are highly functional items which are designed to protect and maintain the beauty of your homes surfaces. They act as barriers, placing their own material form in the way of sharp edges or water ...
Role Playing Chat Room Etiquette Guide
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The following are a few points of etiquette that everyone should consider when making use of the role playing chat rooms.
1. When you enter the chat, read what’s going on, and make sure you ...
Role Playing Versus Role Writing
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The game of role playing is as ancient as the human race itself. As long as people have been playing make believe, pretending to be made up characters, and acting out games or scenarios, they ...
Sympathy for the Vampire
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The existence of a vampire is not as easy or as glamorous as some might think. Often we are hunted and hated, our existence constantly at peril as we are chased by our very prey ...
Bartender Secrets – Wisdom From Behind the Bar
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The bartender has a bit of a reputation for being wise, comforting, understanding, and even a little bit powerful. The overseer of the local watering hole, these people tend to have a certain amount of ...
Online Role Playing
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Role playing is a game where you take on the identity of a character, and act as that person, reacting to the world, and other characters, in as natural a way as possible. The purpose ...
Life and Leaves in Home Décor
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Life is beautiful, it’s vibrant, it’s energetic, and it can invigorate a space, making it feel more exciting and dynamic in a whole host of ways. Adding life to the decorative nature of a space ...
Kitchen Decorating For Busy Chefs
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Cooking is a time consuming task that, when done right, involves juggling multiple ingredients at multiple times with very specific instructions, measurements, and timings, in order to produce what is essentially an edible work of ...
Role Playing Villains – Creating Lovable Bad Guys
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
Roleplaying is sort of like acting, but done completely without a script. A situation is announced or arrived upon, everyone chooses a character to assume, and then they all act out their parts, trying to ...
The Duplicity of Vampires – Magic and Terror
By Jim Slate · 13 years ago
The vampire is a familiar figure in literature and folklore. In recent years the creature has grown exponentially in popularity due to books and movies which have popularized it in modern culture. However the nature ...