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		<title>Hoist by my own petard?</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2011/10/01/hoist-by-my-own-petard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still editing, currently reviewing the Game rules. I can see where my ideas have evolved over the past few years, and I&#8217;ve not kept the Game Rules up to date with the World Book, and this is causing me more than a little heartburn at times. It is taking longer than I expected to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=187&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillport The first experimentation with a Republic concept in TIRRA, Hillport is a large capital set amid the hills and peninsulas on the northeast coast. Claude, the Proconsul, rules Hillport with political help from his cronies in the Senate. Nearly twenty years ago the Republic was founded with a great deal of internal fanfare – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=183&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why TIRRA?</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2011/07/04/why-tirra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tjpontz.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who insist on the TL,DR version of everything, here you go. There is no TL,DR version. TIRRA is a continent and several related islands on a planet roughly earth-like. It is elf, dwarf, and orc-free. There are three races of humanoids and three races of lycanthropes. It has nearly twice the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=179&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Attractions</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2011/03/03/coming-attractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The TIRRA world book will include: Area maps of the continent and nearby islands (working on some graphics conversion issues but it is coming) Descriptions of the people, nations, cultures, weapons and armor. The calendar in common use. Star charts showing the constellations that inspired the calendar. The alphabet and number systems as written and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=146&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ardzin</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2011/03/03/ardzin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask the people of Ardzin, they’ll tell you they feel cut off from the so-called “civilized” society of the northern countries. And they prefer it that way. This rustic land is tucked between the Stallion Run River and the Teeth of the World, and east from the Sinder River. They feel kinship toward [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=141&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Age of Swords?</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2011/03/02/why-the-age-of-swords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the continent of TIRRA, I am setting the world notes in the Age of Swords. Why did I choose that era? The ages each have meaning. TIRRA is lacking in iron, and therefore must make do with copper, zinc, nickel, and tin and so on. Swords made of bronze may look impressive, but they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=139&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to TIRRA</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2011/02/27/welcome-to-tirra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the frigid Ice Barony to the balmy tropic islands of the Spice Barony, there is much to discover in TIRRA. Tirra is a large continent on a world called Talia, a world that has a large number of different kinds of peoples who are spread across TIRRA and two other continents, and several large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=137&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Perspectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to step outside to change your mind about something. Sometimes you have to take a walk. Sometimes I have to go someplace entirely different. Adrian Lark, founder of Mars3D.com, has created a virtual &#8216;flyover&#8217; video of the martian landscape using image data collected by NASA&#8217;s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment), the most powerful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=91&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes you have to go outside</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2009/11/09/sometimes-you-have-to-go-outside-to-see-back-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I get stuck while writing, I sometimes find it useful to work on something completely different for a bit in order to let the brain reboot itself a little. I&#8217;m not sure how it connects in my mind, but my grandfather would sometimes say he had to go outside to have enough room to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=51&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The value of anachronism</title>
		<link>http://tjpontz.com/2009/10/01/the-value-of-anachronism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TJPontious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[let's face it, the urban fiction angles have been about played out haven't they?  Why not think about your vampire story as set on a space station or planetary outpost.  Or better yet, how would Neanderthal tribes have dealt with vampires?  Would they have figured it out or would they just be free food? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tjpontz.com&amp;blog=9550346&amp;post=39&amp;subd=pencilplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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