{"id":1185,"date":"2013-04-23T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2013-04-23T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T19:21:31","slug":"mad-mercs-gaming-gazette-issues-41-to-48-are-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/2013\/mad-mercs-gaming-gazette-issues-41-to-48-are-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Merc&#8217;s Gaming Gazette Issues 41 To 48 Are Now Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Checkered Demon Logo Small\" title=\"demonsmall\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/demonsmall.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>During the early 90&#8217;s I published a newsletter that I emailed out to anyone who would listen.  At the time my audience was comprised primarily of gaming buddies and folks on the Checkered Demon BBS.  Each issue is like a collection of mini blog posts.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Topics vary from issue to issue but focus on Hero Games product reviews\/rules, video game reviews, comic book reviews, and other miscellaneous news items that would be appropriate for my gaming group.  Looking back I think doing the small reviews in these issues whet my appetite for the type of more in depth reviews that I am performing now on this very blog.<\/p>\n<p>You can find copies of the currently posted issues at this URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/file-downloads\/other-files\/\" title=\"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/file-downloads\/other-files\/\">https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/file-downloads\/other-files\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Issues 41 to 48 include the following highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kid reviews <i>Lobo Paramilitary XMAS Special<\/i> and <i>H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s Cthulhu<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>My article on Hero System: Player Friendly, GM Ugly.<\/li>\n<li>Review of <i>Champions Presents<\/i>, <i>Gamer Magazine<\/i>, and <i>Normals Unbound<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Paladin&#8217;s review of the best computer games of 1991.<\/li>\n<li>The Saga Of Rolf Sanswit by Chris Armstrong. <\/li>\n<li>My review from Gen Con 25.<\/li>\n<li>A Hero System trivia challenge!<\/li>\n<li>More funny gaming quotes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the last set of gazettes.  Enjoy!  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early 90&#8217;s I published a newsletter that I emailed out to anyone who would listen. At the time my audience was comprised primarily of gaming buddies and folks on the Checkered Demon BBS. Each issue is like a collection of mini blog posts. \ud83d\ude09 Topics vary from issue to issue but focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-growlings","category-product-reviews"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usandacat.com\/thelair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}