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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Deal of the Day - Knave 2e



Knave 2e is today's Deal of the Day (usually 20, marked down to $8 in PDF). Play it as is, or use it for inspiration with the RPG of your choice.

Knave 2e is an exploration-driven fantasy RPG and worldbuilding toolkit, inspired by the best elements of the Old-School DnD movement.

This edition expands on the intuitive core of the original game, featuring elegant, modular subsystems for hexcrawling, dungeon delving, potion making and downtime activities, all in a 80-page digest-sized hardcover lavishly illustrated by Peter Mullen. The book features:

  • A world-class GM's toolkit. Roll and combine results from 75 d100 tables to rapidly generate dungeons, overworld regions, cities, monsters, items, spells, NPCs and factions, or just scan the pages for inspiration. These are especially useful for people who enjoy playing RPGs solo.
  • Intuitive, unified d20 mechanics that allow new players to make characters and start playing in minutes. Ability scores, armor, and difficulty ratings are placed on a 0-10 scale, yet remain compatible with the adventures and monsters from the last 50 years of fantasy roleplaying. The rules can also effortlessly switch between player-facing and GM-facing rolls.
  • A slot-based inventory system that makes tracking what you carry both easy and mechanically meaningful. If you take enough damage, wounds can begin filling items slots, forcing you to drop gear, treasure, or weapons.
  • Classless character generation that lets PCs draw from multiple archetypes at once. Any PCs can cast spells, call down miracles and use any weapon or armor. Their effectiveness is only restricted by what abilities they choose to improve and how they fill their limited item slots.
  • A d6 Hazard Die system that condenses tracking encounters, clues, weather changes, fatigue, torch burn, and resource depletion into the roll of a single die.
  • A utility-focused magic system that empowers PCs to alter the world in creative ways with 100 level-less spells. Also, a huge spell generator for groups who want chaotic, randomized magic.
  • A relic-driven divine magic system in which PCs complete missions for deities to gain their blessings. Generate new deities including their domains and symbols.
  • A monster-hunting alchemy system where PCs can hunt down magical creatures for their special abilities and then refine them into potions.
  • Downtime activities where PCs carouse, gamble, recruit hirelings, and build bases.
  • A tactical warfare system that resolves mass battles in minutes.
  • Straightforward GM and player principles for getting started running an old-school style game.
  • Designer commentary that explains the reasoning behind the rules.
  • Easy-to-use "control panel" layout.
  • Stunning art by Peter Mullen.

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Monday, August 18, 2025

Bundle of Holding - Tiny Dungeon Mega




I really like the Tiny D6 series of rulesets. They are deep enough to run exciting sessions, yet simple enough to grasp easily and quickly. Another game that is great for conventions.

With the Tiny Dungeon MEGA Bundle, for $19.95, you get Tiny Dungeon (love this ruleset), Tiny Wastelands (post-apoc), Tiny Frontiers (sci-fi), Tiny Pirates (as it says on the tin), and Tiny Gunslingers. If you up the price to about $35, you also get Advanced Tiny Dungeon, Tiny Taverns + A La Carte, Mecha & Monsters: Evolved, Tiny Cthulhu (own - pretty cool take on Mythos), Tiny Spies, and Tiny Living Dead.

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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Kickstarter - Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: Malkova Wilds (OSR - Various Flavors)



I think I've known Paul Wolf since my first NTRPG Con in 2014. My, how time flies!

In any case, Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: Malkova Wilds is a hexcrawl zine that comes in various OSR flavors: OSE, ShadowDark, DCC,  & OSRIC. With that many choices, finding a system that comes closest to your actual game at your table is a breeze.

Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: Malkova Wilds is $9 in PDF and $14 in Print, plus PDF (shipping for me was $ 3, and yes, you can add issue #1 when checking out).

Witch-Lords of Skull Mountain #2: The Malkova Wilds is a continuing hex-crawl campaign simultaneously published for the Shadowdark RPG, DCC RPG, Old School Essentials / Basic-Expert RPGs, and OSRIC 3 RPG. 

It's a planned 40 to 56-page book packed with adventures, a city crawl system, encounter tables, monsters, magic items and more. It will (hopefully) include a detached color cover that features a beautiful full-color hex map of the Malkova Wilds! 

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Humble Bundle - The Witcher RPG



I'm a fan of The Witcher. Enjoyed the CRPG, had fun with the Netflix series (especially the first season), love the comic adaptations, and simply enjoy reading the lore. Will I ever play The Witcher RPG? Likely not, as I don't see my regular group going for it, but I'm game to play as a player :)

Humble Bundle currently has The Witcher RPG as a $15 bundle.

Evil is evil—and great games are great games. Pay what you want to explore The Continent like never before. Will you fight with strength and valor like Geralt of Rivia? Or forge your own path as an elf, dwarf, gnome, werebbubb, or vran, and set off on unknown adventures with your party. Get the The Witcher Tabletop RPG core rulebook, the The Witcher: Tome of Chaos campaign, and more for a price you choose. Spare a coin and help support the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals with your purchase.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Deal of the Day - Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master


I know what many of you reading this are saying - I already know how to DM! Why do I need to read a book to tell me how to do it better? I've been a DM for nearly 45 years, and I am still learning new tricks.

Today's Deal of the Day is Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master from SlyFlourish on sale for $4 (normally 7.99). I already own this, or else I'd be all over it :)

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master is a book designed to help fantasy roleplaying Gamemasters get more out of their games by preparing less. Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master uses the experiences of thousands of GMs to help us focus on how we prepare our games, how we run our games, and how we think about our games.

Refined for five years after the release of the Lazy Dungeon Master, Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master is a complete stand-alone book that includes practical steps for focusing our preparation activities on those things that will bring the biggest impact to our game.

Backed by over 6,700 backers on Kickstarter and based on research involving hundreds of books, videos, articles, and interviews with top Gamemasters, as well as thousands of results from Gamemaster surveys, Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master helps us understand the best tips and tricks used by GMs all over the world to bring the most fun to our games.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Goodman Games Sale - DCC 3e Releases as Little as a Buck!



There are some true classics in the early 3rd Edition DCC line of releases, and they are currently on sale.

My favorites?

Dungeon Crawl Classics #51: Castle Whiterock - usually 59.99 - now $5

Dungeon Crawl Classics #35: Gazetteer of the Known Realms - usually 29.99 - now $5

Dungeon Crawl Classics #13: Crypt of the Devil Lich - usually 14.99 - now $2

Dungeon Crawl Classics #29: The Adventure Begins - usually $19.99 - now $2 (I've used this a number of times with OSR rules - 20 1st-level adventures!

Dungeon Crawl Classics #1: Idylls of the Rat King - usually $6.99 - now $1

View the full selection here!

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Monday, August 11, 2025

Humble Bundle - Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Collection for Alchemy VTT



I'll have to admit, I hadn't given the Alchemy VTT much of a look before today. I'd heard of it, but with all the VTTs out there, who needs another? Well, I'll have to admit, I MIGHT need to play with Alchemy for a bit, because it seems to be made for RPGs like Call of Cthulhu, which are more dread, mysteries, and theatre of the mind than tactical combat, grids, and dungeon crawls.

Currently, Humble Bundle is offering the Call of Cthulhu Collection for Alchemy VTT for $18. (it includes Masks of Very tempting. I'd love to run some CoC, and apparently, Alchemy is optimized for livestreaming. 

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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Free OSR - Ashes Without Number (Free Edition)



If you didn't already know it, Sine Nomine Publishing offers nearly all of its core rulebooks in a "Free Edition" as well as a "Deluxe Edition". The Free Editions are complete games and truly a gift to the gaming community.

Ashes Without Number (Free Edition) is Sine Nomine's post-apoc ruleset, and as you have already seen, the price is right :) (you can grab the Ashes Without Number Deluxe Edition here)

Ashes Without Number is both a game set after the end and a toolkit to help you build the apocalypse you desire. Just as with its compatible sister-games, Stars Without Number for sci-fi, Worlds Without Number for fantasy, and Cities Without Number for cyberpunk, Ashes Without Number gives you an Old School Renaissance-inspired game chassis and a vast swath of system-agnostic tools for designing tragic destruction and desperate struggles.

Within its pages, you'll find...

  • A complete OSR game system for building survivors and sending them to face the horrors of their new world, including guidance on blending other Without Number games into your play.
  • Genre-specific support for near-future After the Fall tales of social collapse, invasion, and global disasters, Deadlands games of zombie hordes and beleaguered enclaves, and Mutant Wasteland campaigns of post-nuclear adventure in lands of mutant peril and mysterious tech.
  • Enclave rules for system-agnostic modeling of competing outposts, tribal villages, and refugee camps, all struggling to survive a world where there is never enough of anything but death.
  • Mysterious devices and lost relics of the old world, strange tech for mutant wanderers to discover and misuse in their exploration of ancient ruins.
  • Campaign design tools for both crisis-centered games of immediate survival in the face of total societal collapse, and exploration-centered campaigns of seeking out the old world's remnants and recovering them for your home and allies.
  • Myriad tags and random tables for building your post-apocalyptic adventures, flavoring your mutant perils, and building interesting ruins and survivor enclaves for your PCs to encounter, all system-agnostic and built with the Sine Nomine touch.

And all of that is in this free version of this game. In the deluxe version, you'll also get...

  • Evil techno-wizard rules for building the mad science-sorcerers who plague so many worlds beneath a shattered moon.
  • Ash Sorcerers, a class for PCs in a far-future world of science and magic who wield the sinister arts of a half-damnable path.
  • Mentalists, a psychic class for those individuals touched with unearthly powers and strange visions in the midst of ruin. This class can also be used as a substitute for the Psychic in Stars Without Number, for GMs who prefer to have more subtle abilities in their games.
  • Modular power armor for those knights of the radioactive dust who bear these mighty relics. Voracious in their demands for power and maintenance materials, they still can tip a battle single-handedly with their myriad weapons and fittings.
  • Hub settlement rules for fine-grained development of a single enclave by players who prefer to put more focus on their home. Build individual facilities and resources while keeping your population alive in the face of constant privation.

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Backerkit - Weird Frontiers Reference Guide

Right off the bat, this is from David Baity, one of the nicest creators in gaming. Oh, and he's a huge cst-person, just saying ;)

Weird Frontiers, a weird west RPG powered by the DCC RPG engine, is literally in two volumes if you buy it as POD. So yes, a Weird Frontiers Reference Guide would be very useful ;)

You asked, and we listened! The latest addition to the Weird Frontiers product line is a much-needed resource that compiles all the things you regularly have to go flipping through the book for! Keep the game going smoothly with this must-have resource!

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Friday, August 8, 2025

Deal of the Day - Secrets of the Golden Throne (Against the Darkmaster)



So, I finally did a little research, as I had thought that Against the Darkmaster was a clone/reimagining of RoleMaster, but I was wrong. It's inspired by Middle-earth Role Playing, which was a simpler version of RoleMaster; however, Against the Darkmaster seeks to make MERP even cleaner and simpler. I may need to give the core rules a closer look, but I digress.

Today's Deal of the Day is Secrets of the Golden Throne. It's a rules supplement / mini setting / campaign for Against the Darkmaster. Coming in at 355 pages. Normally priced at $19, until tomorrow morning, Secrets of the Golden Throne is priced at $3.80 - an 80% discount!

Secrets of the Golden Throne is the major supplement for Against the Darkmaster, containing new rules and options for both the players and the GM, but it’s also a mini-setting, and an epic campaign that will pitch your heroes against the machinations of an entity older than the world itself.

Inside Secrets of the Golden Throne you’ll find:

  • Five new Kins: Ethereal Pixies, unseen Gnomes, enigmatic Changelings, beguiling Asrai and voracious Ogres.
  • New Cultures and Backgrounds to expand your character options.
  • New magic options and 30 new Spells.
  • New combat and rules options to help you run underwater and aerial adventures.
  • A Bestiary containing a host of new monstrous adversaries.
  • The island of Awallon, an original setting inspired by fairy tales and Arthurian legends which can be used on its own, or easily dropped into an existing campaign setting.
  • Guidelines to help you create both Awallonian and Outlander PCs.
  • An epic campaign that will see the heroes travel across all of Awallon, in order to face an unprecedented threat and decide the fate of the entire world.


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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Humble Bundle - Freedom To Create (CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2024)



You either know what this is, and know the amazing value that you are getting - OR - you don't know what it is (and don't care) - OR - know what it is, but don't have a current use for it. I'm in that later category. 

The Freedom to Create with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2024 is an amazing value if you need it. Usable by Windows or OSX users, the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2024 is $75 for the next six days.

The may be a few creatives that can use this...

Level up your creative toolkit with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2024. Save big too—more than $475 off MSRP! Get vector illustration, layout assistance, photo editing, and typography tools with this professional-level software. Pay what you want to create with freedom and help support the Children's Miracle Network via Extra Life with your purchase. Act fast—this special promotion won’t last long.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Deal of the Day - Brightborne



No, Brightborne isn't an OSR game (but it is a dungeon crawler of sorts). Nor is it old school in nature. But for 2 bucks, I'm more than happy to read a ruleset that offers GM-less - or even solo - play. It might be fun for a pick-up game to kill some time at a convention.

Until tomorrow morning, Brightborne is on sale for $2 (normally 5 bucks). It's impulse-buy pricing, and I'm being impulsive today ;)

From the creator of the bestselling games ENTITY, KUROI, CAMPFIRE STORY, and STORYTELLERS comes a new GM-less, roguelike, diceless dungeon-crawling RPG for 1–4 players: BRIGHTBORNE.

Set in a richly detailed, lore-packed grimdark world, all you need to play is the rulebook, a pencil, and a deck of classic blackjack cards.

Featuring tactical grid-based combat and easy-to-learn rules, it’s perfect for both newcomers to dungeon crawlers and seasoned veterans alike. It also contains a structural loop to keep your story focused, as you have seen in the Entity title.

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Monday, August 4, 2025

Bundle of Holding - The Expanse & Modern AGE



Disregard the fact that Green Ronin has been running a GoFundMe to pay for a lawyer in the Diamond Distributors Bankruptcy case (hint - it ain't going to help). The fact is, the AGE System, introduced with the Dragon Age RPG, is a decent system. Additionally, The Expanse is a setting full of gaming. Literally a Win-Win.

Adventurer! We've resurrected (for a third time!) our December 2020 Modern AGE and Expanse RPG Bundlefeaturing The Expanse Roleplaying Game based on James S. A. Corey's mega-popular science fiction novels of diplomacy, danger, and discovery in the future Solar System. This bargain-priced revival also includes Modern AGE, which adapts the same rules for high-power action from the Industrial Revolution onward. Both these tabletop roleplaying games use the easy and fast-playing Adventure Game Engine (AGE) from Green Ronin Publishing. You have a new chance to get everything you need for your own campaign of modern adventure or high-flying hard sf.

For just US$17.95 you get all six titles in this revived offer's Modern Collection (retail value $85) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Modern AGE Basic Rulebook and the Modern AGE Companion; the cross-dimensional campaign setting Threefold; Enemies & Allies for Threefold and other Modern AGE games; the adventure Missions: Warflower; and the Modern AGE Game Master's Kit.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $33.19, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Expanse Collection with five more titles worth an additional $80, including the complete standalone The Expanse Roleplaying Game core rulebook, The Expanse Game Master's Kit, the scenarios Abzu's Bounty and Salvage Op, and – newly added in this revival! – Ships of the Expanse, the 144-page guide to every kind of spacefaring vehicle in the Solar System. And if you purchased this offer during any of its three previous runs, you get the newly added Ships of the Expanse automatically on your Wizard's Cabinet download page and in your linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.


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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Humble Bundle - Award Winning & Nominated RPGs (Presented by the ENNies)

I'm not even going to go into whether or not the ENNies are relevant (I cover such in THIS Video). Nope, simply appreciate the number of useful titles in the Award Winning & Nominated RPGs (Presented by the ENNies) Bundle and judge accordingly.

As usual with Humble Bundle, the mid-range Bundle lacks the bargain of the low end (5 bucks includes Peterson's Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors, Forbidden Lands RPG, Ashen Stars RPG, The 20th Anniversary Release of Freeport, and others), and the $25 level offers 27 titles, including titles such as Blade Runner, Dragon Age, The Strange, The One Ring Core Rules, some Delta Green Releases, some classic D20 era DCC releases, a solo CoC adventure, and much more.






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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Bundle of Holding - GURPS 4e Essentials Bundle


I always liked GURPS, even if the rest of my gaming group wasn't as enthralled. Before the internet, GURPS supplements were some of the best-researched gaming material (or otherwise) available.

The GURPS 4e Core Collection is $19.95 on Bundle of Holding, the 4e Essentials Bonus is a hair over $40 as I type this.

Adventurer! We've extended this revival of our June 2022 GURPS 4E Essentials Bundle featuring GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games. With the GURPS tabletop roleplaying rules you can be anyone you want: an elf fighting for the forces of good, a spy on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword, or literally anything else. For more than three decades GURPS has been supported with hundreds of supplements and sourcebooks. This second revival gives you a new chance to get .PDF ebooks of all the important rules and supplements you need to get started with the Fourth Edition (2004) of one of the longest-lasting and best-supported universal systems in the hobby.

For just US$19.95 you get all six titles in this revived June 2022 offer's 4E Core Collection (retail value $95) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete two-volume GURPS 4E Basic Set – Characters and Campaigns – plus Template Toolkit 1 - Characters, Adaptations, How to Be a GURPS GM, and the GURPS GM's Screen.

And if you pay more than this revival's threshold price of $40.09, you'll also get this offer's entire 4E Essentials Bonus with five more supplements worth an additional $109, including High-Tech (plus its High-Tech Weapon Tables), Ultra-Tech (plus its Ultra-Tech Weapon Tables), Bio-Tech, Low-Tech, and Mass Combat.

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Friday, August 1, 2025

New Release - White Box: Cyclopedia (OSR From Barrel Rider Games)


A little background on me and James Spahn, the creator of White Box: Cyclopedia. I've known James for well over a decade and consider him family. I sent James my spare copy of Swords & Wizardry Complete, and a decade later, here we are. Blame me ;)

So, what is White Box: Cyclopedia? It is Swords & Wizardry White Box that has reached all of its potential. This White Box goes to 11. Can you use this with other OSR rulesets? Of course, but it's a perfect fit for Swords & Wizardry Core or Complete campaigns. As for Swords & Wizardry White Box? This one goes to 11, as I said above.

The White Box Cyclopedia is a stand-alone roleplaying game that takes the simple elegance of Swords & Wizardry White Box rules and countless options to allow you to create a custom fantasy roleplaying experience. Modular and fully integrated, you can make your fantasy as fantastic, as gritty, as strange, as traditional, as gonzo as you want it to be.

Thirty classes and dozens heritages. Over 100 spells. Nearly 200 monsters. Strongholds and seafaring. Psychic powers and spell duels. Chivalry and natural-born sorcery. Custom rules for the Referee to run campaigns that mimic your favorite Appendix N inspirations. A treasure trove of magical items, both familiar and new.

Five Decades of Dungeon Crawling packed into a single, simple rules set.

White Box Cyclopedia builds on that rock solid foundation, unifying the original Swords & Wizardry White Box rules with two hundred pages of additional material. But White Box Cyclopedia isn't "White Box with a ton of options," it's White Box if Dave and Gary had remained friends and partners. It's a dream of how gaming would have evolved with the simplicity and elegance you remember it having, but brought into the 21st century. White Box Cyclopedia  asks what would happen if we had rode nothing more than a d20 and a d6 into the same infinite well of adventure of the modern era? You'd get a complete fantasy roleplaying game we all loved, without the baggage of being "advanced." Remember those simple days? You had a few pages of rules, but somehow there was no limit to what you could do. That is the essence of White Box Cyclopedia.

Some of the options you'll find in White Box Cyclopedia include:

  • Thirty Character Classes: Even the traditional Fighter, Cleric, and Magic-User classes have optional rules to make them more unique. Classic fantasy archetypes ranging like the Acrobat, Barbarian, Cavalier, Ranger, and the Thief are are joined by more exotic options like the mysterious Metaphysician, the Tomb Robber, and the Friar. 
  • A Dozen Character Heritages: Alongside Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Halflings, players using the optional rules can select crafty Goblins, powerful Troll-Kin, elusive Shadow Elves, whimsical Gnomes, and other fantastic heritages to give your campaign an exotic flavor that is still rooted in classic fantasy.
  • Strongholds and Homesteads: Every character, regardless of class or heritage, can construct and maintain a stronghold that will provide unique benefits during their adventuring career and give them a meaningful way to spend their plundered wealth.
  • New Spells: The White Box Cyclopedia includes over 100 spells. This includes all the spells that appeared in Swords & Wizardry White Box, dozens of new Magic-User and Cleric spells, and (by popular demand) a unique spell list for the Druid class.
  • Exotic Arcane Abilities: Optional rules allow players to have psychic abilities, latent spellcasting abilities, engage in Arcane Duels, summon wily familiars, and craft magic items.
  • Chivalry and Nobility: Optional Honor rules allow any character to earn their knighthood, unlocking unique abilities independent of their class or heritage.
  • Genre Customization: Players aren't the only ones with new options! Referees can draw upon optional rules to flavor their campaign. So, whether you're trying to solve the riddle of steel, facing off against a vampire count in a realm of shadow and mist, or an eclectic collection of heroes on an epic quest to destroy an evil artifact, you'll have optional rules to highlight what makes those classic fantasy sub-genres unique and engaging.
  • Endless Exploration: Rules for hex crawling, dungeon exploration, seafaring and ship-to-ship combat, are all included, meaning players can seamlessly travel to the ends of the world and back again.
  • New Monsters: Almost 200 monsters are detailed here, ranging from classic goblins, to the familiar floating, eye-stalked Orbitus, to exotic new monsters like the Sanguine Fog and Killer Bees ("Not the bees!")
  • A Hoard of Treasure: All the classic magic items found in Swords & Wizardry White Box are found here, along with new, unique treasures. Over 200 magic items are provided, including intelligent weapons.
  • White Box Cyclopedia is an all-in-one tome that will allow you to craft the classic fantasy game experience you want - and it does it all with just a d20 and a few d6s. As part of that, we've worked hard to provide a simple, effective, and minimalist bookmarked PDF that will be easily usable and accessible for reference, quick searching, and reading! Function and utility carried the day here. 

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