Tuesday, 13 October 2026

5e-splaining the OSR

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I recently watched an interesting YouTube video in which Ben Milton and somebody I have not heard of before called Daði discuss, among other...
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Friday, 9 October 2026

Get Busy Writing or Get Busy Dying

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I have never read David Gemmell - his oeuvre somehow passed me by. But I have been inspired to do so by a recent article in the Telegraph  w...
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Thursday, 8 October 2026

Lego Faces and the Death of Freeform Play

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  One of the saddest and strangest developments of my lifetime has been the gradual replacement of the generic Lego smiley face with those d...
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Tuesday, 6 October 2026

The Revenant Lake

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  Looking around on wikipedia earlier today, as one does, I came across the entry for Tulare Lake . This is a lake in California which, alth...
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Friday, 2 October 2026

Why Nerd Games Matter

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I was born in the opposite of a crossfire hurricane. My home town, New Brighton, lies at the end of a peninsula, and in the 1980s it felt li...
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Thursday, 1 October 2026

Ice, Jungle, Desert

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Among my many sins, I once sat through the complete director's commentaries to the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD. In my defence, the...
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Friday, 25 September 2026

'It Has Killing In It'

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What was the first piece of media you consumed which 'had killing in it'?  I ask because a certain girl I happen to know has recentl...
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Tuesday, 22 September 2026

The River and the River

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Near the Amazonian city of Manaus there is a place where the Amazon proper (the upper section of which in Brazil is called the Rio Solimões)...
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Friday, 18 September 2026

Why Build Worlds?

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  The creation of a world - mapping it, populating it, chronicling its history - is in itself a hobby. I suspect for a lot of DMs it is inde...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2026

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Setting I Created

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  When my first child was born, I had already been working on something called Behind Gently Smiling Jaws  for a year. The first post I made...
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