Monday, 1 December 2025

How the Deteriorating Quality of White Dwarf Battle Reports Undermines Western Civilisation, and What to Do About It

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A lot of people are worried that we are approaching the dawning of a post-literate age - one in which it no longer becomes necessary t...
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Friday, 28 November 2025

The Musical Alignments of D&D: the Metal-Classical-Jazz Triad

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What is the best way to classify the tone  of a campaign? Sometimes campaigns are metal . They look like this: And sound like  this . Someti...
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Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Map Making as Gateway Drug: The Creation of a World

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When I first got back into RPGs in, I suppose, my mid-late 20s (I had taken a bit of a break after becoming too cool for school in my teenag...
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Wednesday, 19 November 2025

The World on the Other Side of the Glass

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  Yesterday I took the bus to work. I noticed that the woman in the seat in front of me was taking a photo of something, so I impulsively to...
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Monday, 17 November 2025

Paul McCartney's Zionist-Anti-Fascist-Hard-Right-Woke Clone, Who Also Assassinated Charlie Kirk, is Shadowbanning Monsters & Manuals!

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No, he isn't really. He'd probably be too old for that by now. I do nonetheless ask for help from readers who Know About Computers. ...
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Thursday, 13 November 2025

The Joy of Rolling Up Characters; Or, I'd RATHer Be Doing it the Old School Way

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Does the name Rath  ring any bells with you? If it does, welcome to the club, one of the most exclusive of all: those who actually read the ...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2025

At the Start of a Great Adventure

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There is I think a formative period in the life of a young reader when certain ideas about what fiction 'should' do, or what good fi...
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Thursday, 6 November 2025

The Wikipedia Trawl as Campaign Generation Device

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One of my favourite lunchtime activities is to trawl wikipedia looking at obscure geographic locations. This is not a complicated task. What...
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Tuesday, 4 November 2025

More Can Go Wrong

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The other day I happened to be sitting in a hotel restaurant listening in on the conversation (as one does) of a youngish couple sitting nea...
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Thursday, 23 October 2025

Paladin Kits - Ranked and Reviewed!

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First there was The   Complete Fighter's Handbook . Then there was another one of it. It was called The Complete Thief's Handbook.  ...
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