Sunday, 30 March 2014

Under The Skin and The Need for Real Humans

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I watched Under the Skin  the other week. It was worth a watch, because apart from anything else it is beautifully well-made: it's like ...
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Saturday, 29 March 2014

Revisiting Localism

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A while ago I  mused at some length  about 'localism' in gaming. To summarise, I think setting games in your local area, or creating...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Not Dead

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Long-term readers of the blog will know that I have a bad habit of disappearing for weeks or months on end without updates. Basically, this ...
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Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Good Dragonlance Sentences: Time of the Twins, Chapter 1

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You may be wondering what has happened to the  good Dragonlance sentences project . To be perfectly frank, Chapter 1 of Time of the Twins  d...
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Monday, 27 January 2014

Map of New Troy

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I spent a hungover Saturday drawing this map of mundane New Troy. I used a combination of  these gimp brushes , the wonderful  mkhexgrid , a...
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Monday, 20 January 2014

The Nature of Faerie and Muspel

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One of the advantages of having a distinct Underworld and an Otherworld is that things in those places don't have to particularly make s...
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Sunday, 19 January 2014

More Thoughts on Mythic Underworlds and Mythic Otherworlds

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[This post has been significantly edited from its previous version: due to circumstances outside of my control; i.e. my own stupidity, I had...
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Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Five RPG-Related Internet Things Every Gamer Should Read

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The other day I linked to  Philotomy's Musings  and made the, perhaps somewhat rash, comment that it is the best thing that has come out...
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Monday, 13 January 2014

Random Ghost Generator

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For Yoon-Suin, I came up with a little set of random tables for generating the ghosts which haunt the jungles of Láhág. Here they are: ...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

The Mythic Underworld and Mythic Otherworld

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The working title for the new campaign setting is New Troy. This is purely because I've always liked the completely made-up notion from ...
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