Monday, 29 December 2014

Of HD, Levels and NPCs, Cabbages and Kings

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As a general rule, for human NPCs in games I tend to assume a default of being 0-level, with a single 1d6 HD. This includes anybody of any p...
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Friday, 26 December 2014

The Art of Describing a Monster

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As we all know, one of the great delights of any fantasy, horror, or SF story is the descriptions of the monsters. There are a number of way...
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014

There is no other relic of the disciplines of geography

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. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, a...
Monday, 22 December 2014

And For My Next Trick: Queen Country

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Imagine a vague fantasy simulacrum of medieval China, seen through a lens of Borges's "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins...
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Sunday, 21 December 2014

Categorising Lovecraft

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I've finally finished reading HP Lovecraft's entire bibliography (as a solo author). I'd read many of his stories over the years...
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Monday, 15 December 2014

A Hob-bite Size View

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Geddit? I haven't watched either the second Hobbit film or the third - let me say that from the beginning. I find it hard putting into...
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Sunday, 7 December 2014

310 Pages of Possibly Incomprehensible Gibberish?

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Let me tell you a story. Long ago (in 2009) a young British man living in Kawasaki began doodling some pictures of slug-men in an idle mom...
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Historical Change

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Barbara Tuchman is one of the all-time greats, and I was planning to re-read The Guns of August this year - for obvious reasons - but then ...
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Monday, 24 November 2014

Three Ideas

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It's been a while. I've not been lazy, I promise. Yoon-Suin is done and dusted and waiting to be sent off to kindly fresh eyes. I ...
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Sunday, 26 October 2014

Fu Ying and Lee Ba

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This pair of magicians travel the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon, offering their services in return for magical items and preciou...
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