Thursday, 31 August 2017

Old Farts Solve Mysteries

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The other day I was sitting in a cafe in Hexham, a rather eccentric old market town in Northumberland, just watching the world go by. Like e...
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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Living Treasures and Human Capital

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In Britain, at a certain point in their career, celebrities start to get referred to as "national treasures". The exact stage at w...
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Friday, 25 August 2017

The Valleys of the Winter People - Intro

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The introduction to my next project, which is nearing completion in first draft form. It takes LotFP's pseudo-real world setting and ha...
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Thursday, 24 August 2017

Every Studio Ghibli Film I Have Seen Reviewed in One Sentence

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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind -  Pre-Ghibli and has the feel about it of work produced by a man still feeling his feet; I like element...
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Tuesday, 22 August 2017

The Dragon Body Snatchers of Vesper Autumnale

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The northern mountains of Vesper Autumnale are burrowed through with the lairs of dragons of many different types - red, white, gold, silver...
Sunday, 20 August 2017

You Are the Modern Inklings

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I have been quite down about the internet lately. So much sound and fury signifying nothing. But seeing all the G+ posts from people at Gen ...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2017

What Might Have Been

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From a very recent biography of Tolkien by Raymond Edwards: "In the late 1960s, the Beatles were keen to make a version of The Lord of...
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Monday, 14 August 2017

Behind Gently Smiling Jaws - Draft World Map

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I took a few minutes to do this earlier today, using  Hex Kit . What can be done in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea is pretty impres...
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Sunday, 13 August 2017

Practice Makes Perfect(ly Nice)

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How to think about practising and role playing? Well, what does it mean to be good at an RPG?  Basically, it means that, by your presence ...
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Thursday, 10 August 2017

The Thrown Object

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As we speak I am sitting here watching the javelin competition at this year's athletics World Championships. The distances the guys get ...
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