Tuesday, 23 January 2018

He denies that he is ill, but they take no notice, kill him, and have a feast

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I am almost finished re-reading Herodotus's Histories , this time Robin Waterfield's brilliantly readable and gossipy translatio...
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Friday, 19 January 2018

In Which I Have a Breakthrough

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For an extremely long time ( blogger tells me it was 2014 ) I have been wanting to write up a campaign setting based on that wonderful basta...
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Thursday, 18 January 2018

The Alternate Appendix N Campaigns

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There are a few attempts to my knowledge to imagine 'What if?' scenarios in which Gary Gygax didn't draw from a rather esoteric ...
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Monday, 15 January 2018

Expressionism, Realism/Unnaturalism, and Hyper-realism/Hyper-unrealism

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I want to draw a distinction between three different approaches to fantasy art: what I will refer to as "expressionism", "rea...
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Friday, 12 January 2018

Anak Wungsu and the Ziggurats in the Shallow Sea

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Introduction The Sumerians, Babylonians, Elamites and other ancient peoples of the fertile crescent spoke of a race of fish-men, who dwelt...
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Thursday, 11 January 2018

When Yoon-Suin Meets Rifts

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In the lobby of the Museum of Historical Interface, at the Brunswick Dock in Hibap'ȕ/Liverpool, there hangs a framed letter, printed on ...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2018

The Case for the Small and Complex

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It's a truism that the world is getting more complex in the digital age. In fact, the truth is the world is in many ways much simpler th...
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Monday, 8 January 2018

Appearing to do two things while really doing neither

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Sodajerker recently released an interview with Noel Gallagher . I am not a huge Oasis or Noel Gallagher fan, but you couldn't escape his...
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Friday, 5 January 2018

Uesugi Saburo's Slavers

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A band of desperate, stinking, uncouth killers who roam wild and rural places searching for children to kidnap and sell into servitude down ...
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Wednesday, 3 January 2018

On High Level Warriors, Gods, Mortals and More

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I read The Iliad  for the first time over the Christmas break (the Penguin Classics prose version, for those of you familiar with it). I wa...
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