Monday, 24 September 2018

Notes on a Giant Tree

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I am making a Yoon-Suin-based supplement set in a giant 2-mile high tree in the Mountains of the Moon. The introduction is  here ; I've ...
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Thursday, 20 September 2018

No Straight Thing Was Ever Made

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I have always liked human characters, and human-centered fantasy fiction; there are lots of reasons for this, but I think fundamentally it i...
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Monday, 17 September 2018

Occupations of the Poor

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I've just finished reading Himmelfarb's The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age . It's a great book that I woul...
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Sunday, 9 September 2018

Vignettes on Books

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Chaucer, living in the 14th century, claimed he owned sixty books, which according to David Wright's introduction to my prose copy of Th...
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Thursday, 6 September 2018

GW and DnD: Fun Over Fairness

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I recently played Kill Team , the new(ish) squad-based Warhammer 40,000 battle game. It has probably been approaching 20 years since I prope...
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Monday, 3 September 2018

Encounters with Drovers

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From The Drovers' Roads of Wales , by Godwin & Toulson, 1977: "Long before the American cowboys launched a thousand legends, ...
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Monday, 27 August 2018

What Are RPGs Like?

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Scott Adams, whether you love him, loathe him, take him with a pinch of salt, think of him only rarely as that guy who did the Dilbert comic...
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Friday, 24 August 2018

Goodbye to All That

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I find it hard to conceive of circumstances in which I will buy another RPG rulebook "in anger" - that is, with the intention of p...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2018

The Lamarckian Orc

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What if orcs evolved through inheritance of acquired characteristics, so that a one-armed orc produced one-armed progeny; a body-builder orc...
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Thursday, 16 August 2018

Mapping a Giant Tree Trunk

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I've had some preliminary thoughts on mapping a giant tree, beginning with the trunk. Have a look at the following diagram, which is a s...
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