Wednesday, 26 February 2020

On Frozen and Fantasy for People Who Aren't Into Fantasy

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The fantasy genre is split into many sub-genres. You can imagine it as a sprawling country manor house with many stories and annexes. There...
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Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Cultural Differences

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I've talked before, a little bit, about British and American approaches to fantasy. What I've never written, much less read, about i...
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Monday, 24 February 2020

Rumours Overheard in the Place of the Keepers

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1/There is a circle of five standing stones on a windswept hilltop a few miles west of the Place of the Keepers, with gaps where there were ...
Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Shades of Evil

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So what are Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, and Chaotic Evil, exactly? The best way to conceptualise these alignments is, I think, to describe ...
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Monday, 17 February 2020

The Place of the Keepers

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There will be more to come on alignment, but I was chided, or chastised (is there a difference?) for not putting up more Northumberland Yoon...
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Thursday, 13 February 2020

Alignment Embodiments

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Here's a game you can play along to on your own blog or social media platform of choice. Which fictional character (or group of characte...
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Tuesday, 11 February 2020

RPGs, Intimacy and Stand-Up

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RPGs are most often compared to video games or board games, or perhaps to novels. In many ways, they are much more similar to stand-up comed...
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Monday, 10 February 2020

Unholy Island

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A few miles north of Dolorous Garde and perfectly visible from its walls lies Unholy Island - a flat and mostly featureless expanse of dunes...
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Thursday, 6 February 2020

Transparent DMing

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My DMing style is highly transparent. I roll all dice in the open. I almost always tell the players what I am rolling for and what number wi...
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Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Everything is Unique

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The most popular children's character in Japan by a country mile is  Anpanman . Forget Pokemon and Hello Kitty. Those are for foreigners...
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