Monday, 30 August 2021

Name That Subculture: The Extreme Lower Middle Class RPG/Wargame/Metal Matrix

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I recently said to somebody that my background is the absolute bottom of the middle-class. My grandfathers were both factory workers; my par...
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Friday, 27 August 2021

What Is Maleficent Up To?

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In Disney's Sleeping Beauty , Maleficent curses the newborn Aurora: before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, the girl will prick her fi...
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Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Asking "What Then?", or, What Makes a Good Setting Good?

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Let's subvert Tolstoy: all bad settings are all alike, but all good settings are good in their own way.  What makes for a bad fantasy se...
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Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Fliers in the Unremembered City

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In the time of the Old Naacals the great plazas of the Unremembered City thronged with flying devices. They left in great flocks like birds ...
Thursday, 19 August 2021

[Review] Punth: A Primer

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Imagine Jack Vance and Gene Wolfe got together and wrote a fantasy setting inspired by ancient Sumer or Assyria, but somehow managed to do s...
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Wednesday, 18 August 2021

D&D Can Help

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I'm not sure how much of a splash it made outside the UK, but  last week a so-called 'incel' went on a shooting spree in Plymout...
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Monday, 16 August 2021

Video Interview with Patrick Stuart of False Machine

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I did an interview with Patrick Stuart about, well, Labyrinth, Warhammer 40K, the OSR, the Wirral, and various other rambling weird things. ...
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Thursday, 12 August 2021

Undead Dinosaur Generator

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When the dinosaurs met their end, the crocodile bore witness. In those years of fire, ash and shadow, when the earth trembled and quivered b...
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Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Keeping it Honest: Why Dice Matter

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Yesterday was 'A' level results day in England. 'A' levels (the 'A' is short for 'Advanced') are national ex...
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Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Behind Gently Smiling Jaws Will Happen (Very Basic Overview)

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I have a sizeable backlog of releases that will all come out in a great orgasmic flow within the next year or two. After them will come Behi...
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