Wednesday, 10 November 2021

A Good NPC is a PC in His Own Campaign

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What makes a good NPC? It is tempting to say, "a funny voice". That's only half-facetious. In my experience, a funny voice is ...
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Monday, 8 November 2021

This Thing About Scale

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The most recent post on False Machine is an interesting one.  It concerns the way in which a sense of scale is created in a film, book, etc....
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Thursday, 4 November 2021

The Consolidation Session

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I don't believe that the players rolled a single dice-roll "in anger" during today's session. I made a couple. It was what...
Monday, 1 November 2021

Incomplete Archive of Evocative Illustrations from the Forest of Doom

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Malcolm Barter is listed as the interior illustrator for  The Forest of Doom , the first Fighting Fantasy book I must have read (I think I w...
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Thursday, 28 October 2021

Earwigmen

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Earwigmen Loathsome, bellicose insectoids, as bloody-minded and difficult to kill as their diminutive colleagues, earwigmen rove in matriarc...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2021

No Take-Backs?

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As I get older, I become less interested in coming across as an infallible DM. If I was flattering myself I would say this is because I have...
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Monday, 25 October 2021

On Emphyrio and Vance's Libertarianism

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Emphyrio is one of Vance’s most accomplished novels. It is also the closest we get to what one suspects is his personal philosophy. He had t...
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Thursday, 21 October 2021

Humanoid=Animal Pairings

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Last night, I watched a documentary that featured a segment on chimpanzees. When you see the raw power, belligerence and sadism of male chim...
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Tuesday, 19 October 2021

I Have a Dream

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As Pharoah came to Joseph, I call upon the nascent dream interpreters of the OSR blogosphere to tell me the meaning of the dream I had last ...
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Monday, 18 October 2021

On The Force Awakens and Positive Negative Reactions

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It's quite common for people to cite particular books, pieces of music, films, sporting events, and so on as major influences on the cou...
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