Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Chaos and History

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To paraphrase Edmund Burke, what separates human beings from flies is that human beings live their lives at the end of a vast chain of cultu...
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Monday, 29 August 2022

Setting Building through the Riding of Strange Mounts

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When struggling for ways to freshen up a campaign setting you are devising, you could do worse than start off by asking: 'What weird thi...
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Tuesday, 23 August 2022

Closed, Open, and Absent Historicity

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A lot of D&D settings have what you might call open historicity . (By 'historicity', I mean simply the quality of having a histo...
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Wednesday, 17 August 2022

Natural Right and Relativism in Vance, Wolfe and Lewis

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This year, I have read an awful lot of books by Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe and CS Lewis. This has caused me to reflect on the nature of morality...
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Monday, 8 August 2022

Early Development Sketches for the Great North

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'The Great North' is the working title of what I have previously referred to as, amongst other things, 'Northumberland Yoon-Suin...
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Friday, 5 August 2022

Life in the Unremembered City (Cont’d)

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How the Unremembered City floats, and what dictates its movements through the sky, are questions whose answers are now unknown - except perh...
Thursday, 4 August 2022

Life in the Unremembered City

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  The Naacals of the Unremembered City are divided into two castes: the Old Naacals, essentially immortal, who have survived the long eons s...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2022

Further Questions Regarding D&D Movies

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Two interesting questions popped up in the comments on yesterday's post , and I felt they merited further discussion at length.  The fir...
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Tuesday, 26 July 2022

13 Reasons Why the New D&D Movie Will Be Terrible

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 (Never let it be said I can't write good clickbait headlines when I want to.) So, there is a new D&D film coming out . I am so thor...
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Monday, 18 July 2022

In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard Issue 1 - PDF Released

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Issue 1 of my new 'zine, In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard , is now available for purchase in PDF at the noisms games website . A pri...
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