Friday, 30 September 2022

How To Be Prolific

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I have been blogging a long time now, and understand my own rhythms; when I am devoting a lot of creative energy to writing something and/or...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2022

The Productive Tension Between 'Phallic Desire' and 'Messy Soup'

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Randomly clicking on other people's blogroll links led me to two interestingly orthogonal posts -  Chris McDowall on a 'Universal He...
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Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Ranking Vance's SF and Fantasy Novels

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It is fundamentally pointless and also a category error to rank books, works of art, or pieces of music. But it's fun all the same. Thes...
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Monday, 12 September 2022

All of Vance's SF/Fantasy Novels - CATEGORISED!

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I recently finished reading all of Jack Vance's fantasy and SF novels that I could lay my hands on. Annoyingly, there were a few I could...
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Thursday, 8 September 2022

On Being a Luddite

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I return with a little reluctance to the theme of AI and its possible replacement of human artists and writers . Let me say, first of all, t...
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Monday, 5 September 2022

On Adventure: Risk as Its Own Reward

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  There is a great deal to be said for thinking of D&D PCs as, essentially, glorified tomb-robbers - adventuring to gather treasure and ...
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Thursday, 1 September 2022

The World of TSRan

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What is the World of TSRan? As the name suggests, the World of TSRan is a campaign setting which takes the predicates of TSR-era D&D and...
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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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