Thursday, 28 September 2023

[Review] Dungeons & Dragons Adventurer

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Last week I was idling down the magazine section at the local supermarket and spotted the first issue of something called  D&D Adventure...
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Monday, 25 September 2023

On Categorising Oneself and the Appeal of Archetypes

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It is an interesting feature of human beings, revealed I think by role playing games, that while we like thinking of ourselves as individual...
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Thursday, 14 September 2023

Thoughts on a First Reading of Chapter One of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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I have recently started reading the first Harry Potter  book to my eldest child, and, as I've never read a single word of the series bef...
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Wednesday, 13 September 2023

King Arthur vs Devil Kitty

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I hope you forgive a brief commercial interlude, but my friend Dan Sumption is currently running a Kickstarter for a project called King Art...
Tuesday, 12 September 2023

Amazonpunk and the Giantess Setting

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I recently finished reading Buddy Levy's River of Darkness , about  Francesco de Orellana  and the first European voyage down the Amazon...
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Monday, 11 September 2023

Thinking Seriously About Halfling Empires

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The question of whether halflings are capable of constructing empires, and what those empires would look like, is one which has concerned We...
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Thursday, 7 September 2023

'Punk-rogue-ing' D&D in the Aftermath of the Quasi-Apocalypse

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Bruce Sterling's preface to the William Gibson short story collection Burning Chrome  made a lasting impression on me when I first read ...
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Monday, 4 September 2023

Orcs Wish to Have an Independent Existence

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One of Tolkien's great innovations was the notion that, in his sub-created world, there would not only be sentient beings of other '...
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Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Scenes from The Great North

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Tom Kilian has sent me some more works-in-progress for art for The Great North (formerly  The Meeting of the Waters ). As a reminder, this i...
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Monday, 21 August 2023

Whither the Fantasy Gamebook?

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Is there a place for Fighting Fantasy  and Lone Wolf  style gamebooks outside of the realm of mere nostalgia? I ask because a recent podcast...
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