Monday, 26 February 2024

'It is important that it be fully detailed': What the BBC makes of D&D down the ages

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While idly looking at cricket scores on the BBC website earlier today I came across a link to this recent 5 minute 'BBC sounds' podc...
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Friday, 23 February 2024

17 Times the Incidental Illustrations in the 2nd Edition DMG Rocked

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Nostalgia can do powerful things. I must have bought the 2nd edition AD&D DMG at the age of about 12 or 13, at a shop in Tel Aviv on a r...
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Monday, 19 February 2024

Does What Happens at the Table Matter?

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My previous post generated considerable debate (chiefly about, of all things, Daddy Pig). But it raises wider, and more important, questions...
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Monday, 12 February 2024

What's the Story? A Problem with Plot

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Yesterday, I had the misfortune of attending the cinema to watch Peppa Pig's Cinema Party , consisting of 10 'never before seen'...
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Friday, 9 February 2024

Ancestries and Character Backgrounds in the Crocodilian Apocalyps

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PCs in Behind Gently Smiling Jaws each have one of four ancestries, and a background which follows from whatever their ancestry is. Ancestr...
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Thursday, 8 February 2024

Mike Mearls, Moral Philosopher

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I recently came across this video on t'internet. In it, Mike Mearls does his best to look very serious and thoughtful while he talks abo...
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Sunday, 4 February 2024

The Sunday Seven: 5th February 2024

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Each Sunday (well, almost each Sunday), I share seven links to items of interest that have crossed my eye across the preceding week. Here ar...
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Wednesday, 31 January 2024

No More Drama

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Have you noticed something about my blog, over the past few years? I have. Sit still for a moment and you will too. I want you to be very qu...
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Sunday, 28 January 2024

The Sunday Seven: 28th January 2024

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Each Sunday (well, almost each Sunday), I share seven links to items of interest that have crossed my eye across the preceding week. Here ar...
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Thursday, 25 January 2024

Are You Sequel-Worthy?

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When it comes to fantasy novels I am now old, jaded and cynical, like the Ron Perlman character in Enemy at the Gates . I like it to be brie...
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