Thursday, 11 January 2018

When Yoon-Suin Meets Rifts

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In the lobby of the Museum of Historical Interface, at the Brunswick Dock in Hibap'ȕ/Liverpool, there hangs a framed letter, printed on ...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2018

The Case for the Small and Complex

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It's a truism that the world is getting more complex in the digital age. In fact, the truth is the world is in many ways much simpler th...
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Monday, 8 January 2018

Appearing to do two things while really doing neither

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Sodajerker recently released an interview with Noel Gallagher . I am not a huge Oasis or Noel Gallagher fan, but you couldn't escape his...
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Friday, 5 January 2018

Uesugi Saburo's Slavers

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A band of desperate, stinking, uncouth killers who roam wild and rural places searching for children to kidnap and sell into servitude down ...
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Wednesday, 3 January 2018

On High Level Warriors, Gods, Mortals and More

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I read The Iliad  for the first time over the Christmas break (the Penguin Classics prose version, for those of you familiar with it). I wa...
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Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Audience Participation: A Table Without a Title

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I often send little notes to myself by text message as a kind of aide memoire , which would work a treat if I ever actually looked at them, ...
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Thursday, 7 December 2017

Would You, Could You, on a Train?: Linear Dungeons

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A linear dungeon is one in which there are, deliberately, no or very few options for lateral movement. The PCs either go forwards or backwar...
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Wednesday, 6 December 2017

War as a Globalising Force

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Google "war and globalisation" and you get billions of hits on the subject of whether globalisation causes war. You don't get...
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Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Mindfulness and Creativity

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It's very unlike me, but I have been doing some experimenting with mindfulness meditation in recent weeks, mainly inspired by Sam Harris...
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Monday, 4 December 2017

The OSR as D&D Stuckists

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I am not a big fan of the moniker "OSR". I find it a little self-congratulatory, but also, being 36, I can't claim to have bee...
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