14 June 2018

Fellowship Phase in Esgaroth (Spider Cult of Mirkwood part 1.5)

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May-June 2946... [A picture of Esgaroth by J.R.R. Tolkien] Having completed their first adventure together, our heroes—Hartmut, ...

Video that explains Dungeons and Dragons to the uninitiated

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This Vox  video that explains Dungeons & Dragons (and, to some extent, role-playing games more generally) is pretty good. I especially ...
10 June 2018

New settings for Dungeons and Dragons 5e?

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It looks like some new settings for Dungeons & Dragons  5th edition will be announced by Wizards of the Coast later this year ("Du...
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21 May 2018

Tolkien exhibit at Oxford

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If you're a fan of Middle-earth, and you can manage a trip to Oxford between the 1st of June and the 28th of O...
05 May 2018

Mythras Bundle of Holding

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Curious about Mythras (formerly RuneQuest 6 )? Well, over the next two days you can get a rather impressive bundle of Mythras  PDFs for ...
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13 April 2018

A Lyonesse FRPG is coming!

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Exciting news from the good people at the Design Mechanism: they will be producing a freestanding RPG (using the Mythras rules) based on...
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01 April 2018

Tolkien: world-creator and (almost) code-breaker

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Over at the Goodman Games site is a short essay on J.R.R. Tolkien . It covers the usual information on the good professor, and comments on ...
13 March 2018

My favourite role-playing games

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Apropos of nothing, here is a list of my favourite role-playing games... Mythras  (formerly RuneQuest 6  and Mongoose...
21 February 2018

Iain M. Banks’ Culture is coming to television…

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Consider Phlebas —Iain M. Banks’s first novel about the Culture—is coming to Amazon television . I’m excited by this—but also nervous. ...
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07 February 2018

Conan to tread onto the small screen?

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Well this news is rather intriguing: "Amazon is developing drama series Conan , based on the books by Robert E. Howard. […] Conan r...
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