26 April 2021

Charles Peale – the fantasy artist

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This is a post about the artist Charles Peale – no, not this guy ! Rather, the artist who did a lot of the early interior black-and-white il...
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27 March 2021

Swords and Sorcery House Rules PDF available again

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Many years ago I put together some 'swords and sorcery' house rules for Swords & Wizardry (also usable with older editions of D...
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26 March 2021

This blog is not dead

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I know things have been rather quiet here recently, but this blog is not dead (yet). I've just been really, really busy at work over th...
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23 February 2021

Ravenloft 5e setting book coming soon

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  Like many who got into role-playing games, and especially Advanced Dungeons & Dragons , during the 1980s, I owned (...
23 January 2021

More Fantasy TV: Westeros and Middle-earth

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It looks like there will be no shortage of fantasy television shows in the near future. In addition to the potential Dungeons and Dragons s...
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22 January 2021

The Mittens of Redistribution

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While I generally try to avoid bringing up politics in this blog (my “day job” is teaching and writing about political philosophy), I found ...
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15 January 2021

Dungeons & Dragons: a TV series and a Movie?

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It looks like a Dungeons & Dragons television series is now in the process of being developed by Derek Kolstad (the author of the scri...
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31 December 2020

Praise for Lyonesse

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Mythras is my favourite FRPG of the 21 st Century and Lyonesse is one of my favourite trilogies of the 20 th Century—so naturally I’m a gr...
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09 December 2020

The Two Gords of Greyhawk

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I worked my way through most of Gary Gygax’s “Gord” novels last autumn, winter, and spring. I’ve now read them all except for the last one (...
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24 November 2020

The Monsters of Trampier

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I’ve mentioned before here how much I adore the art of Dave Trampier (“DAT”). His work very much shaped the way in which I visualize fantas...
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