The Sky People
The Sky People As anyone who has followed my career (if you can call it that) knows, I have a special love for the genre often called “Sword and Planet” or “Planetary Romance”. The platonic ideal of this genre is … Continue reading →
The Sky People As anyone who has followed my career (if you can call it that) knows, I have a special love for the genre often called “Sword and Planet” or “Planetary Romance”. The platonic ideal of this genre is … Continue reading →
A Spell For All Time: Inaudible Intelligence OK, some backstory. At GenCon, I picked up Matt Finch’s “Eldritch Weirdness”, along with one or two other items. One item included in compilation of interesting bits of magic for retro-clone style games … Continue reading →
The World Of Tiers OK, this is going to be a look at an entire series, not just a single book, but it’s an eminently gameable series. It surprises me that no one has glommed onto the World of Tiers … Continue reading →
Midnight At The Well Of Souls Many great science fiction novels and settings have been turned into RPGs, and also some not-so-great ones. This is not one of the not-great ones; that is, it’s one of the great ones. Unlike … Continue reading →
{jcomments on}Gameable Literature: Android Karenina Having decided to end a rather long period where I haven’t done a great deal of reading (given I used to go through 2-3 books a week and I’ve been barely doing one book every … Continue reading →
Earth Delta, Beta 1 Man, it took me a lot longer to write those words than I’d ever imagined it would. Anyway, at long last, here’s the Heroic Tier Beta for Earth Delta (there’s still some higher level stuff in … Continue reading →
Further Down The Rabbit Hole (Why Didn’t I Use That Gag In Part I?) (I mean, it’s not like there’s such a thing as “too lame and predictable” for this blog.) OK, when we last we left our intrepid bunny, … Continue reading →
Bunnies And Burrows Well, I did get a request for the Midnight At The Well Of Souls RPG, but after doing an exhaustive look at one sci-fi RPG, I wanted a bit of a change of pace, and B&B was … Continue reading →
Alma Mater This is a test, this is only a test. Perhaps, someday, I’ll do AM — I have it, with the glorious Erol Otus quasi (and not so quasi) porn illustrations, but not now. i’m trying to figure out … Continue reading →
Star Rovers, Encore Well, here we are. Barring a response, or libel suit, from Mr. Stocken, this will most likely be my final Star Rovers article. (There’s a temptation to begin producing new material for a game out of print … Continue reading →