Plausible Implausibilites Deviating a little from my usual gaming focus to discuss media… Warning! Spoilers for Game Of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6! In an interview w/Variety, the producers of AGOT note that there’s a “…thing called plausible impossibilities,” No, … Continue reading →
Kickstarter Post-Mortem (Updated 2-25-2014) As Seemingly Required By Law So, my first Kickstarter is done. I beat the odds in several ways… it was funded. The product was produced, if not 100% on time, at least mostly under budget. (That … 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 →
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 →