World Building and Woolgathering

...in which an adventure is laid out. It is written that there was a great giant that once stalked the moors. He would seize by force or t...

I have been briefly digging back into Plato. The Timaeus and the Critias are those dialogue where we first have a mention of Atlantis, for t...

It is perhaps a minor mark of my descent and status that I have spent a certain amount of time wandering around parklands attached to statel...

I have had the joy to have read Patrick Stuart's Veins of the Earth . I have recently finished the Edward Bulwer-Lytton Victorian Scie...

Premise: Social interaction in RPGs can be influenced by what character class you play. This is obvious, after a fashion: folk treat priests...

A drop in posts over Easter, but I am still about. Further, somehow this little Blog with a mealy-mouthed name has garnered over 2,018 views...

A little outside my normal material. Instantly generate a pastiche/parody occult detective with 6d10! First Name Surname Profession F...

The concept of Elves in the City may conjure up a number of images to you. A standard one might come from something like the Shadowrun game...

Having made this post suggesting a series of Sphinxes as dragon substitutes, I have been meaning to provide some examples. Consider the spe...

I have finished Emperor of Dreams now, and intend to finish up or follow up any thoughts in this post . From the Gollancz Fantasy Maste...