World Building and Woolgathering

In the midst of the city is a place of absolute quiet. Its bounds are irregular, adhering to the property laws of several centuries and a f...

Found in a secondhand bookshop near York Minster, this was the first I had heard of John James. A three-book omnibus published by Gollancz i...

I am not fond of pistol crossbows appearing in media with a somewhat medieval theme. If someone says that they want to use one...

Turns out this is my hundredth post. As a milestone of sorts, this will be a little longer than usual and as a treat it is actually immediat...

In response to Throne of Salt 's latest , please see below for my take on a version of Episode VII. Premises: I am not starting from...

Over at Against the Wicked City , Joseph Manola has been doing a very decent series of reveiws of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 1st and 2nd e...

Catapaulta , by Edward Poynter, 1868* The Horatione Empire produced numerous expressions of martial valour. Troops that were the fir...

An ongoing topic here has been Punth and the Qryth. A desert land, split by rivers, ruled by four-armed folk taller than men - who take the ...

As before, there's been a rumbling notion in the back of my brain for a while about an 18th Century setting to put together, which needs...