World Building and Woolgathering

Crystals are verboten ; taboo for the latter-day OSR (or other current term ) designer. The Artpunkifex Maximus has proclaimed it . But ...

At a market second-hand bookstall I found a copy of Vita Sackville-West's The Eagle and the Dove . I have no significant interest in her...

If we consider a number of cases from real-world history and religion: The Sacred Geese of Rome. 'What's that, Mr Hissy? Timmy...

A bid to produced golems divorced from the elemental concept - and hopefully with some interesting structural elements. These aren't as ...

A recent exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, near me in Cambridge occasioned a visit. This set out some of the work of William Nicholson ...

Tell me, how do you picture the dress of those in Revolutionary France? Ragged members of the mob? Jacobins in torn shirts? Cold-eyed Robesp...

Swords must be sharpened, or they lose their edge. Armour must be leaned and oiled, or it will rust. If you find an old battle-axe, it will ...

Websites and the mouths of colleagues are abuzz with the latest and last series of HBOs adaption of A Song of Ice and Fire , Game of Thrones...

My last post , tying into the Harry Clarke Project drew on (and obliquely referenced) both the Swan-Maidens of Norse myth and the image of ...

Armour Class: as leather Hit Dice: 4 Movement: twice that of a human, but they can fly. Attacks: two elegant ritual blades, kept...