World Building and Woolgathering

The Primer: Chapters 1 , 2 , 3 Work on the land of Punth continues, albeit slowly. However, as I sketch out the next portion of the prime...

On the template establsihed by noisms : Lawful Good  - Aslan Lawful Neutral  - Judge Dredd Lawful Evil  - Mephistopheles Neutral Good  - G...

Rogue Trooper began life in the British comic 2000AD , the work of Gerry Findlay-Day and Dave Gibbons. The time? The future. The place is N...

A recent viewing of the 1981 John Boorman film Excalibur made me think lightly about costume. Two light points to begin with: 1) Happy,...

Let us consider the ' big Empire ' concept talked about by Joseph Manola in his (excellent) WFRP reviews . So we are on the same pag...

At some time in the 21st Century the rains began to fall, on the just and the unjust alike. Plain and desert, fen and field, hill and dale  ...

The cleric is morphed by the 52 Pages into a Prophet ; the reasoning (in part) being to detach the floating murderhobo miracle worker from ...

In my Mythago Wood review, I referenced thrillers like like Rogue Male or The 39 Steps or The Day of the Jackal - calling them low-tech, ...

I had heard C.S. Le wis quoted as lamenting 'if only Disney did not combine so much vulgarity  with  his genius'. (I turned up a BBC...

Another book up for discussion - curiously, once again with an introduction by Neil Gaiman : Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood . I...