Law vs Chaos – Thoughts on Alignment
Alignment in D&D and similar FRPs is an oft-maligned subject.
For the Swords & Sorcery-styled World of Weirth campaign I am looking for some over-arching tensions to drive the plots and dramas of the setting.
I do not like the “Alignment as personality profile” school, nor do I want to get into the issues of […]
The fastness was razed and its storerooms plundered. The inhabitants were either carried off by the God-Queen’s foul minions or put to the sword. While it is likely that Empress Kallistrate was able to recover many artifacts and relics of the golden age of Jamul, including the fabled Library, […]
Links – Saturday Shares
Here is some reading material for your weekend!
From The Other Side
Hat tip to Jason Vey for sharing these with me.
So if I know ANYTHING at all about Conan, likely it came from Jason Vey. In addition to being a top rate game designer, he […]
Back in my middle- and high-school days I read everything Conan I could get my hands on.
Novels, comics, whatever. The large-format Savage Sword of Conan were my favorite, with longer stories, usually complete in one issue, and the art! Awesome.
Hack-n-slash, demons, wizards (scantily-clad babes didn’t hurt, either), SSoC had everything you could ask […]
From 1961, a novel by Poul Anderson. Weighing in at 220 pages, this old novel is a fraction of the size of the contemporary fantasy novel. But that just means the story moves faster, and there is a lot less fluff than in today’s offerings!
The classic tale of a modern man thrust “back in […]
When I was a little boy, I was a voracious reader (still am!). One of my favorite places in the whole world was a little room in the corner of my grandparents’ basement, where my uncles all took turns living, as teenagers. On one wall was a set of home-made bookshelves that were filled with […]
What Ho, Frog Demons! – A Review
The Hill Cantons was one of the first #OSR blogs I discovered last year when I got back into the D&D scene. I was looking for more info on the Old School scene, because I quickly discovered that D&D 5e was a completely different game. Chris Kutalik’s take on the Implied Apocalypse of […]
One of the reasons I like the Pulp Alley game so much is that it is specifically designed to tell a story with the scenario. Even if the basic goal is “Get Loot”, the rulebook provides these great charts for identifying what the Loot is – the Plot points.
Is the prize information, like a […]
Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading, here and there, The Book of War by John Keegan. This is an anthology of excerpts of writings from a host of authors on the subject of war – accounts of battles, diary entries and letters – a fascinating treasure trove of information.
From the […]
An unfinished blog post with a list of books worth reading:
Shane Atwell’s Blog: In Search of Where We Went Wrong
The battle lines between individualism and collectivism were thus already drawn in the 1880s and the individualists had already lost, at least the intellectual battle if not the political/legal one. Note that the […]
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Hobby Progress 2021
Models Painted:
Final for 2020: 58YTD for 2021: 11
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