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Appendix N: Robert E Howard and Conan the Barbarian

By On 4 May 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Appendix N, Books, OSR - Old School Rules

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 […]

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Appendix N, OD&D, and Me

By On 24 April 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Books, OSR - Old School Rules

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 […]

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What Ho, Frog Demons! – A Review

By On 11 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Books, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules

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 […]

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One-Hour Wargames, a Book Review

By On 3 September 02015 · Leave a Comment · In Books

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 […]

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The Book of War

By On 23 August 02013 · Leave a Comment · In Books

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 […]

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A Reading List on Where We Went Wrong

By On 16 January 02013 · Leave a Comment · In Books, Philosophy, politics

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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How Books Can Change a Person

By On 30 August 02012 · Leave a Comment · In Books

Inspired by Mari at CreateWriteNow:

Journaling Ideas: What Books Have Changed You?

Timing has a lot to do with which books resonate with you at different points in your life. Think back to the books you read when you were growing up; which book made the strongest impression on you during your childhood or […]

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A List of Books

By On 4 August 02012 · 1 Comment · In Books

I have been a book-lover and -collector for as long as I can remember. I used to sit in the basement at my Grandmother’s for hours, reading through every one of the science fiction novels from the 50’s and 60’s that my uncles had collected when they were young (and there were a lot!). I […]

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