I am an awful tactician. While this delights my players, it makes today’s topic very hard. You would think for someone who started as a…
Another Obscure S-List Writer
I am an awful tactician. While this delights my players, it makes today’s topic very hard. You would think for someone who started as a…
It was the best of maps; it was the worst of maps. They were a pair of maps in a set of books that would…
The first time I encountered the word scenario, I was not yet a roleplayer. I was barely a hex and chit wargamer. The scenarios in…
How can you not love a conspiracy setting whose first published adventure had the elevator pitch of “What if you woke up one morning and accidentally found that part of your life was missing? And found someone was willing to kill to keep you from getting it back? Kill you, that is…”
The idea was for 30 days to use a small set of sources picked according to Jeff Rient’s “Alchemical Proposal” to create an RPG setting from scratch. I never finished it, but I think I did make a few very creative elements. This is one of my favorites.
This past week was Star Trek day. I wrote about Star Trek in terms of genre and ownership, but Overlord DVD really captured what Star Trek means to so many of us.
Even if you don’t read the whole book, seek out “By His Bootstraps” which may be the ur snarled time travel story. The first part of “The Year of the Jackpot”, like the parts of Heinlein’s Future History that describe the Crazy Years, hits too close to home. It did before 2020, but now it is a harder hit. “The Menace from Earth” inspired part of the background to J. Daniel Sawyer’s Hadrian’s Flight.
New feature, in addition to videos and song, why not share a book. I am a writer, even if I’m just an obscure S-list one.
This letter/diary was written four years and a month before my birth, but I feel a strong kinship with the writer.