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Showing posts with label Fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantasy. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2022

Appendix N May Have Influenced Dungeons & Dragons, but Moldvay Basic Influenced How I Read Fantasy

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  As James Maliszewski-- author of the underappreciated science fiction role playing game  Thousand Suns  --  has pointed out , the Appendix...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Hither Came Conan to Role Playing Games Part 1 (OD&D)

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Fantasy Background Retrieved from WallpaperPlay and Cartoony Conan Image by Todd Pickens The fiction of Robert E. Howard (who was born o...
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Monday, December 16, 2019

Geekerati Monday Geekosphere Snapshot 12/16

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It's time for another snapshot of the Geekosphere! Today's post features products and posts of things I thought might be of int...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Robert Hewitt Wolfe's THE GOBLIN CROWN Continues a Long Standing Fantasy Tradition

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It is a sign of the times that it took me three years to discover The Goblin Crown by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. I'd like to put most ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

The Black Company is Excellent Military Fantasy

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The Black Company by Glen Cook My rating: 4 of 5 stars Glen Cook's first entry in the Black Company series is an interesting com...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

When Pulp Meets Urban Fantasy

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I love a good urban fantasy yarn. I'm a regular reader of the tales of Harry Dresden, Atticus O'Sullivan, and Detective Inspector We...
Friday, April 08, 2016

Fantasy Film Friday: HAWK THE SLAYER (1980)

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For gamers of a certain age, Hawk the Slayer inspired the imagination as much as Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lord of the Ring...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The Perils of Public Statements and Why Natasha Pulley is the Bravest SF/F Fan I've Ever Read

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The Guardian is one of the few newspapers that truly takes Science Fiction and Fantasy literature seriously on a regular basis. They fre...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

Answering SF Signal's Questions/Meme Regarding Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading/Buying Habits

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A Small Glimpse at the Bookshelf I'm a regular reader of the SF Signal blog. I think it and Blackgate blog are two of the best f...
Friday, April 11, 2014

EN World -- Striking Out on Its Own with O.L.D. and N.E.W.

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In the before times, in the not now, EN World was a site for news about the upcoming 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Since that time...
Thursday, April 03, 2014

THE EYE OF ARGON - or - When A Community Mocks Its Own

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I've long been a fan of science fiction and fantasy, and I've long been a person who is pretentiously opposed to pretense. In a ...