Full disclosure: I’ve had a couple of drinks with Matt in the past. However, I paid for my own copy of this book. (Yes, another review. What can I say? I had some time to get some reading done over vacation. And I picked up Amortals about the same time as In Hero Years…I’m Dead. [...]
Full Disclosure: I have met Mike Stackpole professionally a couple of times. I paid for this book myself, and wasn’t compensated in any way for it. I’ve been a fan of Mike Stackpole’s since I read his Fiddleback trilogy of novels. When I saw him post on his Twitter that he was releasing a new [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1892. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. It’s the start of the Christmas season, and every Christmas, I run into images of the Victorian ideal of Christmas, which inevitably slides into renditions, quotes, and [...]
One thing that comes as a consequence of long car trips is that I end up thinking about writing. As we drove back and forth from Tennessee and Georgia over Thanksgiving, I had a couple of ideas. The first was to resurrect a novel idea that I had a little over a year ago and [...]
Earlier this year I asked some of my peers in the gaming industry to donate stuff to my cousin-in-law. He was looking for something a bit like classic D&D, but exploring some of the “hackability” of Fudge. I got a number of PDFs, as well as a lot of physical products at GenCon, which I [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1892. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. Now we come to a story about opium addiction and opium dens, that strange oddity of prim and proper Victorian society. Opium dens were dirty, terrible places [...]
Full disclosure: I worked with Tony Lee on the Know Your Role RPG, and we’ve been acquaintances through the gaming industry for years. I also got a free copy of the game from Tony. Horror games are awesome. The psychological conflicts can be engaging, and the tense cat-and-mouse between mortal and monster can be tense [...]