For once, the picture on this blog post is actually relevant to what I’m talking about. The guy in the center is me ten years (and probably forty pounds) ago, playing my Brujah Anarch at the International Camarilla Conclave. More importantly, that’s me ten years ago playing in Vampire: The Masquerade, a part of the [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1905. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. And now we start the post-Great Hiatus canon proper with “The Norwood Builder.” In short order Holmes bemoans the loss of Moriarty, while Watson sells his medical [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1905. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. We learn that Mycroft has been acting as Holmes’ agent in London while he was away, even to the point of keeping his rooms preserved, despite the [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1905. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. Finally, we come to Holmes’ miraculous return from his death in “The Final Problem.” This is another watershed story in the canon which is dense with canonical [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in 1902. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. And now, a handful of other interesting points about the novel. Remember how I mentioned that Lestrade is marginalized and ignored throughout the first part of the [...]
A month ago, I posted a quasi-rant about the edition wars between various versions of Dungeons & Dragons. Nothing in that rant has really changed, but I did get to play a second session of the game which prompted that post: Justin’s Pagan Lands game. Pagan Lands uses Swords & Wizardry Complete produced by Frog [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in 1902. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. As I mentioned earlier, Hound is probably one of the most influential books in the Holmes canon. Entire books have been written about just this novel, including [...]