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evans the misenchanted sword richard swan grave empire fran wilde updraft kameron hurley the stars are legion robert holdstock mythago wood reread max gladstone wicked problems adrian tchaikovsky lives of bitter rain max gladstone dead hand rule antonia hodgson the raven scholar arkady martine rose house paul mcauley the quiet war reread paul mcauley gardens of the sun paul mcauley in the mouth of the whale paul mcauley evening s empires andy weir project hail mary reread james islington the will of the many t j klune the house on the cerulean sea hiron ennes the works of vermin bethany jacobs this brutal moon charles dickens a christmas carol reread michael drout the tower and the ruin j r r tolkien the lord of the rings reread yes i read the trilogy twice in 2025 american comics absolute batman dc absolute martian manhunter dc absolute superman dc absolute wonder woman dc birds of prey dc bowling with corpses and other strange tales from lands unknown dark horse daredevil marvel the ephemerata fantagraphics exceptional x men marvel fantastic four marvel the immortal thor marvel jsa dc the mortal thor marvel love and rockets fantagraphics a wizard of earthsea a graphic narrative clarion japanese manga akane banashi asadora blue period call of night hiryasumi kageki shojo komi can t communicate mob pyscho 100 one punch man welcome to demon school iruma kun witch hat atelier at january 03 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels annual reading thursday january 23 2025 dragonbane mirth mayhem in vegas every january my 1990s philadelphia gaming group holds a reunion in las vegas we hang out give ourselves meat sweats at fogo de chao and run rpg one shots this year i decided to a session of free league publishing s dragonbane core set that i bought back in august from milwaukee s wonderful old guard games i loved the look of dragonbane the stunning art of johan egerkrans and the rules promised precisely the sort of experience i like in a fantasy rpg characters who aren t zero to hero pushovers at the start but who nonetheless have to struggle to survive as they make their picaresque way across settings like the core set s misty vale sandbox although the game comes with a nice slate of pre gen characters i had my friends create characters so that we could see how character creation played out the party consisted of a halfling thief a human wizard a wolfkin hunter and a mallard knight named sir waddleton of pondsborough i ran this motley bunch through the core set s introductory scenario which let us test drive the combat rules and then i skipped ahead to trollspire the dungeon that many in the dragonbane community recommend as a starting point i don t want to spoil the details of the adventure but i can say that the party succeeded in making away with the treasure the highlight of the session was watching sir waddleton valiantly try to maintain his dignity as he was insulted by a variety of humiliating traps mallards have a kin ability that gives them advantage on key rolls in dragonbane terms they get a boon at the cost of going berserk à la donald duck they gain the angry condition which gives them disadvantage or a bane on intelligence related rolls with each new metaphorical slap in the beak sir waddleton grew redder and redder in the face until he finally snapped it was truly glorious to behold the lowlight of the evening was the extreme failure of the wolfkin hunter s twenty sider this die which i was told routinely rolled low in the player s 5e dungeons dragons game turned out to suck just as badly at dragonbane faced with a roll under rules environment the die proceeded to generate results of 17 it wasn t much fun for my friend to roll so poorly so often but there was a certain sadistic glee in the die s cursed consistency the tagline for dragonbane is mirth mayhem roleplaying and this one shot lived up to that bill ing it s hard to resist the duck puns i ll definitely be finding an opportunity to run dragonbane here at home hopefully for my son and his friends he has promised me that their party will be all fowl and i can t wait at january 23 2025 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels actual play dragonbane tuesday december 31 2024 2024 a year s reading since 2020 i ve been keeping track of my reading for pleasure as opposed to the substantial amount of reading i do in my job as a university professor what follows are the books i read for fun in 2024 they are listed in the order i read them with new favorites being indicated by asterisks rereads are favorites by default books serhii plokhy chernobyl the history of a nuclear catastrophe elizabeth bear range of ghosts drew williams the stars now unclaimed greg egan scale lloyd alexander the black cauldron reread lloyd alexander the castle of llyr reread elizabeth bear undertow j s dewes the exiled fleet emily tesh some desperate glory m r carey infinity gate tana french the hunter terry pratchett moving pictures frances hardinge unraveller w p wiles the last blade priest alastair reynolds machine vendetta lois mcmaster bujold penric s labors garth nix the left handed booksellers of london neal asher the technician reread jack mcdevitt infinity beach barbara hambly the iron princess steven erikson gardens of the moon reread ian c esslemont night of knives steven erikson deadhouse gates reread steven erikson memories of ice reread steven erikson house of chains reread steven erikson midnight tides reread steven erikson the bonehunters reread steven erikson reaper s gale reread steven erikson toll the hounds reread ian c esslemont return of the crimson guard m r carey echo of worlds ian c esslemont stonewielder bethany jacobs these burning stars m r carey the book of koli peter s beagle i m afraid you ve got dragons ian c esslemont orb sceptre throne marko kloos descent james s a corey the mercy of gods ian c esslemont blood and bon e j r r tolkien the lord of the rings reread ben aaronovitch rivers of london richard powers playground michael mammay planetside naomi mitchison travel light miles cameron artifact space bethany jacobs on vicious worlds judith tarr ars magica seth dickinson the traitor baru cormorant adrian tchaikovsky alien clay ken macleod the corporation wars dissidence diana wynne jones howl s moving castle reread ken macleod the corporation wars insurgenc e iain m banks the algebraist reread iain m banks look to windward reread diana wynn s jones archer s goon iain m banks matter reread iain m banks excession reread c j cherryh cuckoo s egg seanan mcguire every heart a doorway adrian tchaikovsky days of shattered faith barbara hambly the ladies of mandrigyn robert jackson bennett the tainted cup k j parker saevus corax deals with the dead garth nix sir hereward and mister fitz alix e harrow the ten thousand doors of january moniquill blackgoose to shape a dragon s breath patricia a mckillip the bards of bone plain i also read the following comics and manga series american comics absolute superman absolute wonder woman birds of prey daredevil exceptional x men fantastic four immortal thor jsa love rockets titans japanese manga akane banashi asadora blue period call of the night hiryasumi kageki shojo komi can t communicate mob psycho 100 one punch man welcome to demon school iruma kun witch hat atelier at december 31 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels annual reading wednesday december 25 2024 merry lemurian christmas a slayer iffic santa by conor burke a lot has happened since my last post 29 june 2021 much of it involving eldercare and heavy duty adulting but the impending release of ludospherik s barbarians of lemuria mythic edition has got me thinking about sword and sorcery blogging again so here i am with holidays wishes and bol stats for the lemurian version of a certain jolly old elf kringal of valgard attributes strength 2 agility 1 mind 0 appeal 1 combat initiative 1 melee 2 ranged 0 defense 1 careers barbarian 1 beastmaster 1 mercenary 1 thief 1 resources lifeblood 10 hero points 5 gear valgardian axe d6 can be thrown 10 red gambeson light armor d6 3 1 large sack boons detect deception stealthy trademark weapon valgardian axe flaws distinctive appearance feels the heat kringal grew up in frozen valgard helping his family herd the giant deer of the north lured south by mercenary company recruiters promising easy riches kringal soon grew tired of military life he now dwells in satarla where he has acquired a reputation as a skilled second story man able to get in and out of houses without waking any of his targets he sees you when you re sleeping he knows when you re awake he has an uncanny ability to distinguish truth from falsehood he knows if you ve been bad or good and can be readily recognized by his obsession with wearing red garments he plans to return home once he has acquired a sizable hoard enough to challenge for leadership of his clan at december 25 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels barbarians of lemuria heroes santa claus tuesday june 29 2021 digital vision cards 1 vladimir kush ever since the everway rpg was published back in 1995 its fans have been supplementing the official vision card pictures with images found online in that spirit and because the recent kickstarter has returned everway to attention i m starting a series here on the blog to highlight artists whose work is both inspirational and suited to the assumptions about fantasy that everway makes the first artist i m featuring is self described metaphorical realist vladimir kush his work stems from the surrealist tradition but the line between the fantastic and the surreal has always been a thin one images like the one at the head of this post in full sails my favorite of his oil paintings make for perfect digital vision cards and i recommend them to everway players and gms a similar painting departure of the winged ship suggests a realm in which all oceangoing vessels are powered by the wings of giant insects heavenly fruits on the other hand conjures up the idea of a realm where trees are essentially floating arboreal clouds capable of being harvested by hand when the wind is quiet finally kush s notes for a painting like dragon defence can be straight up borrowed for an everway game what if a realm spanning defensive wall is actually a slowly moving earth dragon at june 29 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art digital vision cards everway monday february 1 2021 everway silver anniversary edition funded in 4 hours the everway rpg has finally managed to draw the spring card upright meaning new growth from the fortune deck the kickstarter for the silver anniversary edition reached its funding goal in just under four hours i went in at the 120 level picking up hardcopies and pdfs of both the players and gamemasters books stretch goals have not yet been announced but they have been strongly hinted at if you re thinking about backing the kickstarter but haven t decided yet check out the free gateway book preview it s an epitome of the two books and at 62 pages is rather thorough for a sample at february 01 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels everway everway silver anniversary edition kickstarter live i m excited to report that the kickstarter for the silver anniversary edition of the everway roleplaying game has just gone live incidentally so has this blog surviving 2020 took a lot out of me and blogging about rpgs wasn t part of the survival plan the new edition looks like a great improvement to an already lovely game providing much more scaffolding for players and gms to interact with the thousand worlds for example there are now guidelines for how to create the boons that everway heroes receive as rewards and the city of everway has been given a setting overhaul placing it into a regional context on its home sphere and thus making it more than just a waystop the game s publishers the everway company have put together a more detailed guide to the revision complete with some very enticing images of pages and rules material once i get a chance to look over the new books myself i hope to publish more everway related material here at february 01 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels everway wednesday october 9 2019 killing magic items last night i was prepping for an upcoming class on eirik the red s saga and i suddenly realized i had material for a blog post that was more than just a link to gaming related media i was taking notes on the scene in the fourth chapter of the saga where christian girl gudrid thorbjornsdottir gets roped into singing the weird songs varðlokur for thorbjorg a pagan völva or prophetess the narrator is careful to describe thorbjorg s gear both her bag of talismans and her staff with a knob thereon ornamented with brass and inlaid with gems while looking for images of a völva s staff to show students i came across the image reproduced above it s a norwegian grave good originally identified by british museum curators as a spit or measuring rod and since reclassified as a divination staff once you see some other examples of völva staves this artifact obviously belongs to the same group of objects the cool thing about the staff and here s the payoff for gms is the curve in its one end the curators believe that it was done in a smithy for the purpose of ritually killing the staff before burying it with its owner with the staff bent the dead völva could not use it against the living if she returned as a draugr i m not great with mechanics so i can t come up with a magic item slaying ritual off the top of my head but i can immediately see the in character possibilities for such slain items at the very least it s a nice bit of dungeon dressing there s a wand in this sarcophagus but it has been deliberately broken by whoever stuck the lich in there it could be something more though how would the player characters go about resurrecting a dead magic artifact could that even be the focus of an entire campaign at october 09 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dungeons and dragons magic items monday september 30 2019 d d d d rules lawyers it s been a crazy busy september in the world of academic administration and university teaching so this advertisement is a welcome laugh at september 30 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dungeons and dragons humor wednesday september 4 2019 eye of the beholder documentary i just finished watching eye of the beholder a new documentary about the history of d d art it apparently premiered at gencon 2018 but i completely blanked on its ex...