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I love Arkady Renko, and I love that every few years Martin writes another book about him. Time passes, but Arkady reluctantly...

It's great to hear from someone who was there. You're like a living artifact? Did you actually have any qualifications to be an...

by Nathan Pyle (Strange Planet)

Read Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, which is a nice short read because (unlike most things Beaton is known for) it’s...

In the 80s and 90s there were other companies where you could work full time--West End, GDW, Chaosium, eventually White Wolf, and so on...

One of the constants at TSR, no matter who owned and ran the company, was the inability to deal fairly or constructively with creators...

I continue to use the library, and many folks on Booktube set up a variety of exceptions: series in progress, books by people you know...

This is a good idea. I decided to simply read books I already own through the end of this year; and starting i 2026 I can begin to read...

The one that really flipped the switch for me on adventure fiction and pacing was Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer. It’s...

Some of the quotes in there (such as from Robert Louis Stevenson's essay A Gossip on Romance, about the nature of adventure fiction)...

I remember thinking this was a pretty decent book, as well. The science had some wonky moments, and there was piano thing that ran...

I have been running more published stuff to start, but add homemade tangents depending on the players and where they want to go. I also...

When running open-world sandboxes, the closest match is the open world video game. When running most anything more limited in scope...

I think one major thing here that pushes RPG campaigns structurally towards being like Buffy/Merlin is that in general, all the PCs are...

In '82? Absolutely not. Gary didn't (edit, correction) move into the mansion for another year, and he didn't hire Lorraine until '85...