Recent content by Autumnal

My experience with unpublished work is that author, I retain copyright on my text until the publisher pays for it. If there’s never a kill fee or anything else, the text remains mine. But I don’t get any kind of license to use trademark terms, nor any words that have been published and are under...

Numenoreans brought potatoes and tomatoes to the mainland of Middle Earth. Any phule kno.

Current scientific consensus is that they domesticated themselves. They moved into our space from surrounding wilderness, accepting the constraints in exchange for the goodies. Modern feral cats living in places like barns and shops keep reinventing the first steps of the process, accepting a...

That quote resonates a lot with me. The older I get, the more I think about how basic realities like untreated, untreatable chronic pain have shaped routine life throughout the ages.

Depending on the context, no. In the computer game world (which is much larger and has many more players), a roleplaying game is one where your character gains levels and you can assets to allocate as they do. That could be skill points, spell slots, whatever. Playing a role is not essential at...

Ohhh yeahhh. Very, very true.

On the flip side, it would also help to have reminders like “he’s really good on history related to X - pay attention” and “make sure to save any mechanics she posts related to Y, since you like using them”.

The best part of Arkham Asylum for me was some of the amazing blue and blue-green hues in Dave McKean’s palette. Overall, it just didn’t work for me. But overreach is a thing that happens sometimes when very talented people, which those two are, go experimenting.

No Wild Shapes or companions were injured in the making of this scene.

Hmm. So many possibilities. Norstrilia, by Cordwainer Smith, for the beauty of the language and the deranged genius of its world building.Roadside Picnic, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, for its vision of the unknowable embedded in the practicalities of modern life. The Big Time, by Fritz...

I’ll be looking forward to your thoughts on this. I reread Hyperion and am halfway through The Fall of Hyperion. It’s been interesting, in several senses. Simmons’ prose is absolutely as good as I remembered, and so are the good parts of these books. The overall cosmology and story, the...

It boggles me that so many people struggle with 2014 and 2024. I have to wonder what the D&D community would make of the editions of Frankenstein (1818 and 1831), or editions of Shakespeare, or Zelazny’s “Damnation Alley” versus Damnation Alley (and countless other such cases), or works with...

Glad to help complicate your life. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(graphic_novel)