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Enjoy your motte and bailey. But I ain't having it. Here you are, twice, saying that the setting would be "Apologizing" for just...

Slavery on Athas When the Sorcerer Kings conquered Athas with their terrible magics they eagerly took slaves of every people they...

If presenting evil things as evil and directing heroes toward opposing those evils makes you feel "Guilt Tripped" for wanting to play in...

Red Nails! Where he poisons, then kills a carnivorous stegosaurus. "It must be as big as an elephant,"muttered Conan, echoing her...

Red Nails is such a great story. Shame that the animated version with Ron Perlman voicing Conan never saw the day.

“Let me get this straight. You think my neighbour, Bernard, Mr. Corbitt, was carrying, how did you put it? A hand wrapped up in canvas...

Keep going. The story will develop and you will develop as a writer alongside it.

I'm new here, so please correct me or tell me what to change, and if I'm posting the right website, it's a story that I recently started...

With Moorcock they would come back in though.

As an addendum, it has only just clicked for me that Arthur Collins, who wrote the taxation article, is the same person as the "Rev...

Love that Morrissey cover. The blend of genres and times really gives it an otherworldly feel. Yeah, it's one big stew. The wargaming...

I also think we need to take the notion that D&D was meant to be some sort of Conan simulator with a big grain of salt. What became...

Note that we (and Jon) didn't find out about how much and how directly Chainmail borrowed from an amateur Middle Earth wargame until...

Jon Peterson's Playing at the World makes it clear Gygax wasn't using Tolkien as a base when he started out, but Tolkien was massively...

I know there are literally Hobbits, Ents, and Balrogs in OD&D - not to mention elves, half-elves, and dwarves - (and all spelled the...