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It was beat to the punch in that regard by AD&D 2e Jakandor and their not-evil heavily necromantic Charonti society. Hallowfaust is...

Absolutely. A thing i have consudered in my own work is having a set of iconic characters, and giving 1-3 sentence descriptions of...

I remember when I was young and starting out on my career, I'd buy those cheap $20 dress shoes, and sure enough, I'd be replacing them...

I think about Vimes every time I consider buying some clothes I know won't last. I'm happy to say I've been working, for the last few...

I shotgunned the Sprawl trilogy back to back to back, thanks to you lot rousing my curiosity about how I’d feel about it now. Short...

I'd vote for Volo's Guide to Waterdeep. It gives a lived-in feel to Waterdeep, full of rumors that might be true, or might not be...

An interesting one for me is Hallowfaust: City of Necromancers from the Scarred Lands. A strongly themed Necromancer magocratic city...

There have been many writers that have raged against the unfairness baked into society. But the way Sir Terry articulates it is so...

One of the most quotable bits in fantasy.

Rereading Stout's sixth Wolfe book "Some Buried Caeser" and came across this quote I had forgotten: "Nowadays an Erinys wears a coat...

Our friends at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society are running a raffle to raise funds for the restoration of the home of famed pulp...

Ah, that would have been a perfect ending to the series. Alas!

Oh yes. George talked some about how he planned to end the series, in a sixth book, but his ex-wife Barbara Hambly found very little in...

A nigh impossible choice, but I went with my favorite, The Fifth Elephant. Honorable mention might have to go to Men At Arms, for...

I finished reading Effinger's The Exile Kiss. The final Budayeen book, it's such a shame he died so young. The world he wrote was so...