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What A Woman's Got To Do: 4 "Isn't there anything to do in this town besides drink and get into fights?" "Ye're a strange one, Isaac me lad." Isaac growled and clutched at his beer as yet another scuffle broke out in their corner of the crowded public house, rocking their table with yells and...

Completely off-topic, but: green slime: update your lava rules banner. That is all.

What A Woman's Got To Do: 3 Viewed from the outside, the castle was even more forbidding than it had been on the inside. Perched on a high narrow span of rock that jutted out into the wind-whipped straight between the two islands of Shaer, Castle Dannockshire stood high, proud and arrogant...

What A Woman's Got To Do: 2 "I have learned many things since we last saw each other." "Feel free to keep them to yourself." Madame Yuek ignored Isaac's mumbled comment as she swept her unearthly gaze across the staring audience upon the Wavereaver's deck. The Shaeric sailors sheltering...

Sorry about the delay, folks. Updates will likely be a little more sporadic than usual. Only another 20 or so episodes until we're wrapped up!

What A Woman's Got To Do: 1 "Is that what it looks like?" "What do you think it looks like?" "Half-a-dozen flying demon-things attacking an ironclad steamship. A few hundred feet above the surface of the Inner Sea." "Then yes, that is exactly what it looks like. Any other questions?" Elena...

Two updates in one week! Who loves ya, baby? This brings to a close Act Two, "Frying Pan, Fire" of Barsoom Tales Season II. We move into the final act of this breathless drama, "What A Woman's Got To Do", and let me tell you, bad as things have gotten, they are about to get much, much worse...

Interlude II Everything here cried out for release. Even the paving stones seemed to shriek in endless, hopeless agony. The crumbled walls of palaces and towers shuddered under the unrelenting wail of the wind. This place shook with despair. Overhead, the sky twisted in a dark cyclone, but not...

Frying Pan, Fire: 17 "It's quiet. I like that." Isaac grimaced sourly at Elena's comment and poked a stick in the fire. Embers brightened and heat swirled back at him. Etienne inspected the cuts of meat sizzling over the flames, shaking his fingers as hot fat dripped. "Ouch. These are almost...

Two weeks in a row without an update, sorry. Life has just bludgeoned me into the soft, sproingy turf. Also, nobody posts nice compliments about how much they love my writing.

Sorry, folks, no update this week. Holiday! Woo!

Frying Pan, Fire: 16 "That was anticlimactic." Isaac looked over at Elena. The two Saijadani stood in the entry hall of a large country mansion, ready to fight whatever defenders the del Orofin family might have placed here, only to find the place empty. Isaac stuffed one of his pistols back...

I'm so proud.

Frying Pan, Fire: 15 The ruby giant punched Madame Yuek in the face hard enough to blast her backwards right through the mainmast of the Wavereaver. The thick timber splintered with a deafening thunder, and sails began to topple all across the deck. Isaac could only stare, openmouthed. "Holy...

With apologies to our loyal readers, this week's episode of Barsoom Tales will be one day late.

Frying Pan, Fire: 14 Isaac squinted in the sunshine. "You know, this is all just a little weird." "I agree," said Elena. "And I say with the caveat that for us, 'a little weird' is a lot weirder than it is for most people." "Yeah." The two sat on the deck of the Wavereaver, the ship...

Why would WotC be interested in supporting 3rd-party publisher books anyway? What does that get them? What I believe they WANT is to forbid any 3rd party from developing online D&D-compatible products (such as PCGen), leaving the field clear for their own subscription-based tools. D&D will...

I've said it before; I'll say it again -- the licensing of 4e is about the internet. WotC is making a play for online accessories in the D&D world, and they want to make sure there's no possibility of open source competition. Hence the GSL. There will be no 4e versions of PCGen, so that everyone...

Frying Pan, Fire: 13 "I guess those mercenaries are better at bribing officials than we are." Arrafin shook her head at Saijadani corruption. "Is everything in this country about money?" "It's a more predictable motivator than crazy desert religion." "Or icky vampire lust." "Hey!"...

Frying Pan, Fire: 12 "'..without exception the factual matters which appellants belatedly claims require development, are either irrelevant or are matters regarding which appellants...'" Arrafin shook her head and passed the document back to Nevid. "I can't figure it out. It's a bunch of...