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Does anyone here publish on places like Reedsy? I've been thinking about doing that, just to get into the habit of finishing stories and hopefully getting some reader feedback.

I visited Bari years ago, and my only clear memory of it was a laundry business with a sign that read "Washing & Irony".

On the subject of writing, I've recently read quite a few books on the subject. There are some good pointers out there, but actually I find books about editing - after you've done the first draft - to be far more useful.

I'm still happily playing 3.5 and various D20 alternatives like Modern and Star Wars.

I read years ago that Tolkien intended Middle-Earth to be set on our own world. But I always assumed he meant 100,000 years ago, or even a million. Earth is old enough that you don't have to limit its history to the past 10,000 years. If you really want to put Elves and Hobbits and Sauron in...

I've been practising my fiction writing over the last few years, and I like to think I'm getting better at it. I even posted a few sword & sorcery stories here, and got a bit of feedback but very few eyes. Looking back, I should rewrite them, with the skills I have now, and maybe do something...

I knew it was a myth, but I thought it was based on a misunderstanding, not deliberate cruelty. :mad:

Even better: free DMs with toilet paper.

From experience: anyone who wants to play a kender should only play with other people who want to play kender.

Free dice with toilet paper.

I can imagine a hippo with a hookah, but not with a ciggie. Perhaps cigar at a pinch. Crocodiles would have cigarettes in those long holders. Rhinos could get away with a pipe.

I should probably have spelled it "møøse".

One of many interesting furry animals in Sweden.

A moose once bit my sister.

Now that is metal!

Looks absolutely wonderful! A while ago my group played a Forgotten Realms module that had the party cover something like 50 miles in one day - on foot. I wondered at the time whether the fact that Americans drive everywhere gives them a distorted sense of how long it takes to walk any great...

You know that chlorine smell you get if you pour bleach down your toilet? Ever notice that you don't smell it until you start peeing? That's right, it's the combination of pee and bleach that causes the smell. Remember that next time you go to a public swimming pool.

Recent rereads have been disappointing, but I remember back in the mid-1980s, and how eager I was to get my hands on them - the small town in rural Holland where I lived was largely cut off from popular culture of the day - and how much I loved them when I finally did. I wanted to be Tanis. I...

Quite probably because he was one man writing it, so it's internally consistent. Real-world mythologies develop over centuries, evolving as cultures come into contact with new peoples and incorporate their myths into their own. Which god is preeminent changes over time, and in place. Stories are...