Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis was recommended to me by someone who’s opinion I trust, so I expected a good book going in. It exceeded my expectations. Despite the title, this is not just an examination of the Battle of Agincourt. It occupies a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, military science-fiction is always a selling point for me, and I have taken too long to get to this series. It is always presented as a series, and with good reason. While this is a complete story, structure-wise, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Purkiss’ history of the ECW was something of a slog for me to get through. The general idea as given is admirable: to look at the English Civil War as something that involved people, and see how various people were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the original Forgotten Realms boxed set, Evermeet is a somewhat mysterious place off the map, where the elves have slowly been retreating to as their continental holdings fall. It’s impossible not to compare with Tolkien at that point, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fourth book of the Queen’s Thief series changes main characters again. This time, honors go to Sophos, returning from a primary character role in The Thief. The first section of the book is entirely arranged as him telling what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This book gets a few ratings of ‘biography’, and… yes, actually, this is a fairly decent biography of Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan, as it goes into his background and life as a whole. However, it is primarily about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have the Kindle version of this, which means there’s a few OCR glitches scattered about. However, unlike most such I’ve seen, they don’t become more prevalent the further through the book you go. Overall, the electronic version is in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was a little skeptical of a Men-at-Arms sub-series dedicated only to the Roman Centurion, but it does make some real sense. Mostly, they’re the lowest rank that is going to regularly come to the attention of prominent people, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In one sense, you could see this as a somewhat typical visitation fantasy. Person gets transported from our world to fantasy land, gets in trouble, has adventures, comes back home. As ever, the secret is in the details. Stormwrack has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As of February, 1775, Massachusetts was declared to be in a state of rebellion to the British government. Just under a year and a half later, the Thirteen Colonies jointly declared themselves independent. This was an event that was by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…