Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsOsprey’s book on the northwest of British India covers from the appointment of Lord Auckland as Governor-General of India, and goes to the end of British India. In general, this is your usual good Osprey treatment of the subject, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a scholarly look at American politics from roughly 1818 to 1832. Maybe a bit too scholarly for me. Many parts of the book are very finely argued, and I tended to lose track of what the argument was.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the twelfth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous reviews here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fantastic Point of View Wealth of Nations: National Trade Res Publica: A Tradition of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Ancillary book is a direct follow on to Ancillary Sword, picking up very shortly after the that one. The start re-introduces everything going on, which I needed. However, while much more of a piece with the second book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For a long time, waterways were the only meaningful passages from one place to another. Roads might do in a pinch, but water was much faster and easier. Canals have been used throughout history to get this fact to work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Avatar trilogy module came out about a month after FRE1 Shadowdale, and naturally picks up right from the end of that. The party is imprisoned in Shadowdale and accused of murdering Elminster (don’t worry, he’s back as an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a bit complicated. First, at a hundred pages (plus an appendix that really is part of the novel) this is pretty much in novella territory. Really though, it’s a jumble of short stories with the same inciting event.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over half a year after the previous expansion, CK II returned with yet more scope extension. This time the game would look at the subject of China (which had recently gotten a look from the EU IV team in Mandate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a few things Miller’s book is about. Most centrally, it is about the Gag Rule, or really, the series of Gag Rules about slavery in the US House of Representatives in the 1830s. It is also about the birth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ninth FR-series supplement returned to the geographic format of the bulk of the series, this time heading northeast and covering the two countries that had been introduced through the four H-series adventures. The usual major editing goof this time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…