Inside GMT 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 Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsHughes provides a good overview of the end of the western Empire in this volume. He does analyze things, and come to conclusions, but the primary focus is providing a chronological outline of events. That latter is the primary value[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Napoleonic naval adventure plus dragons. That does pretty well sum it up. Of course, there’s more to it than that. I’ve gotten lots of recommendations for this book, but have put off trying out for a long time as while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This isn’t quite a sequel to Sing the Four Quarters, since the locale and characters change. However, the world is the same, and the magic is the same, though it ends up elaborated a bit more here. It does take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third and fourth books featured in this collection are better than the first two. Interestingly, they also don’t focus on Chrestomanci, and seem to happen around the same time as the first book (as opposed to decades before as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guy Gavriel Kay is an author who I really, really need to read more of. My first experience with him (Tigana) was very good, and I’ve been meaning to read more for a couple decades now. Thankfully, I was reminded[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You’ve probably never heard of this war. There’s a good reason: John Harrel is the only one calling it that. This book covers what is usually considered two wars, neither of which seems to have any sort ‘official’ name. “Nisibis”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Children of Ynell series was originally published from 1977 to 1981, and was the first time I got involved in a series that wasn’t finished yet. In fact, I never did get the final book in a series I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This basically a follow-on to McLaughlin’s study of trade across the Indian Ocean. Despite being almost the same size, it feels like an appendix to it. Whereas his former book spent a lot of time giving specifics of particular trade[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Hearts of Iron III. See the previous review here: Hearts of Iron III: One Plus Two Equals Three A year after the previous expansion, Paradox announced[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frieda’s biography of Francis I is certainly on the popular history end, and is well written and accessible. Moreover, not only did I find it accessible, but it gave me some desire to get back to Here I Stand, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…