Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerGURPS developed a very strong magic system in one its first supplements. Other systems came later, and Fourth Edition has done a great job expanding the options, and systems available. But religious magic has been stuck with the advice from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Module I14 Swords of the Iron Legion sits at a crossroads of Dungeons and Dragons: It is the last of the fabled “I” series modules. It is an early Forgotten Realms adventure. It is a set of BattleSystem scenarios. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Being something of a fan of warring states Japan (you can largely thank Nobunaga’s Ambition II for that), I’ve been aware for some time that at the end of the era, there was a Japanese invasion of Korea. But not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After covering two areas that were already developed, the third FR-series module went off into new territory: the South. The area had of course shown up in the original boxed set, and had gotten a number references in FR1 Waterdeep[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
N5 Under Illefarn was the first module written for the Forgotten Realms setting. (N4’s setting was retroactively put into the Realms after publication, and while I think I3-5 Desert of Desolation came out with a Forgotten Realms logo on it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jessica Day George’s final Westfalin book does not drop the idea of being a fairy tale retelling—except as a practical matter. Technically, this is a Little Red Riding Hood retelling, and there’s enough elements that you can see the relationship,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everyone knows of the Age of Exploration, and the Portuguese efforts to find a sea-route around Africa to India. If you know a little more history, you know something of their efforts related to controlling trade in India and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the second book I’ve read recently about the Thirty Years War, both of which have the same informative, if unimaginative, title of The Thirty Years War. Cicely Veronica Wedgwood’s history is considered a classic English-language history of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jessica Day George’s sequel to Princess of the Midnight Ball is every bit as good as the original, and in some ways more interesting. The book successfully juggles two main point-of-view characters, Poppy (the ‘roughest’ of the twelve princesses), and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I actually don’t know much of fairy tales past the ones that Disney has engraved on popular culture, but I actually ran into “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” in the webcomic Erstwhile a year or so ago, which was just long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…