WorldCon, for the third year in a row, delivered a powerful message to a significant portion of the sci-fi/fantasy fandom.  In honor of their now openly admitted role of driving fans from the genre and consumers from the market, I propose a slight modification to the Hugo Award logo. ...

Time Magazine, that lumbering dinosaur of the old media, is not happy that the alt-right mammals are running around their ankles, eating their eggs, and is ready and waiting for the sweet meteor of death.  Good. Oh, Pepe, you shortcut to humor, is there any postyou can’t improve? Time Magazine called...

Back in the glory days of my gaming career, when six hour sessions of D&D were a regular occurrence, and not a rare celebration, the story that developed was as much a surprise to the DM as it was to the players. Sure, the DM had read or written...

Good old Vox posted a group shot of WorldCon attendees for The Current Year.  Some comment wag suggested that it looked like any other shot of 40+ people.  The scientist in me took that as a challenge, picked up the gauntlet, and ran to the internet to run a little...

  The Reaper Bones familiar pack comes with this fun little quetzlcoatl.  He should make a nice little prankster-elf style NPC for the players to interact with.  Probably a wandering monster in the halls. ...

A few weeks back a copy of Decision Games’ Khyber Rifles found its way into my shopping cart.  Listening to too many episodes of Wargames to Go will do that to a wargamer.  Between that and regular does of Wargaming Wednesday over at the Castalia House blog, my hankering...

Can you imagine trying to fight a war with Loyal Oppositionist and Vichy Republican John Podhoretz on your side? Every time you poked your head above the trenches, you’d have to check the area behind your own lines, look left, look right, and then only after assuring yourself that Podhoretz isn’t around,...

The undead inhabitants of Castle Meatgrinder consist mainly of skeletons from 15mm.co.uk.  These are really sharp figures that their website just doesn’t do justice.  You’ll want to check out the big versions of these pictures, these smaller icons lose a lot of their character.     Just zombies and...

The retro movement that has been elevating the RPG scene for the last decade owes much to people looking back to the fantasy and sci-fi scene of days gone by.  Whether it’s the OSRmovement, the various diggings into the Appendix N list, or P. Alexander’sbroader look at fantasy and...

Is it strange to include a number of posts about a non-writing hobby on a blog founded specifically to track one’s progress in pursuing writing as a paid hobby?  Fine, I contain multiples, there’s your literary reference for the day, now let’s get to the good stuff. It’s been...