In a recent post, I stated that Schuyler Hernstrom’s “Images of the Goddess” is better than Jack Vance’s “Dying Earth”.  That might be controversial.  It wasn’t stated lightly, nor simply as click-bait.  Let me expound on it a bit. Jack Vance is a great author.  He does an outstanding job suffusing...

So there you are, five levels deep in the bowels of a physical manifestation of the raw forces of chaos, beset by creatures bizarre and malicious, low on spells with not even a half a pack of cigarettes nor a full tank of gas.  There are no atheists in...

P. Alexander is the guy behind the Short Review series posted at Castalia House, in which he reviews tales originally printed in classic pulp magazines such as Planet Stories.  His series, along with Jeffro Johnson’s Appendix N series and repeated warnings not to read anything written before 1980 inspired...

Yesterday’s post slapped the women’s image magazine Uncanny around pretty hard for being a vapid and shallow periodical that dilutes the deep and rich medium of storytelling by using it as a medium for do-nothing wish fulfillment.  It’s a great article, and every fan of short form fiction magazine,...

These three chubby and whimsical demons are from Bones’ Hordeling Spure (#77335), thank you for the sculpts, B. Ridolfi.  The shading on these guys really came out great; I think I’m getting the hang of washes at this scale.  As you can see, these three brothers are actually...

Jeffro Johnson – [trump speak]great guy, very thoughtful, I’m a big fan of his, big fan [trump speak] – posted a simple question on G+:  “What’s missing on [this cover]?“ Have to judge it by something, andthe cover is all we got. It may have been a rhetorical question,...

When I grow up, I want to be Jeffro Johnson.  His Appendix N web series, soon to be released in full book format, is much reviled by all the right people, and justifiably so.  A bit late to the party, I was nonetheless impressed with his analysis which shed new...

Have you seen this?  Jon Petersen, of Playing at the World fame, dug up the demo tape for a short, semi-actual play session that was recorded way back in the earliest days of D&D.  It’s not really a podcast – such a term hadn’t even been invented yet – but more...

Hail Pepe! Yesterday we laughed at a leftist’s complete inability to understand the alt-right’s irreverence and absurdity.  One of the jewels in the God Emperor’s crown is his blessed avatar, Pepe. I’ve made no secret of my love for Pepe; the meme-army never ceases to amaze or amuse me....

For the most part, the things I review or talk about are those that excite me enough to sit down at the keyboard.  That means most of my posts are about things that I like, and that’s a lot of things.  I like liking things. That’s not always the...