Incredibly, this is not a photoshop. This weekend the waters of political discussion have been roiled by charges that John Podesta engages in activities that look a lot like ceremonies by which he shows his devotion to demonic powers.  His defenders, and they are legion excuse his behavior as a perfectly innocuous ...

Ral Partha Europe’s Blighthaven line includes a dwarf pack with ten miniatures, of which I’ve painted all ten, and here’s the first nine of them.  One went AWOL.  Dwarves do that.  Let’s just say that I’m keeping one in my pocket as a Castle Meatgrinder surprise for the players....

More, please! Late the other night, I got sucked into a click-bait listicle about sci-fi shows that need a reboot.  Never a good idea.  You just know going in that it’ll be the same list you’ve seen a dozen times – Blake’s 7, Space:1999, Lost in Space – fine shows...

The second novella in the Five Dragon’s series should be hitting Amazon with the next few days.  This one features an unlikely dragon slayer – Corbie, a mere slip of a girl who survived a childhood on the streets of a city ruled by vicious and conniving sorcerers.  Her...

My last post touched on the deft touch Manly Wade Wellman used when writing romance in Who Fears the Devil.  Today, I’d like to talk about it in a little more depth. First, let’s introduce the contenders. In the pink slime corner, the massively popular Magic Girl genre which features...

Apparently I spoke too soon on the whole, “Who Fears the Devil” thing.  Having finished the book, it’s far more than just a string of creepy Appalachian monster tales.  For one thing, the book builds as it rolls along.  Every few tales John Silverstrings gets a little more detail...

I shouldn’t be telling you this.  It feels a bit like a magician giving away his secrets.  Most of what I write here is a response to or inspired by other bloggers.  If you start reading those bloggers, you might have less use for me.  If that’s so, so be...

Caught up in too much work, too much writing, too much pulp revolutioning, too much wargaming, and too much fathering, what’s a man to do? Combine them as much as possible.  I wargame with my teen son and tween daughter.  (If you stretch the definition a bit, I even...

One of the advantages of playing a miniature heavy version of B/X is that it gives you complete control over character selection.  Taking a general WYSIWG approach to things makes it easier to explain to modern players why their super-unique character with the long blah-de-blah backstory – at 0...

Visual representation of the perfect mediathat won’t be attacked by anyone If you write it, they will come.   If they weren’t so vile, you might be able to actually feel some pity for the six major media companies.  It’s easy to bang on major media production companies like Marvel,...