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(Editor Andrew Lang. Illustrator H. J. Ford., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Destroying LevelsI've been dipping my toes into NSR games over the past couple of days....
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My absolute favorite thing about The Book of the New Sun is its concept of time (Mainly because I discovered it all by myself). In the appendix to Claw, Gene Wolfe described...
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You're telling me that a 12 year old boy, whose parents were just killed by literal devils, has the wherewithal to survive for 3–6 months in the wilderness rather than keeling...
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Reading NoTW still. Could the thing in Kvothe's chest be a manuscript for this entire story? It's too finely crafted, too detailed, too lyrical, to be completely off the cuff....
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Pat Rothfuss' prose is the pop-punk of literature. You know it's inferior to some other writers, and makes itself pretty straightforward to understand, but it's still a ton of fun
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Your players should feel isolated. When playing games in an "old school" or "classic" style, campaigns often look like this: The players arrive in town, they start poking...
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... A group of goblins. The fighter and cleric press themselves against the corridor wall as they approach. The magic-user stays 30 ft back as the enemies approach. The goblins...
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As a part-time man child, I occasionally play video games. This may not be surprising - there's a pretty good overlap in people who like D&D, and those who like vidya games,...
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It's a question that is always asked sometime or another in D&D: Can we have guns? I can't particularly blame the players for this. It's a decidedly male impulse; we like the...