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Author: Chris Mahon

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Chris Mahon

Chris Mahon

Chris Mahon is a fantasy writer, speaker, and essayist living in Brooklyn, New York. His non-fiction work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, SyFy WIRE, Outer Places, The Portalist, and others. He's also spoken at New York Comic-Con, Columbia University, and the Glasgow International Fantasy Convention. In his free time he runs The Occult Triangle Lab, a blog on trigonometry, fantasy, and ungodly amounts of milk. You can contact him on Twitter @DeadmanMu or at christophmahon [at] gmail [dot] com.

  • Tales from the Tabletop
    By Chris Mahon
    June 30, 2018
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    Tabletop Game Review: Betrayal at House on the Hill

    Some people start their tabletop boardgaming careers with Settlers of Catan. For my Brooklyn group, it was Betrayal at House on the Hill. I don’t know ...
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  • Tales from the TabletopWarhammer
    By Chris Mahon
    June 15, 2018
    33001
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    Getting Into Warhammer 40K, Part 2: Choosing Your Faction

    Choosing a faction in Warhammer 40K is sort of like taking a Rorschach test. One person may look at Space Marines and see bland sci-fi beefcakes, ...
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  • Tales from the Tabletop
    By Chris Mahon
    June 10, 2018
    4645
    1

    Tabletop Game Review: One Night Ultimate Werewolf

    As a tabletop gamer, you haven’t lived until you’ve watched your friends spiral into a paranoid breakdown and start aggressively pointing fingers at one another like ...
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  • Tales from the TabletopWarhammer
    By Chris Mahon
    May 28, 2018
    16839
    6

    Getting Into Warhammer 40K, Part 1: The Basics

    I never liked Warhammer 40K because when I buy a game, I want to sit down and start playing. Warhammer is the opposite of that. Getting ...
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  • Magic and Mayhem
    By Chris Mahon
    May 14, 2018
    4640
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    Martial Arts and Magic, Part 4: Qigong and Inner Power

    Part 4, all right! If you haven’t read the previous installments, here are the links: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I’m going to start ...
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  • Magic and Mayhem
    By Chris Mahon
    April 28, 2018
    2910
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    Martial Arts and Magic, Part 3: Internal VS. External Styles

    All right, here we go again–talking about martial arts, movement, and magic systems! If you haven’t read the previous articles in this series, Part 1 is ...
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    Magic and Mayhem
    By Chris Mahon
    April 14, 2018
    3670
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    Martial Arts as Magic, Part 2: Baguazhang and the Basics

    Welcome to Part 2 of my mini-series on creating magic systems based on movement and martial arts! If you didn’t read Part 1, start here, you ...
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  • Magic and Mayhem
    By Chris Mahon
    March 28, 2018
    3392
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    Martial Arts as Magic, Part 1: Yoga and Arhat Fist

    Fantasy runs on tropes. In fact, the clichés are so deeply embedded in the genre that you can make a splash by carefully noting them (“okay, ...
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  • Magic and Mayhem
    By Chris Mahon
    March 14, 2018
    3623
    1

    Evil and the Tao of Earthsea

    Note: Ursula LeGuin died this year. She was my favorite fantasy writer, if only because she wrote Wizard of Earthsea. I think I’ve written more articles ...
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  • Magic and MayhemTales from the TabletopWarhammer
    By Chris Mahon
    February 28, 2018
    7364
    2

    The Magic of Warhammer 40K

    If you want to shoot 3d4 magic missiles and colorful sprays of light from your hands, you play D&D. If you want to burst open the ...
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