Tag: chris mahon
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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 ... -
D&D 3.5: Wicker the Necromancer Learns about Epidemiology
I started playing D&D on a door in my friend Joel’s basement. We laid it across a coffee table, and it just barely fit our party ... -
‘Hypnotica’ (Part Four) by Chris Mahon
‘Hypnotica’ is a story about dreamwrights, mage-musicians who travel across the dreamscape at night to hijack dreams and turn them into mind-bending concerts. The story focuses ... -
‘Hypnotica’ (Part Three) by Chris Mahon
‘Hypnotica’ is a story about dreamwrights, mage-musicians who travel across the dreamscape at night to hijack dreams and turn them into mind-bending concerts. The story focuses ... -
‘Hypnotica’ (Part Two) by Chris Mahon
‘Hypnotica’ is a story about dreamwrights, mage-musicians who travel across the dreamscape at night to hijack dreams and turn them into mind-bending concerts. The story focuses ... -
Magic and Mayhem: Welcome to a World of Pure Imagination
As a fantasy writer, I think it’s important to listen to “Pure Imagination” from the 1971 version of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory every once ... -
‘Hypnotica’ (Part One) by Chris Mahon
‘Hypnotica’ is a story about dreamwrights, mage-musicians who travel across the dreamscape at night to hijack dreams and turn them into mind-bending concerts. The story focuses ... -
True Names, Binary, and Mathematics as Magic
A while ago, I decided to sit down and flesh out the notation and structure of magic in my world. One of the key problems I ... -
Hidden Layers: Spell Maps, Illusions, and Neural Networks
Anyone who’s ever watched Serial Experiments Lain remembers the scene when Lain goes to greet her friends at school, but instead a doppelganger emerges from her and goes in her ... -
Iaido, Wing Chun, and ‘After the Rain’: Reflections on Martial Arts
I started taking wing chun classes at City Wing Tsun in Manhattan recently. It’s been a great experience, partly because the people are almost universally friendly, ...
