Tag: D&D
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Announcing THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, a Dungeons & Dragons Podcast About Politics!
The country of Darnorth is approaching election season. Our heroes are travelling from constituency to constituency, campaigning for the Fable Party and having adventures whilst doing ... -
D&D 3.5: Wicker the Necromancer Learns About Love
After failing to hold a city for ransom with anthrax zombies (you can read that saga here), both my D&D character Wicker and I were in a ... -
Vancian Magic and D&D
My very first introduction to D&D and its magic system came from the Dead Alewives’ parody “Dark Dungeons,” which can be summed up with the following ... -
Magical Warfare
Fallout taught fans that war…war never changes. Military historians, however, argue otherwise. Case in point: the stirrup. Before firearms dominated the battlefield, it’s generally agreed that ... -
Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky
So, that Adrian Tchaikovsky is a clever bloke. He tricked me (and plenty of others, no doubt) into thinking Spiderlight was a tropey, cliched, rose-tinted throwback ... -
The Necronomicon to the Nokizi: Creating Texts For Secondary Worlds
Writing in-world texts offers an anchor for characters, readers, and authors—when everyone is working off the same information, there’s a sense of immersion and verisimilitude, that ...
