One of the arguments I offered against the stagnancy of fantasy fiction was the proliferation of sub-genres. We’re all familiar with epic fantasies like Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, or the sword-and-sorcery of Conan. Urban fantasy has risen in popularity thanks to Anita Blake and her contemporaries, while Temeraire has lead the resurgence in historical [...]

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The Chatty DM had an excellent post last week on how the lack of nostalgic elements won’t make 4E any less of a fun game. I totally agree. I like a lot of what I see in 4E and think I would enjoy playing it.
I’m just not really sure I can think of it as [...]

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This was the front page headline of a national newspaper yesterday. I’m not sure who I’m more disappointed in: the media, congress, or the general public for not making the former two institutions more accountable.
It’s no surprise that the U.S. Congress has the lowest approval rating in history, even lower than the current president, when [...]

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I’ve actually had a couple topics I wanted to talk about, but my desire to post anything online, here or elsewhere, waned dramatically this month. One of those topics had to do with Del Rey finally publishing mass market paperback editions of the last two books in Terry Brooks’ High Druid of Shannara trilogy. I [...]

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I thought about adding an update to Burning Bridges, or posting it in the comments, but this deserves a post of its own.
Shortly after receiving an profanity-filled, sarcastic email amongst the responses to a craigslist ad I posted for a logo for Eternal Warlords: Arena, I received notification from CL that my ad had been [...]

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