Academic
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A Cover by Any Other Name
The newest edition of Dungeons & Dragons stirs in the deep and its harbinger comes forth to declare a new age. Behold! The cover art speaks. Bear with a few…
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Incentive; or, How to Kill Your Game
Begrudging thanks to the inflammatory social media content mills that brought this excellent post back to my attention: https://lukegearing.blot.im/against-incentive. One core idea from Luke’s thoughts, of gameplay thriving within the…
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No City Solution – GLoGTOBER 2023
Thanks to locheil for the prompt (A glance at a city that should never have been built.) and glasscandles for organizing GLoGtober! See the parent post for my GLoGtober arrangements: here Here follows my…
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Review: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson*
*and the first 150 pages or so of Deadhouse Gates 9/10 if you like fantasy, worldbuilding, wide casts of characters and settings, and content that ranges from morally ambiguous to…
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Deeds not Words
SPOILER WARNING: Andor, Game of ThronesCONTENT WARNING: Violence, Suicide Sometimes a cliché flies past my senses for years, repeatedly skimmed and discarded by obsequious censors brfore it does any lasting…
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The Waste Land and Dark Souls 3
A slightly rambling discussion of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot and how it shares DNA with the Dark Souls series.
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Railroading and the Finch House
Review of the mechanical design of What Remains of Edith Finch and musings on its implications for Dungeons and Dragons
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Gone Home: Your Room As a Dig Site
Short review of Gone Home followed by an exploration of environmental storytelling
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