Research
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Summer of Gaming 2024: Duskmourn and Twilight of EDH (Yes this is about the Mana Crypt ban)
I have 5 things to say about Duskmourn, the latest set release of Magic The Gathering, and 50 things to say about the latest bans in EDH/Commander (largest format in…
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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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Review: Thief by Matthew Colville
9/10 if you like fantasy fiction9/10 if you liked the first book but found it to be a dreary slog at times Finally got around to reading the sequel to…
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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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Review: Priest by Matt Colville
9/10 if you like fantasy and antihero hardboiled fiction7/10 if you don’t (I don’t like hardboiled apparently) Wears inspiration on its sleeve Black Company, Gawain & Green Knight, D&D, Malazan…
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Fuel for the Fire #1
Wherein I list the variety of digital and physical creative material that kept my brain juices at a rolling boil. Also sometimes my short thoughts on the merits of the…
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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.
Scriptorium Ludi 