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Chris Jones over at Classic RPG Realms writes how D&D and AD&D were two different games. Looking around at what I’ve heard and seen of 5e (no, have not played it), what I’d played of the original basic (mostly Keep on the Borderlands) and AD&D (a fair bit including some heavy home-ruling) and Pathfinder, I think he has a point that other games evolved more from original D&D. I think AD&D evolved from the other more than he believes, it needs some distilling, but even ACKs, which I…
Ages ago, shortly after Star Wars came out, Alan Dean Foster released a novel of a Star Wars followup story with an awesomely cool cover that included Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader. I was young – innocent to the ways of movie tie ins – and it was much later that I learned that this author was also the author of the first Star Wars book, supposedly written by George Lucas. By then I’d already ready more than a fair bit of Foster’s stuff, including With Friends Like These… and the followon collectio…
We are repeatedly assured that we need “diverse” characters (of uniform belief) so that women, and other minorities than while males (women are not a minority) can see themselves in the characters to better appreciate the story and the role model. I’m going to ignore for the moment the whole “content of character” not being the same as “color of skin/shape of genitals” thing, and take them for their word. If we need people who represent us – let’s leave aside stories with alien protagonists, e…
His Brings the Lightning – an excellent, excellent read – won the Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Book Alliance Book of the Year for 2017 [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2017/04/and-winner-is.html]. > I’m very grateful for my readers’ support. This is a minor competition, to be sure, but the competition was fierce – to go up against John Ringo and Larry Correia was tough! Thank you for coming through for me with your support. Did I mention it’s an excellent book? Go, [read it](ht…