I like to read so it shouldn’t surprise anyone I maintain a home library. The responses I get from people when they discover that fact is something I’ve had to learn how to manage. Most people don’t read much so I don’t talk about my library. Expecting other people to Read more
As I type this I’m in the final stages of finishing my Web application for letting people peruse my database of books and films recommended in Mage the Ascension books. I condensed all the recommendations into a database so I could save time pulling books off my shelf and trying Read more
In recent years Appendix N in the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide has been discussed by RPG fans online. A series of posts by Jeffro Johnson at Castalia House convinced me reading through the list would be a worthwhile project. I started with Johnson’s own book. It gave an excellent survey Read more
The Hollow Earth started in the first Sons of Ether Tradition book. That book was full of nods to early 20th century pulp fiction. Besides a cool idea for a realm to add to Mage’s cosmology, it was an acknowledgement of the large number of pulp stories about fantastical worlds Read more
As I continue on my survey of the Pulps – fiction magazines that ruled the news stands from roughly 1900 to 1950 – I continue to see interesting ideas to pull into Mage the Ascension. Mage fans know that Pulp stories from the 1930s were an inspiration for the first Read more
Razorfist and Jeffro Johnson both recommended the Solomon Kane stories of Robert E. Howard. Since Howard was a fellow Texan in his time I decided to pick up Del Rey’s The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane (July 2004). The book collects all of Howard’s stories about that character along with Read more
I got my copy of Original Adventures Reincarnated 2: The Isle of Dread. I’ll try to find time in the weeks ahead to read it through thoroughly (323 pages isn’t easy when you have children and are trying to learn new Web technologies). I noticed in the opening essays that Read more
Today I finished At the Earths Core (1914) and Pellucidar (1915) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. These are the first two books in the Pellucidar series. Edgar Rice Burroughs rarely disappoints. I enjoyed both of these action-packed stories. They tell of David Innes’ two journeys to the hollow interior of planet Earth, a Read more
I just finished the first issue of Megadungeon by Hack & Slash Publishing. I had heard about the little magazine a while ago but it took me some time to get curious. It weighs in at 38 pages and is rather small. The art isn’t top notch but I rather like Read more
I’ve been reading my copy of Goodman Games’ Original Adventures Reincarnated #1: Into the Borderlands. At 384 pages this is no lightweight. It republishes the first 2 adventures written almost 40 years ago for Basic Dungeons & Dragons: B1 In Search of the Unknown and B2 The Keep on the Read more