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sReaction Time: Old School Gaming and Appendix N
Thursday , 1, June 2017 Appendix N, Tabletop Games 14 CommentsOver at Save Versus All Wands, a post about a throwaway blog comment of mine has gotten record levels of traffic. Which is ironic, because I would have thought such sentiments would have been completely unremarkable among “old school” gamers. Fortunately, some people get it. I find Steve Queen’s comment there to be particularly cogent: […]
In a recent article, Castalia House writer Benjamin Cheah lays down the conventions of isekai fiction, a popular pulp-influenced genre from Japan. Isekai is alternate world fantasy, where characters from the present are spirited away to another world. Cheah describes it as follows: Fantasy writers need to solve two problems. They need to create a believable […]