Admit it! You thought I'd miss the whole March book blog event--and I nearly did. But fret not, Reader, I've got you covered with a long overdue look at a sequel that flew past me last year. It's time to gush over Andrea Stewart's Bone Shard Emperor! A Sequel Worthy of the Name When I... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/_ICgJGGjrzA And here's the script to the video: I strongly advise you watch and not just read through, as some elements are dependent on video context. Okay, okay, I know what you’re thinking just looking at the title – this video is going to be a whole lot of complaining! You couldn’t be more wrong.... Continue Reading →
Previous | Very obvious spoilers ahead! My fellow adventurer Kosara and I have finished the second part of Red Sister – and boy, do we have some thoughts! Read along as we try to make sense of the second half of this riveting fantasy novel. K: So, since last time we started with a brief... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Another Monday, another batch of D&D 5e races to make fun of! The time has come to mock a setting near and dear to my heart, even if it is native to Magic: The Gathering. *Groan* Centaur You want to be that guy? The party member whose every attempt to enter a... Continue Reading →
Reading Norse sagas, in translation, isn’t nearly as engaging an affair as you might hope it would be. Old texts demand not only a deep fount of knowledge and focus rarely found in the twenty-first century, but also context that virtually no non-specialized reader can appreciate fully. They don’t necessarily have all that our minds... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Harken, adventurers! It is time for another edition of "introducing my D&D nerds-to-be to playable races in the worst best laziest possible way"! Today, I turn to the delightful races to be discovered in Volo's Guide To Monsters - what furry, angelic fun awaits us! These races make for excellent divine crusaders,... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Christmas joy and celebration! That’s what you might think you’re getting when you open up the seventh volume of Giant Days, the greatest most wonderful-est life-sliced comedy graphic novel out there. This issue centres around Susan’s return home and the way she feels towards her mummy is the way all of us... Continue Reading →
Next | My fellow adventurer Koki and I have been reading the first installment in the Book of the Ancestor series - and boy, do we have some thoughts! Read along as we try to make sense of the first half of this riveting fantasy novel. SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF RED SISTER, "Red... Continue Reading →
| Next Soon, my party and I will begin a new D&D adventure! There's new blood to be had, and I'm uncertain as to the way I should introduce all the playable races to these new players. The easiest way to do is not to send them to read some dusty tome but to spend... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCOPQofBjPQ What a complex topic James Blish tackles in his 1959 Hugo award-winning novel! Father Ruiz-Sanches is one of a committee of four researchers sent to explore the world of Lithia and offer advice on what this planet’s role should be regarding humanity’s expansion. When the Father discovers that the Lithian race of perfectly rational... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 