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sJUST RELEASED: Tales of the Once and Future King
Tuesday , 3, October 2017 Just Released Leave a commentSuperversive Press presents a collection of short stories that mix the Matter of Britain with the Matter of Science Fiction. It is said that King Arthur will return in Britain’s hour of greatest need. That time is coming. Four travelers, searching for the Pendragon, are quickly embroiled in a plot to rescue the beloved of a […]
Running a game you’ve never run with a group you’ve never run for with people that don’t necessarily know the rules…? It’s tough! Running one that blows away all of your usual tricks and techniques of holding a game session together…? That’s a recipe order of magnitude more referee anxiety right there. Lucky for me, […]
Everybody’s up in arms about the just-completed seventh season of Game of Thrones. Apparently the producers rushed several plotlines, broke geographic continuity, and committed various other offenses against GoT fandom and THEY MUST PAY. And in between the (mostly correct) raging mobs of rabid fans and the (entirely correct) coldly contemptuous crowds of GoT conscientious […]
ALT-HERO reaches $60k
Monday , 2, October 2017 Comics, News, Promotions, Publications Leave a commentThank you, Alt★Hero backers! All three volumes will receive a sequel. To celebrate this milestone, we will soon add the fifth page to Dynamique’s story on the Alt★Hero campaign page. Is she the next stage in human evolution?
SENSOR SWEEP: Hysterical Publishers, Minimal Speculative Elements, Pseudoscience Stories, and Outright Horror
Monday , 2, October 2017 Sensor Sweep 8 CommentsD&D (Gaming While Conservative) Nine — “A wandering monster check came up snake-eyes for the party, which is a euphemism for a series of catastrophic events. In this case, two events occur at the same time. The first event was a normal orc patrol. The second event came up…the arrival of one of The Dungeon […]
To discover why Dynamique is extremely unhappy, visit the Alt★Hero Freestarter page and scroll down to read the fourth page of her encounter with Captain Europa and the Global Justice Initiative. We’re now less than three thousand away from reaching Stretch Goal 3, which triggers the production of Volume VI. This means that all three initial stories will […]
I may be in the minority with this, but I have spent decades of my gaming life in a state of abject fear at the prospects of making up my on rpg campaign setting. I’m just not like Brian Niemeier or Ed Greenwood. I don’t reflexively fill up notebooks of gaming material when I’m prepping […]
This is from Daughter of Danger: The Dark Avenger’s Sidekick, Book One. It is the fourth in John C. Wright’s wonderful Moth & Cobweb dodecology. * * * * * The Three Intruders A strange, painful sensation of hope came across her then. It was like a sick, hot feeling […]
Forgotten Sword and Sorcery Artists: Stephen Fabian
Sunday , 1, October 2017 Uncategorized 6 CommentsPulp magazine illustration did have some influence that carried over into post-pulp publications. One of the best examples is Stephen Fabian (b. 1930). Gerry de la Ree wrote in the introduction to Stephen E. Fabian’s Ladies and Legends (Charles Miller, 1993): “Stephen E. Fabian came late to professional illustration. Whereas most of our leading […]