Doom turned 25 this week. I feel kinda… old. Just saying. I tried desperately to download it via FTP (I think) over a modem the first day it was available (or was it the following day?), without much success. Fortunately, a friend of mine the next day had been more […]
Author Spotlight: Jodi L. Milner, Author of Stonebearer’s Betrayal
Unsurprisingly, I have a lot of writer friends these days, to go along with all my game developer friends. (Side note: It’s also interesting how often those two groups intersect). I met Jodi when we were both writing stories for anthologies from Xchyler Publishing. Xchyler’s authors were scattered all over […]
Bard’s Tale 1 – Completed!
As much as the original Bard’s Tale fired up my imagination as a kid, I’ve always regretted never completing the game. I’ve tried to remedy this on several occasions over the years, creating several new crews of characters, watching them die horrible deaths–often before they’d taken more than 20 steps […]
PTFC Challenge #2: The Women of the Wood
Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 21, 2018 Continuing the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge, I have a story by Abraham Merritt, an outstanding pulp-era fantasy writer whom I only discovered last year. He was an inspiration to and contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft among others. He certainly gets pretty lush in his […]
PTFC Challenge #1: Black God’s Kiss
Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 14, 2018 Fellow modern pulpy author Alexandru Constantin issued a challenge on Friday – the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge. It’s partly a reminder to people that Tolkien didn’t invent the fantasy genre, and to shed some light on the breadth of the genre long before […]