by ObiwanSpock | Apr 3, 2016 | Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, fantasy fiction, heavy metal, pulp fiction, Sunday Linkage, sword and sorcery
Our Long National Nightmare is over… http://m.ign.com/articles/2016/04/01/dungeons-dragons-movie-taps-goosebumps-director-rob-letterman The music is good…the covers are questionable…...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 26, 2016 | awesome, Dungeons & Dragons, fan fic, fantasy, publishing, pulp fiction, Sunday Linkage, The Tale of Azaran, tunes, Zackery Arbela
A man finds a portal to a magical dimension behind a Burger King and finds himself in a land populated by monsters adventurers and wizards…which he interviews via a weak transdimensional wifi. If that’s not the perfect premise for a podcast, then life has...
by ObiwanSpock | Feb 17, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, fantasy, heavy metal, pulp fiction, scifi, self-publishing, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo The writer of Les Miserables knew of what he spoke. Writing and music go together like bacon and eggs or coffee and doughnuts. You can have one without the other,...
by ObiwanSpock | Feb 3, 2016 | fantasy, fantasy fiction, gaming, publishing, pulp fiction, self-publishing, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
The darkness of night is broke by flashes in the sky. A fireball disappears beyond the horizon. Come the morning, a pirate ship out at sea finds a lone man floating in the wreckage. He remembers nothing, not where he comes from, who his people are, only his...
by ObiwanSpock | Apr 19, 2015 | awesome, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, fantasy art, gaming, pulp fiction, sword and sorcery
The 5th Edition of that most venerable of RPG’s came out a few months back. After playing in a six month campaign using the new PHB, I come away well pleased by the results. Not that it’s perfect (The skills and backgrounds setup still doesn’t make...
by ObiwanSpock | Apr 15, 2012 | fantasy fiction, pulp fiction, sword and sorcery, Zackery Arbela
I miss that old style sword and sorcery. I grew up in the Nineties, right on the cusp of fantasy’s initial breakthrough into the mainstream. I remember when it was still very much and underground things, when there was still hysteria about Dunegon’s &...