by ObiwanSpock | Feb 24, 2016 | awesome, Dungeons & Dragons, ebooks, fantasy, fantasy art, heavy metal, self-publishing, sword and sorcery, Zackery Arbela
There is a tendency within all parts of popular culture for division and subdivision. What starts out s simple becomes more complex as people focus on minor differences and build on them to create something new. Take music for example…Black Sabbath creates heavy...
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 13, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
Like a lot of writers, I have a regular writing group, filled with creative types with at least a passing interest in speculative fiction in general, where we read each others work and provide what are hopefully constructive critiques…and so on. So I was there...
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 | Jan 27, 2016 | ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
Imagine if you will the Lord of the Rings without Middle Earth, with Frodo/s quest taking place instead in a modern-day suburb (with the local Walmart or sewage treatment plant taking the place of Mount Doom.) It doesn’t really work, except perhaps as an...
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...