Raven Crowking's Nest

In the Prison of the Squid Sorcerer (And Other Pulp Weird Encounters): I am once more into the breach, dear friends. In the Prison of...

Hiero’s Journey by Sterling E. Lanier was published in 1973, and is a post-Apocalyptic fantasy novel taking place 5,000 years after “Th...

Before I can start adding more to this series, I need to do a quick recap.  The various “S is for Sandbox” posts can be found here: ...

AL3:  Through the Cotillion of Hours is now available, in print-on-demand or pdf format, through RPG Now or DriveThru RPG .  (EDIT:  Now...

There are a few difficult issues to resolve when one wants to blog about Appendix N fiction.  One of the obvious problems is deciding w...

On August 27th, 2012, my friend David Gower passed away at the age of 64. What can I say about David Gower? He was an atheist, but...

I was in Ottawa on 20 August 2012, walking along the Rideau Canal near Riverdale Avenue.  The time on the camera says "8:30 am", b...

So, I got a new camera from my son and his girlfriend this year for my birthday.  So, of course, my thoughts immediately ran toward catalogu...

One day, getting ready to begin running a Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign, I stopped at Hairy Tarantula on Yonge Street in Toronto a...