New additions to my Chaosium Fiction collection It’s been a while since I’ve done a collection update (or any update for that matter). Over the past months I’ve picked up several items in the Chaosium Fiction line and I’ll give an overview below. The first book on the list is actually the first fiction release … Read more
Paizo Publishing and Dynamite Entertainment announced Pathfinder Origins, a comic mini-series that focusses on the Pathfinder RPG iconic characters’ early days. The series will contain 6 issues, written by Pathfinder developers Erik Mona (Paizo Publisher and Chief Creative Officer), F. Wesley Schneider (Paizo Editor-in-Chief), and James Sutter (Paizo Managing Editor) “The Paizo senior editorial team … Read more
This year marked my first visit to Lucca Games in Italy and color me impressed. Any convention that can take over a complete city deserves a lot of respect. Lucca Games 2014 was held in Lucca, a small city located in Tuscany and dating back to Roman times. It’s known for its completely intact city … Read more
Storm Front review It seems I’m a bit late to the Dresden Files train. I had heard of the Dresden Files RPG but wasn’t aware it was based on a series of novels by Jim Butcher. After having read through the complete A Song of Ice and Fire series, I was looking for some lighter … Read more
Delta Green Tales from Failed Anatomies is a new fiction anthology written by Dennis Detwiller. In this anthology, Detwiller’s thirteen tales span the history of the secretive Delta Green organisation from its earliest beginnings to a glimpse of its future. The anthology features an introduction by John Scott Tynes, and a fore- and afterword by … Read more
WHEEL OF TIME fan movie “Flight From Shadow” chronicles the events in the “Four Kings in Shadow” chapter from The Eye of the World, the first book of Robert Jordan’s bestselling series. After narrowly escaping an ambush in the town of Whitebridge and walking for days on the Caemlyn Road, Rand al’Thor and his companion … Read more
As per the Acaeum’s essay on collection ins and outs I set up a number of collection goals for 2013. In this post I will take a look at those goals and see whether I achieved them or not. In addition I will also provide the collection update and goals 2014. 2013 Short term goals review … Read more
I recently discovered Lovecraft – Fear of the unknown, a 2008 documentary about the life and works of HP Lovecraft. Featured in the documentary are luminaries such as Ramsey Campbell, ST Joshi, Robert M. Price, and Guillermo del Toro. It can be watched for free on youtube :
Collection update and goals 2013 As per the Acaeum’s essay on collection ins and outs I set up a number of collection goals for 2012. It would be only proper to have a look at those goals and see whether I achieved them or not and to set up some collection goals for 2013. 2012 Short term goals … Read more
There’s been a lot of buzz in the community with the news leaking of a new gaming magazine called Gygax magazine, published by TSR. Forums were swamped by posts about intellectual property, the Gygax estate, legal issues and so on. With the demise of Kobold Quarterly, I was quite happy to hear of a new … Read more