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September 4, 2016

Mistress of the Empire [Review]

It’s actually been a number of years since I started the Empire trilogy, having picked up the series thanks to my familiarity with the Riftwar saga that spawned the trilogy,…..

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August 6, 2016

Gaming in a Refugee’s Shoes [Repost]

SBS – a network in Australia – aired a three-day television “event” called ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’.  It followed “…six ordinary Australians who agree to challenge their…..

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July 13, 2016

The Road to 5th Edition D&D [Repost]

Came across this video posted over on the Verge that succinctly (running just over three minutes long) breaks down the evolution of Dungeons and Dragons over the last forty years…..

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June 16, 2016

Interactive Map of the Brain [Repost]

Continuing in their long tradition of providing education by correspondence since the 1890s the somewhat newly rebranded Open Colleges has embraced the connectivity of the internet offering many of the…..

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June 4, 2016

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King [Review]

It’s been years since I’d read the third book in the Gunslinger’s series, having all but stepped away when it became evident that it would take some time before Stephen…..

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May 4, 2016

Welcome to the Urban Revolution [Review]

As a longtime resident of Toronto, it was heartening to see that despite all its problems, that the city has been attempting to innovate for some decades now, and while…..

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April 12, 2016

Lessons learned from CBC D&D’s 3rd season

Now that we’ve completed our third annual spring dungeon crawl with the return to the remote dwarven community on the World’s Spine and their confrontation with the shadowdragon which they…..

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April 8, 2016

The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl [Review]

Set in a future ruled by advertising agencies and their corporate interests that have divided the world nation states into clients, whose citizens are to be monetized and influenced, Frederik…..