Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Wishbringer: nothing but words and whimsy

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  Honestly, if I were to say which Infocom game has the biggest impact on me, other than the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which also I fo...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Infocom make me read Douglas Adams

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  My introduction to both Infocom and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy franchise was the interactive fiction game back in 1984. … You kn...
Friday, September 24, 2021

I am convinced that Puerto Rico is NOT broken

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  When I’ll first seriously got into board games, it was generally accepted that Puerto Rico was the greatest game ever made. Okay, that’s a...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Nine Horrors and One Dream is all fun

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  I’ve been poking around Horror: The 100 Best Books (mostly because it was edited by Kim Stanley) and one of the books I decided to try fro...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Funny how Roll Through the Ages didn’t change my life

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  Looking back, I’m surprised that Roll Through the Ages didn’t turn me into a Roll and Write fan. It certainly did a lot more to interest m...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

How I define Roll and Write

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  While doing some notes on Roll Through the Agesfor a blog post that I may never bother finishing, I found myself asking what is the line b...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Even middling Lord Dunsany is good

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I was surprised to realize, when I started reading it, that I hadn’t read Tales of Three Hemispheres before. While there are vast  sections ...