Thus Amber was born of chaos, transformed in shadow, and kissed to wakefulness by the typewriter’s keys after all the work was done. -Roger Zelazny, “The Road to Amber” (The Collected Works of Roger Zelazny, Volume 6) So I picked up The Collected Works of Roger Zelazny as the books came out – all 6 […]
I’m slowly feeling my way towards what I want to do with item and creature creation, and as such, I spent a little time today reviewing the ADRPG and Shadow Knight. (As an aside – I always forget, when I haven’t looked at it in a while, just how completely insane certain sections of that […]
Can you breed the opposite way as a shapeshifter? I’ve considered this before – even talked with other people about this before, and the expressions I get when I mention it are fascinating. The consensus, it seems, is that one should not be able to do – nay, should not be able to even conceive […]
This is another re-post from the Lords of Gossamer and Shadow form. The writer of the book made the mistake of asking what we thought was wrong with Sorcery…
Reposting an answer here from the Lords of Gossamer and Shadow forums – the post I was replying to was regarding whether Earth and Avalon could be shared Shadows. I have a hard time counting either one of those as shared Shadows. I mean, to think mechanically – who put points into Shadow Earth? Eric, […]
I’ve been keeping an eye on the IMC stuff as it comes around, and I usually don’t participate, mostly because I’m never quite sure what I’d say. But I can’t resist a few words on this one about Chaos.Okay, I honestly don’t see where first- and secon…
Okay, I’m indulging in too much knowledge of horses and an urge to do math here. “Morgenstern was six hands higher than any other horse I’d ever seen…” -Corwin (NPiA, ch. 4) So how tall IS Morgenstern? It depends entirely on the height of the tallest horse Corwin’s seen, and whether he was talking Earth […]