There is something that’s been bugging me recently about fantasy races (again): they wouldn’t stay so starkly different if others existed. There are two main thrusts of this argument: the first being a biological one and the second being a cultural one. Allowances must be made for hand waving these…

I want to talk about the difference between race vs species in fantasy games and literature. This is going to be one of those topics that has a lot of nooks and crannies that we can talk more on in the comments. …

I’ve been obsessed with the notion of merging non-human art/artistic elements and human ones. The idea of taking something procedurally or semi-randomly generated and combining it with the intuition/abstract association of a human is facinating to me. I ended up hiring an artist to work with me on transforming a…

Ready for “a white male game designer in his 30s gives his take on if orcs are racist in Tolkien’s work and beyond?”. That aside, I do have some credentials regarding this. I literally have a degree in this kind of stuff; my undergrad in Game Development actually had a…

So Pathfinder Second Edition just launched and a lot of folks are wondering if it’s worth it. I’ve worked on Pathfinder material for about 8 years as a third party developer and I’ve been able to play with the system behind the scenes for a while now and I wanted…

Ok so I just finished watching Amazon’s “The Boys”- a dark and gritty satire of superhero comics based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. I’m a huge comic buff but, I’ll be honest, I did not read The Boys. The Basics (Spoiler Free) Grade- B+ A solid series with a lot…

So Avengers: Endgame came out and your kids are probably begging you to go see it (or maybe vice versa…) but it can be a tough call to bring your kids to a movie like Endgame. Here’s what you’ll need to know going in: Rating: PG-13 Violence: Lots of fighting but…

Since the internet seems obsessed with my obsession for once, let’s talk about Dune. In specific, I want to give people an overview of the books that have been released because it’s a complex topic that confuses some people. The first is a legend, the second and third (Dune Messiah…

Something Trump said in his speech, where he declares our recent national emergency got to me: “So I’m going to be signing a national emergency, and it’s been signed many times before. It’s been signed by other presidents, from 1977 or so, it gave the presidents the power. There has…