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Using Morale Rolls to Simplify NPC Combat
July 12, 2021
Or, The Skill Challenge Will Continue Until Morale Improves What can you do when there are too many pieces on the chessboard? For any Dungeon Master, it's...
Roleplaying Game Basics
March 21, 2021
Since I started playing them myself a few years ago, I've had occasion to introduce a number of folks for the very first time to the world of tabletop...
Defining SF: Darko Suvin (Part 1)
August 24, 2020
“SF is, then, a literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition, and whose main...
A Brief History of "Speculative Fiction"
August 19, 2020
Welcome to Talking Squids and Outer Space and You, the umpteenth iteration of a blog on my research into genre fiction shenanigans I have been writing on and...