Welcome back to the Forgotten Realm and our torturous heroes’ quest for fame and riches! If you’ve forgotten where we’ve been, catch yourself up with Part I. For those who…
Interactive Literature
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Playing Detective: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective / Gumshoe
by Chris Holly January 15, 2015Wait! Read the intro to the Playing Detective series first! Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective by Raymond Edwards, Suzanne Goldberg and Gary Grady Sleuth Publications, 1981 / Ystari Games, 2012 Ystari…
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Playing Detective: Introduction
by Chris Holly January 15, 2015Ever since I first watched Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke tromp about Victorian England on public television as a nine-year-old kid, I have wanted to be a detective. As I…
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Hadean Lands: The Great Marriage
by Byron Alexander Campbell November 25, 2014Hadean Lands by Andrew Plotkin Zarfhome Software Consulting, 2014 Zarfhome Software / iOS App Store It’s a marriage made in the realm of ideal forms. To most of its potential…
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D&D with Entropy: Lost Mine of Phandelver – Part One
by edward j rathke November 23, 2014Welcome once more to the land of Dungeons & Dragons! I am, of course, your humble, omniscient, omnipresent Dungeon Master. I’ve introduced you all to the would-be heroes, to these…
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When machines surprise us, we treat them as mystic idols: An Interview with Jacob Bakkila
by Lucas Pinheiro October 28, 2014In his 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, Victor Flemming portrays “The Great and Powerful Wizard” as a mystical and towering nonhuman life form, a giant green head…
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Give me your Hand, it’s Dark and I Know the Way: A Review of “Finger: Knuckle: Palm”
by Guest Contributor July 14, 2014Finger : Knuckle : Palm by Ariana Den Bleyker LuicidPlay Publishing, May 15, 2014 76 pages | Amazon Kindle ebook | LucidPlay Publishing It’s a thrill and a treat to read…
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I first encountered Spell Saga while I was trying to drum up interest for Entropy among fellow board gamers. One particular gamer was less than enthused about the concept of…
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Why Twitter Poetry Matters
by Rhys Nixon May 13, 2014I often feel that I have to defend Twitter to those around me, and I’m sick of it. In these conversations, people usually talk about ‘real writing,’ ‘real music,’ etc.…