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  • She’s really just a d20 version of the Priestess of Talia from Enemy Gods and Houses of the Blooded, but reading through dungeon_grrrl ‘s journal made me think of it. She probably needs a whole lot of tweaking and, more than likely, she doesn’t interract with the d20 system in the kind of way I’d…

  • Not Tom Waits, not Rush, not NIN. No, my favorite song for 2007 was this one. Someday, somehow…

  • End of Romance

    It has been a long time coming, but I believe I’ve lost my affection for fantastic literature. Beaten within an inch of its life by mediocrity, it lies bleeding in the ditch, and no medicine nor healing potion can save it. William Gibson once lamented that he (and Bruce Sterling) were the only men still…

  • WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or no religion, according to a new survey of religious affiliation by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The report shows, for example, that every religion is losing and gaining members, but that…

  • Why do we hiccup?

    Because we used to be fish.

  • I Was Right…

    When it first came out, I reported that I enjoyed I am Legend except for the change in the climax. I suspected the producers changed the ending to give it a more hopeful feel, thus betraying the entire point of the book. Regarding the future DVD release of I Am Legend… The movie will be…

  •   I recently came across an observation about the roles of protagonist and antagonist in a story. The concept that the protagonist of a story is the one who changes and the antagonist is the instrument of that change. For example, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we know that Huck is the protagonist, but…