On the weekend of its opening, two individuals approached me–one on Saturday and the other on Sunday–and said the exact same thing. "It was like watching someone playing in one of your games." I beat the hell out of my players. I really do put them through the ringer. I make them fight for every…

L5R fans pay heed. This is important to you. When first coming up with the plotline for the Clan War, we all sat down and started thinking. We needed an outline. I’d fill out the details of that outline, but we needed a structure for the basic set and the five expansions. We knew one…

In Alice Hoffman’s novel, Practical Magic, she spends a lot of time talking about love. In Hoffman’s world, love is not an entirely beneficent force. In fact, it can be a destructive force. Something that wrecks you. Ruins you. Destroys you. Love is something that must be approached with humility. Patience. Reverence. The beauty of…

The first movie I remember seeing. Two years after it’s released, still running in the movie house, my dad finally schleps out with me to go see it. I’m seven years old. My dad and I stop for cheeseburgers before we head into the theater. He hates the concession prices, but we get popcorn anyway.…

In Minneapolis, there’s this great bookstore called Uncle Hugo’s and right across the street is the sister store, Uncle Edgar’s. Hugo’s sold new, used and rare science fiction and fantasy. Edgar’s sold mystery. In those stores, I stumbled on Micheal Moorcock, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), and Robert Anton Wilson. It was RAW…