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Abolish Horny Jail!

I recently saw a video posted on Tumblr by Dimension20 to promote their tabletop streams. In that video, Brendan Lee Mulligan and (I believe) Ally Beardsley joke about not having any inter-character romance, because that would take away opportunities for Tumblr posters to come up with thirsty queer fanart.

That got me thinking – Tumblr isn’t as thirsty as it used to be – as it had a reputation for being, especially for fan art. And I started to think of the causes of why.

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Books, Role Playing Games

Book Review: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

If you know anything about me at all, I have a passion for the history of tabletop roleplaying. One of the books that helped stoke my interest was the book Heroic Worlds, which I read when I was in middle school. That book was a high level overview of the roleplaying game books that were on the market at the time – like the tabletop RPG equivalent of all those Leonard Maltin books giving an overview, one-to-two sentence of a film’s plot, and a one-to-two sentence review combined with a score. Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground provides a more close in view, covering a selection of RPG books from each decade of RPG history to date, with more involved looks at the various games.

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