The Better Part of Valour is the sequel to Valour’s Choice in Tanya Huff’s Confederation Novel series. I really enjoyed Valour’s Choice and sure enough the opening book proves to be almost impossible. I didn’t enjoy sequel quite as much. A step or two down from the first book is still safely in the “good […]
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Unlock the Eternal Siege of the Shard: A Review of The Timeless Fort
Long ago, three kingdoms were gifted with the fiery arrival of a skybourne crystal shard. Some say the artefact possessed the ability to enhance magical powers, but none of the kingdoms could tell for sure, for a righteous order of men and women stole it from beneath their noses. So started the Shard Wars. Like […]
Pick an Era… Any Era: A Review of Tempus Omni
Time travel roleplaying? Oh boy… The complexities of time travel means that you have a lot on your plate as a storyteller. Given the power to skip freely through time and bend the causality to your will, what hope the well laid plans of a Gamemaster? So, I find time travel games benefit from a […]
In the Best Possible Taste: Numenera’s Love and Sex in the Ninth World
There’s something you can definitely say about Numenera – and that’s if you’re not thinking outside the box, you’re probably not playing to it’s full potential. When you’re taking the world to the brink of destruction, a billion years into the future, you can’t just think some post-apocalyptic Mad Max knock-off. The Ninth World isn’t […]
Innerspace: A review of Solid State Tank Girl
This is not my favourite Tank Girl of all time. I didn’t come to grips with the art and I found the story too fantastical. Sure, Tank Girl stories are often on the fantastic side of zany but I can always pick up on that touch of survivalism in the post-apocalyptic world. Tank Girl is […]
Hope in the Legion of the Damned: A review of Andromeda’s Fall
Andromeda’s Fall is my first experience of a William C. Dietz Legion of the Damned novel. In fact, I took my prompt from the word “prequel” to go investigate the original series. There’s a tiny sliver of a summary on Wikipedia; When there’s no hope for the terminally ill or a condemned criminal they have […]
Shipping Evil to the UK: A Redbubble review
This post was made possible by Redbubble who provided a coupon to pay for the items I bought to test the system. I decided to try and purchase pure evil and see if it made it through UK customs. I’ll touch on the reasons for that in just a bit. If you read any geeky […]
The way of a god: A review of Moon’s Artifice
Moon’s Artifice won me over and I was a converted fan, ready for the sequel, by the end. The odd thing is that the first few chapters in Moon’s Artifice were a bit of a struggle for me. I don’t know why. I immediately liked the characters. I immediately liked the scenes and first whiff […]
Fancy a Jelly Baby: A Doctor Who – The Fourth Doctor Sourcebook review
Travellers in the Fourth Dimension, fighting against tyranny, ignorance and dark forces beyond imagination, The Doctor and his companions have voyaged through 800 episodes. Despite the multitude of stories, you’d think a commonality in villains and plots would mean after a while you’d just start repeating yourself. However, it doesn’t necessarily occur to you, unless […]
A Long Line of Body Snatchers: A Review of Hideous Creatures: Ghouls
At heart, Ghouls are haunters of the dead, spending their time around the bodies of the deceased, primarily as a source of sustenance, but also seeking out grave goods. In a lot of horror fiction beyond Lovecraft, they have become the pathetic, fawning groupies of greater monsters – failed vampires, would-be liches, and the almost […]
