Month: February 2025

Light and Shade

“Our blood was red… but theirs was golden.”   Boring thing out of the way first: we fixed this blog! You can now leave comments again. Please excuse that temporary accidental censorship and leave comments on AK’s recent write-up about CRPG design [AK: she really means ‘weird extended Frasier riff’,  but she’s being polite] if […]

Written by on February 28, 2025

The Palimpsest

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.” — Gustav Mahler, unless it was Benjamin Franklin, or Jean Jaurés; possibly after a line of John Denham “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.” — Jean-Luc Godard   Fallen London and Sunless Sea and Cultist […]

Written by on February 21, 2025