Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

Currently Reading I've continued my deep-dive into Tolkien, moving onto The Hobbit . John D Rateliff, The History of The Hobbit JRR Tolk...

Finished Reading JRR Tolkien, The Father Christmas Letters A series of delightful stories (delightfully illustrated) which come from letters...

  Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front With all the Oscar hype, I thought I better read this classic, which for some inexpli...

Aparently, in a series of events organised by the Tolkien Society since 2003, March 25th* has been celebrated as Tolkien Reading Day .  The ...

Many of you who play fantasy RPGs are, I hope, familiar with James Holloway's podcast 'Monster Man' in which he reads his way th...

As I recently posted , I've had a hankering to play 'Under Hill, Over Water'  a game I played   once during lockdown  but not ag...

Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet Will turn towards...

It is literally years since I last posted an upate on my paint-table  and I have barely picked up brushes since then.  If fact, several of t...

This rather nice book arrived this week. Todd Leback, BX Advanced Bestiary: Vol 1 - Monsters A-D , Third Party Games (2022), 134pp, many ill...

  Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves I continued reading the Gentleman Bastards sequence from last month .  In this installment, Locke and...

Having to take a lot of odd days off work before the end of the leave year in March, I thought I would be able to get to some of the regular...

It's Zinequest time, so Kickstarter is going to be full of interesting small RPG projects for a while.   This post is just to point to o...