Why? The question is something of a joke these days, a footnote for philosophy majors and something to mock. The stories about that question in the modern world are frequent and common – the student in class who answers because or why not without ever bothering to really think about...

There is nothing in this world that kills my productivity faster than a new Jim Butcher novel. As far as fiction goes, I don’t think I’ve come across a stronger author in science fiction or fantasy in recent years. At their best, both genres use their conventions to explore rarities...

You wanna know what I, as a World, have always hated? Alignments. When you look at how people play their characters they inevitably end up being sociopathic monsters, clinging to the absolute moral codes that alignment systems offer. Even worse are those that cling to the idea that the complexity...

Herein is a prose-ified retelling of the first Demo session of The Triune Legacy’s Lexi Fotia episode at VCON earlier this month. It wasn’t intended to necessarily become a completely insane player vs. player free-for-all, but none-the-less, the players in Vancouver gave us an epic...

For thousands of years man has struggled with the idea of thought and mind. Even today, arrogant as we are, we don’t really understand where thought comes from. A lightening storm enacting strange patterns stimulates a complex biological computer, a series of single cells that come together...

Let’s be frank, you and I. Generally speaking, humans in role-playing games are boring. They suck. They’re usually the median for whatever other species/races are presented at best, or the weakest of what’s available at worse. You look at things on paper and you think to yourself,...

Most conspiracy theories piss me off for one simple reason – they assume a uniform following from a selfish multitude. Every single one of them posits a They that work in perfect clockwork unison without risk of betrayal. This may look good on paper but it falls apart in practice. People...

Once upon a time, people gathered around campfires and told stories. Some of the stories were based on true events, others were embellishments or allegories or fictions. They spoke and the stories grew in the telling, but the tales were organic and grew. Eventually, these people invented ever...

I always want to know how an image is made when I see one. It drives me crazy when the medium is listed only as “acrylic” when it is acrylic medium but its through a frickin’ airbrush! Ai! It is a completely different situation then! In any case, neither were used on the...

Humankind defines itself through stories. From the gods of yesteryear to the video games and movies of today we look to stories of others for inspirations on what we, ourselves, can be. When we gather among our closest friends we tell stories of our own lives, the moments that have helped define...