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Moon Melee Our Land of Azurth 5e campaign continued last Sunday with the party concluding their brief trip to the Moon. The Bright Goddess of the Thric...

More from the Land of Azurth
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Wednesday Comics: DC, March 1985 (week 1) My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were at newsstand...

The #dccomics on the stands on December 5, 1984. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/12/wedn...

Longhaul All the interstellar Science Fiction roleplaying systems and settings I can think of rely on faster-than-light travel (generic systems like ...

For a science fiction campaign there are some advantages to getting there slow. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/12/long...

Spent my day off coloring.

Wednesday Comics: Gift Suggestions 2025 Looking for a gift for a comic book fan you know (even if that fan is yourself)? Here are my recommendations for you to consider. Absolute ...

Need a gift for a comics fan? This list of ideas might help.
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Comic page with art by Mike Kazaleh. Waylon the frogling buys a flashlight from a goblin market to try and catch his wayward shadow.

Waylon strikes a deal in Troglopolis.

Clerics vs. Posthumans Technology vs. magic, sometimes even to the point of a war, in a feature of a number of fantasy works, though I'm not aware of a published D...

Post-singularity tech vs. High as a setting idea. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/11/cler...

Challenge on the Moon Our 5e Land of Azurth game continued last Sunday with the party trying to get to the Bright Rabbit Goddess of the Moon to ask her for a par...

In our Land of Azurth game, the party gets into trouble on the Moon. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/11/chal...

The Mighty Avengers Vs. the 1970s When I saw the announcement for the Marvel Age of Comics series, I said to some friends of mine that they seemed like the comics-related ve...

A review of one of the new 33 1/3 style books on Marvel Comics. flashbackuniverse.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1985 (week 4) I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on November 22, 1984. America ...

V goes from tv to comics, and Congress starts grilling the JSA. This week in #dccomics in 1984.
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Weird Revisited: The Androids' Dungeon The original version of this post appeared in February of 2014, inspired by " Bit Rot, " a short story by Charles Stross. Neptune's Brood a...

A science fictional rationalization of classic D&D stuff. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/11/weir...

Comic book panels. Waylon the frogling runs from a hairy drodand and crosses a rickety bridge over a goblin slime pit.

Some days are like. .

Glad to jog your memory

GURPS is potentially good, but you need time to devote to it like you are a high school kid with no extracurricular activities.

Hardwired Recently, I decided to fill a gap in my cyberpunk awareness and check out Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired (1986). I've sampled Williams' sho...

I got around to reading a nearly 40 year-old cyberpunk classic. flashbackuniverse.blogspot.com/2025/11/hard...

Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1985 (week 3) I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis ! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on November 15...

Cain and Abel return to offer Abigail Arcane Mysteries and Secrets, and The Barren Earth gets a limited series. This week in 1984 in #dccomics
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Idylls of the Vagrant King The city of San Tiburon gives deference to a peculiar character, a vagrant who claims to be king of the New World. No one knows for certain...

Revisiting and old Weird Adventures post. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2011/02/idyl...

Masters of Universe image with Skeletor in the center and other characters arrayed in a border.

Esteban Maroto

A Storm of Wings A Storm of Wings by John Harrison Bantam Spectra 1980, reprinted 2005     A Storm of Wings is the second of John Harrison's science fan...

A Storm of Wings is John Harrison's second book about the science fantasy city Viriconium. A mixed group of unwilling and incapable anti-heroes attempt to save the city from an epistemic apocalypse, a crisis over the shared meaning of reality caused by insects from space.

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Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1985 (week 2) I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis ! This week, I read the comics released the week of November 8, 1984....

Donna Troy gets married and Spock mind melds with himself. This week in #dccomics in 1984.
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Gardens of the Moon After a hiatus, our Land of Azurth 5e game continued with the party arriving at the Moon looking to meet with the Bright Goddess and get on...

The latest from the Land of Azurth
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Comics page. Art by Mike Kazaleh a frogling gets advice from his mentor, the shabby king, then goes to a cave entrance guarded by a two-headed troll.

Newly colored page! Waylon consults his mentor, King Kuell

Kane, definitely

On Magitech I'm going to define magitech for my purposes here as technology (in the sense of items that appear industrial, mechanical, or electronic) th...

My thoughts on magitech and its use. sorcerersskull.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-m...

B&w comic panel with art by Mike Kazaleh. The wizard complains of a jangled aura thanks to someone skulking about uncooked. Waylon does know what that means, but agrees.

Waylon the Frogling discourses with a wizard.

Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1985 (week 1) My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were at newsstand...

The Forgotten Villians get briefly remembered and Trigon is defeated. This week in 1984 in #dccomics
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Flashback Radio: "The Dark" For the month of October and the Halloween season, I thought it would be fun to revisit some classic Old-Time Radio horrors. My friend and f...

Jason Sholtis and I reach the end of our OTR horror excavations. flashbackuniverse.blogspot.com/2025/10/flas...

Weird Revisited: Alternate Ravenlofts The original version of this post appeared in 2016...  Jack Shear brought to my attention an idea Kreg Mosier proposed of a Southern Gothic...

Some Ravenlofts aren't like the others.
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Comic panel. An orange frogling in purple claims to be Black Bufo of the Guild of Maelfactors with a bag of basilisk eggs for the king of Troglopolis.

Waylon the Frogling tries a bluff.

It's great. I watched it in the same weekend as Viy last year and it made a good combo.