Some topics you just don’t touch
Sometimes an idea comes to you. It’s dark yet compelling from a storytelling perspective. And yet, an integral part of that idea is just too dangerous an idea to release into the world.This is the story of the misbegotten tale-that-never-was, "Hell Divers".The...
It’s like D&D without the D&D
If you’ve never played D&D but always been intrigued by the concept, Lord’s of Waterdeep is a great tabletop board game to get you a taste. Set in the infamous Forgotten Realms city of Waterdeep, you play the role of one of the city’s mysterious masked rulers,...
Who needs eyes to see?
Well, science has taken another step into future tech. Essentially since the inception of reading glasses, science has combated blindness and visual impairment at the eye. Makes sense in the most basic way. Eyes not working = fix eyes. But a new breakthrough is...
If the Future Were In YOUR Hands
You have a phone app that tells you what your schedule is for the day, a calendar to tell you what the next few months look like, and the MCU Phase 4 Roadmap to help you plan out the next few years. But what about further into the future? What of the next decade,...
Post-Secondary Wizard Education
For those who missed it, The Magicians is a fully completed television series with a satisfying ending (unlike some other fantasy series we could mention). In a nutshell, it’s Harry Potter for the college crowd. While that sounds like a minor change, it’s really not,...
A Premise Without a Plot
I have ideas in my scrapheap that aren’t exactly the worst notions in the world. In fact, some of them might turn into something great someday–but probably for someone else. Because the problem with ideas is that ideas aren’t stories. A book that’s just a bunch of...
You Like Weird Games, Right?
Point & click mysteries are a guilty pleasure. They’re cooperative, so my wife and I don’t need to be opponents. They’re not timed, so they’re totally chill. And without the element of action involved, you find developers who lean into puzzles and story to make...
Books don’t exist until you buy them
Before the nitpickers arrive, some books still sit on shelves in dusty, musty, boxy warehouses waiting for shipment to a bookstore or your house. However, more and more commonly these days, at the moment you buy a paperback book, it does not physically exist.This is...
Worlds We Just Need More Of
Fantasy fans are nothing if not obsessed with worldbuilding. No one makes it through thousands of pages of text without becoming invested in the fictional realms they’ve spent so long enjoying. Sometimes, you get to the end and breathe a sigh of relief, satisfied that...
Sick of Superheroes?
By now, most people have probably forgotten about it, but for a brief period in 2017, DC had a superhero comedy starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alan Tudyk. Or rather, it had a comedy about non-superheroes in its comicbook universe.The premise was an insurance company...