Finished Deadhouse Gates. Really want to hop straight onto the next Malazan book, but I'm making myself finish Eye of the World (Wheel of Time #1) first. Must say, nice to have a bit of light fantasy reading after the positively blood-soaked final chapters of Deadhouse. Man. Lot of dead folks there....

May have decided to follow in Alex's footsteps with my own Monster Girls series, based on his list what he wrote up. Posting them up on tumblr, tagged with "30 more monster girls". Had a lot of fun so far. I think a few people from around these parts have seen my first one since Alex reblo...

I believe a number of former marines on twitter confirmed from photographs that the police in Ferguson right now are more armed to the teeth than the marines were invading Iraq. Now if that isn't a scary thought, I don't know what is. Also, apropos of that thing about the tear gas, some Palestinians...

So many huge fantasy books, so little time. I'm almost halfway through the second of Malazan Book of the Fallen, Deadhouse Gates. Really, reeeeeeeaaaaaally good, but it's like almost a thousand pages, man. Crazy stuff. After that, I've got some things scheduled. Gotta finish the first Wheel of Time ...

I've been developing a fantasy world recently, fairly standard medieval dirt-town stuff inspired by reading about Charlemagne and the Frankish Empire. I like what I've come up with, but for some reason I just felt a little burnt out on it after only a short time. Watching the latest Crossing the Str...

Another excellent commentary guys, and one which I'm not surprised to say I pretty much agreed with. Though, this was one of those situations with a movie where you know you're bothered by something, but can't quite put your finger on it. I've never seen the original theatrical cut of Aliens, so I r...

Made a new tumblr blog ( http://calumgraceillustration.tumblr.com/ ) expressly for posting any illustrations I find myself finishing. Feel free to check it out. This is an example:

I'm from Cork and..... yeah, I feel like I may have encountered this dude in the smoking area of a gay club once. Thankfully, I was standing next to a group of friends and had an excuse to cold-shoulder the guy. There's one or two older men like him in the community, had to rescue a college D&D ...

My first comic: a 2000AD prog that I only remember two stories from. One was one of the excellent ABC warriors strips. The other was about two guys trapped in a giant dude's stomach. And there was also a Judge Dredd story that came with the issue that I was WAAAAAAAAAY too young to read at the time,...

Hope Limerick is treating you well! Despite what they say, a pretty nice city. Not as good as Cork though >.>

But seriously, Ireland is a goddamn pretty place. I've lived here more than a decade and I still find myself thinking "daaaaaaamn that view is nice"

Listened to this before it was official, but had to revisit 'cos it's just really good. For the record, the first time I listened I was watching along with a different cut, like obviously different - whole scenes spliced back in, etc. so it was going out of sync constantly. For instance, there's a s...

Congratulations you two! Have a great weekend, an excellent honeymoon, and a fantabulous, well, you know.

My intent was to highlight how the Jacquays style of dungeon design is definitely the way to go, and the other way is so not because it leads to boring, gamey yawn-fests. But yeah, I suppose I didn't take into account the haphazard arrangement of locations. Amendment to previous assertion: Dark Soul...

Warning: this post may get esoteric pretty quickly and will probably only be interesting to me, but HERE GOES. These are just some random game design musings, don't mind me. So I've been playing Dark Souls 1 (and enjoying it thoroughly) and thinking about the criticisms people have levelled against ...

I've been listening to a very strange mix of Fatima Al Qadiri's new album "Asiatisch" in all its minimalist, futuristic glory (one of my favourite tracks is this one: http://soundcloud.com/hyperdub/fatima-a ... i-szechuan ), and The Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna's new band (she of Bikini Kill...

I started a lil' warmup illustration project. Here's the first thing. Not too shabby.



Click through to tumblr here for enlarging shenanigans.

I couldn't come because I am buried under the weight of this semester of college coming to a dismal and altogether hurried end, full of fraught monstrosities of projects, missed deadlines and general madness. It's all rather tiring and confusing. However, if it were ever to happen again, I'd somehow...

And if Fate doesn't necessarily tickle your group's fancy, there's always Barbarians of Lemuria, which is so simple my dog could learn it. Instead of skills, everyone has four careers. Any character can be aces at actual combat, even the wizard in the party. The wizard in the party might also be a p...

In the many many months since my last post in this thread, our D&D DM had to leave his course and go elsewhere, which left a kind of power-vacuum within this sub-section of the gaming society. So, I decided to fill in. I've run a pretty successful series of sessions using Barbarians of Lemuria, ...

Just finished The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Fun, witty and twisty as ever, with a brilliant little sucker-punch of an ending that has some disturbing implications for future books. Have now started in on the third book of William Gibson's Bridge trilogy, All Tomorrow's Parties. Dense and b...

Sadly, those are really the only such sections in the game. It's all back downhill from here, chaps.

I've recently been listening to this amazing hip-hop mixtape tribute to Black Dynamite on repeat. It's pretty damn sweet: http://soundcloud.com/jamlaarmy/sets/a- ... k-dynamite

Powering through Dishonored to try and keep ahead of the stream. Also, I think the last day, Alex, you were tying to pinpoint the inspirations the designers used for the visuals of the setting? Well, as near as I can tell from my own play-through, the look seems to take most from 19th century London...

I've on-and-off writing a strange urban fantasy book over the last year or so. It's tentatively dubbed "Queen Over Death" and deals with the bizarre and, luckily, wholly made-up by your's truly side of Birmingham. Got six chapters done so far, currently wading through the seventh. The pace...

Pretty much as the title says. Irish LRR fans (I know you're out there!), any one of you heading down here to the lovely, totally-sunny-and-not-at-all-cold-as-balls reaches of Cork for Warpcon this month? I hear meet-ups are a thing that is cool. Psst, John Kovalic (of Munchkin fame) will be there t...