When I was a kid, my friends and I loved playing role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, but we never played the right way. In a word, we cheated. We cheated gloriously, elevating the title of Dungeon Master to godhood. We absorbed enough of the rules to create characters and adventures and run them via roll of the dice, […]
Suspension of disbelief is a heck of a thing. Some books ask for a little more heavy lifting than others, especially when travel from the “real world” to an alternate universe is involved. No one wants a dissertation on quantum physics, but sometimes the mechanisms for traveling to a magical land are startlingly… well, the […]