Earlier this year, I was jonesing for some ’80-style sword and sorcery. You know the type: big on magic, adventure, and mile-a-minute plotting. Elves, dwarves, fireball-slingin’ sorcerers, and every other fantasy trope in the rulebook. It’s a bit of a dying art form in the 21st century—except when it come to the lines of tie-in novels that […]
Look, we all love our orcs, and our elves, and our wizards and dungeons. But there’s something undeniably appealing about exploring the far reaches of space, encountering strange aliens on stranger planets: starships and stellar wormholes over dungeons and dragons. If you’re looking for a tabletop role-playing game that will let you explore the space […]
Fantasy novelist and man-about-Twitter Sam Sykes has a new novel out today, Shy Knives, set in the universe of the Pathfinder roleplaying game. Why did he choose to write a tie-in novel? The answer is complex, and then simple, and then complex again. So, don’t take this the wrong way, but for a genre whose […]
