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A ripping SF-fantasy-adventure fraught with dinosaurs, barbarians, Transformers, heavy metal, monsters, spaceships, and all manner of madness.

Monday, 23 January 2023

Robert E. Howard in Scots: Aye Comes Antrum

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A small tribute to my eternal inspiration Robert E. Howard, and to an auld   freen , who shared his birthday. I am glad to have met and tal...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

The Word For World Is "West"

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Sigh . I suppose I might as well, eh?  Almost ten years on,  this post is becoming more and more prophetic.
Friday, 24 June 2022

The Road to Acheron, Part Four - "Zukundu of the Twilight" & "The Glacier of Time's Abyss"

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( DM's  NOTE: The first story is the conclusion of the previous sessions' adventure, and some story elements of Helena Nash's ...
Sunday, 19 June 2022

The Road to Acheron, Part Three: "The Fall of Zukundu"

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( DM's note: In my optimism, I projected that this adventure would be finished in one session. The players, being the wonderful meanderi...
Thursday, 9 June 2022

The Road to Acheron, Part Two: "The Children of Zukundu"

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Welcome to the second session of The Road to Acheron . Last time, seven adventurers escaped the very pit of the serpent: Python, the capital...
Thursday, 2 June 2022

The Road To Acheron, Part One - "The Seven Sacrifices"

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Last night was the first proper session of my game of Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of . Following character creation , I took a cue...
Thursday, 26 May 2022

The Road to Acheron - A Saga in An Age Undreamed of

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It seems like an eternity since I first went to Cross Plains. It leads on from the story of how I got into Conan. To recap: in the early 200...
Friday, 11 February 2022

Khand and Rhûn and Harad Too

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More information regarding the upcoming The Lord of the Rings series, now subtitled The Rings of Power , has emerged. The response has been...
Saturday, 22 January 2022

Swording With Shadows: The Long Shadow of Robert E. Howard on his 116th

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So the 22nd of January once again comes around. Currently I'm researching for a post on Ossian and the Celtic Revival in Scotland (watch...
Saturday, 26 June 2021

All The Time in The (Jurassic) World (Dominion)

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The concept of Deep Time in terms of Earthly geology has its roots, in large part, to the work of Scottish geologist James Hutton . His stud...
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Untimely ripped from the womb in a year where gargantuan metal gods who could transform into engines and mechanisms awakened, Al Harron has made it his quest to drink in all he could from the font of that most exciting of genres: adventure! Be it in the unknown pasts of forgotten ages, the grim unknowable future, on worlds beyond worlds and times beyond time: wherever the promise of discovery and daring undertakings may lie, Al will venture.
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