Erin M. Evans’ Brimstone Angels: Tieflings, Turmoil and Turpitude
In Brimstone Angels, a pair of tiefling twins and their dragonborn foster father stumble into a devilish plot in Neverwinter, a city still reeling in the aftermath of major cataclysm. There’s jealousy,...
View Article10 Amazing Real-World Locations for Fantasy Worldbuilding
When you’re crafting the setting of your fantasy opus, it’s tempting to layer on impossibilities like islands floating in the sky and huge arboreal elf cities. It turns out the world we live in is...
View ArticleRise of the Underdark Set to Infest All of D&D in 2012
A massive new storyline will creepy-crawl across every aspect of the D&D landscape this year, as the Demon Queen of Spiders and her drow minions rise from their underground domains to take on the...
View ArticleA Gruesome Mystery Haunts the Dwarves of Eberron in The Shard Axe
Sabira d’Deneith is a Sentinal Marshal in the city of Stormreach, spending her days dragging criminals in to face justice and drowning her sorrows at the local tavern. A series of horrific serial...
View ArticleWere You Looking for a Pair of Massive Omnibus Editions of War of the Spider...
Take six epic fantasy novels, crush them together under immense pressure and uncountable eons (or ten years, whichever comes first), and the result is…a pair of massive tomes containing all the Drow...
View ArticleJ.L. Bourne’s Day By Day Armageddon Series: the Worst Books I’ve Ever Loved
J.L. Bourne’s cycle of zombie apocalypse novels feature a stilted, blunt writing style, virtually no dialog, and an awkward “journal entries†narrative gimmick. Yet, inexplicably, I can’t get...
View ArticleIt’s Mortal Kombat in Master of Devils
David Gross’s tale of a wizard past his prime and a prickly half-devil takes the reader to Tian Xia, an empire far from the center of Golarion. Drawing on Japanese mythology, classic samurai films,...
View ArticleIDW’s Forgotten Realms Comic is Not All That Good, Even with Greenwood
Fans of the Forgotten Realms and comic books may have been thrilled to see Realms creator Ed Greenwood’s name as the author of IDW’s new ongoing series. Sadly, the first issue is a muddled...
View ArticleIn Song of the Serpent, a Thief’s Bizarre Adventures Fail to Enlighten
In this Pathfinder Tales novel, a self-centered, money-driven thief is sent on a wild, weird adventure, meets some new friends (including an exceptional troll), hints at some greater destiny, then ends...
View ArticleR.A. Salvatore on Charon’s Claw, the Future of the Realms, and Letting...
With the future of the Forgotten Realms up in the air and the conclusion to his Neverwinter trilogy imminent, I had a lot of weighty questions for author R.A. Salvatore. He was kind enough to answer...
View ArticleBlood of the City, a Sword & Sorcery Novel about Growing Up, and Vengeance
Robin D. Laws’ Blood of the City is a brutal vengeance story, a fantasy novel that’s more Tarantino than Tolkien. Luma is a half-elf urban druid (called a cobblestone druid, among other names, in...
View ArticleGames Workshop Defends Questionable Trademark, Incites Internet Holy War
Games Workshop, makers of various 40K miniature and RPG games, has been defending their trademark on the term “space marine,” forcing Amazon to remove an indie author’s book because it had the phrase...
View ArticleDark Horse Adapting the Best Conan Story: The Hour of the Dragon
This weekend at the comic shop, I stumbled across a new Conan series. But not just any Conan series. Dark Horse is adapting the only Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon, over two six-issue runs. I had...
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