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Another Fantasy Bundle - Battlezoo

Jul. 17th, 2025 06:12 am
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This is an offer for the Battlezoo Bundle, featuring Fifth Edition monsters and monster hunters from Roll for Combat. This offer helps Roll for Combat as it deals with the creditors of bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors, who have seized many publishers' unsold stock.

 https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Battlezoo



This isn't really my sort of thing, since I don't play any relevant system, but it does suggest an often overlooked twist on fantasy monsters for anyone who needs it - hunting them down for potions ingredients and magical raw materials, rather than killing them to get past them and find treasure. Of course this probably pushes the species towards extinction, but maybe someone will write up a gamekeeper / conservation organization for this, or something like PETA or the RSPCA working to see monsters killed humanely...

Bundle of Holding: Battlezoo

Jul. 16th, 2025 02:17 pm
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The Battlezoo Bundle presents the Battlezoo line of monsters and monster hunters from Roll for Combat for D&D 5E and compatible tabletop roleplaying systems, compiled from winning designs from the annual RPG Superstars competition.

Bundle of Holding: Battlezoo
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A Maze of Stars by John Brunner

Jul. 15th, 2025 09:07 am
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An intelligent ship crisscrosses space-time to track the progress of the colonies it established

A Maze of Stars by John Brunner

Happy Bastille Day!

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May the prison you liberate have more than seven prisoners.
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Charts hold back chaos, and we should sing their praises!

Why Do I Love Charts? Let Me Count the Ways.

Bundle of Holding: Hearts of Wulin

Jul. 14th, 2025 02:08 pm
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This new Hearts of Wulin Bundle presents Hearts of Wulin, the tabletop roleplaying game of Chinese wuxia action melodrama from Age of Ravens Games.

Bundle of Holding: Hearts of Wulin
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This is an offer of Hearts of Wulin, featuring "the Apocalypse Engine game of Chinese wuxia melodrama."

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/HeartsOfWulin

 

The main game material was in a previous bundle, this bundle adds three new supplements, including one for running detective mysteries in the style of Judge Dee etc. The whole lot is very cheap, and for once I don't think it's going to be worth cherry-picking  if you're even slightly interested. I should probably add that I know very little about wuxia as a genre - there may be other games out there that handle it better.

Clarke Award Finalists 2005

Jul. 14th, 2025 10:27 am
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2005: The Ulster Volunteer Force struggles to grasp the meaning of the term “ceasefire”, Britain is astonished by the unlikely coincidence that every known WWI veteran is over 100 years of age, and in what some experts hope is a sign Britain has begun to emerge from chaos after the retreat of the Roman Empire, Dr Who is revived.

Poll #33355 Clarke Award Finalists 2005
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43


Which 2005 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

View Answers

Iron Council by China Miéville
16 (37.2%)

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
13 (30.2%)

Market Forces by Richard Morgan
7 (16.3%)

River of Gods by Ian McDonald
11 (25.6%)

The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
19 (44.2%)

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
14 (32.6%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2005 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Iron Council by China Miéville
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Market Forces by Richard Morgan
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Huh

Jul. 12th, 2025 12:02 pm
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This is probably in no way significant, but it just occurred to me to check to see where WorldCon was the years I was nominated:

2010: Melbourne, Australia
2011: Reno, USA
2019: Dublin, Ireland
2020: Wellington, New Zealand
2024: Glasgow, Scotland

(I was nowhere near the ballot in 2009, Montreal)

At a guess, those are years where vote totals were a bit lower?

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