Tag Archives: Game of Thrones

Thinking Outside the Globe when Creating Worlds

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Aramithius

I’ve taken to A Game of Thrones with a vengeance lately, and it’s a great board game as well as a great story. The characterisation is some of the best I’ve seen in fantasy novels, and thanks to it being a mostly … Continue reading →

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Putting the Magic into Character Creation

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Aramithius

OK, so the new two-posts-a-week thing has yet to take off. I’m putting it down to moving a load of my girlfriend’s stuff during a move. Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. I’ve begun reading A Game of … Continue reading →

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Does a story tell anything in the telling?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Aramithius

In my browsing across the blogsphere, I’ve come across this post on “narratology” from the Urban Archives blog. It’s extracts from a book that discusses the central point of narratology as the contention that “stories, or more properly their narrative component, … Continue reading →

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