Against The Wicked City

I've mentioned before that the setting of ATWC is loosely pegged to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which for the peoples of Ce...

More than halfway through, now! Terror in Talabheim (July 2006) The fifth book in the 'location plus adventure' series tha...

The other thing I managed to do over the Christmas vacation, aside from playing intermittently-disturbing games with my three-year-old son ,...

These are Tsam dancers. The Tsam or Cham ceremony is a ritual of Tibetan origin, in which masked performers enact symbol...

North of the Great Road, the steppe stretches out for what feels like forever: hundreds and hundreds of miles of emptiness, of tall grass...

This is the first of a bunch of wilderness encounter tables to complement the ones I wrote last year for the Wicked City itself. I'll do...

You all saw the news report at the end of March, right?  Elasmotherium sibiricum, previously thought to have died out in the middle of the I...

I've written before about how the Eurasian steppe eats history. Nations lie lightly upon it, crossing the plains like wind or shadows...

The Mongols recognised three Manly Skills: horsemanship, archery, and wrestling. Of the three, it was wrestling which provided the purest...

So, in my last post, I described the Plains of Rust: an area of the steppe which was once a battleground between ancient armies of clockwork...