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Revisit: What Do You Look For In a Hero?

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

(Originally posted on July 22, 2013.  Pretty simple and to the point.  Realizing these posts are mostly for interactions though.  What do you think?) One of the more interesting things about Beginning of a Hero reviews was that a few … Continue reading →

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Revisit: When One Book Just Won’t Do

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Originally posted on May 1, 2013 . . . This one tries to hit everything, which shows where my mind was.  I was more interested in promos, poems, and random stuff as if this was a Livejournal.  Yet, flickers of … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Magic of Support

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Posted on January 27, 2013, I still don’t know about the question I wanted to ask after this post.  The one I would ask now is: Has anyone else had an encounter similar to the one I described?  One with … Continue reading →

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Revisit: The Rejection Letter: Inspiration, Pain, and Kindling

Posted on July 21, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Posted on January 19th, 2013, this is a fun one.  Not really much else to add to it since it’s right to the point.  People who weren’t following me back then might get a kick out of the final question … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Windemere: The Silent Character

Posted on July 18, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Published on January 13, 2013, this feels like another post where things that now feel obvious just dawn on me.  I would eventually go on to talk a few times about the setting being as much of a character as … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Crushers of Souls and Puppies

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

This went live on January 2, 2013 and it comes off as fairly naive.  I seem so simplistic in my view on villains and what makes one good.  Not sure why I lacked any nuance, especially since I had to … Continue reading →

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Revisit: No Fun in Perfection

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

This was posted December 26, 2012 and I love the opening warning.  Even in my haggard state, I was able to make some sense.  Pretty sure I’ve touched on this subject a few times afterwards, but it’s funny how it … Continue reading →

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Revisit: Game vs. Book Differences

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Posted on December 12, 2012 . . . I was posting rapidly once I started.  Posts were either gigantic like this or around 200 words too.  Gee, I was a mess of a newbie blogger. At the age of thirteen, … Continue reading →

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Questions 3 and a Look Back at ‘Curse of the Dark Wind’

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

This book tends to get lost in the shuffle at times.  Curse of the Dark Wind didn’t introduce any new, long-standing characters.  Part of this might have been because this was when the game started crumbling.  So, I was struggling to move … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Origins: Aedyn Karwyn

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

Aedyn began like Fritz and Nimby as another player’s character in the game.  There was a big difference between him and them.  The guy playing Aedyn was more into the mechanics of the game than the character.  So, Aedyn wasn’t … Continue reading →

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