Introduction to Cthulhu Eternal
RogerBW's Blog19 Aug 2026
I recently had occasion to write up a quick introduction to Cthulhu Eternal for a group I play with, and thought it might be more broadly useful.
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top 45%Cold Days at Castle Drax, Charlotte E. English
RogerBW's Blog18 Aug 2026
2024 short horror-fantasy novel. Castle Drax is falling apart, and the only way for the family to survive is to sell it, though nobody wants to.
That Emergency Alert
RogerBW's Blog17 Aug 2026
Was Friday's message suitable content for an emergency alert? This is not a discussion of the specific harms of the system: the revelation of hidden phones, the stress and panic caused, the...
The Weekly Challenge 386: A Rational Reverse
RogerBW's Blog16 Aug 2026
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved base conversions and repeating decimals. (Note that this ends today.)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
RogerBW's Blog15 Aug 2026
1968 war, dir. Brian G. Hutton, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood: IMDb. The captured general has to be got out of the impregnable fortress. Or does he?
The Moth Catcher, Ann Cleeves
RogerBW's Blog14 Aug 2026
2015 contemporary police mystery, seventh in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. In rural Northumberland, the house sitter for the local Big House is found dead beside the road, though it's not a hit...
Radiant Star, Ann Leckie
RogerBW's Blog11 Aug 2026
2026 SF, set in the same universe as the Imperial Radch series but not part of the trilogy. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is a pilgrimage site on the rogue world of Aaa, and the main...
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
RogerBW's Blog10 Aug 2026
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team… Well, yes.