Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
It's been 20 years since the release of The Return of the King. Like a lot of fans, I have recently commemorated the event by re-watching all three films of the Lord of the Rings. As a work of cinema art in the genre of epic fantasy, they were an achievement that no one has …
Continue reading A Few Thoughts About the 20th Anniversary of Return of the King
There are documentaries about horror, and there are documentaries about heavy metal. This doc is unusual in that it is a history of how the two came to be blended together.
The new documentary about the invention of fantasy role-playing is out on VOD on Vimeo. I was a Kickstarter supporter and I am very pleased by the final cut of the film. My comments on it are going to focus on what I learned from the film more than what my thoughts about how it …
Continue reading What I Learned from The Secrets of Blackmoor: Part 1
Kickstarter backers of Secrets of Blackmoor have gotten the streaming version of the the film delivered. It is a documentary about how Dave Arneson, in collaboration with his war gaming group, invented the modern table top role playing game. I watched it last night and I enjoyed it. Having read Jon Peterson's massive tome on the subject, …
Last night, I watched Solo: A Star Wars Story on Netflix. After the horrid mess of a film that was Last Jedi. I wasn't going to go see Solo in the theater. It turns out that Solo was a good film. Ron Howard was called in because the suits didn't like what was going on with the original …
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