Tag Archives: worldbuilding

Developing Fictional Worlds: The Nits are All you Have

Posted on June 24, 2015 by E. C. Ambrose

As you may know, my most popular blog entry (still) is the one entitled Bilbo Baggins’ Bathrobe: A Example of Poor World-building.  Every month or two, someone new discovers this post and feels they must take me to task for … Continue reading →

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40 Years of Rule-based Magic: Celebrating the Anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons

Posted on September 12, 2014 by E. C. Ambrose

As many of you may know, this year we celebrate the 4oth anniversary of the Dungeons and Dragons Role-playing system.  No doubt some of you readers have been players at one time or another, no doubt some of you have … Continue reading →

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Frozen: World-building on Ice

Posted on August 7, 2014 by E. C. Ambrose

I’m starting to see a series here on the blog about my thoughts on the world-building of various new films. Today’s subject is “Frozen,” a fun and surprisingly anti-Disney-trope Disney film. Not being real big on princesses, I wasn’t sure … Continue reading →

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The Lego Movie and World Building

Posted on February 9, 2014 by E. C. Ambrose

I know, I know, I’ve promised to get back to historical blogging, and I promise I’ll blog later on this week about some nasty historical detail, really! So this will be a quick one. Lego is about the most literal … Continue reading →

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