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Writer and game designer Robin D. Laws brought you such roleplaying games as Ashen Stars, The Esoterrorists, The Dying Earth, Heroquest and Feng Shui. He is the author of seven novels, most recently The Worldwound Gambit from Paizo. For Robin's much-praised works of gaming history and analysis, see Hamlet's Hit Points, Robin's Laws of Game Mastering and 40 Years of Gen Con. ...more

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Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Capsule Reviews

Another weird year, another weird TIFF. This year the festival brought back more in-person events while also running a version of their at-home streaming track. Valerie and I did the on-line version, which this time was restricted to a maximum of 20 titles.

For years TIFF has been intentionally or otherwise making it incrementally more difficult to do the event diehard style, as we have always

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	The Worldwound Gambit 3.45 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hamlet's Hit Points 3.77 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering by Robin D. Laws (Goodreads Author), Steve Jackson (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood of the City 3.63 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shotguns v. Cthulhu by Robin D. Laws (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Natania Barron (Goodreads Author), Steve Dempsey (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feng Shui: Action Movie Roleplaying 3.97 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Tales of the Yellow Sign 3.86 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying) by Robin D. Laws (Goodreads Author), Robert J. Schwalb 3.99 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Esoterrorists 3.95 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honour of the Grave (Angelika Fleischer #1) by Robin D. Laws (Goodreads Author), Marc Gascoigne (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.37 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”
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“The type tells you what purpose the beat performs in the narrative. Beats may perform multiple functions, particularly during key moments. The resolution marks the emotional state engendered in the audience by the beat as it closes. It”
― Robin D. Laws, Hamlet's Hit Points

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“When a movie or TV show is too heavily larded with these moments, you may be looking at the result of interference from producers and executives. They’ve trained themselves to see stories as connective tissues fusing together various categories of gratification. This is why so many would-be blockbusters play more like hodge-podges of disparate stimuli than satisfyingly integrated narratives.”
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