Jamie Wood

Envoys to the Mount is an epic campaign for the Blue Rose RPG whose four adventures span five years and all four tiers of play. In it a small band of envoys from the Sovereign’s Finest must travel to far-off vata stronghold known as Mt. Oritaun and lend their aid against the sinister powers of the Shadow Barrens. The heroes must face off against the very forces of Shadow and may unlock some of the ancient secrets of the world of Blue Rose. Envoys to the Mount also provides a complete gazetteer for the Shadow Barrens and Mt. Oritaun, a guide to the Sovereign's Finest, and a host of creatures and NPCs for use within or outside of this storyline.

Lost Island of the Pirate Queen is a swashbuckling adventure series on the high seas for Fantasy AGE, 2nd Edition. Five full-length adventures take the characters from levels 1 to 11 as they follow a treasure map and make a deadly enemy who will stop at nothing to thwart them. This is a great way to kick off a new campaign but is also easily integrated into existing campaigns. The plot begins as a simple maritime adventure but reveals generations of curses and dark magic at its core as the players explore their island home, chart a course through dangerous waters, battle scourges of the sea, and seek a fabled treasure. But why was the treasure hidden and what dark power wants to keep it that way? Find out in Lost Isle of the Pirate Queen!

This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics T. S. Eliot, H. D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens and their response to the challenge of combatant war poetries. It argues that these civilian poets sought to negotiate directly with the combatant's gnosticism, specifically with the combatant's assertion that only those present at a catastrophe could properly represent its horrors. The modernists rightly identified that gnosticism was a threat to their own representational claims on an increasingly traumatic modernity. How was the imagination to be salvaged in order that it could still feel into the wounded experience of others? In response to this challenge, the modernists drafted their own imagined war poems, developing in the process several different and contradictory poetic systems. Whereas scholarship ordinarily tells the story of intra-war modern poetry as a series of different schools the trench lyric, the home front elegy and the modernist long poem each moving in a different direction, this study brings those traditions back together into one history by treating them as idiosyncratic responses to the same aesthetic problem.

Re-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry Uniquely foregrounds the concept of 'combat gnosticism' bringing this influential thesis in war writing to bear on modernist studies Brings together combatant war poetry and the ignored war poems of 'home front' poets into a single genealogical account that also contains a theory of the modernist long poem Considers the work of a range of canonical modernists within a much broader artistic milieu than is the norm Recovers several neglected poems that serve to recalibrate the existing genealogy of intra-war aesthetics Demonstrates the centrality of the problem of imagining otherness within modernist poetics This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics T. S. Eliot, H. D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens and their response to the challenge of combatant war poetries. It argues that these civilian poets sought to negotiate directly with the combatant's gnosticism, specifically with the combatant's assertion that only those present at a catastrophe could properly represent its horrors. The modernists rightly identified that gnosticism was a threat to their own representational claims on an increasingly traumatic modernity. How was the imagination to be salvaged in order that it could still feel into the wounded experience of others? In response to this challenge, the modernists drafted their own imagined war poems, developing in the process several different and contradictory poetic systems. Whereas scholarship ordinarily tells the story of intra-war modern poetry as a series of different schools the trench lyric, the home front elegy and the modernist long poem each moving in a different direction, this study brings those traditions back together into one history by treating them as idiosyncratic responses to the same aesthetic problem.

The Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder’s Guide is an indispensable resource for aspiring and experienced Game Masters alike. It provides advice and examples on such topics as designing entertaining and effective encounters, crafting interesting locations, customizing adversaries, and much more. It also includes tables to help generate campaign elements when a bit of spontaneity and randomness is desired. Each chapter in the Campaign Builder’s Guide is devoted to a different topic, each approached with a mixof advice, mechanical assistance, and ultimately ready to use examples. Whether you’re designing your own pantheon of fantasy deities for a campaign or seeking to alter setting,characters, and rules to emulate a particular sub-genre of fantasy, the Campaign Builder’sGuide has the advice and tools you need.