(Or How I Learned to Embrace the Dark Side) by Melinda M. Snodgrass Confession time — I play games. In particular role playing games — and now that my RPG days seem to be sadly behind me (sniff) I have segued into playing video games. I love to play video games. For those of you who …
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by David Anthony Durham One of the many challenges about writing for Wild Cards is that you’re not only required to create and write about your own original characters, you’ve got to include other people’s characters in your stories as well. Much of the energy of the series comes from the crossing of story lines, …
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By John Jos. Miller Long-time readers of Wild Cards probably already know that Daniel Brennan (Yeoman) was my first point-of-view character in the series, and is also one of the few characters from the original role-playing game to make it into the books. This post will delve into his own “secret origin,” or as much …
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By Max Gladstone Superpowered universes rarely have much history. They have continuity, sure, tons of the stuff, but you can have an awful lot of continuity without adding up to history. And that, to my mind, is where the world of Wild Cards stands out. D.C. Comics characters are beyond history for the most part, …
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