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		<title>Illo-a-Week: Nightwalker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Medieval Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across a conversation on a message board in which a guy was curious about a typical medieval kingdom&#8217;s resources—specifically, how many villages and towns a kingdom might encompass, and how big its army might be. Worldbuilding is a topic of fascination for me, both as a writer and a gamer, and this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=820&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin’s Monday Medieval Madness: The Value of a Big Dumb Guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat down with my kids to watch Big Trouble in Little China this past weekend, and I was struck by how that movie went about solving a problem in very much the same way I did in The Mason of New Orleans. Here, let me (or, rather, someone else—I didn’t put this video together), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=813&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin&#8217;s Monday Medieval Madness: Lend Me Your Eyeballs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need your help. I&#8217;ll tell you why and how in a minute. Three months ago I announced that I&#8217;d typed the words THE END at (of course) the end of the Mason of New Orleans manuscript. It was a huge milestone, but, as I mentioned at the time, it didn&#8217;t mean I had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=801&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to tell you that The Thing, the prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter classic coming out in about a month, is going to be great. It ought to be great, but that&#8217;s hardly an indicator in this day and age. I will tell you this, though: It&#8217;s gonna get $8 of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=794&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History and the Historical Novel, part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m writing a novel. Naturally, when people learn that, they often ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s your novel about?&#8221; or, &#8220;What kind of novel is it?&#8221; or, &#8220;What are you, nuts?&#8221; And then I have to answer them. Ignoring that last question, I could call it a fantasy novel. But there&#8217;s not really a lot of fantasy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=785&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Better, um, Wall Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a very busy summer. I built this: Perhaps you might wonder to which &#8220;this&#8221; I refer. I refer to the stand you see there: Cubicle 7&#8216;s booth at Gen Con. It&#8217;s hard to see exactly what you&#8217;re looking at there, so here&#8217;s another picture, taken (from a different position) while we were setting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=762&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin&#8217;s Monday Medieval Madness: Chapter 16</title>
		<link>https://charlesmryan.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/martins-monday-medieval-madness-chapter-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Etien looked back at me. He was tall by the standards of those around us. And though he wasn’t any taller than me—and didn’t, as far as I could tell, have an inch of neck—I still seemed to be looking up at him. “Tell me about the castle. How many men does she have on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=778&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin&#8217;s Monday Medieval Madness: A Peek at the Cover!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing. You&#8217;ve been reading. But that&#8217;s not all that&#8217;s been going on—while we&#8217;ve been doing our part, the extremely awesome Drew Baker has been mulling over the book&#8217;s cover. Drop by that site I&#8217;ve linked above. Drew is an incredible artist, and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be impressed with his work. (If you play L5R, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=756&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Illo-a-Week: Post-Apocalyptic Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And, seriously, what would the post-apocalypse be without guns? Here are a few I put together for the Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game way back when (these actually appeared in The Wasted West, the core setting book): The technique here, for those who care, was one I really enjoyed but rarely used: felt-tip pen. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesmryan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14473162&amp;post=749&amp;subd=charlesmryan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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