It has been a while since I added to my Evil GM’s Guide. So I asked ChatGPT to craft the most horrible and unfair but normal-looking homebrew D&D monsters. Hello chat. I’d like your help making something purely for demonstration purposes. The most egregiously unfair D&D 5e monster to throw …
I have three more vignettes of imagination for you.
My first dreamscape postcard microfiction is up.
I’ve been playing with the idea of dream postcards – fragments of my realm of dreams and imagination shared as glimpses into the rich and often complex inner world that is me. I’m still working on the name – I feel it has to be just right to work. I …
I am officially the Liberal Democrat candidate for Margate in the Kent County Council elections. Posts where I might talk about politics or the election, or anything tangentially related to that will have the following required notice.
I shall shortly be announcing some news. This news will be political in nature and may restrict what I can post for a few months. I’ll still be doing my admin stuff on Author Buzz and elsewhere. I just might not post as much. Don’t worry, this is good news.
I was casually asking ChatGPT what it knew about me when it told me I’d been on trial for money laundering. I don’t remember that time tine because it turns out there is another Matthew Brown who lives in the area. The scary part was how ChatGPT pulled together my …
I’ve spent more than a reasonable amount of time figuring out how to feel and move past the news concerning my one-time literary hero, Neil Gaiman. After a serious back and forth in my mind I arrived at the station marked, “All heroes fall in the end“. This might not …
You’ve heard of full names but let me introduce you to even fuller names. In Iain M. Banks‘s Culture novels, names act as an address if the person concerned stays where they were brought up [ref]. This got me thinking about the roles of names in the age of The …
I’ve been sketching ideas of late. Mostly to learn how to get the best out of my new brush-tip pens but also to shake off the rust from my (limited) art skills. This is a before and after of the digital clean-up of a mobile snap I took of one …
