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Elric James CollvillElric James Colvill is a writer, historian, literary scholar, and an unabashed, lifelong geek. Graduating from ISU in December 2009 with a Master’s Degree in English, Elric has been feeling the love of the recession and is currently cobbling together a living however he can while he pursues his writing career. Presently he is re-editing his first novel, Weird Wyrd, until he feels it is acceptable enough for publication (which is difficult since he never actually feels anything is good enough, but he’ll just have to get over it). Also, he is working as the lead editor for a role-playing game system in development through one of his colleagues, to be released sometime next year if luck holds out. Elric published his Master’s thesis, Fear and Loathing in American Literature: Freedom, the American Dream, and Hunter S. Thompson and performed copy editing work for a scholarly treatment of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (sounds bloody exciting, doesn’t it?) in cooperation with senior editor and project leader, Dr. Matthew Wynn Sivils, in 2009. Elric’s main areas of writing interest lie in science-fiction and fantasy, both humorous and dramatic. email button

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[By Elric Colvill | 22 Sep 2010 | No Comment]
Elric Reviews: Pathfinder Roleplaying System

I have been a fan of good old fashioned, pen-and-paper, table-top role playing games since I was a wee youngin, learning the games from my father, who was one of the original RPG players during the 70’s. I still had his old Chainmail and original D&D minis, made from lead, poking around here, all painted up nice and detailed. I still have his 1st edition Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master’s Guide, complete with all his little tabs, and a couple of the Monster Manuals. I started with the old 1st …

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[By Elric Colvill | 18 Aug 2010 | 5 Comments]
Mass Effect 3 Can’t Come Soon Enough

I am a late comer to the Mass Effect franchise, and I wish I had found it sooner. The first game is almost three years old now, released in November of 2007, and its sequel was just released this last January, 2010. I kept hearing about it, but just never thought about it until I found a cheap, used copy of Mass Effect and tried it out.
I was hooked.
Mass Effect, and its vastly superior successor Mass Effect 2, has set a new level for video game storytelling in my mind. …

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[By Elric Colvill | 4 Aug 2010 | 3 Comments]
The Zombie Vogue

Trends in popular literature come and go all the time, but ever since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, people have had a fascination with the walking dead that has only grown as time has gone on. The funny thing is now that so much zombie media has been produced over the years many fans become defensive about what view of zombies are the “best.” Is it the slow, shambling, glassy-eyed zombies of early Romero fame, or the new generation of vicious, sprinting, diseased sort-of-undead horrors common to the …