I have a love-hate relationship with elephants. Well, to be truthful, it isn’t really hate. More like abject fear. If you’ve never watched elephants in the wild, you probably have no idea what elephants are really like. They are nothing like the creatures you see in a zoo, or in a drive-through animal park, orContinueContinue reading “Imponderable Pachyderms”
Monthly Archives: August 2020
The Fingered and the Unfingered
A common trope in both fantasy literature and fantasy gaming features animals that possess human cognitive abilities. Classic books, including The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling, The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame, the Peter Rabbit books (1902 and subsequent) by Beatrix Potter, Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell, and Charlotte’s WebContinueContinue reading “The Fingered and the Unfingered”
Editions of Bunnies and Burrows
The first edition of Bunnies & Burrows was published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, with art by Charlie Loving. It was noteworthy for its time by being the first roleplay game with non-humanoid player characters, and also the first in which characters could level-up in different skill categories (based on the eight attributes). Now,ContinueContinue reading “Editions of Bunnies and Burrows”
A Brief History of the Creation of the Original Bunnies & Burrows
In the fall of 1974, Scott entered the graduate program in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and joined the same animal behavior laboratory where Dennis already was working on his doctorate. In addition to learning a lot about ethology (the biological study of animal behavior), Scott also was introduced to three newContinueContinue reading “A Brief History of the Creation of the Original Bunnies & Burrows”
Scott R. Robinson 