Recent content by Thomas Shey

Honestly, most of the last quarter of the book could have gone and not harmed the story at all. I mean, I'd been reading King since Carrie, and the difference in "I need space to develop characters to set up the story properly like I did in Salem's Lot" and "I just will go into a lot of side...

Uncut. Though honestly, it read more like "expanded".

Doesn't change the fact the larger version of that book was at leasta third longer than it should have been, and that was turning into a progressive problem at that point in his career.

It was about the first half, not the second. You're not any worse off being edited by your spouse than being edited by someone who won't say "no".

Stephan King.

My personal suspicion is that fell apart with the Skrull plotline post Secret invasion.

I'll look them up then. Its sometime surprisingly hard to find older fiction in digital form (at least when people haven't taken advantage of copyright experiation to turn out really bad layed out versions to get by on the cheap). As an aside regarding the discussion of book length, one of the...

That helps, but she did have non-People stories like "Something Bright". I need to really see if there's a digital edition of The Anything Box.

Fortunately the Maptool macros I put together for the two games I've used since them require them to hit a button at the start and from then on its taken care of at my end.

I keep telling myself I want to reread some Zenna Henderson, but my physical books--if not reduced to pulp--are pretty inaccessible, and I'm not sure if there's much digital versions about.

Well, the scale of mental powers in May's books has some pretty big impact here; there's a reason they can fill in for magic (and fairly high end magic at that) in the Saga of the Pliocene. The top end ones are pretty nearly indistinguishable from polytheistic gods.

Yeah, that was pretty much the default early on.

That is, I'll admit, one thing a VTT can do to you--make you fussier about how things look and are put together. Its not intrinsic, but its an easy thing to fall into.

This is why I find some expectations on VTTs counterproductive. For years all I asked of them was to support maps and tokens (and do some fog-of-war) and even now all I have added in is a little die-roll related automation. All the stuff we did face to face manually (referencing character...

I admit I both lean into the latter and very rarely use pre-published adventures and modules (I tend to find them constraining).