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My memory is a bit fuzzy there. It was probably Traveller, Gamma World, or Call of Cthulhu.

Interesting. I think about a re-read of Wheel of Time now and then. But it's an intimidating commitment. Like, I'm a pretty fast reader and all, but that's the better part of a year's worth of reading.

Absolutely. It made me sad as I read Wheel of Time. I could see the Slog dragging on and on, and then when he picked up speed again, racing against time and his health issues. And ultimately not winning that race.

The reason I got an eReader in the first place was the Wheel of Time series. Because back then I was still commuting to work and wouldn't have to schlep those books around. Not to mention, the amount of bookshelf space it saves.

Tastes vary, and that's okay. There are plenty of books that left me wanting more, but to my mind that feeling is okay. When I was a teenager, I had the opportunity to talk to Clive Barker at a signing. I asked him if there was ever going to be a sequel to Imajica, a book I desperately wanted to...

I definitely prefer shorter works to longer. Not that I don't think the world of certain long-form works. But for me, a book really needs to work to justify its page count once it creeps over 300 pages. Plenty of books do, but I can't count the number of books that I think would've been better...

Precisely so. Thieves World presents a squalid, gritty world with troubled, morally conflicted protagonists. Xanth presents as a lighthearted humorous fantasy world, but espouses multiple problematic themes and beliefs.

It's funny, Thieves World has more mature content, but despite having read both it and the Xanth series around the age of 9-10, I feel like Xanth is the more problematic one. I kinda get why my parents where happy just to let us read whatever. Raising twins could not have been easy, and...

Unfortunately true. I also get the feeling that there wasn't a lot of oversight (at least, not from my parents) as to what was behind the cover on a lot of the fantasy books I read as a kid.

Like, I know the past is a foreign country and all, but it astonishes me that they were marketed as kids books.

Doing post-mortems on campaigns and sessions that failed is important. Had I learned to do that sooner, I would've had fewer failed campaigns and sessions. Having tried to re-read a Xanth book as an adult, that is not a solid guarantee at all.

About 30-45 minutes of dedicated prep time. Thinking about it, the prep time is about the same for my group that runs two hours and my group that runs four hours. But that's not including the couple of minutes here and there that I get struck by inspiration and scrawl some semi-illegible ideas...

Wait, so in Demon Wars, the world is called Honce-the-bear? How is that a thing?

If I recall correctly, The Canterbury Tales begins with everyone meeting in an inn to head off on their pilgrimage.

For those of us that were fairly young when we stepped into the world of AD&D, BECMI & B/X were easier to understand than the shambolic AD&D. I know a lot of how we ran AD&D was based on BECMI with AD&D rules bolted onto it.

Here's the thing about the whole "they are described as white in the original texts" argument. Old books traditionally were not great at inclusivity (because the framework, the language for it, just wasn't as widely adopted). Dragonlance has a cast of hundreds, yet how many people of color are...

I finished my final Halloween season read, Kaden love's Toothsucker. Mixed feelings on it. The book throws a metric ton at the reader. The slang used felt forced and got old really quickly. But the core concept of a bunch of tooth-eating cybernetic vampires was solid. Now I'm re-reading Walter...

I have two groups. One went all-in on combat, the other didn't. The thing about building a hardened PC is that there's no level of power that makes you completely indomitable in combat; there will always be someone tougher, and days that weak streetrat gets really lucky with their poor quality...

Cyberpunk Red is a game that can be run low-combat. In a lot of ways, how dangerous combat can be disincentivizes it (like Call of Cthulhu). And like Call of Cthulhu, it has a robust skill system. I'm not a huge fan of FATE-based games, but I'll admit the system does a good job without having...

I went to a build-a-runner workshop at Origins last year and even the guy there said character generation was so complicated you really need an excel spreadsheet or app to go through it. To my mind, that's just too much. Still going to play the game; the latest edition at least made some...