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Listening to this now. I love the absolute bafflement of the players confronting the character sheets and discovering one of them has a...

For no particular reason, I decided to start one of Booktube’s 100-book challenges this month. This is about what the name suggests...

Well, thanks nothing to be ashamed of, we all have quirks and fetishes. :) Seriously, though, fundamentally I agree. I recognize many...

I'm afraid I view RPGs are a distinct story form, and regard styling them after another form as a category error.

Lately, I’m inclined to say, linked short stories offer a handy format. For those unfamiliar, Nathan Ballingrud’s book Wounds is a...

I think this is a texas size mattress

I’ll read it, if you do.

Some day I will write something up on how it is all sigma fields and Bayesian probability, and what each person is comfortable with. Maybe.

I'm no therapist but I think that might not be the best way to handle that

Most folks don't remember or maybe just don't know how stunning the growth of TSR's fiction program was in the late 1980s and early...

The fiction line suffered some bloat in the mid-1990s, to be sure, like all the company lines, and TSR would have done better with...

I hate the use of rhetorical anticlimax in action films, which is typically represented by a snappy one-liner that breaks dramatic...

TTRPG lines have made a decided shift toward fewer releases. I think Paizo is the only company still doing monthly, physical releases...

As above, particularly true for book publishing industry generally; there are fewer houses available who will take risks in a...

I love that. It hasn’t ever come up, but one of my worlds is a disc with two sides, spinning in space like a coin. The sun and stars...