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My purchase of modeling supplies has been affected. A lot of the products I like to use when painting miniatures are made overseas in...

Gibson and Sterling both said explicitly that they saw cyberpunk as anti-dystopian, or at least vigorously non-dystopian. Life is bad...

Finished Wesley Chu's "The Art of Legend" (3rd of 3 in his War Art's Trilogy). He was aiming for a Wuxia style story and it feels like...

This is the bit that gets me when talking about Cyberpunk being dystopian. It has always struck me as being more noir. The whole world...

On what makes a 'golden age', I think a range factors that should to be considered: Level of player engagement (i.e. number of players...

@jian , sounds great. Onto the list it goes. William Gibson wrote his early stories with two big influences that weren’t always...

Finished Wearing the Lion now. As you might expect from John Wiswell (Someone You Can Build a Nest In) it’s a tour de force about...

I like it so far. It's very obvious that it's a foundational work for the genre of Cyberpunk. It's not exactly what I thought it was...

It's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. Like LOTR, it's a book I keep returning to as the decades pass. Sticks is good. KEW has...

I’ve always loved the Dark Sun setting, but ironically, I don’t think D&D’s rules are the right fit for it. Athas is a world where...

Hear, hear! And never mind the elf-eating thri-kreen. My first D&D character ever was a thri-kreen psionicist/ranger with a STR score of...

Dark Sun always felt like a game setting wrestling against the system it was designed for, in both its 2e and 4e incarnations. But I...

I probably shouldn’t post because I absolutely would run it. In my experience, grimdark works best when there is also wry humour...

Dark Sun was the first D&D campaign setting I ever played in, back in 1994, and those games were just colossal and awesome. I honestly...

I prefer the pcs to be very special indeed; Exalted is pretty much my personal sweet spot. I can enjoy a wide range of course, but I...