Recent content by Autumnal

So many opportunities to think and re-think, “Well before I dislike a game that much, I stop playing it.” There are so many things I could be doing with my attention and money rather than shoveling them into a game I hate. In a work with this much great reading, great viewing, great listening…I...

Fair enough. :)

Thanks!

3.5 is far more mechanically involved than I could have fun with now, but it remains a fantastic mine of ideas for use with the sorts of system I can have fun with now. So many wonderful bits.

What’s “yassifying”? If it helps, please assume I know nothing about instagram filters beyond them existing.

The Great Explosion is really funny. So is Envoy To New Worlds. Laumer had been a diplomat, and had opinions about bureaucracy. To put it mildly.

Well, he did change my mind. I went from knowing nothing of the subject and open to learning, to having a couple new ignore list entries

These were really interesting to read about. Thanks! These sound like concepts I want to learn about and start looting from. Yes yes yes. Also, yes. This is the one underlying divides among gamer preferences - a sort of meta-preferences. You are a posting hero of the day to me. I agree with...

I loved recharge magic in th 3.x Unearthed Arcana (though I’d simplify it to a handful of standard times and a few exceptions). I also like the DCC/Shadowdark roll, as long as the first use of the day auto-succeeds. After those, 4e AEDU makes me happy.

Looking at the history of owlbear illos, it appears that artists with any grasp of anatomy and detail work mostly draw them beaky, sometimes with serrations and sometimes with adjacent fangs or tusks. That works for me. If owlbears are a genus, I’d do st least one species with bear-like...

Jess Nevins’ book Horror Needs No Passport has a significant of stuff about things that count as weird war stories from many lands. And he’s on Bluesky, and great with questions - he likes to enthuse.

This is noticeably better than anything Vanilla Ice himself ever did.

As you say.

I’m rereading early Laird Barron stories via audiobook. 1. Ray Porter was and is a wonderful narrstor. He didn’t sound anything like Laird Barron, but he sure sounds like Laird’s protagonists and narrators. 2. Barron was writing great horror from the very beginning. “Proboscis”, “Shiva Open...