Recent content by Autumnal

Jane Jacobs has been so widely ignored in practice because the people she (largely correctly, IMHO) identifies as sources of destructive action have immediate economic and social clout. It takes a lot to weaken them enough that people advocating alternatives can get any leverage. The story is...

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Thanks, John. I’ve been wondering about both of those. I just finished rereading The Hobbit. It was again excellent.

1. Very soon. 2. Brains. Or depending on subclass, lymph and:or bile.

That’s a really good analysis of factors pushing bad moods.

People have been proclaiming the actual or imminent death of D&D since 1974. Waves of enthusiasm for the idea come and go, and since there’s more than one community involved, the tide can be coming in here and going out there, simultaneously.

This is a great roundup. Every option is time-tested, with a spread of successful and unsuccessful outcomes amenable to analysis and discussion.

Anyone who wants to see what small creators can do is invited to look at Ironsworn. AI would not improve it. And there are decades of great, beautiful games before that. And for that matter, good serviceable games that are not beautiful but work just fine for what the idea. To think that AI...

I think the major shift with the Academy Awards and horror is the rise to prominence of more voters who like horror. Someone who grew up in the ‘70s-‘90s is more likely to have taken in a bunch of horror than someone who grew up in the ‘40s-‘60s. So they’re better equipped to evaluate horror movies.

It makes a neat duo with John Varley’s novella “Press Enter”. There’s an entering subgenre of stories about the Singularity coming early and unobtrusively, until an eruption happens. Wil McCarthy’s Bloom seems like a probable outcome for many such worlds - grey goo has consumed th inner solar...

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.