Recent content by Autumnal

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.

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.