Recent content by Cynicide

Yes, it works well because the framing of the stories assumes that Carnacki survives, so the real mystery is what was the source of the haunting. In

I still read Conan! For a long while I was reading a lot of Sanderson and RPG adjacent tie-in novels. But at some point I decided to take a long walk backwards. I'd already read a lot of Howard and Lovecraft but I also picked up some Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock. Magician is a favorite...

I've been playing since the Mentzer red box and his categories make sense to me for the most part. Some examples would have been nice, but they can be found in the comments.

Think of them as battle suits with different abilities (Classes). You connect to them via an ability called Transference and you can remote control them. There is a lot of history that you don't need to know up front that can be confusing. In game you take missions against various factions...

I built a NAS with TrueNAS and use the Jellyfin app to stream media. I never got rid if my DVD collection so I'm in the process of ripping it all to the NAS.

A legal way to get PDFs of the Alternity books would be great.

Hard agree here. I want to get back to what made the hobby fun for me when I started.

Yes, what you're saying makes a lot of sense. I guess I was also thinking back to my 2nd Ed AD&D days where we got by with scribbled maps that roughed out positions. Although to be fair there were a lot less "clicky" abilities with ranges and durations then and I'm probably looking at it with...

I thought I'd weigh in on the subject of battlemats and VTT's. In 2020 my group lost their in-person play space, we moved online and I have been running games in Foundry ever since. I've used battlemats almost exclusively but I'm thinking that I'll ditch them for theater of the mind after the...

Sunday was a 24km run before a half-marathon race this weekend. Usually I'd be tapering before an event, but this weekend's race is just another training run before a marathon in August. This weekend is a chance to try out some fueling and hydration strategies in a live setting before the real...

Traveller can be setting agnostic but it's probably best known for it's Third Imperium setting. I remember reading in Shannon Appelcline's Traveller history that it started out without a setting but gained one over time. If you want to create your own setting just look at the rules for creating...

It's a bit old now, but maybe Grey Ranks Grey Ranks (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

I'm a recreational runner training for a marathon in August. While I'm not the fastest I've ever been, the volume of endurance running I'm doing at the moment is far higher than what I've done before. I run Tue/Wed/Thu with distances from 5 - 11km at the moment. Sunday runs are the long runs...

Yes, she's getting better as she gets older and we figure out what toys are appropriate. We will occasionally buy toys like the one in the photo knowing she will destroy it in 30 minutes, but also knowing she will have a good time.

This is my dog Popcorn (Poppy for short) she's a Kelpie cross and needs a lot of exercise and stimulation. I'm currently marathon training and she comes along regardless of the distance. She does have second thoughts if it start to rain though.