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For instance, here are a couple of more JRPG-style Heroic Abilities and rules for summoning. - Shadow Strike (1-5 HP, 3 WP): Use your...

Yes, I realised that so that’s why I changed it to 1810.

Add my vote to “I’d like to see some old-Who multi-parters with more character continuity and not a different planet every episode.”

Heyer is an interesting contrast to Austen because she’s basically writing Georgian romantic fiction more than a century after the fact...

I think there’s a superhero game out for this? IIRC it suggests or randomly generates attack, defence, movement, and other styles for...

He certainly used to - like Atwood, he was really grumpy about Midnight’s Children (which is about psychics) being classified as sci-fi...

Honestly, quite a few literary fiction novels are also short, light, or otherwise suitable for beach reading. The only definition of...

Just finished Death of the Author by Nnedi Okarofor. It’s engaging and interesting nested sci-fi which has a lot to say about growing up...

Bought and read the core rulebook on DTRPG after reading this thread, and it’s very good. I read the Quickstart a few years ago and...

One rather random personal contribution to this discussion - we just went to see This is Spinal Tap for the first time, at the cinema...

Thanks for all the recommendations! Looks like Elsbeth* and Matlock are on Paramount+ (boo) and My Life is Murder is available for...

I've enjoyed all of Pokerface so far. The second season finale was "interesting" and definitely played with Charlie's talent in a way I...

The real magic is that he can hold it that way and retain all his fingers.

How does that sword even work? Or is it actually a candelabrum?

Finished Margery Allingham's first mystery novel The White Cottage. It was fun for a 1925 book, and relatively racism free. The sexism I...