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Egad. The middle of Kingdoms of Death, book #4 of the Sun Eater, has one of the most grueling passages I’ve read outside of horror...

Yes, I think that’s true - relative obscurity would be a better phrase. Everyone had still heard of him, though, and all his invented...

I love how that stage direction somehow has come down to us over 400 years later entirely intact.

I'm kind of partial to Author > Publication Date of (first) Book (in series) > Publication Date within Series (if it is in one) If...

I think you are onto something if we feel like getting towards "what is great". Part of it is talent; but I think a larger part of it is...

I agree that it doesn't automatically equate there. It's my subjective estimation of their relative talent. And while I don't...

Reading challenge continues: books 4-7/100. How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths, by M. David Litwa. More neat...

Right, I caught all that. I'm just saying they're mostly not for me either. If I wanted something long, often impenetrable or...

I'm not arguing against genre classification. I think there's a tendency to go too deep into taxonomies, but I think there's a lot of...

No - they tend on the longer side for what they are - very late TSR - but that one is exceptional. To some degree I have to forgive...

I tend to agree the difficulty is 1) keying complex rooms and 2) Keying simple rooms in less standard spaces. E.G. "4 orcs arguing about...

Content is more important than format for sure. Simple rooms are easy to run regardless of format. If a room is complex enough that the...

I've been thinking a lot about keying again... perhaps it's my day job moving into highly restricted forms of informational writing...

The big IP holders haven't exerted pressure yet.

As an actual example: many years ago, back before the term "generative AI" was coined, I personally did potential physics doctoral...