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Based on the prices, this appears to be the thicker book.

Dan Simmons died of complications from a stroke yesterday. I’ve moved up a reread of the Hyperion Cantos, Carrion Comfort, The Hollow...

English people aren’t kind, they are polite, which is not the same at all! I find it much more satisfying to insult someone politely.

I guess the counterargument is "There are enough regional TTRPG conventions with a WotC presence in America that WotC does not need to...

Wouldn't surprise me if it does a deeper dive on the Arcane Empires.

The appearance of the Yith is really 2 for one, because we got the minds of the Yith, but the bodies technically belong to a sentient...

I don’t mind stats on Cthulhu. Azathoth shouldn’t have stats though.

I expect that we'll still see cries of "Disneyfication", even with that Strahd cover where he's clearly murdered a few people and is...

Yeah, it's great (albeit insanely problematic)...? I would not recommend Lovecraft to impressionable readers, but I think reading...

Yeah, done that. Works better than having the players bringing out all their meta knowledge. The best way to run a Ravenloft game...

Yes I have, and seen it performed on stage. And it’s excellent. Definitely my favourite work by Lovecraft. Slog? I’ve heard a lot of...

I don’t think The VVitch ever really gets scary, though I suppose I probably would find it much scarier if I was a Puritan settler in...

My own take on Ravenloft borrows a lot from the final season of The Magnus Archive. The Dark Powers are very much like the Fears, and...