Recent content by prabe

Oh, people really really liked it, and I expect it to win. I thought it was a cluttered pile that tried to do and say a lot of things, but never really managed to tell a story. I am aware I am an outlier, here. It's the only nominated novel I've read this year, I have no preferred candidate.

Yeah, my money's on The Ministry of Time, as well, though my opinion of it was very much at odds with the overall zeitgeist.

I've been meaning to reread them, haven't gotten to that yet. I'll try to keep that in mind. I'm not sure I read them in order, and I'm pretty sure there were probably at least a dozen novels, between them.

It made perfect sense as a standalone to me. Well, I thought it did, anyway. Then again, even his classic early trilogy seemed really loose to me, more like three books with some overlapping characters.

I very much enjoyed Agency, but it didn't feel like part of a larger thing to me. I'll probably end up needing to read the rest.

I suspect most of the more relaxed people you're describing will not be participating in a thread past the tenth or so page, or whenever it devolves into one of the standard recurring arguments. They'll drop out, and they won't join (though they might look in from time to time, out of morbid...

Ya know, if the vast majority of people doing it manage to make it work, maybe it's not the problem you think it is. I mean, you're probably not so vastly superior to everyone else as all-a-that.

So it's not my thing, but one of the guys I TRPG with collects playing cards, and he sent some things along. My take, before I start quoting him and dropping links: There are several companies whose business model is centered around fancy cards, many of which are themed (the theme idea seems...

That dryly droll approach reminds me of what I've heard/read about Max Brooks (which mostly I haven't seen when I've read Max Brooks).

It seems far easier to calculate your odds for success. I mean, to math your chances in a d20 game, you look at the DC, subtract your bonuses from it, subtract that from 20, then divide (er, multiply) by 5; to do it in a d100/roll-under game, you just look at the number on your sheet (and even...

Is that as similar to One-Roll Engine as it seems to me? (Looking for a reference point is all.)

It's probably worth pointing out, here, that most of the tropes one would expect in a "Spy TRPG" are probably cinematic in nature, with apologies to Fleming, Bond, Le Carre, et al.

For some reason, that reminds me of the steak options at Jack Rabbit Slim's.

That there looks very much like a question that contains its own answer, but I do not think pointing that out to you will be helpful.

The best fun is when you have two of those (or even better than the best, two groups of those) arguing at and refusing to understand each other.