Recent content by prabe

Again, been a while, because life has persisted in being weird, but the last three books: There Will Be Stars by Billy Coffey: Groundhog Day crossed with Jacob's Ladder in the mountains of western Virginia with an ending that's almost as big a cop-out as What Dreams May Come, attempts at making...

And I am--I hope this is clear--not really arguing with you hard. It'd be nice to live with a language that maintained some of the distinctions I fine interesting and/or useful, but I live with English. :LOL: The fact I worked recording audiobooks for fifteen years, in a circumstance where we...

Maybe. If usage hasn't maintained it, the vast majority of users haven't found it to be worth doing so, yes. But I'm someone who'll make a point of the difference between forte and forte, so I'm almost certainly an outlier on this. :LOL:

You can simultaneously acknowledge that the difference is real, and plausibly worth maintaining; and that usage hasn't maintained it.

Given that I think Winchester wrote his book on the San Francisco Earthquake right after he wrote his book about Krakatoa, I'll absolutely buy that.

Simon Winchester wrote a book on the same topic a while ago, I wonder how different it is.

I had a severe willpower failure at the library, and my immediate to-read stack (as opposed to books I have on shelves that I haven't read yet) went kinda explodey. (The bottom book is one I own, the top book is from a previous run.)

My wife gets called, and then released. Always. A) She has a master's in religion and social ethics. B) She works as the assistant reporter of opinions for our state's highest court.

I live near lots of places settled by people from that part of the world, and there are a couple of restaurants serving that cuisine near me. I should check them out at some point--I've been jamming on stuff from elsewhere for a while now.

Someone must've come in hot. I feel ... pretty OK, really, that I have no idea who or in which thread.

I was hoping for something more conventionally structured--PbtA kinda fails to work for me. I'll poke around and see what I see.

I dunno. I know better than to try to ape the actual novel, but it seems like a pretty natural choice setting-wise, for a TRPG. Running it with just my wife would have the advantage of both of us knowing (and loving) the novel, but I'm far from committed to doing it that way.

I can see that. Honestly, the novel I'd love to see a TRPG adaptation of is The Ten Thousand Doors of January, but the odds are slim, since it's not (and apparently won't be) a series. I guess I'll have to work out what system I most want to run, what seems to be as a best fit of the games I...

It's an adaptation of BRP, but seems pretty decent as far as addressing the game-relevant premises--can't speak for how well it handles the novels, because I haven't read them.