Recent content by Ralif Redhammer

The Incompleat Enchanter is a fun read. It's swashbuckly, witty, and light. But it also shows an understanding of a variety of folklore and tales. And hey, how many fantasy stories star a psychologist?

They also are adding the ability to change the weather and time of day during Photo Mode. Super excited for that. In my Cyberpunk Red campaign, I like to use game screenshots from time to time, and being able to customize the weather will be great.

Same. Weapon masteries and the expanded stat blocks on signature monsters in the MM did it for me.

Looking at my original posts, I mentioned both subject and comprehension. Not every kid is the same when it comes to reading, absolutely. Heck, adults don't even have the same level of reading ability.

I am late to the party, but am digging his work quite a bit. Maybe. I was a precocious reader, yet when I revisit books I read at that age, stuff went over my head. Not so much language and writing styles, but content and themes. At that age, most people lack the context and experience to...

I finished reading PKD's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Definitely a head trip to read, reflecting on how fast celebrity can fade, the dangers of a police state, and how easy it would be to fall between the cracks. I also read Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. I feel like it hasn't...

Absolutely. I grew up with books. Heck, one of my earliest memories is my mom reading Beowulf to me before I knew how to read. Yeah, I don't know that my parents were all that aware of the contents of the books we were reading. They knew we liked fantasy and sci-fi, so they just picked stuff...

Looking at the amount of reading I was assigned in college, it was more than even I could keep up with on a weekly basis (and I was and am a fast, voracious reader). That's a sure recipe for ending up burnt out. I think the teacher can make a lot of difference. When I think about the books I...

Seeing a bunch of people in suits and masks instead of cgi is encouraging. I'm not sure what compels a person to reboot Deathstalker out of all the 80s fantasy properties, but I suppose it's better to remake something with issues than something that's perfect (not that that's ever stopped anyone).

I enjoy Lin Carter's work quite a bit. I also think that if you want to understand Conan's place in Appendix N, the Carter/De Camp stories are important reads, even if they don't always hit the mark set by REH's originals. "The Thing in the Crypt" was a direct influence on the Conan the...

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As much as I think 1e Mothership mostly maintains the vibes and feel of the original, there's something to be said for how concise 0e is, how much it manages to do in a release that's barely much more than a zine in presentation and size.

Something being a problem for someone does not mean that the game itself is broken. Though, I suppose that's quibbling over semantics at this point. I think the difference is that OD&D fundamentally was broken. When I finally read it, I would have been hard-pressed to understand the game...

Exactly! If you want to write an RPG, write an RPG. I dunno, I think there's a line between someone creating an RPG and someone claiming to have fixed a game that wasn't even broken most of the time. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with modding a game. We all do it in varying...

Any time someone talks about "fixing" a game system, I kinda tune out, because most of the time I'm about to hear some person's glorified homebrew.