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The best modern Sword & Sorcery magazines: Tales From the Magicians Skull: the most polished, with great art and the most established authors. Also the most gaming-adjacent, with a section on converting creatures to DCC in every issue. New Edge: works as the hub of new sword & sorcery as a...

Clark Ashton Smith: Xeethra The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis For mega-short, his prose poems are brilliant too. You could base a campaign around some single pages: The Image of Bronze and the Image of Iron The Flower Devil

For me, Traveller is the ultimate sandbox game, so I'm glad to see the thread has already gone there! I think the key is that Marc Miller took something in OD&D and ran with it more systematically than anyone else: Traveller just consists of modular procedures that work at different levels...

No, you're right. Mongoose have bought the rights to Traveller, 2300AD, Twilight: 2000 and Dark Conspiracy. They're continuing the T:2000 license to Free League though.

Free League would do it prettier, but I'd much rather see it using the Traveller system. For me, GDW should have made that their house system back in the day anyway. (I'd also still rather T:2000 was done in Trav, although I don't think Mongoose would have produced as good a package away from...

As a kid, GDW did this best for me, and they managed it with minimal art: just by opening a sense of possibilities with the text and setting: the Traveller black box, Space 1889, and (perhaps weirdly) the 1st edition of Twilight: 2000. They were really good at creating a provocative, wide open...

Yeah, that's a fair point, although the putting the OP that way was probably bound to lead to the 90 pages of debate. In the interests of what you were perhaps actually looking for, do check out Old Moon 8 that I mentioned before. It has, for instance, a really touching emotional piece about...

I must have forgotten that: it's a long thread! Sorry.

No, that response was, I thought, a really good. It marshaled good evidence instead of just saying 'relevant' in a vague undefined way. Obviously, I disagree with Clint_L there; but he properly engaged with the question.

So 'relevant' just means 'cool with the kids' in a vague undefined way? By the way, your total disinterest in evidence is showing again

You mean like Conan comics (at the highest peak since the 70's) and games (Monolith) or a bustling literary scene - actually money-making, albeit modestly so, and startlingly innovative in places (check out the newest Old Moon, for example). Have you engaged with that or do you throw out...

If your hyperbole inadvertently sidelines black and female writers that drew on Howard like Saunders or CL Moore, get better hyperbole This and 'well I don't see it much on Reddit', at the same time as Monolith's widely-discussed Conan RPG Kickstarter raised almost half a million dollars, says...

This is true to a point, but: It's ten minutes of noodling for an internet forum, not an academic article; and that's why I said things like 'seems to show'. The correlation in pattern between a bunch of REH stories and between his stories and those of other authors is however suggestive that...

Riffing on this post where Google's Ngram viewer seemed to show an increase in interest in Howard since about 2000, I thought I do a similar thing for some other classic authors: Leiber, Smith, and Vance. I fed in a bunch of their stories and kept the best representative result for each. The...

It seems appropriate in this thread to point out that the current New Edge Sword & Sorcery Backerit Campaign only has a couple of days left. In the words of Howard Andrew Jones it is one of the current crop of magazines that takes this as their starting point:

Ngram viewer, so appearances of the string in the google books corpus. I didn't add 'red nails' as I expected there would be more noise than signal with such a common string. No idea why Queen of the Black Coast is so much higher than the others. Bêlit is a well-loved figure, though, and some...

The publication of 5e more or less exactly coincided with the historical high-point of interest in Howard's stories, and interest remains far higher than it was at the birth of roleplaying. This thread is based on a false premise.

I didn't need a reason to embrace different systems. I would have needed a reason not to. I started playing as a teen in the UK in the 80's and all the groups I knew played several different systems. Our mental image of the hobby was that you play lots of different things, and kit-bash systems...