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In 5E (2014) the rules for Readying an Action are on page 193, and as Li and Zottel pointed out, those rules specify that if you're Readying a spell you're actually casting it when you Ready it, then "holding it" for release at the right moment. So you wouldn't be able to Ready/Cast while in...

I could see an argument that in some ways they were "woke" for their time and context. Even the most racist Howard stories I've read, in his Solomon Kane tales, still have him allying with and respecting the shaman N'Longa, and Howard writes about them sharing a bond of human dignity and mutual...

But they were struggling on Arrakis, and found some satisfaction and balance there, albeit with some oppression from their colonial rulers. They were engaged in finding meaning and fellowship while contending with a harsh world for survival, which seems very much in keeping with...

Yes, but "delivering on the Fremen's goals", apart from the terraforming of Arrakis to turn it into a livable place, is here very much a case of "be careful what you wish for". A life of war (galaxy-spanning genocide) as the god emperor's devoted servants isn't the one I'd want for my kids.

Oh yes. Master Oakhallow rules. Plus clerics (the Marshals of Gird, mostly). Plus some seriously evil dark elves later in the series worshipping a spider goddess. Plus the town of Brewersbridge is basically a re-skinned Hommlet, an an adventure she gets involved in there is very similar to...

Overall I love the thoughtfulness of your post. Just a great overview of the potentialities and consequences and ways to approach this, so applause for that. I do find the section above a BIT dispiriting and sad. Absolutely it's a challenge, but I do think that with a table of friends willing...

Video games are big there, I think. Women are into them too, but not quite as much so. Socially it still seems more acceptable for dudes to be super into that and spend a ton of time on them. Although some women definitely do as well.

Speaking of women authors... Elizabeth Moon's first three Paksenarrion books (Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold, often sold as an omnibus edition The Deed of Paksenarrion) are awesome, and build from a super grounded S&S-scale world (Moon was in the US Marines, and...

No, I would say that while some S&S protagonists are selfish or antiheroic, in most cases they are heroic or behave heroically, sometimes against their will or better judgement. John McLain from Die Hard also was a reluctant hero. Conan frequently fights evil and wicked men and monsters, and I...

This is a good example of some of the philosophy in his work, although TBF, this trope is ahistorical and seems preserved today primarily in the mythmaking of fascists and other reactionaries. Not that I'm condemning Howard for that, as he was a product of his time in this regard and the...

Yeah, I could see it. Especially given how absurdly broken (some underpowered, some superpowered) a lot of 2E specialty priests were, having Necrotic Gnome or someone equally good re-write those with the same care they took with OSE Advanced classes has some appeal. Seems like a nice idea for...

Just sort the Moorcock Elric bibliography by Publishing Order instead of by Internal Chronology. Start at the beginning by picking up The Dreaming City and go from there. As a few folks have pointed out, the Hugos specifically are a fandom vote. So it's not the tastes of critics specifically...

What kind of stuff would you want from 2E? The 2E d10-based individual initiative system? Proficiencies? Kits? I guess kits would be the big thing.

Trouble getting into it may have depended on what you tried as your entry point. A lot of people make the (IMO) mistake of trying them in in-world chronological order. IIRC the White Wolf reprints are partially responsible for this. The original stories published between '61 and '64 are pure...

What stuff? My perception matches Umbran's. The Puppies are mostly annoyed that their favored type of stories are no longer the main or dominant strain. Are modern publishers asking for something "elite" in contrast to, say, Judy-Lynn and Lester publishing Shannara specifically to capitalize on...

Something published by a university press? Not, like, the annual World's Best SF anthologies, which started in '72? The first six collections are what you want. The stuff from the 1950s and 60s. Sadly in 1969 his wife Jonquil passed away, and Leiber's drinking got worse, and it shows in the...

Something roughly like... https://tenor.com/view/beavis-and-butt-head-laughing-gif-6557656680906300090

I wonder if there's a British and Irish tradition of throwing snails at people. The Rubber Bandits doing it (1:25 on) is the only instance which leapt to mind.

Yup. Another option is carousing for XP (numerous versions on various OSR blogs over the past 15-odd years), and of course the original expectation was that PCs were going to be spending a bunch on expert Specialists who cost lots of cash every month (X21), Mercenaries (X22) for domain play, and...

This is rhetorically likening the critical evaluation of dead writers to persecution and torture. Unless you mean you feel like you're being inquisited, which of course you're not, because you're choosing to participate and argue. No one's compelling you to. And your characterization of it as...