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I don't do six-hour sessions, but I otherwise agree that fortnightly does free people up to have lives, and if you game on Saturdays, giving people half their Saturdays works really well for sustainability.

"A lot of work" is about right. It's usually a couple of hours of getting everything else ready before we start cooking the meat. Worth it, but we need to plan for it.

All this talk about chili had me going and looking at my recipes. They're nuts. Either of those is like an all-day production.

I agree. My own chili recipes contain two bottles of beer, a wide selection of dried chiles, a couple of weird ingredients, and at least four pounds of meat. I haven't made chili in years, it feels like, though. EDIT: We've also taken to serving Fritos or something similar alongside, instead of...

That sounds more like a player-thing (or maybe a person-thing) than a D&D-thing. I mean, if I sign up to play something other than D&D, it's not because I'm hoping it'll turn into D&D.

I can see that. LitRPG just seems like enough of a category error to me that I'm completely uninterested.

Our group had a guy like this for a long time. It wasn't that he was the "Forever GM" so much as he was always the guy with a new idea, often before what he'd running had resolved much. Playing in so many super-short, barely (at best) resolved campaigns might be a large part of why the campaigns...

I figure that if I don't see the appeal, then consuming it in whatever medium probably won't help me understand it.

Well, that is two ungreat tastes that go ungreat together.

Honestly, I was thinking of a couple by David Hartwell, but yes. (That's because I haven't read Dangerous Visions.)

Some of my favorite books ever have been anthologies. The collapse of the (especially periodical) market/s for short fiction is IMO tragic.

I don't have the context for what you're arguing about, so I'm gonna hold my peace, but ... my dude, you're misrepresenting what I think you're defending in a way that makes it look bad.

Yeah, I can see that. Most of the time when I was telling a narrator where to pick up, I'd just heard them say it. That helped.

Plausibly also on the isotope ...

Yeah. It turns out that you really don't need to have Spanish in order to engineer audiobook sessions recording in it. :LOL: You just need to be able to pronounce it enough that the narrator knows where to pick up reading.

An upside of anthologies, in my experience, is that if a story turns out to be crap at least it's likely to be quick to get through.

Back when I worked in audiobooks, we ended up recording that novel in English and in Spanish at the same time (broadly) and in the same studio, on the same computer. There was always some concern among management that there was going to be some confusion because the file names were so similar...

Anyone who'd die on a hill I wouldn't die on is weird.

For a few years now, I've been running in my 5e games something like Cypher's Recoveries: The first one takes about five minutes, the second one takes about fifteen minutes, the third one takes about an hour, the fourth one is part of a long rest. They fit into the narrative, convey some sense...