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Not connected to the above: I understand what you said, but I wish you had used the right word.

I'm going to be curious what you think about Dark Matter. I read another book by Crouch (Upgrade) and came away kinda underwhelmed, but I'd be willing to give him another chance.

Absolutely. I figure in some instances those are pitched by GMs to their tables, in some instances they are asked for by the players. I also figure that there are GMs writing their own adventures in similar veins, which might make them killer GMs, I guess depending on other aspects of their...

I've never played with a killer GM, but I think different people will have different ideas of just how anomalous killer GMs are, and how many PCs a given GM needs to have die in their game before that GM qualifies.

I guess in some cases what kills a PC might be the player's decision to sit at that table, with that GM.

I definitely blame Who. It's all his fault. Naturally.

Yeah, tables will be different. I was able to look at past campaigns I've run past 120 sessions and look where the were after Session 56, and that's been pretty consistent. I think there's a big difference between how quickly the rules progress PC RAW and how quickly tables want PCs to progress...

Of course, the corollary is also true. If you don't care (much) about what's in the default lore in the core game, you're probably equally unbothered by addition and subtraction thereto. (And you probably tend to find all those kinds of arguments uninteresting.)

Cahokia Jazz is the first, and so far only, book of Spufford's I've read (I saw a little preview thing about it not long after my wife and I spent much of our anniversary trip looking at places like Hopewell and Effigy Mounds, and I kinda felt the thunk as it hit me, I was clearly targeted) but...

There are some others where our tastes differ (though my experiences are not from last year, for whatever that's worth) but this was one of my favorites of the books I read last year. Just a beautiful novel, which I did not read in February. :LOL: (As it turns out, I read it in April.)

I generally try to get the PCs to 2nd level at the end of the first session, and to 3rd level by the end of the fourth session. After that, things slow down some and advancement become more tied to the narrative.

Engagement and interaction around the table. Whether the engagement is with narrative or game, whether the interaction is player-to-player or player-to-GM.

I have an ongoing campaign that started at level 1, and just did session 20, and just got to 7th level. I do sort of fiat-leveling: The PCs go up in level when I think they've done a thing (or enough small things) to deserve it. I have another ongoing campaign that just did session 132 and the...

The point conveyed.

I've said it before, and recently: People not being able to tell the difference between hero and antihero among protagonists is a problem, and not one restricted to analysis of fiction.

Not even this site: The problem with using that particular hero as an authority is that they often seem not to understand their own thinking.

It's been just over a year since I read Jemisin's The City We Became and The World We Make, and just under a year since I read Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January, but I'm mostly just poking around in the local public libraries. I read Bester's The Demolished Man about the same time, and...

That would explain ... a lot.

There's a magazine called Taste of Home that might come pretty close to this. They are (or were last I looked inside any issues) very focused on people who do not have unlimited time or money to get food on the table. They also print cookbooks and/or "special issues."

Well, Papa is probably too drunk to bother, but yeah.