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I’m a slavering fan of the Dryco series. Ambient is impressive by itself, but the series as a whole goes utterly amazing places, and keeps doing dazzling things with language. Random Acts Of Senseless Violence is heartbreaking, in particular. And the bit with the refrigerator door in Ambient...

Basilides by M. David Litwa. This is going to be the most schizoid set of comments I’ve reading about an audiobook. The Reading: “This title uses virtual voice narration. Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks. I’m impressed at how this works for general text, with a...

I’d lean on the Star Viking motif, looting heavily from actual Viking culture - perfumed beards, easy divorce, and all.

I agree with a lot of this. (The first 20 minutes of Jackson’s movie made Mom cry. She remembered those years from when she was a girl.) I broadly agree about the right way to make most kaiju movies, and the kind of movie that warrants exception. But the meme made me laugh. Because come on...

Two great books finished on the weekend. Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio, book 2 of the Sun Eater series. Wow. Imagine if Dune had no mention of prescience, or Warhammer 40K of Chaos, or Lord of the Rings of elves, and them a new volume brought the missing element front and center. That’s...

Or a wombat or a naked mole rat. Or a shark, and not a land shark.

Species and favored nuts are the axes for splats. Disciplines determine where on the spectrum from serious to cartoony your character is. Merits cover things like tail bushiness and cheek pouch capacity.

That’s close to the opposite of what I said. Also, this is really abusive language. Good luck finding other folks unusually keen on having you insult them, their friends, and their colleagues.

It’s very much that. The kind of supplement lines I gladly contributed to for nostalgia of decade weren’t long-term viable and are even less so now. To be viable, they need to have termination in mind, because ongoing lines shed sales. That can come with an internal plot line that comes to a...

I used to houserule…not heavily, but a steady-ish stream of small adjustments. The older I get, the less I do that. If a game seems to me to need significant houseruling, I’m likelier to just skip it. If done my share of rules design - some (I think) very good, some not so hot, but but with the...

A&E started within a year of D&D being published, in 1974, as non-RPG players in Apa-L, the apa for the LA Science Fantasy Society, got increasingly annoyed at how much space RPG stuff was taking up. A significant fraction of early rec.games.frp regulars had experience in A&E and The Wild Hunt...

Elegy may be worth a look for some folks. It’s designed from Ironsworn’s foundations, and like its ancestor, solo-oriented but perfectly capable of group play, too. It takes a great deal of inspiration from. Both Vsmpire lines, but from a lot of other. Sources too, and combines interesting...

It took literally only weeks for almost all of the people who’d most prominently made noise about how good it was that Classic would bring back slow leveling and gear progression to be joining in power leveling runs designed by private server aces. When I briefly tried it a couple years later...

No. It helps get people’s attention. That you are someone more concerned with making some statement that communicating clearly or effectively. How often are you yourself persuaded by a random stranger dropping in on some existing exchange to shout something hyperbolic with a lot of caps? How...

William Hjortsberg, who wrote Falling Angel (the book Angel Heart is based on), also wrote the screenplay for Legend.

Notice the difference: The point of s business is to make money. The point of a business is to do a particular thing and, hopefully, make money doing it.

This is one way Nature signals us not to do business with someone.