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A fellow enthusiast of the flat cap, I see! I would doff my cap to you!... but I prefer not to take it off... (Disclaimer: That photo is from very, very, VERY long ago...)

I mean, granted, FATAL was the only one I've basically trashed without playing. Maybe I should expand my horizons.

I used to organize for conventions, so I've had many conversations with gamers. One of the safe subjects (usually) is dice. I once had a guy talk at me for an hour about how he "trains" his dice. He hated Pendragon because it was neither "roll as low as possible" nor "roll as high as possible,"...

I mean... I didn't have to try FATAL to trash it on forums. And, while I feel I'm pretty thick-skinned, I hesitate to subject myself to that material -- like, you test cars to see what they can stand up to, but you don't put them at Ground Zero of a nuke as one of the tests...

Yeah, I have the Collected Fictions of Borges which has them, but they're scattered throughout so it's not an exact fit!

They definitely used the MGT1 OGL as a framework, but it's primarily CT. I haven't done a thorough analysis, so I could easily be mistaken. I believe 2E. I see now that it was shut down by Chaosium, though, so I think its materials have disappeared. Hero System fans are used to long, long...

OSR is whatever I played back in the day, or exact retroclones of it. So, Cepheus Engine (based on Classic Traveller), RetroQuest (based on RuneQuest), and OSE (based on B/X) are OSR games. DCC and LotFP, on the other hand, is not -- it bears little resemblance to the D&D I played back then...

Between Borges and Lem, you've got an embarrassment of riches. I don't think I've seen a collection that has all of Borges' imaginary book reviews, but Lem's got three, I've come to find out. There's A Perfect Vacuum (imaginary book reviews), Imaginary Magnitude (imaginary book prologues), and...

You know, I've seen that joke before, and I always assumed it was a real supplement for MWG that I just hadn't seen a hardcopy of...

True, and those were my group's preferred systems at the time, along with Classic Traveller, which also had no modifications for sex. Nothing was a egregious as Fantasy Wargaming, in any case. At least, as far as I know!

I mean, they dug their own grave by choosing to play a female human in a game published in the 80s. Not that it was that much more playable to make a male, as the review points out...

Stanislaw Lem wrote a whole book of those, called A Perfect Vacuum! It's awesome! He followed it up with a book of introductions to nonexistent books, which i didn't like as much, Imaginary Magnitude.

Ah, I knew I was aging myself with that reference. I've read it and, while it's certainly not my kind of game, it didn't look that bad. Then Lawrence Schick did a review that went viral before the Web. I think the closest comparison might be to HYBRID, though that reference is aging me again...

Is Thirsty Sword Lesbians the new Spawn of Fashan? TSL actually looks playable...

I don't know why you bothered! Everyone knows you should have written it in the Best RPG of All Time: Spawn of Fashan! Anything else is, frankly, just a waste of time. EDIT: Changed the RPG to one with more humor value.

Here is where your game sux: I'm not playing it. So there! The only games that don't suck are the ones that are blessed with my magnificent presence! EDIT: Oh, wait, I'm not Snarf. Never mind!

Well, here's the list of my summer reading: "Tidewater Dreams" by Isabel Allende "The Last Algorithm" by Andy Weir "Hurricane Season" by Brit Bennett "The Collector's Piece" by Taylor Jenkins Reid "Nightshade Market" by Min Jin Lee "The Longest Day" by Rumaan Alam "Boiling Point" by Rebecca...

I'm spending my summer reading Andy Weir's new book, "The Last Algorithm." Very timely material!