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Last two things: Bonds of Brass: Book One of The Bloodright Trilogy -- Skrutskie, Emily First book in a trilogy that is not yet finished. Ettian and Gal are fighter pilots on the cusp of graduation in the Umber Imperial Academy on the planet Rana. Seven years ago, Rana was the heart of the...

Holding people accountable for their actions is not 'leftist'.

Freelancers bite a lot of bullets in order to put food on the table.

That might be a huge clue that a lot of older literature was created in a time when casual racism was so pervasive that it was indistinguishable from the mainstream culture (1). You've apparently missed a tremendous amount of discussion about how problematic a lot of Howard et al is. It doesn't...

You can drive as early as 14, depending on circumstances. Plus, this looks like a pretty small town and they tend to be lax on stuff like that until you prove yourself a problem. The rich kids will all get cars at 16 and kids like Stan are, I think, just taking his Dad's car whether or not he...

I've been on a short fiction kick. Asimov's, Analog, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and more. I don't get as much reading time as I used to have, so it takes me about half a month to go through a single issue (since most of these are double issues done every other month)...

At one point, I had a fair number of house rules, then pared it back to a bare handful because otherwise I was basically writing another game. Now, some of these fell into the 'everyone did them' category, like ditching the male/female strength bonuses, multiclassing limits, and the level...

The biggest mistake people make in D&D is thinking that 'Lawful' means 'the laws men create'. It means the more abstract concept of 'order'. The silly 'gotcha' of 'haha, paladin,you're in a society where slavery is legal! You have to own slaves! And rape them, too, because that is legal as...

Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett - Rubi Whiting is, among other things, a legal defense person specializing in people who have run afoul of the consensus ranking system that runs the world. Since in 2070 privacy is a privilege, not a right, almost everything you do - and everything you ever did - is...

Equally important was Pathfinder stating that their icons were all considered - unless specifically called out as something else in an adventure, comic, etc - bisexual.

I've always wondered about the 'Vampire Effect'. It seemed to me at the time that vampire was not so much taking gamers away from D&D as it was bringing new rpgers into the hobby; people who ordinarily would never have played D&,D in the first place.

The Egbert Incident makes for some amazingly fascinating reading.

I loved Pool of Radiance. For the first time you could SEE a lightning bolt bounce around a room and eliminate people that probably thought they were safe. You could watch monsters poof away as a fireball engulfs them. Then, one day, I used both CON-raising items on a dwarf with an 18 Con, and...

Yeah, do not under any circumstances pull the 'abuse' trigger. Anything that involves minors also involves a whole lot of legal shenanigans that can blow back on you and your group for years to come ("Contributing to the delinquency of a minor" come to mind). Minors are, for better or worse...

They've done this in the comics at least once (prob to jive with the at-that-time movie Spider-man who produced webs organically - not bothering to look up the timeline).

Not 'post apocalyptic', but 'post-apotheosis'. This is 500 years after humans already established a galactic civilization - however long that took. After that much time, old one-planet nation-state stuff like 'China', 'America', 'Russia' are just distant memories you might find footnoted in a...

From these two articles: https://variety.com/2016/film/news/gary-gygax-estate-dungeons-and-dragons-tom-desanto-1201824039/ https://www.courthousenews.com/tinseltown/ Gail is or was in a legal partnership with Tom DeSanto, for works 'published and unpublished'. So, if she's trying by herself to...