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I’ve been meaning to do to do this for years, and just finished Gardens of the Moon, the first volume of Steve Erickson’s Malazan Books of the Fallen. Wow. Hooked am I. I need to not try shotgunning them all in a row - I know myself and that I would burn out. But I expect to read one or two each...

Good choices. Also Bear Whizz Beer, Bass-o-matic, and floor wax/dessert topping.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. There was a really good story in the ‘90s Hellraiser series from Epic Comics, by Scott and Bo Hampton, with a guy stuck in an endless black space with a single gold door in it. He goes through, the door vanishes, and now there’s a gold door twice as far...

Well…play with other well-read gamers who share an interest in horror, dark fantasy, sword & sorcery, etc subjects. So basically like any question of aesthetics. it’s never interested me much. What matters to me is exploration, discovery, and responding to challenges. Agreed a lot.

Oh, sure. I just don’t think it should be as ubiquitous as some people have been saying in recent years. I’d like to see design variety, where every element is sometimes left out. …um, not all at once. I don’t quite know what you’d do with a featureless plain of a dungeon except maybe have...

When I’m not engaged in the sort of technical argument where I distinguish between weird (the unnatural presence of something not normally there) and eerie (the unnatural absence of something normally present) and have citations to Mark Fischer and Michael Cisco, I tend to think these overlap a...

No. Dungeon design doesn’t have to depend on darkness in any way. You can light the whole thing as brightly as your living room and get plenty of suspense and horror out of the layout and interior decorating (to put it flippantly). And since we are ourselves a visually oriented species, that...

This is a thread with the results of asking us what games we’re most excited about that aim to come out in the new year. We are, of course, not excited by games we haven’t heard of. We are excited by ones we have heard about and probably discussed some already, and that we can provide basic info...

The house I gre up in is well into the evacuation order zone for the Eaton Fire. I hope it doesn’t burn. And ditto for everything around it. Big fires are scary.

I’m continue to like these dragons, and pretty much everything else, too.

I hope to finally read some Patrick O’Brien this year. dad would be disappointed it’s taken me this long.

Engaged players make everything more fun and worthwhile, for sure.

When working on Adventure 1e playtesting and development, I learned from the developer’s side how hard it is to keep rules from inflating like the universe did in its first fraction of a second whenever we got to a subject knew a lot about. But then it’d have the same consequence every time...

@Snarf Zagyg , deepest sympathy and condolences from here. That inexorable ride down is such a consuming thing. Best wishes to all involved for time of rest and recovery as possible.