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I have fond memories of playing this back in the day. Though, I also vaguely recall that the character generation mechanics weren't as robust as, say Marvel Superheroes. Does anyone remember whether that's a correct assessment or not?

I finished Betancourt's Johnny Zed. A cyberpunk tale of revolution against a corrupt government. Very fast-moving and sharply written. Now I am, as planned, tackling Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Another great, somewhat atypical for Dragon, Dean Morrissey cover. If I recall correctly, there were lots of ads for The Guardians of the Flame series in Dragon magazine back in the day.

Same. I know lots of people are converting their campaigns mid-stream, but I am waiting until all three books are released and my current Cyberpunk Red campaigns come to a close. My hope also is that with more time, I won't be the only one that's done the homework to learn the new mechanics.

Parable of the Sower feel frightfully prophetic.

In ten years, a lot can change. The big question for me will be whether they streamline the mechanics or add complexity? The 2024 iteration seems to have done a bit of both. Right?! I get that there's a certain balance in having Aasimar alongside Tieflings, but in my experience Goblins are more...

Kits were in general, not always greatly balanced. Some gave a significant power jump at 1st level, others not so much. I will point out that the Myrmidon kit isn't that great. The bonus nonweapon proficiencies aren't super applicable in play compared to others, and the main benefit is just a...

I finished reading the Nameless Places anthology. A decent way to end my Halloween season reading. It was a mixture of weird fiction - some cosmic horror, some fantasy, some sci-fi. I read REH's Worms of the Earth. The short story itself is one of REH's best, a near-perfect mix of horror and...

While I don't know that 5e gave me the same feelings as playing 1e, because there is a vast gulf of time between the two and the person I was at either end of it, I can say that picking up 5e after 3e and 4e felt a whole lot more like that experience than what running D&D had been like for the...

It is fascinating, how some of the stuff in Lord of the Rings was the result of many, many iterations, while other elements just showed up out of nowhere, surprising Tolkien himself. The Nature of Middle-Earth shows just how much thought he put into his work. How much effort, even math, he...

If I wanted a fantasy world take on pizza, I think it might be tasty to substitute Cameline sauce for tomato sauce, but otherwise keep it the same. Maybe add some sweet toppings, like fruits or berries, but other than that the rest should work fine.

True, his whole model was not really based on putting out product so much as anti-WoTC/anti-woke culture war nonsense. He already lacked the former as the handful of products he put out didn't exactly set the OSR world alight, and now he presumably lacks the latter.

The different drafts of Tolkien's works are fascinating. His earliest drafts of what would become the Silmarillion feel very Ballantine Adult Fantasy - slightly pastoral, slightly fairytale, slightly weird.

Assuming he is forbidden from having anything to do with Wizards' IP and trademarks, I would think that would make functioning in the OSR scene almost impossible for him. Which is a good thing. So much of the very language, the concepts in videogames are inherited from D&D. Add in that it...

When I'm not feeling a book, I tend to start skimming pages. I rarely will just outright put a book down, unless I know it's just a matter of me not being in the mood for it right then. Elric's tales are so darn good. I really need to get to the stuff Moorcock wrote after Fortress of the Pearl.

Gleep Wurp the Eyebiter appeared in multiple places throughout the editions. Heck, I used him as an NPC when I ran a 1e Greyhawk campaign right before 5e came out. Emirikol the Chaotic also appears in the wonderful DCC RPG module, Emirikol Was Framed.

Me too!

I have a small piece there, and it wasn't great, but wasn't too painful. However, the ink didn't take well there. I keep meaning to get it touched up. Nerve endings are weird, and what is fine for one person isn't for another. Runner up was inside of my upper arm. It felt like I was getting...

I finished reading Saberhagen's The Dracula Tape. It was good, but the problem with writing a new take on Dracula is that you're writing in the shadows of the original, and even Saberhagen isn't entirely up to the task. Still, it was enjoyable, and influential, with its sympathetic depiction of...

I remember getting the red Basic box and it having regular dice, then being perplexed when I got the blue Expert set and it came with dice and a crayon.