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I finished Tiptree & McIntyre's The Girl Who Was Plugged In / Screwtop. The Girl Who Was Plugged in is so ahead of its time - if PKD is the grandfather of cyberpunk, Tiptree deserves to be named the grandmother. Screwtop isn’t as prescient, but rather it shows how little the penal system has...

And maybe that's the crux of it for me. I'd say it's also about allies, in addition to opponents. Because it's important to me to square the ecosystem of the game world.

Yeah, definitely Dark Sun over Mystara. Original Greyhawk would vibe, too. As far as DCC RPG-specific settings, Lankhmar and Empire of the East are both very cool (though I might recommend using the setting of Empire of the East without the class restrictions). Dying Earth, likewise, but it's a...

Absolutely. That's one of the mistakes of the most recent Conan movie (well, that and everyone screaming up into the sky, holding something), making it be about saving the world. It's not about superheroes on one end of the spectrum and incompetents on the other. Rather, to my mind, it's about...

It's like, if you want to play a superhero, play a superhero game. I've no interest in running a game for murderhobos with the power to level whole villages. Here's the thing about Conan, Elric, Imaro, Kane, Jirel, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, and Morgaine - they all fail in the course of their...

That's my take on the situation as well. He clearly has a deep love for the setting. While it's possible that there was some requirement inserted into the Jennell Jaquays rights purchase years ago, I don't think that there's been any indication of that.

Citing Lamentations of the Flame Princess illustrates the key problem with this - it could all too easily end up a puerile edgelord exercise. There's not really any deep worldbuilding in the movies, so it's primarily going to be about tone - and for my money, if you want a Deathstalker RPG to...

My preference these days, is that unless I'm specifically running a superhero game, I don't really want to run a game where the PCs rapidly reach, or start out with, superheroic status. They should be part of the world, subject to its dangers and challenges, for much of the campaign. But by the...

Using the Fly spell, no. If they want more than one PC to be airborne, they need to upcast the spell. For PCs with a natural fly speed, that probably depends. An Aarakocra might be able to carry a small or lightly armored PC, but not a Goliath or plate mail-wearing sort. A wildshaped druid...

Same. For me, I think my line in the sand is whether they continue to have a business relationship with the Bledsaws. For example, if they follow this up with a Wilderlands of High Fantasy OAR, that's probably it for me and DCC.

Ooh, that sounds up my alley. Yeah, that safe stuff had some serious deep cuts. And it was written before the internet of today would've made research easy.

I finished reading Womack's Ambient. It's a challenging dystopian read, but really good. It's a bit like putting Riddley Walker, A Clockwork Orange and Naked Lunch in a blender. Only, someone else also snuck the works of Shakespeare into it. Now I'm reading the double novel of The Girl Who Was...

From what I've heard, it'll also have some more cosmetic content and even some new sidequests. Exciting!

It reminds me quite a bit of the interim stage of Brundlefly from Cronenberg's The Fly remake. While I kinda like how it plays up the body horror aspect of lycanthropy, it's still an off-putting cover.

A&E is worthy of preservation, but the volume and sheer number of contributors could make it soooo difficult. I think for that they'd have to pull out the implied setting stuff (Bugs! Technos! Shardra the Castrator!) and build it up from there. If the OAR line is going to continue without...

As a player, I care about the cosmology only as much as it makes the world feel more lived in and if I'm going to go on adventures in those places. As a GM, I love reading about extraplanar stuff.

The number of people that are unaware of or don't care about the controversy probably outweighs those that care positively or negatively. And that is unfortunate, but probably not unexpected. Arduin Grimoire springs to mind.

Archer: Fugitive of the Empire is one of the few 80s fantasy movies I haven't seen!

Going into the 70s, there was a ton of fantasy in the air. It translated to fiction, naturally. But also art and music. The world was primed for D&D to enter the scene. There's a powerful documentary on Michelle Remembers, called Satan Wants You. I've read Michelle Remembers, and it shocks on...

Back in the day, probably because it was a box office bomb. These days, with all the people that grew up on it and the general 80s nostalgia, it really seems like it should. See, for the Neverending Story, I think part of its appeal is the mystery. For every bit it explains, there's something...