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I think Tower of the Black Pearl was the first DCC RPG adventure I played. But of all of the ones listed, I'd say my favorite is Queen of Elfland's Son. It's got a strong Lord Dunsany influence, as you might guess from the title, but it doesn't slack on the dungeon-crawling aspects. Out of all...

I finished reading Conan the Avenger. Entertaining, but parts of it felt too referential in a way that REH rarely was, and other parts of it didn’t feel true to Conan’s character. Still, taking the character to Khitai, the China-equivalent in the Hyborian Age was kinda cool. I also read Philip...

Hmmm... Probably either Gamma World, Top Secret/SI, or Traveller.

This is one of the two people credited as working for Studio Ink Bat: https://file770.com/horror-writers-association-bans-ca-suleiman-from-stokercon/

Totally. Just look at Rothfuss - he seems to have little trouble banging out novellas and short stories, but he's still completely stuck on Doors of Stone. While I have more of a soft spot for the original Chronicles, Legends is the better-written trilogy. Their greater experience and the...

We were playing twice a month, with four-hour sessions. So not exactly marathon sessions every week.

I kinda think that going with the high page count releases for A Song of Ice and Fire was a mistake. If you look at his previous work, much of it is novella and short story length. The Armageddon Rag, the last full-length novel he published before A Game of Thrones, was still under 400 pages. If...

The meet is used to establish how the characters met and what shenanigans they got into. There's a bit of communal storytelling to it. Pretty much gives them a reason to adventure together and an initial goal. For example, you could roll "The PCs meet during a heist and have to work together to...

I ran a year-long DCC RPG campaign and everyone at the table enjoyed it. We started with a Funnel; the funny thing is, I gave people the choice of doing a Funnel or Lankhmar's Meet, and they overwhelmingly chose the Funnel. In general, advancement was slow, level-wise. The party was still...

The latest Skyriders of Abraxas Kickstarter update teased something special coming for the 40th anniversary of Dragonlance. I'll probably pick this up as a reading copy, so I don't have to touch my battered originals.

Necroscope is a Cold War - horror classic. One that unfortunately feels all the more relevant again.

I started displaying flu/respiratory symptoms on Sunday and had to cancel my last event. My brother came down with Covid the day after he got back. Not a good time. Origins, on the converse, neither of us got sick, though we were much more cautious there.

Like I said, pretty easy to see its influence! If that's your copy, I am jealous. Aside from PDFs through DriveThru, it's completely out-of-print.

In D&D, I generally put my violence at Robert E. Howard level's of description. Gruesome, kinetic, action-packed, but don't linger lovingly on it like a Lucio Fulci movie. However, in my Cyberpunk Red game, I find myself scaling back - save for the gnarly criticals and when the party takes down...

I finished Effinger's When Gravity Fails. What struck me was how diverse it was, especially for the 80s. It's also easy to see the influence it had on R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk. Now I'm reading the Nyborg/ De Camp/ Howard conglomeration Conan The Avenger.

As much as I had a blast at Gary Con this year, it was such a plague pit that I can't see going again anytime soon.

I preordered all of them from the FLGS. I couldn't remember which one had Lolth on it, so the note the owner took down was "alt covers, except no spiders."

Yep! It's an entertaining read, but not always a truthful one.

Yeah, there are plenty of moments in Dear's book The Dungeon Master that have...grown in the telling, that would be great on screen.

The fight for survival is a big part of the Neolithic world. Having visited Skara Brae, experienced the environment (more or less, considering it would've shifted over time) that they were contending with, that struggle is certainly evocative. Not if it's hunting monsters in place of elk and...