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I think Lamashtu works well as an overlord. She even has an appropriate title, Mother of Monsters. To fit in with Overlord naming conventions (as per Keith Baker's recent blog post), I'd probably rename her Lah Mashtu but that's just me. I'd never thought of running Rise of the Runelords in...

I wouldn't describe it as pure Vance. Jack Vance had several different magic systems in the Dying Earth stories. And Turjan of Miir, by all accounts a powerful wizard, could only carry 4 spells at a time. I'm not sure what this has to do with sci-fi scenarios.

Thank you, I knew there was something that I was missing! We disagree about what "agree to play a module" means. If the GM says "I've come across this module that I think is wonderful. I had been burned out on D&D for a while, but it has got me enthused again. I'd like to get a group of...

I'm curious if this situation has arisen in your games, and if so how the other players felt about it. Did the other players also feel like they had willingly broken an agreement with you? Or were they surprised to learn that you had expectations which had not been met?

I think we must have very different play-styles, or possibly I'm misunderstanding you. I've never played in a game where the default assumption was that the Plot would be followed, and anyone whose character didn't act as decreed by the Plot was being passive aggressive and/or childish. (I'm...

Starfinder hasn't interested me much (not sure why not) but I love that Starship Operations Manual cover.

I've thought of a few more. The Shackled City adventure path has some good dungeons in chapters 1 to 5 (or parts 1 to 4 if you use Dungeon magazine rather than the book) with some lovely maps. The Pathfinder module From Shore to Sea has a good island to explore. I also like the first part of...

I'm not sure I've ever played in or run a campaign where there was an agreement to be "re-negotiated" or "shirked". We just sit down and have some fun playing RPGs. What adventure we do is a secondary consideration. If I'm GMing and the players get bored with the module I'm running and/ or have...

I'm a big fan of the Hyqueous Vaults (3rd level adventure written for OSRIC), and it seems like it would be a good fit for your hexcrawl. The PDF is free on Lulu. The Pathfinder adventure path Ruins of Azlant is set on an uncharted island, with opportunities to travel to nearby islands as...

I was expecting Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus to feature Baldur's Gate and Avernus. I don't own the book, but from what I've heard it's in line with those expectations. I'd have prefered - and might well have purchased - (Somewhere Else): Descent into Avernus because I'd have been...

So they managed to leverage off the popularity of the Baldur's Gate game whilst having nothing in it that was specific to Baldur's Gate in any way? That's a pretty neat trick.

They could have, but they didn't. We could have had a (brief) look at a new place of interest. Instead we got Baldur's Gate again.

You are, of course, free to hang out with whoever you like. It does seem like you are using a very broad brush, however. Personally, I'd be happy to hang out with Alan Turing or Stephen Fry, for instance.

It wasn't my search, it was Myrdin Potter's. Basically just a search for "Stars Without Number". The results are distorted by the Solo Rules for various systems. Since each one of those links to all the others, including one for SWN, they all appear in a SWN search.

I was in the same positon as you, but the link I quoted has some adventures on it. (I'm not familiar with any of them, just listing them.) From the first 100 odd items: Fear Factory V Polychrome Free Rain Distress Call Solo Adventures Descent Revenge 1 Hard Light (as you mentioned) Grandfather...

Thanks for the link. However, it shows some of the issues I have with finding stuff on Drivethru. It includes results for Other Dust (ok, technically a version of SWN), Silent Legions (same company as SWN, so maybe understandable) but then also Zweihander, Shadow of the Demon Lord, 7th Sea and...

The science fiction genre doesn't seem to have anything like as many people publishing adventures for other peoples' systems, like you get with D&D 3rd / Pathfinder and D&D 5. The closest thing to it seems to be with the Cepheus Engine (Traveller clone) where there are a number of companies...

I disagree. By the second definition, human rights has NO meaning. (Or is a tautology - you only have the right to be protected from what you are actually protected from.) So if we are even having a discussion about human rights, I assume we aren't using the second definition. Plenty of people...

Some Americans seem to think freedom of speech was created by the First Amendment and seem genuinely unable to grasp my argument that it is a universal human right that is independent of what the US Constitution has to say on the subject. It's not just that they disagreed with me - I'm fine...

That's just bizarre. I'd rather you burned the darn thing if the alternative is forcing the authors to re-write it so it was more to your liking. (Okay, publishers rather than authors in this case.)