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Responding to a post that's since been vanished. Never mind, then.

If it helps any, the bridge certainly isn't holding up very well in use, is it? Cheapskate contractors at work again, no doubt :) "It'll be fine as long as no one walks over it." "Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of building a bridge here?" "They didn't have enough money to build a...

With my current group, we'd probably dig out an old 90s CCG. Not everyone threw their "dead" card games out when that boom ended, and quite a few of them were and are underappreciated gems. I'll happily play Shadowfist, the WotC Battletech CCG, or Over the Edge any day of week. Recently had...

Note that Reaper makes a much, much less expensive (as in, $9) baggage tortoise in Bones Black, although it comes with a (dismounted) human driver rather than a mounted gnome one. Bones Black is sturdy enough that the lantern post shouldn't have major flexing issues like the original white...

This piece was sculpted into a 3D diorama version by Ral Partha back in the day, and is still sold (albeit at a rather steep price - I've seen the RPE original go for less on ebay) through Iron Wind Metals over here. These used to show up at convention painting competitions regularly, although...

These days I'm here mostly for the industry news, the occasional "TTRPG General" thread that catches my eye, and the White Dwarf retrospective (and before that, other older gaming mag rundowns). I dip into orange threads now and then largely to remind myself that I don't really want to play D&D...

I can't remember the last time I ran something where I'd be handing out loot with gold piece values attached to them. 2010-ish, maybe? A loose gem's (usually) just a shiny rock unless you've got some reason to know what you're looking at. Stones set in jewelry or sewn onto clothing are a...

Ah ha! I've seen that novel in my sister's vast collection of horror books back in the day. Definitely not in CoC though - 4th edition was one I skipped, having gotten tired of buying three editions in five years.

If I backed crowdfunding projects I'd be all over Liquid Steel just for a translated version of the comic. It's really quite stunning visually, but my language skills (or lack thereof) make it hard to really appreciate the writing.

There's also going to be a lot of folks scrambling to clear warehouses the moment the "low" rates come into effect before something goes even more wrong.

No, but the concept of "wet navy sub re-tasked as starship" (accidentally or otherwise) recurs regularly in scifi. The wretched John Ringo's Vorpal Blade features an example, there was another mil-scfi series from around the same time that featured a refitted navy sub being used as a space...

I really think we're past the point where "permanent" has any real meaning any more, if it ever did. Even "lasting" needs a new definition.

First five-ten minutes of Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark, from the opening credits to the seaplane flying off into the distance. Really set the tone for the whole film, and the first really good pulp action-adventure kid me had ever seen in those pre-cable, pre-internet days of...

Or until one side or the other decides to unilaterally start up again. Not exactly a real sign of stability, at least to me.

Could be. Looking at it more closely it's not really a Mythos ghoul as such - toes, not hooves, and the face isn't really dog-like - so now I'm wondering if I saw it on a horror novel or even some other RPG. I'd suspect maybe Beyond the Supernatural, but it's way too early for that yet. Maybe...

Here's another possibility that just cropped up on DTRPG - A Voyage To Fomalhaut. Says its for OSRIC and may not be wholly systemless (there a couple of gold piece costs mentioned in the preview) but it also appears to be mostly a proper gazetteer for a sword & planet setting with a bit of the...

Rainy City sounded great in the reviews I've seen of it, FWIW. Primal Order's also got some historical significance, although finding a copy of the original printing of the core book could be tricky. Not only was it the first RPG product published by WotC, it's also the book Kevin Siembieda...

Those look very intriguing. I refuse to say "never" when it comes to Thousand Thousand Islands. Bad as the break was, stranger things have happened than two talented creators getting back together again years down the road. But yes, for now get their collab work if you can.

I was looking at some random stuff on DTRPG yesterday and it dawns on me that technically Rifts probably qualifies as a game with enough submarine shenanigans going on to deserve mention, although I sure wouldn't recommend it. They've done a number of splatbooks over the years dealing with...

It is maddeningly familiar, isn't it? I couldn't find a CoC book that featured it from a modest dig, but maybe it wound up on a UK edition?