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Pink Floyd had six backup singers on The Wall, five men and one woman. The woman was Toni Tennille. That’s the Tennille of the Captain & Tennille.

A desperate across the planet to retrieve the frozen head of Loren MacGregor before the villains can get it for their sinister doomsday-redux plan.

Prior art can begin with the Outdoor Survival map, cited in OD&D.

Good point. I should have included them.

Dad once showed me draft specs from ranging system module designs (his work at NASA) from the ‘60s and ‘70s with joke elements tucked in. A recurring gag that some of his office mates really liked to include was Write Only Memory. You couldn’t get anything out of it, but you could be sure...

I have the impression that a small number of Savage Worlds players dabble in Primeval Thule each year, along with Totems of the Dead. Savage Worlds and Fate have more or less uniquely extensive libraries of settings that are worth peoples attention and a significant chunk of player base that...

It’s possible that “dead” is just plain a wrong word, because games aren’t organisms. They’re communities. Extinction can happen, but it’s rare. What happens more often is isolation, where the existing population of fans seldom if ever interacts with anyone else and almost nobody stumbles into...

I love to be surprised, but also to be delighted, which means I’m usually looking for a fusion of familiar and new elements. Mechanical Dream and Xer0 had too much novelty and not enough familiarity for me - couldn’t get a good mental foundation to build on. Tekumel is right on the edge for...

I’m not quite sure there’s never a reason bro play Devil’s Advocate (outside actual beatification and canonization investigations) they can’t be done as well or better by slightly shifted phrasing, but I’m sure it’s true for almost all cases, at least. Example: “Some people, like A and B, say X...

So much great work nominated. Creatively, the field is once again in excellent shape.

It’s time to eff the ineffable!

Kids these days can’t come up with good controversies like we did.

LitRPG has just not been my thing. I tried several highly recommended ones and none worked. Of course, I’m almost entirely ignorant of their pop culture references and don’t enjoy playing the kinds of games they’re riffing on, so, like, big surprise? Signed, Old Fart

Not my invention, but such a great back-formation from “bozo”, isn’t it?

Let’s see, what do I have of note in my log… I’m currently reading Empire of Silence, the first volume of Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series. Enjoying it a lot so far. Lots of great very far future ambience like the Book of the New Sun without being nearly as dense prose-wise as Wolfe, and...

Some of the family stuff I’m working with got a level of agreement among involved folks I didn’t expect, with much less struggle than I expected. very welcome. Now there’s a lot of work still to actually do and a level of gratuitous bozosity among some folks that is draining and wearing. But it...