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I mean, duh! Did you see that picture in book 1? It’s very “Four Weddings and a Funeral.” Hahahahaha! Great analogy. It could be interpreted two different ways: (His people) and (ours) are the two different peoples Thayne died to protect. (His people and ours) is one people expressed in a...

I continue to be impressed by your ability to draw rich story out of bland dice rolls. Out of curiosity, How much of Albedo’s background did you have figured in your mind before the starship graveyard?

It would be interesting to know if someone who read the Second Chronicles first would end up liking them better than the First. Because I agree with what others have said: you can only have your first mind-blowing experience in Amber once. Then the next time it doesn’t feel as special.

I totally misread this section. Damn you, modern English, for corrupting the plural word "them" into singular! (Err... not the band Modern English... Melt With You is a great '80s song!) Of course this section asks if you want to attack, ignore, or follow THE PEOPLE DOING THE RITUAL, "them"...

Two weekly in-person tabletop games on alternating weeks, and an ongoing post-every-day Discord game or two.

I wrote earlier that this encounter is "super ambitious and impressive". While it might be overly ambitious in terms of the sheer volume of information, its heart is in the right place. What do I mean by that? I mean that CORE1-1 understands that while "fight monsters" is already a fine 4e...

Commentary: We pick up the Sceptre of Bhukod, which flares with white energy If the repeated detail that the sceptre flares with white energy is meant to illustrate one of the charges from Landor's spell that kills non-Dellings who touch our rod, then we are burning through charges like crazy...

103, redux Arno’s evil has already spread to Wealwood and taken the life of a friend, even though actually Thayne isn’t that good a friend, and this is actually Thayne’s fault for getting super drunk during an important meeting, the grabbing another man’s magic item, we think to ourselves with...

An adverb and adjective that have never been applied to me, ever. :ROFLMAO: Yes, definitely. In normal play the reader would’ve known that from the character creation and game mechanics intro. I deliberately glossed over to get us into the story faster. It can be. As hilarious as it would...

I think an argument could be made that the ultra-cautious yet semi-reasonable thing to do IS to ignore the corpse. Because this feels a bit like one of those gamebook situations in which something bad happened, and you are then asked if you’d like to trigger another round of badness. Sort of...

pours a glass of Kandian mead When I first met Winny, she didn’t even have a name. She was just “ Bloodsword v1%27']The Warrior” and we lamented her lot in life, Bloodsword v1%27']without even a special section to turn to at the beginning of the quest. She was almost named Bloodsword...

Everything sounds better and fancier when dressed up in Latinate and church garb. Jack Vance was a master of this, and we’ve discussed in the past how Vance-y these books can be. As for Exalted. I am not convinced it can be played as written, but it’s incredibly evocative. Hmm. How about a...

Well, that's the choice. Do we take the sceptre with us, or do we leave it behind in (what the gamebook strongly implies to be) safety? I would not put it past Larian Studios to have traveled back in time to 1986 to start promoting a game they would release 37 years later. Fun fact: it is...

Here is where I admit I had to long-press on the word ‘thurifer’ and do ‘look up’ to know what it means. (A couple of posts ago.) And I am now desperately hoping for a way to work it into conversation. Which will be tricky. Maybe I need to convert to Catholicism? I also love how coy these books...

I’ve had a lot of fun with these even though most of them are purple or red. They’re flavorful as hell!

Perth fetches the sceptre from his sacred chapel. It is wrapped in “the tanned hide of a sacred hollyphant,” Perth explains. Prior to 2023, I would’ve been able to dazzle you all with my deep AD&D knowledge of weird monsters like the hollyphant. However, thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3, everybody...

103 We tell everyone that the sceptre “may” not [more weasel words] be the answer our problems. “Whutt doo yoooo meeeen? The Shhhepter is aweshhhhum!” Thayne slurs. Thayne is on his third mug of Kandian mead and his face is flushed with alcohol. We say it would be easier if we showed...

I wonder how often these books actually got played by 4 different players, vs. one player pretending to make 4 independent decisions. I also really like the idea that some PCs would end up in ghost world, have a chance to dogpile an altar boy, but decide, “nah, let’s keep falling into the void.”

I’m writing this down for Winny.

There is a running joke / meme over in the New York Times recipes community that people will read the recipe, change almost everything about it, and then complain they didn’t like the food. So, like: “I substituted paprika for the cocoa powder, fish oil for the canola oil, and salt for the...