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Between Borges and Lem, you've got an embarrassment of riches. I don't think I've seen a collection that has all of Borges' imaginary book reviews, but Lem's got three, I've come to find out. There's A Perfect Vacuum (imaginary book reviews), Imaginary Magnitude (imaginary book prologues), and...

You know, I've seen that joke before, and I always assumed it was a real supplement for MWG that I just hadn't seen a hardcopy of...

True, and those were my group's preferred systems at the time, along with Classic Traveller, which also had no modifications for sex. Nothing was a egregious as Fantasy Wargaming, in any case. At least, as far as I know!

I mean, they dug their own grave by choosing to play a female human in a game published in the 80s. Not that it was that much more playable to make a male, as the review points out...

Stanislaw Lem wrote a whole book of those, called A Perfect Vacuum! It's awesome! He followed it up with a book of introductions to nonexistent books, which i didn't like as much, Imaginary Magnitude.

Ah, I knew I was aging myself with that reference. I've read it and, while it's certainly not my kind of game, it didn't look that bad. Then Lawrence Schick did a review that went viral before the Web. I think the closest comparison might be to HYBRID, though that reference is aging me again...

Is Thirsty Sword Lesbians the new Spawn of Fashan? TSL actually looks playable...

I don't know why you bothered! Everyone knows you should have written it in the Best RPG of All Time: Spawn of Fashan! Anything else is, frankly, just a waste of time. EDIT: Changed the RPG to one with more humor value.

Here is where your game sux: I'm not playing it. So there! The only games that don't suck are the ones that are blessed with my magnificent presence! EDIT: Oh, wait, I'm not Snarf. Never mind!

Well, here's the list of my summer reading: "Tidewater Dreams" by Isabel Allende "The Last Algorithm" by Andy Weir "Hurricane Season" by Brit Bennett "The Collector's Piece" by Taylor Jenkins Reid "Nightshade Market" by Min Jin Lee "The Longest Day" by Rumaan Alam "Boiling Point" by Rebecca...

I'm spending my summer reading Andy Weir's new book, "The Last Algorithm." Very timely material!

Smart. I always say the trick is to come up with answers you can remember that don't actually correspond to Real Life. For instance, my "First place you lived" is actually the name for the town in the first fantasy series I loved as a child. Are you me? Because this happened to me when I...

No problem! I'll just need your account number, your mother's maiden name, and your social security number*. You know, your Star Wars Droid Name... * EDIT: Please don't supply your account number, your mother's maiden name, or your social security number.

Best I can do is $20.

I don't know, Establishments grow too large if unchecked. I think providing reliable checks is a general good.

I've done all of the Old School Essentials Kickstarters (for those not in the know, the Classic version is just Moldvay/Cook Basic/Expert D&D completely reformatted and re-edited) and ended up with a bunch of extra materials. Their first KS did so well (for a box set with a bunch of books) that...

My current favorite is the pistachio baklava at our diner. But I'm always willing to find a new fave...

Went to the local Greek Festival at the neighborhood Greek Orthodox Church, and had the baklava. It's really good. But now I have to consider which I think is better, the baklava at the Festival, or the baklava you can get every week at our favorite diner, which is also fantastic. It's nice to...

I mean, they're the second-best descendants of the Franks!

Silence generally benefits the oppressor.