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Attorneys for the dude who killed a bunch of black people are calling for a retrial after he was convicted by an all-white jury, because they feel black and Latino people were underrepresented. ... Well, maybe more black people would have been available to serve on the jury if he hadn't killed...

I enjoyed it quite a bit. I used to watch the original, and I thought they did a good job capturing the feel of it, though not quite as good as the guys who did The A-Team movie (my yardstick for these homages, as I felt it was note-perfect in writing and (mostly) casting).

I seem to remember Cyberspace as being a streamlined version of the rules. Not exactly narrative, but considerably more streamlined that RoleMaster. For even more streamlined rules based on the same mechanic, check out the TolkienQuest gamebooks (later rebranded as Middle Earth Quest, but I...

Shadowrun Anarchy is really good, but for an even more narrative approach, I'll recommend one I haven't seen mentioned (which makes me sad) -- CBR+PNK. This is a hack of Blades in the Dark, and is supposed to represent a group of runners doing One Last Big Score, which is a great vibe. Check it...

Uh, just for amusement purposes, which drug was it? What drug in particular? Any idea? No... no reason, just... ah... asking for a friend.

I seem to remember a "Holy Avenger of Thunderbolts" from my old AD&D 1E days, but I don't remember if it was a hammer or a sword. Knowing our group, it might have been a Bastard Sword, both because it did really good damage and also because we were teenagers and liked using a "naughty" word...

Mention of drug company commercials means it's time for me to repost the fantastic "The Drugs I Need" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. EDIT: Also lets me check what the heck I put for "under my name". It's a replacement for something that was considered possibly racist by some, and I have no...

I mean, it's not more ridiculous than injecting yourself with bleach... Lest I be accused of politicization, I will point out that study is from 1992 and recounts a 31-year-old man injecting himself with bleach. So, he's 64 years old today! ... Uh, assuming he didn't try any other medical...

I don't know why you guys are laughing. I know people who go to aol.com, to go to google.com, to go to their email provider's site. They haven't been able to figure out the right way to do it for twenty years or so -- how am I going to field their endless questions once the first link in the...

Oh, that was me! Or rather, I asked ChatGPT to provide me an argument that the real AI is being kept from us, and that's the answer it provided!

What? Inconceivable!

Oh, are you talking about D&D 5E? I agree! Also, that, despite saying "D&D" in the name, it can't hold a candle to the One True D&D -- the one that exists in my mind!

Bryce Lynch from tenfootpole.org has what I consider really good guidelines for adventure writing. He's a brutal (but generally fair) reviewer.

It occurs to me, Gary had a character in the original campaign who was a fighter-type (Yrag?). I think he was also a dual-wielder? It seems to have been common back then, and not in combinations that would be allowed when they developed and published rules for TWF.

I still wish I'd managed to bring the old Midnight Realm game to the table. It was an offshoot of the Talislanta setting, using the same mechanics as the 4th edition of Talislanta (IMO, the best edition). The main race are the Tarterans -- effectively Tieflings, which makes sense since the...

Since I've written material for convention use, I have a general rule on backstories for convention play: no more than three paragraphs. Short paragraphs, not German-style one-page paragraphs. Anything more than that will be too long for most people to read in the amount of time I want to take...

Yeah, this was at Metatopia, which is a convention made up entirely of playtests; the whole gamut of regular convention games get playtested there - boardgames, card games, rpgs, etc. Part of the way the timeslots are structured is that you'll have, say, two hours for the game itself, and then...

I mean, every character must share spotlight time. As GM, it behooves me to make the game entertaining for everyone. That doesn't always require that spotlight time is exactly divided -- so long as everyone else is okay with it, and they usually will be if everyone is friends and enjoys the...

Hmm... my memory played me false. But when I recorded it off of HBO in 1981, it was "Episode IV". Interesting.

People say that a lot, but the first Star Wars movie clearly had an opening crawl saying "Episode IV" which confused the heck out of me at the time.