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I can see that. Seems that in the Pleistocene, the GM ignoring a die roll or considering it to be one higher or lower or whatever would have been seen as cheating, because he would have been expected to be working against the players'/characters' interests; here in the Holocene, though, it might...

I haven't read anything like as much on TRPG history as some people here, but my strong sense is that it's been the same arguments and the same errors more or less since the beginning.

If you have strong preferences regarding either playing a game that's in print or being able to provide PDFs of the rules (I have both of those) you might fine Tales of the Valiant a relatively easy transition. This isn't even as strong as a suggestion, let alone a recommendation.

I remember thinking this was a pretty decent book, as well. The science had some wonky moments, and there was piano thing that ran counter to my own experiences with them--including moving one--but there wasn't anything that completely nixed my suspension of disbelief. That infrasonic thing...

You are telling me I should do something I have negative interest in doing. Do that again and I'll have to consider you a zero master.

There's some range, but your description falls in it, yeah. (I've had seasoned beef jerky that absolutely leaned on my palate's Lebanon bologna button.) I can find it as like packaged meat, but if I'm feeling like a treat I get it from the Pennsylvania Dutch market local to me. Honestly, I don't...

My mom's family are Pennsylvania Dutch. Lebanon Bologna is comfort food for me. Are you finding it in groceries/markets near you? (I didn't know it had spread as far as Texas.)

When I read Of Dice and Men about a year ago, I took it as more a book for non-TRPGers about why people TRPG. Most of the history of the hobby stuff in it was stuff I'd already come across elsewhere. It didn't seem to me to have quite the attitude that "I play TRPGs" puts you in a plague circle...

Fair. I'd probably want to try "Halfway Home" or "Happy Idiot." I'm pretty sure I could make most of the notes in at least the latter.

Good luck with that. Dude's got serious pipes.

That is a superb name for that cat.

When I worked recording audiobooks, there was an instance that lived in the lore of the studio when a narrator went through a string of Greek names without a blip, ended the sentence. "Sumehtimees ... that word is sometimes, let me try that again."

My wife works in the courthouse in Annapolis where the guy was planning to go after shooting up the newspaper. 😬

It could also have to do with what happened to his brother in Annapolis, I suppose. I've been pleased with the Hiaasens I've read from the past decade-ish, though Squeeze Me was definitely his angriest novel in a while.

I can't help but wonder if that rediscovery had anything to do with Tim Dorsey, who was clearly more outraged (and pretty joyful in his venting).

I have recently rediscovered Hiaasen, and he's been on a roll, lately.

Like you, I'll get back in and try again if I'm badly out-of-whack, but honestly, the people who (clearly intentionally) take up two parking spaces, or sometimes four, piss me off a good deal more than the people who end up a bit off-center in their space. (Among other things, someone who is...

That is almost certainly violently uncool. (Sometimes people park their cars in ways that practically beg to be keyed, I'm presuming that's not you.)

We still tend to buy baseball caps as our more-everyday headwear, though we mostly wear them when we're traveling these days. Mine is a souvenir from Taliesin (Frank Lloyd Wright's studio/house in Wisconsin) hers is from Wind Cave National Park.