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Ugh, yeah. Also when it's 10pm and we've been playing for four hours already, I am going to be tired and ready to go back to my hotel room. I feel hard-pressed to think of a scenario where, I don't know, clowns or spiders are required to be there. Like, fine, it's a bunch of Shakespearean...

Even if your slot stays as listed, I'd recommend planning on finishing early. Most people won't complain about having more time in-between con slots so they don't have to rush to their next event. Going over the allotted time on the other hand, can put a squeeze on the players. And not to speak...

Yeah, the Borg system is pretty easy to hack. And I'm sure there are already plenty of fan-made classes for it. To incorporate the magic of Shadowrun, it would also be easy to poach some stuff from Mork Borg. Though I think you probably are going to get an even skuzzier vision of the future than...

The music of the character generator lives rent-free in my head. Also "click here to turn off my annoying voice."

Shadowrun: Anarchy is a decent choice. Even though it can be run GM-less, it can also be used as a rules-lighter alternative to Shadowrun. I might also add Cy_Borg.

Digging it so far. I discovered the book when a scan of an article on cyberpunk from the 90s appeared on my Tumblr. Metrophage was barely discernable in the image, but it was only one I wasn't familiar with.

I finished reading Sterling's Schismatrix. It was good sci-fi, but I wouldn't necessarily classify it as cyberpunk. Now I'm reading Richard Kadrey's Metrophage.

I was completely oblivious to it. I was deep in grad school and hadn't gamed in about 2-3 years. I wouldn't discover that there was a new edition until early 2002, when I picked up an issue of Dragon magazine I saw in a magazine rack on a whim.

See also Robert Jordan and GRRM. Though, if I recall correctly, the Wheel of Time was edited by Robert Jordan's wife. But though there are great things about that series, it needed some serious pruning. Though you can say this about a lot of Discworld's characters, Granny Weatherwax feels...

Would second Talislanta. At a time when most of the fantasy RPGs were either solidly in the Tolkien or Arthurian mode (though the aforementioned Runequest also bucked the trend), Talislanta was gleefully not, gleefully strange.

Yeah, they're so gross, but their place completely fits in the worldbuilding. Huh. That's pretty darn accurate. When those details are the plot, that's one thing. When they distract and delay, that's when you start running into problems.

Agree with you. To my mind, the pact is the source of the familiar. Without that source, there would be no Quasit.

I'd definitely start out in Port Nyanzaru rather than having the PCs be imported in. As others have pointed out, the timeline on the Death Curse gets pretty wonky, and probably needs to be adjusted. By the time my party finished the campaign, just about everyone afflicted with it at the start...

First time I watched Blade Runner 2049, I turned it off when Deckard showed up because I was so afraid they were going to try to wrap the central mystery of the first movie up in a neat bow. I was very relieved that they did not. Agreed. Jason Momoa was a decent Conan, but it lacked the...

Really digging it so far. I was a little worried at first that it would feel too sci-fi and not cyberpunk enough, but it's got grit and grime in spades.

Back when the Complete Book of Humanoids came out, I had a brief-lived campaign of goblinoids in what was essentially Mordor-with-the-serial-number-filed off. Kinda wish it had gotten more of a chance than it did.

Something I think about from time to time is whether I'll see a remake of Lord of the Rings in my lifetime. Probably. It took, close to 30 years for a remake of Conan the Barbarian, to little avail. It's also fascinating to me when I read Lord of the Rings, I have the images of Gimli, Aragorn...

I dig the dragon turtle on the label. Dragon's Milk is already a tasty beer (too bad I can no longer drink beer!).

I actually shelved John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider. Should have been up my alley, but after about 50 pages, the writing style and story structure got to me. Instead I switched to Samit Basu's The City Inside. Really good read; it felt frightfully relevant and is likely only to get more so...