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I looked at Amazon for the top-selling Kindle books in the Fantasy genre, and I can see what the "rom-fantasy" folks are talking about. The top 20 books, full of "New York Times Bestseller!" and "Upcoming Film!" are pretty much all in that genre, and looking at them, I didn't see anything I...

So I've been thinking about this thread quite a bit because I have an eight-year-old. I remember at eight I won a copy of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for reading so many books. I'm looking at getting the series on Audible to listen to with my daughter since that's how she prefers to get...

Just a thought: make sure you run whatever rules you're using by your players, and make sure you have clearly defined ways to clear the injuries, something that 5E does not have by default. For what it's worth, unless the game would be changed to have much fewer combats, this would be something...

For new GMs, of course the best way to do things is to read or watch about them and learn over time. However, in my experience, if the best way to do something takes a lot of time and work (even if that work is fun), an immediate solution to the situation is going to win almost all of the time...

This would be a complete house ruling, but I'd let the caster make a check with their spellcasting skill. I'd just make it a 15 to start with. Success? Works as they want. Failure? The swallowed character takes some damage from being bumped around and is still swallowed.

I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying, and don't regularly deal with the media that's written for eight year-olds. The adventure was fine, and if I had to run it I could turn it into something really good. It wasn't at the level I would expect a fully fleshed-out product for...

I'm not sure if I have posted about this in the past, but I can give a real world example. I was thinking about using AI for adventures, and I tried out something at work (with permission; my boss is curious but not judgmental). I said my rules system was 5E D&D. I then said my world had...

Yes. I'm really interested in AI, and my State has a conference that talks about it annually. I've gone to it for the last three years, and we get access to some next gen stuff as a result. It has gotten much better in the last three years. So I was recently looking for a script to automate a...

We're in a transition period, with AI taking the stage more and more often. The thing is, it's coming, and in certain areas, it's already here. There's nothing that can be done about it. If you're giving a talk about the future of your investors, especially with a growing part of your business...

Or perhaps there's more than one theme to the stories. And you can discuss more than one aspect of the stories at once. To my mind, a lot is going on in the stories, some of which is still being discussed today. I think about the "civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they...

Oh I think there will always be a frontier somewhere. But if not, we have Conan's experiences with civilization, where it's soft and corrupt, too. I think that may remain an issue as well. And ... the pulps progressed into noir, didn't they?

Oh sure. I just look at that group and see a movie made by James Gunn. And as much as I like his films, I don't think they work for Ravenloft. And as you say, Ravenloft is changing, and those changes, in general, make it much less interesting to me. Pretty much something I've no interest in.

I'm glad to answer that, being a fan of Ravenloft and Gothic literature. It's because Gothic literature is about the world of the ordered and ordinary being terrorized by the inhuman and bizarre. This story is full of alien characters who each one on their own could have a book talking about who...

I was just watching something very political (which I won't go into here) but the author took a big aside to talk about the book and movie Shane. This is one of the movies that gets referenced very often over time, it even made it into Logan. The idea is that there is a need for a character...

As the dad of an 8 year-old, there's tons of content out there that's she's enjoying. It's just not comic books like I grew up with. I think that was right when I started reading comic books and I still check out stores in my area every now and then. It's definitely not targeted at young kids...

I actually understand this perfectly. I have the policy of not yucking another person's yum but also not yumming their yuck. You do you. The politics of an author are a real thing that affects whether people are interested in them or not. And that's 100% fine. For me, it largely doesn't (with...

I didn't want to quote your whole post, but I think this is the issue right here. I don't read Larry's books for politics. I read them as really solid adventure fiction, with surprising depth. I can't have a discussion on the subject without violating the board rules, so I just won't. I'll say...

I think this is a great point. I've been a fan of Larry's since I read the first sentence of his first book ("On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.") I've been...

For me: go to used bookstores to find that mysterious book by him that I've somehow not seen as of yet. Roger was a very special writer: very literary but also using some pulp tropes. I wish I had better advice for you but if there are any other Zelazny fans out there, I'd love to hear...

Just a note on stories about after the party saves the world, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End just landed on Netflix. While not a book, it did make me think about a lot of the fantasy tropes and I'd recommend it highly. I watched it through Apple TV with subtitles, so I don't know how Netflix will...