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Replay is one of my very favorite obscure novels, a classic “more than the sum of its parts” cases. And thanks, @Alzrius.

First a pedant’s note: portal fantasy was a name and category decades before isekai and has a far wider scope. Isekai is one subset of portal fantasy the way military sf is one kind of sf. I’ve found very little isekai I like - mostly me being too old and out of sync with a lot of the cultural...

What kind of device are you reading them on? I have an iPad Air that’s a bit less than 8.5x11, so that letter-sized pages are shrunk just enough to be somewhat noticeably harder to read. Digest pages, on the other hand, get zoomed up noticeably and are that much comfier to read. I want to get...

Gonna see if I can get in a few posts while waiting on news about family stuff. First up, the kind of thing I wish more RPGs told us about their intents. Some OSR games do, Onyx Path has gotten better and better at it, and like that, but there are far too many un-tipped hands out there.

Like several others, I almost exclusively buy PDF. In print, I very strongly prefer digest size, and it’s been years since I bought a letter-sized or larger book.

I have several arachnophobic friends, and I would react VERY BADLY to that on their behalf, much as I would to people messing with their medication or slipping something they’re known to be allergic to into their food. That’s well beyond tacky, through rude, and into genuinely threatening.

That’s a good point too! I would talk differently about QuestWorlds to an audience that’s all fans of story-oriented play than to a more general one. Knowing where you are is a skill that takes practice, too.

Black Easter is a classic, IMHO. Blish was one of the best practitioners of theological sf. Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel Drezner. This is a serious work that is also a lot of fun. Dr. Drezner is a professor of international politics, and was active in the blogosphere...

Doing sustained advocacy for a game one loves without a bunch of dissing others can be surprisingly hard. I had to rewrite and re-rewrite so many posts in my days of unofficial net repping for White Wolf, and I’m temperamentally not a grudge holder or enthusiastic hater. This isn’t to excuse...

Very much so. True also of games like Fate and Everway. For spy games by the way, even though I dislike the Gumshoe system, Night’s Black Agents is the gold standard. It’s got real system support for both George Smiley and Jason Bourne, and excellent discussion of how applying the options...

Not just you. When Cook started describing the project, I was hooked. I love all his inspirations, and had tried to base campaigns on several, but they’d fallen flat. The idea of a game putting such ideas front and center made me want it right then. The concept art only made me happier. And then...

It is the spirit of our time. https://hombrand.com/products/hom-smart-chernobyl-humidifier-miniature-power-plant-inspired-air-humidifier-for-bedroom-living-room-and-more-ultrasonic-humidifier-and-aromatherapy-diffuser-with-3-mist-modes-and-7-color-modes

Wow, that’s pretty. Thanks!

I would be all over a vampires, robots, and wombats setting.

I want the fantastic woven into the fabric of life. Fictional touchstones include Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy stories, Stephen Donaldson’s The Land, Gene Wolfe’s Urth, and the setting of Michael Swanwick’s amazing short story “The Edge of the World” (helpfully available online, link approved of...

I prefer not to use AI stuff, but it’s not something I thought about, so thanks. @Spectral Anomaly : Hey, that’s neat! I’ll have to give that a try.

@Cordwainer Fish : Not this time. Its time will come, though. @Staffan : Thanks! I’ll give that a look.

I’ve been reading Into The Wyrd & Wild and Into The Cess & Citadel, and having a great time. The setting generation part of each calls for some drop table action. And that’s a problem: I don’t like the noise and am far too prone to having dice go where they shouldn’t. Does anyone know of...

We all flow down here, yes.

We’ll fix your box with any grade of sand as long as it’s concrete. Or something.