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LitRPG has just not been my thing. I tried several highly recommended ones and none worked. Of course, I’m almost entirely ignorant of their pop culture references and don’t enjoy playing the kinds of games they’re riffing on, so, like, big surprise? Signed, Old Fart

Not my invention, but such a great back-formation from “bozo”, isn’t it?

Let’s see, what do I have of note in my log… I’m currently reading Empire of Silence, the first volume of Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series. Enjoying it a lot so far. Lots of great very far future ambience like the Book of the New Sun without being nearly as dense prose-wise as Wolfe, and...

Some of the family stuff I’m working with got a level of agreement among involved folks I didn’t expect, with much less struggle than I expected. very welcome. Now there’s a lot of work still to actually do and a level of gratuitous bozosity among some folks that is draining and wearing. But it...

I like multiple degrees of success and failure, and don’t like multiple rolls. QuestWorlds and Fate both please me.

I switch my Kindle device and apps to sans serif fonts a couple years ago and it helped a lot. I’ve also kicked the font size up a little, and that also helps. I can read the next size down, but the larger one is just more comfortable and I can read a lot longer with it, and many fewer eye...

Yeah, I’ve got what I can use. I just have to spend a bunch of time lying down, a bunch of time still in bed while sitting up, and a bunch of time sitting in one room or another at home without moving much. As Thomas Shay said, I’ve had various serious problems since I was 15, in 1980. This...

A random bit of actually relevant humor: there is another Bruce Baugh with a substantial bibliography. He’s a Canadian philosopher and professor. Party game for those familiar with my work at all: go to the Atlantic article in the OP, scroll down to the LibGen search tool, and put in my time...

I’d love to, but since the sudden onset of orthostatic hypertension in 2021, the longest I’ve been able to walk with a walker is 3 minutes; on my own, about 15 steps. So I’d have to coordinate such things with my caregiver, and I’m not her only responsibility. And on like that.

He and no other!

I’ve got some family matters that are eating my time and emotions at a formidable rate. I know what it feels like when I’m on the edge of erupting in totally unearned flame at some random person online. Rather than do that, I’m gonna take a break and see if focusing extra attention on the...

Among others, both editions of Aventure do this, well not just to my own extremely biased take but that of a lot of happy customers, many of whom to gloriously deranged things with. (My personal favorite to read about was the campaign set in medieval Europe where the monastic orders all had...

I note that in every case where I’ve known people in the RPG world well enough to chat about what we play, everyone spends some time playing what they’re working on but also playing other stuff. White Wolf, Onyx Path, Green Ronin, etc, all often/usually have D&D games going on, for instance...

Scatman Crothers was the voice of Hong Kong Fuey.

Swiping from the right sort of people is a constructive act!

But this doesn’t at all describe a bunch of major games: RuneQuest, Traveller, Call of Cthulhu…even Blades in the Dark is more than a decade old.

That’s some seriously clever stuff, @Duke_ Thanks!

Doing anything different for solo play? Using any supplemental oracles or anything? I’ll be doing solo play myself, so I’m very curious.

Some scattered bits I like: 1. QuestWorlds leans really strongly into the play-to-find-out philosophy. In discussing character creation, it tells players to remember that nothing they write as backstory is true for the campaign until it matters in play. And this is one of the examples of...

I was in my twenties, and yeah. You could see where I’d been walking by the sparkling trail of fused brain bits.