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This is much too close to all-purpose, like all-spice except no pie was ever improved by it.

I’m a big fan of in-world groups that lie across class lines, and vice versa. This sounds very pleasing.

I know a bunch of people who immerse easily and deeply into Starfinder’s style of science fantasy. And plenty who don’t. Immersion is a weird and complicated thing; I find it best to be happy for those who want and get it for a game, sad for those who want but don’t get it, and pretty much let...

The goddess of defenestration never closes a door without opening a window.

Great opening sentences, today featuring Peter H. Wilson’s Europe’s Tragedy: The Thirty Years War—

This is all well and good, but it has nothing to do with - totally fails to engage with - what I want to talk about, which the possibilities for low-tech bicycling in various climatological, geographical, and ecological conditions. I can’t wait for you to finish your tedious irrelevancy, so I’ll...

Since 2005, D&D has been primarily a mix of Late Classic Maya and Southern Yuan dynasty bolter porn. Everyone knows this and I trust I won’t have to say any more about it.

You’re probably right. Shorter series would be nice, though.

I would love to see Prince Valiant support, like the PV equivalent of the Great Pendragon Campaign.

Yes, they grow and then stray that large all winter, too.

For me, at least, mind control is part of a distinct realm of experience people normally never enter, and I prefer that using it bring its innately eerie nature into play. In my daydreams, all magic (psi, etc) would have the quality Dan Simmons evokes in his novel The Hollow Man: This is...

I prefer to lean away from anything that feels like making mind control okay, and fill up the opened space with resources for changing minds and winning support that don’t hit my “that’s transgressive” alarms. On the one hand, this includes various sorts of persuasion; on the other hand, it...

No you don’t, I assure you. Understanding of Affliction recedes like like when you’re trying to escape a black hole. :)

It’s hard, and I’m really fortunate in many ways, including Mom retain her sunny nature, without any of the bitter mean attitude that hits a lot of people get with dementia. As for Cisco: his novel The Divinity Student is a common, good starting point, and so is his short story collection...

I hit a DNF (did not finish), and don’t think it was primarily the books’s fault: Black Brane, by Michael Cisco. Cisco is an American writer of weird fiction at level of genius comparable to China Mieville and the like, though far less generally famous. I really like his work. This is his brand...

All also true! (And margraves, who has such a cool title.).

The ability of upper classes to murder people in lower classes actually varied a bunch by time and place. The Holy Roman Empire had a court system that did make it feasible for commoners to press complaints against nobles, and to win; it aimed explicitly at resolutions everyone could live with...

I am enamored of warlocks in 5e because the pact concept go in so many different directions, from Elric to Faust to Dorothy Gayle to Old Castro (the HPL one, not the one the CIA tried to de-beard) to whatever. I’m really easy to seduce with mechanics that a) hook up really strongly to world and...