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Hello, Chris! I just wanted to show you you’re not alone. If you zoom in to the picture below, you’ll see 1.5 shelves of RIFTS (and other Palladium RPG) sourcebooks partially obscured by my bass: I said for years that someone should buy Sembieda out and give the setting a better set of...

What, nobody wants to mention RIFTS? It’s definitely post-Apoc, mixes sci-fi & fantasy, and essentially has a kitchen sink approach to world building. There’s loads of sourcebooks. Even if you don’t like the system, there’s a lot of yoinkable material to work with.

Well, I never looked at the rankings myself, even when I played in the tournaments. But M:tG created the CCG market, as I recall, so there was an element of greed hard baked into its foundation.🤷🏾‍♂️

Saw this, thought of @Snarf Zagyg https://imgur.com/gallery/baby-snarf-t2ph6ck

For some reason, I head this one as spoken by Gene Wilder. I heard that second one in Andre the Giant’s voice.

Opinions held by famous people are still just opinions.🤷🏾

Our oven died during the height of the pandemic. It took MONTHS for the replacement to arrive. The guy tasked with the delivery and Installation pulled the dead unit partly out to see what was behind it and found DANGLING LIVE WIRES with EXPOSED TIPS. They weren’t part of the oven’s power...

I get questions like this often enough that I just started a list in my Notes App: Ben Bova The Grand Tour David Brin Uplift Saga Harry Turtledove Darkness Saga Kristine Katherine Rusch The Retrieval Artist CJ Cherryh Foreigner Barbara Hambly has made a name for herself in genre fiction, but...

On a lighter note… I am a halfling thief Capable of stealing improbable things I am a halfling thief Capable of stealing improbable things I am a halfling thief Capable of stealing improbable things I am a halfling thief Capable of stealing improbable things Ooooohhhhh There’s filchable...

Again, though, reliving your experiences with bullies & other problematic people before your adult intellect had a meaningful impact on improving your outcomes would be stressful. Ditto reliving certain tragedies you’d have little chance- if any- of averting would likewise be difficult. And of...

There was a topic that generated a LOT of attention a decade ago+ ago that touched on my professional experiences. At the time, I’d get involved in every thread involving that topic. This was very much me: After months of this, I made one big summation of my position and posted it in the...

https://imgur.com/gallery/ducks-strolling-through-hydrangea-kETrCiU#X5HPC2E

No joke, when I was a teenager, I was an usher at my city’s local theater group’s performance of “Taming of the Shrew” as a western, complete with thick drawls. It was brilliant! Petrucio to Katherina, “Whut, with mah tung in yer tayul?”

That almost reads like stage direction. Exits, pursued by Bards.