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My big wish is an epic campaign with minimal fighting, which unfortunately lets out almost everything published. It’s possible there are enough flexible adventures for The One Ring to do the job. Maybe also for Kult. But so many great adventures come fenced by necessary violence, which I’m just...

Yes. They took the opportunity to give it a thorough overhaul.

There’s a lot to be said for a very simple gag executed flawlessly.

I’d lean toward Pet Semetary as the more developed work, but Salem’s Lot is overall very good and turns out to feed into later streams in King’s work. They’re both great.

• Freeform traits in a 1-20 scale, with levels of mastery do 21-40, 41-60, etc. anything you can solve problems with can be a trait, and voice versa. • opposed d20 v d20 rolls, with degrees of success (fumble, fail, succeed, crit), conflict resolution. • Like Pendragon (it’s a...

Naturally I’m going to say QuestWorlds, and mention that Loner has a good dungeon fantasy book. To take things in a different direction, Adventure and Leverage provide good support for dungeon leaping, swinging, and generally carrying on instead of crawling. You’ve got the tools for disguises...

This sounds great.

Fate makes a handy framework for this. The survival horror chapter of the Fate Horror Toolkit also works for survival nom-horror, with some really ingenious sub-systems: https://fate-srd.com/fate-horror-toolkit/chapter-6-high-cost-living The same mechanics would slide well into any game where...

I read Thomas Ligotti and Eugene Thacker and history. I do grimdark. But I do appreciate advance comments like that, because sometimes I need something else at a particular moment. @Parmandur I’ll be interested in your reaction. Katabasis is here in my queue too.

I agree so much. Various regulars here have favorite authors whose works do nothing for me. So I don’t comment on them. Who needs it? Likewise, folks have been very kind in my rambling on about weird books and subjects, and I appreciate it. I’m pretty good on philosophy, including a bunch of...

Well, okay, then. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/542469/plan-9-from-outer-space-the-game-a-science-fiction-gothic-horror-cult-film-rpg-with-everything-needed-to-play

This is why they’ve become essential for me, or at least the #1 reason for it. My brain is finicky, and too many fine books on my shelves tsk literally 5-10 times longer to read then the same text in a configured-for-Bruces reader. My Kindle library runs to several thousand volumes, about half...

So true about volume lengths. Amazon has the Henderson omnibii; dunno who else does.

There’s a matching volume, Believing, with all of her non-People stories.

That sounds like a Howard Waldrop story to go with his “Heart of Whitenesse”, which is about Christopher Marlowe as if he were Philip Marlowe. Oh yes. I love that kind of book. There’s now Ingsthering, an omnibus of all the People stories.

Yeah, the Thomas Aquinas fandom is certainly something. True. Probably. I try to allow room for exceptions to my pessimism. There are a couple brief hints of speculation that exploded reactor was doing something unusual - different fuel and/or methods, so that it wasn’t just generic...

This is great stuff. Thanks for the link!

This has been baffling me ever since my teenage first encounters with various fandoms. “Hi, I spent a bunch of money in this thing, can anybody tell me about it?” I was raised to ask that question before the spending part. Is it just that I never had huge quantities of free spending money? Did...