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I, um, am not unacquainted with doing that at the library.

If you do, I hope you get to enjoy it more this time around.

Clearly not true fo the vast majority of humanity’s existence. We’re biased by writing and durable artifacts. (This is of course a stance oblivious to things like other people existing here and now and concerned about the world they exist in and will exist in in the future, and about the world...

Intriguing. I’ll have to check that out.

Yeah. And, at least on the channels I’ve looked at, going directly from one episode to the next without any break at all is kind of weird.

I have the same feeling, @Nikosandros If they add a digital option, I’ll be on it.

For various sorts of deep-diving geeks, Tubi is the essential companion to one or more of the major services. It has weirdly deep libraries in a bunch of genres/categories, and seems to handle its ads better than anyone else.

Okay, KOKOTÖNA is something I’ve wished for for years: more games building fantasy out of pre-Columbian materials, by people with more clues than I have. I fell on it with glad little cries. Thank you for pointing it out!

The Long Earth, The Long War, The Long Mars, The Long Utopia, and The Long Cosmos, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. This is in some ways a very odd series - bit in content, but in structure. It really needs an omnibus, because although it’s published in five volumes, it’s as much a single...

I’m a big alternate history fan but not thinking of any others.

I, uh, I’ve never seen myself doing that. No sir. No acquaintance with that behavior at all. I was at a Mark Rothko exhibit at the time.

Oh yes. I went a long time before really realizing how much decision paralysis can plow me under. Now I look out for it, but still get sandbagged sometimes. It shapes my game play, and has led to more and more of my PDF library is in offsite backup rather than here in my devices.

Sean Tomkin, who wrote Ironsworn and Starforged, collaborated on solo modes for Th One Ring and its Moria supplement. Free Leagues has included them for several of its lines. This makes me happy; I like to read about folks dabbling with solo play while continuing to enjoy their groups. It’s very...

Well, come on. How can anyone not be annoyed with the discussion of post-9/11 policy priorities with regard to…oh, this isn’t about the 5th edition of Roderick Nash’s (excellent, seminal) Wilderness And The American Mind? That may explain some of my infractions over the years.

This is among the reasons I’m enjoying solo play. You can sometimes get a group in sync for such things, but it’s unreliable, to put it mildly. https://zotiquest.substack.com/p/notes-on-making-loner-cozy-fantasy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2ac773&triedRedirect=true This happens to...

A lot of solo play happiness seems to be finding oracles that mesh well with your particular imagination.

You can get Ironsworn for free at Drive Thru and Ironsworn.com. Besides the price, it has some advantages: it’s gorgeous. It’s extremely well-written. And it’s stuffed with examples - it’s 400 digest-sized pages, maybe 20 of rules and the rest examples and generators, random tables for every...

Beowulf does it well.

I’m going to! I had several years of less and less gaming thanks to family demands and declining physical and mental health. Then several years of no gaming at all during after drastic physical collapse. I still can’t play with others, but have found may way to good times with solo play. There...

Unwatch is my friend, but it can only help me when I actually give it a call. It won’t intrude uninvited, which is nice, but does put a certain burden on me.