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Me too! I can look at my shelves and see books both famous and obscure, and recall moments I read them hither and yon. And they were. No joke, an important part of the mid-20th century mass democratic culture. When it became easy for people to read great literature, political philosophy, etc...

Yes. Cumulative effects take their toll, like acceleration to terminal velocity. And to note again, yes, ebooks played a part, but in a world where the Palm, Newton, etc, died without successors, the key factors would still be there. Ebooks have been a handy excuse at least as much as a cause...

As someone who personally reads nearly exclusively in digital forms, this has always been my take. There’s a vocal minority of digital readers who want physical books to go away, but I was never one of them and in fact spent time while active on social media arguing with them. I love physical...

I like resource management at the level of Ironsworn’s Supply trait. It’s on a 1-5 scale and covers most consumables. What’s interesting is that you sometimes have the option and sometimes have to lose some of it in combats going badly, injury, travel mishaps, and the like. And it’s included as...

They did. It took at least a century for there to be a solid scholarly and collector consensus in favor of the printed word without major detractors.

In Cthulhu Dark, which is the foundation for Trophy, combat with other humans is resolved in a simple set of rolls. Trying to fight monsters get you killed. You need to try something else.

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.