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Promethean: The Created. The PCs are constructed beings - like Frankenstein’s monster, the golem, animated mannequins, etc - questing to grow a soul and become human. It’s pretty bleak, but there’s room for good outcomes. Deviant: The Renegades. The PCs were normal people before being warped...

CoC the system definitely doesn’t need combat, but CoC adventures and campaigns pretty much all assume you do, and lots of it. There’s a real lack of good examples to draw on. I would pounce on a book about CoC without fighting that had examples and helpful discussion. Various universal systems...

Wikipedia on James Ellroy: He often employs a sort of telegraphese (stripped-down, staccato-like sentence structures), a style that reaches its apex in The Cold Six Thousand. Ellroy describes it as a "direct, shorter-rather-than-longer sentence style that's declarative and ugly and right there...

Yes, this is a particularly good example. The origin stories are pretty terrible, as are too many of the stories written. But the ones written earlier were right up there with Our Lady of Darkness and The Big Time. @Reynard , I’m enthusiastic about Ttiphy, if that helps place it. :)

It helps with a lot of these to get hooked on it in one’s midteens, when one is stupid and gullible less experienced in the world and prose. Particularly if those midteens were several decades ago. There are modern authors who carry forward the core concepts but with more clues about various...

I Ching hexagram 61: inner truth revealed.

The best starting point for Moorcock is Elric in publication order.

BookTubers who do these things are coming up on the 2025 Read What You Own challenge, with on official start date of November 5th. I tanked on my solo attempt earlier this year, but oddly enough, my increased level of stress makes me keen to try again. I like reading and enjoy having something...

No kidding. I could argue religious doctrine, major party politics, or compiler preferences for this much bitterness!

I was just reminded of something about naming versions while sorting and tagging books in my Kindle. If you’re following any current/recent fiction series where novels are flanked by interstitial novellas and short stories, it’s become very common for them to get decimal numbers. One novella...

Color me curious how that goes. I’ve been thinking about staking out required reading time before picking up my phone for anything but medical business

I give you Clive Barker, at the beginning of Weaveworld: Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the...

I’d put Chivalry & Sorcery 1st edition up against it and win :) but yeah, it’s an amazingly dense book.

The Starving Saints, by Caitlin Starling. Oh, wow. Okay, let me expand on that. This is medieval fantasy horror in the vein of C.L. Moore’s Jirel of Joiry and Clark Ashton Smits Averoigne: medieval culture but its own religion and history, and there’s magic. The characters are trapped in a...