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Red Nails is such a great story. Shame that the animated version with Ron Perlman voicing Conan never saw the day.

Yeah, those are kinda what they say they are on the tin. If you show up to an adventure title Queen of Spiders, it should come as no surprise that there are spiders involved. If it's just some random Adventurers League con slot that just so happens to have drow and spiders show up, then that's...

I've been using Genepy for green (it lacks the orange notes, however, so maybe a dash of orange bitters would help) and Strega for yellow. Speaking of which, I picked up an older cocktail guide from the 80s and it had a few drinks that called for orange Chartreuse. I had never heard of it...

Good point. Dragons show up a bunch in Appendix N besides Tolkien. Just not in Howard and Leiber (unless you count the dinosaurs of Conan).

I loved all the weird gangs in the story, like the Zombie Analytics. I've had Trouble and Her Friends sitting on my Kindle for ages. Long overdue for me.

That's one of the things about being a good player in organized play - you need to balance playing your character and playing ball with the adventure. Same goes for regular at-home play, but doubly so for con games.

I finished Kadrey's Metrophage. Dug it, and how the grime and grit of the world practically oozed off the page. Wasn't expecting the Zen themes in it, but they helped elevate the book. Now I'm finally getting to Melissa Scott's Trouble and Her Friends.

Love that Morrissey cover. The blend of genres and times really gives it an otherworldly feel. Yeah, it's one big stew. The wargaming inspirations are there, too - implicit in the higher level domain game. Were D&D solely Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, you wouldn't have dragons, for example.

Also, that's from Crimes of the Future, right? Great work from Cronenberg, hearkening back to his older body horror.

I've had instances where people have clearly not understood what "AL legal" meant, or outright lied about it. The arguing about the stat blocks is metagaming, plain and simple. I hate when people do that. Heck, I was at a con playing 1e, and someone at the table would crack open the Monster...

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Wow, I cannot imagine someone trying that at an AL table. And then trying a "Speak to the Manager" move! I knew a player that would do stuff, not quite that bad, but purposefully disruptive to the session and campaign goals. His thinking was that if you were a good GM, you would be able to roll...

Ugh, yeah. Also when it's 10pm and we've been playing for four hours already, I am going to be tired and ready to go back to my hotel room. I feel hard-pressed to think of a scenario where, I don't know, clowns or spiders are required to be there. Like, fine, it's a bunch of Shakespearean...

Even if your slot stays as listed, I'd recommend planning on finishing early. Most people won't complain about having more time in-between con slots so they don't have to rush to their next event. Going over the allotted time on the other hand, can put a squeeze on the players. And not to speak...

Yeah, the Borg system is pretty easy to hack. And I'm sure there are already plenty of fan-made classes for it. To incorporate the magic of Shadowrun, it would also be easy to poach some stuff from Mork Borg. Though I think you probably are going to get an even skuzzier vision of the future than...

The music of the character generator lives rent-free in my head. Also "click here to turn off my annoying voice."

Shadowrun: Anarchy is a decent choice. Even though it can be run GM-less, it can also be used as a rules-lighter alternative to Shadowrun. I might also add Cy_Borg.

Digging it so far. I discovered the book when a scan of an article on cyberpunk from the 90s appeared on my Tumblr. Metrophage was barely discernable in the image, but it was only one I wasn't familiar with.

I finished reading Sterling's Schismatrix. It was good sci-fi, but I wouldn't necessarily classify it as cyberpunk. Now I'm reading Richard Kadrey's Metrophage.

I was completely oblivious to it. I was deep in grad school and hadn't gamed in about 2-3 years. I wouldn't discover that there was a new edition until early 2002, when I picked up an issue of Dragon magazine I saw in a magazine rack on a whim.