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I didn't play it, but lived in Burlington VT in the mid-90s. I knew a guy who was a barista at a large now-defunct coffee shop (Samsara) who ran a Vampire LARP from the coffee shop. IIRC, he told me there were 50+ people involved (or maybe 150! I just remember "fifty" being part of the...

I'm thinking of getting rid of Peacock. I held onto it because it is so cheap, but damn, the commercials are out of control. I still think Apple is the "new HBO": the best overall quality, but with limited output. That is, Apple in 2025 is sort of like HBO in 2010. It even has its "must-watch...

From a thread in Geek Media, I've idly been considering giving solo gaming a shot. I don't really have the time or interest to join or start a gaming group, but I have fond memories of late nights win the 80s and maybe 90s of running myself through the Random Dungeon Generator of the 1E DMG...

My story is vaguely similar to @Dannyalcatraz. For me, though, gaming has always been a fluctuation in interest and whether I'm actively playing or not. Since I started playing in the early 80s, I would go through a few years of an active campaign, then a few years where I wasn't playing, but...

Wow - impressive work, @Echohawk . Without having read the entire thread, I'm wondering if this question has been asked: How much would it cost now, in 2025, to collect every official product ever published? Meaning, If it would have cost $23,000 to collect from 1974-2025, how much would it...

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I just got a nice box from Noble Knight: Coriolis: the Great Dark (Free League) Labyrinth Worldbook (Tales of the Valiant RPG | Kobold Press) Atlas of the Latter Earth (Worlds Without Number RPG | Sine Nomine) Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City 2E (Exalted Funeral Press) Out of the Ashes...

A universe in which people have different opinions and tastes.

I'd probably go: 1. 2001 - What hasn't been said? 2. Dr Strangelove - If only for the vital fluids; Peter Sellers was so damn good, but so is everyone else in this film 3. The Shining - Nicholson's performance is somewhat underrated at this point; still probably my favorite horror flick of all...

That Galadriel ever uttered the words, "I have a tempest in me."

There are only 30 or 40 actual tabletop rpg players. We just buy a lot of books.

Because Gygax. And really, it is quintessential Gygax: campy, a bit silly, but overall just fun in a I'm a bit of a square guy in the 70s, but am still taking in a bit of the funky psychedelia. As with anything D&D, the chromatic scheme is just default, not law. Do as thou wilt at thine own table.

There is accounting for taste. Some people just have bad taste.

Nice post. I did want to comment on your take of Frodo. I think part of Tolkien's point is that literally no one could have truly resisted the One Ring, which is why Gandalf and Galadriel refused it - they knew they'd eventually be corrupted, or at least be "benevolent fascists." Frodo did about...

That would make sense for Harn, as such a detailed and Medieval-realistic setting - so it probably drew a lot of the "world-builders first, gamers second" crowd of which I've always been a part of, even when I was more actively playing.

Not to veer too far from the thread topic, but what came to mind when I read this is that 4E combat was really fun at first, both in terms of when the edition came out and the first third of a given combat. But then it grew tiresome - again, both in terms of a long-term campaign and after the...

Wow, you sort of won the thread, @Retreater . I'd only add: Want to play fantasy RPG with a simple d20-based system and you ate and enjoyed psilocybin at some point and like a psychedelic 70s science fantasy tone, play Talislanta.