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This song is new to me; I’ve learned it was written in 1980 by Jonna Lewie. I am not surprised Marillion fancied it for their new Christmas album.

You definitely can, and it’s fun. Players gain a wider range of options for dealing with challenges, so caper movie-style stealth and disguise become solid options if thy build characters that way. Likewise for caving mastery and whatever else.

Modern technology is great for horror. See Mike Flanagan’s movie Oculus for a laundry list of swipable moments. Phone calls and web searches that gradually reveal themselves to be all wrong are favorite effects of mine. Characters can experience right in the middle of a familiar city, and even...

Yow. A nap sounds like a really good idea.

No, stents are purely mechanical, physically propping arteries after they’ve gotten closed by congestion. A couple of mine turned out to be 80% congested. Bow just one is, and they’ll give it the business I. A couple-three weeks.

I keep finding it fascinating that we and other species actually do have a nature that works better with some choices than others.

I had one day and night of finding out out many times one person (in particular, me) can vomit and pee in one day and night. Then I got better. Autonomic nervous troubles are weird. I’m mending and already seeing some hoped-for improvements that should last for the long term. These are cool...

I promised someone here I’d take a look at The Darkness Comes Before, now that I’m out of the hospital with a new stent in my heart, I’m able to do that. I have two comments, one more serious than the other. 1. This man may love his diacritcal marks a little too much. Just in the first couple...

It is very different. :) it makes very few concessions to conventional ways of making RPGsi n favor of turning wholeheartedly toward stories, backed with a great deal of thought and helpful advice.

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I like d10s and d6s. I also like 2d20 when generating percentiles. I have no real interest in the others, and antipathy for d4s.

I remember Dad sort of resenting having to dig out his immediately-post-WW2 (Caltech class of 1946) linear algebra when working on ranging systems for Voyager’s encounter with Jupiter. He felt that a proper frame of reference wouldn’t require that. :) But his bosses at JPL hadn’t put him in...

She’s not unaware of gaming, though I can’t remember if she plays. But she just keeps being really, really busy. Her book Inventing the Renaissance is kind of a spin-off of a research project that’s still ongoing, I think, which involves a lot of travel for on-site examinations and a lot of...

What, starting now? Without any warning or warmup or warning or W words?