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Too late. Prior art. The Rashomon effect (or principle) has been out as public term since about 1982.

This poor young woman's death once again reminds me why I live in a place where the air makes my face hurt for part of the year.

When I got it was the summer of 1981 and I was 12. I got the keys to the car from my mother, went out to the parking lot, and just started reading it. I remember thinking it was so in-depth about specifics compared to the Holmes Basic edition that my friend had.

This was a birthday gift from my elder daughter. So it's now on one (of many) of our bookshelves.

My wife and I just finished Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire by Don Martin. Now, we've started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. And on the side, I've started Antony Beevor's The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II, which I just got last night as a belated...

I purchased this bad boy at my local Waldenbooks (and by local I mean 20 miles from home).

When I first saw the picture of the library conference room, I thought, "That kind of screams New England." Then I saw that you're in Fairfield, CT. So, yeah, picturesque location.

I think it would be hard for me to think of an edition change that was a downgrade across the board. There may be aspects that were a downgrade, others a lateral-grade, and others an upgrade. I have an easier time thinking of something as, broadly, an upgrade even if there are a few things it...

I try to at least give the game a go by RAW before I start making house rules. I figure I should give it a try as written to the best of my ability so I have an inkling of how it's supposed to work.

And the fundamental difference between the portents and doom of this Threat that's going to intersect a bunch of their priorities and a chain of events set out (under the presumption that the PCs are going to somehow interact with them) is what exactly? You're characterizing the plot set out as...

This all kind of underscores the fundamental uselessness of the whole "play to find out" statement as a practical matter. As if any RPG can't lay claim to that statement. Whether it's no prep or extensive prep, RPGs have pretty much always been about playing to find out what happens, what the...

I bought Alice is Missing today. The latest episode of Ludo Narrative Dissidents podcast is about it and it sounded intriguing.

Wedding crashers slay every guest

I think it's kind of a bizarre position as well since they're really effective at giving different classes different feels. They're not particularly elegant and, for a designer, that may chafe. But functional trumps elegant, as far as I'm concerned.

Well, that was another thread shot straight to hell.

Marvel 1602 was really good. If you can find it in a used bookstore or some other way that doesn't give Neil Gaiman any money, I'd recommend it.

If the people giving it a bad rep online weren't participating in the community, that would be true. But fact is, they are. And though they may be avoidable through my effort, I'm not really nostalgic enough for the OSR values of play to go to that effort.

I don't think there are broad swathes of media I refuse to partake in - like it's something that's anathema to me. I played Magic back in fairly early days and had some fun for a while, but then stopped and haven't significantly gone back - so it's not like I refuse to play collectible card...