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I can’t say I’m a fan of his, but his novelette “Sandkings” is really good- it won a Hugo & a Nebula. It was originally published in Omni magazine, then in a couple of collections, and has been adapted for visual media at least once- it was the first episode of the 1995 Outer Limits series...

Yep!

Torchy’s? As in the Austin taco chain?

@Morrus Question: have you ever seen the Central Casting books from Task Force Games? They’re long out of print, but they were essentially books of genre specific tables to roll on to flesh out character backgrounds (and, to a certain extent, equipment lists).

I’ve never cured anything, so I’m going out on a limb doing this, and in on a timeline that doesn’t leave much room for error. At best, I estimate I’d have two good dry runs to figure out the flavor. And yeah, ingredients flavors & chemical effects in a recipe can vary greatly depending on how...

You should figure out what it is. If you’re not using it, you could gift it to another player or sell it on Reverb.com. Some older pedals are commanding STUPID prices.

The main logistical concern is TIME. There’s at least one ingredient- pink pickling salt- which is REQUIRED according to all the recipes I’ve seen, and isn’t what you’re thinking it could be. There are no lsubstitutes. Which means I have to get my hands on some- as well as some other esoteric...

One piece of older tech I’m “worried” about losing eventually is my iPad2.* My current iPad blows it away, so why does it matter? Because I also own a DigiTech iPB-10, which is a multieffects pedal for guitar that uses an iPad or iPad 2 as its control panel/user interface. It seemed like a...

I usually use a store-bought corned beef for beer-braising, but I may learn how to corn beef from scratch this year. The reason: I haven’t seen any in stores. My local places usually have a small supply year ‘round, but I haven’t even seen a gap where they SHOULD be in the meat department of...

Shirley Raines has died. https://www.ktsm.com/news/tiktok-star-and-homeless-advocate-ms-shirley-found-dead-in-nevada/amp/

TBH, that might not have been a typo. EDIT: seems I was correct!

I’d say your players are your auditors. If they’re having fun, you’ve passed your audit.

I can agree with that.

Three Wings for the tailgaters under the sky, Seven for the bar-lords in their boozy halls, Nine for morsel men hooked on pie, One for the Sauce Lord behind dark walls In the time of football when the chickens die. One Wing to rule them all, One Wing to boss them, One Wing to bring them all, and...

We had an old Apple laptop for business use that I had eventually loaded with a couple of old FPS games. We junked it at a tech recycling place last summer. …and 2 days later, I realized that I could have wiped the business stuff from the drive and completely repurposed it as a retro gaming...

Funny story: the Marantz belonged to my Dad. He was assembling HIS component stereo system, but balked at the price of the Bose 901s he really wanted. He “made do” with the Marantz for a few years until he finally broke down and bought some 901s, relegating the Marantz to end tables. The 901s...

Well, sorta. AD&D’s MM was first released in 1977, and the PHB in ‘78. So I’m probably misremembering the date, because I had both when we started.

In all probability, the very first game of AD&D in 1977- my gateway to the hobby- was probably run RAW. But I have no way of knowing. Since I started DMing, I’ve probably never run a campaign in any edition that was RAW. Most game systems I’m running for the first time, I probably run RAW or...

Ignoring simple tools? We have a windup chiming wall clock made in Germany in the mid-1970s. My Marantz stereo speakers date from the same time, as does my TEAC microphone.

If I were to create a lifepath system mechanism for use in an RPG, idle probability give most or even every character building option some kind of bonus to selecting subsequent options. IOW, they wouldn’t have a direct effect on combat or skill rolls in and of themselves; they would ONLY have...