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Ooh, that sounds up my alley. Yeah, that safe stuff had some serious deep cuts. And it was written before the internet of today would've made research easy.

I finished reading Womack's Ambient. It's a challenging dystopian read, but really good. It's a bit like putting Riddley Walker, A Clockwork Orange and Naked Lunch in a blender. Only, someone else also snuck the works of Shakespeare into it. Now I'm reading the double novel of The Girl Who Was...

From what I've heard, it'll also have some more cosmetic content and even some new sidequests. Exciting!

It reminds me quite a bit of the interim stage of Brundlefly from Cronenberg's The Fly remake. While I kinda like how it plays up the body horror aspect of lycanthropy, it's still an off-putting cover.

A&E is worthy of preservation, but the volume and sheer number of contributors could make it soooo difficult. I think for that they'd have to pull out the implied setting stuff (Bugs! Technos! Shardra the Castrator!) and build it up from there. If the OAR line is going to continue without...

As a player, I care about the cosmology only as much as it makes the world feel more lived in and if I'm going to go on adventures in those places. As a GM, I love reading about extraplanar stuff.

The number of people that are unaware of or don't care about the controversy probably outweighs those that care positively or negatively. And that is unfortunate, but probably not unexpected. Arduin Grimoire springs to mind.

Archer: Fugitive of the Empire is one of the few 80s fantasy movies I haven't seen!

Going into the 70s, there was a ton of fantasy in the air. It translated to fiction, naturally. But also art and music. The world was primed for D&D to enter the scene. There's a powerful documentary on Michelle Remembers, called Satan Wants You. I've read Michelle Remembers, and it shocks on...

Back in the day, probably because it was a box office bomb. These days, with all the people that grew up on it and the general 80s nostalgia, it really seems like it should. See, for the Neverending Story, I think part of its appeal is the mystery. For every bit it explains, there's something...

I totally forgot about Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. Yeah, there was some heartbreaking stuff in there. With The Elfish Gene, I got the feeling that even after giving up D&D, he was still a bit of a wanker. At the time, I think these books were all tentative steps in the examination of D&D...

T&T represented an ahead-of-its-time simplification, when a lot of companies (including TSR) were about to make their games more complicated.

It's been a hot minute since I read it, but that tracks. I think a lot of us still carried that stigma gaming had during our youth at that point.

I read Of Dice and Men when it was new. I think it hit differently, because back then there weren't that many book speaking about D&D and being a gamer. Jon Peterson's Playing At the World had only come out the year before. The Elfish Gene had come out in 2007, but there was a certain sourness...

Dark Crystal and Labyrinth both got RPGs, and I can see the clear reasoning behind those. Now, if there's any other 80s fantasy movie that deserves its own RPG that doesn't have one, I'd say it's Krull. It's got clearly defined species, classes, monsters, magic items. It's got a clear villains...

At the time, you could flip a coin between blaming heavy metal or D&D. Or have it land on its edge and blame both.

Deathstalker 2 is a hoot (though still problematic). Deathstalker 1 is pretty vile. The rest are forgettable. Supposedly there's a remake being made, which is...surprising. If I wanted to play a Deathstalker RPG, I'd just get a time machine and import a teenager into heavy metal and D&D from...

For a lot of AD&D's more complicated mechanics, yeah, we just defaulted to how Basic D&D did things.

Sorry, but that's arguing semantics. If Goodman Games were to pay a license to publish my old world of Nevere as a setting, people would say "Goodman Games is working with Ralif Redhammer." Followed by "Who in the world is Ralif Redhammer?"

In his book The Dungeon Master, William Dear does sort-of recant. But by then, four years after James Dallas Eggbert III died by suicide, it was way too late. I totally remember the whole Proctor & Gamble thing being on the news when I was a kid! Didn't it recently come to light from the guy...