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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?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1204/1547118-watch-tcd-debuts-worlds-first-film-in-ancient-sumerian/

This one comes via John Scalzi:

I just learned about this this morning.

Cotton’s thoughts deserve expression too, you tissueist bigot.

Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg, the basis for the movie Angel Heart. It’s 1959, and private eye Harry Angel is hired to find a jazz singer who dropped out of sight during World War II. Complications ensue. There’s black magic in the midst of things, and a revelation about why Angel is...

“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only moi.”

Play at least once each month. Test out some of the solo games and supplements I haven’t yet but that look appealing and viable. Continue reading fiction and nonfiction that inspires gaming thoughts in me. Ditto for horror and sf fiction podcasts. Goal rather than resolution: based on all...