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5th level! The only worse one was for Half-orc clerics, at level 4.

The Conan we see in some of the stories that chafes against the responsibilities of rulership, against death getting ever close with age, portraying that I think is the easy part. Getting the action right will be hard. Can Arnold still wield a sword believably? We shall see. Having to rely too...

Me too! I just heard about it listening to the Dystopia Now podcast... which I've been listening to for no particular reason, not at all.

Yeah, while I think some people might have not played a Dwarf of Halfling because some day they might hit a limit, I think for most it just didn't come up in play. I had one campaign that went long enough for it to matter. Far more odious were the limits to which classes they could be. It's...

I'm hopeful that it can happen. There's a ton of source material for older Conan. But what does an older movie-version of Conan look like? I feel like you'd need to draw more from Barbarian's interpretation rather than Destroyer. Look to Arnold's melancholic performance in Maggie rather than The...

There's so much you can do with it! Yeah, it's practically made for Rangers and Druids. And if I ever get around to running that all-dwarves campaign I've been dreaming of for decades, I can think of so many ways to incorporate the gems section. The hints and lore of it is pretty enticing. And...

In the DMG, I feel like there's so much that could be done with the Reputed Magical Properties of Gems and Appendix J: Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Vegetables sections.

I find that while I can run using PDFs, if I want to learn and retain the information in the first place, I absolutely need a physical copy.

Some of it is luck, sure, but in a lot of ways, it's luck you make. You keep persisting in trying to find the right players, you don't tolerate bad behavior at your table. Even if you've been burned before, you still take that chance on a new player. You maintain and put the effort in to stay...

I quite like Hammerfast as a setting. It felt suitably dwarven while not just being a repeat of all the tropes we've seen before. The funny thing is, I completely missed its existence until years later, probably due to it getting lost in the firehose of product during the 4e era.

Nice....my original dice set is missing a couple, and I'm going to agree; I ate them. It wasn't that I was a little kid and lost them here and there (pretty sure one disappeared between the seats of the family woody wagon). I know that people make edible dice these days, but the inedible kind...

You ever look at particularly set of dice and you can exactly picture what they might taste like, what their texture would be, if you could actually eat them?

Nova has been sitting in my to-read for a while now. I really dug Babel-17, so I ought to get to it sooner rather than later.

My first real online experience was trying out Island of Kesmai in 1987, after reading about it in Dragon magazine. I remember being unimpressed with it, especially considering the expense of playing it. It wasn't until the mid-90s that I actively started going online. I still like his...

He's said that he never could've written Neuromancer had he actually understood how computers worked back then. All the first wave cyberpunk authors say that the only real punk rocker amongst them was John Shirley.

I finished Milan's The Cybernetic Shogun. Didn't like it as much as the Cybernetic Samurai. I feel like it had about 1-2 more POV threads than it needed. And it had a lot of unnecessary orientalist tropes. Now I'm reading The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan.

Always at level 1. I've done campaigns with advanced starts, and something often feels off with the characters' development. Missing out on those early levels skips a vital part of the experience. I also tend to find higher levels less interesting, so I'm in no rush to get there.

All of those are solid picks. If part of sci-fi's job is prescience (paired with commentary about the present), those all nailed it. What's fascinating to me is that, prior to Neuromancer, there were books that were so close to being the first true cyberpunk novel. But the vibes were just...

TIL that Mothra is a literary adaptation.