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I’ve been lectured by one of Gygax’s original players and one of Barker’s about how having a book/author as an inspiration has no implication at all that you may want to have anything from them in your play. At all. Ever. Both were completely baffled at the idea that you’d read a book and think...

It is okay to feel weak. Be honest with yourself about it, and then with others. Would you like some wish fulfillment? Ask for it. Spell it out. Do you want a different kind of challenge than your gaming normally centers on? Ask for it. Spell it out. If you are playing with people you...

Loner 2nd edition and a couple of setting packs for it. It’s a solo-oriented RPG drawing on Freeform Universal and some other inspirations (all fully credited, which makes me happy). I like that all its traits are qualitative - I’m in a phase of liking as few quantities as possible. Conflict is...

…with regard to how quickly you can get a plumber to make a house call.

That seems like a lot to dump on the poor guy. (We go on to discover that William Lee’s wife has been shooting up with the bug powder. “It’s a very literary high. A Kafkaesque high. It makes you feel like a bug.” But it’s the front part of this scene I was thinking of.)

It’s answering the question in the most self-evident and useful yet unexpected way.

And yet all sf is actually cozy romances and cookbooks. This puzzle has not yet been adequately explained.

Mr. Cash makes a fine appearance in this.

I have two now-older anime series I recommend to people who don’t like a bunch of common anime motifs. Planetes is a hard sf series. The opening shows a horrendous orbital disaster wiping out everyone on board an orbital shuttle. The nations of earth establish an international project to clean...

On the other hand, who remembers the Raiders of the Lost Ark poster, other than the logo type? Things stick or don’t for a combination of cultural context, their design, and the whim of the gods.

Me examining long threads when my brain meats are floppy and tired:

Not just there. I’ve run into it with a friend of the GM or another player and with a casual acquaintance as we got to know each better, and with a long-time acquaintance responding to a new diagnosis or someone getting sick after the group’s been going a while.

People who are convinced they’re too savvy to let their table mates be gullibly exploited with obviously fake diseases. I have personally encountered dismissals of the following: Chronic fatigue syndrome, and now long COVID Mental illness of various sorts A wide variety of disabilities that are...

I’ve seen almost all of these break groups apart, temporarily and also for good. But I’ve seen groups survive almost all of these, too. It’s not about the topic of the problem, it’s about how the people involved solve problems, or don’t.

I had the same immediate reaction. This is the Blade Runner game I want.

Me too. Both the trying and the failing. I like to focus my attention on the people who write things that do some combination of interest and entertain me.