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I probably should post at some point. The Devil is Dead by R.A. Lafferty is, what would today be termed Urban Fantasy, but can comfortably be put in the same ballpark as Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury or There Are Doors by Gene Wolfe (which I am coincidentally reading to my...

This is a fascinating read, particularly if the accompanying RPG.net thread is included (start at page 1). I essentially accuse you of being in cahoots with a bunch of unpleasantly smelling shady characters that indulge in backhanded double-dealing and smear campaigns to advance their interests...

Lmao, I didn't refer to Pundo as your master bucko, I was well aware of your prior antipathy (and prior collaboration would have been highly unlikely in any case for ideological reasons). I'll try to be more explicit so as to avoid further confusion on your part. You strike me as a candidate for...

No. I do not abuse this site's admin powers for any reason. I have never felt the inkling to peek at everyone's covert information for nefarious purposes and I never will. If I get absolutely fed up I might do the odd edit or silly title but revealing or misappropriating information is another...

NuSR is a term floating around the internet for a while. It's a semi-arbitrary delineation between different generations of OSR games like ACKS or DCC and the newer stuff coming around like Troika, Mork Borg, Mothership, Into the Odd etc. etc. There probably is some sort of hard point of...

Pangs for those lost, joyous, childhood days. It turned to rot, but what guffaws were had, and what great Beasts were hunted. So then. I once wrote an essay where I lambasted the idiotic foundations of Artpunk and lamented its corrosive effects upon the hobby but I deleted it because it was...

Real life timekeeping is only a useful tool to coordinate mutiliple groups exploring the same persistent world. In single group campaigns it is an uneccessary restriction. People have been bugging me to do a thematic analysis of Maze of the Blue Medusa but it really does not extend beyond the...

There are Eyes that see in places that are hidden. Little birds that listen and watch where I go not. A sly indirect comparison, off-handed. Your tutors have taught you well. You are incorrect. The term has always been incoherent and used to describe an aesthetic and a social club more then a...

The reason the exploits of these Intellectual Gaynors of the Damned should provoke such mirthful contempt is that, despite their aspirations of becoming the Intelligentsia of a movement that succeeded where they failed, and only started failing once they gained some small amount of traction , is...

The illumination of magic swords is not as high as that of torches or lanterns going by AD&D (and supposedly other rulesets). It IS helpful to always have a fallback though. Glimmerheim used to be the brightest star in the Polar Sea, its eternal festivities lit by everburning lamps during the...

I use a spreadsheet to auto-calc the sum and its effect on movement, which renders discrete encumbrance (egads! the bookkeeping nightmare!) possible, otherwise going for some sort of Lotfp/ACKS/Stars abstracted encumberance is the only way to fly. It really should be implemented as exploration...

This is exactly right and correct and it cannot reasonably be disputed based on some sort of vague prior track record. Gus has been a retainer of Ben L, part of the original artpunk guys as vaguely defined by Patrick Stuart. Articles are mentioned here and there but what is telling is OUTPUT...

The future trend is going to be AD&D or near adherents, with B/X remaining constant as it always does, with a strong focus on the original material, with the rest of the OSR fracturing as a result of the current paradigm abandoning the very essence that kept the game alive during the D20 years...

I don't want to be mean, but these sour grapes literally declare the OSR dead every year, this instance in particularly breezy, logghoreaic fashion. It is almost as if they were projecting some sort of inverted negative morality towards the hobby they pretend to inhabit.

They are a bit on the chubby side but that's okay after a couple of drinks.

The tell is that he has to grab little snippets and throwaway sentences here and there to justify a position while ignoring the strongest possible indicator, i.e., the many scenarios, official and fan-made, that were created during the classic era, as an indicator of how people actually played...

Use fake quotes as a stopgap solution.

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Traditional would be a softball in the beginning so as to indicate the shape or nature of the ensuing challenge, or perhaps a series of rumors/signs to forewarn clever players, with a series of encounters/challenges of gradually increasing difficulty as they progress deeper into the dungeon...

Correct, but we are talking peak performance here. Nowadays it is painfully easy to get a consensus view on what is the best stuff, and if you want to inject a bit more time, you can consult some sort of review blog.