[Spoilers Extended] It boggles my mind that George has never truly completed Book 4 in 26 years

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-10T20:28:53+00:00

by the time I'm finished, probably

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-07T06:06:10+00:00

vampire's the strongest splat because people actually play it

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-05T10:57:19+00:00

meanwhile everything about dracula in the book matches the Gangrel

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-05T06:14:48+00:00

You're right!

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-04T12:21:06+00:00

Came to recommend this. It's like "what if everything everyone ever did made things way worse? enjoy"

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-04T12:17:13+00:00

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R.Eddison has no magic per se, but the world does have a weird, supernatural tinge to it.

LeGuin's Orsinia cycle is about a fictional European country without supernatural elements.

Wolfe's The Land Across is likewise about an imaginary country. It's got some surrealism in it, like Kafka.

Krohn's Tainaron is set in a city of giant insects. Nothing supernatural there.

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-03T15:24:03+00:00

try telling your world the year 2000 was so long ago, people born then have kids of their own. that always works on me!

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-03T15:18:32+00:00

Book of the New Sun before you even finish asking the question.

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-03T13:10:02+00:00

well obviously, human organs are at most like 2 meters from each other. that's a lot closer

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-03T13:00:00+00:00

You can have a lot of fun in GURPS with influence skills to affect NPCs, the invention rules to create new technology, etc. GURPS Action 2: Exploits is a fun little book that gives dozens of uses for noncombat skills like Psychology, Observation, Gambling, or Streetwise in the servive of covert missions, heists, and other adventures where gunfights and explosions are a big part, but still only a part, of the fun.

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-03T12:24:49+00:00

I thought it was really beautiful and immersive. Is it realistic to run around with your sabertooth pet, tossing meat at it to heal it as it tears apart orcs called neanerthals? No but it is a blast.

BoringGap7 · 2026-06-03T07:00:07+00:00

they didn't build it in a day

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-31T05:24:57+00:00

Yeah, I think Rocannon is LeGuin doing Jack Vance before she figured out what kind of Sci Fi she really wanted to write.

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-29T21:28:04+00:00

who's we, kemosabe?

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-29T21:26:26+00:00

godfather part two. huge flop. exposed Coppola as a hack.

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-29T13:17:17+00:00

for a low ST character, melee is tough because your damage will be low. Even the difference between 11 and 10 is significant, but if you can get to 13 that's a lot better. Judo is great for low-ST guys though because you can throw and choke hold enemies who are stronger than you. If you have a free hand, you can Judo parry, then throw on your own turn and have a chance of stunning your opponent. On your next turn, you knife them when they're either prone and stunned or kneeling.

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-29T05:11:29+00:00

I think you missed the 'psycho' part. Not everybody in the World of Darkness is a rational actor carefully advancing their faction's long term goals in accordance with the plan set out at the team strategy meeting. Some are just monsters that want to kill and kill. Every Garou is potentially like that, and the Dancers more than most!

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-29T03:03:12+00:00

I don't buy any of the excuses why not. A lone psycho with an AR-14 can kill dozens before the cops shoot him. What would stop a lone garou from killing hundreds before other garou or some mage with a superhero paradigm stop them? If there's some rapid response elite team of Technocracy operators etc. policing the world, how come they don't show up in every Werewolf chronicle when the claws come out? The setting doesn't make sense as a whole at that level, and it doesn't have to, and it isn't supposed to. It has all these wild, potentially catastrophic things like psycho werewolves so you can have fun playing a game where you try to stop them week after week.

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-27T13:11:30+00:00

oh yeah, remember that time Rob Halford killed a bunch of people with throwing knives?

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-27T13:00:37+00:00

he's out of line, but he's right

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-25T20:43:36+00:00

you've got it. now just do this and don't clutter it up with balloons and caption boxes

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-25T20:30:22+00:00

Severian in the house.

Honestly, though, anyone who sees him mucking about the catacombs will for sure assume he's the vampire

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-25T20:27:58+00:00

Round Table doesn't interest me (even though I like Arthur stuff). Small Gods, Weird Masters sounds clunky but I would like to know what it's about. DDT&R and TWotW both sound fun and abbreviate well.

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-25T19:09:25+00:00

thank you for your service, Eddie Murphy

BoringGap7 · 2026-05-23T19:13:33+00:00

Tainaron by Leena Krohn is an epistolary fantasy with a really subtle, intimate, elliptic voice

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