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Heroes of Hellas, like other games using the Barbarians of Lemuria engine, simulates action heroes who can mow through lesser foes like paper and who need give little heed to the realities of less elevated protagonists (e.g., resource management, lingering wounds, etc.). Basically the rule of...

I own it. Anything in particular you would like to know about the product?

It's worth mentioning that the Barbarians of Lemuria rules engine has been adapted for a game called Everywhen -- a GURPS-style toolkit letting you build campaigns in any genre (fantasy, science fiction, modern-day, etc.). Everywhen and BoL are essentially compatible, and the former has some...

Well, it's not my favorite system, but IMO, the Barbarians of Lemuria rules for beginning PC generation make a pretty good stab at an age 18ish, "Tower of the Elephant"-level Conan: Attributes: strength 3, agility 1, mind 0, appeal 0 Combat: initiative 2, melee 2, ranged 0, defense 0 [At this...

I've always thought Lord of Light would be a good setting for a Godbound/Stars Without Number mashup. Probably hand out fewer Words of Creation and axe the Dominion rules outright*, but also allow access to high-tech widgets for those currently in favor of Heaven. * Though maybe not; Sam...

When you do get time, LU's the kind of show that lends itself easily to binge watching. Given that it's set up in finite seasons like a standard TV show rather than a continuous serial like other wrestling promotions, you can fairly easily clear out a day and plow through a season. I'd...

If you like characters like those, you should check out Lucha Underground. Aztec mythology (at least a silly pop-culture derivative) is woven into the fed's metaplot, and Dario Cueto is the best "heel authority figure," bar none. (Sorry, Vince.)

Bulleit is great; I have a bottle in the cabinet. (The rye; I'm more of a rye than a bourbon guy... not that I'll turn down a good bourbon.) Haven't tried Monkey Shoulder, but I'll take a look. For mixes and casual affairs like game night I tend to fall back on good old Johnnie Walker Black...

Thanks for the review. Islay whisky is the best. I still like the Macallan 12 (and 18, finances permitting), but that Islay peaty kick is hard to shake once you've had it. Laphroaig 10 remains my go-to poison, but I've been meaning to get around to Ardbeg. Shall try now.

My bucket list: Black Seas of Infinity: A Silent Legions/Stars Without Number splice. A very much not-transhuman, not-post-Singularity humanity discovers a single stargate leading to a single sector... a very strange sector in which it's clear that some kind of cosmic-scale Liveliest Awfulness...

Dirty little secret of the Culture setting: The Minds are terrifying, full stop.

Well, yeah, Banks himself admitted that he tended to focus on SpecCirc operations at the Culture's fringes for precisely the issue you raise. The beauty of the Culture is that more or less all of its citizens are SpecCirc agents... they just don't always know it (q.v., The Player of Games).

Yes, I've seen it, and I agree that it did a good job of capturing Nihei's aesthetic. Are you thinking about this one: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Blam!

Seconded. In fact, I'm prepping a heavily modified Dungeon Questing/Swords & Wizardry hack set in the Antediluvian era. Season with the apocrypha (Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees), Aronofsky's Noah, and Jason Aaron's The Goddamned, and I have high hopes that this will be an absolutely freaky and...

My other geeky hobby is collecting and painting Bronze Age historical minis, so I just added some new Hittites, Canaanites, Minoans, and New Kingdom Egyptians to my armies. Chariots FTW, including a kick-ass chariot-mounted Ramses II. Now I just need to hack a Hittite commander into a passable...

I'll throw on this gem: Decades ago I was running Call of Cthulhu and the PCs were in the midst of a homebrew investigation set deep in the Canadian taiga in midwinter. I think they were trying to stop lthaqua from being summoned... it's been so long I forget the details. One of the PCs, who...

Re: Appendix N: Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions is about as vanilla fantasy as it gets (dimensional-travel twist and snippets of pseudo-physics aside), but a fine read and one of the cornerstones of D&D. If you're OK with young-adult"works aimed at the age 12-13 demographic you...

"Worked at it" means actively seeking out whatever combination of materials, skilled labor, facilities, and patronage you need to Edison your way to success, accounting for multiple expensive prototypes and failures along the way. I'm fine with artificers MacGyvering up one-off weird science in...

I totally agree, it's definitely a better idea to involve all the players than to have one character sidelined doing his own project while everyone twiddles their thumbs. Everyone can get in on the fun. The cleric can bless the endeavor. The druid can gather rare herbs for reagents. The fighter...

In a typical pre-modern fantasy setting, would you permit (or have you permitted) PCs to propose and implement plausible technological innovations? For example, in the Bronze Age campaign I'm developing, coinage*, saddles/stirrups, parchment/paper, ironworking, crossbows, siege engines, and...