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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-07 09:12 am

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, volume 2) by T. L. Huchu



Discovering what she expected to be a lucrative new job is instead an internship, Ropa Moyo tries to pay her bill by resorting to her avocation of detective.

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, volume 2) by T. L. Huchu
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-06 09:00 am
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ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2025-11-05 07:21 pm
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Another RPG Bundle - Over the Edge 3rd Edition

This is a bundle of the 2019 Third Edition of Jonathan Tweet's RPG Over the Edge, from Atlas Games, possibly THE classic weird science / weird conspiracy RPG

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OTE3E



This is a comprehensive revision of the system and setting, making big changes to characters, locations, and conspiracies, with huge amounts of weirdness in the introductory adventures alone. Even if you already have tons of material and a long-running campaign based on earlier editions, it's worth getting this just to mess with player expectations and show them that the world doesn't even stay the same sort of weird indefinitely.

As may be obvious, I'm a big fan, and this offer gives you plenty to play with. Definitely recommended!
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 02:04 pm
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Over the Edge 3E



The Third Edition corebook, scenarios, and 18 music tracks

Over the Edge 3E
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 03:25 pm

Time Well Spent

Invested too much time statting out a character I will probably never use.

Evan Mason: Captain Jetpack!

Read more... )
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 09:14 am

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa



Hinako Yaotose is saved by certain doom... by a monster who wants to let Hinaka ripen a bit before eating her.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa
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ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2025-11-05 01:49 pm

Forgotten Futures CD-ROM

For some time now my web site has experienced frequent outages due to excessive traffic. As an experiment I've taken the Forgotten Futures CD-ROM zip file off the site. It was by far the biggest file on the site, and it's possible that repeated downloads were causing the problem.

Instead I've uploaded it to archive.org as a zip file, about 658mb - open the link in a new tab or page!

https://archive.org/details/ffcd-8-zip

This takes everything that was on the last release of the CD-ROM plus a lot of extra material that would have been on the next release if there had been one. It won't all fit onto a CD-ROM any more, but if you unzip it into a subdirectory of your hard drive it ought to work well.

Note - Links to Empire of Earth, which would have been Forgotten Futures XII, do not work.

If you run into any other problems please let me know!

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-04 11:14 am

My terrible confession

Because both shows feature a red-haired teenaged girl with a monosyllabic name and a troubled relationship with their family, my brain merged the continuities of Son of a Critch and Stranger Things.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-04 08:43 am
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Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh



A trading voyage leads to first contact and a delightful process of mutual discovery.

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 09:54 pm

Annoyed

Tried to move my dinner time in just two days, ate too late, crashed my blood sugar, and had to cancel gaming.

(It's not diabetes. It's just that I am incredibly intolerant to eating late)
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 02:03 pm
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ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2025-11-03 06:20 pm
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Another RPG Bundle - Monarchies of Mau

This is a bundle of the game Monarchies of Mau, about intelligent "uplifted" cats in a post-human world, from Onyx Path Publishing. It's compatible with an earlier game, Pugmire, about intelligent dogs, which I don't know at all, and includes Squeaks in the Dark, a compatible RPG about intelligent rats. All appear to be based on the OGL rules, e.g. D&D.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Monarchies

  

This isn't actually a genre that interests me much, but it looks like you're getting a fair amount for your money, and if you're interested it's probably worth a look.

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 12:48 pm
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Five Ways Science Fiction Can Expand Beyond Homo sapiens



Modern humans are fine, but what if we had a bit more variety in our stories?

Five Ways Science Fiction Can Expand Beyond Homo sapiens
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 09:06 am
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