Nov. 14th, 2025 08:30 pm

Outgunned Math Question

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Outgunned's task resolution system involves rolling six-sided dice and looking for sets.

Some explanation behind a cut.

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Experience the trip of a lifetime — without having to deal with planes, passports, or other tourists...

RPG Tourism: Five Games To Help You Travel Vicariously
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The 1997 Second Edition of Over the Edge, the acclaimed Atlas Games tabletop roleplaying game of surreal danger on the conspiracy-ridden, reality-bending Mediterranean island of Al Amarja, and more.

Bundle of Holding: Over the Edge 2E (From 2014)
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Ryudo Konosuke wakes in a fog, covered in wounds whose cause he does not recall and a haunting feeling he forgot something else very important.

Steel of the Celestial Shadows, volume 2 by Daruma Matsuura (Translated by Caleb D. Cook)
Nov. 10th, 2025 02:15 pm

Bundle of Holding: Outgunned

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This Outgunned Bundle presents Two Little Mice's Outgunned, the tabletop roleplaying game of cinematic action by Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano and Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini.

Bundle of Holding: Outgunned
Nov. 10th, 2025 09:15 am

Clarke Award Finalists 2021

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2021: Conservationists are aghast that influenza B/Yamagata lineage may face extinction, the selection of Alan Turing’s image for new £50 notes raises the question of whether other state torture victims will be so honoured, and the Johnson government proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that herd immunity does exist… but only to shame, and only amongst Tories.

Poll #33821 Clarke Award Finalists 2021
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


Which 2021 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
0 (0.0%)

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
9 (75.0%)

Edge of Heaven by Rachael Kelly
0 (0.0%)

The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
0 (0.0%)

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
5 (41.7%)

Vagabonds (translation of by Hao Jingfang
3 (25.0%)



Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.

Which 2021 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Edge of Heaven by Rachael Kelly
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Vagabonds (translation of by Hao Jingfang

(I thought I posted this last Monday...)
Nov. 9th, 2025 09:07 am

A pulp adventure

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I'm working my way through Outgunned: Adventure. Pulp adventure. Indiana Jones stuff.

So I have an idea for an adventure, in which our brave action archaeologists try to locate and retrieve certain invaluable historical relics so they can be preserved and studied in proper museums.

Not only are the locals curiously reluctant to let the adventurers do this, even though they cannot possibly understand the artifacts on as many levels as civilized people, post-WWIII US is a dangerous place what with the unstable ruins, ancient unstable warheads, and radiation.

But if anyone can find the secret vaults containing the lost Smithsonian loot, dissuade the locals from objecting, get the goods across a hostile continent, and off to Kuching, it's the heroes.
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Six books new to me: two fantasy, one science fiction, one that seems to be a mix of both, one horror, and one non-fiction.

Books Received, November 1 - November 7

How is it November already?


Poll #33815 Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz (January 2026)
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Which of these (mostly upcoming) book look interesting?

View Answers

Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz (January 2026)
6 (13.3%)

Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison (June 2026)
16 (35.6%)

Letters From an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss (November 2025)
22 (48.9%)

The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale (October 2025)
8 (17.8%)

Fallen Gods by Rachel van Dyken (December 2025)
12 (26.7%)

The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes by Conevery Bolton Valencius (May 2024)
26 (57.8%)

Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.2%)

Cats!
33 (73.3%)

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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
Nov. 5th, 2025 02:04 pm

Over the Edge 3E

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The Third Edition corebook, scenarios, and 18 music tracks

Over the Edge 3E
Nov. 5th, 2025 03:25 pm

Time Well Spent

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

Evan Mason: Captain Jetpack!

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