@Taskerland I continue to meet actual gamers who think RPGs = D&D and that is it, they might have been playing for considerable time but they have never even heard of another game, their hobby is "playing D&D"

It doesn't fit in my head, but it comes I think from being only (in a non pejorative sense) a player, and just playing in one group since you started. Zero exposure to anything else.

I always thought people who thought RPG=D&D were journalists.

@Taskerland @Printdevil so we're heading towards two-party system?

@Taskerland Well looking at your siloes I'm not feeling particularly loved as a person.

@Printdevil @Taskerland Guess it's time to pick up my satchel, staff and cloak and start carrying news from one silo to another. Have to say I was hoping for warmer weather.

*tuts*

@Taskerland @vdonnut

That makes me think of "Salute of the Jugger"

or "The Traveller in Black"

@RogerBW @Taskerland

@Printdevil @RogerBW @Taskerland I never see The Traveller in Black referenced in discussions of gaming influences. Too weird and impersonal?

Those were some of my favourite fantasy writings growing up, I am always surprised how little they get referenced by RPG peeps.

The pay off at the very end. You knew it was coming but... ooof...

@Taskerland @BigJackBrass @RogerBW

Is it that long? I must have read that when I was very young really.

A staff of curdled light...

@Taskerland @BigJackBrass @RogerBW

@Taskerland @Printdevil @BigJackBrass I don't think that can be quite right; ISFDB lists various editions of The Compleat Traveller in Black through the 1980s (and an ebook in 2014).

@RogerBW @Taskerland @Printdevil The collection I had was certainly an eighties paperback.