Or Joe Abercrombie to be fair

Pretty sure your whole degree was adjusting the big dial with 'admiration' on one side and 'shame' on the other, right?

But I would probably stick with point buy if I returned to 5e or tried PF2E because the baseline maths is so critical when you're doing A Lot of Combat

(Although... were I to run those systems today I'd almost certainly house rule/campaign frame to create fewer, higher stakes combat encounters)

It's very system dependent for me - I think it works particularly well in Cairn/Liminal Horror (although I toy with Mausritter/Mythic B's smaller ability score *ranges*) for different reasons - Cairn's problem solving and dungeon cycles, LH's emphasis on being ordinary people

"The Animorphs were a warning... an echo from the past"

+1 Shield of Judicial Impartiality (4 drawer)

You're going to do it from behind a filing cabinet at the back of the room?

I see the follow-up to Seven Part Pact will be Henry VIII

Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novel Space Wolves' Hall

Note that the Alexander one does have this campaign map with a very stealable early 60s style to it

"But doctor... I *am* Pagliacci the ski lift operator"

"Most comics actually *lose* money on Riyadh, hoping that it will pay off in exposure, an award and a place on a future series of Taskmaster"

'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God' is my wife's top cult doc pick

Any creature sufficiently mean/spiteful/annoying that you don't feel bad taking advantage of their gullibility and/or cowardice.

Grotto of the Golden Gargoyle was my most recent GMing of them (cursed, but in such a way that you don't tend to evoke much sympathy for them)

For a low prep, semi-open table using published modules, I came up with this, which is going well so far in playtesting:

pointlessmonument.blot.im/mothership-c...

Stephen how did you give my wife a cold?