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[dangerthrillryanson]

Silver couple.

[infinitaregna]

"THERE ARE UNIVERSES BEGGING FOR GODS yet He hangs around this one looking for work."

"EXCRETION IS THE BITTER PART OF VALOR"

Also, in light of the recent Artemis mission, I found Farmer's original 1967 afterword as it appears in all editions of the Harlan Ellison edited Dangerous Visions at least moderately topical:

"I'm strangely indifferent about getting a man onto the moon. I say strangely since I've been reading science fiction since 1928 and selling science fiction stories since 1952. Moreover, I fully expected, and hoped and prayed, that we would be on Mars by 1940. About the time I was eighteen, I gave up this early date but still knew that someday, maybe 1970, we'd make it.

Also, I've been a military and commercial technical writer since 1957 and at present am working for a company which is intimately concerned with the Saturn and Apollo space programs. Ten years ago, I would have been close to ecstasy if I could have worked on a space project. Rockets, Moon landings, airlocks and all that.

But in the past eight years I've been increasingly interested in, and worried over, terrestrial problems. These are population explosion; birth control; the rape of Mother Nature; human, and animal, "rights"; international conflicts; and especially mental health. I'd like to see us explore space, but I don't think we have to. If the U.S. wants to spend its (my) money on space rockets, fine. I realize full well that space projects are more than going to pay their present expenses someday[...]

But let's spend at least an equal amount of money and research on trying to find out what makes people tick and mistick. If there has to be a choice between the different kinds of projects, get rid of the space project. People are more important than rockets; we'll never be in harmony with that Nature which exists outside our atmosphere; we're doing an inept enough job of getting into harmony with sublunary Nature."

-P.J. Farmer 1967

[billyhopkinson]

Karen Allen

[xxhorace]

Diana Rigg

[pixiedeadbeat]

Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren, 1968.

[bbrothertedd]

[weepingwidar]

Laurent Grasso (French, 1972) - Studies into the Past (series) (2025)

[dndhistory]

570. Bruce Heard - GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)

Further fleshing out the world of Mystara (before it even had that name) the third Gazetteer in the series brings us the magocracy of Glantri. A collection of principalities ruled by aristocratic mages with a hint of Venice and a lot of Gothic horror tropes thrown in for good measure.

 With NPC with names like Prince von Drachenfels you can kind of tell into what kind of universe we are stepping into here. The Gazetteer itself is extremely useful, stretching over some 80 pages with good illustrations and a lot of good information and maps, it's all a DM would need to set some adventures in this appealing place.

These Gazetteers continue to be some of the highest quality products being put out by TSR at this point in time and definitely the best products for the D&D line, which was often overshadowed by the AD&D products. Really worth leafing through.

#adnd #dnd #ttrpg #tabletop #tabletopgaming #dungeonsanddragons #rpg #roleplaying 

[dndhistory]

572.1 Short stories in Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)

[pixiedeadbeat]

Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren, 1968.

[scifipinups]

Janet Fielding

[nowvoyagerit]

Ursula Andress in She (Robert Day, 1965)

[infinitaregna]

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[infinitaregna]

Some DW Target covers from my youth...

[dndhistory]

532. Aaron Allston - GAZ1: The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987)

Unlike the worlds in which AD&D is set, be they Greyhawk, Dragonlance or soon enough The Forgotten Realms, the world in which BECMI D&D was set was never really fleshed out in any systematic way. In fact it was usually known as "The Known World" without having a name settled for it up until 1991 when the name Mystara will first appear in print. 

This and the upcoming Gazetteers will do much to flesh out the world in which BECMI is set by giving in-depth information about all kinds of areas of the world. In this volume of around 65 pages, we get everything we need to know about Karameikos, a place in which several published adventures have been set and which can serve as a good starting point for new players. We get  details on geography, history, politics, economy as well as notable characters in the Grand Duchy.

All this would have been invaluable information for DMs who wanted a world which felt lived in and in which every detail was thought out. This is the kind of treatment that BECMI players deserved, good world-building supplements, instead of having to divine everything from tidbits of information spread around a number of different modules and sets. 

[meanwhilebackinthedungeon]

– Frank Brunner

Elric