Harlan Ellison is dead. He was a total prick, but he was a good writer.
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A talented asshole has left the earth
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A talented asshole has left the earth
The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
Re: A talented asshole has left the earth
Aww ... fuck. In his case, I thought the curmudgeonliness was a feature, and not a bug.
I recall him saying on his old Scifi channel show in the '90s that he instructed his wife to burn all of his unpublished writings. Of course, he said a lot of things, and he's dead. So, maybe she'd like another payday.
I recall him saying on his old Scifi channel show in the '90s that he instructed his wife to burn all of his unpublished writings. Of course, he said a lot of things, and he's dead. So, maybe she'd like another payday.
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ThirstyStirge
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Re: A talented asshole has left the earth
He was a fixture in science fiction -- love 'im or 'ate 'im.
Shame that his idea for a generation ship TV show turned into a mess. That wasn't the first time that great scifi ideas were hamstrung by a minuscule budget.
Shame that his idea for a generation ship TV show turned into a mess. That wasn't the first time that great scifi ideas were hamstrung by a minuscule budget.
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Re: A talented asshole has left the earth
I think Harlan Ellison would have been first to agree he was an asshole. He reveled in it. I can’t deny his talent and his position on the rights of those in the creative services, so that’s something nice.T. Foster wrote:
- Wheggi
The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
Re: A talented asshole has left the earth
I wasn't intending to scold you for calling him an asshole, but rather pre-explaining why I don't have anything else to say on this topic. (A topic search can likely reveal pretty quickly what my usual reaction is when his name comes up in conversation: it starts with an F and ends with a "That Guy")
The Mystical Trash Heap - blog about D&D and other 80s pop-culture
The Heroic Legendarium - my book of 1E-compatible rules expansions and modifications, now available for sale at DriveThruRPG
The Heroic Legendarium - my book of 1E-compatible rules expansions and modifications, now available for sale at DriveThruRPG
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Hahaha you are a much classier man than me, my friend!T. Foster wrote:I wasn't intending to scold you for calling him an asshole, but rather pre-explaining why I don't have anything else to say on this topic. (A topic search can likely reveal pretty quickly what my usual reaction is when his name comes up in conversation: it starts with an F and ends with a "That Guy")
- Wheggi
The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Matthew
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Adios asshole! I hope that you got paid! 
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thedungeondelver
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I hope he got paid too.
Ellison...dammit, I know I said it on faeces-book but man I wish pen and paper gaming had a Harlan Ellison.
Hell at this point I'd settle for a Hunter S. Thompson.
Ellison...dammit, I know I said it on faeces-book but man I wish pen and paper gaming had a Harlan Ellison.
Hell at this point I'd settle for a Hunter S. Thompson.
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Juju EyeBall
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I assume you mean a better Hunter S. Thompson than HST-wannabe "TheRPGPundit"thedungeondelver wrote:Hell at this point I'd settle for a Hunter S. Thompson.
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Old school writers were not wusses.
tuna fisherman
itinerant farm worker
body guard
US soldier
punched out a college professor
punched out a critic
Best eulogy quote so far: "when you speak the truth, it’s not often in the service of seeking friends or winning admirers; it’s for communicating a message."
https://pastdaily.com/2018/06/28/harlan ... e-edition/
With Ellison, what many considered a bug, I considered a feature.
tuna fisherman
itinerant farm worker
body guard
US soldier
punched out a college professor
punched out a critic
Best eulogy quote so far: "when you speak the truth, it’s not often in the service of seeking friends or winning admirers; it’s for communicating a message."
https://pastdaily.com/2018/06/28/harlan ... e-edition/
With Ellison, what many considered a bug, I considered a feature.
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Isn’t he going into the earth?
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Melan
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That's what I was going to post, durnit.T. Foster wrote:I assume you mean a better Hunter S. Thompson than HST-wannabe "TheRPGPundit"thedungeondelver wrote:Hell at this point I'd settle for a Hunter S. Thompson.
Anyway, Ellison has written some great short stories in his life. I don't know much about his personality, or conflicts (when I read his stuff in the 1990s, there was no easy-to-access Internet to spoil these things for the average reader), but the stories will remain. Rest in peace.
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