Five Link Friday: Too Dangerous to Live

GMTable: Traps and Minions Revisited

Robert covers the ideas and mechanics behind adding more numbers to your encounters without adding hours to how long they take to run.

Fanfiction.net: The Metropolitan Man

What if Lex Luthor isn’t evil but is instead concerned about the existential threat a super being poses to the future of the human species? Superman is too powerful to be allowed to live.

Dungeon of Signs: Fallen Empire and Rules of Setting Creation

A long post about his fallen empire setting, but my main take-away was how the mechanics of your world shape its narrative. I went and wrote up a wandering monster chart for the explored hexes of my world right after I read this.

Future of Freedom Foundation: The Great Sugar Robbery Continues

Ever wonder why the USA is so rife with high-fructose corn syrup? Well, the big sugar farmers are getting a pretty sweet deal to make sure it stays that way and have been since the early 1900’s. A nice combination of foreign sugar quotas and massive sugar subsidies to domestic producers is rent-seeking at its finest.

Status 451: What is NeoReaction

Mr. Clarkhat of former Popehat fame has a piece that excellently describes a view adjacent to my own views on the efficacy of democracy. If that is the way he describes neo-reaction, then count me as one. Based on what some other people who claim the label and attach other meanings to it? I wouldn’t though, so, semantics.