Trench editionPrevious Heresy: >>96747573>Legacies:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>HH 3.0 - Complete gofile - All Books:https://gofile.io/d/cnJk0N>New Edition, to a great wailing and gnashing of teeth:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/setting/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Official FAQ/Errata/Downloads:https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-the-horus-heresy/>Thread FAQ (very old, remembers Age of Terra)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96768489Volkite weapons positioned sideways is a sin against good taste and the Emperor himself, even if it makes more sense.
>>96768474t. squealing nogames manchild
>>96768553Too nice & I don't like the lizard fetish.Want a brutal loyalist legion with a focus on terminators & bolter dudes
>>96768002Because we are slowly being infiltrated by people that want nothing but to win (to a degree anyone can understand wanting to win) because they are fucking losers and have nothing else going for them in life. Same reason why people bitch and scream at GW wanting them to bend however they feel at the time. Because they are fucking losers. The spirit of the game was just that…the game. As long as the game told a story and it wasn’t about one upping your opponent and min maxing like a fucking soulless freak, then everyone wins.
>>96768481Battery + autocannon
If you can't describe your character without mentioning their race/class, you're not playing a character.And that's okay, but it's good to be aware of
>>96767412By "class", do you mean: (1) the package of game mechanical abilities that you take at level-up and character creation, or (2) any vocation that exists?The former should be easy to avoid for anyone who isn't retarded. The latter would be downright retarded, but I can't be sure that you aren't retarded, OP.
>>96768168In the context of tabletop RPGs, there is only one definition of the term class anyone who isn't a retard pretending to be smarter than he really is uses. I'll give you some time to figure it out, you fucking mongoloid.
>>96767412>give too little>NOT A CHARACTER>give too much>THEATER KID FAGGOTthis board sucks. you all suck.
>>96767533Yes.>>96767641Yes.It's not difficult.>>96768034See?
>>96768056I mean storyshitters definitely exist, but having half a page of backstop for your character doesn't make you a storyshitter.
"Dice are cool." - (Me)Previous: >>96735655This general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Ameritreasure, Fillers, Party, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the game that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.TQs:- What are your favorite dice games?- What do you think about "luck" in games?- What are some underrated gems (in any genre)? Bonus:- Post your favorite die.
>>96768461Boxes*
>>96768461That would actually be so fucking smart.
Bros I love Dominant Species. I've played it for like 15 years and I still enjoy every game of it I play.
>>96768565I played it 3 times and really love it but it's hard to get everyone to play. Have you tried the Marine version?
>>96768620I haven't. From what I understand it's lighter than the original, so I'm immediately less interested in it.
Welcome to the Old School Renaissance General, the thread dedicated to TSR-era D&D, derived systems, and compatible content.Broadly, OSR games encourage a tonal and mechanical fidelity to Dungeons & Dragons as played in the game's first decade — less emphasis on linear adventures and overarching meta-plots and a greater emphasis on player agency.If you are new to the OSR, welcome! Ask us whatever you're curious about: we'll be happy to help you get started.>Troves, Resources, Blogs, etc:http://pastebin.com/9fzM6128>Need a starter dungeon? Here's a curated collection:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/94994969/#95006768>Previous thread:>>96704041Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96768503This topic has come up on this board quite a bit, usually with you shills going into denial mode, because of course it looks bad for you to shill for a system and for there to be people who were caught shilling for the same system. Let's start with something really simple and everyone can easily understand with a quick glance.Here's an example of a sockpuppet acount. https://www.reddit.com/user/TheYuanti/comments/The only posts this individual ever made were 20 posts recommending and promoting ACKS.That's the starting line. We can go into further examples, with one anon compiling a list of similar deleted accounts, but there's also examples of vote manipulation, discussion from redditors regarding their experience with the astroturfing with them also providing further examples, but let's just start with you explaining that first account as being anything other than a sockpuppet account so we can see what you look like when you lie.
>>96768626>That's the starting line. We can go into further examples, with one anon compiling a list of similar deleted accounts, but there's also examples of vote manipulation, discussion from redditors regarding their experience with the astroturfing with them also providing further examples, but let's just start with you explaining that first account as being anything other than a sockpuppet account so we can see what you look like when you lie.No-no, go ahead faggot, post everything you've got. Go on, you want to dripfeed so you can hear the other side laugh at you standing there with your pants around your ankles then go buy a belt.And I notice you're still not fucking off to the NuSR thread.
>>96768543You seem to think that unless we see the check you got, we can't call you out for shilling.You're obviously not going to show us any checks either way, so it doesn't really make sense to split any hairs over whether you're advertising that game for fifty bucks or for free but you want to get good boy points from your discord buddies.
>>96768637Starting from the top, mate.What are your lies abouthttps://www.reddit.com/user/TheYuanti/comments/No sense going any further if that one trips you up.
>>96768641Hey remember that time you called the guy who did the ACKStec campaign a shill and claimed they were handing out fake screenshots of people running games only for him to post his entire campaign and leave you slightly more debased than your average Dubai portapotty.The rest of us do.Lel.
What are the best ttrpgs about regulat humans being hunted by Dracula? So far I've been recommended to check out Dracula Dossier and Dracula Simple Approach.
>>96768627Dracula Dossier is a campaign toolbox for Nights Black Agents, it isn't a game in its own right, just a heads up.
>>96768627Annalise
>>96768633Really? I was just told to check it out. Thanks for the heads up.This is the other book I was recommended.
>>96768648Looked it up and this sounds just like the kind of thing I'm looking for.
This thread is all about solo games and campaigns. Apparently nobody bothered to make the new one.Rune Soldier edition.>Old thread >>96465762Resources: https://rentry.org/srpgghttps://infinityweavers.link/re-up/solo-rp-toolkitMore threads:https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/subject/%2Fsrpgg%2F/Thread Question(s): At what point does solo turn into novel-writing? Is that something you enjoy, don't? What can you do to prevent/promote it?
>>96727531Juice seemed pretty decent, I'll test that one out for a bit, thanks
>>96761554>Thread Question(s): At what point does solo turn into novel-writing? Is that something you enjoy, don't? What can you do to prevent/promote it?I never write my roleplays in a novelistic style.My logs are always more like a list of actions and effects with most of the creative stuff being held in my head.Ironsworn systems are ofc an exception but I don't think they lead to writing that would actually be good in a novel. Too much constant fucking up, you'd end up with one of those annoying stories where a protagonist can't walk between towns without it being an ordeal.And even there every 2nd/3rd line in my notes is stuff like "Action 3, Challenge 7 3 Burn momentum Weak Hit" so it's not exactly great reading.
>>96763316I like those games. But as>>96763609says, I like to have gamified stress in horror.
Anyone got experience with Space Aces? I've just skimmed through it a bit, but I liked the large amount of tables and such. But I think the character creation is way too bare and thin. Not sure if I want to mix it with something else. The d20+d6 didn't seem too bad
>>96761836Yeah it should just be short descriptions of what happens in the game for later when you return to the game so you know what's going on.
Yu-Gi-Oh! General #582YaJo's Wild Trip EditionPrevious thread: >>96699108Most Yu-Gi-Oh! discussion encouraged. Post OC, write dumb fanfics with bad CaC in them, duel each other, have fun, etc.>Yu-Gi-Oh! Online PlayAutomated Sims:●EDOPro website: https://projectignis.github.io/download.html●EDOPro: https://discord.gg/ygopro-percy●YGO Omega: https://discord.gg/duelistsunite●Dueling Nexus: https://duelingnexus.com/●Master Duel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449850/YuGiOh_Master_Duel/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I haven't messed around with any of the newer Water stuff. Is there anything among it that could work well in Gishki?
I seriously downplayed the importance of this card for a Witchcrafter kit until I got back onto the Witchcrafter grindset. It should be no surprise that a card that gives you instant access to your main deck bosses in response to getting ash'd is good, but just being able to put Haine on the field to insulate you from stuff like Imperm and Veiler while you're setting up is pretty freaking amazing. I can probably stand to make the Witchcrafter parts of my deck a lot more compact because of this card.
>>96768229>Glass Magic - Tears of LightChuunikino name
>>96751788>Forgot to buy the QCR blue eyes white dragon >It has doubled in price since the last time I saw itI should have been faster. This is nobody's fault but my own.
After playing Genesys across Duelingbook, nexus, and a few games in person since the week it dropped, I have to say that its a good idea, but if they opt to keep it competitive and not drop the ceiling its going to die like the main format has in numbers. There's too many decks playing on level with their advanced counterparts while you are at ends trying to fit handtraps in to keep them at bay. Ninjas, Gladiator beast, Lightsworn, and other odd decks got neutered while decks like D ruler get to fill in gaps easily with Armed dragons, Onomat have their newest, strongest wave untouched, and generaider put up boards of 5 cards easily when left uninterrupted.It's a great idea, but they need to either admit that you need 15 handtraps to play still and adjust as needed or murder the past 4 years worth of archtypes with more points and forced omissions due to space.I really hope they figure it out, as I do want Yugioh to stay around. This format brought a lot of people back to my locals casually, but its starting to wane because of obvious metas forming. That meta being the obvious haves vs have-nots.
The coolest elf thread for cool elfthusiasts.Any system, setting, art or homebrew welcome (especially white collar related).
>>96767647fruity nut salads, or raw unsalted meat still dripping with warm blood
>>96767127>working at an office isn't a race albeightI respectfully disagree. If Wood Elves can be so called after their habitat, then Office Elves can likewise be recognised by their usual dwelling place.
>>96765449LEGZ FOR DAYZ
Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllSync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Multiplayer Compilations: https://rentry.org/MCYOA_Comp_CompIn Case of Emergency, Break Glass: https://rentry.org/mcyoagCanaryThreadslave Rentry: https://rentry.org/ThreadKeeping2Backup Rentry: https://rentry.org/ThreadKeeping3Suspicious EditionPrevious Thread: >>96722253
>>96767656I think its funnier this way. The news always exaggerates. She thinks that cars are blowing up in the Fujiwara ward but its really not that bada of a place.
>>96767912Editing mishap indeed. I knew something like that was bound to happen. Let me just get on my train and I’ll do some edits while I also take the chance to write Alyona’s entry and do some other minor edits. It’s a BIG document so I might miss these things. ThanksThat said, I appreciate that you guys are so invested in the Higan Files. By all means, it’s not a writefag so I guess you guys just want to have your characters talked about?
>>96762332>Stillness given Motion (Itsuki, Grandmei)https://rentry.org/k2wq3rnrAs Promised. Well, it took a while. If I mischaracterized Grandmei, feel free to scold me, Mei anon.
>>96767956>so I guess you guys just want to have your characters talked about?Well duh
>>96762332>Coward (Takaishi Kuroda, Shu Jinko, cameo of Kaoru Nagamine)https://rentry.org/qrsxtpaaIf Shuanon isn't happy with this then he's free to disregard it as non-canon.
SUMMER HAS COME AND PASSEDTHE INNOCENT CAN NEVER LASTWAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDSLIKE MY FATHER'S COME TO PASSSEVEN YEARS HAS GONE SO FASTWAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS
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>>96768557It's okay, I'll love you nonetheless.
All of Europe has hated the French since time immemorial. They were always seen as an incredibly weird and unlikeable folk.
>>96768591Which is so weird! What's wrong with supporting Tok every step of the way? Or forcing the thread back into normalcy when a CYOA is discussed for more than one week? Or bringing up underrated CYOAs such as Danmachi? Or ensuring posters follow the rules of CYOAs?Everyone is so mean to us...
>>96768591t. malding brit
How's the french coping now after zoomers toppled their puppet government in their neo-colony of Madagascar?
>Player whines about not having a major role in the story>He's playing a generic human fighterHow do you deal with players like this? I let already let him get drunk and pick fights when he visits taverns, what more do martial players want?
>>96768310This, what most male human fighter fags don't realize is that the stereotype "fighters are boring" doesn't come from the class. It comes from years of the most boring people you know playing fighters.I'm not even talking about a lack of backstory, because that really doesn't matter. But a total lack of attention, initiative or involvement. Mostfighterfags just exist at a table to bloat the enemy CR limit and nothing else
With this type of playoid you have to basically prompt them for specific plot details/input which will either nudge them to get proactive or admit they're just being whiny for the sake of being disruptive. Ask them to fill in a plot detail - eg tell the group that the ragged beggar they encounter looks familiar and then ask the player in question who he is(eg they could say the beggar is their former fencing instructor or long-lost brother or whatever). Then you're off to the races. This is also something I do with the muh realism/anti-metagaming/lone wolf faggots. EG I'll ask the players in session one to explain how they became adventuring companions and what their first quest pre-campaign was like. This just totally heads off the people who want to whine about how their character doesn't trust the others yet.
>>96766801Just give him his moment in the sun before letting his wings melt.Let him pick fights in bars, then have said fight spiral into something pretty bad. For instance he just knocked out the an important man's son but when he fell, he hit his head and dies. Now the player has to deal with the consequences of his antics and maybe the party has to deal with them as well.
>>96768320That has nothing to do with Human Fighters though.
>>96768376Who the fuck are you playing with that this is the case? Most players I know who play Humans of any variety are 100% better roleplayers than everyone playing any kind of freakshit race, who tyoically use their characters race as their characters personality.
(Cyber-)Generations Edition>Cyberpunk 2020 vs. Cyberpunk RED?Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that focuses on simulation gameplay and has a black trenchcoat aesthetic.Cyberpunk RED is the fourth edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG that is set after Cyberpunk 2020 following the Fourth Corporate War, focuses on more balanced gameplay and is more streamlined but has less content.>Cyberpunk Rulesets (The Vault) (May not have all updated rulebooks, check official sources for updates):bit<dot>ly/2Y1w4Md>Resources for RED:https://datapool2045.net/>RED free-DLC and extra content:https://rtalsoriangames.com/downloads/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96758574I never said there are, but gloves and boots don't provide armor to places they don't cover
>>96762959Find 20 minutes to lean back and listen to thematically appropriate music, and let your creative spirit refresh.>>96763735I always think of the rooftop scene in Die Hard when I think of player v npc guncombat. John might be arching his back and running to avoid fire, but he is not dodging, he finds an escape in his environment (the slide) and escapes them that way. This is resolved in gameplay through movement actions and LOS. 2020 already solves the issue of movement translating to defence through making shots necessitate a higher DV, and we can use that when it is relevant. >>96763847 correctly assumes I did not ban the RCP, no one ended up getting it. It's not really a hill to die on, I just told my table I don't like opposed rolls for gun combat and if they were going to get the RCP they owe me to be able to answer me what their defence roll is within a second of me asking them. They respected that and it never came up. I find selectively enforced opposed rolls are disruptive to me resolving NPC actions, they trip people up myself included, and in the end my every understanding of firearms combat does not include "dodging" unless you are Matrix-dodging. The bullet either hit or it didn't. If the shooter missed that is entirely in their court. If people want to have an internet fight over that then be my guest, but no one I played with took an issue with it so that's where the matter ends with me.
>>96764483You are arguing in bad faith at this point.The reason you don’t have everyone roll dodge for bullets is obvious. It incentivizes players to actually use cover like an actual firefight instead of standing out in the open and relying on their dodge skill to protect them. The hit target values exist to give specific guns tactical advantages in different scenarios and ranges, something that is lost when you use evasion to determine DVs, as you seem aware. From my personal experience, I can say that generalized bullet dodging overall does not add much fun to a game while coming at the cost of slowing down combat. Likewise RED, a system with only one evasion skill, is poorly suited for it.
>>96764483My guess is because of how a non-decision it is and because it adds another roll for an attack to resolve.
>>96764483>Why is it that people will readily accept all the other unrealistic gamey aspects of the system, but the second you want to use evasion for bullets as well the autistic screeching begins?It upsets antagonistic GMs who think the goal of the game is to see how quickly they can kill the entire party.
no acks editionwelcome to the New School Revolution General, the thread dedicated to games derived from the OSR movement >What is the NSR?the NSR is a subcategory of the OSR, it mostly follows the same play style but experiments further with the mechanics and settings*broadly NSR games**have* a gm, a interesting setting, living world*are* rules light, deadly*and focus on* emergent narrative, external interaction and exploration >What is this thread for?this thread is for system, adventure, setting, mechanics, ongoing campaigns, anything that related to the *actual* gamePOST ART ALSO, inspiration and for the tg threads Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>96767461speaking as a lurker here, that is somewhat interested in nsr systems but doesnt have much experience i am sure there are more people that lurk the general like this.My personal experience is reading from the first post but skimming over troll posting and all the ACKS arguements.Don't let the general buckle under the weight of the osr puritans, ACKS shilling and they will eventually tire and leave, at least if people stop engaging them
>>96768412>greetings fellow kids >I'm just a regular passerby but my opinion aligns with the troll by sheer coincidence
>>96768412I don't mind random discussions about whatever, I don't think they ruin the thread. But they hide how little connection there is between the actual on topic posts. In the 3 threads we had I had small exchanges about Mothership and Black Sword Hack, and ignored posts for 4 or 5 other systems. It makes sense, no one has to run the things I like running or would like to run, but that comes from having so few actual posters that there's barely any common ground itt.
>>96768445what opinion aligns with the troll? the fact that somebody is deadset to defend ACKS to a crowd that doesn't really care about it arguing with another troll baiting him or anons telling him that they dont care and has provided literally zero interesting discussion about it? did i miss a single interesting post about it? i dont even hate ACKS. i think the classes are the most interesting part of it for me and fill the greatest void i feel with the meaty osr systems. How underdeveloped non human races are and classes in general. I also dont hate the fake feats coming from 3.5 into the rpg scene, but i dont know how well they work in said system.
>>96768536You immediately point to ACKS shilling, bypassing the entire possibility anons actually play it or like it and want to discuss it. You can't even see your own bias its so kneejerk.
Writing General: 'library' editionWelcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.There's a discord for writers herehttps://discord.gg/6AwKHGFThe previous thread can still be found in the archive here>>96042773And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It's been a while since I've written anything so I thought I'd have a go at something quick.>>96644454A thousand thousand halls and all in silence. All filled with books, wall to wall, floor to ceiling. In places even that vast space hadn't been enough to contain them, and they had overflowed; there were tunnels like mine-workings where - seeing that there was plenty of unused area above head height - extra shelves had been added spanning the gap, creating a new ceiling which groaned under the weight of paper so that props had to be wedged under them to stop it all collapsing. In the depths of the stacks there were even passages where - with the overspan unable to bear more weight - new bookcases had been lain flat, and gantries strung over them, so that prospective borrowers had to walk over them or even crawl, where the ceiling had got low enough. The library of the Damascene. In some parts of the world he was called a buddha (not *the* buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, but a walker on the same path), for he had been enlightened, although sources differed on whether by meditation or divine revelation. Further east still, he was referred to as a sage, although only by a tiny sect consisting of less than a hundred people whose ancestors had, at one time, been Manichaeans. How he became part of the Manichaean corpus was unknown even to him, although given that they managed to integrate Jesus Christ into Zoroastrianism and Chinese folk religion, it should hardly have been a surprise. The Damascene may or may not have been spiritually enlightened, but there was one thing he was lacking, and that was knowledge. He just couldn't hold onto it. Maybe it was *because* he was so in touch with the spiritual realm, but every fact he learned about anything relating to... well, reality, which is to say everything to do with anything we would recognise, flowed straight out of him.
>>96768570Which was a shame, because he was immortal, and therefore learned rather a lot. It took him a long time to decide that this was a problem, and even longer to work out a solution. How long exactly was another of those facts that had been lost to him. But eventually, after an unspecified period of time, he built his library, and he built it in such a way that when a slippery fact escaped his mind it was caught and preserved in the pages of a book in the great and strange geometries of his library. What the Damascene was unaware of at first was that his design for his library was a little too good. It was perfect at its appointed task - that is, capturing and storing his wayward memories - but it also began to catch other things too, like a drag net sweeping up porpoises. Any free-floating bit of information was fair game and a great many things that had nothing to do with the Damascene were sucked up by the library's bibliographic vortex. Hence the issue of space. The Damascene had learned enough in his time - knowledge he was now able to consult his library to apply - to be able to bend the laws of physics a bit. In fact the library, while technically real, was not quite as much a part of the world we all know and love as, say, the room you're sitting in right now (if you're sitting outside, go back inside immediately. The outside is no place for a reader, much less one who reads fantasy short stories. It's dangerous out there. There are *allergens*). However, you can only bend the laws of physics so far before they break, and so he'd been forced to resort to simply cramming them in any which way he could.
>>96768583This was far from the only, or indeed the worst problem with the library. The ever-present danger of shelf collapses, book avalanches and the like was a mere trifle compared to the existential threat of actually trying to read a book. Without precautions, at least, although even with precautions you were still taking your life in your hands. More than your life, perhaps. The library hoovered up any stray piece of information, but that wasn't limited to ordinary - for want of a better word - free-floating facts. Sure, the full stats for the 1978 Minneapolis softball league were in there, and the secret recipe for McDonalds mayo, and the admissions Lavrenti Beria had made about his blackmail of many western politicians before his execution (don't ask, but if you know who Lavrenti Beria is you can probably guess what he was blackmailing them about). But if you opened a book at random you were equally likely to get the stray thoughts of an eldritch being older than space and time, whose very name could unhinge the human mind. Or, the plans for a machine that hasn't been built yet and can't be built in our reality *unless* you bring the plans with you when you leave and then... well, then you find out why the very idea of the machine had been excised from that other reality and cast into the void. Or the echoes of your future self warning you not to open the book you're going to open later but also, somehow, carrying the shadow of the contents of that book back with it until you have to find the book just to warn your past self not to send the warning back...Suffice to say, the Damascene does not permit casual visitors to his library. Only scholars who have proven themselves to be as dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge as he is are even considered, and of those only a handful have ever passed his rigorous safety training.
>>96768598For the ambitious researcher there are many hidden treasures hidden amongst the stacks. The lost drafts of Shakespeare's final play, the original notes Fermat jotted down once he ran out of space in the margin, the Rosetta stone for Linear A (which is in fact a papyrus written by an Egyptian trader by way of Cyprus). And treasure in the more literal sense, like the log books for the Spanish treasure fleet lost in the great storm of 1717, or the train timetables that list the route for the train that carried the Amber Room away from Konigsberg in 1945. Not that any researcher worthy of the Damascene's exacting standards is interested in anything so crass. The Library of the Damascene would be considered one of the great wonders of the world if more than a handful of people knew it existed. But don't make the mistake of thinking it's the only arcane library. There are stranger beings than the Damascene in the endless halls of our multidimensional reality, and many of them have their own archives. The Damascene is unique only in that he occasionally allows more mortals access to his collection. And perhaps the most dangerous aspect of his library is that it has details of the others. How do you think I learned about them if their masters don't permit mortals? That's right; maybe I was a little careless, wandered a little too far through the stacks. Or maybe I wanted to find that catalogue that didn't belong even in the esoteric spaces of the Damascene's little pocket of reality.
>>96768607Imagine what wonders the others contain. Or rather, don't. We humans have a fairly tenuous grip on sanity already, in the grand scheme of things. There are books out there...No. Don't even think about it, not even to warn others. Because there are some libraries out there where you don't have to go looking for a book. The book will find you. No, better not even to think about it...In trying not to think about it, I thought about what I wasn't supposed to think about. Which is a mouthful, but you get the idea. And now there's a book on the table in front of me. I didn't put it there, but a leather-bound book there is. And although I know that I should close my eyes, turn my back, and try my very best to forget that it's there, at the same time...Knowledge has a weight to it. You think that library shelves creak and groan because of the mere mass of paper? No, knowledge has its own substance, and its own gravity. It draws you in, and the more knowledge there is the harder the pull. I can feel it already.Maybe if I just looked at the cover. Just to see what it's about. Surely that couldn’t hurt...
