Character Portfolio 2: Ringworld

The loss of widespread sickass sci-fi covers Index** Damn, I let this series go fallow. Thankfully, I finally have an ereader that can handle chunky pdfs (and this time it wasn't stolen) so I should be able to start putting these up at least more frequently than once every seven months. **Larry Niven's Ringworld: Roleplaying Adventure Beneath the Great Arch(John Hewitt & Sherman Kahn, with additional writing by Lynn Willis, Sandy Peterson, Charlie Krank, Ed Gore & Rudy Craft; art by Ralph McQuarrie, Lisa A. Free, Michael Blum, Yurek Chodak) Ringworld lives in that taxon of sci-fi where I think the setting is really interesting but can’t stand the actual book to a nearly 1:1 ratio. Great worldbuilding ideas (Weird aliens! Colony worlds with fun gimmicks woven into the environment and culture! A megastructure inhabited by other species of human!) wasted by being both unforgivably boring and outrageously sexist even by the standards of the day. So entirely contrary to expectations, the…

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