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A "quatloo" is a detail from an episode of the original Star Trek series, "Gamesters of Triskelion." Three immortal ultra-advanced aliens (basically brains in jars) kept humanoid slaves on their planet as gladiators for their amusement. The humanoids were bred to fight, but others were kidnapped from time to time and taken to the planet to improve the "stock." The Gamesters would wager on the outcome of particular fights, with the bets measured in quatloos.
 
Aside from as a means to keep score, we never see any other use for quatloos, or are told whether they have any intrinsic value or even physical existence. But "betting quatloos" has been a meme in geek culture for a long time.

I know it's early but I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!!
 
Enjoy

"Well, Mr. Snyder, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." 

If you enjoy the "magical detection" subgenre and haven't already done so, I'd recommend taking a look at Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy stories, which got a big compilation a while back that's probably in the library system by now.  Stylistically they're a bit Sherlockian, if Holmes was more lot personable and Watson was a magical forensic expert.  Michael Kurland wrote a few sequel novels after Garrett died, which are also worth a look - they're almost flawless pastiches of his style, something you don't see very often.
 
Or if you want a more "pulp noir" take on the subgenre, there's the lengthy series of Garrett, P.I. (no relation to Garrett) novels by Glen Cook, starting with Sweet Silver Blues way back when.  They're generally much lighter reading than his Dread Empire or Black Company work, but as a fantasy mashup of Nero Wolfe and Sam Spade tropes pretty good.  

I didn't...but I was listening to a lot of The Weekend in 2021 so I could have missed it.

There's a 10-mile-high petrified torso in the middle of the Indian Ocean that has not been mentioned in any movie other than the one it emerged in. Also, very little acknowledgement of that 30k mile tall being that addressed the entire planet and said he be back to pass judgement on humanity in a mental voice everyone on the planet heard. They are clearly ignoring some events.

I offer 100 quatloos to the sapient who can figure out what I did with my copy of Post-Apocalyptic Hero. 
 
There's a reason, or, rather, two reasons that fantasy roleplay continues to dominate the market. Medieval stasis and dungeon crawls give gamers something to do. Oh, wait, no, and levels. They're a good mechanic for minimising the magic user problem that ultimately derails campaigns in the unlikely event that the go on long enough that the MU gains a campaign-breaking spell (Flight, not Wish.) Other campaign settings lack this. Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic is actually a fairly strong contender against FRP in that the first few sessions are going to be a blast as you run away from the apocalypse, but then the campaign reaches an impasse. Either the players reach shelter and begin to think about the next step --or they do that and then get cut off by the knees by the GM so that they have to flee the lava/zombies/bad software again. The first makes planting potatoes the next adventure path, the second is not a solution to the first.
 
Hey! At least it's not a science fiction game, where you do all the work of setting up the characters and can't think of anything to do with them other than explore a space dungeon. Anyway, all of this is boring old news,  and the best post-apocalyptic game is still Gamma World because it does the best job of hauling over the FRP elements and giving them a fresh coat of paint, and in retrospect releasing Gamma World,  Gamma Warriors and Gammarauders together as a box set in 1980 would have been a boss move.  Again, boring old news.
 
So what am  I doing here? Boosting Graydon Saunders' Commonweal books (self-published, available through Google Books, yes, I know, even so). They read like someone has taken their Toronto-area Gamma World setting back through an FRP filter and then turned it into a top-tier anti-Tolkien comment. (Socialist, not awful, like The Aspect-Emperor.) Now that's a post-apocalyptic setting with possibilities. I think. 

My last post in this thread didn't take, so maybe this one will--

How narrow are you?