Recent content by Abe.ebA

Maybe it's just me but, despite loving the hell out of the series, I didn't think that there really was much of a metaplot. I mean, it does exist. I'd say that there's between one and four of them, some of which don't get resolved, depending on how you count it, but unlike something like Wheel...

If it doesn't intentionally riff off of Sanctuary (the web series lately of Sci-Fi) then it does a hell of a job of doing so accidentally. So if you like Sanctuary there's a non-zero chance that you'll enjoy this as well. If you also liked Buffy then probably quadruple the odds. If you don't...

I will be out of town the weekend of gameday but if you guys would like to do some boardgames some evening I'd be entirely up for that. If interested, shoot me an email... abepern at gmail dot com.

Hey, I'm also new to the Durham area (currently living in Raleigh and commuting to work in Durham, buying a house in Durham next month) and looking for a game. I can run 4e, 3.x, or potentially other systems (I was running a Delta Green game using the Spycraft system for a while) or play in...

It's a good game if you're into the theme. If you've ever played Zombies!!! and thought, "Man. I wish this game were just a little better..." then this is probably the game for you. Personally, I played Zombies!!! and thought, "God, how did they make this suck so hard?" so after playing Last...

I was a big fan of the show during the first season. The beginning of this season wasn't, I thought, up to the same standard as the bulk of season 1, but that may just be nostalgic memory kicking in. All in all, I was pretty happy with the episode. I'm not sure why any of the things posited...

So I started running a spycraft 2.0 Delta Green game a few months ago. It was going fairly well and I was starting to get a handle on the more complicated combat system but then got derailed by people's schedules etc. In any case, I'm about to get started again and was wondering if anyone has...

You neglected to include a part where you explained a solution to the problem. Any girls interested in 4e at this, vastly-pre-release, point are presumably already familiar with 3e. As such, they already know about the narrative aspects of the game and about character customization. Since...

I'm pretty sure that you're never going to see a system like that for character creation in d&d or any particularly successful pen-and-paper RPG. MMO's and CCGs have very low barriers to initial gameplay because gameplay is exactly what the focus is for those games. You don't go buy WoW to...

The writer, Warren Ellis, is the captain of the indefinite hiatus. I can think of 7 comics he's currently writing off the top of my head, pretty much all of which are on irregular release schedules. He's a fountain of interesting ideas but he's also unfortunately a big fan of trying to pursue...

Have you seen the previews? I can't even sit through a 30 second jumble of what are presumably high-points of the movie without cringing. I honestly expected to hear that this was another Uwe Boll atrocity the first time I saw a preview for it at the theater... But maybe it's just not my genre.

While bringing real-world logic into d&d rules discussions is almost always a mistake... Logically if freedom of movement allows you to move through water unaffected by the current, freedom of movement must also allow you to move through air unaffected by high winds. The atmosphere around you...

Most of my recommendations have already been recommended by others, but... The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny Ghosts in the Snow by Tamara Silar Jones

I skipped the first three books. I read Goblet of Fire when my sister got it for Christmas that year and decided that while I was sufficiently interested to read the following books I wasn't sufficiently interested to read the previous ones. Especially given that I could just watch the movies...

It (Life on Mars by Bowie) is playing on... I want to say the main character's name is Sam? It's been a few months since I watched the series... radio when he gets hit by a car, sending him into the coma/timewarp. It's also playing on the 8-track in the car he wakes up in in the 70's. Like I...