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Right now, my prep-to-play ratio is N:0 😅 That said, I'm planning a campaign right now, and past of that planning is figuring out how to reduce my prep (and anxiety).

Similarly, I came across Who on PBs when I was a kid, but I simply did not get it. I was all-in with Star Trek (still am), and had basically no exposure to British tv at that point, so Doctor Who was just weird and off-putting. So I never watched more than a minute or two here and there. When...

One bit of the news is that Russell T. Davies is writing this 2026 Christmas special. So, on the one hand I'd be surprised if he didn't reshoot or re-edit the Carole Ann Ford stuff into this Christmas special. On the other hand, it's RTD2, so I also wouldn't be surprised if he didn't. Here's...

This is tough. I was still very young and already loved sci-fi movies and tv when I started learning how they were made, and that just made me love them more. In order of release date rather than preference, because the latter would just be too difficult: Forbidden Planet (1956) I first saw...

I will literally get physically sick unless it's well done. I don't have the enzymes or whatever to digest beef that isn't thoroughly cooked all the way through. No pink. Anywhere.

I feel like pretty much every "fix" 5E "needs" is because of this. (I put that stuff in quotes because although it is how I feel, not everyone will agree, which of course is totally fine.)

I'm reminded of the scene in Eaters of the Dead (the movie), where two characters have a duel of sorts and one of them has multiple shields at hand, so that when the other (very big) guy breaks the first guy's shield with his blows the first guy just grabs another shield to keep fighting.

I like this idea a lot, considering how much time I spend online or in stores trying to decide between umpteen brands and types of toothpaste or a hundred other things. There's s big difference between a crappy backpack and one that might last you a lifetime.

I'm the "plan everything I can think of and then during the game realize the really important things I forgot to prep and then have a minor anxiety attack" GM.

I will be watching this thread with keen interest, and might even contribute actual thoughts!

The main thing I remember about 2E - I haven't played it since it was the current edition - is the layout of the core books. I mean... I think it introduced THACO? And skills?

Like I said, I get why folks feel that way about it, but... I think @chuckdee said it well a couple posts above.

The best way I've heard it described is that this movie feels flat. There's some really neat stuff in it, but there's not enough to underpin that stuff to give it the weight and impact it needs. I get why folks say that, but it bugs the heck out of me, because The Incredibles doesn't feel like...

"nameless things gnawing on the roots of the Earth" really stuck in my head. Right - he was not a novelist. He was a really good writer, but not a good novelist, but also had no interest in writing "a novel".

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