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Like many things, it is all Tolkien's fault. If Sam Gamgee had not asked for rope from the elves, we would not be having this...

But wait until episode 7 and we redo the plot, but with a whole death planet.

At least this way you know at a glance what is in the rooms, which helps easily adjudicate things like "did the monsters next door hear...

I agree, wall-of-text is a big turn-off. However, many modules go too far in the other direction. When everything is just keywords...

Chris Pratt as Mario was nowhere near as bad as I feared. But he was boring. Which felt worse in some regards.

This particular film franchise seems hellbent on wildly miscasting as many voice roles as possible. It's like the filmmakers set it out...

I feel like sometimes the author had an interesting idea for a story and they got so wrapped up in the telling of it that they almost...

Cool! I'm particularly impressed by the inclusion of optional cards to print out for monsters/enemy stat blocks. Flipping between four...

Kelsey Dionne's The Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse is a great example. ...and apparently free?

Well the market leader is WotC, who seemingly have a suitable marketing budget to promote about three "big dumb campaign" type books a...

In terms of modular design, the idea was to keep each segment of the game as independent as possible. If we could carry over only the...

I seriously doubt it, because yhe Moonshae Isles were not part of Greenwood's Forgotten Realms: they were grafted in from a cancelled...

Even when playing online, a paper character sheet is still the way to go IMO. If nothing else, you get to decide the format it's in and...

Pops of our kids were a GREAT Xmas gift for my wife two years ago, but that's not a gift with a lot of "re-buy-ability". En toto: I...

Yes, this is me exactly. There are still some I would get probably if I was in my final home and had space, but its not a priority in...