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Peter David has died. https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/05/25/peter-david-dies-age-68/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_David

This was exactly my problem with Cortex Prime. I got into RPGs properly after MHR and Firefly had been pulled so I only had the Prime...

Reading three webtoons/manhwa (online Korean comics) that have some similarities and which I’m quite enjoying. The theme is “protagonist...

Reading How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa, a Filipina investigative journalist and founder of Rappler writing about fighting...

Thanks very much. It helps that there’s only two of us and we tend to get bored of streamers fairly quickly - as soon as we can’t find...

We’re pretty lean with our subs and move around a lot. So we’ve currently got Netflix only to finish off a Korean drama or two and then...

I haven’t seen the cartoons yet, but I just got around to watching the third Jurassic World film the other day. There’s a point where...

I binged the whole thing. I like the world building and most of the relationships among the cast. However I didn't like the whole...

Do you mean the first season stuff between Yaz and Sammy? I don’t think that’s really how I read that - Sammy is trying to make her...

It’s on Netflix. Now, I’ve only seen the first two Jurassic World films (and the first two JP films), enough to see some tantalising...

I think this would be a fantastic idea. There are three rough implementations in the core book (Eidolon Alpha, Hammerheads, and Trace...

Thanks for the detailed response. it is too bad there isn't a "Fate Worlds" style book for it to help newcomers grok the system.

I really liked Cortex in its Plus stage. I read and enjoyed MHR and Leverage, and ran several games with Smallville that worked really...

Just finished Blood Over Bright Haven by M L Wang (AKA Maya Lin Wang). I don’t know how I happened upon it - maybe a Kindle deal? - but...

I decided that to help with sleep, I would start turning off screens at 9 pm and read dead-tree things for an hour or so before getting...