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I am actually as (Korean-) English as the day is long, though I don’t think of my accent (public school English) as RP - I think of RP...

DIE is very much meant to be an isekai or portal fantasy setting and that can be a poor fit for some tables or players. But hey, if you...

I like DIE but this is kind of my one hang-up with the system lol.

The note that DIE is less about RPGs than it is about trauma is pretty darned relevant.

No it is not. DIE is a well-crafted comic, no question. But it is essential reading for RPG people in about the same way as being in...

She does!

Finally got around to finishing Andor Season 1 (on the plane; we haven’t had D+ for ages) and my God, the last four episodes are...

Wasn't the word I was thinking of.

ironic isn't it.

That's not my reading of him at all. Exactly when do we ever see him motivated to "cause others pain"? Syril is a man living a fantasy...

Just read Sarah Beth Durst’s cosy fantasy The Enchanted Greenhouse, set in the same world as The Spellshop, and it’s a beautifully...

Not sure if it's the same but I think the key issue I have with SNW is that I am not 100% convinced that the showrunners fundamentally...

And honestly without that it’s not a very good shiny pew-pew show.

For me that's the main draw of Star Trek. Without that, it's just another shiny pew-pew show.

Just watched Badda-Bing Badda-Bang, which is a pretty good episode and IIRC the first one of those I haven’t actually seen before...