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Summary of the info from the stream that I found on their Discord:

It may be a little lighter than you want, but there is Wetwired, which is basically Shadowrun using the same rules as Warlock and...

Yes, a better comparison would be Miracleman, though of course your PCs don’t have to be quite that super. But if you as supers are an...

Just into Book 3, and it's been a little over a week since I got book 1. Also, I just read "This is How to Lose a Time War", which I...

For some reason I really enjoyed One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson as a commuting audiobook several years ago. I generally...

We recently saw the play version of The Daughter of Time, which is a great adaptation and has also updated its historical information on...

Tey's "Franchise Affair" might be my all time favorite mystery and I loved "Miss Pym Disposes". They got me to try these ones by Upson...

Finally got around to renewing my Neflix so I could give it a watch with my wife. We loved it. So much so, we called my sister over and...

I don’t think you’ve said anything that addresses what RE says either. Sure, it may be the case that most of the people who worked on...

I just finished reading Andrzej Sapkowski's The Last Wish, the first (sort of) book in The Witcher series of novels. While I've been...

I think if you look at superheroes solely through the lens of their powers, they're not really relatable. But in their real identities...

Absolutely, no question about it. Vulnerability is what makes heroic characters relatable. Not their skills or powers.

So, just to be clear, are you including mundane charisma, fraud, and psychological abuse in your definition of mind control? That’s fine...

it’s not entirely unfair and Batman is at his best when he’s not in this situation: