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Oh, the PCs should absolutely have to fight a kaiju at some point. It’s the only way their ship will agree to leave port. You could...

I ran a campaign in 13th Age where while they weren't trying to explicitly go around the world in 80 days, but over the course of the...

You've hit my point exactly - which is that one might be able to pull off that monstrosity of rules exploits (at level 18, with a combo...

I saw an ad for the TV show and it looked interesting.

Stephenson was one of the inspirations for Bond, as Fleming admits, but Bond seems to have mostly been based on a romanticised version...

That's a very good thought. I'll see if I have the Dragon issues (1990-2, I think) anywhere. I see there's a pdf based on the serial...

Back in the late 70s/early 80s, Dragon mag ran a series of articles called "Voyage of the Princess Ark" which told the adventures of an...

The other thing that made Fogg’s journey possible (or at least much more comfortable and faster than it would have been otherwise) was...

One of the reasons the original Verne character was able to pull off the trip was the near universal presence of the British Empire in...

Sounds fun. The need to make 10 places that are different enough with cool things happening can become a set piece. There is a lot of...

What was quite weird when I watched the trailer on Amazon Video was that it was somehow in Korean with subtitles. Which made no sense...

It sounds like a fun campaign. It sounds like an even more fun campaign to run with two groups concurrently. I'd suggest running it for...

That’s a very respectable 120mph at a sprint which nobody should be able to sustain for long. Even assuming you can sustain half that...

Tinned potatoes are fairly common in the UK. I’ve never used them but Jack Monroe (one of my favourite chefs) seems to find them very...

When I was in law school, I was given 2 cans of potatoes. I repeat: CANNED POTATOES. I had to think about how to use them. I combined...