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There’s also Hyperlanes, which is similar but doesn’t have its own Mass Effect like setting IIRC. It’s notable for Gambits (basically...

Thanks. I had forgotten about Esper Genesis.

I recently did a simple 5E based Star Wars RPG based on the first SW d20 rules (the ones with Wounds and Vitality). There are plenty...

I’m generally pretty OK with metacurrency and tend to include it in any RPGs I design, but am more interested in how they affect the...

This is actually one of the reasons I sigh heavily whenever metacurrency comes up. I completely agree that "I know it when i see it" is...

It’s just that constraint can help focus things and shape creativity. If someone says “tell a story”, that’s a pretty broad request. If...

Read Trauma Industrial Complex by Darren McGarvey, a Scottish rapper and writer who has written prominently and eloquently about his...

I'll agree (ish) that Thor 1 was not a good movie. It was passable super hero action nonsense. But of course Asgardians use horses and...

Yeah, sorry, elaborating on those takes doesn't cool them down any.

That's part of why I hated "Torchwood." All the swearing didn't feel like adults swearing--it was more like teenagers. Same with the...

yeah I agree, swearing and sex was used in Torchwood as a edgy shtick rather than a useful storytelling tool, it was unnecessary and...

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Hi All, I just published a new major version of the ruleset that I use to run and teach a rules-light version of D&D 5e. I'm open to...

Just started with Plur1bus, on AppleTV. Just two episodes in, and so far it is the most thought-provoking sci-fi I've seen in a long...

I've started reading Children of Ruin by by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A couple of years ago I read the first book Children of Time.