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Outlaw gamers with a meeple tattooed on their neck, "game life" across the gut.

Oh great! Now people are gonna take my meeple bumper sticker on my cars as a signal that they can clandestinely slip me some money as...

Perhaps this is a signal that your daughter would like you (or your spouse) to teach her how to use nunchucks.

Yeah, basically Bosch was a victim of it's own success. The show kept getting more popular, but long-running shows get more expensive...

Felt like they had another season ready to go and then the ax fell.

Yeah that last episode of Bosch Legacy was super lame. But we got a lot of good stuff up until that point.

A pretty good series. Though it definitely felt like they didn’t expect to get cancelled and wrapped it up in one episode.

Yes. “Control” is a rider on almost every power. (In fact, on too many powers.) “Control” is not a Role.

Bosch and Bosch: Legacy — just wrapped up its run Amazon Prime

Roles are expressed as ideas, interpretations of their expected behaviors and tactics. This is translated into game mechanics, which...

Yes, one thousand times yes. The fighter is the strongest controller in 4e. The paladin is closer to what people mean when they say...

Sadly that page of Square Fireballs was not crawled until 2023 (?!) but you could mostly re-derive the charts based on the formulas and...

Not to mention, now that I think of it, that we still have at this point the Orb of Fire. It melted through a castle once. Or a ship. I...

OK, not really. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 Also they named it ‘olo’ which is way less cool than ‘jale’.

What we have learned from gamebooks is that the deadliest enemy an adventurer can face is a door.