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Great, thanks!

IIRC one of the big impacts on the Dalton Bond movies was the AIDS scare, which meant that he wasn’t jumping into bed with such abandon as earlier bonds. Gave a very different feel to the films

I can’t use mastodon at the moment, and it’s because the chirp.enworld.org certificate has expired

Last October, so only a few months ago WotC - D&D's Christopher Perkins Promoted to Creative Director

I’m a little surprised he managed to have such a long career there, what with the annual Christmas lay-offs that WotC seemed to be so keen on for many years!

Timothy Dalton could have been my favourite Bond overall. I really liked Sean Connery and early Roger Moore, but the thing I particularly liked about the Dalton movies was that they were set in a world with lots of competent people - soldiers, spies, etc. Most films have Bond as the only...

Isn’t that basically what they are doing with “Ballerina”? They are not casting Ana de Armas as ‘Jane Wick’ but introducing her as a new character in ‘his’ world!

I’m pretty sure that was originally there to replicate the Balrog breaking Gandalf’s “Hold Portal” spell when they are fleeing Moria

In OD&D the most common first level MU spell was Sleep, which was an automatic win against a wide range of low level foes (or party members!) but once used the MU was a feeble weakling. This led to situations where the 1st wizard who hadn’t cast his only spell was hugely feared, but once it was...

I’ve not looked at traveller for years - one of the things which was unusual about the early game was that there was no advancement after character generation - only collecting money and ‘things’. Is that still the case, or does the current traveller have the equivalent of XP and gaining or...

The whole crew doing ‘low passage’ 😀

Someone has probably said this already, but we kind of have - it was called Firefly. (Honestly the only time I can remember seeing six-guns in space)

I’ll be disappointed if they have removed the kua-toa whips and monitors (assassins and monks)

This is very much in the existing rules! This also is very much in the rules; perhaps they should make more of a point in emphasising it? It helps if one of the characters has ‘banter’, and as a GM I remind people that they can take a breather and recover a little.