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Yeah, many King adaptations to the screen have been meh at best. I think there's a few reasons: He's a prolific and popular writer who...

This btw was also fascinating and one of the reasons I did start reading King. While I stated in my previous post that my anti-King bias...

King also experimented with a serial novel, releasing a section every month for 6 months. I worked part time in a bookstore then, and it...

Currently reading "Dr. Sleep" after starting my Stephen King readthrough with "The Shining" and "Carrie". At the moment not really a...

I think I have a cover for the new book. I have one map and two levels worth of rooms left to do. So close!!!

Core Shadowdark is already weirder than the same old Keep on the Borderlands stuff most people seem happy to use it for. People should...

Interesting read and a good reminder that you should not try to solve out of game problems ingame. I feel like there was multiple...

I still think people should get weirder with Shadowdark than they generally do. Rats and goblins and skeletons, oh my. Boring. The rats...

I would love to rank Wes Anderson movies, but its hard to do, I always confuse them with each other... (only half-joking)

I thought I'd also expand on something. My current gaming club, The RP Haven thrives based on short campaigns (four quarter-long...

While I was in college I would move back home during the summers and run short campaigns. They were usually about 6 sessions long. They...

I think a short campaign can be described similarly to a short novel: length isn't really the defining factor of either. A novel is more...

Thats exactl what I do with the additional checks. For example something like the barbarian wants to do a jump attack from a heighened...

Add in athletics rolls/appropriate skills to pull off some of the more involved ones, then the champs athletics bonus is nice or the...

Personally I like to keep things a bit less granular and more abstract. I privilege location and placing over initiative and speed. My...