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I keep wanting to give Mothership a shot. I grew less enamored with Alien because I don't think it works well for marine campaign...

Right? The West Wing always seemed deeply self-satisfied and bombastic. Now it seems deeply self-satisfied, bombastic, and hopelessly...

I like Scott Bakula, he's a good actor. I think he was ill-served by Enterprise, a show that stripped him of his charisma and just ...

But... it wasn't. It was full of action. Waaaay too much action for those old people to pull off convincingly.

Firefly and BG both have been adapted.

Not to spam the thread a bit, but we just got done with session 0 of my "Keepers of the Emerald City" modern urban fantasy setup and I'm...

Great, another swath of doomsday YouTube reaction videos incoming in 5...4...3...

Yeah cozy I can see because that's not a genre it's a tone, like D&D is absolutely a game it's extremely easy to make "cozy", in fact...

Cozy at least is a genre that is up and coming in TTRPGs.

I've seen enough mention of the concepts, and rpg adjacent media OR video games, that I'm reverse manifesting. Do not make them...

I've long said: Call of Cthulhu's dirty little secret is that combat works. So many people tell me violence is a fail state in the...

Best example of this is Ten candles. Sure, it's designed for one shots, but damn, it works well. And mechanics of the game do help set...

You are absolutely coming straight in with the a very insightful analysis! Yes this is absolutely key to "player skill". I don't think...

Spinning this out of the 6E thread because, well it isn't about 6E. Anyway -- much is often made of "player skill" and "OSR" and how...

I'm not sure I'd agree that 4e's classes were diegetic (4e's systems were so decoupled from narrative that it's really hard to see the...