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Fandom is...Funny. I grew up watching the original show with my dad on WNYW here in NYC. It used to come on after Drive in Movie (which was the program that aired Shaw Brother Kung Fu movies). I liked the show quite a bit as a kid but I'm also a rational human being with common sense who...

I stumbled into D&D, but when I got my first issue of Dragon Magazine back in the early/mid 80's I found out that D&D wasn't the only RPG. There were ads for TOP SECRET, STAR FRONTIERS, GAMMA WORLD, BOOT HILL, TRAVELLER, VILLAINS AND VIGILANTES, and a new MARVEL SUPER HEROES Game was coming out...

I've been visiting this site so long that this is actually my 2nd account since my first one got lost in a site crash many years ago. I've been less involved with visiting the site (compared to back when 3.0-3.5 was dominant) as I no longer run or play D&D and moved over to Pathfinder and other...

The ones I can cite definitively where I was a teen (or older) and could fully appreciate the experiences for what they were? THE TERMINATOR (1984) No one was ready for this. At some point we were watching a B sci-fi movie that became something more and it was solidified when the T-800's endo...

I think what he might be saying is not LITERALLY "where are these other game genres?" but more along the line of "where are these games on the level of popularity of a D&D or a Pathfinder or a Shadowdark". As in people do flock toward what's popular and D&D has almost always been the most well...

You wouldn't expect i,t but I'd tell you that there are no superheroes in THE SUICIDE SQUAD. In the same way if you'd asked me what Vampires are in THE HOWLING or AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. NONE. They're monster/horror movies (But not all monster movies are vampire movies). The Punisher is...

Yes, the movie is categorized under the superhero genre. The characters themselves are not superheroes. And I'm pretty sure the thread's name isn't what is a Superhero movie. It's what is a Superhero.

I was thinking more DARK AVENGERS with Valentina replacing Norman Osborne but yeah...

Are those PDF's of the characters in the books or did you just photocopy them?

It is fairly insubstantial for the first few weeks of release. It's the reason why the prices for concessions are so high as they keep about 40% of the ticket sales. With ALIEN now effectively being distributed by Disney the theater's cut is probably a bit lower than that. I'd guess closer to...

$80 million dollar budget (you usually have to factor in the cost of the budget x2 for total production cost so about $160mil) $350.9 million box office means about $190mil profit? So no, it's not doing peak MCU numbers but even big budget horror (like the Alien franchise) doesnt NEED to be...

AGREED on this point. The only thing that I disagree with is that the majority of players wont want it. Set the AI up to emulate Matthew Mercer or Brendan Lee Mulligan or whoever their favorite celebrity GM is at the moment? And it will be EXTREMELY popular.

That's something I try to live by and judge other people on frankly. I was trying to remember where I first heard it and know you just confirmed that it was HERE all those years ago from Piratecat, a name that I havent seen in ages...

If and when I decide to seriously start to look for a group again, VTT is going to be the way to go. There are geographical considerations, there's the elimination of travel time, there's ease of prep, there's not having to figure out WHERE to play (in my case I dont want people who are...

As a GM who has often stripped adventures down or heavily modified them? No, you don't need to tell them what adventure you're running. I think it's fair to pitch the general idea and theme of what you want to run, but with new people telling them I'm running "Menace in Otari"? NOPE. I read...