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THIS Nathan Summers matters, because he's the son of the Scott Summers we've been following for 30 years. Who cares about all those other Nathans and Scotts? They're irrelevant to THIS story we're actually telling. Perhaps it's a difference of perspective about what the story is about. To me...

The solution is to have more personal stakes. Superhero movies don't have to be about saving the world or the universe. They can be about saving one person. There might be a myriad different Nathan Christopher Summerses around in the multiverse, but this one is the son of this Scott, and he's...

Interesting. I've often used Symbaroum as an example of a way to provide adventures in the form of a Big Campaign alongside campaign setting material (a technique the people behind Symbaroum also used in Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare). However, the disadvantage of that approach (at least if you...

I've had a similar experience. Last year when I was at the dental hygienist, she remarked that she thought my mouth was dry, and I should get checked for diabetes. So I did, and they found that I had a (relatively speaking) mild type 2 diabetes and ran some other tests and then went "Holy hell...

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Depending on how things go, the Arkham Horror LCG campaign "Path to Carcosa" may at one point set the rule that every time you (the player) say "Hastur", you (the character) lose 1 Sanity (out of about 5-9). This proved to be quite useful in one of the later scenarios of the campaign.

Why try to improve upon an already perfect movie?

We should put the blame where it really belongs:

The same goes for "Staying Alive". I guess your preference depends on whether you prefer delicious irony or positive thinking.

We've already seen Xena's 1999 reincarnation.

I thought this was a deckbuilding game?

More about adventure/encounter design. D&D in its various iterations is fundamentally built around a model of attrition. 3e made it explicit that the typical adventuring day would have ~4 encounters which would each sap the party of about 20-25% of its resources (primarily hp and spells) in...

To be honest: no. If your players won't engage with the system, pretty much no system is going to be satisfactory. Or at least no system with a depth beyond that of Lasers & Feelings.

There's something weird happening here. Valeros, the Fighter archetype, should be taking out one or two goblins per round. He has Fighting d8 and is dual-wielding for +1(page 140, Two Weapons). He can also use Martial Flexibility to get Two Weapon Fighting (or some other feat, but that one seems...