Recent content by Willie the Duck

If the goal is to stress-test the adaptability of a generic system, any one setting won't work. If you want to stress-test whether it has necessary components (and whether the components at least feel good to play with), I might suggest one that has shown up in discussion recently: Shadowrun...

Decided to join the rest of the pack, did it?

Agreed. I'd just skimmed the picture. I was all prepared to say "it's clearly not that kind of art, guys" (given the guy on the left has the headband/wrist wrap get-up of a mid-80s Karate Kid-inspired teen martial arts movie) and bemoan how every time we have a depiction of arms/armor or combat...

Excuse me sir, the inspiring 'Peter' for that was Polish. Technically it should be Pedantic Piotr.

I am now picturing her getting the Harley Quinn treatment with a sassy adult black comedy. Perhaps bring in GI Joe's The Baroness as the Poison Ivy character (the platonic portion or otherwise, depending on how much they lean into the fanservice). Certainly the other MotU villains make good...

Note that the article is reporting on a list ranking on Goodreads. Not a literary analysis, review of overall popularity*, a ranking (where you specifically put one book above another), or even a timed survey (where people have an incentive to rally their like-minded friends to get a vote in...

Is this all an overly complicated plot to get Keanu Reeves into the DCU?

I can certainly get that, but at the same time, it is hardly unique in this regard. Is punk music DIY anti-corporate rock (perhaps with a timeframe requirement), or is it* short, fast, 3-chord songs that juxtapose tonal and atonal components? *deliberate reductionism for illustrative purposes, I...

If you are a knowledge wizard (special abilities related to spending both hope and stress on leveraging your Experiences) with Expertise like 'Court wizard,' 'survivor,' 'polymath,' or 'I think I took a course on this once...' you can potentially almost-always be able to add a bonus to rolls for...

I know nothing about her music, but now* I'm picturing Jimmy "Duck" Holmes walking around humming "I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair." *because she was in a High School Musical IP, and musicals link to Rodgers & Hammerstein, because I'm old. The part that'll hit you next is that 20...

Another thing that might be happening is that people think that it is the idea, not the execution, that is the big achievement. Which is to say they do not misunderstand copyright, but instead misunderstand what part of their creative endeavor is important (and if it isn't copyright-able, all...

Oh give me a break.

Other people use a year like 40 as a milestone. I knew I was a full-fledged middle-aged adult when my dear old grey-haired dad started revealing all the sophomoric 'that's what she said' and 'poles & holes' humor he still laughed at.

And in the right hands, any machine is a smoke machine.

Will you have you're canon operative artillerists hike across the dessert? ;)