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I know this might not be a popular opinion, but the Battlestar Galactica reboot. Season one is one of the single best seasons of Scifi ever. Every season after that just got messier and more convoluted.

We played online during lockdown and the majority of us hated it, so we're 100% in person. Besides, I have so much printed terrain, I need to use it!

We shoot for twice a month. Sometimes we get three games in. It just depends on people's schedules. We mostly play on Saturdays nights for 4 hours

I experimented with a parry system in our D&D game. Players liked it in theory, but it mostly served to slow down combat. No one wanted slower combat. We don't really use it anymore.

One Gen Z, one Millenial, four GenX. Two PsyD's, an MA, a BS, a BFA and a BA.

I'm a Realms fan and while I was originally taken aback by the change, it's starting to grow on me. I can see a lot of storytelling potential to explain the change. The Purple Dragons are still the army of Cormyr, but for some reason a group of Amethyst Dragons approached the Crown or the War...

Ed can indeed sing. He sang a little verse for the Patreon gathering at GenCon.

I tried multiple configurations but never found one I liked. Everything is on the laptop now. That also let's me control the screen the players can see for maps, images and our combat tracker spreadsheet.

For what's it's worth, I was trained as a historian and teach history. I've read Peterson's earlier book "Game Wizards" about the conflist between Arneson and Gygax. He is a very good historian who is careful to document and report his sources. It's an excellent early history of D&D.

I voted Pirates, but only b/c the Three Musketeers wasn't an option.

This is a super fun topic. Let's see if I can keep the list reaonsable: Literature: Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Mouser Books: These are my absolute favorites. The combination of swashbuckling fun and weird world building is my favortie kind of fantasy Neil Gaiman's Sandman Comics: The world...

I had a multi-night adventure arc based around The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson. One player had offened the Crimson King, who is the soverign of murderous fae and had to travel to his court in the Feywild in order to work out a truce. The party ended up having to convince his...

At GenCon this year I spent a bunch of money on Nations and Cannons, a American Revolutionary War Era 5e setting. I initially picked it up the firearms rules, but the more I talked to the designers and read through it the more I really like how they implemented non-magic abilities that mimicked...

Thank you very much! No, "Best Served Cold" has some excellent callbacks to the First Law trilogy that will have a lot less impact if you start there. I'd start with the first book in the series, "The Blade Itself." It is excellent as are the next two books in the trilogy. The characters in...

TV - The Magicians - Our current campaign is centered around the Royal University and I'm very inspired by this show's vibe. It's very much, American Harry Potter in grad school with everything that entails. TV - The Musketeers - Possibly my favorite retelling of Dumas. Dashing sword play...