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A good turn-based computer version of Twilight 2000 1e. Maybe something that felt like Fallout Tactics - there's something satisfying about driving a vehicle in a turn-based game while five squadmates unload light machine guns out the windows.

Personally, I would place Nentir Vale over near the Moonsea. To me, it always seemed to give off a Dalelands vibe.

Aerosol grenades beat heavy lasers. (Traveller 2e)

If you're asking 'when should dice rolls be used in social interactions?' - I think I find they should be used like any other role: when a failure can have serious results. Do I think a barter session with a shopkeeper needs a dice roll? Generally no - UNLESS the players are trying to...

This will always be my favorite part of the Watchmen, movie or graphic novel: Time is always moving. Plans are always in motion. As was said, "I'm not a Republic serial villain. I wouldn't be telling you this if there was any way you could stop this. It all happened ten minutes ago."

Personally, I feel it depends. If you're going to run a module where certain choices may be vastly underpowered - say the original Ravenloft module - or some options aren't available - clerics in Dragonlance - I think you absolutely need to let people know. I'm getting of an age where I have...

I will offer up Orkworld by John Wick, of L5R and 7th Sea fame, amongst others. It began when he was told he could not play an ork bard in the company D&D game because 'orcs are speedbumps'. He got his boss, the DM, to agree if he wrote a 4000 word essay on ork culture and why they weren't...

Barrel rolls are great defense. (Traveller, as my pilot charged his scout ship at a far trader, heavily refitted to be a pirate vessel. Luckily, we were able to use two 100-ton scout class vessels to take it out - only one of the scout ships got hit with the pirate's ion cannon, thank the...

I think the 'Concern' over the Purple Dragon Knights of Cormyr is interesting, given how much more Sword Coast/Icewind Dale stuff we have given to us. I mean, 'Everyone' is still bonkers over BG3 - to the point where people don't know about how they laid out the Flaming Fist way back when...

As far as Brandon Routh roleplaying, there was a Wizards one-shot they did when Rime of the Frostmaiden came out with multiple streams. For example, one was a GoT actors stream. There was a 'superhero actor stream' also, with Routh, Karen Gillan, and David Harbour that was pretty good if I...

Generally, I agree. However, when you look at Star Wars in particular, the fan base really raised Hell after Rian Johnson made changes to things. I clearly remember the uproar because of a random stablehand used the Force to grab a broom. And so we went back and had to have Palps return, and...

CR has been pretty solid about putting out miniseries/one-shots of systems that aren't D&D - there was Undeadwood with Deadlands (but, due to Brian Foster, is probably now lost to the ether), Monsterhearts, Honey Heist a few times, etc.

I just skimmed this but the C&D immediately reminded me of the recent Funko legal AI issue and the havoc it played with itch.io

It really hit me when I just made a 2024 fighter with a greatsword and saw Graze. That's definitely some 4e stuff right there

Let me put forth X-crawl. System is basically 3.5 D&D. Setting is: It's Earth where Roman culture never fell, and Christianity remains an underground cult. America is run by Ronald Reagan, who takes advice from a magical, intelligent short sword. The main event for the 'bread and circuses'...

I love, re: the Forever War, talking about the 'high price' of $17. I think most of us would be happy to pay $17, but... that was a different value for when this issue came out.

The best villains believe they are the true hero. I mean, even looking at Ozymandius in Watchmen.

A friend had run a Rolemaster campaign with factions - Law, Chaos, Good, and Evil. Each end of the axis had a champion, and what was making the universe start to fall apart was Evil had two people fighting to be its champion, Law had become utter stasis, and other existential messes. He made...

The best/my favorite enemy I've faced was an ettin cultist. He was hyper intelligent, and I believe one of his heads actually had class levels (this was 3.0). I believe it was based on something from Book of Vile Darkness (?) where a character had a tumor but the tumor was a sentient...

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