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It would be advantageous to play a AL game on some weekend before then, both to learn the campaign rules (or idioms) and to learn your character. Epics are intense, sometimes chaotic, and under real-world time pressure. You want to be able to concentrate on what's happening, rather than on the...

Technically, yes. It has a few Christmas references. "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho." But, the tone and the plot emphasis are all wrong. It's an action hero movie, the start of a franchise, and I voted "no".

Two left-handed fighters. Very inclusive.

Same reaction. Is villain-in-wheelchair really a trope? The two wheelchair examples I think of first are not villains, although one of them is Niles Caulder. We should have protagonists and villains in roughly equal proportions. A kid who can't walk should still grow up knowing he could conquer...

It's not clear yet, because no game of Titan has finished yet. More seriously, it accommodates 6 players, but 2 of them will be knocked out early and go play something else. Eventually, it becomes a grind-fest between the last two players. You do get to roll a lot of dice.

They should update the song lyrics and use it. Otherwise, it's a precursor movie like the A-Team movie or Man from UNCLE. It's a setup for the thing we remember and like, not the thing itself.

I have played a little Rifts, and "gonzo" is the word I use as well. The setting feels very artificial. I also tried some Heroes Unlimited. The character archetypes (randomly rolled) are grossly unbalanced in power. Some are skill monkeys, and a few skills are problematic. (Boxing was...

I've been playing Champions since its inception and most of those other Hero System games. It's a point-buy system. Hero System is the ultimate toolbox for building characters. If it looks challenging, that's because it is, but only when building a character. If you are handed a pregen, you...

Champions is my first love. But,DC Heroes does simplicity and elegance best without sacrificing crunch. The logarithmic scale for everything means it can handle a huge range of power levels. A powerful-enough character can search the entire planet for a hidden opponent in one action and one...

I don't know what they mean by "bringing D&D back". Baldman Games has been running organized play D&D at GenCon on behalf of Wizards since the dawn of time. Wizards itself pulled its official presence a few years ago, perhaps it's a badly-worded reference to that.

I see more art on the buildings facing the S D convention center than I have in 15 years (Paramount, Fox animation others). I don't know what that means.

I walked the floor today; same conclusion. Some of the events have been cancelled, maybe a lot of the big ones. In particular, I expected a panel and preview of the long-anticipated (snark) 2nd season of Wheel of Time. Nope. Other the were moved up in the schedule. I did see a F X preview, so...

Adventurer's League and its predecessor have been running D&D at the convention for at least the last 20 years. We mainly do 2-hour scenarios as learn-to-play because that's the nature of the crowd. It's almost all walk-ins with a few regulars.

NBC Barbie now, a perfectly marketable concept. Pre-Hbomb, it would have been ABC Barbie.

One side makes you larger, and the other side makes you small. (I am the first to reference Alice in Wonderland?)

I've run several Adventurers League modules at tier 4. They do have high level spellcasters, and that part of it can devolve into old-fashioned rocket tag in 3rd edition style. I've literally had party and NPCs trading meteor swarms. Important NPCs absolutely must have legendary resistance, but...

ICONS takes this approach. Sometimes the PCs are facing an opponent whose Coordination or other attribute is so high that victory is impossible. The PCs will have to try Combined Efforts or exploit a Quality (weakness) of the opponent. I've also seen this in systems where armor subtracts from...

Apples to Apples Junior. I prefer the "kid" version of the card game to any of the adult versions. They all play the same, but the various versions for older players can become trivia challenges. By contrast, anyone can understand the cards that say "bubblegum" or "pickles".

Poul and Karen Anderson's The King of Ys novels feature a Roman centurion in 5th century Brittany. They are based on local folklore with Celtic culture and mythology. Although, if I want to do Romans in Gaul, I will use the classic setting that Shades of Eternity referenced.

They were inconsistent as to whose body it is. I doubt the writers ever decided themselves. On one side of the argument is the pregnancy episode. On the other side is Sam as a disabled man who stands and walks despite having no legs. Eventually, they all but stated that the hand of God is...