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If it's a "living" setting with factions that have agency independend of the players, then yes. If you tell the players that in some location there is X doing Y and the players don't follow up on that lead, Y still needs to happen after a certain amount of time, and the consequences thereof must...

Yes. There's a few wonderful supplements by "New Big Dragon" for old-school play that make good use of it.

Here's a bit of "fan art" I made, in reference to an old 70s flick. [emoji38]

Au contraire, mon ami! this is some of the best Star Wars I've ever seen because it's a slow-burn. It's refreshingly different. Though I can see how a generation of ppl who are used to MCU movies might think it's boring.

When it comes to going for a thematic setting, game-mechanics like attribute-scores should be the least of considerations. Races aren't just a set of modifiers.

Here's one, though. But don't ask me about it.

Try Hyperborea. It's probably the best version of 1E that's not really 1E. Though it doesn't really have nonhuman races.

Victrix are great! If only I had the time, space, and funds to make a nice Norman army... [emoji29]

Reactivation is a well-known issue with Armypainter Speedpaints, unfortunately. I have high hopes for the upcoming Vallejo Xpress colours.

Here's two Anglo-Saxon huscarls with standard-bearer I painted a couple months ago. Minis by Victrix and paints by Vallejo.

As a GM, I want my players to be immersed/invested in the setting, but not necessarily in their characters. I tend to find the latter to have the potential to become unhealthy.

No. The best way to "nerf" it is to bring back all the balancing drawbacks it used to have when it was invented as a 3rd level spell: have it always fill 33k cubic feet, blowing back into hallways if applicable (casting it indoors should be very risky), have it ignite all flammable objects in...

Something that I absolutely disagree with. The Rulebooks are akin to a giant recipe book. If I throw an "indian cusine" dinner party and somebody gets upset because there are no sushi rolls and enchiladas, I'll just shrug and say "Tough luck! There's Murgh Makhani, though, and Rogan Josh, and...

I've recently come across the the "maple films" cut of the Hobbit, which is 4h21m long in total, but with an "intermission" break in the middle, so as to be 2 movies. It's wonderful, and the only way I can stomach the hobbit on film.

Thank Eönwë, my package has arrived, after 23 days "on the road"! My weekend is saved.... [emoji3526]

"cba" is an abbreviation for a less polite version of "can't be bothered".

That sounds incredibly… sad. [emoji29] I'd have told the players something along the lines of "if you cba to care about the setting, I cba to DM for you guys".

Have you read the Children of Húrin?

That might be true. But a story like "The Children of Húrin" is, in its written form, sublime. But it is an epic tragedy in the Greek sense. The story of a family —father, mother, son, and daughters— that are utterly crushed by Morgoth. And while the relatively small focus and limited cast of...

Just a quick graphic for those who don't know the canon timeline so they can get an idea what the showrunners have been jumbling around.