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As Neil Postman pointed out almost 40 years ago (and continues to be more and more correct as we beat on against the currents), society is far closer to Huxley's dystopia than Orwell's.

I feel like I should share my response from another forum to your message here. :p One common offering from me is, "Have you ever talked back to a movie?" If their answer is Yes and they mean something more than talking back at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, I suggest they may very much...

While Lulu may say this (especially to indemnify themselves from action), it is not illegal to print something for undistributed, personal use; this is part of the "fair use" doctrine (§17 U.S.C. SS107).

And plot holes you could shamble a horde of zombies through. :sneaky:

Something I've asked myself upon every visit to this forum in the past 2+ months.

Maybe try blue ink next time. It usually hurts less. :sneaky:

Although a precursor to a review, in The Husband's professional writing career, he's kept a couple of personal notes from publishers (or in more case a top tier author's handwritten note about a story) offering helpful criticism, but his prized publisher responses are two particularly vile...

The first rpg that drew me into its world was Twilight: 2000. And without detailed attention to resource management, T2k could easily just be an unironic violent fetish fantasy game instead of an immersive experience of character survival.

I've had a Polish-language Magic 8-Ball for years and years. Never had much reason to use it until we re-started a T2k game. Then it became a focal point for a campaign along the Baltic Coast... I think the Lt. used it once and the company ended up in Lithuania. :p

These (Chessex) Lab Dice are the most aesthetically-pleasing dice I've ever rolled. They're a couple grams heavier than the normative weight of dice, and just feel wonderful. We ended up with two sets of each thanks to a postal error and a considerate FGS seller. The cards were a local find in...

I feel compelled to restate a previous comment:

The analogous equivalent would be the actors mentioned. In our group, we've been playing together long enough and have enough desire to roleplay that we often used characters issued to us or play characters constrained by stats or traits according to game world parameters. But that is hardly...

This kind of suggestion reminds me of the scene in Robert Altman's The Player where one exec makes a point about getting rid of screen writers to save money in making movies. Then, in sardonic agreement, the title character suggests that the film industry remove actors and directors from the...

Hm. Don't need a wishlist because any game that we sit down to play is tweaked to fit our needs according to that genre and game world. So our "perfect rpg" is the one we return to play a second, third, or forty-seventh time... 😎

Nephilim. A word ripe with many meanings, misunderstanding, mythology, and religion & conspiracy. A lot to unpack. Just like the game's setting and character creation. Twilight: 2000. A grim and dim setting about a world on the verge of its self-imposed heart of darkness where life--like the...

In our group, the gm sets up skeletal scaffolding and wallpapers the setting, but the players and their characters add the flesh and organs (as it were) to build the setting. Then the game happens. Even planned and/or published scenarios are set inside and active world sandbox so if the plot...

Asking, not sniping, for a clarification of what differentiates "forced sexual assault" and "slavery, colonialism, genocide, torture, mind control"? At least four of the five latter activities inherently encompass the former.

To some degree or another, this is among the best methods of dealing with such matters. In our long-running T2k game, noting the existence of certain camps where some militant group hold people en masse is plenty for the suggestion of what happens in such camps. We world-weathered players all...