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Maybe they should check out The Tolkien Professor’s Silmarillion Film (“Silm Film”) Project – the collaborative development of a hypothetical many-season Silmarillion TV adaptation that has been ongoing for years. They’ve “cast” plenty of non-white actors for such roles. I wonder how these...

Well, Conan the Destroyer felt a lot like a D&D movie to me.

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Don’t know anything about the person that article was about, but the article itself was pure trash. What it lacked in reasoned exploration of differing viewpoints it made up for with misrepresentation and straw-man arguments. I guess that makes it journalism nowadays.

As long as you know what your NPCs’ agendas, motives, and methods are, you’ve got most of the tools you’ve got most of the tools you’re going to need to navigate through any social scene unscripted. You don’t really need to worry too much about guiding the players through it. Let the...

I, for one, do not miss skill challenges. Their implementation runs counter to my preference for challenge-resolution on a fundamental, philosophical level. To my mind, when a character wants to accomplish something, the player should establish a goal and an approach for achieving it within the...

Or, they were providing an accurate depiction of what it’s like to be a nerdy guy in high school.

Alternate possibility: Deever doesn’t care about her career because she is a skrull.

His stand-up is pretty good, too. If you’re into spreadsheets.

Well, we are shown that she has a pretty significant inferiority complex from being continually told to stay down when she is knocked down in her life and that it has fostered in her a stubborn streak that won’t do so (and frankly also a tendency to display a bit of anti-authoritarian push-back...

I’m not going to argue that Captain Marvel was the best film Marvel has to offer, but I have to wonder if you and I even watched the same movie. In the version I saw, it took Danvers the entire film to finally break through her Kree conditioning to become better than everyone else. And getting...

These days I replace the pretty terrible (and in my experience, forgettable) inspiration mechanic with a free Lucky feat* for everyone at first level. This solves three problems for me. First, not having to grade my players’ role-playing as is expected by the inspiration rules. As a DM, that...

My assumption is that the Darkhold never showed her any such versions.

A quick look at this thread tells me that posts 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, and 15 are pretty much where I was at personally. But I’m just one guy.

Sorry to disappear on you guys but I’ve taken on an intensive writing project that has really taken a toll on me for reasons. I won’t be able to continue to participate in the development, nor serve as a judge, but I would like to compete (and will probably need a distraction). I think the...

We really wouldn’t want it to run into the tournament, though. Especially because this is intended to be a longer format. My guess is that three judges could finalize the rules and get the recruitment started within a couple of weeks. The question is going to be: How many people can commit to...

If any of you are still interested in helping to make this happen this year, now’s the time.

Well, the time has come to see if anyone is actually interested enough in this to help make it happen. Any takers?

Yeah. I don’t think they would actually show Tom Cruise in a teaser even if he was really in the movie. I mean, this is Marvel we’re talking about! They go to great lengths to scrub people out of their trailers! There’s no way they put a reveal that in a tv teaser! They just spent a year making...

I would suggest that the Order of the Stick comic does a better job of it than the tippyverse. The tippyverse (as far as I remember) kind of assumes that the only choices that have ever been made in the setting’s historical evolution have been purely optimal. But actual historical social...