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    Star Trek Strange New Worlds, what did you think?

    Simka has come a long way, baby. (really did not expect that casting announcement, but she’s great, so good)
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    She-Hulk: Attorney at Law trailer

    I didn’t realize the MCU needed a character who accessorizes with Big Gulp-sized Cosmopolitans until I did. Random observation: Wong & Madisynn were sweet in a way Jen & Hot Oncologist were not. What should we read into this?
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    Thor: Love and Thunder spoilers

    Oh definitely. That’s why I said films. I could have been clearer. The three series you mentioned have fantastic art direction (and each is unique & well thought-out).
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    Thor: Love and Thunder spoilers

    I watched it last night (admittedly with a few glasses of Chardonnay) and thought it was... delightful? Funny and bittersweet and frequently absurd like the movies Taika Watiti made before getting budgets well in excess of 100,000,000 to shoot with. I’m coming to really respect any director who...
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    D&D 5E (2024) After my players tried to break it, we discovered that the new half-race rules are hilarious and terrible.

    Deliberately making D&D absurd is… not difficult. Regardless of edition.
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    They've even infiltrated our games shows and rock music!
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    I am enjoying the fact I can’t tell if it’s Gandalf, Sauron, or Saruman who fell out of the sky.
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    It holds up nicely to a bunch of appendixes and the Silmarillion, though.
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    NuTSR Financial Data Breach

    Beat me to it!
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    Podcast #216: Algorithmic AI Art in RPGs

    I my initial reaction to this, and to my own monkeying around with DALL-E is these tools are powerful. They have an uncanny ability to create 1970s prog rock album covers. Also 1970s sci-fi paperback covers that have no relationship at all to the novel inside. This does raise of the question of...
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    So far it’s far exceeding my expectations. It feels different from their Wheel of Time. More Tolkien-esque than Tolkien-derivative. Which is appropriate, but hardly a given going in. It looks gorgeous. The elf boat sailing into the light of elf Heaven rivals anything in Jackson’s films. More...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    To-do: hide artifact in dungeon.
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    Now I want Amazon to make a dour bleak police procedural set during the events of the Akallabêth. Slap some pointy ears on David Tennant and spend a hundred million or so. Is that too much to ask?
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    “The negotiations concluded in the 6th Age of Middle Earth.”
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    [+] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - SPOILERS ALLOWED

    I know this is a joke, but I would totally watch it. I bet I'm not alone. Inveterate world-building DMs hang out around here...
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    D&D General Beginning a new campaign advice - foreshadowing and railroading

    Also, if you‘re into JRPGs @Gimby a game called Ys: Lacrimosa of Dana has a similar setup. By chance have you played it? If not, it’s very good.
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    D&D General Beginning a new campaign advice - foreshadowing and railroading

    The simplest way to do this is decouple the mutiny from the stranding. A mutiny occurs and then a storm or monster shipwrecks them. The PCs may or may not stop the mutiny, but can’t do anything about the ship-wrecking event. You get to start aboard ship, gradually raise tension as the mutiny...
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    D&D General Homebrew Brainstorm: How Would You Approach a "Descendant Worship" Culture? (+)

    How about making them fantasy Transhumanists? Worshipping the children of the Singularity to come? Their gods are their future ascendant selves. This gives you plenty of space to play with idea 'the gods are just mirrors of ourselves'.
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    Banned Book Recommendation Thread

    The US are the cargo shorts of North America worn in winter.
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