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The Mongoose game isn’t much changed from the original. They do incorporate a fair bit of stuff from the many supplements that GDW put out. At the time they were pocket money prices, I’m not sure if you can pick them up easily now, but the game is a bit incomplete without them. I played quite a...

Yeah, that’s why you need to keep recruiting new younger customers.

I lost count at 87.

Not to mention that they are going to die off.

Sure, very much how I lived in the 60s.

I would have slotted it into something. There will be other stuff around for the players to do. Adventures from books still exist in a world, its not blank pages if the players go in a direction that wasn't included.

I’m not a fan of “failing forwards”. Sometimes a fail is just a fail, especially when the fail is a consequence of player decisions and not bad dice rolls. Try and do better next time, and the questgiver can try and recruit some smarter adventurers.

And it quite possible to scare players without them losing anything at all. The person who reads a horror story is in no danger, yet they still feel fear.

One thing all those rumoured actors have in common is they are 28/29. When he made Doctor No, Sean Connery was 31/32. It wouldn’t surprise me, if those rumours are true, if a Doctor No prequel is on the cards, set around 1960.

Possibly more viable if MI hadn’t just done that. And it wasn’t effective, frankly.

Bond villains generally were third parties exploiting cold war tensions for personal gain. Doctor No: A mercenary who was employed by the Chinese government to sabotage the US space program. Part of the SPECTRE organisation. Goldfinger: Looks like a smuggler plotting to cash in on gold...

Not an essential point, but also commonly misunderstood, is that “horror” and “grimdark” are not synonymous. A setting can be grimdark without it being a horror story, and horror can take place in a world that isn’t terrible. Frankenstein is not set in a terrible world, it is Frankenstein...

It’s not essential for the PCs to be vulnerable in order to do horror. You can use atmosphere and suggestion to disturb players even when there characters are badass heroes. For example, in a game I ran, when the players realised how the killer had disposed of the body of the clown who ran the...

And Mel Brooks is also busy with other projects.

If you are investigating something, and you don't press your witnesses, you should expect to fail.

I think the most important rule, since its the most commonly broken, is this: Do not remove player agency. A lot of horror novels and movies are driven by the protagonists being stupid. If they had made sensible choices, the horror would never have happened. However, a horror game is still a...

It think that's a matter of culture, not species. Every human is an alien to every other human.

Good manners and respect for others should have been taught by your parents. But the issue with slavery is that young people do not want stories about slavery as part of their entertainment. For Gygax, the concept of slavery was distant. It happened to others, who he did not identify with...

There are characters drinking through straws in the background whist another character is in the foreground. If you were very young you might have confused the perspective and thought you saw a character drinking from the top of its head.

I saw Dickinson in Murder at the End of the World ( He played a mumbling American computer nerd. All I can say for him is he makes Holland look like a good choice. As for Elordi, he comes from the land of George Lazenby.