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I met a couple recently who likes playing D&D, and they asked if I'd run a one-shot. It took about three months to find a date (life with kids is tough!), but finally last night I ran a one-shot D&D game for them and it went great! I wanted to collect my thoughts about what went well and reflect...

I think about this a lot! I got to work for a video game company for about nine months before I started teaching (Toys for Bob, working on Skylanders: Giants), and a friend of mine from that company now owns his own video game company. I would love it if there were RPGs designed to teach new...

I'm glad you are taking a break from running games! You deserve it, it's obvious that you've put a ton of work into running games for the past many many years. It still seems to me that there's a bit disconnection between what you and your players are putting into the game. I don't think this...

A Star Trek show focusing on second contact would be really, really interesting!

It would be interesting to do a post-DS9 show that continues the idea of a frontier settlement but isn't beholden to the same characters. It could be set in the Gamma Quadrant. Post-Dominion, a lot of the Alpha Quadrant folks are trying to establish new territories, trade routes, political...

I'm saying learn from what made DS9 great rather than trying to reheat old leftovers.

I think the new series work much better when the connection to the old characters is "I trained with them" or "I'm related to them" or "I want revenge on them" than just bringing the old characters back. Those old characters already had big story arcs, and giving them new problems and flaws...

I would rather there be a new series that captures the magic of DS9 than trying to revive the series itself. Let the old characters be! Bring in new characters and plotlines, but learn from the amazingness of DS9.

Second Sight has such a weird ending! Letting the brilliant scientist who has helped millions Very weird story choice.

Honestly a far-future setting in which humans had to abandon the Earth and now a team had to return, only it's been entirely populated by dinosaurs... Could be fun!

While this is true, there needs to be a focus on the process, not just the product. Students will use AI to create their essays if the only focus is on earning a grade. I think there's going to have to be a focus on the process now since the product can just be made with a prompt and the click...

Teacher here (3rd Grade so AI is less of an issue). Talking about this with a colleague this week, and I think it's going to really force a rethinking of how and why students create products like essays. I read an article from a professor who basically said that the students who are going to...

It's a trailer. We don't see the context, what part of the movie it's in, the justifications for the questions or the response. I think it's pretty early to do a full character analysis without actually knowing what happens in the movie.

Never mind! Misread the post. 😳

That scene chokes me up! The evolving relationships is one of the best things about the show. Bashir and O'Brien, Bashir and Garak, Sisko and Jake, Quark and Odo, Odo and Kira, etc etc etc. The relationships change over time, and the characters are actually given room to grow.

The AV Club has a great little article about visceral experiences at the movie theater. What are your most memorable movie theater experiences? The ones when the movie hits just right, your emotional state is just right, and you are totally carried away? For me, the movie theater experiences...

I'm a big fan of short stories as a medium, both in reading and writing them. I buy The Best American Short Stories and the O'Henry Prize collection every year. There's an annual Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology too, though I haven't checked it out. Most of my favorite short...

If the well-documented rampant anti-Semitism doesn't scare you off, then the lack of business acumen should hopefully do so. It's bonkers to me that people still support companies that promote hate and fail to actually produce products with money given to them.

I think you may be mixing pro-copyright with pro-big-business and it's not the same thing at all. If Sly Flourish's work was used without compensation to create a tool that now a company is now making money off of, Sly Flourish should be informed and paid. That's not pro-big-business, it's...

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