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Yup, painful that. For every moment of greatness, there's a moment that falls short. I think my "favorite" is them keeping the person doing mocap for Aragorn tripping on his sword while running in the animation. So much for Strider. Yeah, compare that to the Balrog's first appearance in...

As much as I can recognize Bakshi's LOTR as being frightfully uneven, I have a soft spot for it. It's ambitious, its reach exceeding its grasp. Many corners were cut. But every time I re-watch it, the moment the prologue hits, I'm wrapped back up in its version of Tolkien's tale. And those...

Not a fan of the, ahem, changes to the plot, but I do love the artwork (not sure I can call it animation). Reminds me a bit of Cor Blok's Middle-Earth art.

While each character's attire is up to their player, one thing I think about is all the lines and lines written about how adventurers exist outside of the bounds of common society. They might show up to the royal ball in worn leathers or help out with the harvest in gaudy silks. Some people...

I was about 12 or 13 when another kid in my gaming group told us all about Elric and how we had to read his books. I've been returning to those books ever since. Michael Moorcock is a massive influence on gaming, on geek culture. Looking at the rest of Appendix N, I'd say he's the primary...

So, got another gaming-related tattoo. This one is the Zhirafa Technical Manufacturing symbol from Cyberpunk Red. I haven't gotten a new tattoo in too long:

Mobility is a major benefit to having a mount. The strength of being able to strike and move out of reach of many enemies cannot be overstated.

Same. We had some wild, gonzo games and characters, and had a blast. Until we didn't, and moved away shortly after Rifts came out.

Yeah, I looked at my copy of TMNT recently and had to wonder how much we just ignored our house-ruled back in the day. Because I didn't remember the mechanics being as cumbersome as they looked to my modern eyes. Ugh, our feeling was that mega-damage made a mess of things, and we kinda tapped...

Likewise, my parents didn't care one bit about the Satanic Panic. And for that I am grateful. This thread has been fascinating, seeing what people value in their RPG collections. Frequently, it has nothing to do with monitory value and everything to do with emotional connection.

Yeah, Palladium wasn't that much messier from RAW AD&D. The problem is that Palladium's rules remained more or less fixed in amber, fixed in 80s-era design, while D&D has changed with the times.

I finished reading Vinge's Psion. Enjoyable, but I kinda feel like it's more straight sci-fi than cyberpunk. Now I'm reading Bruce Sterling's Island in The Net. While I like Alien3 more than I did when i saw it in theaters, it still felt very much a betrayal of the struggles of Aliens to kill...

Thinking about Supplement IV, this was 1976. I don't know that the game yet had any way to encompass beings without stats. That was, perhaps, the only way that they could conceptualize them within the world of D&D at the time.

I love this era of Dragon magazine covers where they went with some unusual choices like this. That is my recollection as well. It was kinda weird - I don't recall demon lords showing up elsewhere in Dragonlance.

DCC RPG has a bunch of holiday-themed adventures. Though some of them, depending on the ages of the kids, might be a little gnarly: https://goodman-games.com/blog/2021/12/16/all-the-holiday-modules/

I've been rolling with the Logitech C270 HD Webcam and have no complaints. I do, however, vastly prefer to use a headset for audio. There's less chance of picking up someone's audio and you get and give a clearer signal. Which is very important, especially if you're the one GMing.

Same. For an emotional connection, it doesn't get stronger than them in my RPG collection.