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I liked looking at it and there were scenes and threads here and there I enjoyed, but overall I found it pretty so-so, same-same. Which is cool and all, but I think to capture the casual Tolkien fantasy fan and the more hardcore folk it needs to work harder.

Yeah I agree, but I also think the general casual fan base are a problem too, because they've seen it before, and this'll just be more of the same. At least with the new D&D movie it's a "fast-paced, irreverant take on the fantasy genre with screwball dialogue and characters you can relate to"...

I don't think it's that the depth has been misjudged. The world-building is deep and wide and intricate but most importantly was already used to tell THE STORY OF STORIES! for that particular setting. Anything that fits into the world must be of small scale and scope and that doesn't gel well...

I think there's room for some really interesting films still left in the old IP-horse yet. Some ways I can think to still flog it: 1) A Waiting For Godot type take on the mythos with a standard party of Middle Earthen action adventurers sitting around a hillock in Rohan arguing about the fact...

iirc, there was a fan-made playbook for OG AW that was a psychic guy with a Lovecraftian old one capable of destroying the world stuffed inside a suitcase. I'm a milquetoast kinda guy, but I think that's pretty gonzo.

Because I couldn't recomment Apocalypse World I'm going to recommend Simple World and possibly inspire a few folks to have a go at hacking their own beautiful game out of the marble block of inertia: https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/simple-world

I love a good puzzle. Here are my two rules for using puzzles in the games I run: 1) Let the players have a go at solving until they can't take it anymore 2) Let them roll for their characters to solve it Here is my rule for when you use a puzzle in the game I'm playing: 1) Pay attention to my...

Yup. The first casualty of war is innocence, because on every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. But then, you don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. I think it's important to remember that when we're on the internet, nothing spreads...

The internet ends when someone works out how to cross the streams.

I came here to say OG Apocalypse World or the second edition, but some nabnabberer nabbed it further up the page.

Totes man. No shade. But talking about HP in the correct context and with a positive attitude will always be, from a UK angle, talking about work that is Far Right and murder-apologist-current-fandom adjacent.

A trans girl was murdered here in the UK a day or two ago. JKRs twitter fans are currently telling her family it was a) her own fault for inviting attention and/or b) nothing to do with her being trans, just a normal everyday school feud, nothing to see here. Can we really talk about JKRs media...

Marriage.

A to the D to the A to the D: 1983? 1984? Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, so 1981 by the time I saw it Earthsea: 1990 or thereabouts Harry Potter: 1997 working in a bookshop and I hated it the minute I saw it MtG: Eh....early 90s? Was on holiday in the USA and brought back a big box of them...

I like what I see of B&B but I think it'd need some proper skills and a more robust social interaction system before it'd see use at the table. And more choices for each class at each level. So a different game, really.

If someone could take 5e and slide it along the scale towards Pathfinder2 but stop when I yell "Whoah, nelly!" then that'd be great! Barely an inconvenience!

Yeah, just like R.E. Howard was moving in a more liberal political direction as he got older. Shame his life was cut short before he could complete that journey. And Lovecraft was so racist he ended up in bed for a fortnight when he found out he had Welsh ancestors. Lovecraft was so racist, he...

Oh yeah man, I wasn't getting at you you, just the idea of not shedding those things that turned out "bad weird", especially when the perpetrator of the weirdness was alive, kicking and an active locus of hateful forces.

Aw man, please don't think I'm trying to pick a fight with you or anything, honest, but... I grew up when Enid Blyton and Tin-Tin and Little Black S***o were cornerstones of children's fiction. Germans, all Germans, every single living German? Bad guys. Nazis. On long-ago barely-remembered...