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Only saw Ant-Man and Deadpool. I’ve always loved What If so that’s an easy one for me, though I haven’t seen it yet. Otherwise I have basically zero interest in any of these Marvel titles. I am looking forward to Fantastic Four. That’s about it.

The results of the panic roll are not “the game freezes.” The result of a wave of panic rippling through the PCs is not “the game freezes.” It ends up pushing the PCs into panicking. Which is the whole point. It’s a horror game. If you make a panic roll and get exactly a 10, then you freeze; on...

I was just hitting the gonzo live-action stuff. The list of violent kids cartoons is effectively infinite.

Shrug. Some kids like horror. Goosebumps is an evergreen brand. It’s only surprising that it took so long for someone to do it. Well, redo it. Even back in the 30s-50s there were pulps with worse violence and outright horror. To say nothing of horror comics. EC Comics. Tales from the Crypt...

Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s? H. R. Pufnstuf. Land of the Lost. Lidsville. The Great Space Coaster. The Electric Company. There’s some wild-ass stuff people used to show kids.

To some it’s a bug, to others it’s a feature. In highly stressful situations, panic spreads like that.

Yep. Every group I’ve ever played Star Wars with has done this. Every single one. It’s maddening at first. But then you start using it against them. It’ll be clear the PCs are stripping everything for parts real quick. The Empire or crime lords will notice. They will plant trackers and booby...

Right. The ravine before the fort. That's a 1E module. Are you running 1E? No sure if there's that much difference in the NPC stats. I don't remember. Comparing the module to the 2E core, it looks like the stormtrooper stats are identical. From the module: Sand People: DEX 2D+1, blaster...

Are you running a module? Which one?

Any of them, really. But my favorite of the bunch is 1E because it's simpler and more streamlined.

That is an odd one. I think it's a hold over from 5E, honestly. Big numbers good and all that. They seemingly wanted to resolve hit point bloat, which they did. Trouble is they mostly shifted that bloat from HP to thresholds. I'm the same as you on this one. I'd much rather they skipped the...

Look, I love the Myth of Sisyphus as much as the next guy, but Zeus hasn’t cursed you to roll that particular boulder up that particular hill. You are free to walk away. You could just stop. Really. Just stop. Completely unrelated. The ignore list exists for a reason.

In my playtests I’ve had to fight to keep from capping fear constantly. The suggestions in the book re: how much fear to spend depending on the scene is garbage as far as I’m concerned. If I’d have done that I’d be sitting at 12 fear most of the game.

There’s precious little hope and quite a lot of doom out in the world today. So it makes sense. Utterly foolish. But it makes sense.

No joke at all. Rowan Atkinson would have made an amazing full-time actor as Doctor Who. He's done amazingly well in the Big Finish audio dramas. There's so much there and so many classics to choose from. He and Colin Baker are especially well served with the audio format. Sylvester McCoy also...

Sean Connery. Roger Moore. Pierce Brosnan. Loved the franchise the best during the goofy days of Roger Moore.

"Your peer-reviewed studies are no better than anecdotes. My anecdotes are better than peer-reviewed studies." Okay, cool.

Limited to three? Man. That's hard but here goes. Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker, and Peter Capaldi. In no particular order.

Testing, especially high-stakes testing and standardized tests, are not great ways for students to actually learn the material. Have you ever studied for a test then forgotten the material within a few days or weeks? You're not alone. Making tests even more high stakes and more common is the...

I mean, yeah. “AI” is the future. Get on board or get left behind. /s