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True, but this is a good way for people to possibly find a movie they'll love. Because, what if you don't particularly like either of the movies? What if you've only seen one, or part of two?

Stranger than Fiction. First, best Will Ferrell movie because he's just a normal guy. He's an IRS auditor who, one day, starts hearing a voice narrating his actions, and how he doesn't know that soon he will be dead. He overhears Emma Thompson talking and realizes it's her voice. She's a...

I'm reminded in this discussion of the Amber Diceless back in '91 where, since there are no dice, the person with highest Warfare won combat... unless the other person got sneaky and narrated the other person into a bad situation. It was an interesting system - you had character points, and you...

I know I probably don't represent the normal sample size, but I never heard of 'aetherpunk' until this conversation. I've gamed since 1982. I consider myself decently exposed to fantasy and scifi... never heard of it. Personally, instead of the nominclature, I feel the issue with Eberron...

Is it? Personally, I feel Lovecraft traffics particularly heavy in the trope that the Good, Proper Civilized Urbanite can barely navigate outside of the city proper. Look at Shadows over Innsmouth where the character is at a serious disadvantage because of being the Good, Proper Outsider - the...

I try to reiterate this with players, especially new players. I can find a way to work your character out without it being the 'end' of the character. I feel Babylon 5 really did a good job of this with several actors, notably the series lead who was having real life struggles and opted to...

At least in the case of being very educated meaning your worse in social situations I feel fits with the tropes, especially given the area and timeframe. Think of how many period shows or movies you see where the educated outsider gets his come-uppance and can't fit in with the locals. Or...

I haven't played Rolemaster in forever, but I liked the spell lists. I remember people getting corrupted and getting access to new lists. One of the PCs had robes that were white/blue - if he wore the white out, he got bonuses to one set of spell lists, if he wore the blue side out he was...

Reminds me of Hucksters in Deadlands, where they use cards to cast their spells since.... Hoyle's Book of Games is a disguised paranormal tome

Ars Magica. Magic is basically (verb) (noun): Create fire, destroy life. The fact you can gain XP for having your character take time to write research papers like some grad student is also very cool.

I believe this is an issue comics have in a lot of ways. There are events that cannot be changed generally - the Waynes will always leave Bruce an orphan, Uncle Ben will die and give Peter Parker guilt, etc - but what they are running into are things where... Marvel used to have a policy where...

While I agree generally with what you're saying, I don't know that this exactly is what the original post was talking about. Some of the early issues brought up were about note-taking for example or other non-immersive behaviors. Do you want your inhabiting Gonad the Barbarian to be judged by...

"This campaign isn't Burger King. You don't get it your way, right away. You take it my way or you don't get the mf'er" :geek:

This reminds me of a GM I played with many decades ago. He was part of the friend group, which is probably why people humored him as long as they did in games. First, he was the GM type who should just sit and write the Great American Novel, for all the railroading he wants to do. Even down...

Right here feels like a reason games grind to halts. It's okay to have that gaming style, but not every player wants to play this way. You are not opposition. You are the world. I agree a problem is players who don't take notes or want to just coast, but by the same time, I have been at...

I'm a big fan of beginner boxes if they're done well. My most recent 'beginner campaign' was the Fall of Tinath for Traveller. It did a really good job of, section by section, adding new systems to learn. We explored ziggarauts, we fought battles, we were forced to go on a PR campaign as the...

I think we may have come close to seeing this once in C2 :geek:

I wonder what timeline Free League will use. I know it's probably standard to expect it to start a D-Day/American intervention timeline, but I suspect the timeline will be backed up to May 1940 with the invasion of France. Partly, since Free League is Swedish, Europe probably has a bit of a...

I think poison damage and Poisoned could use a name change. I think the mistake may come if a player or DM doesn't understand that just because someone takes poison damage, it doesn't nessecarily mean that they get the Poisoned condition.

This reminds me of the summer some friends and I spent - every night - playing the original Civilization game. I can't remember if Avalon Hill made it - it was faded and ancient when we played this, say in '95. Beer every night, trying to beat the game. There was no way to win by military -...